#the 'great genin babysitter'

[ayyyez]

For whichever Naruto characters you'll get inspiration for: how do they think they would do babysitting vs how they actually do. Who'd be overconfident and fail miserably? Who would avoid it at all cost but turn out amazing? Who is bad with kids and knows it? Who'd be a supernanny?

A/N: oh yeah, sure thing my friend! These were fun to do. Thanks for sending in a request!

TAGS: babysitting headcanons, fluff, soft headcanons, hehes, gremlin Madara

CHARACTERS: Neji Hyuga, Shisui Uchiha, Shikamaru Nara, Madara Uchiha, Tobirama Senju

NEJI HYUGA: Okay so genin Neji would not be thrilled at the prospect of babysitting. He'd also be a little cocky thinking he'd have no problem wrangling a bunch of kids. He underestimates these trouble makers however and has a woeful time dealing with their "backtalking" and "incessant questioning of authority." That's him— he's the authority. Neji sweetie they're kids. Won't lose them though with his Byakugan and kind of scares them into behaving with his demeanour.

Teen/Adult (Jonin) Neji now is a lot more mellow and less harsh. He's going to be a lot softer and understanding. Is actually less confident with the task but does a lot better. Bends down to the kids level to talk to them. Treats them the same way he does adults in the way he talks to them but his tone his gentler. Is patient with their questions. Reads to them. Teaches them life lessons.

Don't tell anyone but he gives them piggybacks.

SHISUI UCHIHA: The best damn babysitter you could ask for and he knows it too. If you tell him though he'll get all bashful about it. He's so good with kids! Talks and plays with them like he is one. Being around kids helps him reset and forget his troubles. He can't help but want to protect them and their childhoods. Because of this just wants to show them the best time.

Kind of sneaky about the games he teaches. The games teach them strategy and how to think on their feet. Real world shinobi skills to help them learn how to hide and escape if they ever need it. Shisui also picks the littler kids up and zooms them around. Piggyback rides and races. Rolling down hills. Lots of laughter and fun.

Always letting the kids win and encouraging them when he can.

SHIKAMARU NARA: Doesn't matter when this is Shikamaru's always going to think it's going to be a drag babysitting. He's going to look for the easiest way to mind these kids. Think smarter not harder is his motto. Doesn't think he'll do a terrible job nor exceed expectations. He's there to tick a box. What he doesn't expect is to be kept amused by the kids. Having back and forth banter. The kids telling him "jokes" and stories.

Ha. So maybe babysitting isn't so bad. The kind of babysitter who is like 'Alright, I'll give you some treats if you don't tell your parents.' Totally has a secret pact with the kids. Teaches them all sorts of cool things. As long as they don't have to go anywhere or do anything too annoying.

The kind of babysitter the kids think are cool.

MADARA UCHIHA: Do not let this man babysit your kids. He's a terrible influence (affectionate). I don't mean big bad Madara either I just mean regular gremlin Madara. He's going to have your kids running wild and promoting their chaos. He has a complex where he both thinks he's the best babysitter in the world and thinks he's also going to fail big time.

Okay in all seriousness though he's good for kids who have a lot of energy and need to run around. He'll match their energy and do what they need to do to get all of that out. Won't bring any negativity to the table either. Just encourages them to go go go. And is behind them the entire time. Doesn't care about the mess either. Those kids want to roll around in mud? Alright mud fight it is. It's war baby. Takes those wargames very seriously. The kids call him sir and everything lol.

He encourages chaos in order to keep that watchful eye on them. He actually does an alright job.

TOBIRAMA SENJU: Great teacher. Terrible babysitter. Terrible with teensy children. Good with school level children in a teaching environment. But he just can't babysit. He's so bad with children that aren't his own or his students. He's just so awkward. You know how people hold toddlers like they're wild creatures with their arms completely stretched out in front of them? That's him holding them.

Everything becomes lectures when he talks to them and he's so theoretical and awkward at connecting and knows it. He honestly chooses to just not babysit.

I want to point out though he is really good at teaching children when they're his students. When they're old enough to somewhat take care of themselves and he just has to teach them the rest and theres time to make a connection—he can't explain it—it's just different. Like tweens he's good with tweens. Genuinely enjoys seeing the next generations flourish he just doesn't have those babysitting skills.

