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SUCH STAMINA AND POWER, KAKASHI! YOU DEFINITELY ARE A RIVAL WORTHY OF THE LEAF'S GREEN BEAST!!! *°*TT_TT*°* I CAN ALMOST SEE THE VILLAGE'S GATE! WE ARE CLOSE TO THE FINISH LINE, MY RIVAL!!!
I WILL NOT PUT MY YOUTH TO SHAME! MY BEAUTIFUL STUDENTS WILL BE SO PROUD OF ME!
OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH!!! BUT THAT WAS SO CLOSE, MY RIVAL!!!
THAT TRULY WAS AN AMAZING CHALLENGE, THANK YOU KAKASHI!
I HAVE DONE MY BEST! AND I WILL TRAIN SO MUCH HARDER! THE SPRINGTIME OF MY YOUTH IS BEGINNING ANEW!
*°*sigh*°* Still acting so cool, Kakashi... There, you deserve this
BUT FEAR NOT, MY RIVAL! I HAVE ANOTHER CHALLENGE FOR YOU, YOU WILL NOT BE BORED! ....Well it's more like me needing help but still... MY HOUSE NEEDS TO BE REBUILT! KAKASHI! LET'S SEE WHICH ONE OF US CAN BUILD THE BEST HOUSE!!
SUCH A GREAT CHALLENGE FOR SUCH GREAT RIVALS!!
FINALLY, A VICTORY FOR ME!! WONDERFUL! MY RIVAL! WE ARE NOW EVEN!!
THIS BATHROOM WILL BE THE BEST THAT WAS EVER BUILT!
OH LEE! I HAVE MISSED YOU SO MUCH TOO!! YOU HAVE GROWN SO MUCH! AND STILL ARE SO YOUTFUL! I SEE YOU HAVE BEEN TRAINING HARD!
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RP blog
So yeah, as it was nicely suggested to me, I just went off and created a new blog for our dear Gai-sensei :) you are all welcome to come and have a laugh with Konoha's Green Beast as soon and as often as you'd like :) just look up konohasgreenbeast.tumblr.com and you'll find me :)
who's the real fool here?
I absolutely need to see your top 10 kakagai moments pls
This was hard because there are so many moments I wanted to include. I had to have the self control not to just pick 10 moments from the Konoha Shinden.
TOP TEN KAKAGAI MOMENTS
10. "I can’t believe you couldn’t return a single punch after what they said about your father.“
Kakashi rushing in and saving Gai from two grown men who were beating him up. This moment reads just like so many from the official couples’ backstories, it’s honestly uncanny. And Kakashi is so furious at them.
9. “Doesn’t he remind us of someone? Especially… the eyebrows.”
The fact that Kakashi and Gai scoped out the little kids together is strangely sweet, especially since Kakashi wasn’t too keen on getting his own team. It was really cute that Kakashi lightly teased Gai about how much Lee reminded him of a younger Gai.
8. “You did this to Kakashi?”
Gai’s big rescue and first showdown with Kisame, where Kakashi was dead meat and barely holding on until he saw Gai arrive. Kakashi finally passing out because he felt safe enough with Gai taking over says so much, and the way Gai turns his back on the enemy and gently lifts Kakashi out of the water over his shoulder says even more. Itachi retreated for a reason, Gai was pissed that they had hurt Kakashi this badly.
7. “He’s nice, isn’t he?”
The tempura scene. Kakashi loathes tempura, but he orders it just because it makes him happy to see Gai eat it off his plate. That’s the most domestic thing ever. And then Kakashi gushing to Mirai about it right after. Plus, he eats and pulls his mask down in front of Gai, no slight of hand or anything. He’s perfectly comfortable taking off his mask in front of Gai. He did it at an angle that obscured his face from Mirai’s view, but not from Gai’s.
6. “I have to take care of him…”
When Gai mentioned, way back in the chunin exams, that Kakashi can cut through lightning, who would have thought that Gai was the one who he did it for? That Kakashi found the strength out of nothing just to protect Gai was touching, and so was the scene where Gai promised to protect him afterwards.
5. “It’s not like this is the last one. You and I are eternal rivals. That will never change. Guy, it’s reassuring to me that we have someone as earnest as you. I’ll be counting on you from now on. I can’t protect this village by myself.”
