I guess this counts as a Kakashi drabble?

[stinky_horowitz]

I left this as a comment on  rabid_fangrrl 's site, and then I deleted it for being too long and inappropriate there. So I put it here.

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[kidarania_nika]

I was reading along quietly, a bit nervous about mentions of The Cure in the first line but reassured by the inclusion of Van Halen, and I stopped dead at the very next sentence: Billy Idol + Kakashi?

My response was, predictably, "But of course!" An angsty, facially expressive, impassioned singer; a man able *emote* and claim himself to the world; someone you can listen to and admire, and then listen to and still be surprised by the result: It screams Kakashi and post-mission decompression.

And, really, how is Kakashi's hairstyle not a statement on this fact in and of itself?

With that angsty mindset, the rest of the drabble fell into place seamlessly. The fact that "our" music showed up in the Narutoverse isn't even jarring. It is precisely this reason why I still hold on to the view that the Naruto world actually takes place here, on Earth, in some very, (very) very remote place... (I was introduced to that idea some time in 2003 (2004?) in some article I was reading for Japanese class, and it stuck in my brain as being canon even if the concept is flawed. Oh well. That's what fanon is for.)

All in all for such a small piece, I gained entirely too much enjoyment from this.

~Kei
currently listening to You Spin Me Round, because 80s music is what my mother raised me on. ...And because I can see both Kakashi and Iruka singing and dancing to this song in the privacy of their own homes.

[stinky_horowitz]

Thank you so much for this. You gave me a staggeringly beautiful present--all unexpected, too.