#badass iruka

[tendercrysp]

I've been avoiding posting wips on here but burnout is killing me so this is all I have right now, I'm sorry 🙏

We'll invest in badass Ruky. I want to see him FIGHT

[dailyirukapics]

I am frothing at the mouth for this AU! Iruka having the eye make-up like Orochimaru when he summons his snake is just... so peak!!

A bit more Orochimaru's student Iruka

Related pages 1, 2 and 4 and 5

[cool-thymus]

A random kid told Naruto that he would never understand the importance of a master and student's bond. Our boy gave him a "how dare you" look and proceeded with a heartwarming pantomime of his three dads:

Naruto, I love you 💛

[alumirp]

Hound and Witch/Panter&Witch/ Witch and…Monkey?!

"Good morning!"

As always, his greeting was ignored.

Living in a tiny, run-down apartment, next to a grumpy and silent neighbor, working in an unreliable and dangerous job, Hatake Kakashi is a man with smiling eyes, but a face hidden by a mask. With an equally mysterious past, the only small joy in his life is being constantly ignored by his handsome, surly neighbor, but when said past comes looking for him, this handsome neighbor, who is actually a witch(?!), finds himself becomes Kakashi's only salvation

…..

"Good morning~"

Once again, Toji ignored that annoying sound.

Born into a family of ancient magic and old money, Toji could smell a witch or a familiar from miles away without even thinking about it. And while the bastards' organs were worth a lot, the boy next door was decent and cute, despite being annoying, so he didn't see the need to kill him just yet. It didn't mean that Toji wanted to have any connection with the witch… None other than constantly stopping the boy from killing himself or setting the building on fire or simply compacting the entire city into a golf ball, because apparently the brat, a vat Inexhaustible of mana and potential, has no idea what a witch is.

….

As a witch, Law knew the dangers that surrounded him. People would kill him for his organs and blood and enslave him for his magic. Thus, he lived in virtual seclusion, avoiding new people, barely speaking to those he already knew while trying to maintain a semblance of normality by working as a surgeon in a hospital. Things change when a boy appears on his operating table, but not an ordinary boy. Monkey D Luffy was a familiar who had apparently failed to protect his witch, his own older brother, from hunters. Logically speaking, Law shouldn't be interested in him, but it just felt…right.

(this is old lol. very obviously inspired by

Witch & Cat

by Yodaka Kuroi. I love this manga, it's amazing and it helps that the MC looks like Toji ~ I'm not into the Tojigo vibe anymore, but at the time, I thought it looked perfect for both of them. Also, Kakashi and Iruka would also fit in, so I wrote them both. But recently, I thought about how much fun Law and Luffy would be in this scenario.)

[allgather]

iruka kneeling down to heal a loved one from the brink of death but while he’s focused on it, he lets his guard down ( and surely, the person he’s healing can’t be on alert anymore ), and he’s grabbed roughly by the back of his vest. and he is so stubborn, so vicious when it comes to protecting those he loves, that he’s absolutely nasty in the fight to subdue his attacker and get back to his patient. uses nails and teeth. bites the hand that holds him in place so hard it bleeds. claws at whatever skin he can reach. and iruka usually aims to subdue non-lethally, to disarm, but in the urgency of the moment, fueled by his protective instinct, he kills with decisiveness. as soon as he has the opportunity, a brief second with the upper hand, he slits his attacker’s throat. and he’s back to treating injuries before he can even catch his breath.

[dailyirukapics]

Okay so I love this for him! The headband on his arm a la Shikamaru is a great touch!

young iruka (a style without a headband on its head)

[teatitty]

Obviously I'm a "Iruka was being groomed to be the hokage/some other political position" truther but I'm also a "if Kishimoto had kept the setup for Iruka being a secret jounin level badass the Pain arc would've been the perfect time to reveal it by having him go toe-to-toe with Pain when the village was attacked" truther

Like yeah yeah Kakashi saving him as is was great and all but please walk with me and imagine a world with these possibilities instead:

Iruka saving Kakashi's life and fighting Pain to protect him

KakaIru teamup on Pain

Iruka going toe-to-toe with him and getting taken out right as Naruto shows up to see his brother-figure die [everyone gets brought back to life anyway at the end so we can have this]

