#Another Kabuto

[by13x]

Another Raidā Daruma Set 4

[no-nic]

like a proud parent i want to gush about every single cool thing he does, except most of them involve corpses and/or fun ways to push his transition ^^

🔬💕🩺

for this color palette thing -- send characters or other prompts so it's not just me & my self-indulgence

inbox probably forever open 💌

[kabutoden]

the truth is i love bugs like just as much as i love other animals because all animals are so epic. but most people dont love bugs as much as everyone else so i think people think i love bugs exceptionally much. its not true. but maybe im wrong. maybe i do love bugs a little extra to make up for other people not appreciating them. bugs

[tora-the-cat]

How would you have preferred Inner Sakura as a concept to have resolved? Honestly, I think no matter what the idea, it would've been so much more impactful than just having her quietly drop off like she did in canon!

I always kinda assumed that, canonically, Sakura came to grips with her inner self the same way Naruto did in the "Waterfall of Truth", except it took place off-screen in her brain somewhere. Though the DID/Ino Mind-Transfer Shenanigans is waaaaayyyyyy more interesting a thought, in my humble opinion. Maybe Ino even helping Inner Sakura and Outer Sakura compromise and live together in one body? The possibilities...

Speaking of Inner Selves, wouldn't it be kinda funny if Kabuto also had one too given his hefty identity issues? Maybe for his sake it's better if he didn't, because his brain would be like a bumpin' nightclub lmao😅

(Also, please feel free to speak on this matter as much as you'd like! I love reading through your posts while I'm drinking my coffee! :>)

Okay. Okay. So. There are like....several answers to these questions lmao.

CANNONICALLY, Inner was resolved in the most annoying way possible. Sakura never referances having an 'inner self' in shippuden (to my memory), but she does say that training with Tsunade helped her work through her 'emotional issues'. I've always taken this as implying that the INTENDED reading is that Inner was just an inner diolouge Sakura had with herself of all the thoughts and emotions she repressed due to social pressure, and Inner is gone post time-skip because Sakura doesn't repress those anymore, she punches mountains in half. No longer having Inner is supposed to symbolize character growth.

But this, of course, would ALMOST make sense, were it not for. Ino Yamanaka. Who, after doing the mind transfer jutsu in the premils, confirms something that most viewers weren't even really considering until that point; Inner is NOT a personified inner diolouge in Sakura. She's a seperate mind. She is another soul INSIDE Sakura's body that operates even without Sakura's input.

And girls have to be strong to survive.

SO. That said. My read on cannon is that Sakura realized Inner wasn't normal and basically locked her in a mental box in the back of her brain for the rest of her life and refuses to think about her, because she's worried that Tsunade wouldn't see her as a worthy student if she was Crazy (because she thinks. she's Crazy). I don't think she had a waterfall of truth moment, cause that would require Sakura THINKING about Inner, which she. does not want to do.

As far as how I would have PREFERRED Inner Sakura being handled?

Kishimoto could, tomorrow, wake up and write a chapter of Boruto with my propisition that Inner is in a box and, once let free, would kind of just chill while Sakura lost her shit, and have a little side arc where Sakura works through that and DOES reconcile with Inner and stuff. He never WILL do that, but, yeah, I think that would work fine enough for finally tying off the 20 year old loose thread of Inner's disappearance. They've resolved stupider shit for less in Boruto.

This may be a surprising take from me but, honestly, I don't hate 'sakura realizes inner is real and immediately banishes her to the darkest corner of her mind so she never has to actually confront her existance'. I think that's ETREMELY in character for miss 'will DIE if she takes responsibility for ANY action EVER', especially at 14 years old. If I could rewrite naruto JUST to sneak Inner more neatly into it, I think I would still have Sakura box her away during the timeskip, with the caveat that we would like....actually get a vauge flashback scene of her actually repressing Inner just after she starts her training with Tsunade, and occasionally Sakura would say and/or think something a little weird that just gently reminds you that Inner is a thing, every once in a while- kinda like what little we see of Gaara before he looses shukaku but after him and naruto become friends. We would only get the Inner release/full reveal of what's going on with Sakura after she's hit an emotional breaking point and needs to let Inner out to help her regulate her emotions- I'm thinking around the time she does the whole fake confession scene with Naruto, but if we wanna give the plot point some breathing room it could just be an emotional spike as sharp and sudden of her hearing one too many people talk shit about Sasuke WITHOUT getting hit, or Ino daring to ask 'hey. what happened to the second soul in your body? how's she doing?' and Sakura trying desprately to change the subject because she has been NOT THINKING ABOUT IT for like 3 years thank you VERY much.

