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Sensei Hogwarts AU :) watercolors and watercolor crayons
KAKAGAI moment: Gai and Kakashi are partners during Potion. Kakashi becomes Prefect (along with Anko) and then Head Boy of Slytherin. Dai was a squib and Gai more then often is scared to be one himself (Kakashi is very supportive). Gai is a Quidditch prodigy and his favourite subject is Muggle Studies. After Hogwarts they all become Aurors and then professors.
Happy Valentine’s Day! (▱˘◡˘▱)
dumb thought but would smoking have any effect on asuma bc surely in a world where characters can canonically breathe out and spit fire, acid, lava, mist, ect cigarettes shouldn’t cause that much damage
A kissing meme I did from Twitter
"Shikamaru gets a free pass on his revenge while Sasuke doesn't. Konoha was unfair to Sasuke."
What are your thoughts on this claim by some Sasuke Stans?
Is that Konoha or Kakashi??
Usually they would always blame Kakashi for this because he actively discouraged Sasuke from pursuing Revenge but volunteered himself for Shikmaru's Revenge. They literally call him an hypocrite.
Anyways, Let me explain for both.
Sasuke revealing his life-goal of Killing a certain man (Read: Itachi) during Team 7 Introduction. Kakashi was kind of expecting it rather than opposing or discouraging it.
"In that case, You can never defeat Itachi"
During his Chidori Training, Kakashi was asking Sasuke to not give into Hatred or otherwise the Cursed Seal would flare up and due to that, his growth would be stunted. He doesn't seem to be discouraging Sasuke's revenge in this instance. In fact, he is actually guiding Sasuke.
"I was trying to honor this boy's feelings"
Here, Jiraiya (Just like Kakashi) seems to respect Sasuke's revenge and his valid feelings... So, he let Sasuke to fight Itachi (which ended up in a situation where Sasuke got hurt. For which Jiraiya regrets a lot).
"That's divine punishment! The destiny of someone who accomplished such evil deeds!"
Some random Konoha shinobis are grateful about the fact the Itachi got his punishment from his own little brother.
I don't think this Argument of "Konoha was unfair to Sasuke's revenge" holds any truth. In fact, everyone (Kakashi, Jiraiya, Villagers) were validating Sasuke's actions/feelings in a positive way. Until they don't. Well, to be specific.... Kakashi.
Keeping that aside for now (will come back to that later),
Let's look at Team 10's Revenge. Not going to explain much. Just few panels.
I think this is very self-explanatory.
Shikamaru lost his sensei. He devised a plan and a smart plan at that. He let Kakashi to act as Captain, then He got his Revenge. Over.
It's very simple.
Now, How did Sasuke conducted himself when Itachi came to the Village?
Firstly,
Firstly, he didn’t let anyone in his Revenge... Not Jiraiya... Not even Naruto. He was even being very dismissive about Tsunade’s help. As well as other Konoha Boys’ help.
Whereas Shikamaru was glad that Kakashi Joined them.
Well, you could say, “Itachi must always be dealt by Sasuke alone... No one has any business in it. Whereas Kakashi, Shikamaru, Ino, Chouji were all related to Asuma in some way. Like they all have a stake in this Revenge and hence Shikamaru allowed everyone”.
If that’s the case, Why did Sasuke formed Team Hebi to achieve his Goal???? Instead, he could’ve killed Orochimaru and looked out for Itachi, Right????
So, Sasuke did know it inside him that he needed a 4-man cell to catch a strong opponent like Itachi.
Secondly,
Sasuke after meeting Itachi, he straight up attacked him out of pure impulsiveness. There was no plan or tactics... On top of that, he doesn’t want help from any of them either.
Whereas Shikamaru was explicitly mentioning to his teammates (including Kakashi) that they have to do the Simulation in their mind for atleast 3 times. So, there was already a clear and formulated plan that was laid out by Shikamaru.
Why couldn’t Sasuke do that???
If Naruto acts on his impulse, it’s totally understandable... Because that was his inherent nature. But Sasuke???
During the Bell Test, Sasuke was so smart to observe Kakashi’s abilities first rather than straight up fighting head on like Naruto....
During Chunin Exams, Sasuke was so clever enough to create a lengthy password in order to draw in that Snake monster...
Why didn’t Sasuke do the same here??? Like being clever, patient and take the help from other people... And then fight Itachi with a clear head????
Well, That’s why he formed Team Hebi
Where is that calculative Sasuke who analyzes the enemy before plunging into the fight????
