#Madara ! is ! not ! the ! most ! insane ! of ! the ! two !

[actuallysaiyan]

Hey, I notice that your request box is open, mind if I requested a family hcs with Madara, Indra and Izuna?

warnings: mentions of breeding, slight suggestive content, mentions of trauma word count: 0.8k pairings: Indra Otsutsuki x Fem!Reader, Madara Uchiha x Fem!Reader, Izuna x Fem!Reader

Indra

Indra doesn’t realize that he wants to be with you at first. You’re too soft, too sweet. But then he begins to spend more time with you.

The more time he spends with you, the more he falls in love. It takes very little time after that for him to claim you as his and to get you pregnant. He is the first in the Uchiha family to have the blessed(cursed) breeding kink.

While you’re pregnant, he is very overprotective. Stays with you almost all day and all night. He won’t let most people around you. Just the midwives and the doctors.

Once your first child is born, Indra becomes hellbent on making sure the child has a good life. He will raise them so well and be soft and gentle with them.

Seeing you with his baby just makes him even more turned on. He wants to breed you even more, but he understands he needs to give you time to recover.

You’ll be pregnant a lot when you’re with Indra. He takes good care of you and the kids. He won’t make anyone feel left out. But he will possibly favor his first born at times, and they have a very special bond.

The children love to train with him, and even if he can be harsh at times, he does what he can to show them tenderness and affection. His curse of love runs deep within each and everyone of them, even affecting you as well. All in all, Indra is a decent family man.

Madara

Madara is very protective of you. He falls for you so deeply, and he doesn’t intend on sharing you with anyone. Hashirama is the one who officiates your marriage. Then you’re blessed with becoming an Uchiha.

While on your honeymoon, Madara gets you pregnant. He’s so happy and over the moon. He will keep you safe the entire time, not allowing too much excitement nor will you have too many people bothering you.

The Uchiha family will grow immensely with him as the clan head and you as his wife. You will have many children together. He can’t help himself, he finds you so beautiful when you’re pregnant and motherly.

Your children cling to you a lot, as they are a bit afraid of their strong and gruff father. Still, he softens up quite a bit when they spend time with him. And they love their uncle Izuna and uncle Hashirama.

Madara finds himself growing a little too soft at times when his children are begging to play with them. He wants to give them the childhood he never got to experience. But that trauma can sometimes get the best of him.

They all train to become shinobi, but not because they need to fight, but because they want to be shinobi just like him. Madara is very proud of each and every one of them. He’ll give them tips to improve.

Your clan grows more and more, leaving you to have a very happy life with Madara. And the two of you are able to grow old together and just enjoy your lives with your children thriving and becoming the next generation of shinobi.

Izuna

Izuna is shy at first. After surviving the attack from Tobirama, he doesn’t even consider himself worthy of love. He spends his time boozing and whoring around. Then he meets you and his heart only beats for you.

It takes him a long time to realize that he’s allowed to fall in love. When the time comes for you two to get married, his brother is the first person he tells. Madara gives you both his blessings.

Izuna becomes insanely obsessed with breeding you. The Uchiha breeding kink hits him harder than his brother. He is a man on a mission, and you barely remember much from your honeymoon except the color of the bedsheets.

When you return home, you’re already pregnant. And as you continue going through the pregnancy, Izuna becomes insanely protective over you. He’s not letting you out of his sight. He keeps a tight hold on you.

Izuna cries the moment he gets to hold his firstborn. And this is something that continues with each child afterwards. You help the Uchiha clan grow so much, as Izuna pretty much keeps you pregnant.

He’s good with the kids. Having a family has really opened his eyes and made him see how much he’s happier to have been given a second chance at life. They all love their father so much and cling to him.

Izuna enjoys being able to grow old with you by his side and to have all these amazing kids. He knows that no matter what they decide to be when they grow up, he’ll always be there to back them up and support them.

[belit0]

Hi! Having been reading this blog for some weeks and a request just pooped in my mind, How would the Uchiha deal with a jelaous and possesive s/o?

Hey there darling! Glad to have u around!!

I literally lost this file in my writing folders and started to think that I hallucinated writing it, but here it is🥹🫱🏼‍🫲🏼

Indra

- Insanity feeds back on itself. Indra is the epitome of toxicity, the one who can't see (Y/N) talking to any man, needing to have her all to himself in every way. That his wife handles the same terrible language makes things easier, and provides quite interesting sex. Completely on his game.

Madara

- Adorable at times, exhausting at others. Madara himself has his issues with jealousy and possessiveness, but fights with all his might to overcome those terrible urges. Having someone unwittingly encourage him to engage in it is counterproductive, leading him astray. Sometimes it looks like a sign of love to him, until he comes to his senses.

Izuna

- The biggest NO in the world. Izuna is too free spirited to deal with that kind of crap, he finds it the most unattractive thing in the world. He doesn't waste time with the same woman for more than two nights, and when these comments come up, he realizes it's time to run away, get away from her, disappear from her life. He will never contact her again.

Obito

- The lines between cute and bad get blurred all the time, and (Y/N)'s attitudes make him feel comfortable enough in a bad way to express his own toxicity without problems. Obito knows it's wrong, but in an environment where jealousy is rife he doesn't care, and is even grateful to be able to be himself without fear.

Shisui

- He ghosts her faster than it takes a person to blink. Shisui, on the same side as Izuna, doesn't share his valuable personal time with troublemakers. Yes, he has broken more than one heart, but not necessarily for these kinds of reasons. At the first hint of such craziness, he abandons any contact with (Y/N), and stops answering her messages from one day to the next.

Itachi

- Let's talk about it. Itachi knows it's wrong, he identifies it perfectly, but he won't abandon (Y/N) alone with her problems. He encourages her to solve it, and every time a jealous accusation appears, he proposes a safe space to discuss it and fix the problem, always understanding and attentive to any context.

[bestnarutoduo]

Propaganda

Edo Tensei

Not even death can save you from the ninja military complex

Tobirama really said ‘you’ve just died it’s not big deal. Get up and keep fighting’ and Orochimaru took it even further and did it to ALL THE HOKAGE ***

Tengai Shinsei

The name in english is insane (heavenly obstacle quaking star***)

The jutsu madara used to summon not one, but TWO meteors on the allied shinobi forces.

Insane jutsu

Bro just drops meteors on people whenever he wants

Does he pull them from space? Take the material from somewhere on on earth and form it int he sky and then drop it? Does it just materialize?

What’s going on with this jutsu???

Dude can just do the cretaceous-tertiary mass extinction event whenever he wants

WHERE DID HE LEARN THIS?

WHO INVENTED THIS?

WHO THOUGHT ‘Oh i know what will be awesome, a jutsu that drops meteors on people!’

Sasuke out here fighting dinosaurs in boruto, meanwhile Madara is the one who friggen killed them all

[achilleslyre]

ello jitter !! 12, 15, 16 and 19 :)

hiiii kyro!

putting this under the cut cause it’s a long one

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

i feel like i could put quite a few characters here tbh it’s hard to pick. i’m at a tossup between saying obito (extremely hated but does certainly have a group of fans) or shino (forgotten by everyone but 5 people). they are two different types of unpopular. i feel like all my mutuals hate obito though so let me (sloppily, lazily) make my case

1. he is an uchiha

2. groomed and manipulated immediately coming out of an insanely traumatic experience (flat fuck friday) when he is most vulnerable

3. on a team with kakashi and minato (worst thing that happened to him)

4. in his groomed and manipulated mind he did think that he was doing good and solving pointless shinobi death and war.. was bad but is an interesting concept

5. not to point out madara literally put a seal over his heart and as soon as it was broken and he had his faults pointed out to him he changed his ways and realized what he was doing was Bad

6. tobi is silly, obito acting as madara acting as tobi

7. leader of the akatsuki, a based group

8. i do actually find it quite interesting that he shows a different aspect to how it can be to be groomed than to how sasuke or itachi show it. groomed kids aren’t always plotting revenge against the groomer or doing what needs to be done but “”protecting”” what’s most important. sometimes groomed kids will wholly believe in what their groomer has created and will carry that on. it’s just an interesting perspective to me.

