#and being a med-nin

[itischeese]

anyways i fully believe that canonically madara and/or zetsu made her do it with a slave seal because the alternative leaves me too salty to mention.

YESSSSS. I'm of the opinion that while the seal didn't fully control her, it wrecked her ability to think rationally and also probably made her mind fixate on the idea that she had to die or everyone else would.

Either way, the seal having an Effect on her that pushed her to do it makes so much more sense than her (canonically incredibly intelligent and compassionate) not considering the danger she would leave Kakashi in, or the fact that their teacher is a teleporting seal master...

[ninyard]

Nin, light of my life. I wanna know how you hc Andrew and Aaron's relationship after college. I love doomed by the narrative sibling relationships but I honestly can't see either of them losing contact with one another considering how much they fought to stay in orbit.

I’ve very briefly talked about Aaron/Andrews relationship post TKM but honestly okay this is just one of many opinions on everything but I don’t really think they keep in contact THAT much until there’s a reason to but hear me out

I think maybe two years post TKM, in a session with Betsy, Aaron says something about Drake/Andrew and it’s as if there’s a switch that has been flicked on their relationship. They don’t really talk that much, still, but they have a really fucking raw and honest conversation that day. Andrew is receptive, and they’re talking, and it’s just so deep and intimate it’s not like any conversation they’ve had before.

There’s a lot of things tarnished but changed in their relationship by both the death of Tilda and the death of Drake. Aaron can’t help but see Andrew differently once he finds out about Drake, and maybe that’s something they talk about more, because it really humanises Andrew for him. Like a LOT. It’s like, “Okay, now there’s a reason why he is the way that he is. He’s not just an asshole for fun.” Andrew can’t help but see Aaron differently when maybe at some point he compares Tilda to Cass, putting up with abuse (by Drake/by Tilda) just to feel loved, to feel like you have a place. I don’t know. A lot of things change about how they see each other, but they still don’t feel like they could be…friends? Theyll be able to have a joke once in a blue moon, or they’ll talk to each other if there’s nobody else to talk to, but they’re not exactly texting each other for advice. Aaron still doesn’t trust him around Katelyn, and Andrew is fine with that.

They take pictures with each other at their graduations, though, and Andrew goes to his med school graduation and has drinks with him the day he becomes Dr Aaron Minyard, and every now and again they’ll text each other something that reminds them of each other. Like Andrew will text Aaron: “You” And it’s just like a meme about being a doctor or something

etc etc etc

but I believe this if Katelyn were to get pregnant, or they were getting married, or either of them finally had to chance to be a real loving caring family, they’d come together and be in much better contact with each other. Like their texts would look like this but it’s SOMETHING you know??? It’s a relationship they never had before?? Idk

I think in their real adult lives, with families and careers and people to look after that isn’t themselves, it’d bring them together a whole lot more than anything else. They both realise this is an opportunity to be different than their families, to raise their lineage in a more loving environment than what they grew up in, you know? Andrew sees an opportunity to break the cycle, and maybe he mentions this to Bee or Neil and they’re like yeah you’re right. You’re an Uncle now. You’re a brother-in-law.

I think at the end of it all, continuing on their families becomes the thing to bring them the closest together. I think then, maybe they’ll have a drink and laugh and sing together at some Christmas holiday sometime in the way way way distant future. Maybe they’ll go fishing together while Katelyn is minding the baby. I can see them being brothers then.

[ircn-mvn]

Alpha/Alpha 3

Note: I'm back! Also I'm not sure where I'm going with this tbh...

TW: Omegaverse, obvi. Questioning (Secondary Gender)? Potential Dysphoria?

The whine did escape him in the end. Kakashi felt mortified for all but two seconds before he felt Iruka’s body against his. Strong arms brought him toward a firm chest and it was the best feeling in the entire world. He couldn’t remember the last time he had experienced this level of safety. Was it before his father’s death or while on Minato-Sensei’s team? 

It sure hadn’t been the case since he had become the one in charge. 

Kakashi had never dreamed of becoming a Captain or Jonin-Sensei. He wanted to be good. To be better than his father, and that was all. Being responsible for his own life was more than enough pressure.

Being an alpha had been convenient — expected of him on some level — but if acting as an omega brought him such comfort, he would keep doing it. Gladly.

