Our monthly fic rec is back; and this time we’ve chosen Sci-Fi as our theme! We’ve found a great selection of fics for you to enjoy, featuring all kinds of interesting ideas!
We have 8 recs in this post; but if you are an 18+ member, there are a couple more in our Lemon Bar category you can read that are NSFW and rated Explicit.
You are allowed to share links to Mature & Explicit, and NSFW content on this thread, as per our posting guidelines; but I am personally more comfortable sharing them in the Lemon Bar, instead, which is why they’re there. In saying that, please double check the tags on the ones in this list, just in case I’ve missed something!
Enjoy! And please let us know if you have a favourite that isn’t here, or share your own fic(s) if it fits the theme! We want to see everything!
Sanctuary for Flames (3010 words) by RenGoneMad
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka
Characters: Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, First Meetings, POV Hatake Kakashi, Revolution, Action/Adventure, Romance, Bad Flirting, Fluff and Humor, A little bit of everything really, KakaIru Fest Summer 2020, Week One Prompt: Sci-Fi
Summary:“What can I get for you?” The man behind the counter asked.
Given the warm blood Kakashi could feel trailing down his calf, he wasn’t going to be able to masquerade as a casual customer. Might as well be honest. “Sanctuary.”
The man’s brown eyes widened and his fingers clenched tightly around the glass. “That’s a tall order. You got any way to pay for that?”
Tachycardic State (2604 words) by Taudi
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka
Characters: Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka, Haruno Sakura, Sarutobi Asuma, Yuuhi Kurenai, Hagane Kotetsu, Kamizuki Izumo
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Superheroes, Aliens
Summary:A Superhero and an alien get married. Sort of… kinda… maybe?
Contains (Highlight to view): Bad use of language
Prompt/Scenario: #9 by cerberovo: Sci-fi AU: Drama. Post apocalyptic city/land (or planet). The place can be eerily empty or with some aggressive life forms/ghosts/machines. Kakashi is a survey team’s captain. Iruka can be a survivor or inhabitant (here is the yummy ‘enemies to friends to lovers’) with some crucial information.
Entanglement (8542 words) by Kitera_Matar
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka, Dai-nana-han | Team 7 & Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka & Uzumaki Naruto, Mizuki & Umino Iruka
Characters: Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka, Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura, Uchiha Sasuke, Tsunade (Naruto), Mizuki (Naruto), Namikaze Minato, Uzumaki Kushina, Jiraiya (Naruto)
Additional Tags: KakaIru Mini Bang 2020, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Alternate Universe - Space, Crystals, Soulmates, quantum entanglement, Fluff, Slow Burn, Spaceships, Fighter Pilots, teacher, Dialogue Light, Fanart
Summary:Our old world is gone. The last remnants of humanity have boarded the various flotillas of space ships and are now traveling towards new worlds and realms. The logic crystals allow for instant communication, but that seems to only put more of the emptiness of space between people. But in an age of living in crowded corridors with the endless empty black crushing against the metal husks – can two people learn to come together across the cosmos and accept and understand the tie that seems to bind them? Especially when one is a jaded fighter pilot and the other a lonely crèche worker?
Written for the KakaIru Mini Bang 2020! Kakashi and Iruka Soul Mate Theme – SPACE STYLE!
Into The Starry Sky (4153 words) by Grendel
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka
Characters: Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka
Additional Tags: AU, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Science Fiction
Summary:Iruka is the captain of a merchant sky ship, just trying to do his job and enjoy life in the thick of the stars. But he’s unwittingly hired a mutinous pirate crew, led by Kakashi. How can either of them get out of this alive and intact?
Speaking to Machines Who Listen Poorly (6889 words) by pentapus
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka
Characters: Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Space, Amnesia, Sakura and Naruto cameos
Summary:Iruka didn’t know where he was or how he’d gotten here, but he knew Uchiha warships were very bad news. He resented the implication this stranger kept making that Iruka had done it to himself.
Live Wire (3282 words) by gryvon
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka
Characters: Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Cyberpunk, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Community: kakairu_fest
Summary:Iruka opens the door expecting to find yet another assassin. He gets Kakashi instead.
Finders, keepers (10849 words) by hkandi
Chapters: 3/3
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka, Hatake Kakashi & Umino Iruka, Umino Iruka & Uzumaki Naruto
Characters: Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka, Uzumaki Naruto, Yamato | Tenzou, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Sarutobi Asuma, Hagane Kotetsu, Kamizuki Izumo, ANBU (Naruto)
Additional Tags: Community: kakairu_fest, KakaIru Fest Summer 2020, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Alternate Universe - Space, BAMF Umino Iruka, Hatake Kakashi Needs Help, Hatake Kakashi is Bad at Feelings, Hatake Kakashi Is Trying, Baby we were born to run, Ramen…in space!, Complete
Summary:Three years ago, Iruka took Naruto away from Konoha and> went on the run around the galaxy. Their time, it seems, has run out, and they’re captured and brought back.
What awaits them? Is it true a new, supportive regime is in power now? And why does Iruka have a new admirer already?
A human’s worth (7165 words) by myka1231
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka
Characters: Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka, Tsunade (Naruto), Yamato | Tenzou, Uzumaki Naruto
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Robots & Androids, Angst, Humor, Romance, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction
Summary:Prompt #17: Kakashi is a new model of robot that can feel pain and is closer to human than any machine has ever been before. Iruka is one of the researchers working on the Kakashi robot when the R&D takes a strange turn.
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