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ship_manifestoBinds to the Past
By: (Yami) White Rain
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Hatake Kakashi x Uchiha Sasuke
Spoilers: Up to chapter 250+
Notes: Sorry this is a little late, I was sick yesterday.
The Mentor: Hatake Kakashi
As a child, Kakashi was obsessed with rules and linked them to being a good ninja.
He had two teammates, one being Uchiha Obito, who was quite a bit like Naruto, and had a similar relationship with Kakashi as Sasuke does with Naruto.
And his sensei was Yandaime who preached teamwork as the most important thing for a shinobi.
The night before Kakashi was supposed to lead Obito and his other teammate, Rin, on his first mission as a commander, Obito had a conversation with Yandaime in which Yandaime I revealed the reason behind Kakashi’s obsession with following the rules. Kakashi’s father had chosen to save his comrades over the success of an important mission, and their country suffered greatly and because of this, and Kakashi’s father eventually killed himself while Kakashi was still very young. Kakashi apparently decided to become a perfect, emotionless ninja to counter that.
During the mission, Rin is kidnapped and Kakashi decides decides that the mission is more important then Rin’s life. Obito, angry at Kakashi’s coldness, proceeds to argue with Kakashi on Kakashi's cold choice.
Angered, Obito punches Kakashi, answers only with the fact that Obito has to follow Kakashi's orders, which won't include saving Rin. Obito calls Kakashi's father a hero and says he'll save Rin on his own.
Obito leaves with a familiar quote; “…of course those in a ninja’s world who break rules and regulations are called trash… but those who don’t care about their companions are even worse trash,” and declares, Naruto-fashion, that he’ll crush the ideals of a ninja is it means leaving loved one behind to die.
The two of them go their separate ways, but Kakashi struggles with his choice and is reminded of Rin's kindness to him. In the end, he realizes Obito was right, and decides to go help Rin, and saves Obito just in time.
The two of them proceed to fight the enemy ninja, with Kakashi’s eye being heavily injured. That leaves him blind and he’s almost crushed, but Obito shoves Kakashi out of the way.
Kakashi looks on at Obiot in shock/horror at Obito’s sacrifice. Kakashi begins to blame himself, his weakness, but Obito tells him not to worry and offers his newly developed Sharingan as a late present for Kakashi making Jonin.
Kakashi and Rin run away, but are caught by the enemy ninja. Kakashi tells Rin to leave while he handles him and Kakashi tells Rin that Obito loved her and he'd protect her for him. Rin looks as if she was going to confess her feelings for Kakashi, but holds back.
Kakashi makes it back alive, thanks to Yandaime saving him, with a desire to protect Rin for Obito’s sake, although, he clearly doesn’t realize that he cares for Rin as well. He probably won’t until it’s too late, either.
The Student: Uchiha Sasuke
As a young child, Sasuke’s entire life has revolved around his family, more specifically, he wanted to be like his brother, Itachi, and his father, Fugaku's attention. Itachi is one of the most powerful ninja’s in the manga and rose in the ninja’s world quickly, becoming an ANBU (a specialized, powerful ninja) captain at thirteen. While no weakling himself, Sasuke simply couldn’t compare to that power and was constantly compared to and was expected to live up to him.
Because of his need to get his father’s attention and live up to his brother, Sasuke was a loner who spent most of his time training. However, despite how determined and focused Sasuke was on getting stronger he never seemed to be able to please his father as Itachi did.
In a turning point conversation with his brother, Itachi told Sasuke that he, Itachi, was the challenge Sasuke must overcome in order to become strong, even if Sasuke had to hate Itachi. Sasuke was clearly confused; he may have been jealous of Itachi, but Itachi was his world, the person he loved the most. Before he could question his brother about his words, though, Itachi was accused of killing his best friend by members of their clan, the Uchiha.
Itachi was subtly drowned in rage and attacked the accusers, with words of the clan being pathetic. No one, not even their father, could bring him to his senses until Sasuke called his name and begged him to stop. This was also a turning point in Sasuke’s relationship with his father.
Fugaku saw the insanity gripping his older son and turned to his youngest one. He offered to teach Sasuke the Katon, a technique that when mastered, makes you recoginzed as man in the Uchiha clan. It was clearly beyond Sasuke’s level, much to the disappointment of both of them.
But that didn’t stop Sasuke, he spent a week endlessly practicing the Katon, and finally mastered it. When he showed it to his father he turned around and Sasuke’s face fell, clearly disappointed and slightly disgusted with himself. However, Fugaku surprised Sasuke by saying what Sasuke had always wanted to hear, ‘as expected of my child.'
Sasuke's face lights up and he grins, his emotions clearly tightly bound to what his father thought of him.
Though, it’s not a complete victory, as his father tells him not to follow Itachi's path.
Sasuke struggles with his father’s cryptic words. One one hand, Itachi is Sasuke's role model and the one he loved the most. But, he also wants his father’s approval and acceptance. Also, he fears, as he tells his mother, that he is just a replacement for Itachi in his father’s eyes.
However, much to Sasuke’s delight, his mother told him that the person father talked about was… Sasuke. Hopeful for the future and feeling loved, Sasuke went out to train for the day.
Only to come home to his clan bleeding on the Uchiha clan and Itachi standing over their parents dead bodies. Sasuke asks his brother what happened, not occurring to him that Itachi killed everyone.
