#freeing Hyuuga slavery

[detectkikeh]

It's because the actual core of his "revolution" is to avenge Itachi's pain. Nothing more and nothing less.

Obito massacred the Uchiha, even in novel he was the one who killed the children and women (feel free to treat it as filler).

Obito harvested his clansmen's Sharingan and used it for his own Izanagi benefit while he can't even bring himself to take his own Sharingan back from Kakashi, he even felt bad for it being returned to him and gave Kakashi Susanoo trial.

Obito is the reason why Uchiha was segregated (Uchiha was treated decently before Kyuubi Attack and their people were suspected of freeing the Kyuubi) and the bastard even lied to Sasuke by saying that Kyuubi breakout was natural incident to portray Uchiha as ultimate victim, while he deliberately unleashed Kyuubi to avenge Rin.

Yet Sasuke didn't harbor any hatred for Obito because :

(1) Sasuke ultimately only cared for Itachi's pain at that time and Obito is not the one who pushed Itachi to his painful fate. Even in a way I think he saw Obito as Itachi's helper

(2) Obito essentially controlled Sasuke's narrative (brainwashing him to be honest) and made his rightful anger toward Itachi's fate bigger and more harmful for his own destructive benefit

I think fandom truly overestimate Sasuke's "Uchiha Revolution" while clearly all the boy did was being angry for Itachi's pain. That's why his hatred for Konoha vanished after understanding Itachi's feeling. People can have opinion about whether it's justified or not but Sasuke didn't care for that. He only cared for Itachi's feeling. That's why he asked the Founders, because even after hearing Itachi's side of the story, he still didn't understand Itachi's feeling. Then he understood Itachi's feeling and next move tried to emulate him (being all murderous and burden all hatred alone) but Naruto didn't allow him to.

It makes me laugh so much when people say that Sasuke being revolutionist on VoTE 2 and Naruto "beaten him into submission". All Naruto did was to prevent Sasuke from doing the thing Itachi did that greatly hurt Sasuke AND Itachi. The same action that people accuse Itachi for being "bootlicker"

Didn't Obito help in the Uchiha massacre too? Sasuke wanted to kill Obito before he knew who he was like he said when he was fighting Itachi. But when the time came Sasuke just said leave me alone. He probably just wanted to be done with it all. But Sasuke wanting vengeance on Konoha while Obito was right there was something weird. Naruto and Sasuke's behavior is strange towards Obito.

i agree that’s weird… kishimoto just couldn’t rationalise some characters’ (itachi and obito) actions tbh

[dreamingofneji]

I’m very happy I stumbled across your blog. Excellent and important content. I cannot fathom why they chose to drop Neji’s arch, which was one of the most compelling in the series, the way they did. He lived and died as a slave and neither Naruto nor anyone else did anything about it. It’s treated as a bad joke. Why do you think people (calling themselves “fans”!) keep making excuses for this? Like it doesn’t matter? I’m sorry if you’ve answered this question before this just bothers me so much.

Hi!! Thanks so much for the ask, and sorry it's taken me so long to answer it! <3 As far as fans making excuses for the dropping of the storyline, or defending the slavery, I honestly think they've just never put much thought into it. For a long time, I ignored it too; content to just watch/read Naruto and enjoy the story without thinking too hard about some of the more important issues, like the slavery (there are more than just that, but that's for another post). As for defending it, I haven't seen much of it, other than people who like Hinata claiming that all has been resolved; specifically because Neji has resigned himself, and because of this panel:

Hiashi says this but, man... there's never been anything I hated more than this in the Naruto series; because it's just not true! Let me quote another tumblr user (I couldn't find the post, so I don't remember who said it): "Naruto's version of a "Changed Hyuuga Clan" involves Hiashi Hyuuga still being Clan Leader, a Child of the First Branch still being the Heir, and no actual Restorative Justice."

This is soooo true! There was no actual justice, and in the end, Neji also died to be free of the Hyuga Clan and the way they functioned:

So, for people defending the slavery or making excuses for dropping the storyline, I think that they 1. don't care enough, or 2. literally haven't put enough thought into it. I want to go into so much more depth, but I have to go to work soon so I'll just end it with that.