#naruto headcanons #naruto request #neji hyuga #neji hyuga headcanons #neji hyuga hcs #neji hyuga x reader #shisui uchiha headcanons #shisui headcanons #shisui uchiha #shisui uchiha x reader #shikamaru headcanons #shikamaru naru #shikamaru x reader #madara uchiha headcanons #madara uchiha #madara uchiha x reader #tobirama headcanons #tobirama senju headcanons #tobirama senju #tobirama x reader #tobirama senju x reader #tobirama heacanons #madara headcanons

[panharmonium]

or did you come all this way just to laugh at me - the great genin babysitter?

#these look SO BAD but the source material for this shot in e37 is SO blurry...i don't know why #anyway whatever i still needed this #naruto #a true equal #*

[tendaysoftenzo]

Prompt Discussion - (Not) My Circus, (Not) My Genin | Roots

Ten Days of Tenzo 2023: Day 6 (Nov 6)

Each year, the prompts for Ten Days of Tenzo are open to your interpretation! We enjoy all the TDOT participation, and we wanted to give some ideas for how you could interpret each prompt.

(Not) My Circus, (Not) My Genin

This prompt comes from the idiom "Not my circus, not my monkeys," which is a way to express that a person isn't responsible for whatever problem is arising. A fitting prompt for Tenzo, who comes into being a Ninja Teacher when Team 7 is climbing towards their peak of drama. We put (not) in brackets, because we know Tenzo can't help but get involved with whatever his team is up to! What kind of trouble can Tenzo's team stir up going on a mission, getting up to mischief in the village, or even some shenanigans in one of their homes!

Looking at the "Not my Genin" part, we could take that more literally, and have Tenzo dealing with other young ninja in the village. Konoha 12, Konohamaru and Hanabi, Boruto or Sarada, or a character we've never met before. Will we finally find why in one Shippuden, Tenzo knows the secrets of all of Team 8? Will we learn (Boruto spoilers) why Moegi has mokuton? Will we see Tenzo competing with his friends for the title, "The Great Genin Babysitter?"

You could also take the "Circus" and roll with it. Want to draw Tenzo as a clown? A strongman, acrobat or animal tamer? Have it. We know there are circus ninja out there, and you can have Tenzo run away to join them, or get accidentally swept up in an act, or even be in battle and gather an audience who thinks he's performing. The sky's the limit, and we'd love to see Tenzo up there in some comically large circus balloons.

Roots

Tenzo is a character whose origins are fairly ambiguous, and we can think of those origins as his "roots." Where was he born? Who were his family? Under what circumstances were the first few years of his life? You may tell the story of his childhood, or maybe have an older Tenzo rediscover his own history.

In the Naruto anime, we also see Tenzo connected to the Anbu organization Root (or the Foundation, in dubs). What was his life like? Was it similar to Sai's, or did he have his own unique position due to his unique strengths? What was it like for him to leave? Did he have any friends/loved ones that he might've been separated from? Did he find those people again after their leadership died? Would he want to help in their rehabilitation/reintegration after the war?

To take it in the direction of plants: This could be the perfect time to make a "He's my sweet potato," "I Yam," joke, since they're root vegetables. Maybe we're think of roots in terms of being underground, either in being "unknown" even Tenzo going on a spelunking trip.

Roots can also have meanings linguistics and in math, so do you see Tenzo as a mathematician or actuary? A linguist studying the origin of Ninja Language as We Know It? Take any meaning of root you want, and roll with it!

Thank you to everyone who suggested a prompt, and to everyone who enjoys TDOT. These are just a few ideas! Feel free to get creative.

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[padmerrie]

#naruto #naruto shippuden #narutographic #kakashi hatake #yamato #tenzo #teen death squad #the 'great genin babysitter' #lol #he's so done #my edits

[wordcubed-writes]

Kakashi doesn’t work for free (unless you ask)

Fandom: Naruto

Fanfic: A Different World

Context: Kushina survived the Nine-Tails’ attack.

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"I'm not a babysitter. That's genin work," said Kakashi. He was laying on a roof, just outside the Hatake compound. He never looked away from the clouds, even as Kushina spoke to him.

Kushina raised an eyebrow at that. "He's my kid—an Uzumaki—, the Fourth Fire Shadow's kid, and a living sacrifice. His very existence is an S-rank mission. Besides, you're on leave. You got anything better to do, kiddo?"

Kakashi shrugged. "I don't work for free. File a mission request with admin."

Kushina gave him a sly look, though he was too busy seeing shapes in the clouds to notice. "It's what Minato would've wanted."

She watched him tense up at that.