9. torments kakashi #deserved

10. he is an uchiha

15. that one thing you see in fanart all the time

before i answer the real question that fanart of tobirama riding a bike with his dick print front and centre haunts me

smth i see all the time tho….. mmm i’m sure there’s something more bothersome to me but why are there so many people drawing gaara as if the black around his eyes is eyeliner. as if it wasn’t stated it’s eyebags because he doesn’t sleep so he can keep control of shukaku. also every modern au fashion style for itachi. i can’t decide what his style is but none of that is certainly it. it all irks me.

16. you can’t understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, ect)

i hateeeee the ‘naruto is a sunshine boy’ characterizationnnnnnnn he’s literally so mean to people all the time. sure he’s optimistic and is very friendly but when people always depict him as a solely kind and gentle and ‘pure sunshine’ it makes me dance with the block button. when a chararacter is sun coded and they’re happy-go-lucky, radiating kindness <<<<< when a character is sun coded and burns so bright and hot you need protection and cover because he’s dangerous and a spitfire

19. you’re mad/ashamed/horrified you actually like

see if you asked me this months ago it would have been a simple itachi but unfortunately i have grown to accept that part of me. so i will say the war arc #sorry i just really like the bijuu and obito is there a lot so i cannot help it. don’t get me wrong it’s not good but i have a very soft place in my heart for it

[kishimotomasashi]

I love your takes on the Uchiha clan so I wanted to ask you what do you think of the curse of hatred?? Do you think Kishimoto really intended it to be a genetic curse or do you think he provided a different explanation for it in the text?? What do you think of Tobirama’s view in it??

So in the manga canon, there seem to be two versions of what the fans call "curse of hatred": Obito's, since he's the one who actually uses the term (which he said as Madara, meaning he likely got it from him), and Tobirama's, who provides the "scientific" explanation for why the Uchiha are Like That. Each are respectively in chapters 462 and 619 for reference, I don't feel like screenshotting, lol.

There are also different in-universe reasons for why each character says either. Obito's subscribes to Madara's brand of fatalism, in which he believes that shinobi history never straying from interminable violence for most of its duration proves that they are all beyond saving. Tobirama views the Uchiha with suspicion as a result of having been at war with them for most of his life, and is especially anxious regarding what Madara became and the possibility of anyone else going the same route.

I don't know what Kishimoto actually intended because I don't live in his brain, but from what I gather based on the story, what we're supposed to understand as the "curse of hatred" is more Obito's definition than Tobirama's, since his is eventually the one that matters in the series climax (the whole Indra/Ashura reveal); so a destiny initially understood to be inescapable, but that they will eventually escape because of the power of friendship, and all that. Which isn't to say that I think what Tobirama says about the Uchiha doesn't matter: along with his explanation pretty much just putting into words how the we've seen the sharingan work so far, he describes the Uchiha's propensity for going insane with a different sort of determinism, though one whose imagined consequences are barely distinguishable from the way Obito talks about them as fate. Two sides of the same coin.

But funnily enough, he's a bit more hopeful about it than Obito/Madara seem to be: he does believe in the ability of certain Uchiha to overcome this genetic predisposition to being evil of theirs, which he defines as, uh, being more loyal to the village. We've all gone over why this sucks as a narrative probably a billion times by now so I don't need to go into all of that specifically— but, if we decide to accept that premise for a second, it looks to me like the intention with what Tobirama says within the context of the scene he says it in (which is Sasuke asking the past Hokage to define what a shinobi village is, or is supposed to be, and whether Konoha is worth protecting based on that answer) is that it's supposed to fall in line with the "we can achieve peace if we all forget our differences and work together" theme. True, the Uchiha are like this, but they can also overcome this and work for the greater good, and the whole encounter Sasuke has with the Hokage ends on a hopeful note.

Basically it's more or less "everyone else was a lost cause, but you don't have to be" as a hopeful message. Which is Not Very Good, in my personal opinion, when the context is a whole population, children included, being wiped off of the face of the Earth for the actions of a few. So my opinion of the "curse of hatred" the way it's presented in canon is that it just falls into the typical poorly thought out "fate is real" thing that plagues the latter half of the series.

I think I have a stronger opinion against it when it starts being used by fans of the show in discussions. Though I think we're all long past the era in which these arguments were everywhere (or at least I don't hang around in spaces where they're used), I still hold a grudge against every person who used the idea of the "curse of hatred" to defend the UCM, which was often always in order to shield Itachi specifically from criticism for going along with it and it was like... why are we subscribing to the idea of a group of people genetically being predisposed to evil in order to justify why it was necessary that they died right now. Hello.

[thottyimagines]

which ones drink water as if its the best thing in the world ? i imagine that sakura drinks it as if she hasnt had water in days even tho she just drank some 20 mins ago

gai n rock lee as well, but with less ferocity as sakura

Naruto chugs water with a two-handed toddler grasp on the bottle, each and every time. This is probably because he waits until he's insanely dehydrated before he even thinks to do something about it.

Sakura is indeed gulping that sweet, sweet ambrosia Konoha tap water.

Not only do Might Guy and Rock Lee funnel water like they're in frat boy drinking competitions, they also get weekly IV infusions of electrolytes like the wealthy do to avoid hangovers. They aren't hungover, though. They're just looking to be extra hydrated.

Hashirama would enter the river that he and Madara became friends at and just swim with his mouth wide open so he could take in as much water as possible at once, like a whale feeding on krill.

Obito used to take these insane gasping gulps of water in his youth that would piss Kakashi off like nothing else.

Hidan walks around with one of those plastic gallons of water for easy, obnoxious hydration.

Also, to note, on the opposite end: Sasuke and most other Uchihas, Kabuto, and also Jiraiya are crusty and desperately dehydrated.

[rainbowfey]

Day 21: Swoon

@flufftober

Izuna was already waiting when Madara arrived at the training ground. For some reason that he couldn’t quite comprehend, Izuna had taken a liking to this rather remote area and now wanted to meet up there increasingly often. Sure, it did offer a peaceful and quiet environment and Madara did see the charm of the yellow and red trees swaying softly at the edge of the forest, accompanied by the soft gurgle of the creek close by. Due to its remote location, their training also often went undisturbed which was another benefit. They hadn’t planned on training today, however, and Madara wasn’t sure why Izuna had asked him to meet him here.

Izuna was resting on one of the benches, his legs outstretched and a calm expression on his face. He only looked up when Madara came to a halt in front of him. “Hi there,” he said, a half-smile on his face.

“Why am I here?” Madara asked, staring at his brother. He was no big fan of pleasantries, especially not with Izuna who he knew so well that they might as well be able to read the other’s mind. Well, at least that was the case most of the time. Not today though and thus, he was rather impatient to find out what Izuna wanted from him.

Izuna furrowed an eyebrow and looked at him, squinting. “Really? Not even a ‘hello’ for me?”

Madara sighed and crossed his arms. “Hello. Content now?”

“Not really,” Izuna said and slowly sat up. “Gee, you really need to loosen up a bit. You’re pulling a face right now, are you aware of that?”

Madara had to suppress the childish urge to stick his tongue out at his brother. Instead, he forced a more amendable expression on his face and took a seat next to Izuna. “Better?” he asked.

