#from madara's cave days

[beatriceportinari]

damn you guys ever heard of him?

[wing-ed-thing]

Leaving the Village with Madara Headcanons

Madaraarnings: No Reader Pronouns, Angst, Name-Calling, Mild Description of Injuries

𓆃 Not as romantic as you think it'll be, and you probably should have known it from the start.

𓆃 Madara had, after all, pinned you down the moment he suspected you knew anything. And odds are, you knew what his reaction would be when you confronted him.

𓆃 "You are leaving," were the three words you spoke, laced with a certain certainty without accusation, and Madara pounced on you right then.

𓆃 And it almost doesn't matter if you swear up and down to keep his secret or demand answers or plead with him if you intend to follow him until the end.

𓆃 And Madara will never know if the only reason you went along with him was because you knew he wouldn't hesitate to silence you right then and there if you were even thinking about stopping him.

𓆃 Whether Madara tells you his reasoning or not, you went along with him against your better judgment. Perhaps because you agreed with his philosophy about the village, or maybe because you just didn't want to lose him.

𓆃 Madara wasn't thinking about you nearly as conscientiously as he allowed you along, barely paying you mind as he made his reckless decisions.

𓆃 He involved you in very little, and most of it was due to the fact that Madara himself didn't know much of what his next moves were.

𓆃 You didn't realize he had devolved to such a state, only focused on his haphazard goals with little regard for others. And perhaps you thought that when things settled down, the two of you would go back to normal.

𓆃 Any help he allowed from you was minimal, the tasks he gave you just the accented dots to his grander plots. A bit of stealing. A bit of staying. A bit of waiting.

𓆃 You had a history, and you thought your relationship was closer. Perhaps you thought you could bring him back. Perhaps you thought you could reason with him or even bring his new dreams to fruition together. And yet, in the days leading up to his attack on the village, Madara didn't seem to even trust you with his goals.

𓆃 He was a raving, paranoid shell of the person you so desperately tried to cling to, and after yet another defeat at the hands of Hashirama, Madara appeared to have disintegrated altogether.

𓆃 He became a shell of a person, barely speaking to you most days as you tended to him. He had sustained heavy wounds during the fight.

You wrapped them with bandages you had stolen off a cart of goods down the road. The little knowledge you might have had about battlefield wound treatment dwarfed in comparison to the extent of Madara's injuries.

And now, he sat quietly. You both did. The hollowness of the cave tried to make up for the lack of words between you as Madara lay on a bed of leaves and soft mosses you had gathered.

There was nowhere to go. Your main haven would have been the village, the very one you had just burned bridges with. You had underestimated how deeply connected the Land of Fire was and how formidable the forces of the allied clans were.

You weren't sure how you expected it to go, but as you looked at Madara's glazed eyes, you knew it wasn't this.

You and Madara against the world.

You supposed that was what ran through your mind when you had asked him, "What are we going to do next?"

It was a panicked question, one that had taken in your circumstances and stacked them against your odds. You tried to soothe yourself with imaginings of the two of you foraging off the land, traveling across the world without anything holding you back.

That might work.

Might.

Might.

But Madara lay on the ground, not answering your question.

"Madara?" you called softly. His eyes almost glanced your way. "What are we going to do?"

It had been a long time already, about a week of you stealing from carts, treating his wounds the best you could, and smuggling the two of you to shelter as shinobi across the land sought you out.

It had been a long, sobering week. That certainly couldn't have been what Madara had had in mind. He was smart. He had a plan.

But when he answered, you found yourself at a loss.

"You leave..." His voice was low, resentful.

"What?" you crinkled your brow. You weren't sure why tears began to gather in your eyes. He had to have had a plan.

"You leave," Madara repeated, this time more forcefully. He began to sit up, but when you moved to rush to his side, Madara flared his Mangekyo sharingan before falling back on his propped arms. You didn't dare move closer, even as he let out a pained wail of anguish. "You leave! You get out!"

Madara fell onto his back as he let out another cry, like a wounded animal. He contorted his broken body, ripping bandages and injuries alike as he clawed himself up. His sharingan cycled through several patterns as it blipped in and out of his irises.

"Are you too stupid to see that I have lost once more to Hashirama Senju? And you ask me what is next? This is what is next! This is what I have to offer: a life of damnation and banishment!"

Chakra cracked around you, the weak and uncontrolled energy still enough to break surrounding boulders and create a slight tremor in the ground below.

Madara wailed, and you stayed. Quiet.

Thank you to all who liked, reblogged, followed, and supported. Your support means so much and is greatly appreciated.

[thedanniannie]

🖤Uchiha Men dating goth baddies pt.2🖤

Descriptions lean femme

Nsfw mentions

Uchihas mentioned: Madara, Obito, Shisui, Itachi

Madara:

- I know I said in my last post he maybe wouldn't deliberately simp for goth babes like some of these other Uchihas on my list, but if anyone was going to be the token metal head boyfriend to their goth babe, it's gonna be him.

- like common, he's not gonna have a mane like that and NOT fit the metal head vibe okay?? LIKE LET'S GET INTO THIS FANTASY!!

- And this man has NO crafty skills.... so imagine helping him with sewing patches on his battle jackets UUUUUGGGGHHJDJJDJSJXJCHD

- He's the guy to have gone to a couple of shows with Hashi when they were young, and he just stopped going as he got older. But he would absolutely cave if you batted your eyelashes and asked him to take you to one. Also, he's protective as fucking fuck.

- And at a show, if he finds you slowly inching your way to the pit, he will snake his arm around your torso to pull you back and just give you the most firm look that's like "you're not going in there missy"

Obito:

- He'd wear the ghost face mask.... I feel like we already knew this information. Like, he'd be on goth tiktok and already KNOW that the goth girls fall hard for a man in a mask and would just happen to have the mask from a past Halloween costume and just make note to NEVER throw it out lol

- Although he can be freaky with the mask, he will also be unbearably sweet. The second he learns about boyfriends making "boo baskets" for their spooky partners, he gets to cooking on it.

- I actually think Obi would have a lot of fun finally getting to do all the typical spooky couple shit. Because although I see Obi for sure simping for the goth babes, for some reason he doesn't approach. But with the mix of being a sweetie at heart and the deep trauma he has, he could for sure keep up with his love's date ideas.

- But I think his favorite would be going to scare nights and going through mazes with his partner. Like, ofc he lives staying home and cuddling while watching horror films, but there's something he likes about getting to play the protective bf type during all the scares

- his other favorite thing is having to clean off all the black lipstick stains after a night out. He would beg (and probably has) to get some, especially after you saying you don't want it to "bother him"

Shisui:

- He's gonna regularly send the text that all goths want to hear from their partners: "Hey babe, do you want to get dressed up and get coffee and go Halloween shopping?"

