Warnings: references to PTSD, frank discussion of gender (mostly from the POV of a nine-year-old), mentions of sex

Jiraiya isn't in the village, or anywhere remotely near it.

It's going to take a few weeks for him to get back.

Kakashi sticks with Kanna while she tries to set up a containment room for Juugo. There are seals all over the walls, and when Kakashi asks what they're for, Kanna explains that she's trying to make it so there's almost no natural chakra in the room at all. If there's no natural chakra to absorb, then the process is stymied. It's not a permanent solution, not if they want Juugo to ever be able to leave the room, but it's a safe space for him.

Kanna spends twenty hours building the containment and filtration seals in the 'specimen containment room' of her lab before she's finished. She puts Juugo in there, and promises him that she'll set up something similar at her house, and that a specialist is going to come by soon and they'll fix this, they will. Kakashi's pretty sure that Juugo can see just how much Kanna cares, because the boy hugs her and clings until she has to leave. There are ANBU guards for the time being, but there's an alert seal for Kanna if anything goes wrong enough that Juugo has another episode.

Hokage-sama takes Chōza's report first, takes all their reports in turn, and looks incredibly tired. Taking down one of Orochimaru's facilities, especially with the confiscated research, is a good thing. It's a good thing, even with all the fallout. With luck, they can merge some of the captives into their own forces, following some intense therapy against the personality cult that Orochimaru set up. The Hokage does not take Kanna's report, not for more than a few minutes, because she's dead on her feet and twitchy as hell, because she's been awake for going on forty hours by the time she's standing in the highest office in the village, because Kanna has been doing the primary labor of this entire spur of the moment operation and she is tired.

Forty hours is nothing for a shinobi in theory, but Kanna regrew an entire arm and part of her torso, and then made a massive seal array that Kakashi doesn't even understand, so like. Yeah.

Kakashi hovers at her side. He's taken the time to sleep, dropped by the hospital just long enough to let Sakura know the basics of what happened as soon as he had a chance, and circled back around to give his general report on the actual diplomatic trip to Suna. Kakashi was technically only there as a guard, so his report is shorter than the actual negotiators. The Orochimaru thing, too, is mostly Kanna and Chōza's reports.

If they spend less than a week on just the diplomacy and the side trip, Kakashi will eat his Icha Icha.

(Not the collector's edition, of course, but one of them.)

When the reports and temporary accommodations and medic visits are all done, Kakashi walks Kanna home.

Kanna falls forward into Sakura's arms as soon as she opens the door, and doesn't move. Sakura meets Kakashi's eyes over her wife's shoulder, and smiles sadly. "Rough week, I take it."

Kakashi shrugs. "More for Kanna-chan than anyone else."

"I want to sleep," Kanna whines int Sakura's neck. "He burned off my arm. And my shoulder. And I think part of my ribcage."

"Oh, yikes," Sakura says, patting Kanna on the back. "The kids missed you."

Kanna takes a few more moments to actually lift herself off of Sakura and trudge inside, and Kakashi follows her in after Sakura indicates he should.

"Aneki!"

Naruto's yell is impressive, in that sometimes it manages to offend the senses before that particular shade of orange does. The kid careens around a corner, slams into Kanna's midsection, and starts talking a mile a minute.

Kanna stares down at Naruto for a few seconds, clearly having difficulty processing. "Are you… wearing eyeliner?"

Naruto quiets down for a moment, and then doesn't meet Kanna's eyes. "Ummmmmmmmm yes?"

"…you're gonna have to walk me through why," Kanna says. "I'm dead on my feet."

Digging the toe of one house slipper into the hardwood, Naruto says, "Sakura-nee was teaching us about stuff like gender pre-sen-ta-tion and i-den-ti-ties."

Kanna closes her eyes for a long moment. "I… okay? Do—do we need to go shopping, or—?"

"No," Sakura says, taking Kanna by the elbows. "We can talk about this in the morning. You need to sleep. So long as the kids know you still love them—"

"Fucking obviously."

"—then it can wait," Sakura finishes firmly. "Naruto, Kanna-chan still loves you and all your siblings, and we're going to talk about other stuff tomorrow."

"Wait, no, we need another room, I found—"

"Bed," Sakura stresses, pushing her towards the stairs. "Shower. Sleep. We'll talk in the morning."

Kanna squints blearily at her wife, apparently not quite realizing that the reason she can't see is that her glasses are smudged, and then goes to the master bedroom.