Izuna grinned at him and nodded. “Way better. In order to not keep you in suspense any longer … I wanted to ask you how your ‘absolutely not a date’ date went.”

Madara’s face fell and he gave Izuna an incredulous look. “For real? You made me go all the way out here just to ask me this one question?”

Izuna sat up and gave him a rather stern look. “Well, you wouldn’t have told me a thing if there was even the slightest possibility of anyone else listening. So, yes, that’s why.”

Madara had to admit to himself that Izuna did have a point but he wasn’t about to let him in on that. So he left it at a vacuous grunt and shrugged. “I don’t really know what to tell you,” he said dismissively, well aware that Izuna would let him get away this easily.

And he was proven right when Izuna huffed indignantly and shook his head. “I want to know everything,” he said emphatically. “Every detail, everything you talked about, literally everything!”

Madara sighed to himself but he knew that he didn’t have a choice. Not after Izuna’s plan had worked out exactly as planned, giving him the chance to get to know Tobirama a bit better. “Well,” he started and thought about what he wanted to tell his brother. “He did get a bit suspicious after you guys left. He asked me if I had planned for this to happen.” Izuna grinned to himself, his eyes glistening with amusement. “He was right about that, though. Did you tell him?”

Madara shook his head in disbelief. “Obviously not! I think he didn’t really believe me though. He’s way too smart to be deceived like that, you know?”

Izuna looked at him curiously. “How do you know that he’s smart?”

Now it was Madara’s turn to raise an eyebrow. “Haven’t you heard him talk, Izuna? A person as eloquent and attentive as him has to be intelligent. Also, after you left, we talked quite a bit about our favorite books. Did you know that he’s well versed in philosophy?”

From the corner of his eye, he could see Izuna smiling. “No, I didn’t. Seems like you two have a common ground there, huh?”

Madara sat up and before he could stop himself, he already carried on. “Not just there. He’s also very well-read in a broad range of topics and he knows insanely much about weaponry and the nature of jutsus. He even told me about an idea he had for a new jutsu and it is impressive how in depth he knows about the process. He even made his own adjustments so that it would have an even bigger impact.”

Izuna gave him a pensive look and nodded slowly. “That is quite formidable. Only very few shinobi are capable of that.” Madara nodded emphatically. “Well, of course he is. I think I’ve never met anyone with such a sharp mind before … except for me, of course.”

Even he couldn’t stifle his grin at his bold statement and Izuna laughed out loud. “My brother, the epitome of humility,” Izuna grinned. “Okay, so he’s super clever. What about his personality though, did you click?”

Madara paused and thought about it. The whole evening had been a whirlwind of impressions and ideas but throughout all of this, he hadn’t been able to keep his gaze from Tobirama’s gorgeous face. Suddenly, he felt a bit hesitant and he contemplated about how honest he should be with Izuna. After his initial suspicion, Tobirama had indeed relaxed quite a bit and opened himself up more. However, Madara hadn’t been able to read him and he wasn’t sure what to make of Tobirama’s behavior.

“He not only has a sharp mind but a sharp tongue as well,” he grumbled, remembering a couple of sassy remarks that Tobirama had made.

“So, just like you?” Izuna smirked, giving a Madara a playful nudge.

“No,” Madara protested, shooting his brother an indignant glance. “He’s really bold. And he’s so stubborn, my goodness! If he’s convinced that he’s right he can’t be reasoned with. You should’ve seen his stern face when I said that he wouldn’t stand a chance against me in taijutsu!”

Izuna laughed to himself and shook his head but Madara preferred to ignore his reaction. “In that moment, I really wanted to grab him and shake him,” he continued.

Izuna grinned at him. “And kiss him?”

“Yeah!” Madara blurted out before he realized what he had said. “I mean, no! Of course not. Izuna, don’t be silly, I’m not even sure that I like him.”

Izuna gave him a knowing look which triggered Madara even more. He barely noticed that he had started to speak quicker. “I mean, yes. He’s insanely hot and his mind makes him even more attractive. And he has the most gorgeous smile in the whole world but dude, that doesn’t mean that I like him!”

A bit confused, he noticed that Izuna’s gaze wandered over his shoulder, almost like as if he was staring at something behind Madara. He huffed and crossed his arms. “Are you even listening to me? Just because he’s basically Mr. Perfect that doesn’t mean that …,” he trailed off and his eyes widened when he saw Izuna’s amused look, fixated on a point a bit above his shoulder. A sinking feeling started to form in his stomach when it dawned on him.

Izuna’s face lit up with the biggest grin he had ever seen on his brother and his heart skipped a beat when Izuna said to someone that had to be standing behind him. “Hi, Tobirama. What brings you here?”

Madara froze in place, staring at Izuna who visibly relished the situation, grinning like a Cheshire cat. It took him everything he had to force an unfazed expression on his face before he slowly turned around, his heart thundering in his chest.

Tobirama stood only a couple of steps behind them, his hands in his pockets and his face blushing crimson. He looked like as if he wanted the ground to open up and swallow him whole. He avoided Madara’s gaze, shuffling his feet and staring intently at some point below Madara’s face. “I … uh,” he stammered, still blushing intensely. “Hashirama told me I’d find you here. I wanted to …”

He trailed off, staring at the ground helplessly. Madara felt his cheeks burning as well and he gave Izuna the angriest look he could muster. But some part of him quietly rejoiced at Tobirama’s reaction.

He ignored the tingle in his guts and tried to sound as unimpressed as he could. “You wanted to … ask me something?” he guessed.

Tobirama nodded quickly. “Er, yes. There’s something that I need help with and Hashirama said you’d be the one to ask in this matter.”

Madara blocked out Izuna’s triumphant smile and focused on Tobirama. “Sure thing,” he said, “where is it?”

Tobirama hesitated noticeably and his cheeks turned blazing red when he finally muttered, “At my place.”

[kankuroplease]

A potential match for Nagisa is Naori Uchiha

She most likely died before the Uchiha Massacre took place according to her wiki so I’m assuming they’d either be peers or have a just a small age gap

I Hc that they’d already know each other cause of kagami, who’s Nagisas close friend

Nagisa may find her pretty but personality is more important to him, as you’ve mentioned before & her personality fits his ‘type’ very well- she’s calm, kind, selfless yet very independent, skilled & powerful

Since nagisa isn’t really skilled/ experienced when it comes to romance, Aori would def have to play match maker for him

That’d happen sometime after Riki leaves Konoha

Hashirama & Tobirama figure that an arranged marriage between a higher rank senju & an uchiha would eventually prevent an escalation between the two clans after Madaras death (yk similar to nejis and michis tsau marriage)

Aori is not opposed to the idea as long as Nagisa is willing to, which he is as long as it’s with a reasonable person

Aori asks kagami & miu for help. Kagami tells her that nagisa and naori get along pretty well & that she definitely has what it takes to be placed in such a position

Miu would add that she’s seen naori get a little blushy when Nagisas around

Aori & tobirama then arrange a dinner with the potential couple to see if they’re compatible and they are

Naori is one of the few of her clans members who never succumbed to the curse of hatred & upholding peace is very important to her, which is why she’s willing to get married to a senju

Plus I hc she’d like Nagisa regardless since he’s very talented and mature & he’s really really attractive to her too which only makes it easier for her

Nagisa is actually really relieved that his mother picked Naori and remembers all the times miu used to drop hints about Naori being fond of him, which he’d only catch up to now, since the usually very calm Naori, sitting across from him, is now really nervous and flustered as their having dinner to discuss their arranged marriage

That makes nagisa blush a little (tomoe teases him about later)

It wouldn’t take them long to fall in love since they already knew and liked each other before and they’d get married pretty quickly too

Side note: my brain is on coke when it comes to coming up with stuff related to your ocs, it’s a lil insane. Anyways let me know what you think and feel free to add some more ideas or ask questions :))))

Okay I can’t help but picture Tobirama like so because it’s a sold plan.. but it’s an Uchiha bride they’re talking about and his firstborn 🤣

But it’s a solid possibility for Nagisa! The whole arranged marriage deal would actually probably be the only way he’d get married (poor guy). Only downside is that he’d be devastated to out live his spouse, but as shinobi, that can come with the territory.