- If you tell him that you had a horrible day at work, he will make sure his queen of darkness is well pampered. A dark themed bath will be drawn, with the favorite Halloween seasonal candle lit. And he will end the night by putting on Coraline for the two of you to relax to. Idk he's just a knowledgeable simp like that.

- As I'm writing Shisui, I feel like I'm making him seem really ran through. And I guess KINDAAA, like I think Shisui would REALLY like the goths. But it's never out of objectification, he just loves how much they embrace the darkness, and look so hot while doing it. But he's an Uchiha, and they're serious about love, so I think "ran through" would like, he's genuinely dated two goths and just had so much love for them that he learned a lot.

- Also I could see Shisui as the kind of guy who is alt at heart, but doesn't look it. He probably never really TRIED to be alt, like outwardly that is, not because he doesn't like it but rather is just happy to listen to the music and know the people. And when you first met him, you thought he was some regular guy and wouldn't know anything about the subcultures. Until he drove you to your guy's first date, and his music taste completely said otherwise

Itachi:

- Idk why but something in me sees him as being intuitively intelligent with any DIY or gothy clothing alterations. Like, he is savvy enough to know the cheapest places to get things, how to make shit happen on a budget. That intelligence could get him places in alternative crafts, but I also see him as someone not driven to be creative. He's just smart, so he can at least offer a helping hand with any craft his goth partner wants to do

- he also likes to genuinely visit historic and haunted locations. Tbh, I don't think Itachi would believe in ghosts. But he's not patronizing to his partner if they do, and will happily tag along to visit haunted places. Mainly because I just see him as a history buff.

- gives you regal hand kisses, but at the randomest of times. Like yeah, maybe some here and there when he greets you or says goodbye, which was more so the case before your relationship got more serious. But now it's tradition, so he's just a little playful with it. A soft kiss on the hand before your "goodnight kiss," periodically when watching horror movies. His playfulness is still so poised lol. He's a vampire that's why lol.

- maybe he'll even nibble on your goth ass neck like he's a vampire BUT IDK YOU DIDN'T HEAR IT FROM MEEEE (😈)

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I think my first Uchiha x goths is probably my most popular post, so I wanted to make more of it. Although this has been sitting in my notes for like a month, oops. But yall loving my first one gave me the motivation to finish this one, for all my fellow goth Uchiha lovers out there!

[raikirikiri]

missing-nin kakashi who leaves the village on his own accord. he’s pushed to the edge, and despite all the anbu missions he’s taken to get himself killed, it just doesn’t work. so he leaves and becomes a mercenary and thinks he might have some luck dying that way. he thinks part of him is still loyal to konoha but it doesn’t feel like home anymore. plus the constant needling of his ex-classmates insisting their his friends when he knows he doesn’t deserve friends, he barely deserves comrades.

so he leaves. and he does the jobs he takes well and yes, he’s still hoping he dies but he’s too good at being a shinobi so he keeps living. no matter how accidental.

he has a good fortune by the start of canon time but id like to believe he lives in a cave with a ratty futon and a few shabby changes of clothes. he lives an extremely solitary life but he’s…healed. a little. he’s never forgiven himself, he probably never will, but he’s made some sort of peace with himself and his actions.

meanwhile. the akatsuki is forming. itachi, kisame, sasori, kakazu, pain, konan, zetsu, obito (still in the shadows). almost the whole crew is there, they just need to round out their numbers a little. and who better to approach than missing-nin copy ninja kakashi? pain brings it up first one rainy day in ame. obito, or madara, is meeting with pain, konan, and zetsu and pain brings up kakashi first.

obito chokes out a no, barely hanging onto his madara act. no, he denies vehemently. the mean thought enrages something in him and the thought of having to see kakashi’s beautiful ugly mug more than he already does (because yes, he may be a missing-nin but obito wouldn’t be a stalker if he couldn’t find his prey over and over again) is brain melting and heart stopping in a very very negative way.

of course pain has to ask why, madara has never had such a visceral reaction to suggestion for a recruit.

his pants around his ankles, obito has to scramble for an excuse and it’s a little more elegant than “he’s not evil enough”. obito shuts the conversation down then and there, deciding to come back to it at a later date when he can be prepared for his ex-teammate’s name to be brought up again.

for the next three years, any time they’re low on numbers, kakashi’s name comes up and obito always struggles to react normally and his answer is always some iteration of “he’s not evil enough”. so hidan comes up with the brilliant idea to force him to be evil, similar to how they forced deidara to join the akatsuki.

obito, failing to come up with counter arguments and running out of excuses, concedes. pain, during their monthly meetings where tobi is madara, is pleased. he suggests sending itachi to fetch him, since they were once anbu together and seeing a familiar face may help. obito vetoes this and decides he’ll go get kakashi himself. he’s, of course, seen how being away from the village has affected him. and while he’s entirely competent, he’s almost too competent. and doesn’t do well with surprises.

without further preamble, he kamuis into kakashi’s cave, startling him and causing him to spill his soup everywhere. now, kakashi is very much attack first, talk second at this point in his life. having been away from society for so long has allowed his hatake genes to really take over and he’s become much more uhhh instinct driven.

so once he gets over his initial shock and his initial reaction of ‘kill kill kill’, he freezes. he’s always had a sharp sense of smell but it’s on a different level now and there’s something familiar about this strange ghost man. for someone so ghoulish, he has a scent and it lights a lamp in kakashi’s subconscious.

‘i know you’ kakashi accuses, a snarl rising in his throat. this ghoul man is in his cave, his private space, he wants answers.

‘do you?’ a deep voice asks, sounding surprised and amused.

kakashi weighs his options of arguing with ghost guy or figuring out why the hell ghost guy just…appeared in his cave.

‘i’m here to take you to join the akatsuki’ ghoul man decides for him. kakashi grunts and picks up his overturn bowl.

‘no thanks’ he states, scooping some soup from the pot into his bowl.

‘it’s not an invitation’ the apparition snaps and kakashi pauses. he sniffs towards ghost guy again but he still can’t place the scent to the man.

‘can you please leave? i’m trying to eat my dinner and well…’ kakashi asks (but of course it’s more of demand), pointedly gesturing to his mask.

‘what? no. you’re coming with me,” obito growls, his eye twitching in irritation. after all these years, all his suffering, all he’s learned and how much he’s grown…bakakashi still gets under his fucking skin.

‘i don’t want to’ kakashi pouts, petulance and amusement in his tone.