Sakura shakes her head with a smile, and turns to Kakashi. "Want some tea? Coffee? Or are there meetings to get to?"

"I have some time off," Kakashi acknowledges. "Living room?"

"Aa," Sakura agrees. "Any preferences on flavor?"

"Just green works," Kakashi says. He goes to wait in the living room, and finds that Naruto's apparently rejoined the others. Sai is painstakingly doing Karin's eyeliner, and Shin is curled up with a book on the armchair. Kakashi takes a seat on the couch, the closest to Shin, and raises a hand. "Yo."

Shin looks up, and the smile he gives Kakashi is hesitant and unpracticed. It's real, though, and Kakashi is happy to see it. "Hello, Kakashi-san."

"Not joining in on all of that?" Kakashi gestures at the kids trying to figure out makeup on the floor.

Shin shrugs. "Not my cup of tea, so to speak. I listened to the lectures, but even when I thought about it… I am comfortable as I am and as was defined for me."

"Most people are," Kakashi acknowledged. "Let me guess, Sai has the steadiest hands, and that's why Karin's commandeered Sai's help for this?"

"She has to squint to see her own face in the mirror," Shin says. "And Sai likes being useful."

Sakura comes into the room with three cups of tea, hands one off to Shin and another to Kakashi, and then takes a place on the couch with her legs tucked up under her. She's warm against his side, and while Kakashi isn't much of a sensor, he's got enough training under his belt to feel how calm and kind and content Sakura is right now. It's comforting, and he wonders how much of Kanna's initial interest in this woman might have stemmed from how pleasant her chakra is.

"You're thinking," Sakura notes. "Can I ask what about?"

"If I need to change honorifics," Kakashi says, which is half-true. It's definitely what he was thinking about a few minutes ago. "They're not young enough for -chan to be gender-neutral, but -kun can work both ways, right?"[1]

"For now," Sakura agrees. "Sai and Naruto are trying to figure things out—they'll explain if you ask—and Karin and Shin have both more or less settled where they started."

"And at the Academy?" Kakashi asks.

Sakura hums a little. "Naruto hasn't brought it up, but I think Sai came out."

Kakashi takes note of the smirk that crosses Karin's face, and wonders if he actually wants to know.

He does not say 'Dare I ask?' but he's tempted.

"I know a few people in the ranks that identify differently," Kakashi says. "Whether as the opposite or neither or something in between. I can put out feelers if they need someone who's been there to speak with?"

"If they need it," Sakura says.

She's probably about to say more, but Naruto pops up in Kakashi's face with wide eyes and a shout of, "Really?!"

Kakashi leans back slowly, puts a finger on Naruto's nose, and pushes the child away. "Yes."

"There's people that think gender stuff is weird and don't like boxes too?" Naruto presses. "Like real ninjas? That you work with? Who?"

"Naruto," Sakura scolds. "We talked about this, don't shout in people's faces."

Naruto settles back, but those too-blue eyes are still wide and searching, and Naruto thrums with anxious energy.

"Aa," Kakashi says. He thinks for a moment. "I can't tell you yet. I have to ask for permission. I'm guessing your sisters already explained how outing someone without their permission is a bad thing, right?"

Naruto's nose scrunches up, but Kakashi gets the nod he's looking for.

"Why don't you tell me more about what you're feeling," Kakashi suggests. "And I'll see if I can find someone that knows that in particular?"

"Okay," Naruto says, and then climbs up to sit on the couch, half-crushing Kakashi's thigh. "So, like, Nee-chan was talking about how some people have genders that change from day to day and some people are just both or neither, and I thought that was weird because everyone always says gender is whether what's in your pants is innie or outie, but Nee-chan said it was more about your brain and stuff, and she'd never experienced that sorta thing herself, but some of her friends did, and one of her friends just thought the entire idea of gender connected to body parts was dumb and sometimes used henge to switch just because having boobs made 'em happy, and not like the creepy pervy way, just like having long hair makes some girls happy or painted nails or something, ya know? And I thought about how girls get to have cool paint on their faces and long hair and skirts and stuff, and Nee-chan said that could mean that I want to be a girl sometimes, or it could mean that I just want the a-es-the-tic bits, and that's fine too, because guys should be allowed to like the same stuff girls like, and splitting hobbies and clothes into genders is dumb because it's just fabric and stuff, right? So I was like 'cool' and thought that maybe that was it, and then Sai said something about not wanting a gender at all, and I thought that wasn't really what I felt like, 'cause I don't want to not have a gender, I just think that stuff that isn't bodies having a gender is weird, you know? And we're ninjas, so our bodies can change anyway, especially with medics that are super good at what they do, so why should the body matter? And then I started wondering if I would have felt the same way if I'd been born a girl and didn't have a weenie, but I don't think I'd mind being a girl, just the blood stuff that Nee-chan was talking about before that—"

Ah, so that's how the conversation started. Sex ed.

