thehoyden's KakaIru Fanfics
5 KakaIru (Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka) fics by thehoyden in our database, ranked by kudos. Their shared experience of loss, complementary personalities, and role as Naruto's father figures creates a warm and healing dynamic.
thehoyden is an AO3 author writing in the Naruto fandom (among 4 fandoms in our database), best known here for "Darling It Is No Joke", which has earned 41k kudos on AO3. Our database tracks 13 of their works totaling 143k words.
Best KakaIru Fics by thehoyden
thehoyden's KakaIru fanfiction on AO3, sorted by kudos.
"I want to make Naruto my heir," Kakashi said bluntly.
The first time Iruka met Hatake Kakashi, he was still on some pretty good painkillers.
All things were not possible, it was true, but suddenly, Iruka knew that this was.
Kakashi is like a stray cat, and Iruka knows damn well that he shouldn't feed Kakashi if he doesn't want Kakashi to keep coming around.
He was a chuunin academy teacher, not a courtier trained in statecraft and diplomacy.
Why Read thehoyden's KakaIru Fanfics
KakaIru (Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka) — The laid-back elite jonin Kakashi and the dedicated academy teacher Iruka, both shaped by loss but finding comfort in each other.
Their shared experience of loss, complementary personalities, and role as Naruto's father figures creates a warm and healing dynamic. thehoyden has earned 210k kudos across the 13 works tracked in our database.
Their KakaIru works alone have earned 63k kudos — a strong signal that fans of KakaIru return to thehoyden's stories again and again.
Popular KakaIru Tropes
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KakaIru · Slow Burn
A romance that develops gradually over time, with tension building across chapters or the entire story.
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KakaIru · Fix-It
Stories that 'fix' canon events that fans found unsatisfying, usually character deaths or relationship outcomes.
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KakaIru · Found Family
Characters forming family bonds with people they're not related to by blood.
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KakaIru · Canon Divergence
The story follows canon faithfully up to a chosen moment, then branches: one different decision, one survived death, one secret told early, and everything downstream changes. One of AO3's largest tags, because almost every 'what if' is a divergence.
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KakaIru · Kid Fic
Children enter the picture: characters raising their canon kids, adopting strays the plot drops on them, or suddenly co-parenting a de-aged teammate. Kid fic turns heroes and antiheroes into parents and mines the comedy and tenderness of the adjustment.
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