‘you don’t get a choice’ obito hisses in madara’s voice. it sounds wrong and entirely too much like obito.

‘maa, what do i get out of it?’ hatake drawls, a glint in his eye that tells obito hes enjoying this far too much.

‘nothing. you get nothing except me letting you continue to live your sorry life’ obito snaps back, unable to stop the heat of annoyance racing up his spine.

‘how do you know my life is sorry?’ kakashi taunts loftily, crossing his arms and lifting his nose to the ceiling.

‘for the love of sage’ obito takes kakashi by the arm and warps them into kamui, uncaring if kakashi recognizes the jutsu or not. he just wants him to shut up. he should kill pain for making him do this. he would kill hidan but that fucker can’t fucking die.

‘hey i recognize that foot’ kakashi mutters to himself, eye squinted at the severed foot he warped into the dimension months ago. huh. that’s where the things he disappears go. interesting.

hey wait—

‘i know that look’ obito bites out, letting his facade drop. stupid fucking genius asshole.

kakashi gasps, eyes watering in disbelief. ‘don’t—don’t fucking do that. get it together already. you’re about to meet a bunch of fuckin’ s-ranked missing-nins, you can’t be crying’

obito’s voice is a little awkward this soft, but he’s sincere. he doesn’t know how or why he’s sincere, he hates kakashi. he thinks. he’s not too sure but he hasn’t been…soft…in years. but the sight of kakashi, broken and worn down, has something in him melting just a little.

‘you fucking dickhead’ kakashi croaks, shoving obito’s shoulder. ‘you fucking— fucking asshole! you were dead! you bastard, how could you not come back? how could you not tell me?’

kakashi’s voice is hard and cracking at the edges. it throws obito off entirely. his mouth opens and closes like a limp fish behind tobi’s mask, trying to find the words he should say.

after a few moments of kakashi’s hardened stare, obito finds himself feeling indignant. ‘i never thought you’d care’ he sneers. a lie.

‘you’re not that fucking good at lying still and i’m not dense. you’ve been stalking me. at least since i left the village’ kakashi accuses with a scoff.

‘i run a terrorist organization!’ obito shoots back hotly. ‘excuse me for thinking duty-driven kakashi wouldn’t take his dead sunshine-happy teammate becoming an s-rank criminal well!’ he seethes, finding he isn’t all that angry. this feels familiar.

‘oh please. i’d follow you till the end of the fucking earth’ kakashi spits before his eyes widen in shock, much like obito’s eye does. kakashi drops his full bowl of soup on the floor of kamui and covers his mouth with both hands.

obito makes a noise in the back of his throat, ‘don’t—‘ and then he’s ripping his mask off and pulling kakashi’s hands away from his face and tugging him close. lips to mask, he doesn’t care, he kisses kakashi fervently.

he tastes kakashi through the clothe of his mask, moaning at the way kakashi moans against him, the way kakashi’s fingers find themselves in obito’s hair. when they finally pull away, obito manages a please smile, cheeks bright red and pupil blown, ‘don’t follow me. walk with me.’

kakashi rolls his eyes and pulls him in for another kiss. ‘told you i knew you’ he whispers against obito’s lips, before nuzzling his face into obito’s neck, scenting him, marking him.

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AHEM ANYWAY:

i think kakashi’s hair would be grown out, similar to how obito’s hair was during cave life with old ass madara. his already long canines would grow, and he’d be super in touch with nature. i think he’d be able to communicate with animals similar to how juugo is. basically, once away from the village and society, he becomes a lot more hatake-ish. just. kakashi growling and snarling snurfing at any akatsuki member that isn’t obito. or itachi. he’ll accept kisame eventually too, but that’s it. everyone else he does not talk to, only growls at.

[ladykissingfish]

*in the cave*

Madara: Boy? Have you finished your exercises yet?

Obito, sweating and panting: Y-yeah … hey old man, does Guru-Guru have to stand on my back the whole time? It’s really starting to hurt …

Madara: No complaints, child. Be grateful that I’m taking the time to help restore your body. Now come … *gestures to the table* After our meal, we have a bit of a treat.

Obito, eyes wide: Is … is that a cake??

Guru-Guru: It’s chocolate! Isn’t it pretty?! We made it!

Obito: But what’s it for?

Madara: Today is a special day, child. On this day a person was born, so strong, so valiant, so pure of heart, that it would be a sin not to commemorate this precious day.

Obito, sitting and smiling: Awww, gramps! I can’t believe that you remember that today is my birth—

Madara: That’s right; today is my dear brother Izuna’s birthday. The most important day of the entire year. *cuts himself a huge slice of cake, then a much smaller piece for Obito, which he pushes across the table* So let’s honor him, shall we?

Obito:

Obito: Izuna Uchiha. Your brother that died almost fifty years ago. That’s whose day we’re celebrating?!

Madara: Of course. What else could there be?

Obito:

Obito: *pushes back from the table* I think I’m just going to go for a run instead. *leaves*

Madara: Honestly, that boy … he gets so sensitive sometimes. I can hardly figure him out.

Izuna’s ghost, sitting at Obito’s place and taking up his slice of cake: Kids, huh?

Guru-Guru: Completely incomprehensible.

[twomiddlefingersforthehaters]

THE EYES THAT REFLECTS THE HEART

Uchiha clan is much more affectionate than others. So the difference in Uchiha's love lies in the way they express their affection. Their love is hard to understand more like a complicated one. So if we look at the depth of their affection, it is such an overwhelming love. It is expressed in the form of "self-sacrifice" and also how they are entering into darkness because of this. And that is what expressed in their eyes in the form of Sharingan, that's the 'power of love'. Love affect your eyes, right?? So when an uchiha felt 'love', it slowly awakens their mind & heart. And when it (love) breaks and sealed forever it turns into sharingan and then to Mangekyo Sharingan, means it awakens their eyes bcz they lost 'the love' and it never gonna return to them. And also it doesn't mean that sharingan eyes are only awakened because of the loss of love.

Eg: 1) Sasuke awakened his sharingan to protect Naruto from Haku. (As for Sasuke, his awakening will always be linked to Naruto)

2) Obito awakened his sharingan when he wants to protect his comrades. Obito clearly loves and cares for his teammate, and he has never shown favoritism towards just one person. But Rin is special to him. Even when he was in the cave with Madara, with that body, he trained hard to become strong enough to reach out to his teammates. All he could think about was the happy moments he had with his sensei and teammates. No one was excluded from his thoughts. So his teammates encouraged him and pushed him to train and get stronger.

[ See the difference in how both parties (sasuke & Obito) awakens their power for different purposes. Obito -> for his teammates and Sasuke-> only for 'Naruto' ]

So to awaken the sharingan it's not always of 'negative emotions ' but for to protect their important ones.