Itachi responds by putting Sasuke through the Tsukiyomi – a simulated psychological nightmare in which he has to witness Itachi killing everyone again and again for a period of seventy-two hours.
Sasuke runs away from his brother in tears, begging for his life. When Itachi catches up with him, he tells Sasuke that he’s not worth killing and to cling to life for Itachi's sake by hating him and cursing him until he grew stronger with one last order: he must kill his best friend.
And Sasuke's always been a good little brother, and with nothing else to live for, he does as he’s told.
The Canon: Binds to the Past
Kakashi makes his first appearance to team seven several hours late and seemingly falling for Naruto’s prank of setting an eraser on the top of the door. Sasuke is not impressed with him and Kakashi says that his first impression has him not liking the trio at all.
The four them meet up on a roof and Kakashi asks them about their likes, dislikes, dreams for the future and hobbies. When Naruto asks for Kakashi to go first, Kakashi revels only his name. When we get to Sasuke, his answer is interesting, he apparently likes nothing, and only has an ambition, to kill a certain man.
Kakashi is not surprised.
Kakashi tells them to meet up with him the next day, early in the morning for a test to see if they have what it takes to be Genin. He also warns them not to eat, lest they throw up, because he promises the test will be grueling. In truth, Kakashi wants to keep them hungry so that the three of them will have even more trouble with his test; all three of them fall for that trap.
The test is this: Kakashi has two bells and the three of them have to try and get them, the one who doesn’t get lunch. He also tells them to attack him with the intent to kill. He subtly provokes Naruto into attacking, and shows off his impressive speed by appearing behind Naruto and holding Naruto's Shuriken next to his neck. This impresses Sasuke.
Kakashi quickly subdues Naruto and Sakura, but Sasuke gives him a bit of trouble. He nearly gets the bell and Sasuke is apparently a bit stronger then Kakashi had anticipated, and sort of surprises Kakashi for the first and only time when he used the Katon he learned as a young child against Kakashi. However, he’s still no match for Kakashi, and Kakashi pushes him underground and walks away with mocking words against Sasuke.
When Kakashi informs the trio that they don’t have what it takes and fails them, Sasuke attacks Kakashi. Who easily overpowers Sasuke and sits on him and holds one of his wrists.
What’s really interesting about this moment (besides the total hotness of it) is that Sasuke doesn’t try and get free from Kakashi’s hold. He even takes Kakashi pressing against his head hard enough for Sasuke's face to twist up as he lectures the team on teamwork with no protest.
Heck, when Kakashi presses his Shuriken against Sasuke’s neck and orders Sakura to kill Naruto or he’d kill Sasuke to make a point about working together, Sasuke still doesn’t try and get free, his eyes only widen. Either Sasuke trusts Kakashi not to kill him (and if he’s dead, he can’t kill his brother, his only reason for living) or he likes being dominated. Since Sasuke doesn’t trust easily, I think it’s more of the latter, although I believe this is where Sasuke’s trust in Kakashi begins.
Kakashi decides to give the trio another chance, but the next test will be much harder, but tells Sasuke and Sakura not to feed Naruto, since he was punishing Naruto for trying to steal the lunches earlier and warns that they’ll all three fail if either of them do and disappears, the kids probably thinking he’s getting supplies for the next test. Sasuke proceeds to offer Naruto his food, truly believing Kakashi to be gone. Otherwise, it’s doubtful Sasuke would give up Itachi for Naruto so early in the story.
Kakashi appears before them an instant later, and passes them. He tells his new team what Obito told him years ago: “those in a ninja’s world who break rules and regulations are called trash… but those who don’t care about their companions are even worse trash.”
He reveals that his closest friends had died and names were carved on the memorial, a stone in which the names of all the Leaf ninjas who died on missions are carved. We learn later that the reason Kakashi is always late is because he visits the stone memorial every morning.
Team seven’s first real mission, escorting a bridge builder to the Land of the Waves, has them running into unexpected danger in the form of a scarily powerful ninja, the demon Zabuza. Just before Kakashi was about to fight Zabuza the first time, Sasuke is drowned in his own fear, so much that he’s planning to kill himself (probably remembering the slaughter of his clan.) Kakashi, without even turning around, knows Sasuke is scared and proceeds to calm him down.
This is where I think his trust in Kakashi is sealed, along with his respect. In fact, Sasuke respects Kakashi so much that he actually cares what Kakashi thinks. That trust and respect very meaningful for someone like Sasuke, who’s been betrayed so deeply.
During the chunin exam just before Sasuke’s preliminary fight, after the forest of death in which Orochimaru marks Sasuke, another part of their dynamic is revealed. Kakashi informs Sasuke that he knows that Sasuke has been marked and warns him not to use the Sharingan and the two of them communicate as equals. Except, at the end of the exchange, Kakashi takes charge and tells Sasuke flat out that he’ll stop the match if the fight gets out of hand. Sasuke is clearly shocked by this, but does not protest Kakashi’s decision at all.
Sasuke wins the match and is about to fall, but Kakashi appears behind him and holds him up with his knee with praise. Kakashi informs the medics that he’ll seal Sasuke’s cursed mark, and Sasuke protests, he wants to see the rest of the matches. However, Kakashi, again, takes charge and tells Sasuke that he won’t allow Sasuke to be selfish any longer, the curse is dangerous.
Sasuke obeys without any other protest. It has become clear to Sasuke that Kakashi is very much in charge of their relationship, and that he doesn’t fight it implies that he trusts Kakashi not to take advantage of that, making their relationship even more meaningful considering how much betrayal has broken Sasuke.
