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Sometimes, when you don't believe you deserve the good thing that’s coming for you, you spend a lot of time trying to jump out of the way. Kakashi and Iruka are shinobi. Evasion is almost second nature.
(It begins with a long weekend onsen meet-cute, and then, as is only right for two people who love romance novels as much as they do, it takes ten years for them to figure out that they're in one.)
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- English
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- 94,475
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- 26/26
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Bookmarked by MatchaFox
24 May 2026
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Iruka humms awkwardly, unsure of how to phrase 'I was doing illegal experiments trying to come up with a new seal for Kotetsu because I'm a sucker for heartfelt monologues about the power of love like the disaster gay I am’ without admitting to clandestine activities or his habit of crying at sad poetry late at night.
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- English
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- 33,679
- Chapters:
- 9/9
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- 7
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- 349
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- 1,690
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Bookmarked by MatchaFox
27 Mar 2026
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15-year-old Iruka was elated and terrified to find a wounded ANBU in the river. But now the eccentric ANBU won’t leave him alone, and all he wants is to figure out who he is and who he is meant to be.
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- English
- Words:
- 63,700
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 254
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- 2,318
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- 527
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- 35,015
Bookmarked by MatchaFox
02 Feb 2026
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Team 7's luck is hitting new lows as their second C-rank mission turns out even worse than the first. With him and Sasuke captured and Kakashi and Sakura's fate unknown, Naruto must find a way to escape before their captors grow tired of them and take their torture one step too far.
He finds two most unexpected allies and with many secrets revealed on their way back to Konoha, Naruto's life is about to take an abrupt turn - perhaps this time, for the better.
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How one mission gone wrong changes everything in the long run.
(endgame NaruSasu and KakaIru)
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- Part 1 of Found My Reason
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- English
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- 230,265
- Chapters:
- 24/24
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 794
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- 4,504
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- 1,204
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Bookmarked by MatchaFox
09 Sep 2025
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Iruka finds an injured dog.
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- English
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- 32,619
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 157
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- 5,270
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- 1,143
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- 62,499
Bookmarked by MatchaFox
28 Aug 2025
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“Is that an otter?” Iruka asks as large, sable eyes blink at him and a little whiskered nose twitches curiously. “That’s an otter. Why do you have an otter?”
“I can’t tell you,” Kakashi says with a great amount of dignity for a man cradling a baby otter in armoured gloves. “Classified Jounin mission business.”
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- English
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- 20,999
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 216
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- 5,095
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- 1,333
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Bookmarked by MatchaFox
18 Aug 2025
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When Naruto is kidnapped from his orphanage at age three, Kakashi is so done with this shit. He gets Naruto back, tells the Hokage where to go (politely, because he isn't suicidal), and raises the boy himself. Or, you know, tries and is proud when there aren't too many explosions.
Then everybody starts to copy him and it's a whole thing.
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- English
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- 84,985
- Chapters:
- 12/12
- Collections:
- 22
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- 1,267
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- 15,362
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Bookmarked by MatchaFox
28 Jul 2025
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Kakashi avoided relationships. He didn't want to put others in danger. So he couldn't understand why there was a face staring back at him, as a sub-entry to his own, in this Bingo Book. Umino Iruka (lover) the caption read. It didn't matter that it wasn't true. The Book was fact, and to Kakashi's enemies, Iruka had just become a weakness they could exploit.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 64,500
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 1,767
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- 14,372
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- 3,852
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- 231,261
Bookmarked by MatchaFox
18 Jul 2025
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Thanks for Thumper, But I Prefer Cheeseburgers by isthatbloodonhisshirt (wasterella) for adara
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)
21 Jun 2018
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The wolf’s head whipped around so fast, Stiles felt like he was watching The Exorcist.
Stiles wondered if he could just stand still enough to make the wolf think he was a tree. A very bright red and jean-clad tree. He doubted it, but one could hope.
He knew it was a lost cause when the wolf turned fully, lips pulled back from its sharp teeth—so very sharp, good fucking Lord!—and began walking towards Stiles.
“I didn’t see anything!” Stiles shouted, both hands out in front of himself and sweat instantly breaking out across his skin. “I swear to you! I didn’t see anything! I didn’t see anything! I won’t tell anyone! I won’t! I’ll keep this to myself, until the day I die! I promise! I promise!”
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- English
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- 58,339
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 733
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- 19,800
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Bookmarked by MatchaFox
18 Feb 2025
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Ahead of their first date, Iruka is shocked to hear a rumor that Kakashi never takes off his mask - not even for lovers - and goes into it planning to leave him high and dry. Except, it doesn't actually happen that way.