Kakashi realized he was way past caring what his peers thought of him. 

Omega Kakashi couldn’t be worse than Friend-Killer Kakashi.

And, also it wasn’t a fully conscious decision on his part, Kakashi wasn’t the type to do things by half. He always had greater control over his scent. He could erase it without patches and only used them because it was still safer and a way to keep quiet. It didn’t take much effort to turn his fresh pine scent into a sweeter one more akin to pine resin. 

Syrupy was a word used to describe omegas’ scents, right?

Iruka smelled of black tea, paper, and… driftwood. It was a homey scent and nothing like their peers who usually smelled smokey and/or bitter. Kakashi wanted to cover himself with Iruka’s scent, or better yet, have the other alpha actively cover him with it. 

Kakashi pressed his uncovered nose to Iruka’s left scent gland while avoiding rubbing his own scent on the other’s skin. He didn’t want to ruin it.

They stood like that for a short while and months — years — of tension progressively left Kakashi’s body. He trusted Iruka to carry more and more of his weight. 

His alpha wouldn’t let him down after all.

***

Iruka didn’t know what to think. He had somehow managed to coerce Kakashi into following him to the hospital. Well, more like he had dragged him by the hand. 

His face was still flushed from the public display when Shizune ushered them into a room, Kakashi, Kurenai, and him. The others had been rebuked by the med-nin’s glare and were waiting — more like pacing — in the corridor.

Shizune had Kakashi and Iruka sitting side by side on a bed. The other alpha’s scent kept peaking up and down, and he had once again gotten rid of his face cover. Iruka watched, concerned, as Kakashi took openly deep breaths as if he couldn’t quite get enough air in his lungs. 

Kurenai stood silent in a corner, only there because of Iruka’s pleading gaze.

Tsunade arrived soon after and she frowned as she noticed Iruka.

Great. He knew this was going to come back to bite him in the ass one way or another.

“Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t you an alpha, Sensei?” Tsunade asked.

“I am.”

Iruka swallowed past the lump in his throat. He knew something was wrong with Kakashi but was mostly worried he had somehow made it worse. 

Genma had mentioned Kakashi wasn’t smelling right. His normal scent was fresh, not sweet, and yet the alpha’s scent had gone from pine resin to butterscotch — sycamore syrup, Kurenai had called it — seemingly trying to entice Iruka into resuming their previous embrace. 

Anyone who didn’t know any better would have pinned Kakashi as an omega if crossing their paths as they were on their way to the hospital. 

Tsunade didn’t add anything at first. She put on a pair of gloves before turning her attention to Kakashi. He didn’t budge nor showed any sign of aggressivity as she moved closer. She touched his shoulder first, then moved up to his neck. He tensed and Iruka squeezed the hand that had remained in his all this time. 

It didn’t feel right. Kakashi would probably hate that Iruka had seen such an intimate episode of his life when he got better but, if he got comfort from his presence, then Iruka wasn’t going to chicken out.

“His scent glands are swollen,” Tsunade said. “He is pumping way too many hormones into them to modulate his scent.”

She sighed.

“Do you hear me, brat?” She was looking Kakashi straight in the eyes now. “If you have a problem with being an alpha, you come to me. You don’t fuck up your hormonal balance even more than it already is.”

Kakashi didn’t answer but Iruka could tell he was listening and thinking. Calculating even. 

A small eternity passed before the alpha tilted his head at a forty-five angle — a familiar dog-like gesture. 

“Can you really do it?” he asked. His voice was rough from misuse. “Change my designation?”

Iruka bit his lips to silence any noise that threatened to escape his mouth. 

He shouldn’t be hearing this. They barely knew each other. Granted every time they interacted tended to be life-changing for one of them if not both but still. 

Iruka’s only consolation was that the other three seemed as surprised as he was… except they recovered faster and soon looked thoughtful.

“If it’s about your aggressivity problem, we don’t have to go that far,” Tsunade said at last. “I could give you something to lower your testosterone… or we could target your problem at its root and try scent therapy.”

Kakashi wrinkled his nose at the mention of scent therapy.

“I’m not spending my days plastered to some omega,” he said.

Which, rude. But Iruka guessed it wasn’t a statement against omegas per se. 

