#Shanarutofanfics

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Diamond Girls au have some manga opposite perspectives that I just thrive for.

You have like Naruto and Sasuke blowing things up in the background, completely destroying the enemy, but the focus of the scene is in Tenten and Ino desperately trying to get a two siblings into a safe place before they died crushed by the debris.

Yes yes the big fight, but Sakura has both hands shoved inside someone's stomach doing what I can only call war-times surgery with Hinata there guarding her, in case someone tries to kill them while she works.

It's Karin almost running out the operation room because the cameras are showing a girl beings pushed by her dress into an ally and Anko having to remind her that if she leaves her places, many other girls die. They need to trust the team on the field, they need to do their jobs and save as many as they can. They need to keep it together 'cause they don't have the luxury of going out brawling with the enemy whiles the entire city depends on their assistance to survive.

Rin can't exit the hospital. She's having a panic attack on an utility room. Shizune jumps from one emergency to the other, every scene more bloody thsn the one before. Kurenai is trapped in her disguise in enemy territory, forced to pretend that she doesn't care, that she's not dying inside.

Every one of them have a roped tied to the neck. The horrors don't await for them in the aftermath of the fight. The horrors are there, wailing a street away, bleeding out on concrete chunks, all around them in a rush of light and sound they can't turn off if they want to make it through.

They are the Diamond Girls. Tsunade made them so they could handle pressure at its finest.

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Listen the thing about Team Anko is that they are rude and unapologetic but they are also just girls, you know?

Someone could call them overconfident, but they didn't go through 6 years of Orochimaru program for nothing. They know their worth and they won't hide it. Why should they? To appear prettier?

And someone could call them mean, malicious, but that's because they are mean and malicious. They are ninjas after all. They do their job very well and if you don't like their personalities, that's your problem. They will manipulate and cheat and play dirty if that means they'll make it out alive.

Yet Kin is competitive in silly ways. She loves to show off her skills in sports or games. Karin likes flirting, but she likes it when her boundaries are clearly respected. Tayuya composes new songs for fun! She loves studying patterns!!!

They like gossip and going out and buying things and going to the movies, things that their pasts robbed them off. They all grew up getting used and abused by other villages. In Konoha, they own their loyalty to Orochimaru only, who happens to be their ally. So for the first time, on his program they found freedom. Orochimaru is strict but he's also fair— as long as they complete their tasks, they can spent their time however they like.

I'm do excited to explore their characters further, to see what they could be with a bit of space, a little time, a chance.

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For my Diamond Girls au : Team Anko.

( picrew link here )

“ Three young girls who found in Orochimaru's program the guarantee of their independence. As now allies of Konoha, they often support the diamond girls in their operations. With Anko as their sensei, you don't want to cross them. ”

Tayuya : sound specialist. often stays behind coordinating mics + headphones, deciphering recordings and toying around with the enemy's signals. quiet but really mean when provoked. she's actually the best fighter of the squad.

Kin Tsuchi : sound specialist. Tayuya's woman in the field. often disrupting the enemy lines to provide coverage, plant mics and webcams, or collect vital info. her training taught her to not be overconfident. hates vain, shallow people.

Karin Uzumaki : image specialist. common job is to physically guide the girls in their missions. the best at keeping track of targets and places and predicting time and space frames. perfect awareness of the context around her. amazing at restrictions. quick temper, very flirtatious.

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MEDIC NINS of DIAMOND GIRLS + WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN from HADESTOWN (adapted):

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⠀ 🌸SK SAKURA ; 🐌TS TSUNADE ; 🐷SH SHIZUNE

⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀🩹RN RIN ; 🔗KR KARIN ; 🩺 ALL

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* CONTEXT : Sakura's been offered an... ugly job. If she makes it, everyone she loves will stay safe. If she fails, she might not be able to come back. Tsunade and Karin support her. Rin and Shizune? They think she's making a big mistake.

But Sakura— ls she prepared to take her decision?

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🐌 TS : Life ain't easy.

🩹 RN : Life ain't fair.

🔗 KN : A girl's gotta fight— !!

🐷 SH : —for her rightful share !!

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🔗KN : What you gonna do ?

🐌TS : When the chips are down—

🩹RN : Now ? That the chips are down ?

🐌TS : What she gonna do...

🐷SH : —when the chips are down !?

