#Kazekage Edit

[the-winds-of-sunagakure]

I decided to upload some Edits

for Gaara I made in the past!

Hope you'll like them. 🩵

[hatakxraikai]

Sabaku no Gaara (砂瀑の我愛羅) - Edits

I'm with the great part of the Fandom who didn't like Gaara's Boruto design at all, so guess whaT??? 🤠

I couldnt help myself but do these two edits of him 🙌 I wanted to try and give him a mix between his Boruto and his OG Naruto features and these was how he ended up, I really liked how he turned out actually.

[im-still-watching-anime]

kankuro to gaara: don’t worry!! making friends is easy!! i’ll give you some tips :)

temari remembering how kankuro emotionally scarred half of konoha with his puppets: kankuro i love you to death but maybe i should take this one

[tarrielrae]

⏳ garden grove // gaara phone wallpapers ⏳

[fifth-kazekage]

It was from him after all.

[katsoumi]

[ Sasuke VS Gaara ]

[shunshinstan]

No comment necessary

[why-are-you-still-awake]

Jealousy with the Naruto boys

A/n: I’ve seen this done multiple times so here’s my take on it :)

Warning/content: nothing :)

characters: Sasuke, Gaara, Sai

Sasuke Uchiha

☆ Sasuke claims to not be a jealous person, “he’s above that” as he puts it, but something about seeing you laughing and smiling with someone else makes him feel weird, insecure? No couldn’t be…. He likes to think that he’s just being overprotective and he’s not jealous, he believes he’s too good to be jealous and let’s be real, he’s far too prideful to admit he’s a little insecure. ☆

☆ One time when you guys were out in the Konoha market place, some person came up to you and started a casual conversation, but to Sasuke it seemed like this person was getting a little too close for comfort. So to solve this, he came up behind you and placed his arm over your shoulder giving the person a “can I help you?” Look, let’s say they didn’t stick around much longer. ☆

☆ If you try and bring up his jealous behavior, he’ll deny it adamantly. It’s not that he doesn’t trust you, he just doesn’t trust other people. If we’re being honest here, he’s deeply afraid of losing you, to him you’re the only person he has left. So even when he’s being a jealous prick, it comes from a place of love even if he doesn’t outright express it. ☆

Gaara

☆ He wouldn’t consider himself a jealous person by any means, he love you and you love him. He has no reason to be insecure or jealous, but even the kazekage struggles to be reasonable sometimes, he’s only human after all. He wouldn’t be very upfront about his feelings, if you noticed jealous behavior then you’d have to bring it up because he won’t talk about it first. ☆

☆ One time you were waiting for a council meeting to be over and you were in meeting room with him, it was very boring like watching paint dry would’ve been more entertaining. You soon notice a younger council member staring at you trying to get your attention and smiling at you, you politely smile back but then Gaara catches on to the silent interaction. He wraps his arm around your waist, pulling you closer while clearing his throat and continuing speaking. ☆

☆ If you ultimately decide to confront him about his momentary jealous behavior, he won’t deny it but will probably be very embarrassed he was caught doing something like that even if you reassure him that you’re not upset and may even find his jealous protectiveness attractive…..☆

☆ He didn’t know anything really about relationships do to growing up in Root, so you and to guide him and explain things basically. Some might’ve found It tiring but you found it endearing to an extent. He had never experienced jealousy before until he saw you talking to someone else who seemed to be pretty funny because you couldn’t stop laughing, he had a weird feeling in his chest and it made him feel *strange* he didn’t understand.☆

☆ He decided to try and get to the bottom of this weird feeling in his chest, so he decided to just outright tell you how he was feeling, you were kinda surprised, but after breaking through the momentary freeze and explained it to him. He was surprised, he never thought he’d be jealous, he trusted you, he knew you’d never do anything to hurt him. ☆

☆ There’s no really confronting him about jealous behavior because he’s very honest about how he’s feeling, he definitely forgets appropriate time and place sometimes when he says something, he’s unintentionally a good communicator because of how honest he is and won’t beat around the bush with how he feels. He loves you and wants you to know. ☆

A/n: I’ve never written for Sai before, so sorry if his part sucks. Thanks for reading, love u <3

Do not repost

Edit: thank you all who heart or reblogged or in someway interacted with this post, it means so much <33

[kobayashisoul]

》 ᴍᴏʀɴɪɴɢ ʀᴏᴜᴛɪɴᴇ 《

I know many Gaara Fans will disagree, but ... I think this looks SO good. It should be illegal to be this damn fine. What a Daddy omg. 🌶👀 I hope you won't hate me haha.

Please tell me your Opinion about this!

I wanted to show with this Picture a Piece of Reality, something thats absolutely natural and normal. In Anime almost everyone has a shaved Face and it seems like no one ever grew a Beard, but it's in my Opinion normal that a Man grows a Beard after at least two Days.

And Gaara is no Exception.

I think that Gaara wants to keep his Business Man Image and thats why he does shave his Beard every single Day to keep his Face absolutely clean. I think if he wouldn't be the Kazekage, he would keep such a decent Beard. But he simply has an Image as Business Man. And he wants to keep that.

This Picture takes Place in Boruto: Naruto Next Generation Series, a short time before the Series starts. Shiina is two years old and Gaara is 32 years old.