"Think of this as an unofficial extension of your mission to guard me. Except you're guarding my kid now."

Kakashi forced himself to relax. He sighed and sat up. "Will I at least be getting paid like an S-rank mission?" he asked, finally looking at her.

Kushina somehow looked shocked, offended, and victimized at the same time. "You... you'd squeeze your old teacher's widow for money?" she said, looking ready to cry big crocodile tears.

Kakashi knew what she was doing, but it still worked. He felt bad for even asking. "I'll... Uh, see... Sure."

A half hour later, as Kushina showed him how to change Naruto's diaper, it occurred to Kakashi that he'd been conned. Yes, conned.

He also felt more than a little inadequate. Kushina, he had no doubt, was a good parent. She loved her kid too much to be anything less. Minato would've been a great dad. Obito had loved kids, and from what Kakashi had seen, been pretty good with them. Rin had preferred her peers' company, and was never as over-the-moon about kids as Kushina and Obito were, but she'd handled them well enough. And then there was Kakashi, stuck filling in for three dead people, all of them better than him.

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Notes: Kakashi always struck me as being the worst with children out of Team Minato.

I hate when fics write Obito as being bad with kids; it doesn’t match what little early characterization we do get of him. Obito went out of this way to do favors for old people! Thus showing two traits: he is patient (old people don’t exactly move fast) and kind. Young Obito was also a relatively expressive person. These are qualities that go a long way towards being good with kids.

Young Kakashi, on the other hand, is emotionally closed off and generally inflexible. Oh, at this point in the fic, he’s a lot better, but he’s hardly the ideal uncle for Naruto.

#ADW #Narutofic #Naruto #fanfiction #Kakashi #Kushina Uzumaki

[drblueneck]

Hello Blueneck! Great story! Kujin is awesome! I can easily see him offering to babysit the baby (male or female?) and then hit on women at the park with N&M are on ANBU missions! Or use Minato's genin team to as babysitters and then Naruto freaking out because teenager Kakashi is giving the bottle to his own unknown child! I hope to read many funny chapters!

Hi there!

YEEESSS! KUJIN IS MADE OF AWESOMNESS!! FINALLY! SOMEONE AGREES!!

Oh. My. God. You did it. Now I need to write this scene. I can already picture Hajime snoozing in his stroller and Kujin just strutting around, yelling about Minato makes the best looking babies (because to him, that is totally a legit pick-up line).

And the scene with teen!Kakashi feeding Haji-chan? I’m dying.

FFS I really need to write those scenes.

[overcaffeinated-creative]

Caff Naruto OCs

Oh look, I named all seven of them so I guess I’m keeping them. This is going under a cut because it’s going to be long-ish but picture heavy. 

Name: Aburame, Nariyo

Age: 15-16 (Part 1)

Birthday: March 23rd

Height: 5′2″ (Part 1)

Weight: 86 lbs

Blood Type: AB

Village: Konohagakure

Rank: Tokubetsu Jonin

Occupation: Research and Development, Intel 

Kekkei Genkai: Weaker Form of the Aburame Insects

Preferred Jutsu Types: Minor Insect Based Jutsu, Sound Based Attacks, Fuinjutsu

Trivia: Due to fluke in her genetic coding, Nariyo was unable to host beetles. Instead, she’s transport several hundred with her in a backpack.

Not Pictured: Like the rest of her Clan, Nariyo wears sunglasses to cover her eyes.

Name: Haruno, Mioko

Age: 16-17 (Part 1)

Birthday: April 28th

Height: 4′8″ (Part 1)

Weight: 90 lbs

Blood Type: A

Village: Konohagakure

Rank: Chunin

Occupation: Medic at the Academy

Kekkei Genkai: N/A

Preferred Jutsu Types: Medical Jutsu, Minor Taijutsu 

Trivia: Like, a lot of the Haruno Clan she straddles the line between shinobi and civilian working more as a village based medic than anything else.

Not Pictured: Mioko is Sakura’s second cousin and something of an influence on her early life. 

Name: Hyuga, Ryumi

Age: 19-20 (Part 1)

Birthday:  August 4th

Height: 5′8″ (Part 1)

Weight: 130 lbs (Part 1)

Blood Type: O

Village: Konohagakure

Rank: Tokubetsu Jonin

Occupation: Intel, Taijutsu Specialist 

Kekkei Genkai: Byakugen (Main Branch)

Preferred Jutsu Types: Taijutsu, Weapons

Trivia: Ryumi is something of a black sheep among the Hyuga Clan and prefers to spend her free time milling around Nara, Shikaku (her former sensei) residence. 