Counter to the above: Iruka holding off Pain's assault and getting saved by Kakashi only when he's on his last legs and is about to collapse [classic "catches them mid-fall" trope and could lead to Kakashi killing one of the six paths now they're weakened]

This one is for the barrier nin Iruka lovers: he puts up a barrier to protect a civilian area and the only way to bring it down is to knock him out so the whole time he's getting beat on he's maintaining the barrier long enough for everyone to evacuate

There's undoubtably other ways you could fit in such a reveal but I truly think the Pain arc works best from a narrative perspective given how closely tied Iruka is to the very foundations of the village

[animeomegas]

can we get the naruto boys reacting to an alpha with horrible eyesight but they refuse to wear glasses because it doesn't make them look as "badass"?

(Me when I was 14 😭)

"You have to wear them! They help you! What if someone ambushes you because you aren't wearing glasses and don't see them and then you die?! Just wear them, you look the great in them!": Shikamaru (if you have very bad eyesight), Lee

"Please just wear them darling, for me?": Gaara, Yamato, Haku

Raises an eyebrow and sends you a *look* whenever he sees you not wearing your glasses: Iruka, Chouji, Hayate, Minato

"Are you suggesting that my glasses don't make me look badass?" (corners you into choosing between wearing glasses and insulting him): Shino, (non-massacre) Itachi

Is a massive jerk and refuses to read signs/menus for you when you can't. "If you wore your glasses, you wouldn't have to ask now would you?": Neji, Kakashi, Kankuro

Laughs at you for being a weirdo: Naruto, Kankuro (again), Shisui

"Listen babe, you're a badass baddie knockout with or without glasses, I promise. So please put them on.": Kiba

*Shrugs* Whatever. If you want to not see things, that's not really his problem lol: Shikamaru (if you have minorly bad eyesight), Sai

"You must never repeat this to anyone but... me too.": SASUKE, (canon) Itachi

[socra-time]

Naruto Episode Comments, Ep 21-30

Ep 21:

-wow Gaara is tiny

-Gaara and Sasuke are immediately having an edgelord-off bc of course they are

-Iruka is such a worried dad

-I love Kakashi so much

-I love how Lee talks, it’s so earnest

-I also like Tenten’s voice

Ep 22:

-Lee is so fucking goofy I love him

-also I didn’t know Lee had a giant crush on Sakura

-I do like Sasuke but him getting his shit rocked by Lee was really satisfying

-GAI I LOVE YOU SO MUCH

-Gai’s voice is exactly what I thought it would be and I love it

-I need a spinoff about Team Gai and I need it NOW (yes I know the Rock Lee spinoff exists and I WILL be watching it)

-Gai’s stupid poses are incredible

Ep 23:

-aw Kakashi is so proud of his squad😭

-“Akimichi, more like Aki-munchy” is CRAZY

-Akamaru is so CUTEEEEEE

-anyways Naruto is such a fucking hater to all the other rookies

-I can’t get over Kiba casually walking around with a puppy on his head

-Shino is so drippy. Also his voice wasn’t what I expected

-unrelated to anything in the episode but the sand siblings have such cool designs

Ep 24:

-“I don’t know where the others are sitting!” Naruto says, sitting two rows ahead of Sakura

-shoutout to Sakura for being the only one actually smart enough to take the test without cheating

-respectfully how the FUCK did Tenten not get caught cheating. I can get past Ino and Neji not getting caught (since even though their powers are pretty obvious, they only have to cheat once or twice to get the info they need)- but fucking TENTEN????