“Who said anything about pairing you up with an omega, brat?” Tsunade replied. “I was rather hoping Iruka-Sensei would agree to let you keep cuddling him.”

Wait, what?

[audaciousanonj]

Kakashi VS Cooties: part one

"Rin, I've figured out what's wrong with Obito." Kakashi said, solemn. "He's clumsy, overly emotional about strange things, he wants people's attention, and he makes kissy faces."

Rin raised an eyebrow at that last one. "That's… an interesting list." she said, "What did you conclude?"

"Obito," Kakashi said, making a serious face that looked adorable on a nine year old, "has cooties."

Rin used all her training as a med-nin to hide a smirk. "I suppose those are some of the signs of what people call 'cooties'," she said, "but you're forgetting the most important trait"

"What?" Kakashi said, frowning adorably.

"Cooties, no matter the strain," Rin said, voice deceptively serious, "are known above all else for being highly contagious."

Kakashi stared blankly at her, before his face fell in slowly dawning horror.

Rin knew she shouldn't, but honestly this was hilarious and Kakashi needed to be wrong every once in a while about nonharmful things. This would, as Sensei would say, build character. "Yes, even just a touch from someone infected can infect you as well... say, didn't you and Obito make the seal of reconciliation after sparring earlier today?"

"OBITO GAVE ME COOTIES?!?" Kakashi yelped. Behind him, Sensei made a choked-off noise.

"If you're right and Obito has cooties, it is indeed too late for you." Rin said, carefully not confirming anything. She could mislead all she liked, but she drew the line at misdiagnosing.

[part two]

[i-left-my-room-tidy]

i wanna shift but i feel like i made myself too OP and similar to some characters now lost all interest (i’m a med-nin, genjutsu user who can control bijuu, proficient in water and lightning style, fast as shisui, regenerative abilities, some sealing etc)

[thanks for this ask!]

just wanted to start this off by apologising for the late reply! uni has been really clogging up sm stuff for me lately lmao (oof same goes to the other blog, for anyone looking at that one).

i completely relate to what you mean, though! i myself have scripted to be OP as well lmao. and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that—so long as you know what you're doing, and you can deal with the consequences that come with it. as I've already put in past posts, my own abilities in my Naruto DR are supposed to be way beyond anyone else's, though of course i still get into trouble every once in a while. that's my only condition for myself: to be able to struggle so i can actually learn through the process(es).

the list of abilities you gave is really interesting imo. it's good to be well-rounded, especially in a world such as Naruto's. if anything, i really would recommend it, even if you have some reservations about it. that's not to say you have to, necessarily, but it's what I'd go for—especially after what i experienced in my own DR.

yours could be different, mind, but the thought remains up in the air. i scripted that my DR stick as close to the canon worldbuilding as possible—meaning, for instance, that all the violence would still be there. trauma is there. I've made my peace with it both, and I'm coping well enough as i do so.

what makes it all easier for me to deal with is my 'OP-ness' in this DR lmao. power really does make a difference. bit of a machiavellian take there, but that's the truth of it—at least, in that reality. and with it; not only did my own motivations to keep shifting keep steady, but the experiences I've had with other people there also served to give me some life lessons along the way.

being everything that you want to be in your Naruto DR isn't inherently bad. there's absolutely nothing wrong with achieving all those things—considering a lot of us want to be just like the characters we've seen and loved in our CRs, and continue to be like that for the sake of shifting itself. i suppose what really makes the difference is how you use those abilities, and how you get around to justifying doing what you do.

[naurasweetarudesu]

Skarloey buffed external resistance but not internal too

Skarloey, having his head bleeding out: "Oh, this? It's just a scratch. Don't worry about it." 😄

Also Skarloey, when bedridden because of flu: "Rhen, I don't think I'll make it to 160 years-" 🤧💀

Rheneas, annoyed while pouring some Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa into a spoon for Skarloey: "Stop being so dramatic and take your meds!" 😠

[lesbiankoby]

I loved reading that Naruto fic you wrote at the start of 2023 "Bit part", with the SI protag a sweary cut-snake-mean chunin. Honestly the best bit interactions with bby!Kakashi, and his resulting unprofessional language acquisition :) The second best was the way you captured the frustrated pauses and half sentences, as you worked through her perspective. It really captured a heck of a lot of tone that's often missing from fic

One question: you said in some comments that she was a potential anbu/root candidate, but I could never work out why? She referred to herself as a mediocre med nin, so I thought it couldn't be that, other times she might have been hard to notice? Like when she was in the pub with Tabata. Did I miss something horribly obvious or was it lost under the general "unreliable narrator + short story" vibe?