🩺ALL : Now that the chips are down.

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🔗KN : Help yourself—

🐌TS : To hell with the rest !!

🩹RN : Even the one who loves you best ?????

🐷SH : What you gonna do...

🔗KN : When the chips are down...

🐌TS : Now !! While the chips are down !!

🩹RN : What you gonna do...

🔗KN : Well, the chips are down !!

🐌TS : Now that the chips are down !!

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🌸SK : oH... !! My aching heart...

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🩹RN : What you gonna do ??

🐷SH : When the chips are down ??

🔗KN : Now all the chips are down.

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🔗KN : Take if you can.

🐌TS : Give if you must.

🩺ALL : Ain't nobody but yourself to trust .

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🩹RN : What they gonna do—

🐷SH : When the chips are down...

🩹RN : —now that the chips are down ?!?!?!?!

🔗KN : What we have to do—

🐌TS : —now the chips are down.

🩺ALL : Now. All the chips are down.

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🔗KN : Aim for the heart.

🩹RN : Shoot to kill.

🐷SH : If you don't do it...

🐌TS : Then the other one will.

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🩹RN : — what you gonna do?

🐌TS : — when the chips are down?

🔗KN : — now that the chips are down?

🩺ALL : What you gonna do—

🐷SH : when the chips are down...

🩺ALL : —Now that the chips are down ??

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🐷SH : And the first— ?

🐌TS : —shall be first.

🩹RN : And the last—

🔗KN : —shall be last.

🩺ALL : cast you eyes to heaven...

🔗KN : —YOU GOT A KNIFE IN THE BACK.

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🐌TS : Nobody's righteous,

🐷SH : nobody's proud,

🩹RN : nobody's innocent,

🩺ALL : now that the chips are down.

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🔗KN : Now that the—

🐷SH : Now that the—

🐌TS : Now that the—

🩹RN : Now that the—

🌸SK : —Now that the chips are down.

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Some more details about each au:

— Dogs Come In Packs is a more a Team 7 study, being honest. I mean to explore how well they fit, in a way the manga didn't. The au is restricted to the genin days and I will use the cano as a guide, but the au has its own story to tell. This might be the more poetic of the four fics.

— Although Sysiphus Of The Fire is centered on Obito, we'll see a fairly lot of Team 7, the sannins and the Uchiha survivors living outside the village. Here, Sakura grew up traveling with Tsunade and not in Konoha, Naruto was left with Jiraiya after Obito processed with the Uchiha Massacre and Sasuke became a rogue ninja under the tutelage of Kakashi. There's also cool stuff about Shisui and Itachi, aka the Twin Crows. You'll see it.

— I think Genin Konoha 12 — Special Classes! is one of my favorite aus to think about. I love how it integrates the Konoha 12 and their senseis, how it attacks the traditional shinobi way. The special classes are the respond of the jounins of Konoha to the Third Shinobi War. It particularly touches on themes like Sakumo's suicide and Obito, Rin and Minato's deaths, even the Uchiha Massacre. They'll work in a unit of 12 interchangeable pieces that can adjust at any time to the requirements of the mission. A refined war weapon. Something to rival even the anbu, if you ask me.

— I'm creating a worldbuilding guide for the Diamond Girls au. This is how crazy I am about it:

1) I'm currently trying to figure out how I want the political and economical balance to work, throwing stuff like the Wind Nation managing valuable petroleum resources in the mix. I think about if the good weather of the Fire Nation is an important factor of their power, how the natural mountain barrier of the Earth nation isolates their culture, how the little nations survive the whole thing... I need to know the world in order to write the story.

2) This au is less based on gods and crazy power scales. They are ninjas here. They must be political and sneaky, clever and purposeful. Here Naruto uses his skills to figure out what the counsel is keeping from him, why Hiruzen insist to hide the truth about his parents death. Sasuke is old enough to actually participate in the Uchihas politics, to take his own decisions and make his own conclusions. Here Sakura has to fight to improve the health system, to prove the worth of medic nins. You'll read about Neji and Hinata changing the Hyuuga clan, about Tsunade forcing the Uchihas to have a medic division inside the clan, even about a version of the Akatsuki that implies less fights and death, more revolution of the entire shinobi world.

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I'm absolutely obsessed over this scenario.

Tsunade trusts Sakura completely and is aware of the fact there's no one more qualified than her for the job. Still, she worries. Silently.