"—and not being able to pee standing up, but I don't think I would have minded people calling me a girl or dressing me up like a girl or giving me girl toys, you know? And I thought about it a bunch and I think I like having more than one gender and Nee-chan said that's fine too, and that I'm smaller than Karin so a bunch of her old stuff can probably fit me, and I can experiment and stuff, except not the way Aneki does because Aneki's experiments kill people and I'm not a genin yet so I'm not allowed to do that."

"…right," Kakashi says. Naruto said a lot of words but the bulk of it boils down to 'identifies with more than one gender.' Kakashi turns to the other two. "And Sai?"

Sai blinks up with dark eyes and shrugs. "I don't know yet. I am not bothered by being addressed as a boy, but I have trouble understanding the nuance of gender identity. I find myself enjoying feminine things, but I also think I may just dislike applying the concept of gender to myself. Sakura-san said that it is possible to identify as neither. I like that idea."

"Okay," Kakashi says. "And—I'm going to regret asking this, but I can't not ask—why did Karin look like she was plotting to take over the world when Sakura said you came out at school?"

"Karin broke someone's nose," Sai says.

The girl herself grins, and Kakashi can feel a headache coming on.

"Is that so."

"Kiyoko said that Sai wasn't really my brother," Karin reports. "And she didn't say it but she definitely meant it was because of the whole foster situation. Sai tried to explain things, but was getting frustrated, so I said that Sai isn't my brother because Sai is a gender-ambiguous sibling who's still trying to figure themselves out. Kiyoko said that that's weird and Sai's not my brother because Sai isn't even adopted, so I punched her."

"Did you at least wait until it was time to spar?" Kakashi asks.

"No," Karin says. Her grin widens. "But Neji did."

Kakashi glances at Sakura, who grimaces. "She had detention. The whole thing blew over pretty quickly. The Hyūga were involved, so that was a big part of it."

Good to know.

"You're a terrifying little hellion and I'm scared of what you're going to be when you grow up," Kakashi tells Karin, because she deserves some compliments. She beams at him, so it was definitely the right thing to say. "Try to be a bit more subtle, though. Protecting your comrades and friends and siblings is good, but you're going to be a ninja, so try to figure out the best way to get revenge without getting caught."

"Sure thing, Kakashi-nii," Karin says, and Kakashi tries not to wonder too hard about what, exactly, she's going to take from that.

She whirls around and grabs both of her br—siblings, and drags them off towards a different part of the house. Kakashi decides it's none of his business.

He glances towards Shin. "Not joining in?"

Shin shakes his head and lifts his book. "I'm studying."

"You don't have to learn fuuinjutsu," Sakura tells him. It has the air of an old argument. "It's alright to focus on other things."

"Everyone else is, so I should too," Shin responds. "How else am I supposed to stop them from doing something stupid?"

"By getting an adult to supervise," Sakura retorts. "You're thirteen, you don't need to—"

"Hana said," Shin insists, and Sakura's mouth snaps shut. She sighs, and Shin continues. "I'm the older brother. I'm supposed to look out for them."

"Just get supervision," Sakura says. "Just—if you see them working on fuuinjutsu, get supervision. They're not supposed to do it without an adult."

"They're all working on it?" Kakashi asks. "I didn't realize they'd gotten far enough to make anything unstable."

Sakura groans and buries her face in his shoulder. She's very warm, and she giggles through her irritation. "They're disasters, all of them. Karin does everything by the book and knows all the math, but Naruto's the one that gets creative. So Naruto invents something that doesn't make sense, and Karin takes it apart until she figures out how it works so she can make it make sense, and then Sai just copies everything out with a jutsu that makes fifty copies of the same seal because Karin told them to, and then we end up with an entire Academy classroom where all the light gets sucked out if the teacher starts yelling."

Kakashi blinks. "Wait, Naruto—"

Sakura nods grimly.