You must know that [of course] at Night and when he has Days off, he doesn't style his Hair. So it's his old messy Head every Morning, the Head we miss so much in Canon. 🥹

Gaara is definitely not impressed by doing that every Day. 🤣

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Art (c) pun_shun

Sabaku No Gaara (c) Masashi Kishimoto

Naruto & Boruto (c) Masashi Kishimoto and Mikio Ikemoto

This Picture was a Comission for me from @pun_shun . I am NOT the Artist of this Artwork. I am a Comission Collector. I have the Artists written permission to upload this drawing to my Social Media. ⚠️

Please don't copy my Comission Ideas. ⚠️

Without my written permission you have no right to recolor/repost/trace/edit/use this in any way. Also please don't ask me to roleplay with my Ocs because I don't allow that, written or drawn. ⚠️

[joltai-showa]

fic notes, From Queen to a Pawn, chapter 7 edition

as promised, here's everything you might have missed in "Unwanted Discoveries"!

recently had seen the behind the scenes photo of Deidara and Obito's actors from the official Naruto stage, so I think it would go really well for this particular chapter *wink wink*

- regarding the title of the chapter: it's quite obvious, as Obito gets to learn a bunch of things he really would have lived happily without (including but not limited to a) women don't stay lovey-dovey after a near death experience, no matter how much you pinned after them while they were gone b) Kakashi has a Mangekyo c) he's got a list of fetishes almost as long as his dick as the list of his warcrimes)

- speaking of Kakashi: as I have mentioned in the notes before the chapter, I am not insane, and the title of Naruto chapter 276 is "New Sharingan"

Yes, this is preciesly the moment when we see Kamui being activated for the first time and Deidara becomes one arm short. Now, why the fuck do we never see Kamui before that (as far as I remember) and why is Kakashi referring to it as a "new Sharingan" when almost 400 chapters later we will see that this eye was awakened 16 years before these events with Rin somehow outrunning regular Sharingan's reaction speed time and yeeting herself on a Chidori? The answer is: I have no fucking clue. But on a more serious note, this is Kishimoto writing this, so likely at this point in time (276 was released on the 3rd of October 2005) he had no idea what exactly he was going to do with the whole Kakashi/Rin/Obito circus besides "errr yeah Kakashi promised to protect Rin, he failed, Rin is dead, Obito is mad and now is Tobi in Akatsuki, here's the busted ability for Obito's Mangekyo" and planned out the details only a lot later (Rin's death is shown in chapter 604, released on 22nd of October 2012, a whole 7 wooping years later).

Anyway, obviously, this entire bit of the Kazekage Rescue arc makes no sense if everyone (including Kakashi) is aware that Kakashi's got a Mangekyo. So I am going with the explanation that the pain of the awakening was so severe Kakashi passed out before realizing what the hell even happened with his left eye, and as a result only recently (yes, 16 years later) did he understand that "wait, I've got a Mangekyo" and starts using it. It makes sense in my head, so I am sticking to it.

- and on that note this little missing detail creates a lot of tension for both of my blorbos during the aftermath of this mission😈obviously, Kakashi would keep this "nEW ShARinGan" a secret, because why the fuck would you mention having this absurdely powerful tool in your arsenal (unless, of course, it's someone who is also on the task of guarding Naruto), so what ends up happening is that Deidara goes against Sharingan Kakashi, who, in fact, has an even more powerful form of this dojutsu. Deidara obviously knows what Mangekyo is - girlie's been training to beat Itachi's ass for the last 7 years, so of course she'd be trying to dig up some info on the Sharingan and its abilities.

We actually see Deidara and Sasori in canon asking for the info from other Akatsuki members (Zetsu informs everyone of what's going on outside + Itachi with his legendary "he'll be the first one to scream at you *dips out of the zoom call*" and Deidara and Sasori going "????"), so imagine being Deidara, assuming that you know all of the relevant information on the guys running after you, only for the Sharingan guy to pull out a fucking Mangekyo and start sucking you up into a literal black hole. Like, she already hates Sharingan with her guts, but what in the actual fuck is that? I think for the day? she'd spent wandering around looking for her arm she'd be absolutely fucking pissed at everyone who failed to mention such teeny tiny detail before the Konoha gang got to them, which is why she lashes out at Zetsu in this manner, because she's just done with everything Sharingan-related

- really, in any situation Deidara would likely have been the most angry at discovering Kakashi's Mangekyo. That is if anyone but Obito came to look for her. Which is whole another level of fucking comedy. In canon Obito abandons his left eye (for some reason), and with Kakashi keeping Mangekyo secret as his super uber powerful tool, Obito by that point in time has NO IDEA that a second Mangekyo has been activated. So imagine his reaction to learning that little fact after that entire mission. Like, seething is nothing compared to what Obito would be doing. And his reaction would be twice as funny with Obidei in mind, because now not only did Kakashi accept Obito's Sharingan and finish developing Chidori (remember, he couldn't use it before Obito "died", the jutsu was too fast for his eyes) before fucking killing Rin, Obito's first crush, with that very same jutsu, he now also got Obito's other Mangekyo and the very first thing he does with it (as far as Obito's aware) and runs with it at Deidara, Obito's second crush, and almost kills her with it too. Like, fate actually fucking exists.