-> And when it come to 「大きな愛の喪失や」 “the loss of a great love”

大きな - big; large; great. 愛 - love; affection. 喪失 loss; forfeit.

1) Madara awakens his sharingan when he was forced to sever his friendship with Hashirama. He didn't awaken when he lost his siblings, but when it came to a boy he met for a few days, his eyes responded. That boy is more important than his blood brother. So 'loss of love' here does not mean the death of a person. But a broken heart. His heart is broken, the love sealed in his heart is opened, and it is reflected in his eyes.

2) Obito awakens Mangekyō Sharingan when rin died. That's a permanent lost even if that's an unrequited love. Obito's world was shattered when Rin died at Kakashi's hands. His desperate efforts to save his teammates become futile when he finds he has lost the one he truly loves. He cannot accept the reality he has seen with his own eyes. It is a complete disappointment. He had no regrets when he died, but he believed that everything would be fine after that, but everyone failed him.

3) Sasuke's first awakening when he realizes his brother is going to leave him. (It's not because of his parents, it's because of his brother. Can't blame him for that bcz a parental figure in his eyes was his brother. There were no friends, happy memories or anything from his clan. It was entirely about Itachi and his parents played a very small role in his life.)

4) Sasuke awakens his third tomoe when he determines to cut his bond with Naruto. (A premonition of an unstoppable loss. The feeling of losing him. The lose of love is a terrible thing. It is worse than death. So in this part sasuke's deep affection for Naruto was well expressed. Don't forget that he didn't want to kill him, but he was heartbroken and decided to kill Naruto in order to gain MS. It is a strong emotional state that shows in his eyes. That means sharingan- “the eye that reflects the heart ” and MS - “the eye that reflects the heart of love”)

5) Sasuke awakens Mangekyo Sharingan after his brother died and Obito reveals the truth behind UMC.

At the end Itachi's actions drove Sasuke's heart filled with hatred, who kidnapped Killer Bee...and it started the Kage summit... at last his action led into Shinobi War. Itachi stopped the war by protecting the village by lying to Sasuke... And that lie created another war and a threat to the village in the form of Sasuke.

These people have a beautiful side that others don't know about. We get to see a different Madara when he was with Hashirama. His cute and adorable side that he shows towards Hashirama. When it comes to Sasuke we can see his embarrassment, nervousness and shyness towards Naruto. When sasuke with his older brother he becomes a little baby. Obito was a good, kindhearted and loveable kid. Aside from uchihas, Zabuza killed many people for fun and earned the nickname 'A Demon' but in Haku's view he wasn't a complete demon.

Because of these that Hashirama-Madara and Naruto-Sasuke bond was different from others. There are things in common for Hashirama-Madara, like 'the loss of brothers' and 'a goal to change the shinobi world'. And for Sasuke and Naruto it was “loneliness”. And they fought each other only for their personal matters. But that was not the case with H&M. So with these features, the bond between them always stands out. Their bond wasn't like Kakashi- Obito (friendly bond) and Sasuke - Itachi (brotherly bond). Because Kishimoto wrote HM & NS as 愛 typically with the connotation of romantic love.

The family crest on the back of Uchiha and Sasuke's fire elements probably also symbolize love is fire and the wind (Naruto) energize and give warm to his heart. “Only wind can assist and magnify fire”.

[hellcifrogs]

This is a crack idea in response to your last post about Obito in the Narufox au,

Everyone thinks that Obito was hallucinating after being in that cave for so long, so much so that he plans to get proof. Once everything calms down Obito goes to great lengths to find Gurgu or any of the other white zetsu and poor Kakashi has to follow him so he doesn't hurt himself. It becomes a regular thing to see Kakashi dragging Obito back by the leg like it's a regular Tuesday. Rin is really contemplating tying him to the bed the next time they find him and then one day in the silence of the Hokage tower, Obito uses kamui to show up in the room unannounced with Zetsu tied up in ropes screaming that he was telling the truth.

I forgot what the ask was, bUT OMG He gave up too easily in the AU! That's not what Obito would do you're right!

Actually, after a while I think he'd become a little paranoic because "there's this creepy old uchiha calling himself a ghost who should be dead for a goooood while now and hE CAN BRING people back to life??? We gotta find that guy?? That's not the kind of people they should just leave alone???"

And so Obito keeps searching for him and the Zetsus for a few years until he starts to even doubt himself from time to time, and one day accepts he must be dead by now... but honestly Madara still haunts his nightmares lol

[asukaskerian]

Monthly word count - november

TOTAL: 4 272 words, sliiiight progress compared to the last couple months... :X

Posted: nothin

In progress: -madatobiizu ABO chapter idk (1 825 words) -bleach grimmichinelhime suburban ot4 (1 379 words) -bleach... BLOODSPORT (1 068 words, let's see if it returns straight to its hibernation cave or what.)

-- madatobiizu -- Izuna was having fun holding court with the other three, but Haruno Koumei stayed by Madara, offering a pleasantly tart stream of observations on the shops they passed by and some civilians she knew, light and amusing enough that Madara only had to snort or chuckle here and there to keep her entertained. Then they got started commenting on the architecture, and Madara, it turned out, had Opinions.

He had not been aware he had Opinions. The fact that these strange tile toppers had originated in Earth Country instead of being some strange Daimyo-encouraged fad did not endear them to him. They were in the capital of Fire Country and their ancient style was fine as it was, and it didn't match anyway. No, not even in copper. Ugly. Ugly and the little statues of lion-dogs were borderline an invasive species.

"So, did you guys actually want to see the play, or do you want to criticize the theater first?" Izuna asked them eventually, smirking with his whole face. Madara flicked his ear in revenge and swept inside first, Koumei following on his heels with a pretend-haughty huff that cracked into a laugh the second she was in. Her sisters packed up close, the trio immediately starting to repeat snippets of commentary they'd overheard in funny voices. 

"Party of six, sir?" 

"Regrettably, yes," Madara agreed dryly, and pulled out his purse.

-- bloodsport --

"How's dad?" he murmured from the doorway. His mom glanced over her laptop, made a commiserating face.

"Oh, he's..."

"Mostly alive!" Isshin tried to chirp, but didn't lift the arm he had rested across his eyes. His feet kept dangling over the arm of the couch like dead weights.

So... It hurt enough to keep him from sleeping. 

For the tenth time today Ichigo reeled in his empathy -- telekinesis, awareness, whatever the fuck his hollow sense was, that mapping/echolocating/grabbing/feeling here's-something-alive and here's-how-it-tastes. He pulled it to him like a fisherman drawing his nets closer; but it wouldn't help long, because no matter how he trained the second he stopped paying attention his field of effect would relax and spread out all over again.