Thank you for writing it!

oh haha yeah, yamada is actually an assassination & infiltration specialist— or at least, her talents naturally incline her to be very good at it, and there’s only so much of herself she’s capable of hiding when her life is on the line. she’s got an iron-tight amount of control over her chakra, partially because in some ways it still reads to her as foreign so she’s intimately aware of what she puts out to a sensor’s radar. she’s been scouted for anbu before, her lack of clan connections especially make her an appealing candidate for the kinds of missions konoha doesn’t want to admit they do (& especially for danzo’s sub division). she just doesn’t want too (lol) and devoted an uncharacteristic amount of effort to being a halfway competent med-nin, which sort of gets her left alone but objectively just makes her an even more appealing candidate for these kinds of things…

it’s all probably a bit toooooo “implied” but i wrote that story to have fun and work through writers block. so lol.

unfortunately for poor yamada all roads lead to doing jobs she doesn’t want to do. to me and the vague future i envision for her she’ll wind up being jiraiya’s (and minato’s) agent upon being very unwillingly dragged into a political conspiracy— jiraiya doesn’t want to be doing this either but sakumo is his friend and danzou crossed a line to him by trying to take out this specific political enemy. yamada is already involved and good at what she does so she was a bit doomed the moment minato pegged her for being competent.

[waffliesinyoface]

"So~. I have just heard an incredible rumor, Tsunade-hime."

Tsunade looks up from her desk at the source of her interruption. Orochimaru is, once again, sitting in her office. Despite the fact that he is not actually allowed to be in her office, or even Konoha period.

He had been sitting in her office for the past 26 minutes, gloriously smug, clearly waiting for her to react. But Tsunade was one of the very few people alive who had known Orochimaru when he was a bratty twelve-year-old, and knew, better than anyone else, that the only way to win against Orochimaru was to ignore him.

She'd also neglected to throw him out because it served as an effective deterrent against people trying to bother her with paperwork on her lunchbreak.

"Oh?"

"Yes~! You see, I happened to stop by Hatake's office on the way here, and Naruto, it seems, has somehow reacquired a new arm~."

She knew exactly where this was going and she would not give him the satisfaction of facepalming. It was beneath her.

"And, well, as someone who, in the past, had been rather unceremoniously denied your own services in that regard, I couldn't help but wonder how, exactly, he'd come by such a miraculous replacement. Not a hint of chakra strings controlling it! Absolutely marvelous work, really."

She would not give him the satisfaction.

"So, I took a look in your records - oh, the security seals might need replacing, by the way - and what do I find but Miss Sakura Haruno's studies on adapting hashirama-cells to create prosthetic limbs!"

She changed her mind, this was worse than chuunin attempting to foist Hatake's paperwork onto her when they couldn't find him, despite her being retired.

"Really, how the times have changed~. When she does it, it's a medical miracle, but when I do it, it's 'a violation of human rights' and 'a crime against nature' and 'morally reprehensible'."

Incomparably worse.

"Tsk tsk, Tsunade, letting something so heinous happen under your watch. In Konoha General Hospital, no less! Not even a hint of a back-alley lab or anything! Using your own grandfather's useful corpse like that, what would sensei say~?"

"You...!" She growled, ripped a chunk off the corner of her desk, and threw it at him, causing it to pass harmlessly through where his head had been and knock a whole in the wall behind him.

"Would it kill you to go bother Sensei with this shit for once?!"

"And now you're just giving me permission to use forbidden jutsu? Tsunade, dear, you'll get a reputation for nepotism at this point! But I'll keep it in mind~."

She decided that she needed a new desk anyways, and threw a second, larger chunk at him, which proceeded to knock the door off it's hinges.

"Oh, dear, look at the time! I really must be going. We really need to do this more often, Tsunade-hime~."