- the world isn't really hell to Obito, it's just that the fate is a fucking bitch and Kakashi repeatedly stumbles into scenarios that would make Obito most upset

- in alternative universe Obito sits inside Kamui, chilling, when a fucking human elbow pops up out of nowhere. in a place where only Obito can control what goes in and out. he'd drive himself crazy from freaking out too much

- "The shade of her teeth is also closer to pink, and judging by the hole in the lower row, someone knocked her hard in the jaw earlier" - this is referring to this particular moment of that arc

I believe anime even shows something like a tooth flying off, so I'd say that it's fair to assume that post-Kazekage Rescue arc Deidara needs some dental work

- "Like absolutely nothing has changed between her and Tobi" - so some minor spoilers regarding the plans for FQTP, it'll actually be a while before the two of them will be able to discuss what had happened in that alley, Deidara will continue acting standoffish in Tobi's presence. Obito correctly guesses some of the reasons (other members of Akatsuki being present), but... some of the darker things from Deidara's past are raising their ugly heads, leading her to acting this way. And Obito isn't really aware of these things. Not that he particularly cares for Deidara's past at the moment, he's too busy with Deidara's present

- on that note it was imperative for me to bully this man. Like. He has to be so pathetic. He is a giant wet clingy dog. And then Deidara acts not in the way he imagined (and god did he imagine things about her while she was gone), he is just🥺🥺🥺🥺w-w-why are u so mean to me🥺🥺🥺🥺im good boy🥺🥺🥺🥺i've been waiting for you🥺🥺🥺🥺i've been really upset🥺🥺🥺🥺why would you scream at me🥺🥺🥺🥺i don't deserve being treated like that😭😭😭😭

- meanwhile outside of Obito's delulu world: Deidara is still without arms, low on chakra after the unsealing, lost a shit ton of blood, got jumpscared by a sudden Mangekyo of her least favorite dojutsu, had to fight Naruto, Gain and his team alone and without ninjutsu. Oh, and Tobi is prancing around with her severed arm like it's a chewtoy

- Obito's intelligence is a horseshoe and it keeps bouncing between its upper ends

- Was that... was that nothing to her? Is she used to doing something like that? Pleasuring men in this way? No, no, there must be something else, it can't be, I refuse to believe this - Obito's character arc of coping and seething at Deidara's likely lack of virginity continues

- again, the dude is perma stuck in his childhood perception of relationships between men and women. and it's all rainbows and unicorns and everyone remaining "pure" until marriage and blushing when they hold their hands

- yes, I made a point not to mention the fact the Obito's still clutching at Deidara's arm as he waves his arms around

- "but they hadn't managed to figure out that I replaced myself with a clone at the last moment. Must have exploded in their fucking faces," the girl sniggers" - it never really made sense to me that Deidara digs himself out and knows what had taken place after he left his clone. Again, the returning memory is a feature of Shadow Clones (as far as I remember), and Deidara is using his own Clay Clones. Even if the Clay Clones can somehow give Deidara the details regarding the events they see, that one would explode and vanish before Kakashi finished sucking it all in into Kamui (insert joke about alternative universe where Obito sitting in Kamui gets blasted with a fucking full scale explosion), so he shouldn't know it all from that either. And Deidara shouldn't have stayed behind after replacing himself with a clone, he'd be speeding underground away from Konoha gang, so no way for him to see it either. Anyway, I guess this is kind my way of fixing a case of author's omnipotence

- oh yeah and Deidara did train with a Clay Clone back in LTFG. I actually included all of the models she would be shown to use in the following arc

- "Konoha's got some freaky dojutsu, I'll give those shits that, but no, none of them noticed the change, hm." - so, to put into perspective how little screen time Deidara's chase actually has, the entire "activate Mangekyo - lose arm - get shit beaten by Naruto - Naruto loses it - team Gai runs into Deidara - Deidara does the funny and explodes" happens in a span of just 2 chapters (and we don't really see him after he leaves the cave, the entire Sasori vs Chiyo and Sakura never changed focus to any other POV). After checking I know realize that the "So that's what Byakugan looks like" or something like that said by Deidara was actually something that only happened in the anime, because manga shows Deidara being caught by Gai and others and then we instantly cut to them fighting. Well, whatever, it's not that of a stretch to assume that this is Deidara's first time meeting a Byakugan user

- "Byakugan is super powerful, like super-duper! I've heard that it's supposed to be even stronger than Itachi-san's family jutsu!" a pretty funny load of bullshit, "There's no way that dead-fish-eye guy could have missed your clo–!" - we want Deidei to be praised, so here's a reason for her to be praised by Obito (in his mind, but nonetheless). Deidara had a Byakugan and a Sharingan focused on her at the moment of going kaboom, and yet neither Kakashi nor Neji noticed anything off about clone's chakra patterns? Goddamn baby girl, chill out, how good are your clones.