Again, thanks so much for the ask!! <3

[sapphic-sasuke]

i just binged ur meta and this one on danzo is where i hoped the story would go after the pain arc when i first watched shippuden...

hope u don’t mind if i ramble here...i think naruto as a series kind of tried to have its cake and eat it too? like we get these hard moral conundrums (pain asking naruto what he thinks will bring peace) and also these cookie cutter talk-no-jutsu moments about conquering hAtReD which is so frustrating...it just had so much potential (guess that’s why i’m still bitter about it so many years after i first watched it lol) and whenever the main cast is presented with ideological conflict it’s just half-assedly resolved (hyuuga subplot grr)

out of curiousity, do u have any thoughts on how the shinobi system could actually be reformed? I haven’t read boruto but from the small bit i’ve absorbed through tumblr, naruto’s way didn’t work out at all. and what do you think of nagato’s magic nuke idea? whenever i think back to naruto now somehow nagato seems like the most reasonable dude, magic nukes are at least a bit more realistic than whatever madara and obito’s plan was.

okay one more thing do you have any fic recs for a sasuke who actually goes on to start revolution? and the system gets criticised and broken down? i’m forever salty that the vague arc that was forming where suigetsu and sasuke were wandering to different orochimaru bases and freeing the experiments didn’t lead to something more concrete. (i hope i’m remembering this right, it’s been like six years since i watched that part so >_<)

(sorry if this is choppy and disjointed, goddamn tumblr crashed just when i was gonna send the ask so i tried to reconstruct it from memory ugh)

((i was gonna end it here but i stumbled upon an itachi appreciation post rn so naturally i have to get a rant out of my system...people really try to glorify child soldier itachi committing genocide on his own family on the orders of his corrupt military dictator leaders lol. btw what is ur itachi characterisation? we see so little of him that’s not an “act” or from sasuke’s eyes, getting a handle on him is so hard.))

damn this ask got long...sorry for spamming ur inbox 🥺 have a good day!

hello! and thank you! im happy my danzo analysis was one you enjoyed

i completely agree that there were wonderful points in naruto that were simply discarded for no viable reason and with the potential it had? crazy honestly same here i think it's why i love the show so much because the potential it had to properly address these issues was there and we almost got that through sasuke but then he was "corrected" by naruto and the main cast. the conflict is so half-assed, and it makes me think... why bring up these issues that mirror real life (genocide, slavery etc) but then.. not ever properly resolve it?

nagato's one does seem the most reasonable tbh although if i were to look at canon options, id lean towards sasuke's goal. i think the revolutionary ideas were made very violent and "extreme" on purpose to have clear villains in place. i dont think an actual revolution by sasuke would be so... i do think that the shinobi system cant be reformed, only destroyed. reforming means compromising with the same shinobi who were keeping the system in place eg the kages etc. naruto is resolved by saying if we all fight against hatred things will be okay but that doesnt address how the "hatred" is getting intensified by the system itself that promotes violence for the sake of your village and for economic gain.

fics for sasuke starting a revolution are... very hard to find. i have some good anti konoha ones that are sasuke centric like this and this . i think the second one is building up to a revolution and its really good. as for my chosen characterisation of itachi. well if we are thinking canon wise, i have a oneshot where its mostly in itachi's pov hejfadsjdj if youre curious that fic is how i see itachi. not canon wise i have some chosen characterisations of itachi that i find very fun like this

(i feel you. i hate seeing people glorify itachi's actions. you're free to like him, even i do, but the moment you begin to try and defend genocide, torturing your own brother and all that disturbing jingoism is where i draw the line. itachi being used as a political pawn for the elders is an explanation, not a defence. he still decided to do it.)

and dont be sorry i love receiving asks :)))) have a nice day <333

[gayninjas]

(1/2) Okay so I'm still new to Naruto so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. Also, this is long. I'm sorry. I'll split it.😅

Out of the K12 kids, Naruto, Sasuke and Neji were fucked over by Konoha (either by their clans, the old man hokage or the villagers). I'd include Rock Lee but I think he was just bullied as a small kid for being... weird? or not having chakra?? And he worked super hard and that didn't last long.

Anyway, I've read plenty of reviews about how the series ended poorly and how messages like "you can change your fate" were disregarded. That the the Naruto franchise would've done better staying an actiony, ninja shonen that focused more on changing the shinobi system instead of turning into the forced romantic shojo that it became. I agree with all of that.