"But that's manipulation of electromagnetic waves in response to sound wave amplitude," Kakashi says, feeling just a little faint. "That's not—"

"It's Naruto," Sakura says, like that explains it.

Maybe it does.

#

Kakashi finds Tenzō in Anko's apartment, sober but definitely not mentally all there. Kakashi can't smell anything, so he's pretty sure they didn't have depression sex about their shared trauma again, but there's a whole lot of greasy comfort food on the table. Kakashi's pretty sure that's the healthier option, given how quickly it's all going to get burned off anyway, but it's still, like… the village has therapists on staff for a reason, right? And Kakashi should probably be urging his cute little kohai to take advantage of that, right?

"Senpai!" Tenzō says, once Anko knocks on the door to the guest room and lets him know that Kakashi's here. "Did you, er, need something?"

"Maybe," Kakashi says. "It's more of a vague idea than anything, but I wanted to get your thoughts on it before I volunteered you for something you couldn't actually do."

Tenzō squints at him. "That's… thoughtful of you."

"Tenzō," Kakashi gasps, putting a hand to his chest in mock hurt. "Are you insinuating I've ever had anything less than the best of intentions for you?"

"Yes," Tenzō says, because he's as much of a little shit as anyone in ANBU is. "Mitarashi-san, back me up."

"Fuck no, not when you're back to calling me 'Mitarashi-san,'" Anko snorts, dropping back to sprawl on her couch.

Tenzō pouts. "Anko-san, you're being mean too, now. Please stop."

Anko's grin widens. So do her legs. "Come over here and make me, pretty boy."

"Ahem," Kakashi says. "Not that I want to stop you from enjoying yourselves—"

"Lies," Anko accuses airily.

"—but I actually do need to check with Tenzō about something."

Anko raises an eyebrow and gestures for him to get on with it then.

"Okay," Kakashi says, because he didn't quite anticipate having to do this in front of Anko, but Tenzō doesn't look keen on leaving yet. "Right. Regarding the, uh, incident on the way back from Suna… the Uzumaki house might be needing another room?"

"Might as in you know they need it, or might as in you're assuming but didn't ask?" Tenzō questions.

"The latter," Kakashi says. "I know they bought the house planning to adopt a lot, but I don't think they planned on so many so quickly, so I'm not sure if they're ready for the recent needs?"

Tenzō frowns. "So they want me to add one on?"

"They didn't bring it up, but I think they might appreciate it," Kakashi says. "Especially if you can make it happen underground."

"Under—I thought they had their eyes on a permanent solution," Tenzō says.

Kakashi shrugs. "Jiraiya isn't here."

"You guys know I'm not stupid, right?" Anko chimes in. "I'll figure it out pretty easily."

"Plausible deniability," the men both say in unison.

"Talk to Kanna about it?" Kakashi suggests. "It might not be the best option, especially given the—the needs in question, but if you can do it, they might appreciate knowing."

"Aa," Tenzō agrees. "I'll—not right away, but I'll talk to her."

"Cool," Kakashi says. "Uh, if you need to talk about anything from the mission, I can—"

"No, thank you, I have Anko," Tenzō says, grabbing Kakashi's shoulder and steering him towards the door. "Thanks and bye-bye."

"Bye-bye?"

"Senpai, I am this close—"

#

Kakashi's returning from a lunch date with Sakura, talking about recent changes in hospital procedure—not much, but trundling along—when it happens. They're only about a block away from the hospital itself, and she goes stock still.

"Sakura!"

The woman starts running, and throws herself into a hug with a woman that Kakashi does, surprisingly, recognize. Sakura crushes the woman to her and squeals, "Shizune! Oh my god, I didn't know you were visiting!"

"Neither did I," Shizune admits, pulling away with a smile of her own. "We were passing by about thirty kilometers away, and Tsunade-sama told me she could take care of herself for a few days while I come see you."

"So…"

"I'll risk it," Shizune laughs. She pulls Sakura into another hug, gripping tightly. "Oh, it's good to see you. Where's Kanna-san? Can I meet the kids?"

"At work, but—oh, shoot, I have to get back to my shift. Do you mind meeting up after I finish? I'm done at 7:30 today."

"It'll be no problem," Shizune assures her. "I have a whole lot of people to visit, you know. I haven't been home in almost twenty years."

"Go," Sakura says. "Have fun. Start with Kakashi, he needs more friends anyway."