Also of course couldn't miss the opportunity to dunk on Kishimoto's "oh Byakugan is supposed to be waaay stronger than Sharingan" from OG Naruto. Yeah, I am sure it is, mister "let me slap invincibility and literal alternative dimensions on Sharingan"

- "What the fuck do you think you know about dojutsu, hm?!" - babygirl he's got one🤭🤭🤭🤭

- "Quality of clone aside, did you actually dare to use it in Nine-Tails jinchuriki's vicinity? Were you attempting to sabotage Akatsuki?" - Uchiha "had Yagura under control for years and the kid still somehow wound up dead, with Isobu gone to Pure Lands for a second trip in like a decade" Obito 🫶 Baoshu "let me try to steal Sasori's kill and when that doesn't work out explode a clone like ten meters away from Naruto" Deidara. Black Zetsu has to drink some calming tea every evening just so that he is able to deal with these two's bullshit

- "Oh, find a cactus and go fuck yourself with it, Zetsu, hm!" - a reference to either "Dealing with the Devil" or the fact that Deidara's been stuck in a desert for a few days, whichever you prefer

- "even standing at a significantly lower height than both Zetsu and Tobi, without arms at her side, Deidara still manages to look twice as threatening as either of them" - again, Obito is 182, Zetsu is 177 and Deidara is 166. I don't see a reason to change Girldara's height, even in canon he isn't reaching any ceilings with his hand lmao (on that note I remember someone pointing out the 16 cm difference between Obito and Deidara and calling that long distance relationship. I haven't stopped wheezing since then)

- "after licking some of the blood off her lips and chin (Obito tries not to think about how much this movement reminds him of the events in Amegakure)" - Deidara's reconfigured him to the point that at any point in time at least 30% of Obito's thinking takes place in his dick. It's okay, he'll figure things out. Eventually.

- "your throat will hurt if you continue to scream like that, come on, didn't you say that Akatsuki should always keep their coo–" - and that's a reference to what Deidara says to Tobi in LTFG

- "I swear to gods, if I hear you yapping one more time, I'm killing you. Got it, hm?" - while it's not explicitly mentioned, this is supposed to be the very same three strike counter that Deidara does in the original before trying to strangle Tobi. First strike comes from Tobi running around with her arm, second strike comes from Tobi trying to tell her she's supposed to act cool like an Akatsuki member, third is Tobi's comment about the breath play

- "If Deidara saw it, she would be able to recognize it under Madara's mask. Fucking hell, anyone who saw Madara's Sharingan will realize it has the same pattern as Kakashi's." - on a bit of an unrelated note, but I do remember Kishimoto being really fucking inconsisent with drawing activated Mangekyo when it came to Obito, because of course that would kinda blow the entire twist if the readers would see "Madara"'s pattern

- "It was like a hole in the sky. No, not in the sky, in reality itself," a hole in the reality." - I was debating whether to use the term "black hole" in here because ranged Kamui at this point in time pretty much acts like one, but considering the fact that Naruto world is somewhere between middle ages and early industrial age + certain Uchihas literally tried using the moon as a place to show their Sharingan Powerpoint presentation, I realized that they probably don't have a concept of black holes

- "Somewhere that Obito believed to be secure. To be something that no one can touch and where he can not be harmed. A place belonging to just him, his own space where he had absolute control. A sacred, unsullied by this hell territory." - once again Obito is a control freak and learning that he now has to share access Kamui with someone else... well, he is certainly not having a great time

- "It was doing the same swirly-whirly shit as this pumpkin-head's mask over there does, hm." - yeah, Obito, can you explain to the class what was the genius idea behind replicating the effect of Kamui on Tobi's mask, huh? Or the fact that you alter-ego's name is just your name, but the first syllable is dropped, while the other two change their order?

Obito never got discovered not because he's smart, but because everyone else is too stupid.

- "Deep ugly red gashes cover the thin gentle skin there. In a few spots where the skin did not manage to withstand the pressure some smaller traces of blood trickling down her throat were visible"

I think anime is kinda more obvious with Kakashi aiming for Deidara's neck, but you can kind of see it in the manga too. Can't imagine having this near your neck is a pleasant and harmless experience😊😊😊😊and of course everything to make Obito as shit as possible, because not only did his eye chop off Deidara's arm, but also almost decapitated her

- "only to activate Kamui, his only solace in this hell, a place where nothing could have possibly happened without his knowledge, and stumble upon Deidara's severed head" - during editing I realized that Kakashi would have probably sucked in only Deidara's neck, not the whole head, but whatever, this is Obito spiraling, only the worst for him💋

- Deidara used Pussy Grab! It's super-effective!

- "the entire scenario reminding him of how the girl managed to grab at his scarf, leaving him without a breath and choked after the last Akatsuki meeting" - as far as this AU is concerned, this is not the first time Deidara chokes Obito, the first on-screen one was during their game of tag. And it wasn't as bad at the time, Obito wasn't interested at Deidara, and getting choked vertically is not nice. Now getting choked horizontally and in this position...😋😋��😋the monkey brain is back

- "but what made all of his organs instantly shrink in panic was his realization that Deidara's kick was enough for his mask to partially slide off his face"

(what a fucking image)

this is actually a reference to the one and only "death by suffocation" panel where Obito's mask is drawn in such a way the the highest of the swirls actually looks like someone's forehead being slightly revealed. absolutely sure that it wasn't the intention, but nonetheless, felt too funny not to include, "Akatsuki leader's identity almost gets revealed by one angry twink femboy"

- "Now that he's kind of gotten used to Deidara choking him with nothing but her thighs, it wasn't as bad as he originally thought it was." - once again, Obito's on his way to discovering that the list of his kinks is as long as the list of his warcrimes. He is not having fun with this discoveries. Well, at least his brain isn't. But he is freaky. Trust him to run up to Deidara, grab her shoulders and scream "Senpai it's imperative that you sit on my face, humanity's salvation literally hinges on it" after something minor goes wrong with Eye of the Moon.

