Team 7 headcanon as going out to Ichiraku Ramen for coming home after long missions away like months. Also Kakashi totally dog piled with exhausted Team Ro on more than one occasion. I’ll think of more but I hope you feel better dude 🙏🏻💕
Thank you for the well-wishes, I have written a very silly ramen-stand fic in response xoxo. Recovery energy and good vibes all the way! I will unofficially title this, Twelve Chopsticks in A Bundle.
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“Kakashi,” Teuchi asks slowly, setting a bowl of ramen in front of him. “Did you get a new haircut?”
Kakashi thinks about it for a moment. “No,” he says, certain that his last haircut was at least six weeks ago. As Teuchi continues to look him over, he adds, “I did get a new eye.”
“That must be it!” Teuchi declares, slapping a hand down on the counter. “I knew something looked different.”
“Did you get a haircut, Teuchi-san?” Kakashi asks back, politely.
Teuchi nods, removing his hat with a beaming smile. His short brown hair is cropped even more closely to his head. “Yes, thank you for noticing.”
Kakashi smiles at the man as he reaches for his chopsticks. Just as he is about to dig in, he feels something, someone, barreling towards the Ichiraku stand. If the chakra hadn't been a give-away, his nose would've been enough for an answer.
“Hey Kakashi-sensei, buy me a bowl of ramen,” pipes up a suspiciously Naruto-like voice from behind him.
“I thought you were supposed to be at physical therapy, Naruto,” Kakashi remarks, only half an admonition. He orders the ramen away.
Teuchi grins at Naruto and goes to grab more sliced pork.
“Sasuke skipped, so I got bored,” Naruto complains, shrugging.
Kakashi doesn’t miss that Naruto’s right shoulder is slower in the motion than his left. He narrows his eyes, pointing his chopsticks at Naruto. “I wonder what Sakura would say...” he muses, letting the threat speak for itself.
Naruto only has time to open his mouth for the beginnings of a plea before the space in the ramen shop swirls and twists, and Sakura and Sasuke manifest out of the emptiness. “There you are!” Sakura says, barging towards Naruto.
Kakashi frowns. He hadn’t sensed that coming at all. There is something distinctly off-putting about his students being able to sneak up on him. “Sasuke. Should I ask why you’re not at the hospital today either?” Kakashi asks, by way of greeting.
“I’m not looking to replace my arm, so I don’t see the point,” Sasuke replies, taking a seat on Kakashi’s other side. “I won’t gain anything more than I would from training on my own."
Kakashi sighs. “You don’t think it’d be helpful to keep seeing a medic?”
Sasuke looks at Sakura, as if that itself is an answer, and then shrugs. Sakura lets go of the grip she has on Naruto’s ear and looks back at Sasuke with a frown. “I’m coming with you both tomorrow,” Sakura declares, in a tone that leaves no room for arguments. She sits down beside Naruto, closing her eyes and rubbing soothing circles on her own temple.
“You two should go easy on Sakura,” Kakashi tells them, lowly. “She has more things to worry about as a medic than chasing after her teammates.”
Sakura cracks one eye open at her teacher. “Don’t think I don’t know you haven’t been using your eyedrops at night, Kakashi-sensei. Just because Naruto made your new eye, doesn’t mean you’re exempt from transplant aftercare.”
Rubbing a hand at the back of his head sheepishly, Kakashi chuckles at being caught-out. The drops make his vision blurry, and Tsunade has been inundating him with reading to “encourage” his participation in the Hokage’s office. However... “How would you know that, Sakura-chan?”
He doesn’t have to wait long for an answer, because two more familiar people duck under the noren, one of whom Kakashi can squarely lay blame on for his predicament. “You told on me, Tenzō?” Kakashi asks him, aghast.
“I didn’t tell, she guessed,” Tenzō replies, as he drops into the seat next to Sasuke. “If you don’t want to get yelled at, take your meds.”
Sai, their last member, sits beside Sakura and says, for the benefit of the rest of their team, “Sakura is very skillful at issuing medical advice.”
“Thank you, Sai.”
“You’re welcome, Ug—” Sai manages to say, before Naruto leaps across the counter to shove a napkin in his mouth.
Satisfied that the danger brewing at the other end of the counter has been handled, Kakashi turns back with a half-hearted effort to kick Tenzō in the ankle, but with Sasuke between them, it only just grazes his leg. Sasuke stands. “If you’re going to play footsie, I’m switching seats.”
“We’re adult shinobi, we don’t play footsie,” Tenzō says, which is most decidedly a lie. He swaps with Sasuke regardless.
Teuchi emerges from the back of the stand, saying, “It took a while, but I finally found the pork! Oh, looks like we have a full house today.”
“Kakashi-senpai is treating our whole team to ramen,” says Tenzō, clapping a hand on his companion’s shoulder. In his periphery, Kakashi can tell that he is smiling.
In protest, Kakashi mutters to Tenzō, “We’re not having any more sleepovers.”
Tenzō has the audacity to laugh at him. “Enjoy your three-day monkhood,” he whispers back, not sounding the least bit sorry.
“I’ll go down the line and take your orders then,” Teuchi says cheerfully. “Long time, no see, Sasuke! Say, did you get a haircut?”
Sasuke blinks at him. “I got a rinnegan.”
“You shinobi really know how to change up your look, huh?” says Teuchi, with a bellowing laugh. “Now, what’ll it be?”
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some dynamics I want to read and/or write post-show
1. Peg and Honoria write one another letters and get on incredibly well (this of course means that the two of them plan meet-ups between the two of them + Charles and BJ... in San Franscisco!)
2. Giant reunion Bash -- this includes (@genderqueer-klinger thank you) the widow Blake, Sid, Ho-Jon, Park Sung, and Sparky... and also for some reason Frank (choose yer own adventure whether it was intentional or not). Louise naturally comes with as well, and many things happen (including the discovery that Louise has been cheating on Frank since before he went overseas).
3. Ellie (from show biz) sends Charles tickets to every show she does, and he’s always faithfully there, whether it’s the accordion or the piano. Eventually she gets to play a packed concert hall
4. An exploration of some of the Korean characters on the show -- Ho-Jon and Park Sung both go to America so they’re obvious choices, but wonders about the baby they gave away, and Kyung Soon and Young-Hi especially (off the top of my head, gonna remember more on my rewatch)
5. Erin Hunnicutt’s POV through the years
6. Sid Freedman POV through the years/including post-show
7. An exploration of Oliver Jones
8. An exploration of Ginger Bayliss
9. An exploration of Kellye Yamato
10. An exploration of Klinger and gender and family
11. Something in which Margaret and Hawkeye are besties (and generally something about Margaret, I’m curious about where people place her after the show -- of course maybe the show finale is going to answer this.....)
12. I mean... Hawkeye... obviously.... in many different ways
13. An exploration of Louise Mcintyre
14. Something in which BJ and Trapper meet....
15. Also Klinger and Hawkeye and gender (are we believing that Hawkeye never tried on one of Klinger’s outfits? That Klinger never buttoned it up for him? That Klinger never gave Hawkeye a bit of rouge and some eyeshadow???)
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