No Perfect Offering: A KakaSasu Essay

[des_butterfly]

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack, a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in.
- Leonard Cohen

So, I've been wanting to do an essay for Kakashi and Sasuke a long time, since it's my second favourite ship (after NaruSakuSasu) and I write it a lot.  I've heard those who like KakaSasu accused of

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[a_white_rain]

Mmn NejiSasu.

Kakashi, seeing Gaara's affect on Sasuke, decides to step in a put a stop to his taunting. Interestingly enough, Kakashi's "don't talk like you know Sasuke's inner self" shares some of the same possesiveness as Naruto's "don't talk about Sasuke as if he's yours" speech to Orochimaru.
I never noticed that, but that's a good point. It could even add up to Kakashi's need to save Sasuke from himself.

What I really like about their relationship is that it somehow works. They go from parent/child, to pretending to be equal to ust to mentor/student smoothly. They don't know how to relate to each other, and Kakashi really doesn't know how to really deal with all he's feeling in some moments while Sasuke uses him as a balance for all he's feeling with Sakura and Naruto.

I can talk about these guys for ages.

I WANT THEM TO MEET UP AGAIN KISHIMOTO. NOW.

[des_butterfly]

It is pretty and will never ever happen.

I think the get really close to a parent/child relationship but both seem to shy away from it, which complicates things and also serves for some form of unresolved sexual tension. Sasuke is still afraid to reach out for a new family to replace his old one, because of Itachi, and Kakashi gives equal status too many times to Sasuke for it to be a pure father/son relationship.

But their relationship could never be one of equal lovers either, because Kakashi takes control too easily, and Sasuke gives it up to him without protest for the most part.

[a_white_rain]

IN FANDOM IT DOES. but Neji wants Naruto to molest Sasuke, like everyone else Naruto punches.Yeah. I think that Kishimoto wants to imply the father/son part, and data books say he thinks of Kakahsi as like a father... But they really don't interact that way. And Kakashi can be somewhat fatherly, with his interactions with Naruto and Sakura. But not so much with Sasuke. They don't relate as one thing, making sexual tension easy to see

[des_butterfly]

second half finished. finally :D

[a_white_rain]

*goes to read*

[a_white_rain]

*has read*

I also didn't think about the fact that Sasuke is confused when Kakashi gives him choices, since he's never gotten that with his father.

And you make me want to write them more.