Oh, That’s why during Itachi vs Sasuke Battle, Sasuke was very calculative without letting his emotions get the better of him.
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Anyways, the comparison (Shikamaru Vs Sasuke) I made above has nothing to do with why Kakashi discouraged Sasuke from pursuing Revenge... Because Kakashi was already knocked out by Itachi’s Tsukuyomi and hence, he weren’t there in that Kidnapping scene.
I made this comparison to simply show that in Part 2, how Sasuke became level-headed in his battle with Itachi after got easily defeated by him once in Part 1. (Point to note: Sasuke also learnt how to overcome Itachi’s Tsukuyomi in Part 2 after receiving a cruel one in Part 1)
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The Real Reason why Kakashi discouraged Sasuke from pursuing or obsessing with Revenge was
1. Sasuke starting to Hurting Himself
Right after he pinned Sasuke to the tree, his first gaze was towards his Cursed seal.
Didn’t Kakashi advised Sasuke earlier that to not succumb into Hatred and not to depend on the power of the Cursed Seal???
Gaara taunted Sasuke with his Lack of Hatred
And he ended up succumbing into Hatred that led the cursed seal to flare up at the wrong time and rendered him immobile throughout the Battle. And the source of all this inconvenience was his Hatred and Revenge....
This is exactly what Kakashi wanted to prevent from happening to Sasuke. To not let his student to get hurt and lose himself in Revenge.
This is also the reason why Naruto confessed Sasuke about feeling Pain whenever Sasuke was hurting himself in Chapter 698.
Shikamaru never hurt himself for the sake of Avenging Asuma. Even Kakashi said that he was going with them to not let them do unreasonable things...
“This way, If I go with them, I can keep an eye on them... I won’t let them do anything unreasonable”
The other reason why Kakashi discouraged Sasuke was
2. Sasuke started to Hurt Others.
Naah, I am not talking about feelings getting hurt.
This is about Sasuke physically starting to hurt other people in order to taste his Revenge.
No matter how much you argue, Sasuke was the first one to instigate that Rivalry Battle in the Hospital Rooftop (not blaming him for doing it but that’s not the right way either) and he would’ve ended up doing something he regret for his whole life if he had his way... Out of sheer impulsiveness.
Sasuke kidnapped Killer Bee.
Sasuke planned to Destroy Konoha.
Sasuke stabbed Karin.
Sasuke tried to kill Sakura by going behind her back while she was making up her resolve to kill him.
Now all of these incidents are something Kakashi knew or saw from first hand.
When his Target was just Itachi... He ended up attacking Naruto.
When his Target was just those 3 Elders... He ended up kidnapping Killer Bee, killing those Samurais, stabbed Karin and planned to destroy Konoha as a whole.
In order to achieve his Goal, he is starting to inconvenience and hurt irrelevant people who don’t have anything to do with his Goal.
Did Shikamaru hurt anyone for his Revenge????
Nope.
That’s why, Kakashi asked Sasuke to stop obsessing with Revenge. Because he is hurting himself as well as hurting other people.
Could all these have been avoided from Sasuke’s side???
Yes, Definitely.
Instead of planning to destroy the Entire Village, had Sasuke decided to confront and kill those Elders... Wouldn’t Kakashi/Konoha have helped him out???
I guess they would.
Here Kakashi was helping Naruto to beg forgiveness for Sasuke’s sake. Even though, Danzo, the Hokage had announced that Sasuke would be executed. He literally gave Jackshit about the fact that Sasuke killed Danzo.
This is what Tsunade feels about that 3 Advisors... Not going to explain any further.
“The Mission Orders are still in effect, Right??”
“The Mission to Hunt down Akatsuki is still going on, Right?”
In both the scenes, Naruto and Shikamaru uses the Mission to Hunt Akatsuki as the reason to fulfill their Goal... In Naruto’s case, it was to bring Sasuke back. In Shikamaru’s case, it was to avenge Asuma.
Don’t you think, had Sasuke stayed in the village... and if he had used the same ‘Akatsuki Hunting’ as the reasoning to pursue his Goal of killing Itachi using a bunch of Good Shinobi from the Village... Wouldn’t Tsunade have allowed it???
She would have.
All the context of Kakashi, Tsunade or his Konoha 12 members helping out with Sasuke’s revenge is right there. It’s just that Sasuke was hell-bent on not taking it. Not only he started to reject/cut everyone but in the process he was starting to Hurt himself and Others... That’s why Sasuke’s revenge was discouraged whereas that’s not the case with Shikamaru.