#and it's fuckin inohidan

[thottyimagines]

I think maybe only one person ever asked for this but here we go: 

Fic recs (w descriptions)

your move, instigator (draw your weapon and hold your tongue)

IMO: What if Ninja WW3 lasted way longer? Incredible writing, incredible characterization, very gripping. No ship. 

Summary: “We are still under wartime policy,” the recruiter had told her parents. He had an envelope in his hand. He sounded sorry. “She has two parents who are successful ninjas. We would be remiss to overlook her potential based upon that alone.”The Third Shinobi War never ended. Konoha needs more soldiers, grabbing anyone who can fight, especially those who can't say no.

Retrograde Motion

IMO: A time travel fic, but good. Funny in so many unexpected places. An excellent, lengthy read. 

Summary: From sixteen to eleven didn't feel like a big jump until she realized that she was now the best ninja in their class. And that tiny Sasuke hates her for it.

Something Of Unearthly Love

IMO: Hilarious, incredible, turned me into a shipper!

Summary: Ino finds a head. The head won't shut up. Then she finds the rest of him. Hidan x Ino.

Minato Namikaze and the Destroyer of Worlds

IMO: Unparalleled writing, character development, and world building. Funny and gripping and desperately searching for meaning in the best of ways. 

Summary: On October 10th when the Kyuubi no Kitsune ravages Konoha, Namikaze Minato unwittingly makes a bargain with Death. Years earlier, his life is rewritten when the overpowered, bizarre, and possibly alien Eleanor Lily Potter arrives at Konoha's orphanage and quickly becomes his best friend.

Hoshigaki

IMO: Sakura is Kisame’s daughter. And he’d do anything to ensure her safety...including leaving her to a better life in the Leaf. Sadly, the life he wanted for her does not come to fruition. 

Summary: When Sakura was three, her father told her he was a criminal. When she was seven, the last thing she saw of him was the sword on his back. When she was eight, she had a friend named Kiba. When they were twelve, they met Shino.And when they were genin, they began to fight for the truth because they could no longer fight for the sake of Konoha.

Trials of Change

IMO: Another Sakura time travel fic, yes, but it’s fucking nuts with the characterization and world building and I love it unabashedly. 

Summary: Haruno Sakura made a promise. Looking in the eyes of her Shisou and the reanimated Hokage, she took on the most important mission of her life.Go back in time and try to prevent the 4th Shinobi War.Now, Sakura is back to her 5-year-old body, with all the knowledge and haunting memories of the future. She vows to keep her precious people safe and stop certain events from happening, without altering the timeline too much. The trials her emotions and logic put her through have her questioning her very existence, but for the sake of peace, she has to push forward. No matter what.

cut the head off the snake

IMO: ROOT sakara is here to make changes and murder anyone in her way. 

Summary: when eighteen-year-old, post-war Sakura is thrown back into her tiny, pre-Academy body, she makes a decision. she'd had a childhood once already, and this time, she's more interested in Not Dying when the inevitable shit hits the proverbial fan. so she will work harder, care less, kill more, and smile when she's done.and hey, if she ends up reviving an extinct nature transformation to attract the most corrupt, power-hungry man from her timeline, all the better for her, right?

Whirlpool Queen, Maelstrom King

IMO: Naruto has a twin sister, and she’s Sansa. Sansa will create a new Uzushio from its ashes, and rebuke being a shinobi all the while. 

Summary: Certain lives and certain deaths, they are significant enough that when souls pass over before their time, they are reborn into new worlds. Sansa remembering is an anomaly, but The North Remembers and Sansa is of the North; She Remembers.Sansa thinks very little of this new world, or this new village she is meant to call ‘home’, but she does love her new brother, who shines so brightly the gods must surely have breathed star-fire into his bones when they created him. The first time Naruto tells her he will be Hokage, she does not doubt him– he was born to rule, just as she was. But Konoha does not deserve him, and she will not let them take and take until there is nothing left of her bright brother. She is Sansa Stark, she knows how to rebuild a home from ruins, and the ruins of Uzushiogakure call.

Snow Storms & Snake Wine

IMO: Silly and wholesome and funny and good

Summary: Four strangers get trapped in a cabin, and it's the start of something beautiful.

Pulling My Weight

IMO: Sakura realizes she has some serious work to do. She does it. 

Summary: During their mission to Wave, Sakura realises how behind she is in her training and decides to do something about it. She vows to become a shinobi her Village and her teammates can respect and depend on. But Sakura has always been a paper-ninja, so her first stop for inspiration is the library where she finds unexpected help in the form of one very bored tokujo who quickly goes on to become an integral part of her life. Soon, despite the neglect of her sensei and all odds seemingly against her, Sakura's destiny begins to change.