After Kakashi seals Sasuke’s curse, Orochimaru appears before Kakashi and they have an exchange about Sasuke’s avenger heart. Kakashi loses his cool and offers to fight him; he’ll protect Sasuke no matter what, although Orochimaru doesn’t take him up on that offer and leaves. When Kakashi is alone, it hits him hard how much he’s willing to risk to save Sasuke.
Kakashi not only accepts that the lengths he’s willing to go to save Sasuke from himself that he actually ignores his two other students in order to train Sasuke exclusively for a month to prepare for the last part of the chunin exam with no word to the others. He even teaches Sasuke his only unique technique, the chidori. The two of them make a dramatic entrance together; just barely making it before Sasuke was disqualified from the exam for being late.
When Sasuke uses the chidori against his opponent, Gaara, Kakashi reveals the reason he taught Sasuke the move in the first place: Sasuke is the same type as Kakashi.
During the fight with Gaara, Sasuke revealed to Naruto that Sakura (and Naruto) had become important to him, as important as his family had and was willing to die for Sakura. He seemed to have no intention of going to Orochimaru. He was clearly getting better and learning to care for people again, however, things go to hell when Itachi comes back. Kakashi fights Itachi, and loses badly.
When Sasuke sees Kakashi in his terrible state, he is shocked and worried. A real change from the boy who had contempt for everyone but himself and his goals a few months ago.
When someone accidentally reveals that it was Itachi who hurt him and was looking for Naruto, Sasuke’s rushes to save Naruto and kill Itachi. However, his plans come to a crushing end when Itachi easily defeats him and punishes him for his weakness and for not hating enough by forcing him to witness the murder of his parents for a period of twenty-four hours.
When he wakes up, he and Naruto’s already intense rivalry/friendship grows even more intense. Sasuke is jealous of Naruto’s growth of a ninja and fears that he hasn’t grown at all, and his mental state takes a sharp turn for the worse from Itachi’s punishment and he and Naruto fight each other, with the intent to kill. Naruto needs Sasuke to see him as an equal and Sasuke can’t, lest his has to accept his fear that he hadn’t become stronger and he was no closer to killing Itachi then he was at eight.
Kakashi is able to stop Naruto and Sasuke from killing each other and Sasuke runs off to brood. Jiraya and Kakashi agree to both lecture their respected students. Sakura, who’d almost died thanks to trying to jump in front of them, is in tears and Kakashi comforts her and tells her that things will be back to normal soon.
Kakashi finds Sasuke near a tree and promptly ties Sasuke to it. Sasuke struggles until he sees Kakashi. He immanently stops struggling, but is still drowned in anger. He demands to know why Kakashi had tied him up, and Kakashi tells him that he’s going to preach and Sasuke’s not the type to listen quietly and would run away if Kakashi didn't tie him up.
Kakashi tells Sasuke to give up revenge, that he knows (perhaps personally) that revenge would only bring Sasuke pain and give him no happiness at all. Sasuke’s face twists in anger, and he begins to yell at Kakashi, angered that Kakashi dare try and understand his pain. Kakashi lets him for a moment before telling him to calm down. Dripped in insanity, Sasuke retorts by asking Kakashi how he’d feel if Sasuke killed one Kakashi loved the most.
Kakashi looks down at Sasuke for a moment before telling Sasuke that everyone he loved have been killed with a smile. Sasuke’s eyes snap back to normal and he looks on at his teacher in shock as Kakashi continues his lecture.
Kakashi tells Sasuke the he’s also lived in a hard era and understands how terrible Sasuke’s pain is. Sasuke lowers his head as Kakashi says, “We aren’t the lucky ones that’s for sure. But we’re not the worst off.” Sasuke looks up at him questioningly and Kakashi closes his eyes and smiles again as he finishes off with, “Both you and I have found precious companions.”
Sasuke is ashamed, his eyes back to normal and lowered, Kakashi’s speech has clearly gotten through to Sasuke.
Sasuke’s mind is filled with Sakura and Naruto’s images and Kakashi tells him that the chidori is not to be used against loved ones or for revenge, and Sasuke should know what it’s supposed to be for as he unties Sasuke. Kakashi tells him to think about hard what’s he’s told Sasuke and leaves him to ponder his choices
Sasuke does and struggles painfully with his choice all day before the Sound Four remind him clearly of Sasuke's purpose. Sasuke cannot put Sakura, Naruto and Kakashi ahead of Itachi and decides to leave.
After leaving Sakura with words of thanks for her love, Sakura begs Naruto to bring Sasuke back and Naruto makes it a promise of a lifetime. During a flashback, Itachi tells Sasuke that he must kill his best friend in order to gain the Mangekyou Sharingan, and only three people have the potential to gain it. Recent chapters have shown Kakashi to have gotten the Mangekyou Sharingan, although it’s not clear how he did it or if he was one of the people that Itachi was talking about, because of his surprise that Kakashi actually gained it.
Of course, the Mangekyou Sharingan is beyond Kakashi’s limit, but it serves to prove that Kakashi id still determined to save Sasuke and, perhaps, there is another way to get the Mangekyou Sharingan besides killing your best friend, which Sasuke clearly can’t do.