-Kiba’s cheating method is potentially okay-ish, since only he seems to be able to understand Akamaru so it may just seem like the dog making little noises instead of passing him answers, but he really shouldn’t have even been allowed to have Akamaru with him in the first place

-also Shino had the best cheating method out of the Konoha kids hands down

Ep 25:

-Kurenai is so pretty and also I like her voice

-I like that Sakura was going to quit the test in order to force Naruto to fail with her and thus prevent him from potentially losing his chance at his dream, you could really tell she does care about him deep down

-aw Ibiki is actually kinda chill, I like him

-I also already like Anko, she has unhinged energy

Ep 27:

-Naruto continues to be a gremlin

-“Survival. What a drag.” So real Shikamaru

-I’m torn between being annoyed that Ino and Sakura are fighting over a boy and being highly entertained by their pettiness

-Hinata sweetie Naruto does NOT give a shit about you right now

-Team 10’s dynamic is really just Ino wrangling Shikamaru and Choji

-Shikamaru is so scrawny-looking lmao

-Akamaru looks so holdable<3

-so like Kiba, Shino, and Hinata totally killed those guys right??? Congrats to them for being the first rookies to kill someone lol

Ep 28:

-okay Sasuke kick-launching a kunai was badass

-I could do without all the tongue shit thank you very much

-I’m glad that even though Sasuke is the cool rival character he’s still allowed to feel fear and desperation, it’s humanizing and reminds you that he’s still a kid (a kid that also happens to have God eyes and shoots fire but yknow a kid nonetheless)

-Naruto getting digested by a snake was not on my bingo card of things that would happen in this arc

-Sasuke stabbing himself was metal as hell

-Jesus fucking Christ snake lady (who I’m assuming is Orochimaru based on what I know about him) is terrifying

Ep 29:

-Naruto really has no sense of self-preservation

-seeing Sasuke so shaken-up is very off-putting but also makes Orochimaru feel like a properly intense threat

-oh so Sasuke is like legit traumatized

-also Sakura was yelling at Sasuke to fight, but she also wasn’t fighting so that was pretty hypocritical lmao

Ep 30:

-I like that Sasuke says the episode title instead of Naruto for this episode

-the animation is popping OFF

-Sasuke continues to be badass and also completely willing to roast someone alive

-EW OROCHIMARU FUCKING BIT SASUKE WTF

-yeah I need Orochimaru gone ASAP

-I noticed that the symbol on Orochimaru’s headband changed to the Sound symbol, which was a cool detail

-respectfully I’m gonna need Sakura to start being more useful to the team. Can this pleeeease be her chance to step up

-I wonder if Anko’s snake shit and Orochimaru’s snake shit are related, since he was apparently her sensei

-Sasuke really cannot catch a fuckin break in this show

[getyourmindrightson]

Okay, but like that hair tie looks very similar to what we see Iruka wear here

...I'm just saying that if Kishimoto hinted that Iruka is jonin or ANBU level....why can't he be a secret ANBU/deep cover to protect the clan kids....

fucking around on tsunade's stupid wikia page looking for smth to make me 5% more insane and like

bitch ass Iruka clone jumpscare

[mixelation]

for the ship ask meme: kakashi/obito (tho i'd be interested to hear your thoughts on any of the other relatively popular kakashi ships as well)

send me a ship and i'll give you my brutally honest opinion on it

This one is complicated by the fact that I.... don't really like canon Obito or the most common fanon Obito. Like I think there's a ton of spicy, spicy potential here for some really interesting, fucked up stuff in this ship. It's got the drama. It's got the pizzazz. It got the potetial to either be a complete and utter disaster or culminate in incredible catharsis. But while I have fun writing Obito... most Obitos are very annoying. I don't usually read this ship.

For other Kakashi ships... I think my favorite are Kakashi/OC ships. Like I want him to be some OC's weird gangly ninja boyfriend. I like that these ships can lean into his badass side but also his intense loyalty, and hopefully some of his Weirdo Energy. My favorite canon ship for him is probably KakaGai, although there's this weird contradiction where it's too ~comfortable~ to be something I get really rabid over. Like it's there for when you want to snuggle up and read some fluff. For when you think "I'm emotionally exhausted and I want to read about an equally exhausted person get to just relax and feel safe."

I have never super gotten the appeal of Kakashi/Iruka and its popularity continues to baffle me. Kakashi/Sakura is pretty popular in AkaSaku circles, but I like them better platonically (and also since working as a teacher, teacher/student ships now mostly squick me).

Kakashi is pretty shippable for me, so I would be tempted by a wide array of weird crackships for him.

[strengthinbloom]

Strength in Bloom [Chapter 7]

(full chapter for you guys this time <3) (this happens while Sakura is being held hostage by a mysterious nukenin!)