The race is fantastic, and so is the scene before the race where Gai checks on Kakashi, but the scene after the race has to be my favorite part. Kakashi is just so openly moved by Gai’s gesture. This is one of the scenes where he’s most open and forthcoming about how much Gai means to him.
4. “I’d underestimated you a little, Gai.”
In Kakashi Hiden, Kakashi has a flashback to when Gai was discharged from the hospital. He remembers everything about it so vividly, from the weather to the faces Gai made to all the times Gai struggled and cried and broke down in frustration. And what he remembers most of all is how Gai never failed to put on a brave face and ensure Lee that he was just fine. It’s one of the moments where Kakashi sincerely acknowledge’s Gai’s strength of character.
3. “Guy… are you really…?!”
Kakashi’s reaction to Gai finally opening the 8th gate. In the manga and especially in the anime, it speaks for itself. Kakashi’s eyes go wide, he trembles in shock, he keeps asking Gai in disbelief if he was really going to do it. Their lives together flashed before his eyes. This is the definitely scene I think about as proof that Kakashi deeply, deeply cares about Gai and wants him around.
2. “I don’t think there’s a cooler shinobi than your dad.”
Kakashi being nice at all, pre-Obito’s death, is pretty amazing. The fact that he apparently went here with Gai to listen to his problems and told Gai that he admired Dai more than anyone else is so touching, and you can tell how much it meant to Gai to hear that.
Honorable mentions:
Kakashi apologizing to Gai and trying to comfort him after Lee lost to Gaara
That time Hiruzen was being murdered but Gai and Kakashi were busy flirting fighting back to back to protect the stadium and join Genma
Chapter 700 where Kakashi invites Gai on a trip to all their nostalgic places
Little Gai calling Kakashi his man of destiny and asking him to spend their youth together
Every time Kakashi and Gai fight back to back
Every time Kakashi or Gai physically supports the other when they’re tired/weakened
Gai begs Hiruzen and Danzo to let him join ANBU to be with his “partner” Kakashi
Kakashi tells Tsunade that Gai is the man he trusts most in the entire world
Kakashi drops everything and rushes to Gai’s boat as soon as he gets the SOS tortoise
Scene in Kakashi Hiden where Kakashi sneaks onto the airship because he knows Gai will be there
Scene in Kakashi Hiden where Kakashi holds Gai’s hand while they’re both hanging off the edge of an airship, even if it means falling off and dying together
All the other parts of Konoha Shinden, especially them sleeping side by side with overlapping blankets
1. “If there’s a hotspring that can heal your leg, I’d…”
This has to be my number one. They adapted this scene perfectly. Kakashi and Gai, happy and retired, looking back on their lives together and thanking each other for being there, saying they wanted to continue staying by each other’s sides forever. This is kakagai in a nutshell.
Ya’ll remember when Gai threatened to put Gaara in the hospital and Gaara just booked it out of there
They really looked at Kishi’s official Konoha Shinden art and said “No, this isn’t gay enough. We need Kakashi to look even more lovestruck, we need Guy to have a shining nice guy grin, and we need Mirai to more obviously feel like a confused third wheel to an old married couple.”
And you know what? I support them.
So so so my brain is ruminating on the “ROOT Gai” idea and I wondered how he even came to be ROOT, and then it came to me: if for any reason Duy were to die when Gai was still a kind of useless-seeming kid, he’d be the ideal orphan you’d send as cannon fodder for your baby ROOT to kill, so they’ll learn how to kill even Konohan comrades.
But, um. Gai just wouldn’t die.
He kept getting up and kicking and biting and punching and maybe he even killed some potential ROOT baby shinobi in the process, surviving for long enough that Danzo went like, huh, maybe this useless-looking thing isn’t so useless. And so Gai was reshuffled to be trained as a formal ROOT member instead of being thrown at others as emotion-killing canon fodder.
(His ANBU ROOT mask is a Tiger btw :3)
gai being sick for my sick brother in arms @duesternis
did not manage to do anything big for kkg day this year but i do have these sketches for you at least
Itty bitty rivals…. couldn’t think of a better start
happy to be kakagai’ing in the year of our lord 2024 (forgive me I do not know how to use this site. Yet)