I love your coke brain for this 🖤

[tsukuyomii45]

You mention in one asked that if Obito and FemObito would teamed up together as warlords in the 4th Shinobi War, it would be so batshit Insane that Madara would look proudly or just leave.

I just want to know what type of batshit insanity these two would bring together as warlords?

Just imagining them spamming a DOUBLE KAMUI makes me worry for the Alliance, LOL

Oh, these two would be the biggest fucking trolls on the battlefield.

Put a batshit crazy bitch and a ruthless calculative warlord together and Madara wouldn't even have to bother resurrecting himself. xD

These two would troll the hell out of Kakashi, Naruto and Gai, even with the Tailed Beasts by using their Kamui to move in and out of dimensions and even using their shapeshifting genjutsu to switch genders just to confuse the shit out of them. They're far more powerful than clones.

I'd like to think that fem!Obito is a powerful genjutsu user and this scares the Tailed Beasts because that means she doesn't have to sweat when it comes to controlling them.

The two of them would literally use their wood release in order to feed the flames of their fire jutsu. A double bakufuu ranbu with the alliance either trapped or skewered with the double usage of Mokuton?? Yeah.. brutal, I know.

They don't even get hurt much because of the Hashirama cells that it built into them - so a wound here and there just sizzles away and they would have enough chakra replenished to continue fighting.

Obito in the canon literally exhausted them. Imagine him and his female counterpart?

They're masters in psychological warfare, they would project all the agony and despair that they carry brutally which makes some members of the alliance resort to giving up. These two can literally turn the tides of the battle towards their favor, and with their strategic coordination they can smoke out the weaknesses of most shinobis and either exploit it or execute a merciless attack on them.

Both of their chakra combined is enough to take control of the Ten-Tails without needing Madara's power. Madara would literally just stand there with his arms crossed watching these two rain down chaos upon chaos and would be like, "What am I even doing here..?"

XD

[belit0]

hi there. i really love ur blog so much!! definitely cant find other blogs that dedicated to our uchiha’s daddies out there than yours!! hshshshhs. 🥵🥵🥵

can i know what will all the uchiha’s reaction especially indra and madara (such a suckers for them.😩😩) toward their s/o that can sing and also dance… i mean dance in sensual way? *winkwink.

Thank you so much for your words!!

Yeah, this blog is completely specific for them, there is no other way around it🤣💕

Indra

- Charming and infuriating all at the same time. He loves her voice, listening to her sing is the beautiful part of the situation, but watching her dance triggers him in many different ways. On one hand it gives him a massive erection, on the other it cooks his brain with the fumes of his own anger. He'll do everything he can to try to stop (Y/N) from dancing and singing in public, keeping her all to himself, but if he can't help it, he'll refuse to even see her, until she decides not to do it anymore.

Madara

- More charming than infuriating, but similar to the Otsutsuki. (Y/N)'s talent never ceases to amaze him, and he adores having someone so versatile in so many ways by his side, it makes life interesting. Of course, when it's private. Madara won't say anything about it, he'll act indifferent to seeing her dance in public or sing, but he'll die inside. He will be at all her performances to make sure no one gets close to her, and will act as her bodyguard in public.

Izuna

-Total arousal. Where did (Y/N) get so much talent and sensuality, and why has she never shown it before? Izuna has a hard-on from the first hip movement, and ends up unbuttoning his pants with the last step of her choreography. Her ability to sing is displayed after he fucks her for several hours, and probably makes her dance naked just for more pleasure. As for her voice, he doesn't think he's ever heard anything like it, but he won't admit it out loud.

Obito

- Panic mode activated. He doesn't know how to act calm in front of such a display of talent, but it is especially the dance that manages to blow his mind. Her voice is calm and soothing, it puts him to sleep and makes him feel safe, but seeing her move that way, with that suggestiveness, in such outrageous clothes... he doesn't know how to hide the fact his cock is getting hard, and doesn't want to look like a quickie who gets turned on by anything. He'll cross his legs and feign insanity until (Y/N) is done, he has no choice.

Shisui

- Her biggest fan. Shisui is the one who sits in the front row and screams for her like he's the director of her fan club and not her boyfriend. He supports her performances and every show she puts on, be it singing or dancing, and the part he enjoys the most is watching her reject men who approach her without needing to be glued by her. Completely confident of his looks and the love between the two of them, the Uchiha loves to see how his wife gets them all off her back, and intervenes when someone doesn't understand.

Itachi

- He keeps it professional, and thinks about kittens and grannies while watching (Y/N) dance. He doesn't want to come off as a disgusting man who gets horny over nothing and thinks with his second head, so he remains stoic throughout the entire performance. It's when she sings he can no longer keep up appearances, and he lets out a few tears of emotion for all that her voice generates in him. The woman has him in a choke hold, and she probably knows it.

[blooming-water-roses]

Fuck it, ShiIta ArtCollege!AU

This is unfinished but I re-read it today and kinda like the banter, so I may write more disasters like this continuing the storyline.

Relevant tags: Crack, Comedy, Adult Humor

Pairings: ShiIta, KakaObi, feat HashiMada

Warnings: Shisui and Itachi are cousins who date in this, kindly don’t like don’t read!

Summary: Konan, Itachi, and Genma are songwriting majors at Konoha Arts, Sasori, Hashirama, and Yamato are wood sculpting art majors, Madara is an audio engineering major, Shisui is a music production major, Kakashi is a creative writing major, Obito is an acting major, Deidara is a clay artist (ofc) and Gaara is glass sculptor.

They all are friends one way or the other, around the same ages, and engage in their usual shenanigans at lunch. Here is their conversation:

“Ya know, it would pay for you and Itachi to quit being so serious all the time.”

As if on cue, the two turn their expressionless gazes to Shisui, who raises his brows. In front of them, Genma and Kakashi snicker.

“Sorry. I don’t have a magical button to change my default mood from ‘neutral constipated’,” Konan says dryly. Genma laughs around the sucker in his mouth.

“Heh, at least you still have a sense of humor.”

“Hey, my ‘Tachi does have a sense of humor. He just doesn’t show it most of the time,” Shisui insists, dramatically rubbing his cheek against Itachi’s own. The younger Uchiha flushes.

“Whose side are you on?” Asks Genma, but the question goes unanswered.

“Shisui, you’re smothering me,” his voice is soft with a hint of annoyance.

“You’re gonna give him a heart attack with your PDA,” Kakashi points out.

“But I want the whole world to know Itachi has my heart.”

“Trust me, the world already knows. Pretty sure you’d be on your third kid together by now if Itachi had a uterus.”

Said man finally widens his eyes as a horrible blush overtakes his cheeks and ears. Shisui even turns red.

“Ope, double homicide. You bulls-eyed the breeding kink.”

That was Genma.

“Why do we even hang out with you?” Itachi is exasperated.

“Entertainment.”

Genma smirks at Konan. “We should date.”

“I’m actually insufferable, gloomy, and weird as fuck. So for your sake I’ll decline.”

He sighs. “You sound like my younger brother rejecting his nineteenth girl of the week.”

