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[twinkletits-jr]

Disenchantment (Day 2)

Seven days of magic and fantasy brought to you by yours truly and the wonderful people of @naruto-fantasy-week.

Embark on a journey through seven individual universes with a wide variety of heroes and their slices of life. Each chapter will combine both prompts or do a hot take on one, and will have its own summary and TWs/tags in the notes ahead of it aside from the tags appearing as I add new chapters. Fair warning for bad humour and the presence of one (1) Uchiha Madara. I didn’t want to make this shippy, but I do hint at a couple of possible relationships.

Day 1 *:･ﾟ✧ Witches & Familiars, Soul Bonds

Day 2 *:･ﾟ✧ Mythical, Monstrous

Day 3 *:･ﾟ✧ Cursed Magic, Old Gods

Day 4 *:･ﾟ✧ Urban Fantasy, Japanese Folklore

Day 5 *:･ﾟ✧ Thieves & Outlaws, Shapeshifters

Day 6 *:･ﾟ✧ Elemental Spirits, Sirens & Merfolk

Day 7 *:･ﾟ✧ Knights, Dragons & Druids

PS: What is proofreading anyway?

Read Day 2  Mythical & Monstrous on AO3 now!

"Kurama."

Amaterasu's soft voice beckons the young kitsune forward. It comes, bowing its large head at the goddess' feet. Ever so kind, the woman leans down, running her fingers over the kitsune's head. It allows her such affection for no one but the goddess of the Sun would dare. Her long red hair tickles its snout, reminding the kitsune of warm summer days. She speaks again.

"That shall be the name you will bear now. I have a task for you, dear Kurama."

[blackkatmagic]

Submission:

What advice do you have for someone with oddly specific fanfic ideas - too specific to expect anyone else to write - but no real belief they'll get around to writing them?

I was inspired by Stormborn, recently.  I really, really like having Sasuke miss Naruto.  But I can't see doing a reincarnation/uzushio story twice, it's too much of a copy.  So then I thought - "what else would make Naruto leave Konoha?" 

Well...if he knew Konoha would get destroyed, that'd do it.  Even if he knew everyone was miraculously resurrected, I don't think he'd want to see all his precious people hurt like that.  So...what if the people on the moon (who really seem a bad fit when that stalker wannabe-boyfriend appears in the Naruto: Last movie) basically were keeping their eyes out for any attempt at reviving the Ten Tails?  And when Itachi attacked Naruto, when they realized Akatsuki was trying to collect all the Tailed Beasts, they decided they had to act?  So someone came and convinced Naruto that he had to leave, to keep Akatsuki away from Konoha?

So everything is canon up until Naruto brings Tsunade back.  Then he has an eye opening conversation, and he goes to visit Sasuke while trying to figure out what to do.  When Sasuke tries to fight with him, all Naruto can think is "Not on my last day here."  So he refuses to fight, and says some stuff about how not everything is about Sasuke, and Sasuke has tunnel vision...

And when Naruto leaves Konoha, he leaves a clone behind to help delay the discovery.   It works until Sasuke has recovered enough that they schedule another team mission, at which point someone gets irritated at (clone) Naruto and hits him...and he goes poof. 

So now there's two different plot points - Naruto's side and the Konoha side.  On the Konoha side, Sasuke and Sakura are wondering why Naruto left (and what was all that talk about teamwork, anyway, if he never gave them a clue about whatever-it-was that caused him to leave?)...and they wind up roping in the Konoha 11 to help.  First, by Sakura talking to Ino...who drags in Shikamaru, because their team is trained in intel collection by golly.  Shikamaru decides to treat it like an intel collection mission, and creates a board to capture everything they know about Naruto.  And maybe, in the process, realizing that for someone who talks as much as Naruto did, he kind of didn't tell them a lot.  I'm not sure how/when they discover what, just that eventually everyone gets used to meeting at Sasuke's on Sundays (since at the time Sasuke was the only one not living at home), and eventually they learn that Naruto is the Nine Tails jinchuriki.

Naruto, on the other hand, eventually forms a team with Gaara and Fu...and they are kick ass!  But they're goal is to infiltrate Akatsuki, so they're focusing on developing false identities and whatnot.  (In addition to learning how to control their beasts, and fight, and other things.  But hey, they've got the chakra to burn and can all create shadow clones, right?)  Naruto is able to use his frog summons to stay in touch with Jiraiya and Tsunade, since anybody else would just think it was Jiraiya sending messages, but he has to stay clear of everyone else he knows (for fear any known connections would become targets).  And someone actually clues Naruto and his team on how to read body language, since a good infiltrator can do so.  They practice reading body language at clubs and whatnot.  Hell, maybe even get a class on seduction techniques ;) 

But they're building up to the  big task - defeating Akatsuki.  Particularly figuring out how to prevent anyone from ever reviving the ten tails.  Before doing so, they have to show they can master their disguises...so they take missions in their home lands, to see if they can handle it.  They also, at some point, get hints that Itachi massacred the Uchiha as part of a mission, so when they go to Konoha (for the next Chunin exams, a year or two later) they are also trying to collect info on Danzo.

And so, one or two years later, Naruto finally meets up with his old friends.  In disguise, of course.  Gaara plays poker with them, secretly  nervous when they start quizzing him about jinchuriki, until he realizes it's not because they suspect him...but because the Konoha 11 are trying to get answers on Naruto.  So he decides to give them a little bit of a hint.  Tells them the legend of the Ten Tails, and what it could mean if anyone ever collected them all.  And points out that an S-Class organization that's ready to take on and subdue the Tailed Beasts is an organization with enough power to take down a nation.  

