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Fic: "Perfect World"
Title: Perfect World
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Kakashi, most everyone relating to him
Summary: "In a perfect world, Kakashi is dead."
In a perfect world, Kakashi is dead.
In a perfect world, Obito ducked, or dodged, and came out of their rescue attempt whole -bruised, battered, maybe,- but whole.
In a perfect world, Rin stayed behind the lines, while the Nine-Tailed Demon amused itself breaking apart shinobi like a cruel child playing with flies.
And his two best friends... if he were lucky, he would have gotten to see them together, maybe even held their first red-eyed child. He would have been best man at the wedding, would have teased Rin about marrying into such a prestigious clan, would have later made sarcastic comments about her gennin team. (Their sensei's cheerful and assured son, secure in his place in the world, another Uchiha desperate to stand out from amongst his pack of genius relatives, a sweet girl whose family understood her choices and didn't use her as a marker in their viciously mundane battles, none of them more than raw lumps of potential that Rin would love and guide into becoming great shinobi.)
Maybe Kakashi would know none of this - maybe the strike that took his right eye would have been just a bit deeper, maybe he would have been one of the many, many ninja dead in the Nine-tails attack, or maybe he would die later, on some ANBU mission in some country whose name he wouldn't remember.
In a perfect world, he would be one of the lucky ones, dead and buried while his precious people lived on.
Author: redbrunja
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: PG-13
Characters: Kakashi, most everyone relating to him
Summary: "In a perfect world, Kakashi is dead."
In a perfect world, Kakashi is dead.
In a perfect world, Obito ducked, or dodged, and came out of their rescue attempt whole -bruised, battered, maybe,- but whole.
In a perfect world, Rin stayed behind the lines, while the Nine-Tailed Demon amused itself breaking apart shinobi like a cruel child playing with flies.
And his two best friends... if he were lucky, he would have gotten to see them together, maybe even held their first red-eyed child. He would have been best man at the wedding, would have teased Rin about marrying into such a prestigious clan, would have later made sarcastic comments about her gennin team. (Their sensei's cheerful and assured son, secure in his place in the world, another Uchiha desperate to stand out from amongst his pack of genius relatives, a sweet girl whose family understood her choices and didn't use her as a marker in their viciously mundane battles, none of them more than raw lumps of potential that Rin would love and guide into becoming great shinobi.)
Maybe Kakashi would know none of this - maybe the strike that took his right eye would have been just a bit deeper, maybe he would have been one of the many, many ninja dead in the Nine-tails attack, or maybe he would die later, on some ANBU mission in some country whose name he wouldn't remember.
In a perfect world, he would be one of the lucky ones, dead and buried while his precious people lived on.
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And that note about the translations is interesting. Do you know if the official translators traslate it as 'loved ones'? (I bet they do.) Also, I've noticed that fansubbers have a tendency to go a little too literally. I have fansubbed Saiyuki where I only understand the dialogue because I read the official translation first.
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I think my favorite translator's flub, though, is when they start mucking about with transliterating katakana without doing a quick Google or something first. I will never forget the first few episodes of fansubbed FMA I watched, where they called Lust and Gluttony "Rast" and "Blatny". Even the official manga translation rendered the nation of Kuserukusesu as Cselkcess, when a bit of asking around can tell you that there was once a Persian king named Xerxes who had a consort named Amestris. (Somehow they got the country of Amestris right, but not the other one...)
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(And I really like the Japanese version of "I was pissed off"--it's "My stomach stood up".)
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