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migila · 3 years ago

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Fic time! Naruto time!

Not Alone

Naruto could see his father’s back, the text “Fourth Hokage” standing out brightly on his white coat, yet no matter how much he ran, how far he stretched out his hand, he couldn’t reach him. He couldn’t reach his mother either, standing right there next to his father, her back to him as well, giving him a clear view of her long, beautiful red hair.

But it was okay.

It was alright, he was used to it. And it’s not like being unable to reach his parents meant that he was alone; not at all. He wasn’t alone, he never had been. Even if his parents had died on the day he was born, they’d left someone else to watch after him. And that someone was always there.

Turning to look over his shoulder, Naruto saw Kurama’s looming form behind him, as usual. With a grin, he held out his fist to the fox, who met it with his own. But then, the fox started moving, walking past him.

That had never happened; Kurama had always stayed behind him.

“Kurama?” he questioned as the tailed beast walked over to his parents “Where are you going?”

Kurama looked over his shoulder after reaching the couple, before looking forward again. Then, the three of them started walking away.

Leaving him behind.

“Wait, Kurama!” this wasn’t how it was supposed to go; Kurama was always there with him. Always. His parents never were, but up until now, Kurama had always-! “Don’t go!”

Naruto ran after the three, after the fox, but despite going as fast as he could, their backs only got smaller, their presences further. He reached out his hand desperately, calling after him-

“KURAMA!” Naruto shot up in his bed, hand reaching out. Sitting there, it took him a few seconds to process the situation.

“It was a dream” he realized “Just a dream.”

Except no, not really. It wasn’t just a dream; Kurama was gone for real, just like his parents.

Gone.

Kurama had never been gone before; they’d never been apart before, save for that short time during the war he’d been forced out. Sure, Naruto hadn’t even known he was there for the first 12 years, but he’d been there all the same.

He regretted not hearing the truth earlier. He regretted those three or so years that he knew but hadn’t really put any effort in to talking to Kurama. He had never even thought of asking the fox’s name, a fact that had filled him with shame for years now. At times, he wondered if they could’ve become proper partners earlier if he’d asked about it.

Tears of frustration tingled at the corners of Naruto’s eyes. There was nothing he could do about that anymore, absolutely nothing. And now Kurama was gone. For the first time in his life, he was really, truly-

“Lord Seventh?”

Naruto’s head shot up, and his eyes met Kawaki’s as the boy sat on the couch, a book hanging in his loose grip as he stared at the older man with eyes that were definitely concerned.

“Is everything alright?”

“Y-yeah!” Naruto hastily wiped his eyes. He didn’t like the idea of the kids seeing him cry, but considering his circumstances, it was even worse that it was Kawaki who saw him cry. The boy had enough worries of his own; he didn’t need Naruto’s on top of them!

Kawaki kept staring, and Naruto had a feeling he was going to ask. Not wanting things to get there, he got up and looked at the clock. Fortunately, the timing was good.

“Dinner’s probably ready soon; we should head down” he says, going to the door. His hand is on the handle when Kawaki says: “I’m sorry.”

Naruto freezes.

“The Tailed Beast… Kurama, you called it? It’s dead because Jigen came after me” Kawaki continued “I’m sorry.”

Naruto closed his eyes. He should’ve known it’d come to this.

“It’s not your fault” he says “If anything, I’m the one at fault for failing to protect you.”

And failing to protect Kurama.

“But- “

“Kawaki” he says, now looking at the boy “It’s not your fault. Kurama was the one who suggested that I used that technique, even though he knew it’d kill him. It was his idea; he chose to give his life to protect us.”

And Konoha.

And the whole world.

The one who was thought of as nothing but a mindless beast for so long, the one that many still thought so of no doubt, had given his life to protect others.

Naruto would have to make sure that this part of the Tailed Beast’s history would be recorded down just the same as his attack on the village. The future generations needed to know just who had protected the Will of Fire so that it could be passed on to them.

And speaking of passing it on…

Naruto took few steps back in to the room to reach Kawaki, who was still sitting down, before patting his head.

“Just promise me one thing, okay?”

“…What is it?”

Kawaki wasn’t the type to agree to something before knowing the details. Not that this surprised Naruto in the slightest; he’d already figured that one out.

“His name was Kurama” the Hokage said “Not Nine Tails, nor tailed beast. Kurama. He had a name. Make sure you remember it.”

“…I will”

Kawaki was sincere, Naruto knew. Not that he would’ve expected anything else. He smiled.

“Good” he said “Now let’s get to that dinner.”

This time Kawaki followed, but as they were on the stairs, the boy said: “There are more tailed beasts, aren’t there? Aside from Kurama?”

“Yeah, there are. Eight of them”

“Do all eight have names?”

Naruto stops in his tracks again, looking at Kawaki over his shoulder. The boy stops too, cautiously eyeing the older man “…What?”

“Nothing, nothing” Naruto grins, recovering from the surprise and continuing his way down “Yes, they do. Of course.”

Speaking of which, how many people besides him knew them? How many used them? He knew Bee knew them all, but did he remember? Either way, there were way too few people who knew them.

“They haven’t specifically asked me to keep them secret or anything, so would you like to hear?”

“Sure”

Naruto reached the kitchen door, pulling it open.

“Naruto, good timing; the dinner’s ready!” Hinata said as she brought the pot of nabe to the table “Is Kawaki with you?”

“Yeah” Naruto walked in, Kawaki following close behind. The blond spotted his son on the couch, playing with a game console, and Himawari was currently setting the table. The whole family was there.

He was not alone.

A rare urge to show physical affection taking over, Naruto walked over to his wife to press a kiss to her temple. Hinata blinked.

“Ew, dad, there are others in here!” Boruto called from the couch, pointedly facing the other direction “Have some manners!”

“You’re overreacting, Boruto” Naruto laughed, holding his arms out for Himawari who rushed towards him, pulling her in to a hug “Now come eat. And it’s about time I taught you kids something.”

“Like what?” Boruto put his game console down, interest clearly caught as he came over, sitting on his usual seat. When everyone else were on their seats as well, Naruto started: “You kids remember who Kurama is, right?”

“That’s the Nine Tailed fox’s name, isn’t it?” Boruto asks as Himawari and Hinata nod “Didn’t you say that he’s… gone now?”

“Yeah, he is. But it’s important to remember him. And not just him; he has eight siblings” Naruto says “Do you guys know their names?”

“Names?” Boruto repeats, thinking “Um, well the one tail is- “

“Shukaaku!” Himawari cuts her brother off.

“Close enough; it’s Shukaku” Naruto corrects with a smile “Most people don’t know their names, or even know they have ones, but I think it’s important to know them.”

“Well, guess it would be rude to just refer to them with the number of their tails” Boruto agrees with a shrug, and Naruto’s glad that he gets it.

“Mom, has dad taught you their names?” Himawari asks. Naruto turns to Hinata. He’d told her, had told all his close friends, shortly after the war, but he doubted she’d remember, at least not all.

“Of course, he has” Hinata replies, and to Naruto’s surprise, she starts listing the names: “One Tail is Shukaku, Two Tails is Matatabi, Three Tails is Isobu, Four Tails is Son Goku, Five Tails is Kokuõ, Six Tails is Saiken, Seven Tails is Choumei, Eight Tails is Gyuki and Nine Tails is Kurama.”

Naruto stares at her in surprise. That was all of them; she got all the names right and didn’t even mix any of them up.

“How…?”

“You did tell us, didn’t you?” Hinata smiles at him “They’re important to you, so I made sure to remember.”

Naruto knew he was getting too emotional lately; tears were prickling in the corners of his eyes again.

“Thank you”

His voice is quiet, but right now, he doesn’t have the strength for more.

“I’ll make sure to remember them, too!” Himawari cheered.

“Yeah, me too” Boruto agreed “…Though I might need to write them down; I don’t think I can remember from just hearing them once. Right, Kawaki?”

“Speak for yourself” the boy replies “I can remember.”

“Huh?!”

Naruto watches his children bicker, too amused to interfere. Why had he been down again? Kurama, the one who always stayed by his side, may be gone, but he’d be alright.

He was home.

He had a family.

He wasn’t alone.

#I head canon that naruto taught the names to all his friends #but only few actually remember them all #boruto 218 #boruto naruto next generations #fic #kurama #kyuubi #Nine Tailed Demon Fox #uzumaki naruto #uzumaki family #uzumaki kushina #namikaze minato #uzumaki kawaki #uzumaki hinata #uzumaki boruto #uzumaki himawari #i thought I'd remember all the names without having to check #but my brain drew a total blank for number three and I had to google it #sorry Isobu!

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yourdesertsunflower · 4 years ago

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Neji is Alive

A recapitulation of the construction of the best and most climatic moment in all of Naruto. That moment. Obviously a one hundred-percent real, not at all fake build up to the one moment every Naruto Fan was waiting for. Truer than true, best of the best. More canon than NaruRamen, here it is my recapitulation of that moment.

Seeing there is no further need to stretch the presentation and, without further ado, let’s get into it...

But before: DISCLAIMER! Please don’t take it personal. I am not that idiot to belive I could do a better manga than Kishimoto. All my respects to him and all of those who think differently. I am just a gen z scribbling nonsense about 2D characters so, yes, I am lame. (believe it!)

After the Neji vs Hinata fight the heiress of the Hyuga’s has a moment of self-reflection about herself and her identity as a part of the most fucked-up clan of Konoha. She had always been subject and victim of the clan’s structure and deemed as unable of fulfilling the roles that she was destined to fill up as a member of the primary branch.

She also understood that it was Neji, her cousin, who had it the worst when it comes to the configuration of the clan and, seeing how much it affected both of them and to limits they were able to reach she can’t hold it back any longer.

She finally is able to voice and externalize all those thought and now there is no turning back. She can’t turn a blind eye on the situation. She can’t longer see herself as the victim, nor wants to be seen as someone weak cause she knows the power she has given she is from the primary branch and is willing to capitalize that privilege in order to turn things around.

Motivated by Naruto’s Ninja way “never run away or give up on your word” she decides that she’ll work as hard as she is able to be a competent leader of the Hyuga Clan and convince people of a change.

However, she knows she can’t do it alone. Despite being born from the primary branch her softness and passiveness had always been an impediment to be a great shinobi. Even though she was, on paper, supposed to be a great kunoichi she had never been one of practice. She knows she’ll need of Neji if she wants to reach her full-potential. ]

Before the finals of the Chunin Exams she tries to talk o him in order to ask for him to train her but obviously Neji, being the bitchy genius he was at the time, doesn’t even listen to her. For obvious reasons, he doesn’t want to know anything of her.

However, this doesn’t demotivate Hinata. If she couldn’t convince Neji through words she’ll have to do it by her actions, after all that was people like Naruto did, so she starts training by herself.

After his match against Naruto and his talk with Hiashi, Neji sees Hinata training and offers her some help. Obviously Hinata accepts it and they start creating their cousin bond. They both quickly realize that they are both victims of the corrupted structure of the Hyuga Clan and that, if they wanted to change something, they needed each other. They would have to work together, not as member of the primary and secondary branch but as one entity, as cousins.

Hence, their bond and care for each other is not due that it was the fricking duty and destiny of one to protect each other but because they genuinely care for each other.

Neji trains Hinata and she becomes way stronger than anyone ever thought her capable of, to the extent than when the war breaks many of the elders of the Hyuga Clan think of her as a competent candidate to lead the clan during battle. All except her father, who still has some skeptisim about her daughter’s capability.

However, this isn’t voice by Hiashi as Hinata declines the role saying that, she not only has a lot to learn but that Neji fits the role much better than her. After all, if he was able to help her all through this years to be the best shinobi out of her capabilities she was sure that he’ll do the same for the rest of the Clan during war.

At war Naruto is attacked and Hinata jumps forward to protect him. However, Neji who is nearby seeing the desperation in his cousin’s eyes and fearing that she’ll do something reckless jumps in between her and Naruto protecting them both.

He does the Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven and deflects all the spikes coming towards him. Or so he thinks. He can’t see it but a he is being attacked in his blind spot. Before the target reached him, Hiashi intercedes and saves Neji of an instant death.

This wouldn’t be only Hiashi’s redemption but also a metaphorical redemption of all the Clan’s primary branch.

As his last words he says sorry to Hinata and thanks her for having taught him as his daughter, the most important lesson he has ever receive. True strength comes from, dedication, care and love. She is the best heiress and daughter the Hyuga Clan and he could ask for and names her the head of the Hyuga Clan.

As his last action he asks Neji to come nearer him and removes him from the curse seal. However Neji says he’ll always be there for Hinata, cause it isn’t the seal that bound them together but their bond as cousins.

Here Hinata would display her growth as character. She isn’t the shy little girl she once was but a fully capable woman that is capable to lead due to her emotional intelligence. Yes, she is sensible and caring but that are the traits that allow her to be the leader her clan is in need. Someone that can understand and be sensible to the emotions but that also has the strength to keep on moving foward.

This would also he Naruto’s ‘aha’ moment. She had said to him during Pain’s Attack to Konoha that she looked up to him but he has never been able to see her in those eyes till know. Even when heartbroken she has the strength to keep on moving, knowing that is what the others need of her. It was truly admirable. But, hadn’t she always been like that? Hinata was always one of those people to put others needs before her, to be there for him whenever she needed. Obviously, she had grown into someone more capable and confident of herself but the core is still the same. She was always the one.

It’s now him who is looking up to her. After all, she had been able to stay true to their share ninja way. She had never ran away of gave up on her word and had done it all holding on to that core values that made her, her. But he isn’t about to be left behind. He wanted to walk alongside her, in their ninja way.

After the war, when things are finally settling down Hinata questions herself if she’ll be able to fit the shoes of the Clan’s Leader and tells Neji that she thinks the he or Hanabi would be much better options for the role. However, Neji gives her his full support and ensures her that he’ll be there to help her as his right hand, not because there is a tradition that say that should be so but because he truly believes in her and is eager to be part of this new era for the Clan.

They finally are able to ban the Hyuga’s Curse Seal. It is removed from all members of the second branch and it is strictly prohibited to be placed upon new borns.

Neji takes the role of Jonin Commander of Konoha and, some years after the war marries Tenten with whom he has a son/daughter named Ren. This name, besides being unisex, means lotus which symbolizes purity, enlightenment, self-regeneration and rebirth (obvious metaphor and a little nod to Hizashi). They are the first child of the second branch no to never be sealed.

Neji lives a long-lasting life as a proud father, beloved husband, supportive cousin, dear friend and trusted leader.

The End.

Okay, so if you reached this point and you are like, I had already seen this post (?) let me explain. I edited a tag of this post in my phone and it went completely blank. So yeah. I got to do it all over again cause obviously I got no back-up. Shit. F for me. But hope you enjoyed it. Kudos!

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thekingwhereitallends · 5 years ago

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Naruto Head-Canons Part I:

#1-Mangetsu Killed Fourth Mizukage to Free him from Tobi's Control.Then Joins the Akatsuki to Help Itachi,His best friend.

#2-Itachi and Mangetsu were at Exact Same Age but Mangetsu died on Nov.14 2016;the Night when The Moon was at It's nearest Distance from Earth.Tobi Killed Mangetsu to Keep Itachi away from Planning Aginst Infinite Tsukuyomi Project.Itachi felt like he has Lost his Brother.Itachi almost Killed Tobi over It.

#3-Itachi had Met Minato once.Minato taught Him Flying Thunder God Jutsu secret and Years later Itachi Perfected it but Didn't Tell Anyone.

#4-Mangetsu was The Strongest Mist Shinobi at His Time.

#5-Mangetsu Invented a New Jutsu of His Own,Naming it "Godspeed".A Water Style Jutsu which In It,He can Control every Atom in His Body,Spread Them in Space,and Travel at Insane Speeds than Rivals even Teleportation Jutsus.It can help him to Escape Genjutsu.

#6-Mei Terumi is Direct Descendant of Third Mizukage.

#7-Third Mizukage's Name is Kenshin Mikami Meaning Modest Belief Bestowed from Heaven.

#8-Third Kazekage's Name is Samirou Meaning Universal Sand Son.

#9-Third Mizukage Killed Hashirama Senju so Konoha has no Other Way but to Choose Tobirama as The Next Hokage.It was Hashirama's Offer.

#10-Third Mizukage Married Daughter of Hashirama Senju A.K.A. Aika Senju.

#11-Third Mizukage was The Most Powerful Shinobi of All,Even Superior to Hiruzen and Hashirama.

#12-When Rasa Sealed a Fully Released Shukaku,He went to Also Kill Gaara.But He hesitated for Moments.Karura Met him Once He touched Gaara,and Told Him to Not Harm Gaara.Rasa honored His Wife's Last Wish. Rasa Hugged His Son as His Cry Pierced The Sky,Considering It The Least He can Do for His Son,and Cursing His Own Fate and Those Who Made Him Seal Shukaku in His Flesh and Blood(A.K.A. Hashirama, Hidden Villages,Suna Elders,etc)

#13-Before becoming a Jashinist,Hidan was Conzidered a Righteous Man of God,A Very Kind and Caring Being.

#14-Kakuzu killed All His Superiors Cause They,Even His Father and His Wife's Brother,Brutally Raped and Killed His Wife who happened to be pregnant for just 2 months.

#15-Mikoto Uchiha was The Only Shinobi Capable of Matching Minato in Speeds and Reflexes.

#16-Kushina breastfed Itachi when Mikoto was Sick.Kushina had milk in His Breasts even before Becoming Pregnant.This made Itachi and Kushina attached to Each other.Minato and Kushina were Itachi's godfather and godmother.

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blacksunisvalid · 5 years ago

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Analysis: Did the Death of Pyrhha raise the stakes?

I want to start this by saying that people who were smarter and more qualified than me have talked about other problems with the character of Pyrhha and the writing behind her, and also with other things like the Arkos dynamic. But this has been something I've been thinking about for a long time, and I wanted to ask the question in the title: Did Pyrhha dying really raise the stakes of the series? The answer after I've come to about this is no, it didn't, but we as an audience believed they had been. Let me sort of explain what I mean by this, and use some other series as an example.

When Pyrhha died, we knew very little about her. We knew she was an arena fighter and was one of the best of the best. We knew that this had left her to be mostly friendless, and wanted to be viewed as normal, based on her interactions with Jaune, we can tell she felt good that someone was seeing her as a person and not The Invincible Girl. And we know that Pyrhha is socially awkward, with her habit of apologizing for things that aren't her fault, and the sort of awkward way she would say ' Hello again.' But beyond that, anything for Pyrhha is a head-canon or a bit of a deeper reading of what's present. We didn't know if she had a family at the time, what her goals were at Beacon, and for the rest of her life. We know the above things, and that she liked Jaune. An important thing to note is for the most, we are told these things. We are told she doesn't really have friends, and we are told people put her on a pedestal. But we aren't shown this. This is less effective as we have no context for this.