As he slithered off into the hallway, past the terrified group of med-nin and one chuunin with a binder who had been waiting for her, he called over his shoulder - "Sorry about the desk, by the way. It looked expensive! Did Tenzou make that for you~?"

[bokuwa-tobi]

THINKING ABIUT MEDNIN ISMS….. ahhhh. I’m gonna go into ino though actually. Ino actually has good basis for being a med nin with her mind transfer. off the bat she’s more of a passive combatant than an active one, so being a mednin is a good addition on top of what she already had. also considering her family basis in tni…. Like. being a med nin can work and be interesting if it was just utilized Properly and not just handed off to almost every woman because. Woman. and in particular I think ino would actually be great for it. being a med nin would have to come with so much knowledge over the human body, there’s no way you’d only pick up on how to heal it and not how to exploit it. even if med nin weren’t explicitly “taught” how to weaponize their knowledge im sure some of them would go “what if I used this knowledge for……. something else..” ESPECIALLY— as mentioned in the kk backstory episodes w/ kanabi bridge, med nin are so rare they will often be captured and kept alive by enemy shinobi to heal their own ranks. it would Not be crazy for a med nin stuck in enemy territory forced to heal the enemies ranks to try and remarkably Fuck Up their patients in ways they can get away with. thus I propose the true like,,, “Measure” of a great med nin is actually their ability to do as much harm as they can undetected. because that is cool.

anyway in my own personal naruto ino is just this unbelievably beautiful woman who’s doing up flower bouquets and you see her on the street and go wow…most traditionally ideal woman…… she must be sweet as pumpkin pie <3 and then at her real job she’s splitting skulls every other day for fun.

Oh my god! you see pretty flower shop girl in the battlefield… and she’s a medic…………..traditional ideal woman… a few hours later ino is back at her Real Job where she’s the most..um.. “persuasive” tni agent.

[doomwhore]

Naruto characters who are dorky as hell when initiating sex

KAKASHI: kakashi may read porno in public and always have a stoic face but, in the end, he's a dork. He's awkward, not used to intimacy and nervous. His face will go all red and he'll say

"U-um, babe, you wanna...yknow?"

NARUTO: naruto is bold and brash, and quickly gets past his shyness but is still super awkward. He's loud and energetic in everything he does. A dork, but in an adorable way.

"Hey! Hey! We should go in the bedroom!"

SAKURA: super, super, super shy and awkward in the beginning of the relationship. She just, is so nervous! What If you think she's a pervert!? As a med-nin, she knows it's natural but she can't help but be insecure when asking. She'll go red as a tomato each time and it takes atleast a year to get her to stop being so shy.

"I- um..I think we should..i- yknow what, never mind! Cha!"

HINATA: it's hinata.

TSUNADE: she hasn't fucked since Dan died, which is almost 50 years. She feels like a virgin again. She sure as hell isn't shy but gets frustrated at her own nerves and ends up coming off a little angry.

"Hey, you, come here." Tsunade will say with a pout and a slight blush.

IRUKA: sweet, sweet, sweet man. Is so sacred of coming of as pushy or gross. It's almost too sweet. He'll put his hand on the back of his head and put on a fake smile and say..

"Um, heh, if you, er, wouldn't mind..."

[mira--mira]

Out of curiosity, what are your opinions on Minato Namikaze.

I guess for both in and out of Oot-verse

For Oot-verse you've mentioned about how a lot of the "shinobi families" are really just ex-Senju and while some authors make the Namikaze a small clan, I'm fairly sure that's not canon. Do would you consider him of the Senju bloodline in the Oot-verse. Since that would play better into the fact that actual civilian born are discriminated against since he was never used as an example of how far civilian born shinobi can go.

But like for a demented AU. instead of Sarutobi summoning the Terrors, let's make it Minato's problem's. Since we already know a lot of his repertoire was inspired/based off of the work of Tobirama, it wouldn't be out of the ordinary for him to just fiddle around with old seals and oh no Kushina I think I'm a dad, I just made two kids pop out of nowhere, I didn't cheat on you I swear, please stop laughing and help me.