The Why: Broken Mirrors
The Kakashi/Sasuke ship was the first one I fell for, right when Kakashi calmed Sasuke down right before Kakashi fought Zabuza, although I found it potentially hot since Kakashi sat on him.
Kakashi is the person who understands Sasuke the best and is the person Sasuke trusts on levels he can’t with Sakura and Naruto – Sasuke’s heart is too intertwined with Naruto and Sakura and he fears what that means to trust him on the level that he does with Kakashi. The kind of trust in which Sasuke allows himself to lose his cool and yell at Kakashi when he can’t express his pain in any other way or the kind in which he trusts Kakashi not to hurt him when Kakashi has taken control.
That control is one of the reasons that I ship the two of them. Kakashi and Sasuke tend to interact as equals unless Kakashi knows he has to take control and do something that Sasuke doesn’t want to do, and Sasuke may protest, but obeys in the end (except with Itachi, but no one comes before Itachi with Sasuke). The two of them both know that Kakashi is smarter, stronger, and wiser and is in control of their interactions, but pretend it’s not because Sasuke’s not going to let someone else become a parent to him and Kakashi doesn’t quite know else how to relate and help Sasuke.
And on Kakashi’s side, he’s got a driving need to save Sasuke from his darkness. Kakashi doesn’t want Sasuke to become Kakashi version 2.0 and Kakashi knows that it’s more then possible that Sasuke will, considering how much the two of them are alike, and it’s one of the main reasons that Kakashi understands how Sasuke’s mind works so well. He tends to ignore Sakura and Naruto in favor of helping Sasuke.
Basically, the two of them are mirrors. Kakashi was what Sasuke wants to be as a child: a powerful ninja who has cut off his heart (because Sasuke has been burned by love too badly to want to love again) and as a child Sasuke was what Kakashi learned to be too late: a person who wants to protect his loved ones. Kakashi doesn’t want Sasuke to make the same mistakes that Kakashi did, and the eventually beauty of Sasuke’s story will him realizing what Kakashi did, but not before it’s too late.
Now, I don’t think this pairing would ever be healthy, it includes Kakashi and Sasuke, two of the most broken characters in canon. Kakashi’s too lonely, lost too much; to truly let someone else back into his heart and Sasuke fears love too much to willingly let someone else into his heart.
Although, I fully believe Sasuke will heal some and learn to love again, I don’t think the Kakashi/Sasuke relationship would ever be completely healthy if they became lovers even after Sasuke has healed some. Kakashi will always be the mentor and in control in some ways and Sasuke will probably never completely overcome his need to please the people responsible for him thanks to Itachi molding that need for his own reasons and Sasuke’s constant guilt for not being able to save his parents from dying.
While their platonic canon relationship has done much to help both characters, (Sasuke’s made steps toward healing and Kakashi’s allowing himself to care for people again) a romantic/sexual relationship would probably be co-dependent, filled with too many control issues and filtered through Daddy issues.
And those are some of my kinks and I enjoy torturing my favorite characters. Plus it's easy to make crack fics with them. And I'm also a crack whore.
The Recs: Ghosts that Haunt
Sadly, the Kakashi/Sasuke fandom is small, but I’ve pulled up the best stuff I can find.
Fanart
-10-Rankai
-StrayCatFever
-Rogue Attic
-Reimyou
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-Arika
Fanfiction
-A Place To Stand by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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-Abdication bydarkeyedwolf
-Crushes byreimars
-Laundry bygelfling8604
-Orders bysub_divided
-Reflection bycompagnie
-Stray NC-17 byreimars
-Stray 2 R byreimars
-Uchiha348 bydarkeyedwolf
-An Inch Away From bykeraha
-Yellow bydarkeyedwolf
-Kid's Stuff bybiztheinsane
-Mine
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-sasuke_kakashi
-Icha Icha Desire
-White and Black
Other
-Crimson Shade
-kakashi_fan
-sasuke_fans
-Edits on a manga scans
-Haikus and limericks
-Episode five crack
-Screencaps + Bad Rap = KakaSasu crack
-Updated KakaSasu recs as they come in
By: (Yami) White Rain
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Hatake Kakashi x Uchiha Sasuke
Spoilers: Up to chapter 250+
Notes: Sorry this is a little late, I was sick yesterday.
The Mentor: Hatake Kakashi
As a child, Kakashi was obsessed with rules and linked them to being a good ninja.
He had two teammates, one being Uchiha Obito, who was quite a bit like Naruto, and had a similar relationship with Kakashi as Sasuke does with Naruto.
And his sensei was Yandaime who preached teamwork as the most important thing for a shinobi.
The night before Kakashi was supposed to lead Obito and his other teammate, Rin, on his first mission as a commander, Obito had a conversation with Yandaime in which Yandaime I revealed the reason behind Kakashi’s obsession with following the rules. Kakashi’s father had chosen to save his comrades over the success of an important mission, and their country suffered greatly and because of this, and Kakashi’s father eventually killed himself while Kakashi was still very young. Kakashi apparently decided to become a perfect, emotionless ninja to counter that.
During the mission, Rin is kidnapped and Kakashi decides decides that the mission is more important then Rin’s life. Obito, angry at Kakashi’s coldness, proceeds to argue with Kakashi on Kakashi's cold choice.
Angered, Obito punches Kakashi, answers only with the fact that Obito has to follow Kakashi's orders, which won't include saving Rin. Obito calls Kakashi's father a hero and says he'll save Rin on his own.
