I LOVEEEE KKNRKK!!!! like they have so much potential.. like you said naru craves his sensei’s attention and validation and he easily could’ve felt like kakashi just threw him to jiraiya just to go away and train with sasuke alone and i think it might’ve made naruto feel very guilty/abandoned again and also jealous bc why does sasuke get to train with kakashi sensei and he’s left with some old pervy prick !!!!!!!! (jk i love jiraiya) and also i like to think that kakashi mightve worked through some of his trauma but he still sometimes can’t stop blaming himself for silly things and so he might’ve also convinced himself that he just abandoned naruto even though he didn’t.. so i think this would make for a very sweet but also all-consuming dynamic where naruto loves the attention from kakashi and kakashi tries to make up for things (and also things that hiruzen and basically the whole village did to naruto) and he gradually grows very fond of the kid and sees how he’s literally a ray of sunshine in this dark cloudy world.. another thing i love for them is when kakashi just takes naruto as a stand-in for minato and even lets the name slip mid-fuck but this is a lot more angsty </3 but yes i do love kakanarukaka!! and i like them switch too like shippuuden era kakashi would’ve already started to prefer to btm i feel like bc he’s been Too Old for This Shit since the ripe old age of 13 lmao but old man kakashi would just let naruto take the lead most of the time unless he specifically wanted to get his dick wet but that’s just imo