So...yeah.  Way too specific, and at the same time way too little. :(  I'm not sure what I expect you to do with it, I just have this urge to get this out there, and I'm not ready to write it yet. 

I'm not sure I ever will be.

[avenger-hawk]

Everytime I see fans calling Itachi a horrible person, I roll my eyes because they still don't get he was FORCED to do what he did. If he didn't kill the Uchihas, then Danzo would have killed them all anyways without letting Sasuke live.

Same.

Anyway I replied to similar asks here, here, here,  here, here, here, here, here and this is my Itachi defense tag because no one talks ill about niisan.

(pro-Itachi, anti-Konoha, anti-antiitachis, anti-ending, anti-Naruto as a character, anti-new stuff under the cut. same for the links. some are even anti-SNS and they’re ALL anti-SS and anti-kids)

I mean, of course your average tumblr know it all fan knows better, because they’re narrow-minded woke enough to apply 100% real life ethics and politics with bonus tumblr self-care and positivity crap to the story, of course they would have solved a problem that not even in-universe diplomacy could solve, they’re like those self-insert fics where bffs Alex and Keyla magically end up in Naruto world, only in this case they’re much better than that so they’d bring a team of lawyers, a bunch of psychologists, and probably a high school and a club (because why not) so everything can be exactly like real life, becase it’s impossible to imagine anything different and to hell the fact that as sad as it is, some tragedies are needed for the plot, and to make a characters’ personality special and endearing and amazing. Let’s face it, if bffs Sandra and Kat say Itachi is a horrible person, it must be true because they know better, all hail tumblr fans who know everything (except for narratology. but at least they’re not horrible persons).

It’s much better to fix the world’s flaws in the end, showing an improvement from injustice, than showing a world where everything is “healthy” and functioning, because that -shocking news- would be a world where nothing develops and everything is stale and boring kinda like some fans’, that’s why they have these brilliant solutions. If there is only light it’s nothing special and no one will appreciate it. When there’s shadows instead, you’re going to appreciate the light, and not just that, but also the contrasts, and light/shadow playing and mixing with each other.

I don’t go around searching for these people’s opinions as long as they stay in their lane, but it’s pretty obvious that I have a very negative opinion of theirs. They don’t realize that Itachi didn’t do it for Konoha, he did it for Sasuke. He sacrificed his whole clan for his brother’s life. He was well aware of Konoha’s dark sides and flaws but he let his brother live there so that he’d have a stable life, comrades, teammates, teachers, a life as close to normal as he could ever have, considering the circumstances and the tragedy he forced Sasuke to live.

Which, in his mind, no matter how terrible and traumatic and tragic, were still better than being dead, and his way of thinking, was a consequence of his witnessing war at 4, of being a shinobi since his childhood, a tool for the clan and the village. A shinobi, a soldier, to the core.

When Sasuke was born it was as if Itachi’s whole grim world brightened. Sasuke was everything to him, so it’s not strange that he went to such extreme lenghts for him, not even trying to fight back Danzo, or warning the clan or anything. He relied on Shisui to change the clan’s mind but it didn’t work, it’s said diplomacy didn’t work either, and then Danzo made him choose between saving Sasuke and losing him with everyone else. He knew instantly who was more important. Sasuke, always Sasuke. 

Even though he’d be traumatized and scarred for life he’d be alive.

Even though he’d be consumed by hate he’d be alive.

Itachi wasn’t a Konoha dog, a fascist or whatever. Even though he respected Hiruzen which is something everyone did, unfortunately. He had an absolute, singular vision of what should happen, complete with alternative plans and solutions, and he didn’t sway from that because in his mind it was the best course of action. He was a genius and he hated to lose, so he thought he knew better than others, since he was several steps ahead of everyone, yet he made a mistake: he underestimated Sasuke’s feelings for him. 

He assumed that Sasuke would compartmentalize his hate for him and otherwise lead a normal life in Konoha, then he thought that he would kill him and return to Konoha, not realizing that Sasuke lost his will to live after his death, since his whole life revolved around that moment. Itachi also tried to keep him away from Tobi/Obito, and to use Kotomatsukami to brainwash him into returning to the village, thinking that if Sasuke got to know the truth he’d have done something about it. But stil he didn’t realize the extent of Sasuke’s feelings for him.

So in my opinion Itachi’s actions are first and foremost to let Sasuke stay alive, a proof of the extreme lenghts he’d go for him, sacrificing his people, sacrificing even Sasuke’s mental stability, so that he’d be alive, and one of the aspects that make his character so complex, so controversial and so fascinating.

Also, it’s ironic that they’re all against Itachi wanting to brainwash Sasuke into becoming loyal to the village despite knowing its dark sides, but when Konoha manipulates him, starting from N*ruto’s tnJ then his discarding him, then the whole guilt tripping process then the inprisonment and its isolation (for those who consider that episode canon) then the isolation of a long journey, which result into Sasuke being completely brainwashed, apathetic and detached, they’re all like “how selfless N*ruto letting him go on a journey, so caring” and then they’re like “it’s not Sasuke that’s OOC” not applying concepts like brainwashing and manipulation and blaming any character for that, only blaming kishimoto’s writing, unlike in Itachi’s case.