"I do not—"

"Sure!" Shizune agrees, slipping her arm around Kakashi's before he can finish his protest. "I'll see you later!"

"Bye!"

Kakashi lets himself be steered down the road, not overly concerned with his impromptu kidnapping. He didn't have much planned for the rest of the day anyway, and while he was never very close to Shizune, he's okay with being her springboard for reconnecting with people.

"So," Kakashi says after a few long moments. "How did you and Sakura… meet?"

Shizune looks up at him, brow furrowed. "I thought it was common knowledge that she studied with Tsunade-sama."

"Well, yes, but… nobody ever really told me the details," Kakashi tries to explain.

"Oh," Shizune says. "Did you ask?"

"Not really."

"That's probably why, then."

"Maa, I feel like you aren't taking me seriously, Shizune-san."

She laughs a little, and presses into his side to avoid a woman with a stroller. "Sakura-chan came to us asking for medical training after some trouble she'd had with her prior team. She managed to impress Tsunade-sama, and she traveled with us for a few years to refine her existing skills."

"So, not a whole lot I didn't already know," Kakashi sighs. "And here I was, thinking I'd be able to get some dirt on her."

"Blackmail on your friends? For shame," Shizune teases.

"She's a very sweet, kind woman," Kakashi states. "I'm pretty sure it's not all real, because I've seen her destroy training grounds while sparring, but she's consistent about it."

"Ah, she's doing better, then," Shizune says, and there's a sadness that comes over her that Kakashi doesn't find surprising at all. "She had some moments with us, and I worried."

"Talk about it over coffee?" Kakashi offers. "She's—she's done a lot for me. I'd like to be able to help her out in turn."

Shizune looks him up and down, and then tilts her head and smiles so hard that her eyes close. "Sure! Is Michiko's still around?"

It is, actually, and they don't talk about much on the way there, or while they wait for their orders, but then Shizune asks a question that throws Kakashi for a loop.

"How have the migraines been?"

Kakashi blinks. "I don't… get migraines unless I use my Sharingan, and you weren't here recently enough to know about that. I just have normal headaches."

"Ah, no, I meant Sakura's," Shizune clarifies.

"She's never mentioned them," Kakashi says, and a part of him whispers, probably because you're a shitty friend.

Kakashi tries to ignore that part of himself, reminds himself that he is actively working on being a better friend, and he can't actually control what Sakura tells him.

"Oh," Shizune says, and then smiles in a way that's more brittle than bright. "Maybe she figured out a solution, then!"

Or she's just lying by omission to Kakashi specifically.

He's only known them for a year, Kakashi reminds himself. For all that they've wormed their ways into each other's lives, it's not like it is with Gai. They're friends, but they're not best friends.

There are still boundaries, and it looks like Sakura's are a lot higher than he thought.

#

Kakashi has the luck to be there on the day that Juugo moves from Kanna's laboratory to the Uzumaki house. He's aware of the special room in the basement that filters out all nature chakra so Juugo can have a safe space, and the beaded bracelets that Juugo wears when he leaves the room. Jiraiya and Kanna are still talking it all over, but Kakashi's pretty sure that while the bracelets aren't quite as permanent a solution as a tattooed seal would be, they're enough that Juugo's going to have more real freedom than he has in years.

More to the point, Kakashi sees the moment that Karin lays eyes on a new brother and goes 'mine.'

She doesn't say it out loud, but the little girl is pretty obvious. She'll need to learn to control that as a kunoichi, but it's not Kakashi's job to teach her that, and he's wary of Karin learning to control that sort of thing anyway. Kakashi's already heard one spiel on growing up to be just like Kanna-aneki, and he's got enough nightmares, thanks.

(One day, someone is going to realize that Kakashi is weirdly paranoid around Karin, and they are going to ask why, and Kakashi isn't going to have an answer beyond 'just a gut feeling.')

Despite Karin's apparent decision to fold Juugo into her building array of subordinates, it's Naruto that gets Juugo's attention first.

"Hi! Are you the new brother that Aneki was telling us about? Sakura-nee said you got rescued from a bad place like Sai and Shin and we gotta be careful about stuff 'cause the stuff that scares me won't scare you and the stuff that scares you won't scare me so we gotta ask about all that stuff instead of—"

Shin picks Naruto up and moves him back to the others. He sets him down next to Sai, puts a finger on Naruto's nose, and says, "Stay."

"But—"

"Stay."

It's adorable.

