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Kagehina coded

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Why is everything Kagehina related to me!? The heck??

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Could you explain what/who the pillars of Konoha are and what they do? I see that term all the time but I still don't understand what it is

As far as I'm aware, the term itself was never used in any form of canon material, and that includes the novels. Now, I'm not sure how accurate this is, but I believe the concept originated from the Naruto Retsuden novel where Naruto was narrating and explaining why each of the other "Pillars" are so important to the village, and he indicated that the other 4 members - Sasuke, Sakura, Shikamaru and Kakashi, were always the first people who he sought out for help on really important matters. So in essence, it's a fandom term used to describe the canonically most important and prestigious ninjas in the village. AKA, Konoha's hierarchy.

According to nite-baron's translations of Naruto Retsuden, Naruto at one point says to them while they were sitting round a table...

“Nevertheless... this is my personal affair. Kakashi-sensei... And Sasuke, Sakura-chan, and Shikamaru are all Konoha’s most valuable people. I can’t just ask this of you like this.”

People also often like to use part of Boruto Ending 11 to further highlight the 5 Pillars of Konoha, because the 5 of them are shown together at one point, and they actually create a combination called the Gokō (五光), "Five Lights" in Koi-Koi, which is a Hanafuda card game, and they apparently constitute the most valuable combination of cards in the game:

Which people think couldn't have been a mere coincidence.

A little later in the novel, Naruto thought the following:

We were all together. Naruto looked around at his comrades. Shikamaru, who supports the Hokage from the front and back as chief of staff. Sasuke, who protects Konoha from the shadows with missions in undeveloped land. Sakura, who was dedicated to the development of medical care. Kakashi, who built the foundation for the current Konoha as the Sixth Hokage. We each have different roles but bear the same amount of responsibility.

So all those things were used to formulate the "5 Pillars of Konoha".

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OK best Konoha Team from their generation, let's go.

Honorable Mention: Team 7 (classic)

Unparalleled levels of toxic codependency. Every single of one of them has an inferiority complex. Sakura and Naruto are best friends who also are the anime trope of sexual-harassment/domestic-violence-reaction. Kakashi can't NOT project his dead jinchuuriki/medical ninja and dead uchiha/loser teammates and dead sensei on them. He refuses to admit he likes the kids and barely trains them. Even when Yamato and Sai come later, it's mostly to have some new people to go "wow, what the fuck is wrong with these guys. That's not normal". Sakura is hyper-fixated on Sasuke (and later Naruto), Sasuke is hyper-fixated on Naruto, Naruto is hyper-fixated on both of them. Sasuke's tried to kill all of them, all of them have tried to kill (or in Naruto's case, horrifically maim) Sasuke. Awful all around. My favorite squad.

Third Place: Team 8

I'll never understand the basis of all the headcanons people have of them hanging out and smoking weed together. They barely interact. Maybe those people base their opinions on anime fillers, idk. In the manga, sometimes we'll get Shino and Kiba talking just for a gag about how Shino is forgettable, and we got like two moments where Kurenai was looking out for Hinata, but goddamn. Shikamaru had more meaningful character interactions with this team's sensei than anyone on the actual team did. At least in part 1 they all have big neutral-colored jackets, that's kind of cute. Matching.

Second place: Team Gai

Admittedly Tenten gets barely any screentime, but she still manages to have more team interactions than anyone on Team 8 does, from her yelling at Lee and Gai, to her and Neji's deadpan reactions to Gai's antics, to her chuunin exam commentary. I like seeing Gai train all of them in the gates and loudly support them all, even though he has a clear favorite lmao. I like Lee and Neji's relationship. I like Neji interacting with any of them. I may be biased because I adore the Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals spinoff, but even without it I think they're a fun team.

FIRST PLACE: TEAM 10

BEST SQUAD HANDS DOWN. Even though Shikamaru and Choji are bffs, they're still ride or die for Ino other no matter the situation. They're all ride or die for each other. Asuma is always treating them to meals and they're all always hanging out. Even before Asuma's death, their teamwork was the strongest. The kids' powers are literally made to work together. I love how they know exactly what to say to support or annoy each other. The piercings. Team 10 forever.

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Band Not-AU

Might share more of it idk

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Naruto thinks he has to earn people’s love while Sasuke thinks he needs to sacrifice his own happiness in the quest to make the world a better place. So they both are incapable of confessing. Unstoppable force immovable object etc etc.

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That’s not mikoto, I’m like 90% sure that’s sasuke from a particular sasunaru doujin that disappointed me by not being yuri

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"Can I go home yet?"

"Yeah it's fine, I'll tell Naruto you did a good job being social."

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I actually think Sasuke would do well in a group with Kiba, Sai, and Lee (because he always seems to surround himself with annoying, suggestive, bossy brats like Team 7 and Taka)— but then I was like "you know what would be funny?" so I drew this instead.

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Latest of my endless "Naruto goes with Sasuke at the end of 699" drawings. More coming.

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Read left->right

It was always gonna be you

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I dont have a caption for this

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Traumas. Nivel: Gaara XDDDD

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unstoppable force, immovable object

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And there was only one bed!!!!

Sequel to this one

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What really happened after chapter 699

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patience, king