I think a lot of people will agree that when characters die in fiction one of the saddest things is the fallout other characters go through as a result of their death emotionally. When I think of some of the saddest deaths in fiction, it's usually not the death itself, but the way people around them react. One of the best examples of this for several shows ( spoilers for all will be here, hence the spoiler tag) is the death of Maes Hughes from FMA and FMAB. Maes Hughes was a supporting character, but we knew a lot about him. He was Mustang's best friend, supportive of the Elric brothers, and a loving husband and father. We also know he was very supportive of Mustang's plan to advance and change the world once he had more power. Importantly, for the most part, these things are shown to us. We see Hughes on the phone gushing about his wife, we see Hughes showing tons of photos of his family. They didn't have to tell us ' Hughes cares about his daughter' because we knew that. And so when he died, it was devastating to the audience because we had to see how everyone reacted, and these were characters we knew also. Everything from Mustang crying and saying ' It's a terrible day for rain' to Hughes's daughter crying and asking ' Why they're putting dirt on daddy' at the funeral. These are characters who we cared about, and so seeing them in pain was awful to experience.

But with Pyrhha, we don't really have that. I forget the exact volume, 6 or 7 but even when seeing a redheaded woman talk to Jaune at Pyrhha's statue when they leave flowers, we don't know who that is. We don't know if that was her mother, her sister, an aunt, or just someone who had known Pyrhha. Everything about that ( unless RT has revealed on social media) is speculation, and while a good scene, it doesn't really solve the problem I mentioned above, we don't really know people like a family who would be the most affected by the death of Pyrrha.

Jaune and Ruby were both affected by the death of Pyrhha, with Jaune reforging his armor to be a tribute to her. But the problem is, at least to me that it doesn't feel deep enough. Using a different example, the death of Peter Parker in Infinity War. Some of the first words Tony says in Endgame are ' I lost the kid.' At first, Tony is not willing to risk his wife and child on the chance of bringing back everyone else, because he got incredibly lucky. We've seen the arc of Tony, and this, while maybe selfish is understandable, he's always made the sacrifice play, and so seeing him saying for once he won't is satisfying. But then he sees a picture he has with Peter. Trying to play it off as curiosity, he sees if he could actually invent time travel, and then he does. It's subtle, and it's not tossed in our face, but it's there that the death of Peter really affected Tony and played into his survivor's guilt.

One could say that Jaune wants to kill Cinder for what happened to Pyrhha, and that is a fair example of growth. Volume 1 Jaune probably couldn't fathom taking a life, and by Volume 5 he was trying to murder Cinder in the battle of Haven. But Ruby saw her die. And other than activating her silver eyes ( Another issue others have talked about is how she doesn't really wonder what the silver eyes are) I can't remember really her ever commenting on it. Contrast this with the death of Penny, which is some of the best voice acting the series has for Ruby.

Really small scenes could have helped a lot with this. Some of the examples of things I think could have helped-

When Jaune is calling out team attacks, he accidentally calls out Arkos or a move which relied on Pyrhha, only to realize she wasn't there, and there's a brief moment of silence as it sinks in all over again. ( Example: Shotaro from Kamen Rider W calling for Phillip in the last episode but Phillip wasn't there)

Jaune or someone else does a move in combat that Pyrhha had taught to them. Some of the others see it happening, and they briefly see Pyrhha with them. ( Example: Kakashi seeing Minato in front of him when Naruto performs the Rasenshuriken)

Let the characters talk fondly about Pyrhha with a sense of wistfulness. An example of this would be a difficult battle, and then after the battle, they say something like " If Pyrhha had been there with us, well that would have been easier." Tense silence, and then someone, maybe Jaune chuckles and agrees. It's okay to talk fondly about those who are no longer with us. ( Example: The Justice League cartoon when in an alternate world, Flash is dead and Green Lantern and Hawkgirl talk about him with playful annoyance.)

No one really talks about what her death means for them or how outclassed they seemingly are. An example of what I mean is in Kamen Rider Ex-Aid when a character named Kiriya, or Kamen Rider Lazer dies. The characters are told he died because he 'knew too much' and so a lot of time is spent in uncovering what it was he knew. It became a meme of sorts in the fandom about ' the real reason Kiriya died.' On top of that, the characters lament on how it's concerning that their enemy has a Level 10 form while the highest they can reach is Level 5 as an example.

Pyrrha's death and the fallout from it ultimately remind me of the Justice League movie. We're told the world misses Superman and is a worse place without him. But the DCU hadn't spent enough time building up a Superman the world at large would mourn for, or a Superman who did so much for the world that in his absence, things fell apart. I felt the same way with Pyrhha's death, we were told that it mattered more so than anything.

Now that I talked about what I feel is the emotional failure of the death of Pyrhha, I want to move into the other side of it, raising the stakes. Yes, killing a character is a great way to raise the stakes. It's the most lethal version of The Worf Effect (TVTropes some it up very well, basically a character we know to be strong losing to a new character to establish the new character is strong, IE Thanos beating the Hulk as Infinity War opens). But I feel that Pyrhha was not the right character to do for this for the following reasons

We don't really know strong she is. We are told she was a prodigy, but we are never really shown what that means. The only fights we see her in are CRDL, students at Beacon, and while she does beat them all, this is also the only extended fight we have for them, so we don't exactly know how difficult it would be to beat them. Mercury, but he threw the fight purposefully to get information on her, so we have no idea how they would have stacked up if they fought. ( I think she would win but still) Penny, which even if the fight ended in tragedy is the best possible matchup for her since her Semblance lets her control metal, and the fight which ultimately cost her life in Cinder. We knew Cinder had the power of half a Maiden and got the other from killing Pyrhha, but we don't really know what 'half a Maiden' amounts too because we don't know how strong Cinder was before becoming a Maiden, so it's impossible to say what the amp was. I'm not an expert power-scaler, but killing a character to show someone is strong works if we have a much better sense of how strong they were. The example of this is the death of Jiraiya against Pain in Naruto. We know how strong Jiraiya is as a member of the Three Sanin, which by the narrative would roughly put him on par with Tsunade, the head of the village at the time, and Orochimaru who had trained Sasuke. Jiraiya dying shows the audience that Pain is stronger than the current Hokage and protector of the village, and most of the cast. We never got to see Pyrhha sparring with RWBY or other members of JN_R to show how much stronger than them she is. If we had seen this, and then Cinder killed her anyways, it would have been much more d effective and plant a question in our mind: " How can the main cast hope to defeat Cinder?"

Killing Pyrhha wasn't really an objective for the villains, and it was more so good luck that happened along the way. Sure, Mercury gathers data on Pyrhha, but it seems like Cinder wanted to destroy Beacon more than get Pyrhha out of the way. Even the set up of Emerald making Pyrhha kill Penny amounts to nothing, as in the same volume, Pyrhha dies before the consequences of this can be addressed. Pyrrha was in the way of what Cinder wanted, and Cinder killed her which can be an effective set-up, but in my opinion, it's more effective if the villains have been planning specific things, like toppling a public figure like Pyrrha. In BNHA, people try to take out All-Might, and for good reason, he's seen as the Symbol of Peace. Small scenes could have built this up for Pyrhha also. After Mercury gets information on her, just have the villains make small statements about how she's in the way, and that they have to do something.

Pyrrha being chosen to be the Fall Maiden doesn't really make the most sense. From a set-up perspective, it does, the villain killing the hero before they can achieve a powerup, and said power-up is the hero's best hope. ( Examples of this being the Muteki form in Kamen Rider Ex-Aid) But we're not shown why Pyrhha was chosen. As I said above, because we don't really know how strong she is, it could have been Weiss, or Yang, or Blake, or Nora because we don't know what qualities she was chosen for. On top of that, both Glynda and Winter were there, and arguably more powerful than Pyrhha, and would have been better choices. The set-up for me just doesn't work, and so by extension to me, Pyrhha's death felt like they wanted her out of the way, and needed a reason.

This was an incredibly long-winded post, but I hope I was able to get my points across. What do you think?

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Foresight is 20/20 Chapter 6

I stuck my hands in my pockets and licked my lips as I looked up at the cloudy sky. "So you said that we're going to meet with a friend of yours?" I asked. It was about a month after I "summoned" Kurama.

"Yes," Father said. "Inuzuka Tsume. She was one of my teammates back when we were genin, and currently the head of the Inuzuka clan." He ruffled Hinata's hair. "Considering their ages and how well the Inuzuka and Hyuuga can work together, it's most likely that Hinata-chan and her youngest child will also be in the same genin team."

"I-I'll do my best!" Hinata said.

I smiled. "I'm sure you'll do fine," I contributed. "You're way better than you think you are." I brushed my bangs out of my eye. They were getting to the point where they weren't entirely curving away from my eye, though that didn't really bother me that much. I like my hair long. Plus, there are a looot of characters in Naruto with hair over one eye, so who am I to go against that trend? I closed my eyes and started humming a happy tune (All dead, all dead, all the dreams we had), when... something brushed on my burgeoning negativity senses, though I couldn't really tell much about it because I wasn't trying to sense anything. For me to sense it automatically probably meant something bad, though.

Huh, guess that's what author me decided to do about Tenten having about zero background information aside from idolizing Tsunade and liking weaponry.

The lady was gripping maybe young Tenten by the wrist and I could see that she looked really afraid. Stranger danger, kids. The other two women, who I assumed were probably Tenten's mothers, began to give off the appropriate amount of hate that one would expect from a pair of mothers whose four-or-so-year-old daughter was snatched by a homophobe, and it showed. Mom number one looked like an older version of Tenten in everything but clothing and the fact that she only had one bun and mom letter A was a shorter orange-haired woman who wore the same sort of Chinese-style clothes that Tenten wore. "Give her back," mom letter A snarled, cracking her knuckles. Mom number one echoed the sentiment. At this point, my training consisting entirely of my Sociology teacher showing the class a bunch of episodes of What Would You Do? and having us write a small assignment each time instead of doing actual work kicked in and I swiftly-but-silently walked over to the homophobic woman and grabbed her wrist with a red chakra-enhanced vice grip.

"No," I said, growling at her with red eyes. She recoiled in fear, letting go of young Tenten's wrist. As one might expect, Tenten immediately retreated to and began hiding behind her mothers. I relaxed my face, but kept my eyes the same. "Why exactly do you think what you just did was right? Especially the attempted child abduction?" I asked the lady.

She tried to yank her wrist away, but I slowly licked my lips and let her struggle for a bit before letting go. She haughtily scoffed like I, a small child, hadn't just vice-gripped her hard enough to leave a red mark. "It's unnatural and no child should be subjected to that. She should be sent back to the orphanage."

I used a neato trick that Kurama taught me to send hate at her with what little I knew of biju telepathy. "First, I don't believe it's something 'unnatural' or 'wrong.' Second, I've been to the orphanage. It's not something I'd send someone to because I don't agree with who the parents are unless the parents are abusive or something." I took another "look" at the family's chakra. "Third, I would like to say that from the feel of their chakra, I think that the daughter is somehow related to both of them, so I think she might have never been in the orphanage to begin with." It was just a suspicion I had, but considering the feel of Tenten's and mom letter A's chakras weren't quite as close as Tenten's and mom number one's, I decided that mom letter A was a relative of Tenten's biological father. Maybe a sister or close cousin? At any rate, something about their similarities in chakra felt... familiar. I couldn't quite put my finger on it... "So the only bad person here is you," I continued. "Leave."

Evil woman clearly didn't like my tone of voice. Or my logical argument as to why she was a horrible person. "You little brat! I'll kill you!"

"You'll do nothing of the sort," Father said with an edge to his voice. He'd come over at some time during the argument, with Hinata hiding behind him. "I don't like the tone you've taken with my son."

She winced and tugged at her collar. "At least you'd agree with me when I say that those two women are deviants for being... together?"

"I honestly don't know why you might think that," Father mused. "I suppose we seem traditional most of the time, but the Hyuuga have had a long history of supporting LGBT rights and love in general." He gave a small smirk that had all of the energy of a Cheshire Cat smile. "In fact, I'd like to say that I am not at all ashamed to admit that, when we were both genin, I had feelings for Namikaze Minato." The woman that I was now memorizing the face and chakra signature of for the specific purpose of giving her a hard time were I to ever see her again scoffed and stomped off. "Are you four okay?" he asked.

"That was fun," I said, then realized how that could be insensitive that could be to the little girl who was almost abducted and her parents. "Sorry, are you three okay?"

Mom number one (I really needed to learn their names) smiled. "That was nice of you, kid. What's your name?"

"Hyuuga Kouki," I said. "He's my father and the little one is my sister, Hinata." Before I was about to make any more witty remarks, I was surprise-glomped by a four-year-old.

"That was so cool!" Tenten exclaimed. "You totally saved me!" I noticed that up close, her otherwise dark brown-looking hair had a red glint with the right lighting like mine. Just in case, I compared her chakra to mine to see if that was what the familiar bit to her chakra was. I was glad at myself to see that what little similarity between our chakras was minimal, a bit like the similarity I noticed between Naruto and an Uchiha that I'd seen. Like we were descendants of two siblings from Otsutsuki Hagoromo's ti-

"Wait a minute," I thought. I used my chakra sensing on Tenten and mom letter A. Prodigious chakra capacity, disproportionate physical energy, and a bit of a sunny feel to it. For both of them. I thought about what I knew about how Tenten fights from canon. Seals all of her weapons in scrolls and has the stamina to keep up with Neji the prodigy, Lee the genius of hard work, and Maito Guy. Plus, mom number A had orange hair. "They're Uzumaki, aren't they?" I thought even as mom letter A started talking.

"My name's Uzumaki Ai." I fricking called it. "My..." she blushed slightly and tittered like a schoolgirl with her first crush, "girlfriend here is named Tenko."

"And the girl hugging Kouki-kun is my little daughter, Tenten," Tenko said.

"Potentially touchy question," I said flatly, acting like there wasn't a little girl who was a little taller than me still hugging me. I gave Tenten a look and she let go.

Tenko sighed. It was more of a sad sigh and not a some-rude-kid-is-about-to-ask-me-a-potentially-touchy-question sigh. "Her father was... severely injured in the Kyuubi attack. He died and Ai and I mourned him together. She decided to help me raise her brother's child and well," she blushed, "things... happened eventually." I nodded. Yeah, that seemed like something I'd write. Tenko looked thoughtful for a moment. "If you don't mind me asking a potentially touchy question," she said, "why were you so willing to jump in? Not that it's bad to do that, but I wouldn't have thought that a little kid would be like that."

I grunted and licked my lips. "I hate people who judge others without getting to know them at all, just basing their entire opinion on something that has no bearing on their character or that they have no control over." I closed my eyes and shrugged. "I don't know exactly where it comes from, but I think that the fact that over half the village hating my best friend for something that happened on the day of his birth and was masterminded by someone else had something to do with it." I gave Tenko and Ai a piercing stare and noticed that Tenten had completely stopped following the conversation. "I don't suppose you two realize that Naruto-chan is totally innocent of the attack that happened mere minutes after his birth, do you?" I gave Ai a bitter smile and tilted my head to the side. "'Course, given the fact that I'm pretty sure that the two of you are the only remnants of the Uzumaki clan in the village but I haven't even sensed you anywhere near him makes that seem unlikely."

She sighed and stood there for a minute. "You're... you're right. I should have taken him in. My brother died in the attack, but that doesn't change the fact that I turned my back on a kid who had nowhere else to go and is actually family." She looked at Tenko and smiled. "Honey, do you think Tenten-chan would like a little brother?" I could tell what the answer was when Tenten turned to her mother and stared at her with puppy dog eyes. Not Puppy Dog Eyes(TM), but close.

Tenko chuckled. "I think I'd like to have a son." Tenten squeed and jumped up and down in happiness. Then she grabbed me and Hinata in a big hug. "Well, we should probably get going with that. I don't even know where to start..."

"Go to the Hokage," Father suggested. "Considering his importance, Hokage-sama would get involved anyway."

I raised my hand. "And if you really want to speed it up, tell the secretary to tell Sarutobi-san that the Seer of Time sent you." Ai, Tenko, and Tenten looked at me quizzically. "I think that we might have go to soon. Good luck."

Father stiffened slightly. "Right, I was taking Hinata-chan and Kouki-kun to meet a friend of mine and we really should be going. I hope that we will get to know each other in the future, considering the fact that my son is friends with the boy you're hoping to adopt, but if you will excuse us, we must be leaving now." He looked at Tenten. "If you could release my children, please?" Tenten stopped hugging us and we parted ways.

A few minutes later Father said, "You planned that, didn't you."

I covered my mouth with a hand as I grinned and did my weird snicker that sounds like I'm hissing and I decided to mess with him. "However do you suggest I did that, Father?" I asked in a voice that made it sound like I totally did plan it, even though in this one case I totally hadn't. "Such a feat would require me to have some way to know that they were going to be there beforehand." He gave me a flat look. "Sometimes, when you do good things purely out of the kindness of your heart," I continued, "events line up so nicely that people think that you planned it." He raised an eyebrow. I shrugged and pulled out the small, featureless puppet that I'd bought to test a certain jutsu I was trying to make and started playing around with it using chakra threads. What? Just because I don't plan on using puppet ninjutsu in battle doesn't mean that I should never learn it. "Yeah, I like being all puppetmaster-y, but I really can't take credit for this one. It's just luck."

"That's so cool, Kouki-niisan!" Hinata said as she looked at my puppet. I grinned and made it bow before putting it away.

"Thaaaank you," I said. "Let's go see Father's friend now."

kukukuku~

Tsume guffawed as she looked at me. "So this is the little ankle-biter you saddled yourself with, eh Hiashi?" she said with a grin.

To his credit, I was only able to bend my spine an acute angle to the side before Father said, "Please don't bite my ankle, Kouki-kun."

This naturally made Tsume howl with laughter and then smile at me. "You're alright, kid!"

"Thank you, Inuzuka-san," I said with a small grin. "You seem nice too. Should I go introduce myself to your son?" I asked.

"Go ahead, kid." She grabbed Kiba by the head and lightly shoved him at me, then looked at the nine-year-old Hana. "You should talk to them too, kiddo. I heard Kouki's got some sort of healing jutsu, so you could talk to him about that."

"Hello," I said as she walked over. "Can I pet your puppies," I asked, pointing at the three husky puppies that were trailing behind her.

"Sure," she said with a smile. I bent down and rubbed two of them behind the ears, cooing in a totally not weird way. "Their names are Hashirama, Tobirama, and Hiruzen. We call them the Haimaru triplets."

"After the first three Hokage," I assumed.