But when he touched Dad with it, his dad noticed, and his dad was a psychic null. Nowadays.

Kind of.

Mostly.

Ichigo had a bad night, and this morning his dad had a migraine. "Sorry."

His mom sighed -- closed the laptop, patted the armchair next to hers. "Come here, Icchan."

Ugh. Ichigo didn't want to talk. He'd wanted to go to the bathroom and back. Maybe with a kitchen stop. But his sisters were out of the suite and he'd spent the last five days brooding like an emo teen in his room, and his dad's head hurt. "... Yeah, okay."

There was a water pitcher on the coffee table; his mom filled a glass for her husband, and went rummaging in the room service cart next to her. "Soda? Beer? Vodka?"

"... *Mom*."

"Vodka for me, darling honey."

"Haha! Not even in a dream. You can have another pill in a half-hour and that's my best offer."

-- suburban ot4 --

Cat bastard: kurosaki Cat bastard: kurosaki Cat bastard: kurosaki Cat bastard: don't ignore me kurosaki Cat bastard: i will piss on your pillow  Me: good luck getting your dirty dick past my dad and my kick-happy soccer sister in one piece Cat bastard: oh, i'll get my dick *past* them at some point Cat bastard: but this ain't about getting laid for now. Me: ... Me: i will fucking GELD you. Cat bastard: your sisters *and* your dad will be sad, though. Cat bastard: :)

A bark of laughter makes it out of Ichigo's mouth without Ichigo's permission. Orihime makes an inquiring noise. He shakes his head, he'll tell her in a minute, that azurean taint muncher is still typing.

-- and another bit because i wanna :p --

"Why are you upside down in the cupboard, Grimmjow."

There's a broom cupboard on the landing, or at least they use it for brooms. Right now they're not using it for anything because the pipes running at the back of it are sweating rust water.

So when Ichigo walks up he is treated to the sight of long legs in shorts walking up the walls and a torso bared almost to the nipples by the tanktop failing to cling to the rippling muscles underneath.

"... Fuck off," Grimmjow grumbles from down there, hands splayed on the ground with the tendons in sharp relief. His face is a little flushed and Ichigo wants to pretend it's all blood going to his head and effort. He also wants to pretend it's embarrassment for being caught doing something weird, because Grimmjow usually has the self-assurance of a cat accidentally fallen off the counter -- I meant to do that and you can't prove otherwise -- but that would embarrass Ichigo by proxy.

"No, seriously."

"What does it look like," Grimmjow grumbles, and tucks his heels behind the built-in hanging rod.

Then he crosses his hands behind his head and folds up.

Hhhghg.

Down. Up. Down. Up.

Holy shit that fucking bastard has the rib muscles. The side zigzag ones that only exist on pro boxers and underwear models.

"Most solid -- hff -- thing -- in the house-- and I ain't -- exercised -- in weeks."

"... Oh... Makes sense."

"Work's good -- for lifting crates--but--"

"Oh yeah, no, it's not a complete workout, yeah, fair."

If he tears the bar out of the wall somehow -- Ichigo doubts, it looks like it's embedded into the wall instead of leaning on tiny nails -- Ichigo is fully willing to blame the leaky pipes for rotting through the bricks or something.

Up, down, up. Grimmjow holds position, elbows almost touching his knees. Ichigo watches dumbly. Fucking shoulders. Why are they so thick.

[kankuroplease]

Ik it’s pretty early to be asking this, especially since we didn’t even get to the point of her existing- kakuzu x Riki hc wise- but could you share some sycee hcs

I’ve had some time to think about her/what her life may be like, so I do have some headcons

Sycee named after an ignot because Kakuzu chose it.

Shortly after her birth, Riki took her to Konoha to visit her mother’s grave and claim her sword for Sycee.

She was an eerily easy baby, only fussing when she was hungry or needed to be changed

Very observant of her surroundings as a young child

Listening to the wildlife all around and people watching

That’s how she figured out their family isn’t the norm

Most mother’s aren’t mixing poisons in their kitchens/let their kids sample them and most fathers weren’t taking their daughters on bounty hunts

She was given some independence as long as she followed her parents rules; 1. Give no personal information 2. Stay out of villages 3. Always carry a weapon with her 4. Don’t hesitate to kill someone that wants to harm you 5. Don’t follow them when they’re working

She struggled making friends because of how mature she acted and her training compared to the countryside civilians. Play tag? Why? What’s the goal. Want to sword fight instead?

Her being so young and curious led her to break rules 2 and 5, which ultimately led to her being held hostage

She doesn’t remember much but the man’s blade pressing against her face, the burning pain of it cutting her flesh and the rain of blood falling on her.

The thick scent of iron while she slipped on blood soaked stones and stepping over bodies still haunt her dreams

She later learned that her life came at the cost of many innocent people that day and the guilt of that eats away at her

But after those events and her parents war path to retrieve her, Riki would bring Sycee to join Madara in the cave.

She hates being cold, the dark, and she doesn’t know her grandfather so of course she hates it

Listening to her mother and grandfather talk about these delusional ideologies and plans would frighten her

Not as much as Zetsu did though 💀 that creature can stay FAR over there

Honestly helped her develop her poker face and ability to remain silent

On one hand, she’s sure she can tell her father she wants to stay with him, but on the other she’s not old enough to hold her own and not be a burden during his hunts, so she’s essentially stuck

Fhl

The only silver lining were the times her mother would take her to stay with her father which, thankfully, was a regular occurrence

When grandfather brings home a half crushed boy, she really wants nothing to do with the whole situation

But she is curious enough to watch the bandaging process

Noting how her mother’s attitude started to change after this new kid arrived

Telling her she needs to train harder and always doing that that hand fidget thing she does when lost in thought, more and more

Sycee followed her mother’s wishes and did train harder to put her at ease, but she drew the line at telling her anything she overheard

She actually easily amused and giggled whenever Obito had a little freak out before going silent again

By then, Sycee knew about the Akatsuki, her parent’s involvement, and Madara’s plans for an “ideal” world

And she wants nothing to do with it or the war it would bring. The nightmares from the aftermath of her hostage situation make it so she never wants to be responsible for the lose of innocence

She counted the days until she could claw her way out of the hellmouth she was born into

Once she was old enough, she moved to Amegakure simply to cooperate on a surface level, but avoided actually joining the Akatsuki/her parents suspicions

Working as an assassin, she takes on the worst of the worst. Earning her a reputation as someone with a death wish, but truly it’s just she can’t bring herself to kill someone who doesn’t deserve it

She even was able to make friends with a few of the working women around Ame, who get a thrill out of hearing about her missions

They gave her a copy of icha icha which she threw out her window in shock after finding out it was THAT kind of book.