Tbh I have a mixed bag of feelings for Minato bc I don't really dislike him as a character but a lot of circumstance/plot devices around him. I hate the "Child of Prophecy" plot point, I dislike that he's the Fourth Hokage in a similar vein, I despise Jiraiya, etc. Minato is a character that, similar to Hiruzen, suffers from other areas of the plot and lore being created first and then he's slotted in to fill gaps but this does absolutely no favors to his character, especially as he's supposed to be a paragon of Konoha. And then there's Minato trying to impress Kushina by taking her dream of being Hokage and doing it for her. That is not romantic, but the hand of the author is so obvious I feel like I can't really blame Minato fully for that.

Ultimately he's a character I don't really love but not because his actions specifically. I do like more light-hearted fics and art where he's a house husband and living his best life.

You are correct though for OoT! I do consider him part of the Senju bloodline and he would been Senju Minato if Hashirama hadn't cast off their name. He's firmly a 'clanless' shinobi, not a 'civilian' one in that universe. I don't want him to be too closely related to the main line but it does cast Tobirama being irritated at him for using his jutsu and Naruto attributing it to Minato in a funny light to me. Tobirama stomping around complaining about the Senju Youth (TM) not giving credit to his ancestors, thinking just because he had time to tweak things and/or improve them make them his jutsu now is hilarious to me.

Ooh that would be a fun AU! Terrors in the previous generation instead of Naruto's 😂 Madara would bully Obito, trying to shape him into a proper Uchiha and Obito low-key hates him, but he's a polite boy and Madara is undeniably the most powerful 12 y/o Obito has ever seen and he's trying to impart some of that knowledge and power to Obito too makes him very conflicted. Obito constantly makes running tallies of 'who's worst today: Madara or Kakashi?'

Since Pakkun attacking Madara wouldn't have happened in this AU, I think Hashirama would like a younger Kakashi quite a lot. He might remind him of Tobirama in a way and He'd make it his mission to try and get the kid to lighten up/give him some knd of big brother figure to depend on since he'd lost his father.

Both would be decent friends with Rin. Madara because he catches onto Obito's crush immediately and decides to stick his nose into it and finds Rin reasonable and level-headed. She admires Kakashi but doesn't romantically like him like Obito thinks (mostly bc by god the girls need other motivations besides boys and Kakashi's age is a timeline headache of it's own). She sees Obito as a friend, not really interested in more at this point because she's focused on her own goals to be a great med-nin. She seeks out Hashirama on her own similar to Sakura to ask him to teach her, but she's much more respectful to Hashirama than Sakura is to him. I really like jinchuriki!Rin so that'd be part of this AU 100% and then a lot of her arc would be mastering that power through medical ninjutsu somehow.

Eheh this is becoming about Rin, back to Minato. I like to think his reasoning to 'keep' the terrors would be "It's great practice Kushina before we have kids" and Kushina, an Uzumaki, clearly recognizes Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara is like...:my dearest husband...this is both a terrible and BRILLIANT idea. If we can handle them, will be pros" (let Kushina be a little impulsive and wild plsss). The big issue would be them trying to keep the terrors because...the Uchiha haven't been massacred at this point. Madara would want to be with them but the Uchiha leadership is have a crisis because that is Uchiha Madara and they made him into a Ghost and banished him and Amaterasu turned away from them because of it. But also the coup is brewing and maybe this is a second chance to do it over. Either way, the only thing that unites the clan at this point is the belief that Madara will either be their salvation or damnation again.

[sukirainbow]

OC: Naka

Profile:

Name: Naka Village: Amegakure Rank/Speciality: Med Nin Chakra nature: Earth Family: Mother of Suko, lost her husband and older son Age: 56 Birthday: 28 August (virgo) Bloodtype: O- Height: 1m75 Weight: 62 kg lean body type Hair color: dark brown Eye color: dark brown Complexion: that pale ass skin that doesn't tan but cook in the sun Clothes: Dress simply, wear comfortable and light clothing under the protective mednin gear Gender: Cis Woman

Personality: She's calm and generally quiet like Suko, although she's more extroverted than him, especially with younger people. She is tired from all the grief, and want to protect her last child as much as possible from a horrible death. Helps Suko process his trauma. She feels extremely protective toward younger generations, feeling very angry at the current state of her country. She feels like it's her and other adult's responsibility to make sure the younger generations get taken care of and get to life in good conditions.