Honestly, I'd settle for Inner just continuing to be a running joke. Sakura fighting with her internally now that she has the confidence to ALSO be loud and angry, Inner having more emotional intelligence and transparency and Sakura never listening to her cause she's still in denial about Inner being a Person with anything worth listening to. Sakura thinking she's SO normal even though she's been muttering to herself about how she does NOT want to kick Ino's ass (Inner does. a lot) on and off for like 3 hours. Things of this nature. I think a lot of this is repeating what I've said about already so I'll stop here but like....I love you forever inner sakura they can NEVER make me hate you inner sakura <3

As far as what I think Inner 'is': it being a training mishap where Ino accidently split Sakura's soul in half as kids is SO much fun and especially has some steller InoSaku potential, but I personally just....Like the idea of sakura just. being like that lmao. I usually write it as Sakura being born a twin and Inner being her stillborn twin sister who's soul went into Sakura cause it had no where else to go (it's a LITTLE more complicated then that cause I think about her. a lot. but basically). Sakura WAS just born this way!!!! NORMALEST GIRL EVER!!!

On a similar note; I don't really EVER write Inner as a DID alter, because DID is like....real. DID manifests (to my understanding, I'm obviously not a doctor or anything) when a child is in such traumatizing circumstances during their developmental years that they dissociate frequently enough to fracture their psyche into different conciousness, so they can compartmentalize their trauma and remain a mostly-functioning person. You almost always have more then one alter, and often (without therapy) can't clearly draw the lines between 'you' and your alters cause. well. the point is that you're so chronically disocciated that you have trouble being 'all there' in the first place. LOTS of people have DID and don't recognize that's what it is for a long ass while, cause they think it's as simple as, like, that one stupid shamalan movie.

Canon Sakura almost CERTAINLY does not have DID, unless she went through some SHIT that was never even mentioned in cannon- which, to be fair, WOULD map on to DID because. she would NOT remember it lmao that's probably what Inner is FOR. But, for the story that Naruto is and the character that Sakura is, it doesn't really read. Sakura's supposed to be an insanely driven girl who drags herself from the mediocrity of her civilian upbringing to be the second coming of Tsunade, so, for all that you can read into and joke about Inner's existance and Sakura's low empathy generally and how Sakura seems concerningly releived that her parents are dead in RTN (all of which I LOVE doing), in order for her to work as a character she can't have too much of a tragic backstory in canon. Outside of canon is another matter of course, but idk. you can write an interesting plurality dynamic without calling it DID, especially in a world of ninja magic bullshit.

ON THAT NOTE THOUGH. Yeah. Kabuto has DID <3 <3 <3 LOOK AT HIM. LISTEN TO HIM TALK. ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME. YOU ARE RIGHT. HIS BRAIN IS BUMPING LIKE A NIGHTCLUB. AND HE IS NOT INVITED TO THE PARTY!!!!!

[humanundead]

i see people posting about heated drama between men in a kamen rider season and i cross yet another season off the list of ones that are safe to watch during my blade cooldown period

[bearforceone3]

green lantern lineup… or like, half of them, i guess

[shrimpleasthat77]

I had anthropology today yall know what that means!!!

I felt like being whimsical today

[its-to-the-death]

Glasses Swag Sequel Preliminary Round #10

Only one will make it into the bracket!

[evilkitten3]

so many problems with hinata's character could've been solved if she was a root sleeper agent

[morningbyrd]

another one in my drafts apparently??? i'm bad about not uploading these ig.

[watermelonsloth]

Why was Orochimaru Revived???

I get that pointing out weird/upsetting writing decisions from Naruto’s ending is beating a dead horse, but I’m gonna beat it anyways. I’ll try to make this quick.

Orochimaru being brought back is stupid and unnecessary.

Other than the obvious (he was already wasted and ass-pulling him back into the story doesn’t change that), he also just didn’t need to be brought back. Orochimaru only does three things that matter after he’s revived: releasing the former Hokage from the reaper, bringing the former Hokage back to life, and making Mitsuki. The Hokage being brought back wasn’t very necessary to begin with, but even if we ignore that, Orochimaru wasn’t necessary to do that. Karin could’ve been the one to know about the Uzumaki mask (imagine one of the Uzumaki’s actually knowing about their clan!) and after a scene showing her breakout of T&I, she could rejoin Taka and release the Hokage’s. Meanwhile, Kabuto (another character who was redeemed only to do one useful thing then fade into irrelevancy) could’ve brought the Hokage’s back to life as a sign of good will. Mitsuki, meanwhile, could either not exist and Metal could replace him on team 7, be the result of Kabuto’s experiments (I think it would be more in character for Kabuto to make an artificial child/family than Orochimaru), or be disconnected from both Orochimaru and Kabuto.

Once again, why was Orochimaru revived???