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Iruka teaches Kakashi how to kiss, among other things.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 21,800
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 117
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- 2,819
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- 654
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- 26,775
Bookmarked by MatchaFox
17 Dec 2023
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A moments silence hung heavy in the room before the four friends quietly came to the only course of action available to them. The only course of action that might save the village from a fate worse than another attack by Orochimaru and his legion of grumpy snakes… bored Jounin.
Bookmarked by MatchaFox
15 Sep 2023
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Iruka peruses the mission board when he overhears some kunoichi talking about a C-rank babysitting mission. Curious by the rumours, Iruka takes a look.
Mission Rank:
C-Rank, Chuunin and above only.Mission Duration:
???? One week. An arrangement can be made for recurring services if you survive.Mission Description:
Feral baby.
Please feed and water.
Bring dog treats. He likes those.Signed:
Henohenomoheji.Iruka untacks the mission brief, walks over to the mission coordinators and asks, “This mission is a prank, right?”
Or: The continual well-being of Uzumaki Naruto rides on a C-Ranked mission.
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- English
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- 44,447
- Chapters:
- 4/4
- Collections:
- 11
- Comments:
- 242
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- 6,093
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Bookmarked by MatchaFox
13 Sep 2023
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“Are you planning to keep my hair tie?” Iruka asked suddenly, a hint of amusement in his voice.
“I’m holding it prisoner for crimes against the citizens of Konoha.”
“What are the charges?”
Kakashi smiled, twirling the band around his forefinger like a kunai. “Perjury and willful concealment.”
Iruka huffed and shook his head, lips thinning in a way that made Kakashi think he was holding back a grin. “You know, if I’d realized you had such a thing for long hair, I would have started wearing mine down years ago.”
Kakashi’s thumb caught the hair band, halting its revolution.
“Years?”
(Or, in which Iruka asks for a single night, and gets a whole lot more.)
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- English
- Words:
- 12,990
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 163
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- 5,560
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- 1,077
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- 42,798
Bookmarked by MatchaFox
16 Aug 2023
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Iruka Umino is a beta like the vast majority of Konoha. It makes him a better teacher, a better shinobi, a better friend.
Especially when his perpetually-unhormonal alpha friend Kakashi Hatake suddenly returns from a mission, heavily wounded and in heat.
So Iruka offers himself to Kakashi as an omega replacement.
(As flailinginlove once wrote: A/B/O dynamics but without mpreg, dub-con, and rivers of gushing fluids, also trying to avoid overly stereotyped gender roles.)
- Language:
- English
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- 33,989
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Comments:
- 304
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- 4,229
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- 749
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- 74,263
Bookmarked by MatchaFox
14 Aug 2023
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There are benches near the gates of Konoha where people wait for their loved ones to return from missions. Kakashi is used to ignoring them; it’s been a long time since someone has taken anything more than a professional interest in his comings and goings.
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- English
- Words:
- 13,204
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
- 9
- Comments:
- 123
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- 5,105
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- 1,122
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- 39,808
Bookmarked by MatchaFox
11 Aug 2023
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While working on a delicate mission to protect Konoha, Hunter-nin Iruka has to collaborate with Inu, an ANBU captain he finds both dangerous and intriguing. For the sake of both Konoha and the mission, Iruka must protect his identity at all costs, even when he’d prefer not to.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 143,498
- Chapters:
- 21/21
- Comments:
- 1,041
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- 4,809
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- 1,462
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- 115,022
Bookmarked by MatchaFox
02 Aug 2023
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Not all of Kakashi's plans are genius ones.
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- Part 2 of No Substitutes Accepted
Bookmarked by MatchaFox
19 Jul 2023
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After the war, Naruto tries to play matchmaker. Kakashi finds a loophole that gets him out of the date. Iruka is less than impressed.
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- Part 1 of No Substitutes Accepted
Bookmarked by MatchaFox
19 Jul 2023
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Iruka met Kakashi far earlier, and more often, than he realises. Filling in some of the gaps in Iruka's life.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 64,291
- Chapters:
- 23/23
- Collections:
- 5
- Comments:
- 368
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- 5,185
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- 1,424
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Bookmarked by MatchaFox
12 Jul 2023
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“Naruto is a person with a name,” Iruka snapped, already way past the limit of his patience for the day. Funny, how he could spend all day with small children, but a single council meeting wore him down to the bone. “Use it.”
“Hmm.”
For a long second, Iruka thought that he was about to die. And then Hatake’s eye curled in a friendly crinkle, an approximation of a smile.
“You’ll do,” Hatake said.*** 5 times Kakashi & Iruka tried to be a normal family for Naruto + 1 time they were a full on ninja family ***
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 21,957
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 33
- Comments:
- 845
- Kudos:
- 13,087
- Bookmarks:
- 3,744
- Hits:
- 111,998
Bookmarked by MatchaFox
27 Jun 2023