- "In fact, his voice was probably loud enough to alert all Suna (and an additional secret Iwa) squads nearby to the location of a very intense confrontation taking place between the Akatsuki members (two confrontations, in fact, one being between Deidara and Tobi and the other between Akatsuki's real leader and his forcefully awakened uncontrollable libido)" - poor Suna and Iwa ninja. Imagine hearing some commotion and stumbling upon Akatsuki going freaky.

I don't feel bad for Konoha ninja. After all, canonically Kakashi is riding guy literally at the same time as Obito is getting choked by Deidara

Maybe it's something in the air in the Land of Rivers that makes all Konoha-born men aged 30 act like that?

- "There is no wariness or the usual predatory glint in Black Zetsu's eye. Only quiet triumph." - if you believed Black to have some darker ultirior motives in the choking scene, sorry, but no, he really is just giggling at what a loser Obito is.

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it was a lot of fun writing the difference between Tobi acting and Obito thinking. Also as the time goes on Obito defaults into his 13 year old self insults - garbage/trash/etc

- "which resulted in him accidentally stepping on his own scarf and choking himself some more, just to drive his level of embarrassment for today higher. Making a pathetic "bleah", Obito falls headfirst into the nearest bush, where his series of misfortunes ends" - Obito MUST be bullied under my watch. This man is not getting to look cool in front of Deidei. If she doesn't fall in love with his loser side, then what is the point.

- "Good, thinks vindicated Obito, rubbing at his sore neck you deserve to feel like shit after making me go... through all of that . He even makes a crooked grin when he hears her wet heavy coughing ripping through her entire body." - throughout this chapter there's tiny sprinkles of what is going to happen in the next chapter, and one of the bits is right here. But back to Obito - he's a petty bitch. And a drama queen. A girl is coughing up blood after getting triggered by his stupid comments and all of her injuries? Not as much suffering as he had to go through after almost popping a boner😡😡😡😡

- "So do you know why the Kazekage boy is now alive?" - I swear to god why was everyone so fucking chill about Gaara surviving that shit? Like, the murder organization with expertize in murder murders a guy and the guy gets somehow unmurdered, and everyone asks no questions???

- "Dead as they fucking come, hm! You'd think I wouldn't notice that when I was sitting on him?!"

Obito's head shoots upwards, straining his ears to better hear the conversation that took quite an unexpected turn. His eyebrows unconsciously furrow into frown, lips thinning as he intently watched the girl argue with Zetsus." - if Deidara mentioned her plan to provoke Naruto by sitting on Gaara's corpse, you bet your ass Obito would be running max speed out of Amegakure and into that hideout. He would personally throw Gaara's body into Naruto's face just so he can be Deidara's sofa.

- "Where am I supposed to go next?" Deidara's voice seems... strange. If Obito was not watching her talk, he would have had trouble recognizing it to be hers. It's completely flat and disinterested" - ta-da! we're kind of starting the arc regarding Deidara's past😈

- "This Deidara has empty gray eyes, completely dull and disinterested, deep dark bags beneath them. It was like looking into a corpse's face." - more stuff kind about her past, but now with a quick detail that Obito calls Sasori a laughing corpse and Deidara a silent girl, however now she also remind him of a corpse

And that's it for this chapter! Originally supposed to be one with the following one, but alas the following events are pretty important, so not to end up with a behemoth of a chapter I decided to release this one as is. I should be starting work on the next one pretty soon, so see you there

[rinisasaki]

💮 リニの話 • Kazekage’s Rescue Arc 💮 . . . Rini sprinted through the forest, her heart pounding as she closed the distance. Sasori and Deidara had to be mid-battle by now, and as the fastest Akatsuki member, it was her job to back them up.

Something felt wrong. A creeping unease gnawed at her, growing stronger the closer she got. Then she felt it—the chakra signatures. Sasori’s was steady, but two others were weakened. A clear indicator of the obvious victory, right?

[ “I’m close...” ]

Reaching the cliffside, Rini skidded to a halt. Below her was chaos—a massive crater where their hideout had been. Her stomach twisted as her eyes locked on the battle below, Sasori surrounded by destruction, his core swapped to a different body, now running to cut down the two girls below.

“Die!!”

Time seemed to slow. The old woman’s hands moved in a final, desperate attempt to counter. Sasori surged ahead, unrelenting, even as two puppets closed in on him, swords gleaming in each hand.

Why wasn’t he dodging? Tunnel vision? No—this wasn’t like him at all...

He wasn’t ignoring the danger. He had no intention of avoiding it.

The realization hit her like a bolt— In that instant, her body moved on its own, instinct driving her forward. She didn’t have time for a jutsu, no time to think. All she could do was act, throwing herself between him and the swords, a desperate shield for the only part of him that truly mattered—his core.

SHWING

The sound of piercing flesh rang through the battlefield.

“What..?” Chiyo’s eyes widened.

The wounds that pierced the young woman were immediately engulfed in healing green lights where each sword pierced her delicate pale skin.