As if on cue, Sasori plunks down beside him and looks up at them through his unruly mop of cherry red-dyed hair. His honey eyes are rimmed with a thin line of smoky black, as usual. It’s an aesthetic choice, partly, but also to hide his dark circles. The damn insomniac never sleeps.

“It’s twenty now.”

“Oh? Who was it?”

“Matsuri, that undeclared first year.”

“I thought she liked Gaara?”

“Seems she has a type.”

Genma blinks. “What, insane edgelord sentient candy apples?”

“Only you could come up with such an abomination of a sentence,” Konan tells him with the hint of a grin.

“I’m not a lyricist for nothin’, baby.”

“Baby? You two finally dating?” Sasori asks with mild interest.

“Nope. She rejected me again.”

“Ouch. I’d give you my period-three sculpture as a consolation gift but Deidara put air bubbles in his and blew up the kiln again.”

“I thought he only did that if no one else was using it.”

“He claims he forgot mine was in there since I never use clay.”

“Hmm. Could be. Sorry about your art.”

“I’ll just stick to wood pieces,” Sasori shrugs. “Sleep will be last priority to get my project done on time. I’d hate to make the professor wait.”

“You already do that though. Not sleep, that is. You’re painfully on time. We all know you’re impatient as fuck,” Obito laments the times where Sasori has rushed everyone in order to be on time.

“Guess things are according to plan then.”

“Ah, there he is! My dummy-husband!”

They all look to see Obito just before he plops down beside Kakashi, planting a kiss on his face mask and smiling happily.

“Hey, idiot,” is Kakashi’s fond greeting.

“If it isn’t Grandpa Obito,” Genma wise-cracks, and Obito makes a face.

“We’re the same age as you, Shiranui.”

“And? Maybe if you guys didn’t act like such geezers you’d have been designated better roles in our dysfunctional friend-family.”

“Is that what we are?” Asks Kakashi as Obito interlaces their fingers.

“Yup,” Shisui answers. “We talked about it the other day working the radio station. You and Obito are Grandma and Grandpa. ‘Tachi and I are Mom and Dad. Konan over here is the exhausted yet supremely talented older sister, and Genma and Sasori are the two neighbor kids who are in a love triangle with Konan.”

Konan sighs exasperatedly, and at the same time, she and Sasori say. “There is no love triangle.”

Obito blinks. “You guys are insane.”

“Says the guy who eloped with his boyfriend a week before his junior year.”

“We got the idea from Hashirama and Madara.”

Konan raises a brow. “They’re married?”

“Yeah! They eloped last year. You haven’t noticed their rings?”

“I don’t really pay attention,” she shrugs.

“Madara wears a shit ton of rings and Hashirama wears his on his neck ‘cause he sculpts,” Shisui adds as a further explanation.

“Hashirama’s a damn genius at wood sculpting,” Sasori muses, “His cousin Yamato is talented as hell too. I need to work harder.”

“Can’t punch the gas if it’s already floored,” Itachi reminds, trying to be helpful. Shisui beams at him as if he just wrote a Bible that makes sense and actually solves all of the world’s problems.

“You’re so smart.”

“Or just really neurodivergent.”

“Same thing in my book.”

“He has a point,” Kakashi shrugs.

“Say, what was eloping like?” Shisui asks, arm around Itachi’s waist tightening. “You think me and ‘Tachi could do it?”

“It was great,” Obito grins. “Why not? You two act married anyway.”

Itachi sighs. “Has everyone forgotten we’re cousins? My family would never approve.”

“Eh, what’s the big deal? If you wanna ‘sweet home Alabama’ each other to the Moon and back, you go right ahead,” Genma winks for good measure. “It’s no sweat off my balls.”

Itachi stares, blinking slowly at his fellow songwriter.

“Couldn’t you just have said it doesn’t bother you?” He asks.

“Like a normal person?” Sasori adds in, not hiding his disgust.

“Coming from you, that’s rich,” Genma grins wolfishly, elbowing his brother in the ribs. “None of us are normal at all.”

“Yup. We wouldn’t be wackos who decided to get art degrees otherwise,” Shisui grins broadly. No one misses the rather lovesick, gentle expression Itachi bestows upon his face, but everyone ignores it. It’s as far as Itachi goes with PDA, but damn if it isn’t more potent than an actual physical gesture towards Shisui at making everyone avert their eyes at the display of intimacy.

Except Genma.

“Or wackos in love with their own cousins.”

Itachi’s eyes shift from their warmth to fix Genma with an only half-venomous glare.

“Shut up.”

The Shiranui raises his hands in defense. “We’re all wackos, this is a safe-space. Completely judgement-free zone.”

Despite his tendency to joke, those words are entirely sincere.

[bestnarutoduo]

Propaganda

Body Replacement Technique: Orochimaru Edition

What the heck Orochimaru?

So gross

He can regenerate!?

Heal every wound!

But he also litterally has to vomit out of his own body to do it

How did he think of this technique (snake summons???***)

Seem’s to have a thing for vomiting things up (snakes, sword)

Submitter wishes they could have seen Jiraiya and Tsunade’s reactions to seeing this shit

Tengai Shinsei

The name in english is insane

The jutsu madara used to summon not one, but TWO meteors on the allied shinobi forces.

Insane jutsu

Bro just drops meteors on people whenever he wants

Does he pull them from space? Take the material from somewhere on on earth and form it int he sky and then drop it? Does it just materialize?

What’s going on with this jutsu???

Dude can just do the cretaceous-tertiary mass extinction event whenever he wants

WHERE DID HE LEARN THIS?

WHO INVENTED THIS?

WHO THOUGHT ‘Oh i know what will be awesome, a jutsu that drops meteors on people!’

Sasuke out here fighting dinosaurs in boruto, meanwhile Madara is the one who friggen killed them all

[sakumasmut]

Just a thirst from a little boy who wants both Mama and Meru <3

I have the violent need to have both Madara and HiMERU tag teaming me like those two are my favs. They're both pretty tall to me (I'm like. 5'3.) so size kink go brr. Taking Madara's cock is already huge enough now add HiMERU. I'm so willing though, I'll be a good boy. HiMERU is nowhere near as big as Madara's giga schlong but he's still decently sized, at least average or slightly above.

Both would dom me too honestly I'm a pillow princess if they want me to take both their cocks at once who am I to refuse? Both would praise/degrade me so good too, calling me a good slut, taking them despite being relatively tiny (let's forget my cervix exists)

HiMERU might try to dom both me and Madara, ordering Madara around to pleasure me, but to not cum while HiMERU fucks him from behind. Madara would probably go insane and he could just disobey and fuck the brains out of HiMERU and me anytime but he doesn't. Mean dom HiMERU sounds hot although I do know he'd likely be gentle most times, but I wouldn't doubt he could Dom Mama.

Idk I just. I know it's an out of nowhere pair. I want them. Carnally.

🧋anon <3

🤔 interesting duo, can’t imagine how they end up in that situation where they share you, but I agree taking both of them would be a rather tight fit. I can see both of them doing praise/degradation back and forth like it’s a good cop bad cop thing, same with either going rough or gentle. I don’t know how well they’d be able to communicate with each other, but at least with you the disharmony is kinda sexy if they’re fucking out of sync

[ancharan]

10 and 53 for hsmd ?