Obito leaves with a familiar quote; “…of course those in a ninja’s world who break rules and regulations are called trash… but those who don’t care about their companions are even worse trash,” and declares, Naruto-fashion, that he’ll crush the ideals of a ninja is it means leaving loved one behind to die.
The two of them go their separate ways, but Kakashi struggles with his choice and is reminded of Rin's kindness to him. In the end, he realizes Obito was right, and decides to go help Rin, and saves Obito just in time.
The two of them proceed to fight the enemy ninja, with Kakashi’s eye being heavily injured. That leaves him blind and he’s almost crushed, but Obito shoves Kakashi out of the way.
Kakashi looks on at Obiot in shock/horror at Obito’s sacrifice. Kakashi begins to blame himself, his weakness, but Obito tells him not to worry and offers his newly developed Sharingan as a late present for Kakashi making Jonin.
Kakashi and Rin run away, but are caught by the enemy ninja. Kakashi tells Rin to leave while he handles him and Kakashi tells Rin that Obito loved her and he'd protect her for him. Rin looks as if she was going to confess her feelings for Kakashi, but holds back.
Kakashi makes it back alive, thanks to Yandaime saving him, with a desire to protect Rin for Obito’s sake, although, he clearly doesn’t realize that he cares for Rin as well. He probably won’t until it’s too late, either.
The Student: Uchiha Sasuke
As a young child, Sasuke’s entire life has revolved around his family, more specifically, he wanted to be like his brother, Itachi, and his father, Fugaku's attention. Itachi is one of the most powerful ninja’s in the manga and rose in the ninja’s world quickly, becoming an ANBU (a specialized, powerful ninja) captain at thirteen. While no weakling himself, Sasuke simply couldn’t compare to that power and was constantly compared to and was expected to live up to him.
Because of his need to get his father’s attention and live up to his brother, Sasuke was a loner who spent most of his time training. However, despite how determined and focused Sasuke was on getting stronger he never seemed to be able to please his father as Itachi did.
In a turning point conversation with his brother, Itachi told Sasuke that he, Itachi, was the challenge Sasuke must overcome in order to become strong, even if Sasuke had to hate Itachi. Sasuke was clearly confused; he may have been jealous of Itachi, but Itachi was his world, the person he loved the most. Before he could question his brother about his words, though, Itachi was accused of killing his best friend by members of their clan, the Uchiha.
Itachi was subtly drowned in rage and attacked the accusers, with words of the clan being pathetic. No one, not even their father, could bring him to his senses until Sasuke called his name and begged him to stop. This was also a turning point in Sasuke’s relationship with his father.
Fugaku saw the insanity gripping his older son and turned to his youngest one. He offered to teach Sasuke the Katon, a technique that when mastered, makes you recoginzed as man in the Uchiha clan. It was clearly beyond Sasuke’s level, much to the disappointment of both of them.
But that didn’t stop Sasuke, he spent a week endlessly practicing the Katon, and finally mastered it. When he showed it to his father he turned around and Sasuke’s face fell, clearly disappointed and slightly disgusted with himself. However, Fugaku surprised Sasuke by saying what Sasuke had always wanted to hear, ‘as expected of my child.'
Sasuke's face lights up and he grins, his emotions clearly tightly bound to what his father thought of him.
Though, it’s not a complete victory, as his father tells him not to follow Itachi's path.
Sasuke struggles with his father’s cryptic words. One one hand, Itachi is Sasuke's role model and the one he loved the most. But, he also wants his father’s approval and acceptance. Also, he fears, as he tells his mother, that he is just a replacement for Itachi in his father’s eyes.
However, much to Sasuke’s delight, his mother told him that the person father talked about was… Sasuke. Hopeful for the future and feeling loved, Sasuke went out to train for the day.
Only to come home to his clan bleeding on the Uchiha clan and Itachi standing over their parents dead bodies. Sasuke asks his brother what happened, not occurring to him that Itachi killed everyone.
Itachi responds by putting Sasuke through the Tsukiyomi – a simulated psychological nightmare in which he has to witness Itachi killing everyone again and again for a period of seventy-two hours.
Sasuke runs away from his brother in tears, begging for his life. When Itachi catches up with him, he tells Sasuke that he’s not worth killing and to cling to life for Itachi's sake by hating him and cursing him until he grew stronger with one last order: he must kill his best friend.
And Sasuke's always been a good little brother, and with nothing else to live for, he does as he’s told.
The Canon: Binds to the Past
Kakashi makes his first appearance to team seven several hours late and seemingly falling for Naruto’s prank of setting an eraser on the top of the door. Sasuke is not impressed with him and Kakashi says that his first impression has him not liking the trio at all.
The four them meet up on a roof and Kakashi asks them about their likes, dislikes, dreams for the future and hobbies. When Naruto asks for Kakashi to go first, Kakashi revels only his name. When we get to Sasuke, his answer is interesting, he apparently likes nothing, and only has an ambition, to kill a certain man.
Kakashi is not surprised.
Kakashi tells them to meet up with him the next day, early in the morning for a test to see if they have what it takes to be Genin. He also warns them not to eat, lest they throw up, because he promises the test will be grueling. In truth, Kakashi wants to keep them hungry so that the three of them will have even more trouble with his test; all three of them fall for that trap.
The test is this: Kakashi has two bells and the three of them have to try and get them, the one who doesn’t get lunch. He also tells them to attack him with the intent to kill. He subtly provokes Naruto into attacking, and shows off his impressive speed by appearing behind Naruto and holding Naruto's Shuriken next to his neck. This impresses Sasuke.