And I said that to say this, I really am disgusted with how things went for Naruto, Sasuke and Neji. Naruto doesn't receive any apologies from those who should give him one (like the villagers! I think the old hokage bastard died so.. no apology there I guess). Like, I know Iruka apologizes to him and I don't know why. I know Iruka was Naruto's first bond, what'd he and only him have to apologize for.

Not only that but Naruto just accepts everyone and then hides the fact that those in charge of Konoha planned the Uchiha massacre!!! (Does Sasuke know he's doing that?) It's ridiculous to just hide the genocide committed by the state (because he's patriotic? Wants to stick to the status quo as much as possible while trying to change things??). And it's somehow worse to hide it when you have this intensely close relationship with the lone survivor of that genocide.

Like, why write Naruto like that? To receive no actual closure (imo) on how he grew up in Konoha and tp make him a top tier bootlicker

included the second part of the ask

(2/2) With Sasuke, that genocide happened and he was just left to his own devices on the outskirts. And he's treated as a villian for justifiably wanting to "destroy" Konoha and wanting a revolution. It gets under my skin how much the K12 kids don't give a fuck about stuff like this. (I like all of them (except for 2) and stuff like this sours my opinion on them)

Not only is he treated as a villain, it appears that no one pay's for the Uchiha massacre (except for Itachi?) which is bullshit. It's just swept under the rug. And THEN Sasuke is written to become another Konoha bootlicker??! He has to go off on his own to atone for his sins? What!

And finally Neji. He died as he knew he would, for the main house family. I will hate that forever and always. His destiny didn't change. Little!Neji in the chunin exams exposing how fucked up the Hyuuga clan is, no one (except Naruto?) cares. He gave Hinata a chance to back out before he killed her, which was allowed, she didn't, he was about to end it and then 4 teachers(?) jump in to save her because, special treatment. Can't let the (former) Hyuuga heir die, she means more than the other kids.

And he was treated as an antagonist for being rightfully pissed off. But no, he just gets over it I guess after befriending Naruto, the Hyuuga clan continues with its slavery bullshit and he dies sacrificing himself for Hinata. What a way to go.

And I know they don't address the slavery Neji wanted to abolish in Boruto. They just ignore it and act like everything's fine and dandy. Naruto isn't one of those series where things just happen offscreen and we know it's cool, right? They can't just expect ppl to think the Hyuuga clan changed right? They don't even focus on them, Neji died and so did any relevance to the Hyuugas because Hinata doesn't do anything.

(Had Neji lived I know he also would've been turned into a major bootlicker too)

In conclusion I can't stand how these 3 boys were screwed over by the village in many ways and then screwed over by bad writing. It's irritating. I love Naruto but there's so many problems with it.

i tried to be concise, hope i covered everything!

I agree that if the Naruto franchise didn’t end off with lackluster romance plots and instead gave closure for all the things they left open ended after the end of the war it would have made a much better ending to the series.

Kishimoto had even admitted he had trouble writing romance in as he hadn’t ever planned on it. He never considered it that relevant so when they did include it, the whole thing felt so forced and awkward it was even kinda ooc for Naruto and Sasuke (scenes like narutos flat ‘im not in touch with my emotions’ reaction to hinatas confession that butchered his character were an absolute pain to sit through)

Nejis death being an awful plot devise to develop NH was a terrible move, like neji sacrificed himself for someone who moments later held narutos hand and went "his hands are warm"??

Don’t even wanna list anything I dislike about ss cause their marriage is so lifeless i feel dead thinking about it.

As for the villagers, they were happy to alienate a poor kid who couldn’t fend for himself and let him believe he was a demon and was deserving of it all but then started licking his boots when they realized they had the equivalent of a nuclear weapon desperate to protect them, and even then they weren’t remorseful of their actions, its all very sickening really,

I think the whole end of Naruto was handled in a way that went against the characters values? like I can easily imagine Naruto being rightfully enraged at the people who issued the massacre of hundreds of innocents, and he wouldn’t ever think of hiding anything like that, especially from the victim who was also his friend??.

How they wrote sasuke as someone who now fucking bows down and becomes a soldier for a village that destroyed him and has done nothing for him is just absolute bs. Although with sasuke, even if one argues his loyalty was for Naruto, the patriotic lines are just too much.

As for the rest, I don’t have much to say cause they never tried to understand why sasuke was doing what he did, they only saw a power hungry uchiha who was seeking revenge.