10. Which of the two is quick to speak and which one is quick to listen?

ahhhhhhhh this is a good one!!! who IS the quicker to speak out of the two of them? who's to say? the big events that come to mind are hashirama and tobirama's conversation about who will become the next hokage - hashirama's recalcitrance there, it could be argued, was a deciding plot point in the founders era - but then, madara ALSO didnt speak up at that time, even though he was actively listening in. what about in the uchiha shrine? madara's talking to hashirama, sure, but he's not really saying anything. hashirama's listening, sure, but he's not really listening. this is part of why i like these characters so much! i feel like they complement each other very well, they both have moments where they Probably Shouldve Acted A Little Differently

53. Who’s the most ambitious?

oof, hashirama. hands down. unite the senju and uchiha clans? are u fucking insane? lmfao

[aroacesigma]

ok anyway izuleo. there is so much to go thru here. pls be aware that i am looping fineknights starlight parade rn so im like 500x more insane. this is so much lore bear with me

okay so. leo and izumi met a bit before the war when leo just kinda. burst into a classroom izumi was practicing in and was like "ur singing sucks lmao" and izumi was like "what the hell" and then they got in a small scuffle or some shit and then leo basically just didn't leave izumi alone and called izumi his muse and composed a bunch of songs for him so they're besties.

so like. izuleo are just kinda chilling. and then the old leader of the mega-unit.... Othello? or Backgammon? I think it was called at the time? has smth happen and can't be the leader anymore (it's heavily implied that Eichi was why the previous leader stepped down) so Leo is left to fill in the slot and he becomes the new leader and renames the unit back to its og name before the name changes to Othello and Backgammon - Chess. but most of the people in the unit (bc at this time units were GIANT and encompassed like hundreds of students) didn't actually care abt being idols and were just kinda in the unit for the sake of the name they could ride off of that looks good on their resumes and shit. Eichi did not like that. so eichi does his eichi things and pulls strings with the student council (thanks keito) and makes it so units cannot be bigger than 5 people and can't really be smaller than 2 due to prohibitive costs and whatnot. (madara is an exception. they let him stay a solo unit bc it kept him out of everyone's hair) so. the mega-units splinter!

Leo and Izumi go to form their own unit out of the splinter units and Leo originally suggests them being named Knight, but Izumi tells him that that name was already taken, and suggests Knights instead. (yes. izumi named their unit.) and so ! Knights is born ! Izumi and Leo are the only real members at this time so they go. recruit people i guess idk. Arashi gets roped in despite not actually caring abt idol-ing at the time and i think Ritsu just kinda comes along bc it's the easiest course of action? idk man it's been so long since i read Checkmate. ANYWAY.

Eichi uses this early Knights to destroy units he sees as threats and to test the DreamLive system (which is the current system operating in Enstars for lives and shit. i cannot explain it) or maybe it's DreamFes? idk. one of the two. anyway. at one point Leo goes to a bunch of the other splinter units and asks if they had to choose between never using his music again (leo is a genius composer btw and is largely attributed to being a reason knights is so popular) and being his friend; or using his music. Every single person he goes to chooses his music over him. Strike one on the Leo Downfall Arc! ALSO ENGSTARS RETCONS THIS. DON'T TRUST THEM. In Engstars Izumi says that Leo once asked him that question too, but that's a fucken LIE Izumi was never asked to choose between Leo and his music bc his choice was always Leo and Leo KNEW that.

The two are disgustingly codependent at this point btw. so like. Leo uses his music to destroy these splinter units of the mega units and everyone Eichi considers a threat and this does. A LOT to his mental state. He's kind of disgustingly codependent with Izumi to the point where he basically tells Izumi that he'll do anything Izumi asks of him and that all he wants is for Izumi to smile (and praise him i think?) bc like. at this point Izumi has gotten super harsh on Leo and like. Izumi is normally prickly but this is way worse. Strike Two on the Leo Downfall Arc!

Sometime after this (I do not know exactly when. again. been awhile) Leo realizes what he's done and the fact that he's stepped on so many people and that his music is little more than a weapon and just fucking. breaks. he becomes a shut-in and basically disappears from Yumenosaki. Izumi visits him a few times - most notably in the short story Lionheart where he visits and Ruka (leo's younger sister) ends up crying and begging Izumi to help Leo, which leads to Leo coming out of his room (and Izumi describes him as being super gaunt and barely able to stand) and tells Izumi off for making Ruka cry. (he didn't make ruka cry btw she's just really worried abt her brother) After that Izumi leaves the house and goes and sits on the beach and is all emo while listening to the MP3 player full of music Leo's made for him. one of the tracks is just a recording of their first meeting too and izumi does not have a good time listening to that. I think at the end of Lionheart Izumi promises to keep fighting in Leo's name until he's strong enough.

Anyway. While Leo's a shut-in he basically stops composing entirely bc he stops hearing music in his head and thinks everything he composes is worthless which leads to him hurting himself (i still hc that he has scars on his hands from biting himself and izumi always gets a little sad when he sees them) which eventually leads to Madara taking Leo to travel the world so he can get his groove back. This is during IzuLeo's second year i think. The war was during their first year i think. timeline is fuzzy ngl. So Leo is basically missing for the entirety of his second year. Knights at that time is Izumi, Ritsu, and Arashi with Leo missing. Leo was their leader (dubbed "ousama" (king) - also the name of my leo fictive. unrelated.) but he's just kinda. gone. so I think during this time Knights just stops performing and slips out of the limelight. Mama and Leo's World Tour happens, which is also kinda sad bc once Leo comes back and is asked abt it he says he was "abducted by aliens" and doesn't remember it. Also when Leo comes back he doesn't go straight back to Yumenosaki, he remains away from Knights and everyone for awhile. Madara is able to coax Leo into performing with him during the story Concerto and that's where Leo finally decides to go back to the stage with his Knights. except oopsie ! all judgement !

So. Leo goes back to Yumenosaki. By jumping in through a window. He does that a lot in the early stories btw idk if he knows what a door is /j BUT. I digress. So he meets Tsukasa at that point and i feel like just kinda brushes him off? and challenges Knights to a duel ! Judgement ! Where he claims that if Knights cannot defeat him then Knights doesn't deserve to exist anymore bc they've grown too weak in his absence. So Izumi is like "Leo-kun what the fuck" and Leo is just like ":3" and peaces out thru the window. Knights are unsurprisingly like "wtf are we meant to do we don't have Leo's songs" and Leo goes and gets his little temporary unit Knights Killers up and running with Eichi, Kuro, and Nazuna. eichi bc they're kinda friends despite everything that happened (and also leo knows that he's strong), and kuro and nazuna bc they're literally the closest people. good work leokun. So ! Knights Killers and Knights go to battle ! Knights begins losing bc Leo can compose on the spot and Eichi is noted to be a powerhouse, and with Leo and Eichi together they're basically unstoppable. During that story we also get this really soft moment of Ritsu (who's Knights strategist) apologizing to... Tsukasa? I think? maybe Izumi? for his strategies not being enough. but as Knights Killers wins, Leo has an "oh shit" moment and realizes that he can't just do whatever the hell he wants with Knights, bc Knights also belongs to the others :3 so Leo is like "yeah no we're not dissolving Knights" and rejoins as their ousama ! (also Knights Killers has a song called Crush of Judgement and its a BANGER go listen to it)

at this point Izumi and Leo have a very kinda. tense? relationship? they're not as disgustingly codependent anyhow. they're kinda distant. but they work on repairing their relationship over time ! izumi is less harsh on Leo and keeps a pretty close eye on him actually (they live together in Italy !) as a sort of way of making up for everything he did. and leo's just a silly goofy guy but is still a little haunted by his past. but the two are working on it.

anyway once they graduate and tsukasa becomes the new ousama, izumi goes to live in italy for. modelling things? i think? i don't really know tbh. and leo goes with bc where izumi goes leo follows and vice versa in most cases. sometime in the modern !! timeline leo is like. doing stuff for GFK (gatekeeper? godfather? idk. one of those dudes. don't ask me abt them i don't get it) and overworking himself and izumi is like "leokun PLEASE" and takes over his scheduling so he doesn't keep working himself to the bone. also leo does like a requiem or something? to see if kasa is worthy of being the leader? or something? gonna be real i do not really remember that story much.

so yeah izuleo were disgustingly codependent and now are more normal and also got gay married in florence. they told me themselves.

theyre absolutely sickening (/pos) i LOVE that omfg . congratulations to them on their italy wedding i fully believe you im sure thats canon . also feeling very sorry for this leo guy i want to hug him . also i listened to that song while reading this and its an absolute banger

[beewolfwrites]

Olive Branch: Chapter Three - The Proposal

Thank you to those who have been reading so far! Here’s chapter three of Olive Branch.