Shin turns back to Juugo and offers up a tentative smile. "Hello. I am Shin. The blonde is Naruto, the redhead is Karin, and the one with black hair is Sai. It's nice to meet you."

"Hello," Juugo says. He reaches out and grasps Shin's hand like it's the most delicate thing on the planet. "My name is Juugo. I do not think I am actually a member of your family. Kanna-sama is the only one that can stop me when I lose control, so I have to stay with her."

"Please stop calling me that," Kanna says. Her voice is aggrieved, like she's been trying to convince Juugo of this for as long as they've been in contact. Kakashi notes that she's actually taken off her glasses to more easily rub at her temples in irritation. "And you're part of the family if you want to be. I went through a lot of trouble to keep my promise and get you here, so if you want to be a brother, you're damn well going to be. You don't wanna call me Aneki like the other brats, that's fine, but none of this -sama shit, okay? Call me Kanna-san if that's what works for you. Shin and Sai still do, so I'm used to it."

Naruto perks up, eyes shining. "Swear jar! Aneki, you gotta put five ryō in the swear jar!"[2]

"Um…" Juugo says, watching as Kanna grumbles and pulls out a few coins for the aforementioned swear jar. "O-okay, Kanna-san."

Sakura rolls her eyes and pushes past the rest to stand next to Juugo and put a hand on his back, gently pushing him towards the rest of the kids. "Come over to the living room, Juugo-kun. Why don't you tell us about your hobbies?"

Kakashi trails along after the small horde of Uzumaki, hands tucked into his pockets. He can vaguely hear Juugo saying something about birds, in a voice so small he has to strain to catch it, but it's a start. They'll get him out of that shell yet.

That said… five kids and counting. Sure, Shin is basically a small adult right now, but it's still a lot of two kunoichi that aren't even twenty-five yet.

Ah well.

It's not Kakashi's problem.

(If he says it often enough, maybe it'll even come true.)

[1] While I'm not an expert on the Japanese queer scene, I did minor in the language, so here's the rundown on how translation convention applies to this fic:

Japanese does not have gendered third person pronouns, so what you'd usually see in a scene like this can't really apply; the closest to a pronoun in this sense is saying "that man/woman/person" rather than "he/she/they." The first person pronoun I is gendered in a variety of ways (you can look up charts), but that is a personal decision and not something that acquaintances would need to ask about to correctly gender their friends, since the acquaintance isn't the one doing the gendering. Within the confines of the narration, I'll adjust pronouns as the scene demands, but I won't be having anyone ask about gendered pronouns for genderfluid or questioning characters, because pronouns in Japanese just don't function that way.

Conversely, honorifics are gendered in a variety of ways. Some, like -san and -sama, are gender-neutral and can be used for anyone above a certain age or importance. Others, primarily those used for children or specific titles (e.g. -hime is princess), are heavily gendered. The two that are most relevant to this scene are -chan and -kun.

-chan: primarily feminine, but flexible in regards to age, relation, and preference. For intance, you call toddlers -chan? And then switching to -kun for the boys is like "oh, you're a big kid now, you get to go to preschool!" Calling a girl -chan is normal if you are close to them, if they prefer it, and if they're the same age as you. If they aren't close to you, and are older than like five, then addressing them with -chan can come across as overly familiar and, if the speaker is an older man, creepy and predatory. If not close and above a certain age, the girl can be addressed with -san by peers and -kun by older people.

-kun: primarily masculine, but flexible in regards to age, relation, and preference. Peers should still use -san if not close, but -kun can be used by most older people and those close. However, -kun can also be used for girls and young women, either as a way to maintain polite social distance (e.g. a manager at a convenience store addressing a high-school girl who just got a part-time job who finds -san to be too stuffy), or for tomboys who prefer somewhat masculine forms of address.

[2] Because I'm sure this'll come up eventually: the Naruto wiki lists the ryō as being based on a form of payment that was in use prior to the Meiji period. One ryō is about ten yen, and one yen is about the same as 0.01 USD. So ten ryō equals a hundred yen equals one US dollar. This doesn't necessarily line up realistically some of the sums seen in the show, but quite frankly, Kishimoto's math makes me want to cry sometimes, so I'm sticking with this.

A/N; I wasn't planning on that specific ship to come up but I guess? If you're both screwed over by the same guy, it's a point of connection to bitch about? And sometimes sex happens? IDK I'm going to stick with "they're friends with benefits" unless they make MORE decisions on their own.