And yes nejis end was tragic for all the wrong reasons, i was more pissed than sad watching it. He was treated as a tool for nh and his anger at the hyuga clan and their issues was brushed off without much thought because the series never delved into it or resolved it.

And yes we got no real closure for the uchiha massacre, all the messed up things in the hyuga clan and the way Naruto was mistreated his whole life etc. Its aggravating how they expect us to believe its all fixed and fine now

I really do love the pre shippuden arcs like the zabuza and haku arc especially though. They were the peak naruto experience for me and are always the scenes I reminisce and often get nostalgic over.

[leuces]

I’ve been thinking about feelings about Naruto Uzumaki.  I’ve never actually hated him (although I do hate the majority of his stans).  I mean, he’s not the best character, and I don’t think that chasing after Sasuke was a particularly good thing to do, nor was saying that he’d “break all of his bones.”  However, I can understand why he did those things.  He’s a kid, and he does live in a world that’s so extreme that killing thousands of people is seen as “heroic.”  He also had no parents to take care of him, which is why it makes sense that he acts the way he does.

The one thing that I really hate about him is that he didn’t change the corrupt system.  He didn’t get justice for the Uchiha clan (who are literal victims of genocide and discrimination), or stop slavery in the Hyuuga clan, or even get rid of the Elders (who participated in genocide).  Everything is still the same.  Orphans are still treated badly.  People like Orochimaru and Kabuto are running free.  The system is still in place, despite hurting many people.

It just...sucks.  Naruto could’ve been a great character.  I would definitely like him a lot more if he actually changed the system like he promised to.  He could’ve made the world much better, but instead he’s spending his days looking like a sentient egg and being the leader of a fascist village while children are dying and justice still hasn’t been served.

[madara-fate]

hiii! i mainly see you answering asks regarding NH and SS. so i wanna ask something different lol.

i'm just an average naruto fan and bcoz of that i haven't delve deep into it's lore and all but i know some basics through reading and watching reviews. one of the biggest issue in the series is konoha's politics and how awful it is. like the uchiha marginalization and slavery in the hyuga clan. ik the latter has already been solved and the uchiha are no longer marginalized. i mean, only 2 members are left so

but i still find anti-ending dudes complaining about how the shinobi system in general is unresolved??? and that everything the manga has been building up to fell apart for the sake of pairings and boruto. i think it partly has to do with how neji's death was handled and the whole discourse he had with naruto about destiny and stuff got thrown out the window.

what do you think? 😅

I really don't know what those people are complaining about, what unresolved issues in the shinobi system are they referring to?

The Uchiha aren't ostracised anymore and are instead well respected due to the high prestige of both Sasuke and Sakura.

The Hyuuga are no longer split between and Main and Branch families, and instead the two stand side by side as equals.

The Hidden Mist village has long lost it's reputation as the "Bloody Mist" village, and has very much improved its practices ever since Mei took over as the Mizukage.

Children aren't even being forced to become ninjas, so its not as if they have no choice but to live that lifestyle - They're completely free to choose their own career path, so the whole "child soldiers" thing is no longer a valid argument.

I mean, the ending was never gonna please everyone, I understand that, but these types of criticisms just have no concrete basis.

[cooliogirl101]

Wow, if Hizashi wasn't already head over heels for her then that convo probably sealed (pun totally intended) the deal. Of course he's probably at least a bit terrified FOR her, since if there weren't some seriously scary people opposing it in his clan (probably on BOTH sides given some of the scary psychology of slavery) he and his brother would have torn apart and restructured it once Hiashi became clan head. This verse sounds amazing already btw!

Yeah, as far as Reina is concerned, Cupid shot Hizashi with an arrow then went back, pulled the arrow out, and stabbed him with it 3 more times for good measure. 

Honestly like, he never expected her to care so much for him. He was hoping for ‘alright, if I convince her I’m sincere enough maybe she’ll agree to go on a few dates with me….and if I’m really, really lucky, maybe she’ll like me enough to put aside the issue of my clan and consider being my wife some day. Maybe.’ He wasn’t expecting ‘hi, yes, I would totally murder half your clan if they hurt you with absolutely no regrets and the only thing keeping me from doing that right now is the fact that it would make you sad. But also if any of the elders are giving you a particularly hard time just say the word and I’ll take care of it. It wouldn’t even be that hard provided you could get them outside of the compound– they’re old and I’m a medical professional, causing a heart attack would be a piece of cake.’