"Umm..." Hinata said quietly. "C-can I..." Hana picked up the puppy I wasn't petting and gave him to Hinata. "Thanks..." Kiba walked up to her and started chatting to her about... something. I stopped paying attention, so I'm not sure what.

Hana crouched down next to me and began petting... I think he was Tobirama? "So what was my mom saying about you knowing a healing jutsu?" she asked me.

I shrugged. "Unfortunately it's not the sort of jutsu just anyone can use, if that's what you were hoping for. You have to have a certain special chakra that you don't have, sorry."

She sighed. "Can't be helped. I want to learn medical ninjutsu so I can be a veterinarian. I like animals, so I thought it'd be a nice goal."

I nodded as I started scratching Hiruzen's tummy. "Being any kind of healer is a worthy aspiration," I muttered. "And animals are nice, though I suppose I shouldn't have to say that to an Inuzuka, should I?" She laughed. "I want to learn medical ninjutsu too, but really, mine is just for curiosity." I closed my eyes and chuckled as Hiruzen started licking my fingers. Then I rubbed my fingers on the "skirt" my shirt when he was done. "Mine must seem petty compared to yours, huh?"

She shrugged. "I still think that it's nice to want to learn stuff like that." She chuckled. "Even if it's just curiosity. So what exactly is that healing jutsu of yours?"

I grinned and lit the tip of my finger with a bit of red chakra. "It's a bit of a long story, but I think it's an interesting one..." We chatted for a while. I think I actually made a friend! Plus, it looked like Hinata was having fun with Kiba, so that's good.

kukukuku~

Ai and Tenko walked into that one meeting room of the Hokage's. "You wanted to see us again?" Tenko asked.

"Yes," he said. "Please, sit down." The couple sat down on one of the sofas, with Ai resting her head on Tenko's shoulder, which was really adorable. "There are a few more things that I'd like to discuss with the two of you before you adopt Naruto-kun. It's very important."

"Let's hear it," Ai said as she got a little more comfortable nuzzling Tenko.

"For one, I think you should learn who his father was before you take him in," I said as I sauntered out of the shadows and dropped my very-horrible-but-still-at-least-somewhat-usable Transparency Jutsu. It really only made me a little translucent, really more like stained glass than glass, and there was still an unfortunate amount of disturbance when I moved, but with my dark clothes, the partial tan that I had from actually spending time in the sun, and the shadows, the ability of standing so incredibly still that I become invisible to the eye was easy and attainable, even if I still couldn't eat any zargnuts while doing it... "His name was Namikaze Minato, maybe you've heard of him." I flopped down on the other sofa and sprawled out on the entire thing.

Everyone was silent for a moment as Tenko and Ai looked at me incredulously. After a few seconds, Ai broke the silence by saying, "Not that I'm mad or anything because you're a nice kid, but what the hell are you doing here?"

Sarutobi cleared his throat. "To cut a long story short, I made young Kouki here my advisor because he has the ability to see the future. This is an S-rank secret that should be even more strongly guarded than Naruto's status as a jinchuriki and his heritage." I winked and flashed my open eye at them.

"Okay, so what was that about Naruto's father being the fourth Hokage?" Tenko asked. I took the pictures of Minato and Naruto that I'd prepared for that particular reason and waved them so that the corners hit each other a few times and raised my eyebrows slightly. Seriously who else in Konoha had spiky blonde hair like that? "No, I see that now." She paused. "Actually I'm surprised that not more people have made that connection..."

"People see what they want to see," I stated with a scowl and red eyes. "Any relation to the heroic Fourth aside from 'murderer of' would get in the way of the idea that most of the villagers seem to have built up of how Naruto is a monstrous demon and not a young boy hated by over half the village for the monster sealed inside him to save said village." I scoffed. "Ingrates."

After a few minutes of utter silence, Tenko said, "I'd like to ask why nobody's ever tried to inform the village about his father, then."

I shrugged. "This guy," I pointed at Hiruzen, "decided that Naruto's parents have made some enemies and they aren't around to protect him anymore, so why not just cover up who his parents were, and not even tell him 'til he's either chuunin or sixteen. I begrudgingly accepted his reasoning on the condition that we make sure that Naruto's life isn't completely horrible and he doesn't learn about the Kyuubi or his parentage in completely traumatic circumstances."

"I would have preferred it if you didn't phrase it like that," Hiruzen said, "but that's about it. There's another matter, this one something that Kouki-kun was rather insistent on telling you."

Aiko nodded. "Spill, kid."

I sat up. Kinda. I didn't actually sit like a proper young lady, but at least I wasn't lying down on the sofa, right? "Something you guys should probably know looong before it actually becomes relevant." I tossed them the picture of Obito from when he had to have his ID photo taken. "His name is Uchiha Obito. Pronounced KIA in the Third Ninja War after a cave-in. In actuality, he was abducted by Uchiha Madara, implanted with the genetic material of the First to repair the damage from the cave-in, and groomed to take on Madara's mission. Part of this mission was apparently to attack the village using his Sharingan to control Kyuubi about three-and-a-half years ago."

Tenko sighed. "I suppose it's a little hard to swallow, but so is a young boy with the ability to see the future, so I'm willing to believe you. Why did you want us to know this?"

I lazily bobbed my head. "First, there's the fact that, even if you have the best intentions, the two of you lost a loved one in the Obito attack, so it might've been hard for you to fully put aside the feelings from that if you believed that the thing responsible for that was sitting under your roof inside the boy you adopted. And that would be bad. Second, I plan on eventually getting Naruto-chan and Kurama-chan to make friends with each other, so you two thinking Kurama-chan is a mindless beast might interfere with that." Ai raised her hand. "Kurama's the Kyuubi and yes we are friends," I answered. "Third, you two really should know all the facts."

"Thanks for that, then, kid," Ai said. "Is there anything else we should know?"

I grumbled. "I was gonna tell you two about Jiraiya, but someone," I looked at Hiruzen, "already told you."

"How did you..." Tenko started to say, but then trailed off. "Right, future vision. I'm starting to realize that 'getting to know each other' wasn't the only reason Hyuuga-san had for wanting to get some drinks with us after this." I smiled at the compliment.

"Where is young Tenten, anyway?" Hiruzen asked. "I figured she was waiting outside, but if you're going out for drinks..."

"I love shadow clones," Ai said blissfully. "They're just... so useful."

He nodded. "I agree. If I'm not mistaken, I'm getting done twice the amount of paperwork that I used to, and I'm not even in my office."

"Though, should we be drinking after learning such sensitive information?" Tenko asked. "I love you, Ai, but you can't really hold your alcohol very well."

Ai blushed. "N-no I don't! You can't hold your alcohol very well!"

I slouched into the sofa some more and tossed Hiruzen a scroll. "Suna agreed to let me take a crack at Gaara, right? And about the issue of payment, tell the Kazekage that I'm doing it half out of the kindness of my heart and half to hone my skills with fuinjutsu, so I'm fine if he can't pay me too much relative to the skill level of the job." I shrugged. "Though I would like it if he had any scrolls on jutsu, preferably Wind Release, that he'd be willing to give me." He opened the scroll and made to say something, but I cut him off by saying, "You've probably noticed by now, but I screen any meeting where we discuss sensitive information beforehand. Might need to take a nap tomorrow, even though I slept last night."

"Did you already find a seal to fix Gaara?" Hiruzen asked incredulously as he stared at the scroll.

"Nein," I sighed. "As great as that would've been, we both know that I need more information on his seal to even attempt anything more than a temporary countermeasure. That's just something I whipped up with Kurama-chan's help to deal with the situation for now."

"You really like preparing for everything, don't you?" he asked.

I shrugged. "Just the things that I can think of. Besides, I doubt I'll hear you complaining when I know what to do if Danzo challenges you to a dance-off with the winner becoming Hokage, will I?"

He gave me a flat look. "Kouki-kun, did you get into my secret stash of brownies? Because you really shouldn't eat those."

I blinked. "No I did not. Just going to pretend you never said that."

"If anyone asks, it's for my back."

"Just make sure it doesn't interfere with your work," I advised. "The solution to that problem," I said like he hadn't said anything hinting at drug use, "is to just laugh him out of the office because the Hokage is not chosen based solely on one's ability to get down and boogie, but at the same time make sure that you could theoretically beat him in a dance-off. And try to engineer events so that, if Danzo has his... modifications... at the time of the dance-off, those modifications get unveiled in public and in front of a captive audience, thus casting suspicion onto his character."

He grunted. "A sensible answer to a nonsensical problem. What about the current problem of Gaara, by the way?"

I nodded and slipped into Serious Mode (yes, I have one of those), and then actually did sit up like a proper young lady. "Write this down. That scroll contains instructions to make and an example of the Inner Demon Calming Seal, a one-use seal of my and Kurama's invention that forcibly suppresses red chakra in any being with red chakra that is not a Biju - i.e. me or a jinchuriki - by way of using some of their own red chakra as fuel to cause the rest to return to the chakra coils. Tell the Kazekage to have at least three copies of it made and ready at all times, preferably more. One copy will be given to Gaara himself, who will be instructed to use it at any time when he feels like Shukaku might be trying to rise up while he's awake. The other two are to be given to shinobi of appropriate skill who are to follow Gaara around in shifts and intervene if they feel Gaara is having a problem but can't deal with it himself for whatever reason.

"Any seals that have been used will enter a state where they cannot be used again but give diagnostic information on Gaara at the time of usage, so they are to be sent to me with time used for analysis. Note that the way the seals are set up, an error in writing will most likely cause one of three problems. The first two are that it will not suppress the chakra, which is the reason why there are to be three, and complete failure in the data recording. These two are hopefully trivial matters, though there might be some inconvenience. The third is to be taken more seriously, however. Should the mechanism that regulates the reaction fail, unfortunately, the seal will continue to siphon some of Shukaku's red chakra even after it's been suppressed, as evidenced by the red glow persisting after Gaara's back to normal. It isn't nearly enough to put Gaara in danger of dying by all of Shukaku's chakra being extracted, but it will create a miniature Biju Dama should it reach critical mass. Before this happens, the seal must be removed from Gaara and sent at least ten meters from him, which will cause the seal to stop and the built-up chakra to disperse. Send the scroll and those instructions as soon as possible with further instructions to gather any and all information on Gaara's seal plus any information on Gaara himself that they think might be relevant, like medical records and chakra composition, as well as any questions and statements they might have." He looked at me incredulously, and then I slouched back down, sighed, and said, "The annoying thing about Serious Mode is that I can only do it for so long..."

Hiruzen sighed, closed his eyes, and said, "That seems about right. Are you leaving soon?" This was answered when he opened his eyes and saw a note in my place with the word "yup" on it. "How did he do that?" the Hokage muttered.

kukukuku~

The couple met another couple in front of the... I guess it was a bar? Anyway, Ai told Tenko that she saw Hiashi and someone who she guessed was probably his wife. "Hey, Hyuuga-san!" Ai said as she walked up to him. She elbowed him and said, "Is that your wife? She's hot!"

Hyuuga Hizashi looked over at his wife with puzzlement. "Do we know her?" he mouthed at aunt Hikaru.

"No," she mouthed back, shaking her head slightly.

At this exact moment, the real Hiashi and Hikari showed up. "Ah, good," Hiashi said. "I see you two have met." Ai slowly looked at Hizashi, then at Hiashi, then back to Hizashi.

"I haven't even touched the alcohol and I'm already seeing double," Ai groused. "What the heck?"

Tenko chuckled and planted a kiss on her girlfriend's cheek. "I think that those two might be his brother and sister-in-law, sweetie. Hiashi-san said that they would be here too."

Ai glared at Father. "You could have warned us that they're your clones," she complained.

"Identical twins and he did," Tenko reminded her.

Father chuckled. "Ai-san and Tenko-san, this is my darling wife Hikari," he gave her a small kiss, "and you seem to have already acquainted yourself with my brother Hizashi and his wife, Hikaru." He pointed at them. "Shall we enter, then?" They entered and were escorted to a private room by the staff.

"What, exactly, is with the private rooms?" Tenko asked as they sat down and ordered some drinks.

"This establishment is often used for meetings between clans as a sort of neutral ground," Father explained. "The owner takes the privacy of the clients who make use of the private rooms very seriously. They're soundproofed, the staff regularly check for any kind of bugs, they knock before coming in, and there are even seals placed on the rooms that make them unseeable by chakra-sensing or even the Byakugan."

"Actually, what about the Shoraigan?" Hikaru asked. As soon as she did, there was a knock on the door. When the staff member was let in, he said that a young boy had given him a note to get to his aunt, Hikaru. After the guy left, everyone else looked at aunt Hikaru. She opened the note and read, "What do you think? ~Love Kouki."

There was some awkward silence followed by Tenko clearing her throat. "So when are our drinks arriving, do you think?"

"Probably about now," Hizashi guessed. There was another knock on the door. "I swear I didn't plan that," he quickly added.

"Kouki-kun has had an impact on you, hasn't he?" Tenko asked.

Mother sighed. "He's not bad or anything, if that's what you're implying, but it's that he seems to like to play around with people and show off with his future vision and other unique powers, which can be... not exactly annoying, but... odd... at times." She then actually managed to almost look into my eyes and say, "And I'm not just saying that because you may or may not be watching, Kouki-kun."

Heh. I could show more of their conversation, but this chapter's probably getting long enough and that was about all that I wanted to show anyway. So to sum it all up, Ai got really drunk and kept hitting on Tenko. Ah, young love.

kukukuku~

I think I should make note of a few things I'd asked Hiruzen about earlier. Tenten's father, Uzumaki Shigechi, was actually the Uzumaki clan head before he died, with his younger sister having become clan head after his death. Funnily enough this meant that Tenten kinda had two separate claims to being the Uzumaki heiress, being the only daughter of the previous clan head and basically the adopted daughter of the current clan head. Though really Shigechi only became the clan head after the destruction of Uzushiogakure on account of being one of only a few Uzumaki actually being left over. As for why Kushina wasn't clan head? It actually wasn't because she was a jinchuriki. Instead, it was because she was actually Hashirama's granddaughter (apparently she was actually Tsunade's cousin, which I suppose fit with all the other times jinchuriki were related to a Kage) and she and some other people had concerns about the head of the much smaller Uzumaki clan being in line to become the Senju clan head. The same went for why Tsunade or her dad didn't become the Uzumaki clan head, though apparently her dad wasn't as cool with the decision. Not that anyone even listened to him.

But that was in the past. Currently, I was talking jutsu with Kurama.

"Demon Infusion?" I offered, playing around the puppet and some red chakra. "Maybe if I make the yin chakra and yang chakra separately?" I thought.

Kurama gave a thoughtful hum. "It sounds fine, I guess, but why does it need to sound demonic?"

I shrugged. "I've heard of biju referred to as demons before, and giving myself a demonic motif just sounds cool."

"I suppose that that's as good a reason as any when dealing with you," he sighed. There was a bright flash from the window, illuminating the dark, dusky sky, and a crash of thunder followed a moment later. "Eeep!" Kurama... shrieked? That felt weird to say... So he... shrieked... and jumped into my arms.

I looked down at him flatly. "You do realize I'm working, right?"

He scoffed haughtily and turned his head away. "I was just... startled, is all."

I looked out the window, specifically at the heavily pouring rain. "You do realize that it's been overcast the whole day, right? And now it's pouring buckets."

"Shut up," he said as he jumped out of my arms and onto my desk.

"I can't do that, but I can change the subject," I offered. Kurama muttered something that could have been a "fine." "So do you think that I could get Six Paths Sage Mode if I got some chakra from all nine biju?"

He stared at me for a few moments. "Maybe? You do realize that the problem with this theory is that you need to get the chakra of all nine for this to work, yes?"

I shrugged. "True, but at the same time, I have yours and I'm hoping to get some of Shukaku's when I go over to Suna, so I'm almost one third of the way there already!"

He flicked his tail. "Perhaps you should think of an easier jutsu to obtain?"

I sighed. "You're probably right." I thought for a moment, then snapped my fingers. "Do you think I could make a Gudo Dama if I were to get all five chakra natures in red chakra?" I asked.

This took him a bit of thought as I fiddled with the puppet some more. "I... don't know. Maybe. If you count Shukaku's magnet release that you're hoping to obtain, you then have fire release and wind release from me and earth release and wind release from him. Assuming your theory works, you'll need water release from Isobu, Kokuo, Saiken, or Gyuki and lightning release from Chomei or Gyuki."

I nodded. "It seems that I'll have to engineer events so that I meet B if I don't want to wait like thirteen years for when I know Fuu is going to finally be out of Taki."

"That does seem like the most efficient way to find out, doesn't it?" He then somehow gave off the aura of a Cheshire cat smile despite having his face permanently stuck in a regular cat smile. "Too bad there's still so much animosity between Konoha and Kumo, huh?"

I gave a smile. An evil smile. "Oh, I know. I plan on using it." Okay, so I didn't really have any plans, but I have an image to keep up, y'know? Anyway, lightning struck at that moment, as if on cue. Yet again, Kurama shrieked and jumped into my arms. "You're sending mixed messages, you know? Do you want to stay in my arms or not?"

"Shut. It."

I smiled. "It's okay if you don't like lightning. I imagine that you used to get hit all the time, with how big you are..."

He grunted. "Guess that's one perk of being so fucking tiny..." I blinked. Oops. Probably shouldn't have pressed that particular button...

I was frantically thinking of which random topic to use to distract him with when the door suddenly burst open. "Nii-san!" Hinata tackle-hugged me.

I lightly chuckled as I closed the door with chakra threads. To keep up with the ruse that I was Hinata's bodyguard, my bedroom was placed close to hers, which was probably why she came to me. "You don't like lightning either, do you Hina-chan?" She shook her head slightly and buried her face deeper into my shoulder. "Don't worry, Kurama's afraid of it too." I idly remembered a funny video my dad showed me one day from this one movie called... Ted, I think it was. "Hey, you two could be thunder buddies!" I backed out of Hinata's hug and deposited Kurama in her hands. He glared at me for a moment before another flash of lightning caused the two to flinch into each other. "Well, I think our parents are done now and none of them brought an umbrella, so I'll be going now." I left, taking the umbrella that I'd bought some time ago with me.

kukukuku~

I decided that I rather like the rain, assuming I have an umbrella, at least. Having waterproof boots and not open-toed shoes probably helped a bit too. It felt calming seeing all of the water falling, plus with how high the water was I could practice water-walking! Speaking of practicing jutsu, I was also using puppetry jutsu on my little puppet to manipulate it into screwing around with a ball of my red chakra for me. I'd managed to make it luminesce even as I tried to prime it for the jutsu I was actually trying to make, which I was using like a lantern. "I probably need to put in the yin first..." I muttered as I got closer to their chakra signatures. I rounded a corner and saw all four of them standing under a awning. "Father, Mother, Uncle, Aunt," I greeted as they stared at me. "It's been cloudy all day, I didn't need my eyes to know it'd rain. At least one of you should have brought an umbrella."