Kakashi quickly subdues Naruto and Sakura, but Sasuke gives him a bit of trouble. He nearly gets the bell and Sasuke is apparently a bit stronger then Kakashi had anticipated, and sort of surprises Kakashi for the first and only time when he used the Katon he learned as a young child against Kakashi. However, he’s still no match for Kakashi, and Kakashi pushes him underground and walks away with mocking words against Sasuke.
When Kakashi informs the trio that they don’t have what it takes and fails them, Sasuke attacks Kakashi. Who easily overpowers Sasuke and sits on him and holds one of his wrists.
What’s really interesting about this moment (besides the total hotness of it) is that Sasuke doesn’t try and get free from Kakashi’s hold. He even takes Kakashi pressing against his head hard enough for Sasuke's face to twist up as he lectures the team on teamwork with no protest.
Heck, when Kakashi presses his Shuriken against Sasuke’s neck and orders Sakura to kill Naruto or he’d kill Sasuke to make a point about working together, Sasuke still doesn’t try and get free, his eyes only widen. Either Sasuke trusts Kakashi not to kill him (and if he’s dead, he can’t kill his brother, his only reason for living) or he likes being dominated. Since Sasuke doesn’t trust easily, I think it’s more of the latter, although I believe this is where Sasuke’s trust in Kakashi begins.
Kakashi decides to give the trio another chance, but the next test will be much harder, but tells Sasuke and Sakura not to feed Naruto, since he was punishing Naruto for trying to steal the lunches earlier and warns that they’ll all three fail if either of them do and disappears, the kids probably thinking he’s getting supplies for the next test. Sasuke proceeds to offer Naruto his food, truly believing Kakashi to be gone. Otherwise, it’s doubtful Sasuke would give up Itachi for Naruto so early in the story.
Kakashi appears before them an instant later, and passes them. He tells his new team what Obito told him years ago: “those in a ninja’s world who break rules and regulations are called trash… but those who don’t care about their companions are even worse trash.”
He reveals that his closest friends had died and names were carved on the memorial, a stone in which the names of all the Leaf ninjas who died on missions are carved. We learn later that the reason Kakashi is always late is because he visits the stone memorial every morning.
Team seven’s first real mission, escorting a bridge builder to the Land of the Waves, has them running into unexpected danger in the form of a scarily powerful ninja, the demon Zabuza. Just before Kakashi was about to fight Zabuza the first time, Sasuke is drowned in his own fear, so much that he’s planning to kill himself (probably remembering the slaughter of his clan.) Kakashi, without even turning around, knows Sasuke is scared and proceeds to calm him down.
This is where I think his trust in Kakashi is sealed, along with his respect. In fact, Sasuke respects Kakashi so much that he actually cares what Kakashi thinks. That trust and respect very meaningful for someone like Sasuke, who’s been betrayed so deeply.
During the chunin exam just before Sasuke’s preliminary fight, after the forest of death in which Orochimaru marks Sasuke, another part of their dynamic is revealed. Kakashi informs Sasuke that he knows that Sasuke has been marked and warns him not to use the Sharingan and the two of them communicate as equals. Except, at the end of the exchange, Kakashi takes charge and tells Sasuke flat out that he’ll stop the match if the fight gets out of hand. Sasuke is clearly shocked by this, but does not protest Kakashi’s decision at all.
Sasuke wins the match and is about to fall, but Kakashi appears behind him and holds him up with his knee with praise. Kakashi informs the medics that he’ll seal Sasuke’s cursed mark, and Sasuke protests, he wants to see the rest of the matches. However, Kakashi, again, takes charge and tells Sasuke that he won’t allow Sasuke to be selfish any longer, the curse is dangerous.
Sasuke obeys without any other protest. It has become clear to Sasuke that Kakashi is very much in charge of their relationship, and that he doesn’t fight it implies that he trusts Kakashi not to take advantage of that, making their relationship even more meaningful considering how much betrayal has broken Sasuke.
After Kakashi seals Sasuke’s curse, Orochimaru appears before Kakashi and they have an exchange about Sasuke’s avenger heart. Kakashi loses his cool and offers to fight him; he’ll protect Sasuke no matter what, although Orochimaru doesn’t take him up on that offer and leaves. When Kakashi is alone, it hits him hard how much he’s willing to risk to save Sasuke.
Kakashi not only accepts that the lengths he’s willing to go to save Sasuke from himself that he actually ignores his two other students in order to train Sasuke exclusively for a month to prepare for the last part of the chunin exam with no word to the others. He even teaches Sasuke his only unique technique, the chidori. The two of them make a dramatic entrance together; just barely making it before Sasuke was disqualified from the exam for being late.
When Sasuke uses the chidori against his opponent, Gaara, Kakashi reveals the reason he taught Sasuke the move in the first place: Sasuke is the same type as Kakashi.
During the fight with Gaara, Sasuke revealed to Naruto that Sakura (and Naruto) had become important to him, as important as his family had and was willing to die for Sakura. He seemed to have no intention of going to Orochimaru. He was clearly getting better and learning to care for people again, however, things go to hell when Itachi comes back. Kakashi fights Itachi, and loses badly.
When Sasuke sees Kakashi in his terrible state, he is shocked and worried. A real change from the boy who had contempt for everyone but himself and his goals a few months ago.