(Itasaku, AU in which the coup was successful) You can find the first chapter on my masterlist at the top of my page :)

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Sakura stared at him as though he had just sprouted a third arm.

‘I'm sorry, what did you say?’

‘I am asking for your hand in marriage,’ repeated Itachi.

Her face had drained of colour. ‘Are you insane?’

‘No,’ he replied.

‘Did you hit your head recently?’

‘My head is perfectly fine, thank you.’

She shook her head, half-smiling as though this was an obvious prank. ‘This is a joke, right? It has to be. You're not actually asking me to… to marry you?"

Itachi didn't answer. He was starting to become irritated by her ridiculous questions, and simply decided to wait, stone faced, until the reality of his statement had sunk in. And soon enough, it did. She dropped the bouquet of Narcissus on the grass, shaking her head slowly. 

‘You barely even know me. You realise that this is probably the most we've ever spoken, discounting yesterday?’

‘Yes, I'm aware.’

‘Then why?’ 

Her eyes were wide with uncertainty. Of course, she didn’t trust him. After what he had done, why would she? In her mind, he was just as power hungry and egotistical as the rest of his clan. 

Itachi glanced around at the original Uchiha training grounds. He wasn't sure exactly how much she already knew about their village's political history, but it was time he made things clearer to her. Soon, she would understand.

‘Sakura-san, what do you know of the events of the coup d'état seventeen years ago? More specifically, the political influences behind it?’

The question seemed to throw her off. 

‘Not much,’ she said. ‘I was seven at the time so I don't really remember about the tension between the clans. I only know what Tsunade-shishou told me."

He couldn't help but notice how her hand flinched. She shouldn't have referred to her old tutor as 'shishou' in front of him. And judging by the look on her face, she was expecting him to reprimand her. Luckily for her, he didn't really care about her old affiliations. It wasn't a surprise that Tsunade would have filled in as many gaps as she could before her communication with Sakura was discovered. Itachi knew very little about the finer details of their relationship.

As far as he understood, Sakura first encountered Tsunade during a mission when she was thirteen. During Sakura's missions from then on out, the two would communicate through summons and Tsunade would track her down and teach her everything she knew. But their partnership wasn’t destined to last. 

Itachi had been present when a sixteen year old Sakura returned from a mission, only to be apprehended by Anbu at the village gates. He had been present when she was cuffed and thrown into an interrogation cell, and when she passed out in her chakra restraints after being subjected to interrogation. And he had been present when it was revealed that Sakura, in fact, knew nothing of Tsunade being a member of the Senju clan.

According to Sasuke, Sakura was rather guarded about her relationship with her mentor, however it was clear that Tsunade had been the main source of Sakura’s medical training. As for what Tsunade had taught her outside of their training, it was anyone’s guess.

‘And what exactly did she tell you?’ he asked.

Sakura eyed him warily. ‘Why do you need to know?’

‘Because if I’m to explain my actions, it’s necessary for your full understanding.’ When Sakura still didn't look convinced, he sighed deeply. ‘Please bear with me, Sakura-san. I have no ill will toward your mentor.’

She nodded reluctantly. Although she seemed to accept his plea, traces of suspicion still lurked in her expression.

‘Fine then,’ she said. ‘She told me that Hashirama, the First Hokage, had been close with Uchiha Madara. Their relationship was kind of like brothers, but the tensions between their clans split them apart. Hashirama's younger brother, the Second Hokage, didn't trust the Uchiha like Hashirama did, and he shunned them and relocated their compound to the edge of the village where they were under constant surveillance.’

Itachi nodded. This was all in the history books at the Academy. Many years ago they had all been edited to focus on the sufferings of the Uchiha clan.

'Did she tell you anything of the events leading up to the coup itself?’

‘I remember her telling me that the Third Hokage and the village elders had a plan to combat the coup, but the Uchiha clan struck before they could put their plan into action.’ 

‘Correct.’ 

Sakura shrugged, peering around at the marred trees with a vague sadness. ’The Third Hokage and the elders are all dead though. Nobody knows what they were going to do and it’s not like we can turn back time.’

‘I do.’

‘Hm?’

‘I know of the plan established by the council and the Third Hokage.’

‘What was it?’ she asked uneasily. ‘What was the plan?’

‘They intended to have the Uchiha clan exterminated before the Coup could take place.’

Sakura gave a sharp intake of breath. ‘Exterminated? No,’ she mumbled, ‘That can’t be true...there's no way the Third Hokage would… would he?’

‘He agreed to it,’ Itachi said. ‘With persuasion, of course. The plan detailed that a single shinobi would dispose of the Uchiha within one evening and then live out the rest of their life as a missing nin, taking full responsibility for the carnage.’

In her silence, he could feel her her silently pleading for him to deny everything, to tell her that he was playing a cruel prank.

‘And the shinobi assigned to take care of this task,’ Itachi said, ‘was me.’

He refused to look Sakura directly in the eye. He knew what he would find reflected there; a mixture of horror, shock, confusion... disgust. He felt the same way whenever he remembered how he had accepted such orders. There was a moment of silence before he heard Sakura’s small whisper.

‘But you're an Uchiha…'

The unspoken question rang loud and clear. Why ask an Uchiha to kill his clan when he should be on their side?

‘I was not in agreement with my clan,’ he said. ‘Neither was my cousin, Shisui.’

‘You didn't go through with it.’

‘No, I didn’t,’ he said. ‘My clan struck before I could carry out my orders.’

Sakura's eyes flashed, her fists clenching. ‘That's the reason you didn't do it?! Because you weren't fast enough? What about Sasuke-kun, huh? He was seven at the time. I suppose you were going to kill him too.’ 

‘No.' Itachi's voice sharply cut her off.  ‘Sasuke was innocent. He would have been spared.’

Sakura flinched at his sudden intervention, and Itachi instantly felt bad about raising his voice. She fell silent, her entire demeanour cold and distant. Although she didn’t seem entirely satisfied with his answer, she nodded anyway. 

‘I hope so, because I was about to break every bone in your body.’

Itachi mentally winced at the thought. ’Believe me Sakura-san, I wouldn’t have harmed a single hair on his head. The extermination was a last-resort. My cousin and I had a separate plan that we wanted to try before resorting to the kind of bloodshed the elders had in mind. But that plan failed too. My goal was not to massacre innocents, but to prevent a civil war.’ He paused, grimacing. ‘Clearly, I failed.’

Sakura’s iciness had melted away, and she was now staring at him with curiosity. ‘You're a pacifist.'

‘I am also my father's heir. Not just to the clan, but to the position of Hokage,’ he explained. ‘Do you remember what I told you yesterday when you asked me why my father can't have you incarcerated, no matter what you do?’

‘You said that I'm liked by civilians and shinobi, but you never explained.’

‘It means that you have a lot of allies.’

She raised an eyebrow. ‘Your clan hates me.’

‘Aside from my clan,’ he clarified, ‘you have many friends inside and outside of the village. You’re responsible for saving many of your comrade’s lives, and you have the respect of both civilians and shinobi. Hypothetically, if my father had you apprehended or executed, there would be a public outcry.’ 