"Thank you for coming to get us, Kouki-kun," Mother said. "But I don't think your umbrella will fit the five of us." I grinned, made a half ram seal with the hand holding the umbrella, and handed it to Father.

"Channel some chakra into it," I told him. I could tell he did what I asked when seals flared up on the umbrella and a chakra shield extended enough to fit everyone comfortably. "Rather simple chakra form change seals," I explained. "The final version's gonna have more options than just that." We started walking home under the cover of my umbrella. While the others were talking, I continued to mess with the puppet. After a while, something... clicked and I was finally able to combine the yin and yang without it canceling out and becoming normal red chakra. The altered red chakra was absorbed into the puppet, so I let the strings dissipate and dropped it onto my palm. Despite it being an inanimate object, it landed on its feet and stayed standing. With a mental command from me, the puppet started punching the air, but stopped after a bit and shrugged at me. I sighed.

"What's wrong, Kouki-kun?" aunt Hikaru asked.

"I just finished a jutsu I was working on, but to actually use it in battle, I'd need a lot more chakra than I have at the moment," I muttered.

She smiled. "I'm sure you'll be able to use it eventually."

I sighed. "Yeah, but..." I had a flash of inspiration and actually had to check that I hadn't accidentally activated my eyes from the sudden mental rush. I grinned. "Nyahahaha~ NYEEHAHAHAHAHA!~" Lightning crashed during my maniacal laugh, which was just great.

"That's probably not a good sign," uncle Hizashi noted.

kukukuku~

Kurama woke up feeling rather refreshed, so much so that he wasn't really that annoyed by the little girl snuggling up to him and trapping him. Stupid tiny toy body with almost no strength... The first thing he saw upon waking was the back of my office chair. "You know... you two are lucky I didn't need to sleep tonight, or I would've had you leave my room," my voice said from the other side of the chair.

"What do you want, Kouki?" Kurama asked.

I turned my chair around, revealing me stroking the puppet on my lap like it was a cat with a grin. What? My actual cat-shaped thing was occupied at the moment. "What do you know about... Pause for dramatic effect... Natural energy?"

"U-um, Kurama-san?" Hinata asked as she sat up. "Should I be worried about that?"

"Knowing Kouki, probably."

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ffamranxii · 5 years ago

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I draw a manga/write a light novel series based on that manga, which is essentially an amalgamation of my favorite series and giving some of my favorite characters, who I feel were shafted in their source material, a better ending. That series is called C’est la Vie 5, because it originally featured five fandoms that I LOVED enough to have created an original character for.

Now, like many people, I’ve created a fuckton of OCs for a fuckton of series. However, unlike, say, Dragonball Z and Pokemon (RIP to Son Mei and Cissy the Eevee breeder), I still use these characters. I am still active in these fandoms. Some of these characters are nearly as old as I am. Some have gone through so many iterations that they’re nearly unrecognizable from their original forms (looking at you, Haruhi, Suzuka, and Kinoko). But they have ALWAYS been there.

C5 the way it is now started as a fun little project in college to help me memorize my Japanese vocabularly. It was a series of one shot or 4koma doodles in the margins of my notebooks, featuring PGSM+Hina. Then the doodles got mutated. I replaced Makoto with an original character named Sun Hwa, who then was replaced with Ayumi Yamada from Honey and Clover. I added in Hagumi Hanamoto from H&C too. Ami was renamed Moeco, and her appearance changed. I ended up splitting Ami in two, because I loved her Dark Mercury arc so much, and ended up with Moeco and Akumi. I added Mio Kuroki but called her Arisa Kuroki, because my Usagi at the time was called Mio. I added Mikasa from Attack on Titan. Misa Amane (named Erika after her actress in the live action). And it spiraled from there. C5 went through a TON of iterations as well over the past ten years. There was a character called Haruhi, but she was from the Haruhi Suzumiya series.

Now it’s pretty ironed out. The cast is so big I’ve split the series into a set of volumes into one big volume, so it doesn’t become Naruto. Each volume has a set of plots, two of which are contained within that volume. It’s pretty easy and I like it.

HINA is a mishmash of three fandoms (two if you count PGSM and Sailor Moon as one fandom). I fell in love with Boys Over Flowers (the Korean version) after discovering the live action Sailor Moon, and had a complete fit the entire time that Jandi chose Junpyo. (WHY, Jandi. WHY. Jihoo was BETTER for you. BETTER!) I had a Korean friend in my Japanese class, and it was at this period that my Makoto doodle was replaced with Sun Hwa (another Korean) and that Hina Kusaka (who is exclusive to PGSM, and whose name I stole for my OC) became Hina Ku (after the actress who played Jandi, not Goo Junpyo). Hina and Sun Hwa had small side conversations in Korean that my friend taught me, while the group as a whole reinforced my Japanese lessons. C5 has plenty of Boys Over Flowers characters (a mix of the Korean, 2019 Chinese, and Japanese versions), but I never made an OC for the series. Hina filled both roles. In PGSM and Sailor Moon I kept her name as Kusaka, but in C5 it’s Ku, and she is a zainichi - Korean-descended. Hina also plays a different role depending on which series I’m using her in. In PGSM, I used her as Sailor Sun. Sailor Sun has been a character I’ve had since I was five years old. She’s changed style and looks considerably over the years, but she’s always been there. In every other iteration of Sailor Moon, I prefer the theory that Naru and Unazuki are Sailors Earth and Sun, and Hina is one of Usagi’s many friends. In the pre-C5 era, she, Usagi, and Erika were part of the 3 Bakas, for their bad grades.

AKIHO is my newest OC and holy shiiiiit I have cleaved to the Persona series hardcore. Rather than create a new OC for each entry in the series (though I may change my mind when Person 6 comes out), Akiho’s look, style, and role in the story changes (I reconcile this to be something akin to Clara Oswald in Doctor Who). In P5, which she was created for, she’s a Phantom Thief. The idea came to me when I learned there has never been a playable character of the Temperance arcana, Hifumi was supposed to be a PT, and the general consensus that Mishima and Shiho should have been PTs. Akiho has been through several iterations herself but her general look is based on Tae Takemi from @scruffyturtles ‘s Adult Confidant AU. Her personality seems very calm and serene, but she is a secret metal head and a huge fan of Eikichi Mishina’s band Gas Chamber. Her PT mask is based off a butterfly. Her role in C5 is a shrine maiden, where she gets along with Rei (Sailor Moon), is the sister of Akira Kurusu (who is a separate person from Ren Amamiya), and the daughter of a pair of mobsters.

KINOKO is my second oldest OC, having been around since I was twelve. Her original name was Cherry (like every other Tokyo Mew Mew OC) and her original animal is lost to the sands of time. Luckily, my favorite animal is a red data animal, so she can be fused with that now! Kinoko has been through so many iterations it isn’t funny. In the TMM world, her hair is an auburn, a dark brown with red undertones, mimicking how some mushrooms (where her name comes from) appear. (It’s a callback to her original name). Her Mew outfit has also changed considerably and I still haven’t settled on it completely. The Mew Mews are not a unit in C5. Zakuro is a model with Ann and dating Minto, Ringo (LOVE Ringo) is a middle schooler who hangs out at an arcade and is best friends with Bu-Ling, Ichigo is a waitress with Berii, Retasu works with Ryou. And Kinoko works at a karaoke bar, chasing troublemakers like Bu-Ling out. She also interacts with the new Au Lait boys.

SUZUKA is also an old OC, her name having originally been Meiling. She’s from Fushigi Yuugi, which I was obsessed with as a child. She’s nearly as old as Kinoko - I was introduced to the series at around the same time. Suzuka’s original role as Meiling was Miaka’s attendant and general Mary Sue, and she was one of my first attempts at exploring fanfiction (along with Kagami the cat demon and Teiten the Thunder Sister from Inuyashs, RIP), because I couldn’t decide which of the original Suzaku warriors I loved most. Everyone had such a wonderfully tragic, lovely backstory, and I needed to give them all blankets and hugs, and Miaka was just a dumbass, okay? (I think I settled on Tasuki. Love me some Tasuki.) Anyway. Suzuka eventually morphed into the Priestess of Kouryuu once I learned that Fushigi Yuugi was based on real Chinese legends, and one legend sometimes included Koryuu, the Yellow Dragon of the Center. (Fun fact: There’s a video game that explores this option, but in it, Kouryuu, is treated as a false god.) In my OC world, Kouryuu is the Great Unifier, only able to be summoned once the first four priestesses have summoned Suzaku, Seiryuu, Byakko, and Genbu, and it is he that will stop the war that threatens the four countries of the Book of the Universe of the Four Gods. In C5, Suzuka works at a bookstore owned by Hifumi Togo that specializes in rare books.

HARUHI is the last old OC, but she’s also new? Haruhi was, for the longest time, existant in a stage of limbo. Fruits Basket was introduced to me as a teenager, when I was about thirteen or fourteen, and I didn’t quiiiite embrace the message, behind it. I couldn’t get past the art style (I was very picky about what I visually consumed back then), I couldn’t get into the anime for the same reason, and I couldn’t quite get past the whole “it’s called Fruits Basket wtf and also they turn into animals? And it’s not a magical girl anime? What in the actual fuck?” But like many things I of course loved the characters, I adored my baby Kyo, and I of course made an OC specifically for him, because I back then did not ship Kyoru (sacriligious, I know). I don’t even remember what Haruhi’s original name was. I just decided that she was a Sohma and the rooster, because the curse of the original rooster was broken, and broke a long time ago, so it was entirely possible for Kyo to have a love interest who was a Sohma and the rooster who was around his age (in my teenage mind). That old Sohma OC, is of course, RIP. I can’t even. And recently, I discovered Fruits Basket Another, and I somewhat resurrected that OC in the form of Haruhi, but as the child of the OG cast. Sawa needs more friends, more protectors, and there’s no tsundere besides Hajime. It always bothered me that Kagura never got any canon love interest or story wrap up after she let go of Kyo, and then in Another she doesn’t have children. :( I love Kagura, so Haruhi is hers! I’m also sad that no one in Another dresses in kimonos when so many in Furuba did (Ritsu, Akito, Shigure, Kazuma, Kunimitsu), so Haruhi dresses in them when she isn’t in school.

KEIKO is special. Not only is she the newest, but she is also the only character exclusive to C5. While the other characters in C5 are based on characters from other fandoms and have their personalities and such shaped by the new series, Keiko is entirely unique. Her name is a combination of the two things that birthed the series: Sailor Moon and Persona 5. Keiko is for Keiko Kitagawa, the actress who played Sailor Mars in PGSM; and Makigami is for Kazuya Makigami, a major character in Persona 5 the Daybreakers. Kazuya is also Keiko’s brother in C5 and he is... not a great person lol. Neither is Keiko. Her appearance is based on how I wear my hair irl and the clothing of Jim Hawking from Outlaw Star, my favorite anime of all time. (I sadly never made an OC for that series. I tried but I am not good at space opera.)

None of the OCs ever cross paths in C5. It would create a temporal paradox and probably result in one of them fainting or dying lol. Since they’re all essentially the same person. Fun fact: I, Ffamran (known in-universe as Bideru the author) also occasionally make cameos, and I also cannot cross paths with the OCs. Luckily Tokyo, where C5 is set, is a very big place.

If you stuck with me through this very long post about OCs, thank you! I just really wanted to go off about them since I’ve been in a writing mood and I’m on volume 2 of C’est la Vie 5 now.

#original characters #bideru #c'est la vie 5 #c'est la vie 5 by bideru #ffamran shares personal projects #fandom stuff #fushigi yuugi #sailor moon #persona 5 #persona #tokyo mew mew #fruits basket #fruits basket another #furuba #furubana

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blackkatmagic · 7 years ago

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Submission: We'll be counting stars: Headcanons

I love this story so much Blackkat. I’ve read it over about 20 times and come up with a myriad of headcanons about the kids and the world that they live in.

1) Naruto has taught Sasuke and Sakura his version of the solid henge, which has resulted in these parent pairings

-Father/Sasuke and Mother/Sakura gives us Sarada. Physically the same as canon, but far less father issues since she has had two sources present for the majority of her life. Currently considering asking ChoCho if she would like to be more than friends.

-Father/Sakura and Mother/Naruto gives us Boruto. This combo gives him the cheek whiskers along with a tangerine hair colour, which Naruto cannot help but love. He was born mere minutes after Sarada , and his name comes from Naruto panicking and picking a name last minute (possibly looking at Neji, cause he’s alive here.) and Sasuke and Sakura were to busy with Sarada to intervene.

-Father/Sasuke and Mother/Naruto gives us Himawari. Her hair is more black than canon, but she otherwise looks the same. Being the child of the Indra and Ashura reincarnations, she has the capability to use Six Paths Senjutsu and to awaken a pure Rinnegan (except hers is blue).

2) The trio got married right after the 4th shinobi war, with Iruka serving as Naruto’s father and Kakashi standing in for Sasuke. Seeing how happy the three were with each other, Kakashi decided to follow in their lead. Now Kakashi, Guy, and Yamato serve as a triumvirate Hokage and are enjoying the relative quiet to recover from their respective traumas. Important meetings are now announced by Guy screaming about youthful meetings from atop a Mokuton dogsled.

3) Hiashi took the blow that would have killed Neji, stating before everyone that the future of the Hyuga was for Neji and Hinata to oversee. They return to Konoha and begin uniting the two sides of the clan, with Karin Uzumaki providing a new seal to safeguard the Byakugan. Hinata’s crush on Naruto dies when faced with Karin’s confidence and intelligence, and Karin enjoys being the one pursued. Once the clan has been stabilized and Hanabi is trained to be the head, Hinata and Karin plan to get Naruto’s henge and start their own family. Neji is the first to receive the new seal and immediately marries Tenten afterwards, first in a quiet ceremony (no Guy or Lee) and then in a much louder public celebration. They have two children together (Inspired by Papabay), Neji is still co-Head of the clan, and Tenten is a ninja weapons designer.

4) Shikadai and Inojin have the same family dynamics as canon. Chocho is the result of a one-night stand between Chouji and Karui. She agrees to carry the baby to term, then gives up custody to the Akimichi’s while she returns to Kumo’s ANBU. Chocho is raised by a devoted single father, his large (physically and in numbers) family, and her godmother and godfather (Into and Shikamaru). Karui visits when she is recovering from injuries, as seeing her daughter and getting stuffed with Akimichi cooking is great for her recovery.

5) Anko and Iruka get a place together and enter a common-law marriage to save their funds. Anko starts up a relationship with Kurenai, while Iruka is a special advisor to the Hokage triad and has a great deal of influence over how the village is currently run.

6) Shino and Kiba are both being trained to potentially become the next Hokage by Iruka and Kakashi respectively. Shino is the head teacher at the academy and Kiba is head of the hunter-non division.

7) In the far future, all of Team 7 perish taking down another massive threat to their world and their family. As Kurama reforms, his soul heavy with guilt, he materializes to Himawari waiting for him, Rinnegan and Sage mode active, and she invites him to become her partner, to be free and active in the world again, and his heart is overwhelmed with hope for the future.

That’s what I’ve got. I love this idea and the story so much. Please share how much you agree with these and any headcanons you have of your own.

#submission by kamkong #not what I was considering #but I'm glad it inspired you!#we'll be counting stars #submission

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byakugcu · 8 years ago

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In Defense of Haruno Sakura:

Refuting Anti-Sakura Arguments

Ok. So these anti-Sakura arguments literally make me laugh. Read the manga! Guys seriously, this character is literally so misunderstood due to the anime studio’s disgusting misinterpretation and bias against her. I will be refuting the following using canon source material (ie the manga, databooks and hiden novels. The anime, I do not care for, it is mostly filler containing ooc moments so no, I won’t even be discussing anime only content)

More under the cut!

Usefulness

I don’t understand why we’re still arguing this. It’s like the anti’s ignore all her feats because they know their fave can’t even compare. Well here are her feats

Gathered intel on Sasuke and Kabuto (Akatsuki spy)

Defeated Sasori with Chiyo

Healed your faves including, but not limited to Naruto, Sasuke, Hinata, Kankuro, Chiyo, everyone in the Shinobi Alliance

Not just healed, but kept Naruto alive long enough for him to get to Minato

Gathered intel on Obito’s Kamui, White Zetsu’s technique

Motivated the whole shinobi alliance

Summoned, Katsuyu, the slug summon, a feat only shown by her and Tsunade

Dimension hopped with Obito, using her byakugou chakra to get Sasuke back

Punched Kaguya, the rabbit goddess and progenitor of Chakra on Earth and broke the horn off her head, allowing Naruto and Sasuke to seal her

Opened a children’s mental health clinic, establishing the shinobi world mental health system

Also, Sakura is a medic-nin. Are we forgetting the amount of lives that she saved? Are we forgetting that medics had a guideline they were meant to follow issued by Tsunade?

First clause (第一項, Daiikkō): “No medic ninja shall ever stop medical treatment until the lives of their party members have come to an end.” (「医療忍者は決して隊員の命尽きるまで治療を諦めてはならない」, “Iryō ninja wa kesshite taiin no inochi tsukeru made chiryō o akiramete wa naranai.”)

Second clause (第二項, Dainikō): “No medic ninja shall ever stand on the front lines.” (「医療忍者は決して最前線に立ってはならない」, “Iryō ninja wa kesshite saizensen ni tatte wa naranai.”)

Third clause (第三項, Daisankō): “No medic ninja shall ever die until they are the last of their platoon.” (「医療忍者は決して小隊の中で最後まで死んではならない」, “Iryō ninja wa kesshite shōtai no naka de saigo made shinde wa naranai.”)

Fourth clause (第四項, Daiyonkō): “Only those medic ninja who have mastered the Strength of a Hundred Technique of the ninja art Creation Rebirth are permitted to discard the above-mentioned laws.” (「忍法創造再生の百豪の術を極めし医療忍者のみ上記の掟を破棄できる」, “Ninpō Sōzō Saisei no Byakugō no Jutsu o kiwameshi iryō ninja nomi, jōki no okite o haki dekiru.”)

It’s literally stated in the second clause that medic ninja were not supposed to be on the frontlines in battle, they could only disregard the system if they mastered the Strength of a Hundred Technique. It wasn’t until the war that Sakura unlocked the yin seal.

Compared to the other kunoichi in the Naruto series, Sakura has achieved so much more than the kunoichi in her generation, surpassing her own master in her teens.