Karin is more surprised than anything. She sees the logic behind Sakura accepting and supports it because it'd really help them all. You can see how she gets involved, tho. She knows Sakura's skill set, but what she's about to do... It's life or death.

Shizune is in disbelief. She thinks Tsunade is being reckless, allowing Sakura to go. She knows what losing Sakura would do to her, to them all. She doesn't want to contradict Tsunade, but...

And then there's Rin. Absolutely terrified. She can help but remember how she almost died— the pain of Sakura going through that is unthinkable. Also, Rin knows what Sakura means to Kakashi and the boys. To Tsunade. To the Diamond Girls. She can't believe Sakura is going to accept to do it. She has a bad bad feeling about it.

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They all can see how scared Sakura is. They can see that she won't back down, even while she's trembling and holding back the tears. Failing the job can mean death, but it also can mean she will become an enemy of Konoha, or she could cause more damage to the people she loves. She never asked to be a "spy". For all her training, she wishes she could run and hide her face in Kakashi's chest, Naruto's shoulder or on Sasuke's arms.

She's done hiding, she tells herself. Now it's her turn to protect them. She doesn't care they will never know about her little sacrifice, but Rin is right, she's leaving their friends behind without a warning and that will cost her.

She only prays the price to pay won't be enough to undone her.

MEDIC NINS of DIAMOND GIRLS + WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN from HADESTOWN (adapted):

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⠀ —-- guide :

⠀ 🌸SK SAKURA ; 🐌TS TSUNADE ; 🐷SH SHIZUNE

⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀🩹RN RIN ; 🔗KR KARIN ; 🩺 ALL

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ( lyrics under the cut )⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

* CONTEXT : Sakura's been offered an... ugly job. If she makes it, everyone she loves will stay safe. If she fails, she might not be able to come back. Tsunade and Karin support her. Rin and Shizune? They think she's making a big mistake.

But Sakura— ls she prepared to take her decision?

⠀

🐌 TS : Life ain't easy.

🩹 RN : Life ain't fair.

🔗 KN : A girl's gotta fight— !!

🐷 SH : —for her rightful share !!

⠀

🔗KN : What you gonna do ?

🐌TS : When the chips are down—

🩹RN : Now ? That the chips are down ?

🐌TS : What she gonna do...

🐷SH : —when the chips are down !?

🩺ALL : Now that the chips are down.

⠀

🔗KN : Help yourself—

🐌TS : To hell with the rest !!

🩹RN : Even the one who loves you best ?????

🐷SH : What you gonna do...

🔗KN : When the chips are down...

🐌TS : Now !! While the chips are down !!

🩹RN : What you gonna do...

🔗KN : Well, the chips are down !!

🐌TS : Now that the chips are down !!

⠀

🌸SK : oH... !! My aching heart...

⠀

🩹RN : What you gonna do ??

🐷SH : When the chips are down ??

🔗KN : Now all the chips are down.

⠀

🔗KN : Take if you can.

🐌TS : Give if you must.

🩺ALL : Ain't nobody but yourself to trust .

⠀

🩹RN : What they gonna do—

🐷SH : When the chips are down...

🩹RN : —now that the chips are down ?!?!?!?!

🔗KN : What we have to do—

🐌TS : —now the chips are down.

🩺ALL : Now. All the chips are down.

⠀

🔗KN : Aim for the heart.

🩹RN : Shoot to kill.

🐷SH : If you don't do it...

🐌TS : Then the other one will.

⠀

🩹RN : — what you gonna do?

🐌TS : — when the chips are down?

🔗KN : — now that the chips are down?

🩺ALL : What you gonna do—

🐷SH : when the chips are down...

🩺ALL : —Now that the chips are down ??

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🐷SH : And the first— ?

🐌TS : —shall be first.

🩹RN : And the last—

🔗KN : —shall be last.

🩺ALL : cast you eyes to heaven...

🔗KN : —YOU GOT A KNIFE IN THE BACK.

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🐌TS : Nobody's righteous,

🐷SH : nobody's proud,

🩹RN : nobody's innocent,

🩺ALL : now that the chips are down.

⠀

🔗KN : Now that the—

🐷SH : Now that the—

🐌TS : Now that the—

🩹RN : Now that the—

🌸SK : —Now that the chips are down.