Life was good in the Hidden Village of the Leaf. Over the years, Sakura had made real friends and at least one good rival, and had learned so much with Iruka, Kakashi, Tsunade, Shizune and so many others who were so good to her. There were those who looked down on her for not belonging to a prestigious shinobi Clan, but she had proven them wrong time over time.

She had Naruto to thank for that. After all, he had been the one to prove Neji wrong in the Exams, and when that wasn’t enough, he proved Gaara wrong too. Kakashi-sensei taught them tactics and Ninjutsu, but really it was Naruto who inspired them. Their lives had never been the same since the Land of Waves.

And during the Exams… Sakura grasped at the shortened threads of her hair, letting the memories wash over her once again. Naruto and Sasuke were so brave back then. I wish they could see me now. She had considered growing out her hair again, but she came to like the new haircut. Shizune had short hair too, and she was beautiful. Sakura didn’t have to compete with the likes of Ino anymore.

“What is the difference between shinobi and kunoichi, Sakura?” Tsunade had once inquired her. “Can you tell me?”

Sakura took a moment to think. They were both exhausted and covered in sweat after a long session of sparring; All around them, the training grounds had been reduced to cratered earth and shattered trees. “Is this a trick question, sensei? We learned all that mumbo-jumbo in the Academy a long time ago.” She answered with a know-it-all smirk. “Back during Sengoku Jidai, before Shodaime-sama founded our Village, only men were allowed to fight. So shinobi lead field missions while kunoichi infiltrated as princesses, geisha or serving women. Even whores, sometimes.”

Tsunade chuckled softly. “You aren’t wrong, dear student. But there’s more to it than History.” She took a long sip of her water bottle and splashed it across her face, the coolness a welcome relief. “The difference between shinobi and kunochi is simply what the world expects of them.”

Sakura frowned, so the Hokage explained it further: “Men are simple creatures, kid. You’ll learn that soon enough. Most shinobi, friend or foe, will expect less of you simply because you don’t have a weiner hanging between your legs. Your enemies will assume you are the weak link of your squad, and will lower their guard when they’re fighting you. You can use that. Yeah, kunoichi of the past have taken down tyrants and emperors by killing them when they were most vulnerable: naked in bed, their eyes closed, ready for some fun… That’s pretty badass, not gonna lie. But nowadays, any shinobi can pull that off with a good Transformation Technique.” She winked. “We gotta be more creative than that.”

“I understand, sensei.” Sakura took a sip of her own water. Lady Tsunade always gave her lots to think about after these sessions, in addition to the bruises all over her body. She couldn’t help but wonder if Jiraya did the same with Naruto, and if Sasuke…

Tsunade must have noticed the sadness in her eyes. She stood up and hopped from one foot to the other, raising her fists. “Come on, back to work, now. Your stance is still way too off, you need more practice before we’re done for the day.

O, Konoha! O, Hokage-sama! Those had been good times, and for that Sakura was thankful. If only I could see them one last time. Walk among the trees in the Training Grounds, tend to the deers in the Nara woods, get a big bowl of Ichiraku Ramen with her friends… Kakashi used to give them all-you-can-eat tickets after a particularly tough mission. She had been thinking she could do the same with Neji and Kiba once they were back, even if they weren’t exactly friends. She thought it might make things better. They would be going out in other missions as well, and it wouldn’t hurt to have a non-hostile environment.

But none of that mattered anymore. They had encountered nukenin on the road, and had lost the fight before it even started. Neji had been captured or neutralized. With luck, Kiba would stall the puppeteer long enough for her to run, and she would return to Konoha with news that Hyuuga Neji and Inuzuka Kiba had been killed in the battlefield.

Tsunade would be disappointed. “Neji is one of the finest shinobi in this village, and a martial arts specialist.” She had said. “These are difficult times, and we must make do with what we have.”

Konoha found itself in dreadful need of competent shinobi, and Sakura had managed to get one of them killed in his first mission as a Jonin. The Third Shinobi War, the Uchiha Massacre, and more recently Orochimaru’s invasion had costed the lives of many high-ranking shinobi, including notable names like he Yellow Lightning, Fugaku of the Wicked Eye and Shisui of the Body Flicker.