“Sakura hasn’t shown anything different from her master? Hinata developed her own jutsu.” Well, put it this way. Sakura is a 17 year old in the middle of war, is she really going to be spending time developing new techniques or will she use techniques her master taught her, that she knows she can master and will work in combat. Also, when has Hinata’s lion fist ever done any serious damage? She defeated one juubi fodder? So have all the rookies in her gen. Sakura’s fist may not be anything new but it does work (multiple juubi fodder and Kaguya’s horn say hi), and in combat you have to be able to utilise your skill-set fully rather than have techniques that cannot be optimised.

“Sakura doesn’t have a tragic backstory/She’s too plain to be in the main cast.” Not everyone in this series needs a tragic backstory. Her lack of tragic backstory was evened out by her lack of skill in the beginning of the series.

Sakura was meant to be the girl who didn’t have a tragic backstory, didn’t come from a highly revered clan, or have any special circumstances. Her character is meant to show that just because you are ordinary, does not mean you can’t become extraordinary. She defied the odds and rose up to become a significant kunoichi. Sakura’s character was always about development throughout the story, she was meant to be someone who you watched grow despite her disadvantages.

“Sakura is selfish”

When has this ever been shown in the manga? Sakura’s motivations throughout the manga are never shown to be selfish. She has always been shown with good intentions.

“Sakura broke her friendship off with Ino for Sasuke” No. If you read the manga and have basic comprehension skills, Sakura broke off her friendship with Ino in order to step out of Ino’s shadow and become her own person. Ino literally degraded her own friend by calling her a bud after she revealed her insecurities. Sakura breaking off her friendship with Ino sparked a rivalry to become the better kunoichi which Ino agreed was a good idea. Sakura putting her forehead protector in the ribbon’s spot should tell you that.

Her confession to Naruto? Her trying to kill Sasuke? Do not forget that the entire Rookie 9 guilt-tripped her. They straight up ganged up on her, Shikamaru told her that a war may start in Sasuke’s name. Add on top of that, Sai, told her, to her face that she was hurting Naruto with her promise. Her wanting to kill Sasuke herself was to prevent Kakashi from killing his own beloved student. So excuse her for trying to prevent conflict as quick as possible. Although her actions weren’t the greatest, her intention was to prevent Naruto from getting hurt, and to prevent the war from happening because of Sasuke.

Her hugging Naruto in front of Hinata even though she knew she loved him? Sakura doesn’t owe Hinata anything. Let’s keep in mind that the two have barely interacted and that Naruto and Sakura have been through thick and thin together at this point in Part II. Her close friend just saved the village whose inhabitants include their friends, her mentor, her parents, her colleagues so it’s easy to see why she was thankful. Also, she called him rash before she hugged him, meaning that he had worried her and she was relieved he was okay from his fight. Why should she feel sorry for a platonic hug she gave to her close friend in front of someone she barely even interacted with.

“Sakura gets too emotional”

So we’re gonna hate on a character for expressing genuine human emotions. They may be strong 2D characters who can kick anyone in this world’s ass any day, these characters are meant to be representations of actual human beings. To me, Sakura being emotional makes her relatable. Her emotion in each situation is understandable. Let’s also not forget that throughout most of Part II, her and Naruto were under immense pain and stress from Sasuke’s defection and actions. Also, many other Naruto characters such as Naruto, Sasuke, Ino, Shikamaru and Hinata have cried on the battlefield. Are we hating on those characters too for crying?

“Sakura is abusive”

What the heck. Seriously. Her punching Naruto? It only happened like what? Two times. Her punching him in the anime is part of filler, therefore non-canon. The times in the manga, he literally said something stupid. Most friends tend to playfully hit each other. And this is a manga series, anything that happens in real life, is exaggerated upon. Honestly though, have you ever considered that if Naruto felt as if he were being abused he would’ve said/done something about it ages ago? He literally has no problem calling her out. They’re friends. Let’s also not forget that Naruto has been punched by other females including his own mother.

“Sakura is a fangirl”

Ok. But this was when she was twelve years old. Everyone in her class was a fangirl. One of them was even a stalker. So I don’t see how this argument is a valid one when literally every single girl introduced in the beginning of the series had fangirl tendencies.

Also, Sakura grew out of her “fangirl phase” in the Chunin Exams/Forest of Death arc, where she was willing to allow her team to get eliminated so that Naruto could retake the exams because she believed in his dream of becoming hokage. She also called Sasuke out for being a coward for not doing anything while Naruto had risked his life.

“Sakura guilt-tripped Sasuke into a relationship”

It’s been stated in the manga by Kakashi twice that Sakura’s love for Sasuke was pure and she didn’t even need him to reciprocate her feelings. She only wanted to save him from the darkness and for the real Sasuke to come back. Also, this is Sasuke we are talking about. It would be out of character for him to be guilt-tripped much less a relationship/marriage with someone he doesn’t love. Sasuke literally calls her his wife and states that Sarada is a child born out of their love.

“Sakura is a bad parent”

Sakura was a single mother for majority of Sarada’s life. She was balancing being a mother while also working so she can financially support her daughter. Parenting skills are often reflected on the child, and so far Sarada has been shown to be kind, polite, ambitious and mature. Things that would have to be taught by the parent. Compared to majority of those in her generation, it is clear that Sarada has been well raised by her mother as the others have been shown to be bratty, lazy or rude. In flashbacks during Gaiden, we saw a loving and affectionate Sakura as a mother, nurturing Sarada and looking after her while sick, while keeping a joyful atmosphere in their home.

“Sakura covered up Karin/Taka.” Given that Sasuke left for his mission early, they either did not get the chance to take a family photo at the time, or, they are all with Sasuke. Sakura obviously wanted to show her daughter her father and so she had to make do with the photo from the Bingo book. Sakura probably covered up Taka as seeing them may lead Sarada to questioning her about Sasuke’s past, something that should be told by Sasuke, not Sakura.

“Sakura is a doormat”

This, to me is hilarious. Where? Sakura has been known to not take anyone’s crap. Whether it be from Naruto, Sai or Sasuke. “Sasuke you say, when has she ever-”

As previously stated during the Chunin Exams arc, she literally called Sasuke a coward for freezing up, and refusing to fight, while Naruto had taken the enemy head on, risking his life. In Chapter 699, while healing the boys, Sakura gets Sasuke to be quiet so she can concentrate as well as, contrary to what anti’s believe, got him to specify his apology.

“Sakura is flat-chested/ugly”

Now this, is ridiculous. Are we reading the same manga? Sakura is meant to embody feminine qualities as her namesake is the cherry blossom which in Chinese culture is meant to represent female dominance and power. As well as this, Sakura has been called beautiful by multiple male characters throughout the series.

Also, first of all, Sakura is not flat-chested. She has repeatedly been shown to have curves in multiple drawings by Kishimoto, her being flat-chested is something the anime studio made up and cannot let go of.

Second, what does a flat chest have anything to do with a character’s beauty? On the other side of the spectrum, for comparison’s sake, we have Hinata. She has a chest, but canonically she is not beautiful. Kishimoto has stated in the databooks that Hinata is meant to be “frumpy-looking” or plain in every sense. So obviously in the Naruto world, chest size does not correlate with beauty.

Conclusion

So as you can see, many anti-Sakura arguments are heavily flawed and can be voided just by doing some research. Please guys, be like your faves who have good eyes or glasses (not too much though, don’t want you guys going to jail)

#Sakura Haruno #pro sakura #naruto #sick and tired of all the wanking in this fandom #rants

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groovy-hottub-llama · 8 years ago

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Fatherhood, Pt.3

Pairing: KakaSaku (It’s kinda backgroundy/alluded to) Rating: Fluff Warnings: There’s a healthy dose of salt here, and child neglect but mostly the FLUFFIEST FLUFF. Sarada is an angry, slightly taller, ball of angst. This is also the longest ofhte chapters, and includes suggestions of S|S.

Additional note: This fic is not canon compliant. I’ll warn folk now, that I am not watching/reading the new ‘Boruto’ as it’s BS. <~ personal feelings here, each to their own and all that. The characters in this fic are portrayed loosely as from what I saw from the last chapter of Naruto and no further.

When the man people had called her father had returned everyone had expected her to be ecstatic, to be beyond joy. But the first thing the man did, as a wonderful follow up to trying to murder her in the woods upon their first meeting, was to request to personally instruct Naruto's son.

Instead of anger, she'd been relieved. This way, she could continue with her plan, the plan that had began all those years ago when she was twelve years old and sitting on a swing with advice from someone who really cared about her that didn't tell her what she should do because of her name, but gave her options because of who she was.

With Sasuke set on ignoring herself and her mother and instructing Boruto she felt confident enough to ask her mother to teach her how to be a medic. Sakura umm'd and ahh'd, and tried desperately to get her to ask her 'father' for training.

Sarada, who had been fed up with the term for as long as she could remember had blinked innocently and said,

"Kakashi-tou? I'm sure he'd have the time, but it's medicine I want to learn, and I don't think he has the knowledge to impart that I'm looking to gain."

Sakura had turned scarlet and stuttered terribly.

"G-go to your room young lady!"

She'd skipped off having made her point. If anyone was going to tell her to 'ask her father' ever again, she'd just refer the the Rokudaime, because in all honesty he was the one who'd been there when it counted, and he was still there when she needed him. When she got up to her room she dropped face down onto her bed and sighed loudly, the sheets muffling the sound. She thought about going to find him. If she asked, he'd very likely back her up. Everyone knew how stubborn her mother could be, but a part of her thought that he'd probably tell her that if it was something she really wanted, she'd have to do this for herself. She grumbled and kicked her feet in frustration.

She dragged a small medical journal out from under her pillow and worked her way through her mothers notes. The journal had been Sakura's when she had been 15 years old and already a firm apprentice of the Godaime. She loved granny Tsunade, and if her mother wouldn't teacher her, then maybe granny Tsunade could get her started? Or maybe Aunty Shizune?

She folded the book and huffed. There was a lot of stuff in there she didn't understand, but her mother had been three years older and had been apprenticed to granny Tsunade for at least three years by the time she'd filled the journal.

No. She wanted to learn from the best medic in Kohona who wasn't deservedly retired from her years of impressive service. She wanted to learn from her mother, from Sakura Haruno.

That man wasn't interested in teaching her, but her mother could.

Sarada sat up and steeled her resolve. No. It wasn't the time to sit on her bed and sulk, nor was she going to let her mother waste her time mooning after someone who didn't care for her time when Sarada was right here asking for it.

She got up and was about to tuck the journal away, but decided against it. Instead she clutched it to her chest and made her way back down stairs and waited cautiously by the kitchen door. Her mother was in the kitchen, sitting on one of the chairs with her head in her hands.

"Mom?" She said quietly. Her mother shook her self off and turned to look at her.

"I'm sorry my love, come here." Sakura held open her arms and Sarada gladly went into her embrace. She giggled when Sakura squeezed a little too hard.

"Sorry, you're just so, so cute." Sarada laughed when her mother patted her cheeks, then she noticed the journal. She looked at Sarada questioningly and Sarada beamed and held her treasure up.

"I wasn't trying to be a pain, mom, I just want to be who I want to be." Her mother nodded and Sarada felt more confident.

"I don't want to fight people, or hurt them. I want to help them. Please teach me how?"

Whatever reply Sarada was expecting from her mother, was not the explosion of tears, or the stifling embrace.

"Oh darling, I know I've been distant lately, I'm sorry."

Sarada submitted to her mothers iron grasp with a smile.

'So, will you teach me?" She asked again, when her mother had finally released her grip. Sakura frowned, which Sarada recognised as one of the first signs of a 'no' coming on. She remembered the face that Aunt Ino taught her and turned it towards her mother with as much feeling as she could muster.

"Remember my young apprentice," Aunt Ino had crowed, "the pout on it's own is powerless without brimming tears or a flush to your cheeks. Your eyes have to been shining intensely, your lip turned just so and your skin only ever so slightly pink. Don't let the tears fall unless they're extremely resilient, at that point, back off, defeated. Then you let the tears come, show how deeply disappointed you are, but be contrite. Apologise to them for being such a nuisance and then REEL 'EM IN."

Sarada knew she was probably piling it on a bit thick with the wobbling lower lip too, but she really, really wanted this.

With a sigh her mother relented and Sarada beamed in pleasure.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

As the Chuunin exams now had an age restriction of 17, Sarada had honestly felt cheated that she'd been stuck in what was now known as Team Trainwreck for the past five years. Boruto was more out of control than ever, and thanks to Sasuke Uchiha, now that idiot was a dangerous weapon with less direction than he had to begin with. Mitsuki conversely, had spent the last five years getting as much experience under his belt from as many jounin who would give him the time of day. They'd bonded. She might even dare call him a friend now.

She understood where he came from, they had similar 'father' issues, except Mitsuki's father issues were more along the lines of 'I will murder him, free his experiments and hunt down his followers so that his work will never blight our world again'. Hers was more 'ignore the man who sired her and make her disgust known for him at every available opportunity'.

Granted, that had been a lot easier and a lot more acceptable when, two years prior, Sakura had finally filed for divorce when Sasuke had cornered Sarara one day in the hospital during her practical training and asked her if she was going to continue with 'this pointless specialisation' and then had inquired as to how she felt about Boruto.

Sarada was horrified. Here she was, working hard on her dream towards becoming a medic as brilliant as her mother, as the brilliant as the Fifth Hokage herself, and there was her father. He wasn't there to finally show his support, or at the very least ask her how she was getting along with her choices.

No. He was there to check on her love life, assuming her availability, and not because he was concerned about her. He'd been concerned for Boruto's unrequited affections.

Sarada grimaced and had suddenly become overwhelmed with nausea. Why on earth was he so interested in her love life? He hadn't even been interested in his own!

Looking back she could admit that despite it all, when she'd seen her father in the hospital that day, without prompting from her mother, or in the company of Boruto, she'd thought he'd finally taken an interest her, in her life and choices. She thought that maybe, despite the animosity of the last few years he'd realised that he'd been remiss in avoiding her and favouring others.

To her shame, she'd even thought that if he was there to make amends, if he was there to finally be the father she had wanted him to be all those years ago, then maybe she could forgive him.

Instead she'd been sorely disappointed. His words had become a blur as she realised he had never come for her, he'd not cared enough about how she felt to even ask if she already had someone she was interested in. Sarada had dismissed him with a more intense dose of her usual scorn and had disappeared into one of the cleaning closets to have a good, long cry.

Her mother had discovered her missing and, not unlike her predecessor, had stormed around the hospital demanding to know why Sarada's shift had been covered by another medic. She'd found Sarada sobbing in a cupboard. At first, her mother had attributed it to the stress of working such a demanding role in the hospital for the first time, and had let her daughter know how disappointed she was that she hadn't stepped up to the mark like she'd expected her to.

Then Sarada had told her what happened and her mother had held her close in silence, rocking her gently and telling her that everything was going to be ok.

Sakura could endure a lot, she had endured a lot. But when her husband had tried to tell her daughter that her choices were wrong, and that he suddenly had an interest in arranging a marriage for her, when he hadn't so much as had dinner with them for the three years he'd been back in Konoha, then she drew the line.

And what a line she'd drawn.

Shizune had been called in to fill in for Sakura while she escorted her daughter to her parents house and then she'd headed out to look for her husband.

She'd found him in the main street eating ramen with Naruto and Boruto and had asked for a word. Sasuke had ignored her. Naruto caught the look on her face and put his bowl back down. He'd then snagged Boruto by his collar and dragged him off to give the couple their privacy.

"I'd like to discuss what you said to our daughter?" She asked in a controlled, brisk tone. Sasuke, unwisely had decided to reply.

"My daughter is-"

"-I'm going to stop you right there."

If he'd been surprised by her cutting him off he didn't show it; Sasuke had remained silent, and waited for her response with indifference. Sakura saw his indifference and blinked in disbelief.

"I asked you, what it was that you said to our daughter. Not yours, not mine, like she's a thing. So I'm going to ask you again, and I want you to talk to me like I'm your wife, Sasuke, not like you're giving me a mission report!"

Sasuke didn't so much as twitch, nor show any other reaction to her emotional pleas. Instead, just like before, he squared her with a blank stare and offered his explanation neutrally.

"I asked her when she was going to finish her temporary placement at the hospital, and when she'd be available to discuss a potential match."

For a long while Sakura just studied him. She looked for any possible change or shift that would belie his words as a joke, or a misunderstanding. There was none. It was just as her daughter had said. She took a steadying breath and ploughed on.

"What possessed you to think you had any right to start a marriage negotiation, of all things, without consulting me?"

Sakura had stared at him pleadingly. She hoped that even though her relationship with him was practically non-existent, he'd surely consider it from a logical point of view. She was Sarada's mother, she knew her personality. If Sasuke felt the need to arrange a marriage, then surely her input would be invaluable to helping Sarada find happiness. Sakura didn't know enough about the marriage practices of the Uchiha clan to question him. He had never spoken to her about any of the cultural history of his people so she had nothing to go on, but even with this in mind, she still respected that his clan was different to her family.

He sighed and regarded her with a cool stare, that at any other moment might have inspired Sakura to sigh wistfully and wonder at his handsome face. Any other moment was a long time in the past. Now when she regarded him, he seemed tired. Tired of her or life or just that day in particular she never knew, because she'd asked so many times before and he'd never answered her.

"I am her father, and the continuance of the Uchiha Line is my concern."

In her mind, Sakura completed the sentence 'and not yours'. Something froze inside her, and then shattered. Like an ebbing tide that had turned suddenly a wave of anger rose up and crashed down over her.

"Your concern?" Sakura suddenly spat. Sasuke's eyebrows raised in surprise. Good. Let him be surprised.

"Your concern ended the day she was born." She snarled it out, recalling the years she'd sat alone in a huge house with a crying child and no one there to share her burdens, "your concern? For the 'Uchiha Line?"

Sakura threw her head back and laughed bitterly.

"What's Sarada's favourite colour?"

"What's her favorite outfit?"

"What does she like to eat when she's having a bad day?"

"Who's her best friend?"

He remained silent and Sakura's heart clenched painfully for her daughter. She looked for one last shred of hope, in something she knew was important to the Uchiha, if only because she recalled his use of it in their Genin days together.

"Do you know that Sarada learned how to use the Gōkakyū no Jutsu?"

His attention perked up, but he was frowning.

"When did she learn that?"

Sakura was confused, surely he knew?

His frown remained and he asked her another, damning question.

"Where did she learn it?"

Sakura was silent. He really hadn't paid any attention to Sarada at all. Her shoulders dropped and she raised her hands to cover her face, holding in the grief that now she truly knew he'd not been there for Sarada.

"Who taught her that Sakura?" His tone was sharp, a reprimand.

Like he was speaking to a subordinate.