She wouldn’t be self conscious about her scar anymore, but she also doesn’t like the attention and questions it brings

It’s the most free she’s felt in a long time. With the only downside being she doesn’t hear many crickets or see a lot of butterflies

Occasionally teaming up with her father, just to see him.

Often combining her wind and fire chakra’s to create large fire whirls to capture and incinerate their targets no Kakuzu isn’t happy if the body isn’t identifiable, but she’s also working here

Ignoring Hidan as much as humanly possible. As a result, he thinks she’s hard of hearing

Neither Kakuzu or Sycee correct this assumption and just share knowing glances

Or Sycee will just give him the middle finger

[depressedhatakekakashi]

Tsunade

There’s a lot of things to love about Tsunade. She’s one of the strongest female character’s in the entire series as well as being a very damaged character who’s fighting just to get through every day.

She comes back to Konoha and takes the job of Hokage because of a kid she has only just met and procedes to lead the village for five years through some of the worst fights it has had to deal with. It’s under her leadership that Konoha works with the other villages, and unlike her Sensei she is actually unafraid to put the elder’s in their place.

Epic moment’s for Tsunade are numerous, but i’ll try not to get too carried away.

(Movie only) Poking Kakashi in the face and reminding him that accusing Naruto of attacking A, and thus throwing him into prison, was HIS idea and he has no right to judge her for being harsh (he looks like a scolded child. I love it. The auntie vibes are STRONG in this movie)

Speaking of Kakashi, remmember when she found out that he died and she proceeded to destroy one of the pillers on the roof of the Hokage’s mansion? Because i do and i LOVE it. Tsunade has seen enough death in her life but that doesn’t stop her from taking a second to morn Kakashi’s death and literally destroy something in anger (also while looking for pics i saw a conversation about how her destroying that piller wS representative of Kakashi’s death being the destruction of a piller of Konoha and oh boy i had FEELINGS).

Also, just the whole Pein attack in general was some bad ass Tsunade. I think Hashirama is the only other Hokage who could have protected Konoha and saved as many lives as Tsunade did. Her skills really shone through her as well as her connection with Lady Katsuyu.

(Anime Only) showing Ino and Sakura what she looked like when she was younger. Tsunade looked so proud of herself while she was showing off her younger look. It’s clear that she just loves looking young and that her keeping herself looking younger has never been about sexual appeal but just enjoying being young. If she could turn back time and be 12 again i think she would, and not just to save Dan and her brother.

Caving in Madara’s Sussano. This woman stood there and listened to Madara bad mouth her for the crime of not being as talented as her grandfather and instead of crying over it she proceded to destroy every judgement Madara made against her. She got stabbed through the abdomen and cut Madara’s sussano sword and shoved it out if her body. She got cut in half and still healed the other Kage’s using Katsuyu. SHE PUNCHED MADARA’s SUSSANO, A NEAR PERFECT DEFECE, AND SHATTERED THE RIB CAGE. Sure she was never going to win that fight, but damn did she do some major damage.

The fact that she taught Sakura to gamble? Delightful. Love master and student bonding over non training activities.

Calling Kakashi stupid for how he faced Itachi? Fair. Man didn’t know what he was getting into because he didn’t have all the necessary info, but she’s still valid for calling him out on acting before thinking. He was so protective of Asuma, Kurenai and specifically Sasuke (and then Naruto when he realized Itachi was actually there for him) he just threw himself into a fight. Tsunade had every right to call him dumb.

Telling Naruto his only disease was being dumb XD one of my fav moment’s ever. Boy was not ready.

(Book only) yelling at Gai for ditching his position to catch a ride on the fancy new air balloon/plane. Also, her asking Gai to tell them what Kaiyo looked like always felt hilarious because this man forgets all the faces and i can only imagine that it was a stressful af conversation to have.

(Book only) ‘Kakashi take my job’ ‘no’ Kakashi take my job’ ‘no’ ‘kakashi take my-‘ ‘fine’ ‘ABOUT DAMN TIME’

[jonas-ct]

Finally making a summary of my naruto AU (mostly repeating what I said to a friend when it was still just barely a concept lol)

(please don't mind any mistype, i barely reread myself)

So, just a little backstory on the why: I was playing a naruto game (naruto x boruto ninja voltage, rip, it was a peak game, no joke, all the anime games I play end up terminating the next year, I might be cursed)

And in it you can have teams of 4 ninjas and my main team (really just the team with my best ninjas) was composed of:

(old screenshot)

And i thought it was hilarious (my first thought was smt like "lol Boruto is having the weirdest day of his life")

Now, I had started by designing Rin, and i hadn't even decided when in time they would all get sent to, so I told myself that they would probably need to be undercover, and to avoid any suspicion because of her face marks i decided that she would wear a kakashi-style mask and that she would pose as a guy (and Boruto would pose as a girl, i should have realised I'd end up making the kids trans, but i am an idiot so i didn't)

Now, for the name changes (that they use to be undercover, except Rin who uses it as his new name as a boy): they came after i decided for them to get transported to a time barely before Rin's canon death

Rinne: mainly for rebirth, reincarnation, I thought it was a very dramatic name for a trans person and was very close to "Rin" in pronounciation, then i realised it was already used in canon for the rinnegan and said fuck it i'm keeping it anyway

Boruto: no name change, that's mainly because I didn't feel the need to give her a new name, but also because I believe that even after transitioning she would like to have an attachment to the life she lost when time traveling and decided to make her keep her birth name, I'm also a sucker for trans characters who keep their birth name.

