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• Dreaming In Silence by LizaJane018

  Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
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  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  19 Nov 2025

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Kakashi Hatake & Uzumaki Clan Characters
  • Hatake Kakashi & Maito Gai | Might Guy
  • Hatake Kakashi & Shiranui Genma
  • Hatake Kakashi & Uzumaki Naruto
  • Hatake Kakashi & Uchiha Sasuke
  • Haruno Sakura & Hatake Kakashi
  • Hatake Kakashi
  • Original Uzumaki Character(s) (Naruto)
  • Yume Uzumaki
  • Katsumi Uzumaki
  • Uzumaki Naruto
  • Uchiha Sasuke
  • Haruno Sakura
  • Pre-Canon
  • Parent-Child Relationship
  • Hatake Kakashi-centric
  • Protective Hatake Kakashi
  • Parental Hatake Kakashi
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Canon Compliant
  • Found Family
  • Accidental Parenthood
  • emotional flashbacks via one liners
  • The child saw through him in three minutes
  • Food as a Metaphor for Love
  • Kakashi watches another disaster unfold in 4k
  • Kakashi notices everything (and says nothing)
  • Deadpan parenting 101
  • He didn’t mean to care
  • Hatake Kakashi: therapist by proximity
  • another child prodigy
  • Slice of Life
  • Shinobi Slice of Life (Naruto)
  • Internal screaming behind the mask
  • Disaster Waiting To Happen
  • Hatake Kakashi is so Done
  • Katsumi Uzumaki is chaos
  • Naruto is informally adopted
  • Kakashi slowly realizes he’s wanted
  • Gifts are emotional damage
  • I said subtle kishimoto
  • I meant subtle
  • “she notices more than I want her to” aka internal screaming
  • tiny human dismantles emotional walls
  • emotional labor is canon-compliant
  • the smirk is canon
  • the author has no chill but is also diagnosed
  • slow burn but someone forgot to light the stove
  • Pakkun plush as emotional weapon of mass interrogation
  • children are blunt instruments of truth
  • dramatic pauses for internal conflict included for free
  • author is definitely aware of emotional abuse
  • Kakashi brooding professionally
  • childhood smugness meets adult restraint
  • storm magnet: s-ranked
  • surrogate love triangle avoided by sheer competence
  • home is a concept
  • not a building
  • the legacy of Obito and kushina
  • subtle nods to takigakure
  • “Everything is fine” it’s never really fine
  • Hokage council: bureaucracy meets subtle manipulation
  • Genma and his stubborn uzumakis
  • This was supposed to be easy ™
  • Déjá Vu levels: immaculate (thanks Yume)
  • Katsumi downloads trauma lore in real time
  • everyone collectively loses it except for Sasuke since he did that years ago
  • Kakashi tries to battle and babysit and wins at neither
  • Katsumi says to cry but the plot won’t let her

  Summary

  Apparently Kakashi’s life gives him a prequel to team seven

  Follows the timeline of Book 3 after chapter 21.

  Featuring: exasperation, exhaustion, longing and the question of sanity.

  Series

  • Part 4 of The Dream Series

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  29,598

  Chapters:

  12/34

  Kudos:

  20

  Bookmarks:

  3

  Hits:

  615