When someone accidentally reveals that it was Itachi who hurt him and was looking for Naruto, Sasuke’s rushes to save Naruto and kill Itachi. However, his plans come to a crushing end when Itachi easily defeats him and punishes him for his weakness and for not hating enough by forcing him to witness the murder of his parents for a period of twenty-four hours.
When he wakes up, he and Naruto’s already intense rivalry/friendship grows even more intense. Sasuke is jealous of Naruto’s growth of a ninja and fears that he hasn’t grown at all, and his mental state takes a sharp turn for the worse from Itachi’s punishment and he and Naruto fight each other, with the intent to kill. Naruto needs Sasuke to see him as an equal and Sasuke can’t, lest his has to accept his fear that he hadn’t become stronger and he was no closer to killing Itachi then he was at eight.
Kakashi is able to stop Naruto and Sasuke from killing each other and Sasuke runs off to brood. Jiraya and Kakashi agree to both lecture their respected students. Sakura, who’d almost died thanks to trying to jump in front of them, is in tears and Kakashi comforts her and tells her that things will be back to normal soon.
Kakashi finds Sasuke near a tree and promptly ties Sasuke to it. Sasuke struggles until he sees Kakashi. He immanently stops struggling, but is still drowned in anger. He demands to know why Kakashi had tied him up, and Kakashi tells him that he’s going to preach and Sasuke’s not the type to listen quietly and would run away if Kakashi didn't tie him up.
Kakashi tells Sasuke to give up revenge, that he knows (perhaps personally) that revenge would only bring Sasuke pain and give him no happiness at all. Sasuke’s face twists in anger, and he begins to yell at Kakashi, angered that Kakashi dare try and understand his pain. Kakashi lets him for a moment before telling him to calm down. Dripped in insanity, Sasuke retorts by asking Kakashi how he’d feel if Sasuke killed one Kakashi loved the most.
Kakashi looks down at Sasuke for a moment before telling Sasuke that everyone he loved have been killed with a smile. Sasuke’s eyes snap back to normal and he looks on at his teacher in shock as Kakashi continues his lecture.
Kakashi tells Sasuke the he’s also lived in a hard era and understands how terrible Sasuke’s pain is. Sasuke lowers his head as Kakashi says, “We aren’t the lucky ones that’s for sure. But we’re not the worst off.” Sasuke looks up at him questioningly and Kakashi closes his eyes and smiles again as he finishes off with, “Both you and I have found precious companions.”
Sasuke is ashamed, his eyes back to normal and lowered, Kakashi’s speech has clearly gotten through to Sasuke.
Sasuke’s mind is filled with Sakura and Naruto’s images and Kakashi tells him that the chidori is not to be used against loved ones or for revenge, and Sasuke should know what it’s supposed to be for as he unties Sasuke. Kakashi tells him to think about hard what’s he’s told Sasuke and leaves him to ponder his choices
Sasuke does and struggles painfully with his choice all day before the Sound Four remind him clearly of Sasuke's purpose. Sasuke cannot put Sakura, Naruto and Kakashi ahead of Itachi and decides to leave.
After leaving Sakura with words of thanks for her love, Sakura begs Naruto to bring Sasuke back and Naruto makes it a promise of a lifetime. During a flashback, Itachi tells Sasuke that he must kill his best friend in order to gain the Mangekyou Sharingan, and only three people have the potential to gain it. Recent chapters have shown Kakashi to have gotten the Mangekyou Sharingan, although it’s not clear how he did it or if he was one of the people that Itachi was talking about, because of his surprise that Kakashi actually gained it.
Of course, the Mangekyou Sharingan is beyond Kakashi’s limit, but it serves to prove that Kakashi id still determined to save Sasuke and, perhaps, there is another way to get the Mangekyou Sharingan besides killing your best friend, which Sasuke clearly can’t do.
The Why: Broken Mirrors
The Kakashi/Sasuke ship was the first one I fell for, right when Kakashi calmed Sasuke down right before Kakashi fought Zabuza, although I found it potentially hot since Kakashi sat on him.
Kakashi is the person who understands Sasuke the best and is the person Sasuke trusts on levels he can’t with Sakura and Naruto – Sasuke’s heart is too intertwined with Naruto and Sakura and he fears what that means to trust him on the level that he does with Kakashi. The kind of trust in which Sasuke allows himself to lose his cool and yell at Kakashi when he can’t express his pain in any other way or the kind in which he trusts Kakashi not to hurt him when Kakashi has taken control.
That control is one of the reasons that I ship the two of them. Kakashi and Sasuke tend to interact as equals unless Kakashi knows he has to take control and do something that Sasuke doesn’t want to do, and Sasuke may protest, but obeys in the end (except with Itachi, but no one comes before Itachi with Sasuke). The two of them both know that Kakashi is smarter, stronger, and wiser and is in control of their interactions, but pretend it’s not because Sasuke’s not going to let someone else become a parent to him and Kakashi doesn’t quite know else how to relate and help Sasuke.
And on Kakashi’s side, he’s got a driving need to save Sasuke from his darkness. Kakashi doesn’t want Sasuke to become Kakashi version 2.0 and Kakashi knows that it’s more then possible that Sasuke will, considering how much the two of them are alike, and it’s one of the main reasons that Kakashi understands how Sasuke’s mind works so well. He tends to ignore Sakura and Naruto in favor of helping Sasuke.
