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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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04 Feb 2026
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reaching out for a hand (so don’t let this be the end) by TumblingTroublesomeTumbleweeds
Fandoms: Naruto
26 Feb 2022
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Umino Iruka has spent his entire genin and pre-genin career being shuffled around and forgotten about. But now he has a team to be responsible for and an unlikely ally in the most annoying ANBU to ever ANBU: Hound.
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01 Feb 2026
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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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29 Jan 2026
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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 ***
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28 Jan 2026
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The world ends and yet it keeps going. This is a story that has been told before, but what's another recitation? Iruka lives and breathes and loves and the future is uncertain.
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It was like walking through a dream, and no one else seemed to realize that they were all in a shared dream. If Iruka could just wake up. If he could just wake up, then it would all go away and it would have all been a terrible, terrible dream, something he’d cry into his father’s shoulder about, and it would only be a horrible and far away thing.
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currently at age 17/18
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27 Jan 2026