(Sakumo: What you’re speaking of is murder!

Reina: Okay first of all, I said this was a hypothetical scenario. Secondly, they’re all like, well over their 60s! They’re basically heart attacks waiting to happen at this point! I’d just be, you know…speeding up nature’s course a little. Helping them move on to their next life and all that. 

Sakumo: Orochimaru, speak some sense into her!

Orochimaru: What do you mean? What she’s saying makes perfect sense to me. 

Sakumo: …alright, chose the wrong person to help, that’s on me. Mikoto, talk some sense into her!

Mikoto: Sakumo-sensei is right, this is insanity. Causing a heart attack via chakra means would leave traces behind no matter what. Granted, those traces may be very subtle but we’re dealing with the Hyuuga clan here. What you need is a drug– I know just the thing– that will cause them to collapse and fall unconscious– preferably in public, so there will be witnesses. Then you can rush in to ‘help’– shout a few words about how he’s ‘not breathing’ and how you ‘can’t feel a pulse’ and then you’re free to attempt to shock his heart into beating again. If one of those shocks just happens to stop his heart completely– well, who’s to know?

Sakumo: 

Sakumo: 

Sakumo, whispering into his hands: Where did I go wrong)

(Like I said before, Mikoto is the one no one suspects 😈 as always, let me know what you think!)

[lilium-sns]

Feel free to ignore this if you want, but I was wondering, did Hinata ever care much about the whole Hyuuga slavery thing, and if so, when did she start to? Like, I know after a certain point she disproved of it, but how willing was she to take action against it, or say it was wrong, or was it a "not my problem" kind of a thing?

Well, Hinata didn't have enough development to say too much and that is a problem in itself.

All the information about the clan was to give a story to Neji, not Hinata. She was not directly involved in that and I think most of us already know.

So, no, there isn't a moment in the manga where she said "everything is wrong" or "I want to do this for the clan." We don't even know if she ever cared.

[ryodan]

Feel free to ignore this if you want, but I was wondering, did Hinata ever care much about the whole Hyuuga slavery thing, and if so, when did she start to? Like, I know after a certain point she disproved of it, but how willing was she to take action against it, or say it was wrong, or was it a "not my problem" kind of a thing?

naruto is bad anon that is all i have to say on the matter. no one cared about the hyuga slavery. maybe sasuke bc his dick is huge

[githvyrik]

Feel free to ignore this if you want, but I was wondering, did Hinata ever care much about the whole Hyuuga slavery thing, and if so, when did she start to? Like, I know after a certain point she disproved of it, but how willing was she to take action against it, or say it was wrong, or was it a "not my problem" kind of a thing?

kishimoto himself didn’t even care about the hyuga clan so i don’t think any of his characters did either. that sounds like a joke but it’s really just my main thesis statement when it comes to the whole hyuga clan’s plotline/conflict and characters and actually like everything involving them and their abilities and how all that was handled.

to answer your question, tbh I think it was mostly forgotten by the narrative after neji and naruto’s fight in the chunin exams, so even if hinata didn’t care it seemed that the entire rest of the world didn’t care either so she wouldn’t be alone. I wouldn’t put it so bluntly as to say she or anyone else “didn’t care” just that it was a case of kishimoto deciding it wasn’t relevant and not addressing it again. I don’t think she “didn’t care” in universe, I just think from a narrative standpoint it was almost completely dropped. she’s established to be a highly compassionate and incredibly kind-hearted person who doesn’t like watching people she loves be hurt and wasn’t willing to hurt her little sister in a sparring match even if it meant getting her father’s approval, so it wouldn’t make any sense that she just wouldn’t care (though maybe assuming kishimoto could write a character coherently, especially a female character, gives him too much credit). from what I was able to understand she did care but she was kind of powerless to do anything against it, being a child and having a lot of problems with being confrontational speaking her feelings due to her trauma and also since she was almost entirely disowned by her father. this isn’t necessarily stated outright, I don’t remember one way or the other, but it would be easy to assume this was the case since she was young because she really did love neji even if she started being scared of him at one point (though they eventually patched that up which brings me to the next point). at one point in the war, hiashi proclaims the main family and the branch to be on equal standing, as a result of hinata and neji working and fighting and growing strong together, which is about as much of a resolution to that plot thread as we ever got. in the end, it’s really just a case of kishimoto moving on and not addressing it any further. I think we’re meant to assume it got resolved without anything actually being resolved in a fully satisfactory way.