With sudden clarity she remembered who. She remembered who had been there. And not just for Sarada, but for her. On long nights after heart breaking shifts at the hospital, there'd be a hot meal waiting, even if there wasn't always the company. On days that brought tears to her eyes just recalling, when she'd missed her own daughters first day at the academy and worse still, her Genin graduation, he'd been there. Even just a month back, on Sarada's 15th birthday, he had come over, with a lopsided cake and a jutsu just for Sarada.

Sakura sniffled and looked at the man who was her husband in name only and grieved for a life she could have had and the sobering thought that he wasn't the only one to blame. What if she'd realised this sooner? The was so much regret, and yet no going back, no fixing it now.

"Does it matter?" She said instead.

Sasuke chose not to reply. He turned his back on her and walked away.

"I expect to see Sarada tomorrow morning in the third training ground."

Anger sparked in her, hot and savage.

"Don't you walk away from me Sasuke Uchiha, we are not finished talking."

He paused at her declaration, but shrugged and answered her flippantly.

"This conversation is over."

"No, Sasuke," Sakura finally broke, angry tears spilling down her cheeks, "this marriage is over."

In that moment Sakura hoped, with every shred of will in her body, that Sasuke would turn around, say something, anything. He did not. He merely walked away. Something twisted in Sakura at that moment. Maybe it'd been the nonchalance with which he'd regarded the end of their marriage, or the reminder that he yet again regarded her abilities as something he could turn his back on, she wasn't sure.

Before Sakura even realised what she was doing, chakra was flooding her system in a white hot rage and her fist was hitting the floor. The earth shuddered and split leaving a great chasm starting at her feet and ending several meters after Sasukes.

According to witnesses, it took him an hour to work his way out of the chasm, having been caught by the jagged edge of a rock halfway down the chasm in such a way that he was unable to get purchase on the rock with his one remaining hand.

That evening she'd filed the divorce papers and by morning she was a Haruno once more.

That crack was still in the main street of the village to date from where Sarada's mother had finally put her foot down. Someone had thought it a fun idea to fill it with a transparent, yet hard substance from Suna, immortalising Sakura's righteous anger.

Sarada walked along it every day. It'd become quite the tourist attraction.

Well pleased, Sarada had been known as 'Sarada Haruno' not long after the divorce papers had been signed. She'd been so overjoyed she'd cried. It finally felt like she was free of him. Chou Chou helped her celebrate the moment by taking her back to her mothers where Karui had winked at her conspirationally and pulled out a series of bottles.

"Let's celebrate with a bang, eh doll?" She'd grinned, and Chou Chou had cheered and picked out a bottle.

"Girl you are gonna look ah-may-ZING."

Sakura had nearly had a heart attack when Sarada had walked in that evening with pastel pink hair and grin stretching from ear to ear, but she hadn't complained, nor had she told her to change it back.

*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

Today was her chunnin exam, and, just as the Kaka-tou had said, she'd survived. If she passed here, she could leave the team and truly go her own way. She walked into the great hall, found her ID number on the chair and sat down confidently. She had this, no problem.

Except.

"Hey. Sarada! Hey!"

This was NOT happening.

"Psst! Hey, guess who."

Sarada firmly kept her mouth shut. Exam conditions were in place the moment they'd stepped in here. She raised her hand and an invigilator with a senbon held just-so in his teeth stepped over. She kept a straight face, but her heart leapt when she saw who it was.

"Is there a problem, Miss Haruno?" Genma asked quietly. Sarada shot through a series of handsigns, in a language she'd learned under a desk when she was seven years old, and had continued to learn over the family dinner table. He raised his eyebrows, but that was the extent of his surprise.

Genma then took up a stance behind Boruto's chair and leaned down to remind him what the rules were in the exam hall and Sarada listened to the following silence with deep appreciation.

Kaka-tou to the rescue again.

The exam paper was a breeze, so much so that she had it finished with time to spare. Just as she picked it up to read through her answers again, a small ball of paper hit her in the back of the neck.

Oh he was not doing this now. Not when she had to check she'd got things right, not when she might have time to catch a disaster on her paper and fix it. No way.

Another hit her and landed on the table.

She pointedly ignored it. Not even to flick it off the table.

Then she realised if she was caught with it on there, and it had anything on it, she risked being disqualified. She covered it with a hand just as Genma breezed past. She swallowed. That'd been close.

She waited a moment, lifted her pen up and used the flat reflective surface of the clip on her pen to discern where both Genma was and what Boruto was up to. He was busily rolling up another note, so she flicked the other one back onto his desk discreetly.

He noticed and looked up at her with a grin. She rolled her eyes. He had noticed the pen. She twirled it as though in thought when another invigilator walked past.

Boruto eagerly opened up the note, to find nothing but his own words. He frowned, then glared back up at her and made eye contact with her using her pens clip, mouthing obscenities and asking why she wouldn't help him.

With a quick glance around she grinned viciously.

For a moment she thought that maybe it was a bad idea, after all, she'd want a fair chance at doing this, he should be given the benefit of the doubt too.

But then she remembered five long years of Team Trainwreck.

Team Trainwreck who had assumed she'd always make lunch for missions.

Or Konohamaru-Sensei who had told her that days training had been cancelled because her team mates were doing 'independent study'.

Or Boruto who expected her to patch him after every stupid mistake, and then complained when she was too exhausted to keep up on the trip home.

Nope.

Time for vengeance.

She caught his eye for a single moment, with a slow and sinister red eye. Tomoe span lazily and Boruto stared into space for the rest of the exam.

She nodded and offered up another mental 'thanks' to Kaka-tou.

With a glance up at the clock she noted she had just enough time to read through quickly so she returned to her paper and started re-reading it. With a frown she realised she'd done one of the trajectory of projectile weapons questions wrong and scribbled away furiously to correct it. By the time she'd finished re-calculating she'd ran out of time to check the rest of the paper, but felt confident enough that she'd pass this stage.

The invigilators called the end of the exam and a groan echoed around the room.

Sarada rolled her eyes, part of the chuunin written exam was time management, if they couldn't get their timing right in a controlled environment, how could they prove they were capable of doing it in the field?

Genma raised a hand and the rows began to stand, leaving their papers on their tables with their name, number and team on the front sheet. She made a point of keeping her eyes on her paper as she rose, moved away and left, because Boruto had managed to snap out of the genjutsu and was glaring at her with serious venom. She wouldn't have put it past him to try and switch them as he passed by. More fool him if he did though, as she'd had the foresight to write her name and number on every page.

When he didn't and he just kept coming for her she ducked into the crowd, hunted around and ended up grasping onto a familiar manicured hand.

"Hey Sarry! That exam was hard! I need a drink, wanna join me? 'Course you do!"

Sarada beamed as Chou chou held out an arm and marched her way through the crowd that parted like she owned the place. They passed out of the academy grounds and moved down towards the main street. On their way Chou chou caught sight of her mother and father walking down the road hand in hand. Chou chou turned and winked at her and then bellowed out-

"Treat your wife, Daddy!"

Several heads turned, including her parents who laughed and looked at one another. Chouji leaned over and placed a chaste kiss on Karui's smiling cheek and the two carried on. Chou chou pointed at the two of them with her thumb.

"Relationship goals right there."

"Yeah, you're really lucky Chou chou." Sarada said wistfully.

"Nope, they're really lucky. I'll be that lucky when I find my someone." Chou chou turned to her and then glanced over her shoulder at the crowds.

"Still looking?" Sarada turned around herself, expecting someone to pop out of no where and make their way over. Chou chou shrugged and tugged her back into walking.

"It is fate, Sarry, it'll happen when it happens. You can't force love."

Sarada turned to her with a self-depreciating smile.

"At least you have a good example."

Chou chou raised a delicate eyebrow and frowned. She made to open her mouth but then decided to hold onto what she was thinking as they'd made it to Yakiniku Q and when the owner waved them in she all but dragged Sarada over to the corner and dumped her down in a seat before taking her own.

The brown haired girl waved to the owner and indicated with two fingers their order then turned to her friend and fixed her with a bored look.

"Sarada, your parents suck."

Sarada glowered and made to defend her mother but Chou chou held up a hand.

"Your dad's selfish and your mom spent a lot of her time catering to that. There was no give and all take."

Sarada slumped back.

"I know, you don't have to tell me twice." She leaned back and slumped in the seat, staring at the ceiling and wishing it'd fall on her head. Maybe it'd give her amnesia and she could conveniently forget about having a deadbeat for a biological parent.

Chou chou smacked the table with her hand to get Sarada to focus on her again.

"Your parents are an excellent example of what not to do in a relationship. Also, your mom is a perfect example of getting her fine self back out there."

Sarada laughed and then groaned, covering her face to hide her embarrassment.

Her friend grinned and turned to take their order from the waitress who'd brought over two large trays. The waitress then hurried off to collect the rest of the order and returned with a large jug of juice and two tall glasses.

Chou chou busied herself with picking up the meat with her own pair of chopsticks that she pulled from seemingly no where, and flicked the choice cuts onto the hotplate with practiced ease. Grudgingly she also added a few vegetables and then turned her attention back to her friend.

"Your mom might have made some poor decisions when it came to love, Sarry, but she got it right in the end."

Sarada grinned fondly and thought that maybe, just maybe there might be a little hope for her too.

"Thanks Cho, I mean it."

Chou chou turned the meat over and smirked.

"I know you do," she paused and then smirked at her, "and what am I?"

Sarada laughed and answered honestly "the best damn friend I'll ever have."

The taller girl chuckled and began to fill her plate. Sarada followed suit after Chou chou had chosen hers and then poured herself and her friend a drink. They toasted each other and then downed their glasses whole, keeping their eyes locked.

Sarada gasped and couldn't finish her drink and put it back on the table half finished. Chou chou placed her glass back on the table gently and flicked her hair.

"Undisputed champion."

Sarada raised her glass.

"I'll drink to that!"

Sarada picked up her first bite and just put it in her mouth when Boruto stormed into the restaurant and almost made her choke on her food.

"Hey! You cost me the exam!"

Sarada turned a disgusted glare his way.

"If something so simple could make you fail your exam, then you aren't ready to be a chunnin. I did you a favour."

Chou chou's face bunched up in surprised glee.

"You can't be serious!" She giggled at Boruto, who was turning red in the face. "That test wasn't hard at all!"

Sarada held up a fist and Chou chou bumped it.

"We slayed it." They said together and flashed a peace sign each at the blond.

"What is your problem Sarada? We're on the same team!" Boruto yelled. Other customers glared or rolled their eyes. The waitress nervously approached.

"Oh!" Sarada feigned surprise. "I'm part of the team now am I?"

Boruto groaned and pointed at her.

"Look just because your dad wanted to train me instead of you it's not my fault."

The pink haired young woman examined her nails and presented them to her friend, who made a noise of approval.

"Are you listening to me!?" Boruto demanded, "you're on my team, so when the exams come you're supposed to help me, not screw me over!"

Sarada stood up and walked over to him, then she jabbed a chakra laced finger into his chest. He stumbled back a few paces and looked for all the world like he had no idea what he'd done to deserve such treatment.

"The old chuunin exams were like that. You were supposed to cheat. The New Chuunin exams are next level. If you can't do it by yourself, then you aren't safe to be out in the field-"

"-I'm strong! Of course I'm fine in the field, you know I am, you've seen me."

Sarada stalked forward and raised the same finger again threateningly, the waitress looked relieved as Sarada followed Boruto's retreat out of the restaurant.

"Fine in the field?" She spat, oblivious to the crowd that was growing around them, "I spent most of our Genin years patching up your sorry ass for NO THANKS. And you have the nerve to tell me I should be helping you? When did you help me?"

Boruto stood up to his full height and towered over Sarada, glaring down at her. Chou chou took up a prime spot on the sidelines and held a slice of grilled beef on the tips of her chopsticks.

"Not all of us were blessed with our fathers gifts, some of us had to work for it." He sneered. The beef dropped back into the bowl and Chou chou shook her head at the blond youth.

"Wrong thing to say there golden boy." Chou chou muttered in warning.

Sarada smiled and Boruto instinctively stepped back.

"My biological father," she took a step forward to close the gap, "gave my mother nothing but the genetic material required to fertilise the egg that became me." Boruto grimaced at the description and unwillingly took another step back.

"Sasuke Uchiha wouldn't know what a father was, if his own father crawled out of his grave and disowned him for being a disgraceful parent," she continued, rage guiding her steps.

"The only father I've got, the only one I acknowledge, is proud of me, not because I have an Uchiha's eyes," she caught up to him before he could back away, snarling her fingers into the fabric of his orange and black armored vest, "but because I decided to follow in the footsteps of a person far more impressive than the ghosts of a clan long dead," Sarada yanked him down to her eye-level with a snap of her wrist.

"So don't you ever say I haven't worked damn hard to be damned good at what I do, because every step of the way I've been told I should be an Uchiha, when I'm a GOD DAMNED HARUNO."

With that she released him and raised a delicate gloved hand and flicked him squarely in the centre of the leaf of his hitai-ate and left him flat on his ass in the street. With a sharp turn of the heel she marched back into Yakiniku Q and sat back at their table. Chou chou followed and sat down, nodded her approval of Sarada's win and took up her bowl again for another serving.

"So," Chou chou began, after she'd finished her bowl in the stewing silence of Sarada's anger, "wanna go back to my mom's for a pedicure?"

Sarada leaned to the side and glanced at her toes that she wiggled at herself thoughtfully.

"Or," she added conspirationally, "We could go and watch Kouta and Mitsuki spar down on field 2 again?"

She laughed and poked her friend, giving her a sly look.

"I know you just want to brush Aomaru."

The taller girl huffed and then looked hopeful.

"Do you think he'd let me? Oh he's got the most beautiful coat of any dog I've ever seen, and he's got such blue eyes. Do you think Kouta will miss him?" Chou chou glanced at Sarada with a grin, Sarada, noticing the quirk at the corner of her friends painted lips sighed with the knowledge they were going on another odd adventure.

Both girls put up their hands for the bill and then laughed at each other. The waitress stepped over with a small book to sign instead and Chou chou snatched it before Sarada with a cry of triumph.

"Todays on me skinny!" She said, signing in the Akimichi Tab with a flourish. "Let's go steal me a pooch!"

Sarada grinned. Whatever the outcome of the exam, she was glad she'd made it this far, and even if she spent the rest of her days between the hospital and trying to steal dogs with Chou chou, she'd not change it for the world.

#KakaSaku #SakuKaka

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naruto-oc-critiques · 7 years ago

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Oritsu Koishi Review

OVERALL: I apologise if I have come across blunt in this critique, but I wanted to make sure I didn’t rant or over complicate things so I tried to focus on what needed to be changed. Truth be told there isn’t anything really bad about Koishi! You mostly just need to develop some things a bit more, and rethink some of the major parts of her history. I hope this review helped you, and good luck in the future c:

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Name: Ōritsu Koishi (Royal/Pebble)

Gender: Female

Age: 29

Time set in: Next-Gen (SAILOR: I’m assuming you mean she’s 29 during Boruto’s time?)

Birthplace: Tea

Lives in: (SAILOR: The land of?) Tea

Appearance: Koishi is a very elegant woman, always sporting the latest in noble fashions and a modestly designed yet expensive set of jewelry. She prefers dark red lipstick and various shades of blue for eyeshadow, as she has since she was young. Her hair, a very dark green, is often loosely tied at the bottom to keep it together, unless she is attending an official function or diplomatic meeting, in which case she wears it up in elaborate styles. (SAILOR: I advise against the dark red lips and blue eyeshadow together as it is a bit out of fashion. It goes against the notion of her keeping up with the latest trends, but it could work if she was trying to bring back an old trend or was traditional, I suppose? A lot of Asian cultures these days prefer natural looking makeup, but seeing as this is Naruto (and its difficult to really place a time period for naruto in terms of fashion) colourful makeup could work in the setting. I recommend checking out sites like pinterest to find a the style/colours you want for your OC’s makeup, or even research feudal era makeup for Japan/ect.)

Family: The Ōritsu family is a large one. Koishi has several cousins, though she is an only child. Her mother died several years ago in a missing-nin ambush. Her father is a traditional but kind man who doted on her and now happily spoils his grandchildren.

Koishi is married to a Toki Arihide, though both kept their last names. It was a political marriage above all else, though there is fond affection in their relationship.

She has two children, a nine year old daughter named Kichō and a two year old son named Taro. She has twins on the way, a girl and boy she will name Megumi and Ihyō. (SAILOR: Could be a bit more fleshed out, ie her relationships with the other family members, what political boon they gained from marrying her to Toki, ect. You’ll need to think of a reason why her family/mother found themselves within a missing-nin ambush. Were they targeted? If so, for what reason? And did they succeed? Keep in mind that missing-nins are rare as Hidden villages tend to be quite ruthless in tracking them down, because they become shameful to the village’s image. Keep in mind that in the anime, Toki is the name of the Ruler of the Land of Birds and a member of the Shinobazu. It’s much of a problem seeing as she, Toki, the Shinobazu and the Land of Birds is anime exclusive, but so is the Land of Tea.)

Occupation: Noble diplomat for the Ōritsu family.

Rank: Civilian

Friends: She has numerous friends from noble circles, though as she travels to various villages she has friends in many other places.

The closest non-noble friend she has is Rock Lee, who she first met when she was 13. Whenever she’s in Konoha she makes a point to spend time with Lee and exchanges frequent letters.

(SAILOR: Again, some more detail could help. What kind of people are her friends? Is she close with them, or does she know them purely for expanding her connections? Being friends with Rock Lee is fine, though I’d be interested to know what they write about to each other or what they do when they meet up.)

Personality: Growing up noble, Koishi learned to love the finer things in life, and to be delicate and demure. Though her friendship with Lee has led to her being slightly more boisterous, she is still restrained in many of her actions. Unfortunately, growing up noble has led to her being extremely snobbish. She scorns those who don’t try to make the best of themselves and has no problems with ordering the “lesser people” around as she sees fit. She’s a very high maintenance woman. (SAILOR: I like that you’ve included how her interactions with Rock Lee have changed her. I’m a little unsure in regards to her snobbiness. Do you mean she’s snobby because her upbringing made her use to luxury? Or snobby in the sense that her experience/relationship with Rock Lee and the high expectations of her upbringing has given her a no-nonsense attitude in regards to those who don’t give things their all. Good balance so far of good qualities and flaws.)

Being in charge of the contracts for the family business, she has a very good head for politics and negotiation and rarely shows negative emotions where others can see. (SAILOR: Good skill to have. Is there anyone in particular she will let her guard down in front of?)

She adores rich, flavorful foods, though her absolute favorite is matsutake mushrooms. Tea ceremonies are also a relaxing hobby for her, as is reading, though the highlight of her life is her children. Bitter foods are something she cannot stand, and if there’s a hint if bitterness in a dish she’ll immediately refuse to eat anymore of it. She also dislikes how long it takes to travel from place to place and often wishes she could move as fast as ninja.