Hobbies: sewing, reading

Backstory: She lost her husband and her older son while her village was attacked. Fearing for Suko, she decided to move to Amegakure to make sure Suko would at least be safe behind walls instead of being at risk in a small village. Being a medic in her village, she decided to keep her activity going when settling in Amegakure with Suko, who was trained by her, by her side.

Suko and her met the first Akatsuki while traveling to the village, and again when Suko brought home a trio with an injured Yahiko to their clinic. Naka was quickly overcome with the will to help them, understanding that the organization had no medic. She mentored some of the first akatsuki members to teach them medical procedures and medical ninjutsu, as well as welcoming them in her clinic for free whenever they'd be in need of care.

[cebwrites]

bittersweet, clear medicine

a/n: a little gift for @itsgai since i've been rotating our characters in my head nonstop sfsdjgh

oc | gen word count: 1k

Two weeks since Shin was cleared from their physical therapy. 14 days since an older man in a sterile white lab coat had given them a clean bill of health in the stead of their usual medic since he'd been sent on a mission at the time.

Takashi still congratulated them when news reached him once he returned, though. Baked him a lopsided cake and everything.

Unable to recapture the slumbering sand in their eyes, Shin sat up with a lot less difficulty than they'd struggled with in previous months. Taking note of an owl's morning hoots on the branch outside their window, then the actual note on their bedside table to take their meds and stretch properly.

...Right.

With Gai out of the village at Tsunade's request, Shin would have a few more hours free every day for a little while. Today, they chose to spend it tailing someone else for a change, out of curiosity if anything else.

Shin arrived at Konoha's main hospital to find a scene of mild panic—though they still kept their distance—nurses ranged from completely flustered to only showing mild irritation, other patients and staff members still conversing as if the old man making a break for it across the lawn in nothing but scrubs was just another everyday occurrence.

Judging from the exasperation of senior medical personnel, it was.

There was no need to intervene, however, since the man was eventually apprehended by a couple of winded interns, probably former shinobi from the way they moved, but not particularly good enough to keep on the field.

"Takaki-san! You can't keep trying to escape your sponge bath! This is embarrassing, think of what your daughters will have to put up with when they hear about their father's bare ass in public."

"Agh, let them! S'what they get for leaving me in the care of you bozos."

As the excitement died down, Shin gradually started to ignore most of their surroundings in lieu of searching for their person of interest again; blending into the background despite their distinct appearance made even more notable by the new scar that spanned across a large part of their upper body now.

They found him about an hour later, still remaining hidden, apologizing for his tardiness and placing blame on a failed alarm clock. His seniors could forgive Takashi for being behind schedule, but they still laid into the young man for overworking himself again.

That... Takashi had no excuse for.

Shin watched from the shadows as Takashi went about his day, tending to patients with the same tenderness they had been afforded under his care, disappearing in and out of rooms Shin either had no access to or felt wrong to spy on given specific circumstances. They also gained funny looks from a handful of particularly perceptive jonin passing by, but most people either ignored them or weren't aware of their presence.

At some point they'd lost their in the somewhat controlled commotion of rush hour, but found Takashi making polite conversation with a coworker during his lunch break outside.

"That's Takaki-san for you," he offered a smile in consolation to his fellow medic-nin, "he gets really fussy if he isn't allowed to have his breakfast in view of the sun."

"Does it really matter? That doesn't give him an excuse to make hell for the rest of us."

Takashi put down the instant coffee he'd been nursing, turning his gaze to the band-aid wrapped around his left index finger. "I think it does. Lots of our patients will be here for the rest of their lives. The least we can do is make sure it's comfortable and dignified, right?"

Tuning out the other medic's complaints, something along the lines of there being no dignity in running around naked, Shin's mind began to wander to a conversation they had with the taller brother out of this pair some time ago.

"What do you think of your brother, Takashi."

"...What about him?" Tae's attention lifted from the shogi board between them to his companion's face; still heavily bandaged, but he'd heard from his brother that they were well enough to start moving around - the reason why he was here playing in Takashi's stead.

"Your opinions; do you think little of him, do you find his weaknesses a hindrance."

"No." The response is immediate. Though his voice is still very monotone, Shin senses a twinge of irritation worked into the muscles of Tae's forehead as they take one of his pieces off the board. "I don't think my brother is weak."