[lunaneko14]

Feel free to ignore this if you want, but I was wondering, did Hinata ever care much about the whole Hyuuga slavery thing, and if so, when did she start to? Like, I know after a certain point she disproved of it, but how willing was she to take action against it, or say it was wrong, or was it a "not my problem" kind of a thing?

She was unaware of it until Neji said something I believe.

[jacksgreysays]

Shikako Nara's Guide To Delinquency and Military Insurrection, 2/? (2018-02-03)

(Rule Two: those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash)

Mikoto is checking the perimeter.

Checking the perimeter--ha! what an unnecessary thing to do with a Hyuuga on her team. The last time she actually checked the perimeter was probably during practice missions in the Academy, before she got assigned on a team with one of strongest Byakugan users and a chakra sensor whose range is only rivaled by her insane capacity.

Even with the near endless amount of ROOT teams after them, blank porcelain masks to match their blank emotionless faces, there's no real reason for Mikoto to check the perimeter.

As if it weren't just an excuse to get some space from her teammates, just a moment of manufactured solitude to breath and enjoy the cool, quiet night air and internally freak the fuck out over her life choices.

Defect from Konoha?! What the fuck was she thinking? She spent YEARS proving her worth to her assbackwards, misogynistic clan elders--clawing her way up to a jounin ranking despite their opinions about retiring at chuunin to bear children and contribute to the clan--and... well, actually, put like that it's maybe more of a surprise that she didn't defect earlier.

But she was willing to put up with all that bullshit because she did, despite the elders, love her clan and her village. She loved being a shinobi of Konoha.

But she loves her friends more.

Even when it's been nearly a month on the run from Creepy Councilor Shimura's hunter-nins trying to drag them back for, no doubt, imprisonment and torture and experimentation and, eventually, execution.

For her and Hizashi, at least. Konoha's not going to execute their only Uzumaki and jinchuuriki.

But just because Konoha would never kill Kushina, doesn't mean they would never hurt her. Or haven't ever done so before.

And Hizashi may be one of the strongest Byakugan users in the village, one of the Hyuuga clan head's sons even, but he's not the right son. Not the one who lucked into the Main Family, free from a slavery seal that could and would be used against him. By his own clan.

By his own twin brother.

And of course, Kushina couldn't leave that alone. And no one has ever built a seal that a trained Uzumaki didn't consider absolute child's play.

But every action has its consequences--it seems like these past few months have been nothing but dealing with consequences--and now they're on the run from creepy Councilor Shimura's minions in the middle of nowhere chasing some rumors about some other Uzumaki in the hopes that...

In the hopes of what?

This other Uzumaki will see Kushina and fall over themselves to welcome a long lost relative? Haven't they just escaped from a village full of awful relatives?

And even if this other Uzumaki were the welcoming sort, whose to say they'd even be powerful enough to protect them from the full wrath of Konoha?

Mikoto loves her village, she does, even now, but Konoha--for all their reputation as the friendly one--is not one for mercy.

A part of her foolishly, futilely, wishes for their jounin sensei. Wishes that Kiyoshi-sensei were still alive to make everything better--to sweep in and make the problem go away with a few select whispers in certain ears and a convoluted exchange of favors amongst the village's different departments.

But they are far from Konoha, further still from being those silly little genin trailing admiringly in their sensei's wake, and anyway how selfish is she? She should be wishing that Kiyoshi-sensei were still alive for little Kakashi's sake, not to cover up for their own grown-ass mistakes.

Although, if Mikoto is being honest, she'd probably do the same exact thing because  she does, actually, love her friends.

It's a presence more than a sound that catches her attention, and her hypervigilance has her activating her Sharingan immediately.

The girl who steps into her line of sight is not a ROOT agent--or if she is, she's a level higher than the rest--because her facial features shift into an actual human expression. Bizarrely, that expression is an almost sheepish resignation.

Mikoto spots Hizashi lurking in the trees behind their visitor ready to pounce while Kushina comes barreling in with all the subtlety and grace of a wounded water buffalo.

The girl just sighs as if she weren't surrounded by three Konoha jounin.