Her biggest fears are bandits and harm coming to her children because of who they are, as assassinations and kidnappings are real threats to the family.

History: The Ōritsu family uses a secret technique to make permanent, solid chakra strings that they weave into cloth. They can absorb the chakra in the cloth at will, refilling their chakra but destroying the cloth in the process. Combining regular weaving with their technique they can create cloth that channels chakra. Due to their supplying of this cloth to the ninja villages, the Ōritsu are a very wealthy and noble family.

Koishi never received actual shinobi training. Like the rest of her family, she was taught to channel chakra, discovered what her affinity was, then tutored in fighting defensively with that alone.

When Koishi was 13, she was kidnapped and forced to weave chakra cloth with very little rest for several weeks. Because she didn’t have any chances to regain chakra, her captors kept her going with bitter chakra pills. By the time she was rescued her chakra coils were severely damaged. She was brought to Konoha so Tsunade could heal her, which was where she met Rock Lee.

They became friends and though Koishi eventually returned home to finish healing in private, whenever she’s in Konoha they spend time together. Taro loves his Uncle Lee, but Kishō thinks he’s embarrassing and tries to avoid being seen in public with him.

When she was 17 she was married to another noble, but through agreement neither attempts to interfere with the other’s lives, as both families are powerful and unhappiness in the marriage could cause problems.

Abilities: Koishi uses tessenjutsu with chakra metal fans she channels fire chakara into. She is a decent manipulator of the flames, using her fans to make it change direction at will. Like the rest of her family, she is a skilled chakra string creator. She rarely moves during battle if she can help it, instead she travels with two guards/escorts who deflect and shield her from attacks while she fights.

She learned the very basics of taijutsu from Rock Lee, though she doesn’t have the build to make use of it.

(SAILOR: Alright so I’m going to talk about her History and Abilities together because they’re relatively connected. I’ll go through the chakra side of it first though.

I’m going to be honest here. The self defense is plausible, but the chakra part feels a out of place. To weave permanent strings into cloth is likely impossible. In the cases of canon, chakra disconnected from the user will almost immediately (if not eventually depending on the jutsu) wither away, because it no longer has any source maintaining it. Assuming it worked; there is also the question of how one would reabsorb the chakra. For the Oritsu clan to sell it to Konoha, the average ninja would have to be able to absorb it, not just clan users. So you would have to come up with a plausible reason as to how that’s possible too. Secondly, I don’t believe it would be viable for Koishi to learn that level of nature transformation if she is not a trained ninja. While it might be possible if a trained ninja taught her; I don’t think Hidden Villages would be alright with their soldiers arming citizens with lethal techniques. I wanted to go through this part first because I feel like Oritsu clan’s technique wouldn’t work and therefore couldn’t be their source of income. I think that Koishi as a civilian character doesn’t need these techniques, and that her history would function a bit more if they were simply a wealthy clan. And if her clan was wealthy she could afford to hire ninja or at least trained individuals to assist her, it wouldn’t be out of place in the Naruto universe. Also, It would still make sense if she was kidnapped and you could find some other ways she was damaged that required Tsunade to heal her. Alternatively, she could be simply staying in Konoha to visit a relative that had something severe and still meet Rock Lee. Still your idea of them bonding while under care is rather cute so I understand if you don’t want to change it, it’s not a bad idea. So really, I think that if you want Oritsu to have a technique like that, you will need to make them a shinobi clan or else the idea becomes too far fetched. Koishi could still be a civilian (civilians in shinobi clans do exist naturally), but at least then there would be a plausible explanation as to how she becomes so adept in the skills (though if you want to keep them, I’d advise revising them and researching a little more into chakra).

Review by Mod Sailor

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lonestorm · 8 years ago

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20 Question Survey

Thank you for tagging me, @sassybratt9723!!

First story you ever wrote: First story ever? Oh man, second grade, I wrote this superhero story called Shimmer Girl. Don’t ask. I cringe. First fanfiction? A Harry Potter Marauders fic... kind of forgot about that.

A story on which you have been flamed: Nothing really... well that first HP one I was going to delete anyway because I’d been on hiatus a long time with no intention of finishing it. I suppose that pissed someone off and so they just sent a “You’re a fucking bitch” so I’m like “Eh I was gonna delete it anyway bye” and I did.

Your favorite story that you have written or are writing: I’d probably go with The Keys of Fire, because it helped me meet so many new friends and taught me a lot about writing! But my Inuyasha one, The Inugami, was an absolute blast to write, especially with the help from @akela-nakamura. Ah, the nights we stayed up derping around on google docs to make that story happen... Oh gosh and Double Dad Dilemma. That was me just screwing around and it turned into a story so I had fun.

Favorite story on a fanfiction site: CRAP DON’T MAKE ME CHOOSE THAT WOULD BE RIDICULOUS. I have over 200 favorites. I have read @artistefish‘s Freak Attraction about five times because it makes me really happy... but also my FT friends crank out so many amazing works that I could never choose a top fic. I do love to reread Natsu the Friendly Demon by @akela-nakamura, Kairos by @rivendell101, Into the Ring by @snogfairy, @mslead, and @toxineena, and... okay I just scrolled through my favorites and remembered a gazillion more that I adore so please just scroll through my favorites and read them all. Okay? Okay.

Why you became a fanfiction writer: I wanted practice with writing, and to find out what YA readers liked in a story. I had some ideas and thought it was a perfect way to experiment with my writing.

Favorite media to write for (i.e. Pokemon, Naruto, etc.): Eh Fairy Tail. Love writing for Inuyasha too, though. Characters are just so fun to work with.

Story you’ve reviewed the most: Probably MarauderLover7′s Innocent. It’s a story on what would happen if Sirius broke out earlier than book 3, when Harry was eight, and took him to live with him. It’s a masterpiece. Written like a novel, absolutely perfect grammar and pacing and language and brilliant ideas. Every Potterhead should read it.

Your most popular story among readers: That would be The Keys of Fire. Which was unexpected, but hey, not gonna complain!

A story on which you have/had writer’s block: The Way We Smile. Seriously. Hit a complete wall.

A story you deleted and then resurrected later: Never done that.

Longest private messaging conversation and with whom: That would be with a guy I knew when I was 15. We were really good friends. His name was Zack. We talked constantly and he was almost like an internet brother to me. And one day he stopped talking to me. He hadn’t gotten back to me for a while so I messaged him something worried, and he got angry. He never answered after that. I still wonder what happened, and how he’s doing. I hope I find out someday.

Favorite genre (i.e. fantasy, adventure, crime, etc.): Romance, friendship, humor, adventure! Can’t pick.

Your favorite lesser-known pairing: Hmm... I don’t know? Everything I’ve ever shipped has become canon in the end, and I’ve never really bothered to put much effort into people that weren’t main characters.

Your biggest qualm when reading fanfiction: When people tell too much instead of showing. “Hi my name is Ebony Dementia Dark’ness Raven Way” like hi Enoby shut the fuck up. And making the characters overdramatic.

Your biggest qualm when writing fanfiction: Pulling my head out of the internet and finding motivation to actually accomplish something.

A story you didn’t expect to get popular: Any of them, really. Not that all my stories are popular. I just tend to keep low expectations for response so that I don’t get disappointed.

Your favorite reviewer: nOT GONNA SAY--I LOVE THEM

Your favorite author: HOW COULD YOU. Man idk okay for Fairy Tail I love my waifu, @akela-nakamura, and my legion dorks, @rivendell101, @wordsofawitheringwriter, @mslead, @soprana-snap, and @snogfairy. For Inuyasha, my ultimate senpai is @artistefish. Someday perhaps she will notice me.

I tag everyone I’ve mentioned in the answers! Have fun!

#this one looked fun #my fanfiction #my writing

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chemicalmagecraft · 5 years ago

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I Would Totally Kick Jiraiya’s Butt Chapter 6

A/N: See, I actually had this (supposedly) planned out in advance, and it's actually a total coincidence that I started it in the month of June, so lol.

And by the way, this chapter takes place a little over a month after the last one. Wasn't sure how to say that in the chapter proper.

kukukuku~

I stuck my hands in my pockets and licked my lips as I looked up at the cloudy sky. "So you said that we're going to meet with a friend of yours?" I asked.

"Yes," Father said. "Inuzuka Tsume. She was one of my teammates back when we were genin, and currently the head of the Inuzuka clan." He ruffled Hinata's hair. "Considering their ages and how well the Inuzuka and Hyūga can work together, it's most likely that Hinata-chan and her youngest child will also be in the same genin team."

"I-I'll do my best!" Hinata said.

"Two women raising a child?" I overheard. "You make me sick." I opened my eyes and sighed. I looked over to where I heard and felt the evil and saw three women. One of them, who was the source of the hate and presumably the hateful comment, was looking at the other two with a scornful look in her eyes and holding... was that a young Tenten? Huh, guess that's what author me decided to do about Tenten having about zero background information aside from wanting to be Tsunade and liking weaponry. Yeah, the lady was gripping the maybe young Tenten by the wrist and I could see that she looked really afraid. Stranger danger, kids. The other two women, who I decided were probably Tenten's mothers, began to give off the appropriate amount of hate that one would expect from a pair of mothers whose four-or-so-year-old daughter was snatched by a homophobe, and it showed. Mom number one looked like an older version of Tenten in everything but clothing and the fact that she only had one bun and mom letter A was a shorter orange-haired woman who wore the same sort of Chinese-style clothes that Tenten wore.

"Give her back," mom letter A snarled, cracking her knuckles. Mom number one echoed the sentiment. At this point, my training consisting entirely of my Soc teacher showing the class a bunch of episodes of What Would You Do? and had us write a small assignment each time instead of doing actual work kicked in and I swiftly-but-silently walked over to the homophobic woman and grabbed her wrist with a red chakra-enhanced vice grip.

I used a neato trick that Kurama taught me to send hate at her with what little I knew of Bijū Telepathy. "First, I don't believe it's something 'unnatural' or 'wrong.' Second, I've been to the orphanage. It's not something I'd send someone to because I don't agree with who the parents are unless the parents are abusive or something." I took another "look" at the family's chakra. "Third, I would like to say that from the feel of their chakra, I think that the daughter is somehow related to both of them, so I think she might have never been in the orphanage to begin with." It was just a suspicion I had, but considering the feel of Tenten's and mom letter A's chakras weren't quite as close as Tenten's and mom number one's, I decided that mom letter A was a relative of Tenten's biological father. Maybe a sister or close cousin? At any rate, something about their similarities in chakra felt... familiar. I couldn't quite put my finger on it... "So the only bad person here is you," I continued. "Leave."

Evil woman clearly didn't like my tone of voice. Or my logical argument as to why she was a horrible person. "You little brat! I'll kill you!"

She winced and tugged at her collar. "At least you'd agree with me when I say that those two women are deviants for being... together?"

"I honestly don't know why you might think that," Father mused. "I suppose we seem traditional most of the time, but the Hyūga have had a long history of supporting LGBT rights and love in general." He gave a small smirk that had all of the energy of a Cheshire Cat smile. "In fact, I'd like to say that I am not at all ashamed to admit that, when we were both genin, I had feelings for Namikaze Minato." The woman that I was now memorizing the face and chakra signature of for the specific purpose of giving her a hard time were I to ever see her without her immediately noping out of there scoffed and stomped off. "Are you four okay?" he asked.

"That was fun," I said, then realized how that could be insensitive that could be to the little girl who was almost abducted and her parents. "Sorry, are you three okay?"

Mom number one (I really needed to learn their names) smiled. "That was nice of you, kid. What's your name?"

"Hyūga Kouki," I said. "He's my father and the little one is my sister, Hinata." Before I was about to make any more witty remarks, I was surprise-glomped by a four-year-old.

"That was so cool!" Tenten exclaimed. "You totally saved me!" I noticed that up close, her otherwise dark brown-looking hair had a red glint with the right lighting like mine. Just in case, I compared her chakra to mine to see if that was what the familiar bit to her chakra was. I was glad at myself to see that any similarity between our chakras was minimal, a bit like the similarity I noticed between Naruto and an Uchiha that I'd seen. Like we were descendants of two siblings from Ōtsutsuki Hagoromo's ti-

"My name's Uzumaki Ai." I fricking called it. "My..." she blushed slightly and tittered like a schoolgirl with her first crush, "girlfriend here is named Tenko." Great naming, me. Note the sarcasm, readers.

"And the girl hugging Kouki-kun is my little daughter, Tenten," Tenko said.

"Potentially touchy question," I said flatly, acting like there wasn't a little girl who was a little taller than me still hugging me. I gave Tenten a look and she let go.

Tenko sighed. It was more of a sad sigh and not a some-rude-kid-is-about-to-ask-me-a-potentially-touchy-question sigh. "Her father was... severely injured in the Kyūbi attack. He told me not to feel bad if I fell in love with someone else before he died..." I nodded. Yeah, that seemed like something I'd write. Tenko looked thoughtful for a moment. "If you don't mind me asking a potentially touchy question," she said, "why were you so willing to jump in? Not that it's bad to do that, but I wouldn't have thought that a little kid would be like that."

I grunted, then licked my lips. "I hate people who judge others without getting to know them at all, just basing their entire opinion on something that has no bearing on their character or that they have no control over." I closed my eyes and shrugged. "I don't know exactly where it comes from, but I think that the fact that over half the village hating my best friend for something that happened on the day of his birth and was masterminded by someone else had something to do with it." I gave Tenko and Ai a piercing stare and noticed that Tenten had completely stopped following the conversation. "I don't suppose you two realize that Naruto-chan is totally innocent of the attack that happened mere minutes after his birth, do you?" I gave Ai a bitter smile and tilted my head to the side. "'Course, given the fact that I'm pretty sure that the two of you are the only remnants of the Uzumaki clan but I haven't even sensed you anywhere near him makes that seem unlikely."

She sighed and stood there for a minute. "You're right, I should have taken him in. My brother died in the attack, but that doesn't change the fact that I turned my back on a kid who had nowhere else to go and is actually family." She looked at Tenko and smiled. "Honey, do you think Tenten-chan would like a little brother?" I could tell what the answer was when Tenten turned to her mother and stared at her with puppy dog eyes. Not Puppy Dog Eyes(TM), but close.

"Go to the Hokage," Father suggested. "Considering his importance, Hokage-sama would get involved anyway."

I raised my hand. "And if you really want to speed it up, tell the secretary to tell Sarutobi-san that Hyūga Kouki sent you." Ai, Tenko, and Tenten looked at me quizzically. "And if she doesn't believe you, tell her to tell the him that Sarutobi Asuma should never fight a man with a three-bladed scythe. That should speed the process up. I think that we might have go to soon. Good luck."

I covered my mouth with a hand as I grinned and did my weird snicker that sounds like I'm hissing and I decided to mess with him. "However do you suggest I did that, Father?" I asked in a voice that made it sound like I totally did plan it, even though in this one case I totally hadn't. "Such a feat would require me to have some way to know that they were going to be there beforehand." He gave me a flat look. "Sometimes, when you do good things purely out of the kindness of your heart," I continued, "events line up so nicely that people think that you planned it." He raised an eyebrow. I licked my lips and pulled out the small, featureless puppet that I'd bought to test a certain jutsu I was trying to make and started playing around with it using chakra threads. What? Just because I don't plan on using puppet ninjutsu in battle doesn't mean that I should never learn it. "Yeah, I like being all puppetmaster-y, but I really can't take credit for this one. It's just luck."

"That's so cool, Kouki-niisan!" Hinata said as she looked at my puppet. I grinned and made it bow before putting it away.

"Thaaaank you," I said. "Let's go see Father's friend now."

kukukuku~

Tsume guffawed as she looked at me. "So this is the little ankle-biter you saddled yourself with, eh Hiashi?" she said with a grin. To his credit, I was only able to bend my spine an acute angle to the side before Father said, "Please don't bite my ankle, Kouki-kun." This naturally made Tsume howl with laughter and then smile at me. "You're alright, kid!"

"Thank you, Inuzuka-san," I said with a small grin. "You seem nice too. Should I go introduce myself to your son?" I asked.

"Hello," I said as she walked over. "Can I pet your puppies," I asked, pointing at the three husky puppies that were trailing behind her.

"After the first three Hokage," I assumed.

Hana crouched down next to me and began petting... I think he was Tobirama? "So what was my mom saying about you knowing a healing jutsu?" she asked me.

I shrugged. "Unfortunately it's not the sort of jutsu just anyone can use, if that's what you were hoping for. You have to have a certain special chakra that you don't have, sorry."

She sighed. "Can't be helped. I want to learn medical ninjutsu so I can be a veterinarian. I like animals, so I thought it'd be a nice goal."

She shrugged. "I still think that it's nice to want to learn stuff like that." She chuckled. "Even if it's just curiosity. So what exactly is that healing jutsu of yours?"

kukukuku~

Ai and Tenko walked into that one meeting room of the Hokage's. "You wanted to see us again?" Tenko asked.

"Let's hear it," Ai said as she got a little more comfortable nuzzling Tenko.

"For one, I think you should learn who his father was before you take him in," I said as I sauntered out of the shadows and dropped my very-horrible-but-still-at-least-somewhat-usable Transparency Jutsu. It really only made me a little translucent, really more like stained glass than glass, and there was still an unfortunate amount of disturbance when I moved, but with my dark clothes, the partial tan that I had from actually spending time in the sun, and the shadows, the ability of standing so incredibly still that I become invisible to the eye was easy and attainable, even if I still couldn't eat any zargnuts while doing it. "His name was Namikaze Minato, maybe you've heard of him." I flopped down on the other sofa and sprawled out on the entire thing.

"Okay, so what was that about Naruto's father being the fourth Hokage?" Tenko asked. I took the pictures of Minato and Naruto that I'd prepared for that particular reason and waved them so that the corners hit each other a few times and raised my eyebrows slightly. "No, I see that now." She paused. "Actually I'm surprised that not more people have made that connection..."

After a few minutes of utter silence, Tenko said, "I'd like to ask why nobody's ever tried to inform the village about his father, then."

I shrugged. "This guy," I pointed at Hiruzen, "decided that Naruto's parents have made some enemies and they aren't around to protect him anymore, so why not just cover up who his parents were, and not even tell him 'til he's either chūnin or sixteen. I begrudgingly accepted his reasoning on the condition that we make sure that Naruto's life isn't completely horrible and he doesn't learn about the Kyūbi or his parentage in completely traumatic circumstances."

"I would have preferred it if you didn't phrase it like that," Hiruzen said, "but that's about it. There's another matter, this one something that Kouki-kun was rather insistent on telling you."