"Tacchan has more strengths than drawbacks. He can do things most people can't as a medic-nin, he's kind despite everything. If I was in his position I would have failed a long time ago. Takashi's someone people can easily trust in."

Shin watches the board, mirroring the placid expression of the man before him as their game intensifies, beads of sweat starting to form on their skin with every audible wooden tap, every new move, every counterattack,

"So I won't let anyone mock my brother's resolve."

Check mate.

Shin's brought back to the present by the sound of their target and colleague getting up to stretch, to get back to their backbreaking, thankless labor - they also begin to wonder about the similarities they've noticed between these twins.

Just as they feel as though they've observed enough and get up to leave, Takashi's voice catches Shin's attention again.

"Oh man, I'm going to be late for my afternoon match with one of the patients—we better hurry!"

"The shogi one? But I thought that guy was released a while ago?"

They watch from the cover of densely packed leaves as their former physician stumbles, almost losing his balance as the information registers and his buddy fusses over whether Takashi's really alright or not, regardless of the sheepish grin he's given.

Shin couldn't help the small, almost inaudible laugh that bubbles out from them—hidden by their sleeve. They don't suppress the smile that forms at the thought of Takashi yelling at them to get down from there and rest, Shin-san since even though they'd been cleared from physical therapy, they were still technically not supposed to strain themself.

Exemplified by the way their right shoulder had been prickling on and off all day. But that would just be another excuse reason to visit the doctor, right?

[assorted-fanfiction]

Author: cloudyyun

Platform: Ao3

Status: complete-ish (34/35 chapters, being rewritten as of 2022) 134,365 words

Ship: it was planned as SasuNaru so it's tagged as such, but there isn't any actually in the fic

Rating: mature

"When you begin to notice a wound, that's when it begins to heal. If a patient can feel pain, you'll understand that it means they're on the path to recovery." "So this pain..." Naruto absently grabbed at his chest. "Will go?" "Maybe." Tsunade shrugged. "Maybe it'll leave an aching scar. It's impossible to save everyone, but I can teach you how to try. Today, I'm going to teach you Iryo Ninjutsu. I'm going to teach you how-" The corners of her mouth quirked up, but it looked more grim than anything else. "-To heal a wound." -"I believe that Tsunade-hime had fixed a wound that no Bijuu or Med-Nin ever could."- Medic!Naruto Byakugo!Naruto Finally-someone-teaches-him-right!Naruto (Or, Tsunade is forced back into Konoha and told to take an apprentice after a... let's call it a 'meeting' with the Elders. Hyuuga Hinata, Haruno Sakura, Yamanaka Ino... those are the suitable candidates. But Tsunade won't go for 'suitable', she's going for a challenge- someone who will be exceptional. She absolutely does not know how her presence and her words would affect the Konoha Rookie 9.)

I am obsessed with the characterization of everyone in this fic. Characters act believable, and Naruto isn't completely freaking OP which was a nice refresher.

I was so bummed when I made it to the last chapter because i loved this idea so much. Honestly one of the best fics out there.

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Hello! you probably do a lot of requests for fanfics, but I had this idea and wanted to get someone to get it because I'm no good writing stories. My idea is a crossover for naruto and parallel world pharmacy. the idea will be that it will be a three way possesion of pharma with naruto being a med-nin with the guy from the first episode that works himself to death (can't remember his name) and their consciousness merged with the new consciousness having all of their memories and skills including chakra. That was my main idea sorry for spring it on you, I can do most plot points and describe them, but I can't join them together with story. I was wondering where do these go? On fanfic.net and your link tree?

Thank you for your request.

I do not write for the character Naruto, and you can find the list of characters I write in my pinned.

I post all of my work here and on AO3.

I also ask that you please put an indication of your age in your bio (I am not the only content creator who asks for this on here). (:

[cool-thymus]

I adore these swaps and designs! 🤩 And Obito being a med nin is so beautiful! One of my fave headcanons about Obito who returns to Konoha (goodbye Mads) is that he becomes a nurse at the hospital. He is adored by all the elderly ladies and he gets Kakashi all to himself after every chakra exhaustion incident xD

Team minato but rin and obito swap roles

Besties SWAP AU

Edit: forgor to add this