To heal all 4 wounds while being pierced... What incredible skill and chakra control! Chiyo’s thoughts were interrupted upon the young woman coughing up blood, looking up at her with fierce red eyes. The hatred burned bright.

“I’ll kill you...!”

The sealing technique was complete. This fuinjutsu closed all tenketsu while trapped within its center. Sasori wouldn’t be able to move since he only moved because of his chakra, but the girl, being human, could still do so if she were not so badly injured. Due to this, the girls own healing jutsu slowed until it died out, her own chakra now blocked.

【Ｔｏ　ｂｅ　ｃｏｎｔｉｎｕｅｄ．．．】

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© Rini Sasaki belongs to me. © Chiyo, Sasori, and Naruto the series belongs to Masashi Kishimoto

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[the-winds-of-sunagakure]

This Episode was Gold 😂🩵

Did you like it?

[sagemoderocklee]

pleas my beloved, tell me more about cats guide and secret liaisons im blowing u so many kissies about it also hi it’s kel

genuinely was like "is that kel?" when i saw the start of this ask cause who else would be callin me 'my beloved' XD

ANYWAYS! i am sooooo excited for both these fics and it's a travesty that SL is still so far out... i NEED to work on Honor Bound T___T but god the editing on Alliance... and just the years and years its been since Alliance and how much my view of like EVERYTHING has changed...

okay so let's start with A Cat's Guide, which is a gift fic for @ghoste-catte (surprise!) that has been sitting for like 2 years now and was prompted by a video of a cat living in an apartment that i saw. this cat was like obsessed with the neighbor and always wanted to visit him, and i thought it would make a cute story from cat!Shukaku's pov as he tries to set up Gaara with his cute, nice neighbor who always gives Shukaku fresh salmon whenever Shukaku slips out of his own apartment to go visit Lee. it's 9 chapters cause you know cats have 9 lives (and i have years worth of gift fics for greyson to make up for) and the chapter titles are structured like a self-help sort of book and im genuinely so excited to work on this fic i just suck at getting anything started. but here's the opening:

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Step One: Selecting an Ideal Match

Shukaku had been around for at least as long as Gaara had been alive, but for a cat pushing twenty-one he was a surprisingly healthy beast, except for the arthritis that had set in some six or seven years ago. Not that this deterred him in the least.

Quite the contrary, Shukaku spent much of his time climbing things he shouldn't and jumping from places far too high.

Yet however much trouble he managed to get into, Shukaku was a cat of breeding, and he took himself quite seriously. He did not, for instance, protest at the groomers because he liked to be clean; he did not, as a matter of pride, shove his face into his food dish and gobble it up; and he only slept on the nicest, softest cat beds money could buy. He ate expensive food, slept on expensive things, and shat in premium cat litter.

All in all, Shukaku was spoiled, and he liked it that way.

He was also picky, persnickety, and prone to biting for no discernible reason—at least, not as far as his human could tell. If Shukaku had been able to explain himself, he'd have told Gaara he was quite the sensitive soul and sometimes his mood simply got the better of him.

Gaara's brother might not be so sympathetic, having been on the receiving end of one of Shukaku's many fits of fury, but Gaara was understanding despite the language barrier.

(And that's all I have besides chapter breakdowns and chapter titles)

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and now to Secret Liaisons, which is the third installment to the Allied Nations Saga and at one point was the FINAL part of it back when it was a trilogy, but I knew that there needed to be a fourth fic to that series because there were too many questions left unanswered at the end of SL.

So without spoiling anything for HB, SL continues to follow the ensemble cast with Gaara and Lee being like the main protagonists. This is yet another political drama and it starts off with a blow to Gaara and Lee.

SL is also where GaaLee actually comes into play, but I'm trying not to spoil too much so we'll leave it vague enough. However, I do have lots of snippets for this fic and can share the prologue because I'm just that generous. (Please keep in mind, I wrote this prologue like... 14 years ago and my writing has since evolved):

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“We await your decision, Kazekage-sama.” The council rose as one, filing out of the room, leaving Gaara to sit with his thoughts, his siblings sharing significant looks over his head.

“Gaara,” Temari began, reaching for her brother.

Gaara rose quickly, stepping out of her reach. “I have things to take care of.”

Temari and Kankurou watched Gaara leave, helpless to do anything else.

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“You wanted to see me, Kazekage-sama,” Lee said, bowing before Gaara’s desk.

Gaara turned from Lee, rising to his feet and moving to the window overlooking his village. This was his home, it was everything he had fought to protect in the war, it was the most important bond he had. He was the Kazekage of Suna, first and foremost, but that knowledge did little to sooth him.

“Do you miss Konoha?” he asked, not daring to glance at Lee.

“Of course,” Lee said, certain as always. “It is my home and my friends are there, my sensei. But I am happy here.”

Gaara didn’t reply, watching as a child ran past on the street, chasing a ball. It was his job to protect that child, to protect that child’s mother and father. The choice should not have been so difficult to make. He loved his village powerfully, he loved his people and his siblings just as much. They were a part of Suna.

Lee was not.

“I… have no more need of you,” Gaara whispered to the wind, not daring to turn around, almost hoping Lee hadn’t heard.

Silence stretched between them for a minute before Lee found his voice, cracked and uncertain. “I—beg your pardon, Kazekage-sama?”