Tobi: I had no inspiration ngl, he already has a perfect alias like i like them to be, close to his old name without being too on the nose

Mada: I messed up and made it too on the nose, but i had to somehow change his name because no matter the time period, being called Madara Uchiha will make heads turn, (exact words i said to my friend: "because of the fact that Madara is kind of the ultimate villain name to give your kid in the narutoverse post his first death")

Rough explanation of the horribly thought timeline now (please keep in mind the designs i gave them are supposed to be from a few months after the time displacement):

I haven't thought of a reason why they got time displaced, because I am extremely lazy

Tobi and Mada were displaced a bit before the kids, being both aware of Zetsu's plan Tobi didn't too much of a hard time to force Mada to fix the stuff he messed up in preparation for his eye moon plan, they decide that they'll start by not letting Rin die and killing the Madara and Zetsu of that timeline

They split up: Tobi is in charge of killing the supervillains, Mada is in charge of making sure Kakashi doesn't kill Rin and that Obito isn't conscious in case he fails

So he puts young Obito under a genjutsu, kill the white zetsu around him, carry him on his back and continue in team minato's direction, but when Rin's death is very close to happening, he feel Isobu's chakra at another place, so he hesitates and Kakashi successfully (if we want to call that a success) kills Rin, Mada opts to kill their enemy nins so that at least Kakashi is vaguely safe and then turns around to go tame the tame beast (I decided that if one eye of a pair awakens mangekyou then both eyes do cuz it's easier that way for me idc)

When he arrives he does not see Isobu but Rin (Rinne) in a full on rampage, with a panicked blonde kid (Boruto) running away from her, he chooses to force the beast into submission thanks to his super awesome sharingans and bring the three kids with him to the cave where Tobi destroyed Madara and Zetsu, well he brings Obito and Rinne but Boruto tags along because she's really confused as to where she is

In the cave, Tobi fixes up the seal on Rinne as well as he can(bro saw a lot of seals when he was actively killing jinchurikis, so he's on temporary seal fixing duty)

Tobi, Mada, Rinne and Boruto manage to figure out they're all time-displaced (or more like dimension-displaced but whatever), thanks to Tobi intelligently asking Boruto if she's a fucked up Naruto and her telling him that no, her dad is fucked up Naruto

When young Obito wakes up, Tobi and Mada decide to just make things up so that they have a cover story that young Obito, the yapper that he is, will spread for them:

-Tobi and Mada are traveling nin, they are cousins who didn't grow up in Konoha because they were born from the encounters between beautiful civilian women and handsome Uchihas on a mission far from home

-Boruto is Tobi's student, she doesn't have her family anymore

-They were on their way to Konoha to ask for a place in the village when they saw Kakashi stab Rin with his chidori, recognising the Konoha symbol on their forehead protectors they and decided to help them

-Kakashi passed out, they killed the enemy nins, healed Rin like they could (Kakashi's chidori "barely missed her heart") and tried to fix her seal

-Sensing more shinobis arriving they decided to leave with Rin because "they panicked"

-They found Obito passed out on their way to a cave to be safe for the night and took him too

-Obito woke up once already and shared Madara's mad plan with them all but he doesn't remember and they're not surprised because "he looked out of it and if they hadn't fought Madara and Zetsu when arriving at the cave then they would have thought he was making things up"

-Tobi and Mada then decided to fix what Madara did already and that they would come back to Konoha once they had done all they needed

Coming back to the truth, Tobi decides that it should be better for Obito to have someone help him get used to his alien-hashirama-plant limbs, and tracks down Tsunade and manages to get her to help Obito with the promise of no blood even being seen

My exact words: "Then they went to fix Madara's problems and came back later with Rinne and Boruto having started their transitions", I can't be bothered to think about how they fixed stuff up so yeah lol, timeskip on my side, now they look like the designs i shared

(to note: Rinne loses in chakra control because of the added tailed beast chakra, he kind of loses his mind because he can't be a great healer like he dreamed of and Mada ends up kinda feeling bad since it's technically his fault and teaches up insane taijutsu

Young Obito becomes the healer of team minato because Tsunade was going insane at his lack of medical knowlegde)

They get Tsunade to agree to come back to Konoha, for Obito, and also so that they go from "potential threat" to "people who helped save a young konoha shinobi who was thought dead", when Rinne gets recognised as Rin from team minato, they get bumped up to "people who helped save two young konoha shinobis who were thought dead"

Because I'm a sucker for "nothing ever goes wrong and everybody is happy" stories, they all (not Mada, because he doesn't want to) get integrated into the Konoha ranks, first as chunin because i play favourites, and Tobi takes the jonin test very quickly and takes over as team minato's new replacement leader (because Minato is very busy being hokage now and having a pregnant Kushina at home)

Boruto becomes somewhat friends with Kushina, helping her with her pregnancy, because she remembers some tricks from when she was young and her mother was expecting her sister

Mada ends up taking Rinne and Kakashi under his wing and, my exact words:

"he did such a better job at being a parental figure to Kakashi than he did to Tobi that Tobi makes him regret it by constantly being an ass"

"I loved the idea of young Kakashi seeing a man with tied down grey hair and mistaking him for his dead dad and apologising very badly and Mada just turning towards Tobi and being like 'Im gonna adopt this kid' and Tobi having flashbacks from when he was the same age and he had to live in a cave with Madara, and he was litteraly the worst parental figure on earth so he goes 'No you won't' and Mada still does cuz nobody can stop mada"

I haven't added anything to the main story of this au, I still have some silly little scenes I want to badly draw so I didn't include them here, but they don't add anything very interesting they're mainly just passing thoughts

Anyway, here's two drawings that aren't part of my au's story but that are set in similar universe, if that makes sense? (i don't think ive posted them already)

( the second one happened when i got bored and wanted to try to draw in a shojo style)

[belit0]

Hello! Can I request something about Madara and younger male s/o? Maybe a little (or not even a little, as you prefer (⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)) feminine, maybe short? Scenarios or imagines about Madara with a female s/o are much more frequent than with male ones. Although I can actually see why - he likes to dominate too much haha. That is why, perhaps, he would choose more fragile partners? I don't know. Just curious what you can create) Thank you!

This is quite curious, and in fact, I've been thinking about it since I received the request.

I can only imagine this with a rather dark Madara, Yandere! if we want to say it in some way.

I ended up writing him as a first class psychopath, and I'm not sure you're going to like it, but I followed my instinct and came up with this.

In general, the only male I write Madara with is Izuna, but it seemed like an interesting challenge, so here we go.

- To begin with, when looking for someone, he looks for boys who are as similar as possible to Izuna. The death of his brother left him so traumatized, having lost the only person he cared about in the world, there's no turning back.

- After faking his death and being away from Konoha's radar, Madara wanders around unknown, remote villages, looking for a target. Of course, he doesn't think of them as "victims" per se, but a human on whom to unload everything that came with losing the love of his life, and to top it all off, keeping his eyes.

- Romantic or not, Izuna represented the last subject of affection for Madara's heart, the last person to bleed, to suffer, to live for. Losing him destroys the whole ecosystem he built in his life, and leaves him on an aimless path, destruction at its best.

- He will seek out different men, disguising himself as a normal person and pretending to be a traveler. He will gain their trust, make them believe in him, and stalk them like a predator hiding in the dark. No one knows his name or where he comes from, using different genjutsu to disguise his physical appearance.

- Once he has them in his claws, he uses and abuses them as he wishes, keeping his victim in his cave and not allowing him to see the light of day anymore. He can't risk leaving loose ends, no one to give him away.