Not Pictured: Ryumi’s scars are far more extensive including trailing across both cheeks, up into her left eyebrow, across her nose, and down to her chin on the right side. They were received when a bitter Kumogakure genin tried to purposely blind her during their Chunin Exam fight.

Name: Minamoto, Katsuka “Tafi”

Age: 17-18 (Part 1)

Birthday: June 30th

Height: 5′ 5″ (Part 1)

Weight: 110 lbs (Part 1)

Blood Type: B

Village: Konohagakure

Rank: Jonin

Occupation: Intel (specifically Torture and Interrogation), Retrieval Specialist

Kekkei Genkai: Magnet Release

Preferred Jutsu Types: Genjutsu above all else followed by her Magnet Release

Trivia: She’s a direct descendant of the Senju Clan through her great-grandmother (who mentor’s her) but they have no idea where the Magnet Release came from. 

Not Pictured: Tafi wears black framed glasses due to be nearsighted. 

Name: Nohara, Chiaki 

Age: 18-19 (Part 1)

Birthday: December 7th

Height: 5′4″ (Part 1)

Weight: 122 lbs (Part 1)

Blood Type: A 

Village: Konohagakure

Rank: Tokubetsu Jonin

Occupation: Intel (Torture and Interrogation), Combat Medic

Kekkei Genkai: n/a

Preferred Jutsu Types: Weaponized Medical Jutsu, Fuinjutsu  

Trivia: Chikai is a transgirl who knew her real gender from a young age and her family happily accepted her. 

Not Pictured: Chiaki has plum colored rectangular markings on both cheeks denoting her as a member of the Nohara Clan.

Name: Taira, Shungiku

Age: 15-16 (Part 1)

Birthday: September 17th

Height: 5′ (Part 1)

Weight: 80 lbs (Part 1)

Blood Type: AB

Village: Konohagakure

Rank: Jonin 

Occupation: Messenger Shinobi, ANBU (Former), Academy Substitute Teacher 

Kekkei Genkai: Raiton (Self Named), Possibly {redacted} 

Preferred Jutsu Types: Raiton, Speed Jutsu, Sneaky Attacks

Trivia: Shun is by all accounts a civilian born kunoichi’s who had her early talent recognized by her neighbor/babysitter and was recruited into the Academy.

Not Pictured: Shun is unsure of where her Kekkei Genkai (all attacks self taught) came from. In actuality, her maternal family were immigrants from the outskirts of Lightning Country.

Name: Yamanaka, Ayaka

Age: 18-19 (Part 1)

Birthday: October 1st

Height: 5′7″ (Part 1)

Weight: 127 lbs (Part 1)

Blood Type: O

Village: Konohagakure

Rank: Tokubetsu Jonin

Occupation: Intel (Torture and Interrogation), Poison Specialist 

Kekkei Genkai: n/a

Preferred Jutsu Types: Mind Transfer, Poisons

Trivia: Ayaka’s parents died before she really knew them. Thus, she grew up as her Uncle Inoichi’s daughter (including calling him dad) and Ino’s older sister. 

Not Pictured: Ayaka uses a rather flirtatious front for some of her missions but is demisexual. 

#naruto ocs #caff made ninja #nariyo #mioko #ryumi #tafi #chiaki #shun #ayaka

[naruto-oc-critiques]

We know Jiraiya and Orochimaru had a genin team so consider the timeline is so iffy and my story is probably going to be an AU, what do you think Tsunade would be like as a sensei and what would she teach her protégé (since Jiraiya had Minato and Orochimaru had Anko)

We’ve seen what Tsunade can do as a sensei in Shizune and Sakura.

 Tsunade taught Shizune a great deal about medical justu, though I think Tsunade holds a great understanding and consideration of the abilities of both her students.  She is quite cleaver and capable enough to teach techniques would be good to suit each of her wards. 

We also see Shizune acting as a sort of babysitter assistant to Tsunade, so I think we can reasonably surmise that this is another task that would be delegated to a protege. 

Tsunade is an incredibly intelligent woman, and with intelligence, comes a degree of laziness, so I could also imagine her trying to convince her students to do things for her that she would normally have to do herself. 

I’m not sure, however, Tsunade would have been a very emotionally capable sensei in the wake of Dan’s death. She herself stated how traumatic is was for her.  

