Rec: Knowing Me, Knowing You, Kakashi/Iruka (Naruto)

[pentapus]

Knowing Me, Knowing You
Kakashi/Iruka, G
A simple joint mission goes awry.

Guys, read this. I have never loved -- well, I won't tell you which cliche -- before because it is usually about farcical comedy and misunderstandings, but this story, WOW, uses it to show us so many things about Kakashi and Iruka that they themselves have stopped thinking about, and then of course they each respond to it in their own particular way.

It also contains one of my personal favorite cliches -- when characters who've heard of the giant badass run into the giant badass without realizing who they're talking to.

This story is just so delightfully CHARACTER CHARACTER CHARACTER spread over a delicious cracker made of plot and seasoned with such a detailed world. It won me over entirely with the first description of the Sharingan. Because of course I fucking love the Sharingan -- who doesn't love magical eyes that simultaneously make you a badass and increase your likelihood of fainting in public at inconvenient times.

Also, p.s. it was written for ME. Dear Wednesday: Victory!


Once again, if you need some intro to Naruto fandom, I previously recced it here and a bit here. Basically: it's a ninja village in psuedo-modern japan with plenty of world-building by way of mixing the bad ass with the mundane - a.k.a. deadly secret techniques + paperwork and politics. Also, ninja are basically wizards who know martial arts. ♥

Comments

[megyal]

One thing about modding that fest is that I never get to read the posts on-time; just furiously managing the entries and posting. But I'm definitely going to go through all of them, and this rec makes me want to start ASAP.

I love your description of the Naruto fandom: ninja are basically wizards who know martial arts.

Yeah, pretty much! Which is why I find using Harry Potter themes really easily. I remember using chakra-wards in a fic, based on the idea of wards in Harry Potter, and it felt so natural.