‘Oh…’ she whispered. ’I never really thought about it that way.’

‘As you know, many lives were lost in the coup, including some of my clan members. The Uchiha clan is not infallible. Directly after the coup, it took a lot of strength to keep outside enemies from taking advantage of the political instability. If anything were to happen to you, your comrades wouldn’t keep quiet – take your team, for example. If there was unrest on such a wide scale, the Uchiha wouldn’t find it easy to maintain the control that they already struggle with.’ He paused, adding, ‘Especially as your teammate is the Kyuubi Jinchurriki.’

Sakura scoffed lightly. ‘The Kyuubi is hardly a threat when the Sharingan can control it.’

Itachi tried not to show his surprise. It was hardly common knowledge that the Uchiha could control the tailed beasts. In fact, although the Mangekyou Sharingan’s genjutsu prowess was now well-known, the extent of its abilities had been kept within the Uchiha clan under absolute secrecy. 

So how did she know that the Sharingan can manipulate the tailed beasts? 

All he could do was dismiss the matter for now. ‘Naruto-kun's seal is unique. The Sharingan can theoretically control the Kyuubi, but should Naruto-kun truly lose control, there's a risk that the Sharingan wouldn’t do much to help. Even when his seal is fully intact, it’s not an easy feat to control the most powerful tailed beast. It can only be done by someone with a huge store of chakra.’

‘You're telling me that there's no way the Sharingan can bypass it?’ She asked. ‘What about times when the seal is weakened?'

Itachi couldn't hold back a smirk. ‘Aside from his loss of control, there is only one other instance in which his particular seal would be weakened.’

‘Oh?’

‘Childbirth.’

Sakura released a half-hearted laugh. ‘Yeah...no, I don't think Naruto has anything to worry about there.’

‘I should hope not.’

They fell into a comfortable silence. He could see Sakura trying to process all of this information, her whole worldview turning upside down. As expected, it was a lot to come to terms with. 

‘And that's why you want to marry me,’ she surmised. ‘You're the heir to the Hokage title. I guess a marriage with someone like me would be—‘

‘A symbol of trust,’ he said. ‘An offer of peace. Ideally, it would make sense to wed a member of the Senju clan and restore the harmony in the village, but I'm afraid there's only one surviving member.’

Sakura smiled bitterly. ‘Tsunade-shishou is a bit old for you, Uchiha.’

‘She’s certainly older and wiser than me,’ he agreed. 

‘Thinking about it, she'd probably knock you out if you proposed to her. From what I remember, she wasn't too fond of your clan.’

‘Her feelings are understandable,’ he replied. ‘So long as my father is Hokage, she can’t return to her home.’ 

A heavy silence fell between them, until Itachi spoke softly. 

‘Sakura-san, you may not be a member of the Senju clan, but you are a disciple of Tsunade, and your connections and reputation within the village make you a strong compromise.’

He could see that that this decision was going to tear her apart. She looked fraught and overwhelmed, no matter how she tried to hide it behind a straight-faced facade. 

‘So ultimately, you're asking me to marry you for the sake of peace.’

‘Yes. I'm aware that this is a lot to ask, but given the scene you made yesterday with that patrol officer, I trust that your thoughts toward the current state of the village are the same as mine.’

‘They are,’ she said. ‘I want peace, I really do. It's just... I'm not sure.’

Itachi expected as much. After all, this was a huge decision for her. Sakura probably had dreams of falling in love, getting married, and living out the rest of her life in happiness. But he was asking her to enter a loveless marriage that resembled nothing more than a business transaction. He couldn’t blame her for feeling the way she did.

But a part of him wondered if, having lost Shisui and Izumi, he was more prepared to make sacrifices than Sakura. Aside from his family, of course, he had far less to lose. 

‘Please, take your time to think,’ he said. ‘I know that this is not an easy decision to make.’

The hardest decisions are always the most important, he thought, as the image of Shisui’s eyeless corpse burned in his memory.

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Sakura clutched her pillow tightly. The clock on her dresser read 2.00am, and she had spent the last four hours attempting to coerce her brain into getting some well-deserved shuteye.

It was difficult to come to terms with. Uchiha Itachi was not the man she had previously thought he was. His fearful reputation as Fugaku’s right-hand-man… the rumours about him… none of it was a true reflection of the person who had stood before her in the clearing earlier that day. 

But then there was also the issue of the Third Hokage, the village elders, and the corruption that lay between them. Although Itachi had mentioned that the Third Hokage accepted only with persuasion, it was a cruel manoeuvre regardless. She couldn't imagine what Itachi must have felt when he received the order to assassinate his entire family.

Surely there would have been another way. A compromise with less bloodshed.

There was another way. 

Itachi himself had said that he and his cousin tried to prevent the coup themselves. Perhaps it was possible to use whatever method Itachi and his cousin had originally planned.

But from what she knew about Uchiha Itachi, he was a meticulous man. Everything he did was within reason, and there must have been a good explanation as to why he gave up on his original plan.

She rolled over with a huff and stuck her legs out from under the duvet, searching for cool air. It was no use. At this rate, dawn was going to break and she would still be tossing and turning in indecision. But she didn't have to decide just yet.

‘There is no rush to make up your mind,’ he had said. ‘If you were - hypothetically - to take me up on my offer, there would be two possible routes and neither one requires immediate action.’

He had gone on to explain how they could marry in secret and wait until after Itachi's Hokage inauguration before announcing their marrage - and with it, Itachi's peaceful intentions as Hokage. Or they could marry immediately after the inauguration. Either way, they would need to make sure that Fugaku cannot intercept. If they were to marry openly beforehand, it was very likely that Fugaku would find a way to prevent Itachi from becoming Hokage. But if they waited, Fugaku would still attempt to stop them from taking any action to save the village from itself.

And even then, would a marriage really do much to create peace within the village? 

This is all too much.

She continued to toss and turn, and it wasn't until the first gleams of dawn peeked over the Hokage mountain that Sakura finally fell asleep.

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Itachi was sitting on the roof of his family home. The cool night air was refreshing against his skin, but did little to soothe the stale thoughts that ran circles around his mind.

He couldn't help but feel guilty at the situation he had put Sakura in. It was true that there was room for compromise. Even so, all other plans he had thought through were drawn out and messy. At this point in his life, he was tired. He was tired of fighting battles against his father's ideology. He was tired of politics. If he could avoid complication, he would.

A chakra signature flared from within the house, but Itachi paid it little attention. He had been half-expecting this. 

There were careful footsteps on the roof before Sasuke sat down beside him.

‘Can't sleep?’ Itachi asked.

Naturally, there was no reply. He waited for Sasuke to finally ask the question that lay dormant between them. 

‘What do you want with her?’

Itachi almost smiled. Sasuke would never admit to it, but to anybody who paid attention, it was evident that he considered his teammates a second family.

‘You told her that the flowers were from me,’ he replied.

‘Why did you even send her flowers anyway? You've never been interested in Sakura.’

This time, Itachi chuckled. ‘That bouquet was going to be the first of many, if only you hadn't given the game away so quickly, baby brother.’

‘Tell me what you actually want with her.’

Itachi paused to think. There were certain things that even Sasuke couldn’t know. ‘I just need her assistance with a certain task. That's all.’

Sasuke scowled. ‘So you were planning on buttering her up before begging for her help? You're lucky she didn't paralyse you from the waist down.’ He gave Itachi a pointed look. ‘Just don't mess around with her.’

Itachi knew what he really meant.

Don't hurt her.

He didn't even turn to look as Sasuke climbed back through his bedroom window. There was a faint click as his baby brother's lamp went out. Itachi stared at the array of curved rooftops spread out across the new Uchiha District.

‘I'm sorry, Sasuke.’