Even if she survived the mission, Sakura would forever carry this failure on her shoulders. Once she aspired to rise to Jonin, and train a trio of Genin just like Kakashi… But now, how could she ever do it? After she let Neji and Kiba behind, unable to save them, to protect them, to heal them.

“That will be enough.” Said a mysterious voice, far away. “Let her wake.”

Sakura opened her eyes with a snap of invisible fingers.

[End of chapter]

[feng1wei]

I had a chat with my friend about Naruto teachers' incompetence. And it's actually really sad when you think about it

We're all always joking about naruto knowing only three jutsu (excluding talk-no-jutsu since it's not exactly a ninja art) but has anyone ever tried to teach him more? He's had so many teachers - Iruka, Kakashi, Ebisu, Jiraiya, Asuma - and yet all of them only taught him one or two things each?

Iruka: two of the three basic academy jutsu. He was an academy teacher, that was his job, and he did it quite well considering how many students he had.

Kakashi: tree-walking and mixing rasengan with wind nature chakra.

Ebisu: water-walking. He was a one time teacher and he did his job great. He even explained to Naruto some theory in a way he would understand.

Jiraiya: summoning, a little bit of controling the kyuubi's chakra

Asuma: basics of wind nature chakra - just what Naruto asked him to explain.

How is it, that f.e. Jiraiya, who had Naruto as his ONLY student for three years, only taught him two things?

It was extremely disappointing watching the first few episodes of Shippuden, thinking that Naruto became a stronger, badass ninja, and seeing him using the same jutsu in exactly the same way as before, just with more chakra.

Also, let's go back to the team 7 as a whole. Before the time skip, out of the whole team, only Sasuke got some kind of education from Kakashi. He didn't even give them any advice on what should they do next, what should they try. He just let them be and then nominated them to the chuunin exams.

That could be of course explained that learning a new jutsu takes a lot of time and effort and he just didn't have time to teach them anything more in the little time he spent as their teacher. But in that situation, Sasuke, even as a genius, would have never learn chidori in a month. Or Naruto a rasengan in a week. It was just the teachers not doing anything.

And don't tell me that the kids just didn't ask, because they did. Naruto constantly asked everyone if they would teach him "some cool jutsu". And if you're expecting a 12 yo to be more specific about their career choices, then let's be honest, that would just be plain unrealistic.

What I mean by all that is: while Jiraiya and Kakshi were good emotional support for their students, they were absolutely sh*t at being teachers.

Thank you for reading my essay!

[insomnikat-mused]

I'd like to see you do Tsunade and Ino for the blorbo bingo :)

And, I have a question.

What Naruto characters do you dislike?

Hi, friend! Using this blorbo bingo template:

Did I absolutely dislike everything she represented as a shounen character design when she was first introduced? Yes. Did I associate the negative context of breasting boobily for the longest time to her and hold resentment that she was in a series that consistently introduced super-interesting badass women only to ignore their accomplishments in favor of framing their (solely romantic) role in the male counterpart's development and story arc? Yes.

And I'm not taking evidence-based counter arguments. I'm purely talking about the generally canonical feeling that she was designed for boys (men) to 'safely' oggle at while pretty much every other female character was underage pre-Shippuden.

I like Ino because she is the only "main" female character to overcome the kunoichi curse of being loyal to that one guy she had a crush on from childhood and actually grow up and move on to a much healthier relationship with a GOOD family dynamic in which she's clearly established and respected as the clan leader. My headcanons of her are mostly how she'd look around at every other kunoichi (mainly Sakura) and go "giiiiirl, that ain't normal. You can't possibly be happy. Leave his ass!"

As for a Naruto character I dislike, it's Iruka. I never understood why so much of fandom believed he was a good, better sensei than Kakashi. And due to the combination of TWO bad beta experiences and just overall bad awful OOC vibes with the Iruka-stans part of fandom, I am DNI with people who post about Iruka and ship him in any way (but especially KakaIru).

[misrepresentedmorallygrey]

now as for Sakura propaganda.... (This will be like swinging a bat on a hornet’s nest but Naruto fandom frustrate me so much I can no longer be silenced)

Don't get me wrong, that girl has plenty of flaws, but given how much the fandom hate her over equally or even more flawed characters, the hate towards her get pretty excessive, and hypocritical at times.