We know that she took in his niece, Shizune, and essentially exiled herself. So this would have to be carefully thought out on how to get around this factor. 

~Murasaki

#Murasaki answers #Tsunade #Anonymous

[blackkatmagic]

Submission: Kagami Uchiha, babysitter extraordinaire

Because your Kagami headcanons made me laugh out loud, and fit perfectly with what I’m writing about him in the Naruto-is-Nawaki’s-reincarnation-verse, here’s a present for you! A cute little fic, about Kagami’s first (but definitely not last) time as a babysitter.

(I managed to write a non-angsty fic! Yay me!)

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Kagami sighs as he contemplates the situation he managed to get himself into. He had told Mito-sensei that he was bad with kids, but the woman hadn’t left him any choice, and here he is, in her house, babysitting her sick grandson.

On paper, it doesn’t sound too hard, but he’s heard the stories from the rest of the Hokage’s guard team.

Saru refuses any babysitting missions, arguing that he has his hands full with Mito’s granddaughter already (and Kagami can’t blame him. A thirteen years old shouldn’t be as scary as she is when she yells at him whenever the war and his recklessness lands him in the hospital).

Koharu is busy with her own kids, and those horror stories are enough to make him wary of every miniature human out there (then again, Koharu’s kids. No wonder they’re little monsters, with a kunoichi like her donating half of their genepool.) and Homura, the coward, takes refuge in the archives every time Mito-sensei so much as hints that she may need a babysitter.

Torifu is great with kids, but even he had come back from an afternoon looking after both Tsunade-chan and Nawaki-chan with a haunted face and an oath of “never again”.

Danzo hasn’t been allowed in the vicinity of their sensei’s grandson ever since he had managed to scare the boy just by looking at him. Tsunade-chan had been vicious when she had attacked him for making her baby brother cry.

Kagami has met the kid in passing, but never had a reason for prolonged exposure until now.

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Nawaki looks absolutely miserable, curled up in his blankets, hugging a pillow to his chest. He’s also very, very bored, and Kagami is quick to understand why his teammate looked so harried the last time he had had babysitting duty.  The boy won’t stop asking questions, topics ranging from ninja life to the reason behind the colour of the sky, and Kagami is getting a bit overwhelmed.

“How about I tell you a story?” He tries instead, in dire need of something to distract the boy.

The child looks at him skeptically.

“I’m not a baby!” Nawaki protests, then sneezes, ruining the grown-up air he had been trying to adopt.

“You’re never too old for stories.” Kagami declares, frantically searching his brain for a bedtime story he could tell the kid.

(Why had he suggested that? Kagami has never had a bedtime story himself, not growing up in the clan wars like he did. The closest he got were genjutsu lessons where his guardian would sometimes add small stories from myths and folklore as suggestions for illusion materials!)

(Genjutsu? That was an idea… Mito-sensei will kill him if he even thinks of putting Nawaki-chan under a genjutsu, but using it to illustrate a story…)

“Do you want to hear about that time Mito-sensei and I pranked Hashirama-sama so bad, he was hiding under his desk for two hours?” He asks.

Nawaki perks up at that, looking interested despite himself.

“Well” Kagami starts. “Your grandfather was quite scared of ghosts, you see, which your grandmother found absolutely hilarious. So of course, she decided that I, as a young and impressionable genin in need of a target to practice my genjutsu on, would be the perfect accomplice…”

As he speaks, the walls around them come to life, showing a chibi-Mito dragging a chibi-Kagami to the Hokage Tower.

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When Mito comes home later that night, she finds her grandson and her student asleep, the former in his bed and the later sitting on the floor against it, bathed in the dim light of the genjutsu still running along the walls, and she chuckles at the sight. The chibi-version of herself is currently busy throwing a huge suiton jutsu at her panicked team who had just finished cleaning what she remembers to have been a particularly nasty part of the sewers, and had been in dire need of a cleaning themselves.

With a fond smiles, she drapes a spare blanket over her  favourite student.

Well, at least now she knows who to ask first when Nawaki-chan needs a babysitter.

Bad with children her ass.

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After that day, Kagami becomes Nawaki’s favourite person after his grandmother, sister and granduncle. 

He also, much to his dismay, becomes the go-to babysitter for what seems to be half of Konoha after Nawaki brags about his Kagami-nii’s awesome bedtime stories.

Mito is too busy laughing at him to help.

#submission by stereden #this is way too cute #kagami #nawaki #mito #submission