Gaara closed his eyes, fisting the fabric of his Kage robe above his heart. “I am sending you back to Konoha.”

“Wha—but—why?! Have I done something to upset you? Whatever it is, I will make up for it! I will not do it again! I promise!”

Gaara shook his head. “You are a liability. You cannot stay here.”

“I do not understand,” Lee said, his words shaky and broken.

“It is not complicated: You will return to Konoha. I am releasing you from my service.”

“I—but I swore to stay by your side. I swore to always—you accepted me! Why would you do this?”

“Because I have no other choice.”

Lee was silent save for the heavy breathing that seemed to fill Gaara’s ears, making them ring. He had prepared for Lee to fight him on this, he had known Lee would want answers, but he had not been ready for the obstacle his own feelings created.

“Do you not trust me anymore?”

Gaara turned enough to glance at Lee over his shoulder. Lee’s expression was crumpled, his eyes wet and his lip trembling. In that moment, Gaara understood the power he had over Lee: the power to break him by words alone. He had never known that power and he never wanted to again.

“Kazekage-sama?” Lee asked desperately when the silence went on for too long.

Gaara’s vision swam for a second and he turned away. “With my life. That is the problem.”

“But why? What have I done? Why would you send me back?”

“Because the council does not trust you and my trust in you gives them reason to doubt me.”

Lee faltered, the words he’d been about to speak dying on a choked back sound, as though he were trying to keep from crying. Gaara could not stand to look at him anymore. “This is… temporary, right? Until they see, until you convince them—”

“No, Lee,” Gaara said, his knuckles white against the windowsill. “You will return to Konoha permanently. We are done.”

“N-no, I cannot accept that!” Lee cried suddenly. “Y-you cannot just send me back—I—you are everything to me. I have given my life to protect you—”

“Then honour your promise and leave,” Gaara said harshly, turning to stare at Lee. “If you wish to protect my life, then protect my title as Kazekage and leave Suna.”

Lee reeled, lowering his head. “I did not mean to speak so forcefully, Kazekage—”

“I am not your Kazekage. You are no longer bound to me.”

Lee closed his eyes tight, his hands in fists at his side that shook with the effort Lee exerted to hold his tongue. He took in a shaky breath, his eyes on Gaara’s feet. “I will a-always be bound to you, Kazekage-sama. Even if I leave…”

“You are a fool to think that,” Gaara said. “When you return to Konoha, in time you will forget your loyalties to me.”

“Forgive me, but you are wrong,” Lee said passionately, looking up at Gaara, his eyes hard and wet. “I will never forget this bond.”

Gaara stared, wide-eyed at Lee. “Why are you so determined to stay with me?”

Lee looked away, hiding his gaze. “Because you are important to me. Why should I waver in my affections for you? Why should I deny my loyalties when they mean so much?”

Gaara had no answer, but Lee’s words would not change their situation, no matter how much they both wanted them to.

“You will go back to Konoha. This matter is no longer up for debate.”

Lee closed his eyes, his face still turned away. “…as you wish, Kazekage-sama.”

“Don’t—”

Lee bowed and turned, leaving before Gaara could say more, the door clicking gently closed behind Lee. Gaara let out a shaky breath, sitting back down at his desk and pulling his official statement to the council towards him.

Rock Lee will return to Konoha…

The words blurred for a moment and Gaara blinked several times before his vision cleared, the report now stained with several drops that smudged the ink. Gaara set his brush down, staring at the report, only distantly aware of the wetness on his face and the ache in his chest.

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I would definitely want to edit this before actually posting. I don't really like how choppy it is from that very first extremely brief scene which is just the like obvious tail end of a council meeting, and i think the actual pros are just… not great. i can def do better. but this is like the main obstacle of the fic and well I'm sure you can guess who these liaisons are between based on that lol

anyways <3 thanks beloved for the ask! hope you enjoyed these and they satisfied your curiosity

[red-headed-mrs-den]

AO3 Wrapped (author's edition)

In chronological order, the fics I posted this year are:

Kazekage Revival: Dissolving Blood

Premeditated

GaaSaku Fanfest 2024

Betting it all for Sweets

Empty Words

Gold and Wind: Echoes of a Forgotten Love

Stats of 2024

Works Published: 6 (one of these is a compilation of 18 stories)

Work Subscriptions: 53

Kudos: 204

Comment Threads: 34

Bookmarks: 50

Hits: 4,116

Word Count: 116,477

Top 3 fics of 2024 by kudos:

Premeditated

GaaSaku Fanfest 2024

Betting it all for Sweets

Top 3 fics of 2024 by word count:

GaaSaku Fanfest 2024

Premeditated

Empty Words

Top 3 ships of 2024:

GaaSaku

SasuSaku

Rasa x Karura

Top 5 tags of 2024:

No Beta we die like Neji

Idiots in Love

Gaara is technically a zombie

BAMF Haruno Sakura

Medical Jargon

@tiredfiver look at this tag list.

[whotookmysenbon]

You've mentioned wisteria and deathcaps so far, so I'm guessing you're more a fan of plant-based toxins than animal- and metal-based ones like what Suna uses. Do you have a favorite to work with?