Sorry, three former Konoha jounin.

"Okay..." the girl says, not bothered whatsoever, "I was supposed to be on my way to Wind Country right now, but the three of you seem to be in some kind of trouble..."

Mikoto catches the brief flicker of annoyance on Hizashi's face before he shrugs and drops down to the ground, no use in hiding if she already knows he’s there.

"... and given that I just killed a team of ROOT flunkies who were headed in this direction, and all of your headbands have those super fashionable lines across the leaf, I'm pretty sure I know what the problem is, and I thought I should at the very least offer my services," the girl rambles on, ignoring the surprised and confused glances Mikoto exchanges with her teammates.

"What are you even talking about?" Kushina asks, patience finally giving way to frustration.

Now it's the girl's turn to look surprised and confused. She looks at them like they should already know:

"The assassination of Danzo Shimura, of course."

~

A/N: Shikako just barging and dropping cool one liners and breaking the minds of everyone around her. So hip.

Anyway, just a little personal headcanon for Team... uh... I dunno, Pretty Long-haired Parents. Specifically, Mikoto Uchiha, Hizashi Hyuuga, and Kushina Uzumaki. The timing probably doesn’t work--and Kushina was probably not on a team or Hizashi was on a different team or whatever whatever--but according to SQ “the timeline is made up and facts don’t matter” so I can do whatever I want.

I mean, not as much as Shikako can do whatever she wants, but still.

Speaking of, not that it much matters (I probably could have deleted that paragraph, tbh, but I just wanted it so much) but their jounin sensei is my (In)Difference OC Kiyoshi Utsugi who is also Kakashi’s mom--hence why I tagged it here even if it’s not canon for that either.

I dunno! I just wanted cool team combos!

I’ll probably do a Character Stats post for this bunch also.

[leportraitducadavre]

I think out of all the 5 Kages at the Summit( Excluding Danzo), I think Raikage is the biggest hypocrite out of them.

I think every single one of them is a hypocrite. In my opinion, and I hope you agree with this, there’s no level when it comes to hypocrisy. There’s no label of:

Very hypocrite.Kinda hypocrite.Low hypocrite.

If someone is a hypocrite, and I think they have to be in order to be Kages, then that’s it. They just… are. 

The Raikage is a violent individual, and he was the one in power when Hinata was kidnapped, and thus, the one who gave the order to take her. He was partially responsible for Neji’s dad’s death, and I mean partially because Hizashi Hyuuga chose to die to be finally free. So I’m blaming the Hyuuga slavery for his demise.

Iwagakure hired Akatsuki to make missions important to them but where they did not want to see their name attached, and the whole Kage meeting was to “deal with Akatsuki”.

Mei just overthrew a tyrant who killed people for their kekkei genkai, and yet she did not change the system that permitted him to achieve power in the first place.

I don’t have to talk about Dänzo, but Hiruzen has the blame for what happened in the second war, event that triggered the founding of Akatsuki. Apparently, it was Konoha who started the conflict (Iwa, Suna, Konoha, and Amegakure fought), and it was led by Hiruzen at the time. Hiruzen was also the one who permitted Dänzo to have so much power, and who looked the other way when Itachi slaughtered his family, or who never cared about Naruto and Sasuke.

Gaara, poor Gaara, I liked him as a character very much, but he -like Mei- reproduced and defended the same system that oppressed them once, so he’s a hypocrite too.

[mohabbatkimalika]

Feel free to ignore this if you want, but I was wondering, did Hinata ever care much about the whole Hyuuga slavery thing, and if so, when did she start to? Like, I know after a certain point she disproved of it, but how willing was she to take action against it, or say it was wrong, or was it a "not my problem" kind of a thing?

[lunaneko14]

Also Post I found: "tfw konoha’s oppressive system, various abuses by high ranking authority figures (including murder, kidnapping, illegal human experimentation and abuse of children) and legal slavery within the powerful Hyuuga clan will never be resolved and is all swept under the rug" (This person did not read the series. I got more coming cause it won't all fit)

Again, have these people ever heard of progress? All these countries (real or fiction) including Konoha and the US represent the human condition. None of us are pure, none of us are free of sin but there’s something called progress and growth where people get better with time. 

In Naruto, Konoha got better with time, does that mean they’re not responsible for the shit they’ve done? No but it also doesn’t invalidate the progress we’ve seen from it.