[dark-elf-writes]

So you know how Naruto has the Uzu sea serpent summons? I imagine he has like the ancient greek version of the language and anyone that tries to talk to him in “common snake” sounds like y'all'd've'f'i'd've so Anko’s attempts are forever doomed.

Language elitist Naruto is so fucking funny to me now.

Naruto who is a stickler for snake language but also speaks fox which is like the most incomprehensible version of canine language but Kakashi speaks bastardized dog and wolf so he would never call him out on it so they’re both just using the most horrific slang back and forth.

The first time Kiba heard it he cried. Akamaru covered his ears

[orcelito]

Ok I'm thinking about kabuto backstory again and thinking about how unfair and fucked up it all is like

> be Danzo

> threaten local orphanage mother into returning to being a spy (by threatening the kids there)

> force them to send One Kid too because he "lost a man" while obtaining the intel he's threatening her to spy over (the kid is Kabuto, who volunteered bc he overheard them threatening the mother over this) (Danzo knows he overheard)

> train kabuto to be a spy while orphanage mother is off on her long spy job as well

> bait spy mom with the promise of keeping kabuto safe to keep her agreeing to work with you

> decide they both are too good at their jobs (????) Of being spies (that work for you?????)(they've been loyal this whole time????) So they're too dangerous and both need to die

> keep mom and kid away from each other as kid grows up

> literally DOCTOR FAKE PHOTOS of the kid growing up to make it seem like he looks totally different now???? So she won't recognize him?????

> give her the assassination assignment of killing the Real Kabuto (who she won't recognize) so they'll kill each other

> whoops, Kabuto survived and killed her instead, oh well at least Orochimaru's watching him now

I'm just like. How fucked up is it to threaten these people into working as spies for you "for the good of Konoha", and then decide that these people (who have given NO INDICATION of intending to betray Konoha) are too good at being spies and thus Too Dangerous and should be killed for it. But no he can't just kill them in a normal way. He had to manufacture an entire scenario so that they'd kill EACH OTHER while making the mom not recognize him (with the express purpose of breaking the kid's spirit) like BROOOOOO I know you ordered the whole Uchiha clan to be massacred (conducting genocide for the sake of 'peace') actually now that I think about it he ordered this of itachi. Ordered him to kill his own family. Of course Danzo would get off on making a mother and son kill each other "for the good of Konoha" he's almost fucking cartoon villain level of horrible past the point of logic EXCEPT there really are people this awful that have existed. Plenty of them. And they have also justified it as being "for the good of [nation]" like that's the Thing, he's a war hungry nationalist that has decided He Knows Best so he's going to fuck up SO many people's lives, up to and including his own damn citizens!!!! And this bitch thinks he deserves to be kage?!?!?! Fucking Hiruzen letting him run wild like this. He knew Danzo was stealing children and indoctrinating them into a murder cult (where, keep in mind, he purposefully raises kids in pairs so they view each other as family AND THEN ORDERS THEM TO KILL EACH OTHER)(AGAIN!!!! with the family killing, what is his PROBLEM) but Hiruzen just let it fucking happen. Spineless fucking piece of shit. He fucked Naruto up he fucked Orochimaru up he fucked up Royally with Danzo like come ONNNNNNNNNN

Rattling the bars of my cage rn at how awful Danzo is and how he was able to just. DO THIS???? I know the bitch is dead but he's not dead enough. Give me the glock.

[shark-pen]

Happy birthday to my favorite medic/spy/ninja/criminal/ orphan/necromancer/mom-killer/identity crisis bastard/live-in caretaker Love you lots but not enough to make you a better cake

[unforth]

Me; gah, this fight against Obito is so long. It's been like a hundred episodes.

My daughter, while yawning: actualllly I think it's been MORE than a hundred episodes...

[ao3fujoshevik]

random late night fic idea. why not.

OK. ok. let’s say madara doesn’t get to return to his reanimates body when kabuto releases the jutsu. or whatever the fuck happened there. but fighting the release, whatever, sends him back in time to his old man madara form, shortly before the cave collapse where he’d take obito.

but he has a better plan now. kabuto made him stronger than he’d ever been with his mostly self taught necromancy…instead of obito, he can maybe do it himself just w kabuto assistance, this time traininghim for purpose of edo tensei’ing him and bringing him back once he dies as the ridiculously stronger form he really misses once hes back to being Feeble

i’ve got a few places where i’d drop him back but the one i’m thinking is: kabuto is freshly head injuried, and madara takes him before nonou does. calls him kabuto bc thats how he knows him; kabuto pressured to learn how to stake bloodlines earlier, in order to take madara’s eyes without issue to basically keep them for him while waiting to figure out how to bring him Back. either loses his kind/gentle streak we see from part 1 from no nonō or gets way too kind as a result of needing to be patient w the zetsus. v fascinated with their stories from spying