Ohohoh. Finally, a good fucking ask. Yes! I use mostly plant and fungus based poisons rather than metallic animal sourced poisons. This is for a variety of reasons. I'll break it down by type. (Editing note, throwing this under a read more cut because I got carried away and wrote an essay. Ino says it's rude to clog people's feeds with unwanted ridiculously long posts.)

Metallic poisons.

These are rare in Konoha because of the elements needed to make these poisons. Suna uses them occasionally but mostly it's Iwa and Kumo that are known for their metallic poisons. I don't use them because they're almost impossible for a cloak and dagger assassin like myself to use reliably. I'd be better off just dumping a bucket of acid on someone. They take weeks or even months to show symptoms, but once it's there you aren't stopping it. Metallic poisoning is almost always a 100% fatality. Lead, Chromium, Arsenic, those are all used in infiltration assassinations. The long plan, make it look like an accident type. Although, there was a case in Suna a while back about the Kazekage's brother nearly being taken out by a fast acting Mercury based poison, so I guess there are exceptions. You have to be careful with that though, because it is impossible to build up a resistance to metallic poisons. There is no antidote, no cure other than ripping the poison from the body via either extreme dilution or a prodigiously skilled medical nin.

Animal sourced poisons and venoms

These actually used to be Konoha's calling card, in the second shinobi war. Our huge centipedes are still used for venom occasionally when we want to make an example out of someone and make it clear Konoha did this. There's a problem with them though. The lesser problem is most animal venoms and poisons, while extremely fast acting, are curable with an antivenom or antidote. Still, with how fast they work it's pretty easy to circumvent that. It's not like puff-adder or water cobra antivenoms are included in field kits. No, the real reason this is far more rarely used is because the last real animal sourced poisons expert was Orochimaru. He used poison in everything in the second shinobi war and it kinda became one of his signatures. Then he passed the mantle of venom specialist onto Anko (who still technically holds that title to this day but rarely uses it) and retired to work on his ninjutsu and medical studies and we alllllll know how that ended up. Long story short, venoms and animal based poisons like from frogs and whatnot are far, far more heavily regulated because of how Orochimaru used them (which is stupid, a weapon is a weapon, it bears no hold on the wielder) and a pain to get ahold of unless a mission specifically requests it. So despite Konoha's surplus of venomous giant insects and tree snakes and home to the whole poisonous insect division with the Aburame, we tend to shy away from those stuff. (Except in war time, in which anything goes and if the only thing I have to tip my senbon in is rubbing them on the backs of whatever brightly colored frog I find, I'm gonna use it.)

Plant based poisons:

My specialty! Plant and fungal poisons are many, and easy to misdiagnose. Really fucking easy. Oh you have a fever and some stomach pain? You think you have a cold SIKE IT WAS SHROOMS AND YOUR FUCKIN DEAD-

And! With the forest of death and Lord First's leftover chakra absolutely everywhere, Konoha is great for growing poisonous plants. I personally prefer hemlock and nightshade because they get the job done fairly quickly, and are easy to slip into food. But when I get to have a little more fun with the target... Datura is hilarious, especially when mixed with wisteria. Because what's more fun than killing some asshole in cold blood, when you can make that same asshole wander in circles for three hours screeching at hallucinations and shitting himself and then choking on his own blood. Anyways. There's my little expose. Oh! Chakra poisons are also a thing, but nobody knows what the fuck they are or how to counter them really. Mostly the Aburame are familiar with them and hate them because it kills their freaky bugs.

[hinata6uchiha]

I’ve been working on Shadows in Bloom and Glass Tears on and off. I’m planning on updating both sometime tonight.

I’m hoping I do…😅

The chapters are already finished! I promise they are. I just have to edited them first and then post!

Here are snippets: 🤭🤭🤭

Shadow in Bloom ch. 9 snippet:

His hand slid from her cheek to cradle the back of her head, his fingertips tangling gently in her hair. He tilted his head slightly, deepening the kiss just a fraction, savoring the small, surprised gasp that escaped her before she kissed him back. There was something sweet and soft in the way she responded to him, but it ignited a fire in his chest. He wanted to keep kissing her until he lost track of time until breathing became optional.

But eventually, he pulled back—barely. Their faces were still so close that he could feel her breath against his lips, and could see the red creeping all the way to the tips of her ears. He lowered his head slightly, his lips brushing just over the shell of her ear as he whispered, his voice husky and teasing, “Keep looking at me like that, Hinata, and I might forget we’re at your front gate…you’re making it hard for me to behave.”

Glass Tears ch. 37 snippet:

Sasuke took a step forward, his voice lowering to a quiet, menacing edge. “Does Naruto know the Kazekage-sama has a thing for her?” He let the words hang, his lips curving into a smug smirk when he saw the faint flicker of surprise in Gaara’s usually unreadable expression. That subtle crack in his demeanor sent a surge of satisfaction through Sasuke.

For the first time, he felt like he had the upper hand. “You’re awfully attentive to her,” Sasuke continued, his tone laced with mockery. “What’s the matter? Can’t find someone in Suna to occupy your time?”

Gaara didn’t respond at first, his calm exterior returning quickly. But when he finally spoke, his words were like a blade slipping between ribs. “It’s almost amusing how obvious you are, Sasuke. All that control you pride yourself on, gone the moment someone so much as glances her way. Insecurity doesn’t suit you.”

I think you all will enjoy the upcoming chapters!