Basically, the two of them are mirrors. Kakashi was what Sasuke wants to be as a child: a powerful ninja who has cut off his heart (because Sasuke has been burned by love too badly to want to love again) and as a child Sasuke was what Kakashi learned to be too late: a person who wants to protect his loved ones. Kakashi doesn’t want Sasuke to make the same mistakes that Kakashi did, and the eventually beauty of Sasuke’s story will him realizing what Kakashi did, but not before it’s too late.
Now, I don’t think this pairing would ever be healthy, it includes Kakashi and Sasuke, two of the most broken characters in canon. Kakashi’s too lonely, lost too much; to truly let someone else back into his heart and Sasuke fears love too much to willingly let someone else into his heart.
Although, I fully believe Sasuke will heal some and learn to love again, I don’t think the Kakashi/Sasuke relationship would ever be completely healthy if they became lovers even after Sasuke has healed some. Kakashi will always be the mentor and in control in some ways and Sasuke will probably never completely overcome his need to please the people responsible for him thanks to Itachi molding that need for his own reasons and Sasuke’s constant guilt for not being able to save his parents from dying.
While their platonic canon relationship has done much to help both characters, (Sasuke’s made steps toward healing and Kakashi’s allowing himself to care for people again) a romantic/sexual relationship would probably be co-dependent, filled with too many control issues and filtered through Daddy issues.
And those are some of my kinks and I enjoy torturing my favorite characters. Plus it's easy to make crack fics with them. And I'm also a crack whore.
The Recs: Ghosts that Haunt
Sadly, the Kakashi/Sasuke fandom is small, but I’ve pulled up the best stuff I can find.
Fanart
-10-Rankai
-StrayCatFever
-Rogue Attic
-Reimyou
-A
-Arika
Fanfiction
-A Place To Stand by
darkeyedwolf-Abdication by
darkeyedwolf-Crushes by
reimars-Laundry by
gelfling8604-Orders by
sub_divided-Reflection by
compagnie-Stray NC-17 by
reimars-Stray 2 R by
reimars-Uchiha348 by
darkeyedwolf-An Inch Away From by
keraha-Yellow by
darkeyedwolf-Kid's Stuff by
biztheinsane-Mine
Shrines:
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copycock-
sasuke_kakashi-Icha Icha Desire
-White and Black
Other
-Crimson Shade
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kakashi_fan-
sasuke_fans-Edits on a manga scans
-Haikus and limericks
-Episode five crack
-Screencaps + Bad Rap = KakaSasu crack
-Updated KakaSasu recs as they come in
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Date: 2006-04-01 01:08 am (UTC)Me too. There is a sad lack of KakaSasu fic in general. And Kakashi + Team Seven, too.
Yes, 'Hot in Here' kept me laughing for hours.
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Date: 2006-04-01 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-01 02:41 am (UTC)*clicks*
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Date: 2006-04-05 12:13 am (UTC)this is really late...and I'm not sure if you're still into this pairing...
Date: 2009-01-18 05:06 pm (UTC)And yes, how could I not deny the physical aspect? No...I'm not just speaking "smut-wise" but more on their appearance. I AM a sucker for the ying and yang thing ( with Kakashi's white hair and Sasuke's ebony black...how could I resist...)...
Oh, and perhaps it was the lack of sleep or too many sweets that I had these crazy observations on how many times when Kakashi or Sasuke would fight there will seem to be SOMETHING they'd do that'll remind me of the other...or in what situation they'd get themselves into...
such as :
http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/7/12/
and then...
http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/425/04/ <-- a bit spoiler-y though
oh well...maybe I'm reading too much after all...
I'm sorry if I can't seem to make any sense here ( staying up past midnight doesn't do good for my brain)...
Anyway, this is a good essay. I enjoy reading it and I also appreciate the links you put up here...definitely would help satiate my kakasasu thirst.
Re: this is really late...and I'm not sure if you're still into this pairing...
Date: 2009-01-18 07:50 pm (UTC)okay?
Date: 2009-07-21 01:41 am (UTC)What? Isn't Kakashi like 250 pounds or something? COULD he move?
2. "Heck, when Kakashi presses his Shuriken against Sasuke’s neck and orders Sakura to kill Naruto or he’d kill Sasuke to make a point about working together, Sasuke still doesn’t try and get free, his eyes only widen. Either Sasuke trusts Kakashi not to kill him (and if he’s dead, he can’t kill his brother, his only reason for living) or he likes being dominated. Since Sasuke doesn’t trust easily, I think it’s more of the latter, although I believe this is where Sasuke’s trust in Kakashi begins." If someone was holding a knife to your throat and saying they'll kill you would you try to get free? It wouldn't be too smart too try and get away from a person who could so easily kill you.
3. "This is where I think his trust in Kakashi is sealed, along with his respect. In fact, Sasuke respects Kakashi so much that he actually cares what Kakashi thinks. That trust and respect very meaningful for someone like Sasuke, who’s been betrayed so deeply." Doesn't he respect Naruto and Sakura too? So all of a sudden Sasuke's in luv with everyone he even respects. Wow. And he doesn't kill himself so he loves Kakashi? Wow, again.
4. "When Sasuke sees Kakashi in his terrible state, he is shocked and worried. A real change from the boy who had contempt for everyone but himself and his goals a few months ago." My teachers hurt badly and I'm worried. ...I MUST BE GAY AND IN LURVE!
5. I think I've ranted enough...