Now for the list of reasons people hate her... flip list

1- That she never became as "badass" and overpowered as Sasuke and Naruto... nevermind that the power levels at the end were a farce and that by the end nobody could hope to match up the uuhhh chosen by the prophecy descendants of ninja goddess and reincarnations of overpowered DBZ-level characters. And that it's a gap no characters, even those more experienced and talented and with better bloodlines could hope to close. She's the one most bashed over that for some reason that escapes me.

2- on the same branch, people loathe her for not inventing new jutsu at the ripe age of 16 yo, nevermind that she couldn’t possibly have found the time to do that in 3 years in between learning the entire medical curriculum and keeping up with her combat training.

3- somehow more hated than Shimura Danzou, fans will sing praises of Itachi being a martyr and Naruto being perfect for Sasuke while hating Sakura to the core

4- the "Sakura is obsessive about her imagined version of Sasuke and doesn't really treat him as a person" may be true, but then they go and treat SNS as like the purest most wholesome ship ever as if... Naruto... didn't do… exactly the same.

Naruto who obsess over his imagined version of Sasuke and find himself terribly inconvenienced whenever Sasuke has goals or wants that don’t involve staying within the village or staying the cut-in-cardboard school rival he wants Sasuke to be.

He will go on saying he will drag Sasuke back to the village against his will even if he has to break every single bone of his. Supposedly love Sasuke for who he is and somehow agree with Itachi’s demand of keeping the truth about the slaughter of Sasuke’s entire clan, and can’t believe Sasuke would not want to go back to the village who persecuted and genocided his clan. Never listen to Sasuke’s words and story and go on about Sasuke having a darkness and evilness that Sasuke disagree with Naruto over staying in the village because must be Fixed. By Him (Naruto).

The Naruto and Sasuke ship/dynamic will go on to be eternally praised by most Naruto fans despite it being yikes at best, they will display self-awareness of how toxic some of SNS behaviors are only when it come to bashing rival ships.

5- After Sai basically guilt her for not returning Naruto's feelings and asking him years ago to get back Sasuke, she will act rashly to fix this. The fandom will go on to hate simultaneously "Sakura not caring about Naruto's feelings" (that she didn't know about) and "Sakura desperately trying to make up for efforts she believe Naruto made for her in any way she possibly can, including prentending to have romantic feelings for him and doing her hardest to get over her affection for Sasuke, including proactively going to try to murder him."

Now as for things I actually like about Sakura.

I find her personality refreshing, and it would have been an interesting main character, the orphan who had little to no positive relationships and close people to begin with aside from Iruka , the boy who had a beloved family and clan and who experienced love, family and happiness before having it ripped away from him and the spoiled sheltered ignorant girl all make for different and complimentary and IMPORTANT perspectives on the different types of people growing within Konoha, within the ninja continent period. and how they all clash with one another. She has an abrasive personality, often says things thoughtlessly, and her trying to wrestle with how powerless/useless she feels and actively and proactively trying to make up for her flaws when made aware of them.

She often grapple with stuff like in-universe misogyny, including coping with them in all the wrongs ways, like believing she has to nab herself a man (Sasuke) and act all submissive in front of him due to the belief that her being desirable as a girl is a priority, all of point 5, and fandom reacting as if Sakura's personality exist in a vaccuum and that can't possibly come from internalizing stuff constantly said in-universe, nevermind all appearing characters constantly say and think sexist bullshit, and that she has to be a representation and icon of all in-universe and out-of-universe women instead of a character with her own characteristics.

Which makes fandom tend to "fix her" by stripping all that makes Sakura herself in fics in order to make her more palatable.

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[team7-headquarter]

Hmm, but what about a reverse au where Iruka is the most badass jounin in town and the sensei of the most chaotic genin team ever while Kakashi is the cutest and most sentimental academy sensei.

It's a silly thing I'm thinking about, but maybe in another life Iruka would have been a super clever jounin inspired by the death of his parents in the Nine Tails tragedy, while Kakashi would have gone with a more peaceful life after Sakumo's dead.