Aiko nodded. "Spill, kid."

Tenko sighed. "I suppose it's a little hard to swallow, but so is a young boy with the ability to see the future, so I'm willing to believe you. Why did you want us to know this?"

I lazily bobbed my head. "First, there's the fact that, even if you have the best intentions, the two of you lost a loved one in the Obito attack, so it might've been hard for you to fully put aside the feelings from that if you believed that the thing responsible for that was sitting under your roof inside the boy you adopted. And that would be bad. Second, I plan on eventually getting Naruto-chan and Kurama-chan to make friends with each other, so you two thinking Kurama-chan is a mindless beast might interfere with that." Ai raised her hand. "Kurama's the Kyūbi and yes we are friends," I answered. "Third, you two really should know all the facts."

"Thanks for that, then, kid," Ai said. "Is there anything else we should know?"

I grumbled. "I was gonna tell you two about Jiraiya, but someone," I looked at Hiruzen, "already told you."

"How did you..." Tenko started to say, but then trailed off. "Right, future vision. I'm starting to realize that 'getting to know each other' wasn't the only reason Hyūga-san had for wanting to get some drinks with us after this." I smiled at the compliment.

"Where is young Tenten, anyway?" Hiruzen asked. "I figured she was waiting outside, but if you're going out for drinks..."

"I love shadow clones," Ai said blissfully. "They're just... so useful."

He nodded. "I agree. If I'm not mistaken, I'm getting done twice the amount of paperwork that I used to, and I'm not even in my office."

"Though, should we be drinking after learning such sensitive information?" Tenko asked. "I love you, Ai, but you can't really hold your alcohol very well."

Ai blushed. "N-no I don't! You can't hold your alcohol very well!"

I looked into the future a bit, hiss-chuckled at Ai's drunken shenanigans, and said, "Ai-san should be fine, though you should keep your guard up just in case. I believe we're done here, you two should go unless you have anything else to ask or declare." As I expected, they didn't, and so summarily left, thanking the two of us as they did. I slouched into the sofa some more and tossed Hiruzen a scroll. "Suna agreed to let me take a crack at Gaara, right? And about the issue of payment, tell the Kazekage that I'm doing it half out of the kindness of my heart and half to hone my skills with fuinjutsu, so I'm fine if he can't pay me too much relative to the skill level of the job."

I shrugged. "Though I would like it if he had any scrolls on jutsu, preferably Wind Release, that he'd be willing to give me." He opened the scroll and made to say something, but I cut him off by saying, "You've probably noticed by now, but I screen any meeting where we discuss sensitive information beforehand. Might need to take a nap tomorrow, even though I slept last night."

"Did you already find a seal to fix Gaara?" Hiruzen asked incredulously as he stared at the scroll.

"Nein," I sighed. "As great as that would've been, we both know that I need more information on his seal to even attempt anything more than a temporary countermeasure. That's just something I whipped up a few weeks ago with Kurama-chan's help to deal with the situation for now."

"You really like preparing for everything, don't you?" he asked.

I shrugged. "Just the things that I can think of. Besides, I doubt I'll hear you complaining when I know what to do if Danzō challenges you to a dance-off with the winner becoming Hokage, will I?"

He gave me a flat look. "Kouki-kun, did you get into my secret stash of brownies? Because you really shouldn't eat those."

I blinked. "No I did not. Just going to pretend you never said that."

"If anyone asks, it's for my back."

"Just make sure it doesn't interfere with your work," I advised. "The solution to that problem," I said like he hadn't said anything hinting at drug use, "is to just laugh him out of the office because the Hokage is not chosen based solely on one's ability to get down and boogie, but at the same time make sure that you could theoretically beat him in a dance-off. And try to engineer events so that, if Danzō has his... modifications... at the time of the dance-off, those modifications get unveiled in public and in front of a captive audience, thus casting suspicion onto his character."

He grunted. "A sensible answer to a nonsensical problem. What about the current problem of Gaara, by the way?"

I nodded and slipped into Serious Mode (yes, I have one of those), and then actually did sit up like a proper young lady. "Write this down. That scroll contains instructions to make and an example of the Inner Demon Calming Seal, a one-use seal of my and Kurama's invention that forcibly suppresses red chakra in any being with red chakra that is not a Bijū - i.e. me or a jinchuriki - by way of using some of their own red chakra as fuel to cause the rest to return to the chakra coils. Tell the Kazekage to have at least three copies of it made and ready at all times, preferably more. One copy will be given to Gaara himself, who will be instructed to use it at any time when he feels like Shukaku might be trying to rise up while he's awake. The other two are to be given to shinobi of appropriate skill who are to follow Gaara around in shifts and intervene if they feel Gaara is having a problem but can't deal with it himself for whatever reason.

“Any seals that have been used will enter a state where they cannot be used again but give diagnostic information on Gaara at the time of usage, so they are to be sent to me with time used for analysis. Note that the way the seals are set up, an error in writing will most likely cause one of three problems. The first two are that it will not suppress the chakra, which is the reason why there are to be three, and complete failure in the data recording. These two are hopefully trivial matters, though there might be some inconvenience.

“The third is to be taken more seriously, however. Should the mechanism that regulates the reaction fail, unfortunately, the seal will continue to siphon some of Shukaku's red chakra even after it's been suppressed, as evidenced by the red glow persisting after Gaara's back to normal. It isn't nearly enough to put Gaara in danger of dying by all of Shukaku's chakra being extracted, but it will create a miniature Bijū Dama should it reach critical mass. Before this happens, the seal must be removed from Gaara and sent at least ten meters from him, which will cause the seal to stop and the built-up chakra to disperse. Send the scroll and those instructions as soon as possible with further instructions to gather any and all information on Gaara's seal plus any information on Gaara himself that they think might be relevant, like medical records and chakra composition, as well as any questions and statements they might have." He looked at me incredulously, and then I slouched back down, sighed, and said, "The annoying thing about Serious Mode is that I can only do it for so long..."

kukukuku~

The couple met another couple in front of the... I guess it was a bar? Anyway, Ai told Tenko that she saw Hiashi and someone who she guessed was probably his wife. "Hey, Hyūga-san!" Ai said as she walked up to him. She elbowed him and said, "Is that your wife? She's hot!"

Hyūga Hizashi looked over at his wife with puzzlement. "Do we know her?" he mouthed at aunt Hikaru.

"No," she mouthed back, shaking her head slightly.

At this exact moment, the real Hiashi and Hikari showed up. "Ah, good," Hiashi said. "I see you two have met." Ai slowly looked at Hizashi, then at Hiashi, then back to Hizashi.

"I haven't even touched the alcohol and I'm already seeing double," Ai groused. "What the heck?"

Tenko chuckled and planted a kiss on her girlfriend's cheek. "I think that those two might be his brother and sister-in-law, sweetie. Hiashi-san said that they would be here too."

Ai glared at Father. "You could have warned us that they're your clones," she complained.

"Identical twins and he did," Tenko reminded her.

"What, exactly, is with the private rooms?" Tenko asked as they sat down and ordered some drinks.

"Actually, what about the Shōraigan?" Hikaru asked. As soon as she did, there was a knock on the door. When the staff member was let in, he said that a young boy had given him a note to get to his aunt, Hikaru. After the guy left, everyone else looked at aunt Hikaru. She opened the note and read, "What do you think? -Love Kouki."

There was some awkward silence followed by Tenko clearing her throat. "So when are our drinks arriving, do you think?"

"Probably about now," Hizashi guessed. There was another knock on the door. "I swear I didn't plan that," he quickly added.

"Kouki-kun has had an impact on you, hasn't he?" Tenko asked.

kukukuku~

"Demon Infusion?" I offered, playing around the puppet and some red chakra. "Maybe if I make the yin chakra and yang chakra separately?" I thought.

Kurama gave a thoughtful hum. "It sounds good, but why does it need to sound demonic?"

I shrugged. "I've heard of Bijū referred to as demons before, and giving myself a demonic motif just sounds cool."

I looked down at him flatly. "You do realize I'm working, right?"

He scoffed haughtily and turned his head away. "I was just... startled, is all."

I looked out the window, specifically at the heavily pouring rain. "You do realize that it's been overcast the whole day, right? And now it's pouring buckets."

"Shut up," he said as he jumped out of my arms and onto my desk.

He stared at me for a few moments. "Maybe? You do realize that the problem with this theory is that you need to get the chakra of all nine for this to work, yes?"

I shrugged. "True, but at the same time, I have yours and I'm going to get some of Shukaku's when I go over to Suna, so I'm almost one third of the way there already!"

He flicked his tail. "Perhaps you should think of an easier jutsu to obtain?"

I sighed. "You're probably right." I thought for a moment, then snapped my fingers. "Do you think I could make a Gudō Dama if I were to get all five chakra natures in red chakra?" I asked.

This took him a bit of thought as I fiddled with the puppet some more. "I... don't know. Maybe. If you count Shukaku's magnet release that you're hoping to obtain, you then have fire release and wind release from me and earth release and wind release from him. Assuming your theory works, you'll need water release from Isobu, Kokuō, Saiken, or Gyūki and lightning release from Chōmei or Gyūki."

I nodded. "It seems that I'll have to engineer events so that I meet B if I don't want to wait like thirteen years for when I know Fū is going to finally be out of Taki."

"Shut. It."

I smiled. "It's okay if you don't like lightning. I imagine that you used to get hit all the time, with how big you are..."

He grunted. "Guess that's one perk of being so fucking tiny..." I blinked. Oops. Probably shouldn't have pressed that particular button...

I was frantically thinking of which random topic to use to distract him with when the door suddenly burst open. "Nii-san!" Hinata tackle-hugged me.

kukukuku~

"Thank you for coming to get us, Kouki-kun," Mother said. "But I don't think your umbrella will fit the five of us." I grinned, made a half ram seal and handed the umbrella to Father.

"Channel some chakra into it," I told him. I could tell he did what I asked when seals flared up on the umbrella and a chakra shield extended enough to fit everyone comfortably. "Rather simple change in chakra form seals," I explained. "The final version's gonna have more options than just that." We started walking home under the cover of my umbrella. While the others were talking, I continued to mess with the puppet. After a while, something... clicked and I was finally able to combine the yin and yang without it canceling out and becoming normal red chakra. The red chakra was absorbed into the puppet, so I let the strings dissipate and dropped it onto my palm. Despite it being an inanimate object, it landed on its feet and stayed standing. With a mental command from me, the puppet started punching the air, but stopped after a bit and shrugged at me. I sighed.

"What's wrong, Kouki-kun?" aunt Hikaru asked.

"I just finished a jutsu I was working on, but to actually use it in battle, I'd need a lot more chakra than I have at the moment," I muttered.

She smiled. "I'm sure you'll be able to use it eventually."

"That's probably not a good sign," uncle Hizashi noted.

kukukuku~

Kurama woke up feeling rather refreshed, so much so that he wasn't really that annoyed by the little girl snuggling up to him and trapping him. Stupid tiny toy body with almost no strength... The first thing he saw upon waking was an office chair pointed away from him. "You know... you two are lucky I didn't need to sleep tonight, or I would've had you leave my room," my voice said from the other side of the chair.

"What do you want, Kouki?" Kurama asked.

I turned my chair around, revealing me stroking the puppet on my lap like it was a cat. What? My actual cat-shaped thing was occupied at the moment. "What do you know about..." Pause for dramatic effect... "Natural energy?"

"U-um, Kurama-san?" Hinata asked as she sat up. "Should I be worried about that?"

"Knowing Kouki, probably."

kukukuku~

A/N: So this was a longer chapter than normal. I probably should've cut the bar scene, seeing how I cut pretty much all of it already, but I just thought that that first joke was so funny.

And I know that none of the Bijū actually used lightning release, but then why would bringing them all together grant Obito, Madara, and Naruto the ability to use something made from all five chakra natures?

#I Would Totally Kick Jiraiya's Butt #fanfiction #IWTKJB CH6 #Naruto #Naruto Shippuden spoilers

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Fatherhood, Pt.1

Pairing: KakaSaku Rating: Fluff Warnings: There’s a healthy dose of salt here, and child neglect but mostly the FLUFFIEST FLUFF.

The first time Sarada knocked on his door she was seven years old.

It was her birthday and she didn't want a party. She didn't want her friends and she didn't want a cake or presents or the promise of a new jutsu or even a special day alone with just her and her mother.

She wanted a father.

She wanted her father.

Not Boruto's father, or anyone else. She wants her own. But once again she made the mistake of saying in front of her mother 'will dad be here?'

Her mother's constant reassurances that this mysterious man who she had never met yet loves them dearly is not enough.

She's told, rather annoyingly, how much she resembles this absent man. She doesn't want to be told this. She wants to see it for herself instead of searching in a mirror for the reflection of a face she hasn't looked upon before. There are photo's on the mantle that are of a man that has yet to become a man. There's only one photo of her father as an adult, and that's a photo that was taken a few years ago of her Mother, Father, Uncle Naruto and the Hokage. Apparently they'd been a team once.

Sarada wants to be a great person. She daren't tell anyone she doesn't want to be a ninja. It's bad enough that everyone looks at her with pity because her father isn't around, and even worse that everyone expects her to be just like the man who is not there. How can she be like him if he's not there? How can she be like him if he won't teach her? Does he even know she exists?

And if he does know who she is and how she feels, as her mother assures her, then…why doesn't he care?

Because if he did she'd have at least heard something from him by now, maybe a birthday card if not a gift or a letter. Anything? Something!?

So instead of going to her room like her mother told her, she decided that she'd go to her room alright. She'd go to her room and hop out of her window and go and ask the Hokage. He'd know for sure. If her dad was on this super important mission, the Rokudaime would know all about it and if it was so super important that it was secret, surely he'd tell her what he could.

Rokudaime-sama always sent her birthday cards. Rokudaime-sama always sent her gifts, even when it wasn't her birthday. Rokudaime-sama was there when she started the ninja academy because her mother was in the hospital taking care of an emergency on that day.

There were a lot of people in the tower as she climbed the steps. Sarada waved at the ninja who greeted her as they passed her in the stairways and the halls. One or two stopped to ask if she was okay, and she smiled and said she was, but she was looking for the Hokage, and could they please tell her where he was?

No one knew, but word of her search spread, and someone even penciled in her name in the appointment book and a man with a senbon in his mouth picked her up so she could sign her name to confirm the appointment. She took a seat outside his office and swung her feet back and forth as she waited. He was probably the busiest ninja in the village being the Hokage and all, but she was sure he'd have time for her. Several people wandered in and out of his office but there was no one in there the last time she dared to look in after them. Apparently he was busy avoiding a meeting with a particularly vocal councillor, so when she finally thought to give up on the Hokage's main office and go home. After all, she'd only found it empty save for one rather grumpy old man and his two attendants who were both trying to console him over the absence of the Hokage.

Sarada was about to give up when a hand appeared out of seemingly no where and grasped her gently on the shoulder. She looked over her shoulder and found the Hokage stooping behind her, his other hand raised to his mouth and a single finger pressed over his mask covered lips to indicate he wanted her to keep quiet. She nodded, though she was still confused and followed him when he lead her away gently.

She stopped after a moment and he turned to look at her inquiringly. So on the off-chance that he might understand how she felt she meekly raised her hand up and held it out to him expectantly.

He watched her for a brief moment before offering one of his odd little smiles that crinkled the edges of his mask and took her pro-offered hand with no objection. In her delight at the gesture she almost forgot to walk along with him as he led her along as his unwitting escape partner.

Eventually they made it to the missions room where he let go of her hand briefly to henge quickly into who she could only assume was a child-like version of himself then he grasped her hand again, darted into the room pulling her behind him and led her under an unmanned desk where he released the henge and returned to his usual self. Doing so made him a little too large to hide under the table, but with some strategic rearranging he crossed his legs and hunched over, giving her just enough room to sit opposite him with her knees held up against her chest.

She watched him curiously and rested her chin on her knees and he looked left and right, as though affirming that they had reached their hiding place unseen and unheard. The bustle of the mission room was a pleasant sound, despite its volume and the Rokudaime, satisfied that they were undiscovered, turned his attention back to her and in that moment he pulled down his mask and smiled at her.

Her jaw dropped and she pointed with both hands, as though to point out what he was doing, what she was seeing! Her mother had never seen his face! Uncle Naruto hadn't! As far as she knew, no one had seen his face, and here he was brazenly showing her like it was the most normal thing in the world.

She made to speak but he lifted a finger to his lips and shook his head. When she managed to stop gaping he spoke to her without sound, but stopped when he saw what must have been confusion on her face. Instead he made a form with his hands that she vaguely recognised. She decided to imitate, as it seemed that the conversation was going nowhere and she didn't like it when she couldn't understand. He grinned and nodded and made a different hand sign. She frowned and made the sign herself, looking between his hands and hers and then repeating the sign from before to compare the difference.

This went on for a while, and while she completely lost track of time, she learned how to talk with her hands. She learned how to greet and how to ask how someone was. She even learnt what 'happy birthday' was in signing. It was quick to pickup, and surprisingly easy to remember. Sarada was smiling so hard her face hurt, because it hadn't been the discovery of what his face looked like that was her birthday gift, it wasn't even the practical knowledge that the Rokudaime had taught her that afternoon in one of the busiest places in Konoha.

He'd spent time with her because he wanted to. He could have avoided that councillor on his own and left the building entirely, but he hadn't. He'd seen her and decided that she was worth spending time with. That alone made her happier than any present she unwrapped.

It was a skill, she later discovered, that Anbu agents used talked to each other on missions where absolute silence was required. Sarada had been amazed that the Rokudaime had trusted her enough to teach her something so special and it was then that she decided that, while she would always want to know who her father was, the Rokudaime was the best substitute she could ask for.

That evening when Hokage-sama had dropped her off at home, her mother had almost torn the house apart in sheer panic at discovering that she was missing, but Rokudaime-sama came up with an amazing excuse that had her mother gaping like a fish out of water.

Apparently he claimed that he promised on Sarada's birthday he teach her something super cool that none of her friends knew and that he'd picked her up for the lesson and the two of them had gotten lost on the road of life.

Sarada couldn't help but laugh at such a ridiculous tale, but laughed even harder when she saw the dumbfounded look on her mothers face. She realised that she'd spent one of the best birthdays of her life learning sign language under a desk in secrecy, in a room full of the most astute ninja, who where completely unawares of their presence. She'd also learned another, more important lesson; that the most important people in her life weren't the ones who she spent wishing were there…

…they were the ones were there for her without her ever needing to ask.

If some are wondering about the KakaSaku? It’s on it’s way :)

Part 2: https://groovy-hottub-llama.tumblr.com/post/162394055932/fatherhood-pt2

#KakaSaku #SakuKaka

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