- He calls them all by the name of his late younger brother, and forces them to pretend to be him, forcing them to address him as "Aniki" amidst tears and pleas for freedom. Most try to play along as they identify his lack of sanity, most survive for months.

- Those who decide to fight or refuse to follow his instructions are killed slowly and mercilessly, in the most terrible and inhumane ways possible.

- Every time one of the replacements loses his life or he himself decides to make him lose it, a huge emptiness attacks his chest, a need to hold Izuna in his arms, to return his beautiful eyes, to hear his voice.

- Madara loses himself more and more, little by little falling into a hole of perdition with the name of his younger brother, looking for in strangers and innocents what Tobirama snatched from him some time ago.

- His behavior only wanes with the arrival of Obito, finding a new purpose and having decided that trying to replace Izuna is pointless, but will directly force reality to bring him back.

[jesseevelann]

Obito is possibly one of the strongest characters in the Naruto universe, just with his mental strength he has most if not all of them beat. Obito went through absolute hell from day one. Orphan, grown up in a widely hated family, was outcasted by that family for being a late bloomer - which was their fault because they never taught him. Obito taught himself everything he knew about his powers, because there was no way that the Uchiha did anything. The academy and Minato might have helped him a little, but he did most of it himself. He spent his teenage years in a cave with an expiring old man that manipulated and tortured him into completing his plans, after getting crushed by boulders, and giving one of the most important things to the Uchiha to possibly his only true friend that be just connected with, sure as hell thinking he was going to die. He then had to rebuild himself. He had to teach himself how to walk again, relearning how to use his arm, with no help from Madara and probably not the Zetsu either. He also trained himself ridiculously hard to be a match for Minato in about a year. He killed his teacher, his teacher's wife, and almost their newborn son, not directly but he caused it. He caused an event that killed many, many people. At the age of 15. Later, he watched the girl whom he loved commit suicide, and be killed by the boy who she herself loved. After which, he literally lost his mind and killed even more people. Obito went on to complete Madara's dirty work, stuck in a whirlwind of pain because of the curse seal on his heart that prevented him from escaping it. Manipulating, murdering and taking control over so many people, killing Jinchuuriki and stealing the tailed beasts - all of which he'd have to constantly rethink and reflect on everything. He can't get it out. He can't speak. But he doesn't let it control him at the same time. He's healing enough from it to keep moving, going through unthinkable trauma to his mind and body and he still presses forward. Maybe because he has no choice, but he's carrying stress, depression, ptsd, anxiety, ect. every single day until he releases himself from Madara's grasp by destroying the heart seal, when he can finally think for his damn self. Obito is truly his own hero, piecing himself back together again and again through all the trauma he has been through, and in the end gave his life to save people. After decades of killing, controlling and hurting people, he finally saved someone. Many someone's. Including himself. Obito is such a complex character, with so many interesting factors and one of the best character developments. And people have the audacity to pin him as a big goofy idiot who blushes all the time and embarrasses himself, and only started the war for Rin and that he's just a simp. That's not at all his character. Obito is a broken man who had no one but himself to fix that damage, who lost every person that could possibly help him. He suffered for 32 years, non stop. You can't just erase what he's been through and overly mischaracterise him.

[the-madara-squad]

MADARA WEEK IS OVER? Not really😝

🎈HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR BELOVED KING🎈

24th of December is the fateful day of the Month which belongs to Our Lord , Our Saviour Madara Uchiha He who united all of us and as we love him from the bottom of hearts, where we strive to learn from him and admire him Being his admirer makes us connected to reality even if it's painful Madara makes us work harder and we love it ! Since Madara owns December , he did not spend half of his life in cave so we could have less time to work on our plans Looking at everyone's participation , hardwork and dedication , we decided to free everyone form the shackles of TIME We are hereby excited to announce extension of Madara Week up to 31st December 2023

Choose any day and prompt, just be sure to pin us @uchiha-event and #madaraweek2023 the prompt is still right HERE

[liliummadara]

Drabble for Nik

"I got your message. I came as soon as possible. Where did you find him?" Lord Madara asked. He paced with the local Lord through the underground corridors.

"Pirate ship," said the lord. "South-east of the Reef of Teeth."

- "Where?"

- "I think you call it 'Dead-men's Last Chance'."

- "Oh, there."

- "My Golden Guards cracked down on a human trafficking ring. He was in the haul of their ship."

Madara said: "It's getting worse and worse these days. Pirates and poachers."

"We do what we can to keep them off your shores, and ours, Uchiha-sama."

"I know. We appreciate it." Lord Madara said. He lift the torch. The light illuminated more of the cave-like walls and ceiling. They walked past cells with bars. Madara saw many unhappy faces. Many women. Several soldiers. Some kids. Too many kids. But they had bedding, and water. "And these?" asked Madara.

"Individual cases. I can't tell you anything about them," said the local lord. He pushed his glasses further onto his nose, and they briefly caught the light. He kept his cards close to his chest.

This lord of the southern water archipelago may be a snake, but he had informed the Uchiha Clan about a missing clansman and he had provided safe passage through his domain. Madara respected him for that.

"We're almost there."

The lords passed three cells that were empty, save boxes labelled TNT. Keeping dynamite near an Uchiha? Is this lord an idiot? Or is this their vault, which now happens to be full of people?

"Almost."

"Were the pirates going to sell him to recreational sex slavery or breeders?" asked Madara.

"Sacrifice. Religious offering to the whirlpools that the Allmother left behind. He has got a lot of chakra--the cultist think he can fill up the pools. It's all gone now, his chakra, and he's on the edge of life and death. But it will return in time. Just don't expect him to be functional on the way home to your forest lands."

"Hmph." Madara didn't know what to expect from a captured Uchiha.

"Here in the mist, everyone is quiet. You are like a beacon. He will be, too. Watch out on the way home. You out-of-state ninjas draw criminals' attention."

Madara wanted to reply, but then his excellent eyes caught sight of a nearly-empty cell. One figure lay inside of it, on a mattress.

Madara stared. His feet carried him closer on autopilot.

You fool, thought Madara. You fool of a lord.

"Spiky hair, red eyes, landlubber... Here."

The two lords stopped in front of the cell.

"This is him," said the lord.

That's not him, thought Madara.

This captured man's chakra was nearly gone. The glow of his Heartflame was so dull that Madara had sensed him only ten meters ago. Madara was a sensor.

The lord reached for his bronze ring of keys to open the door of the cell. Madara stopped him with a gesture, and the lord stopped. The door was still locked.

Meanwhile, Madara squatted down. He could hardly believe his eyes.That's Tobirama Senju.

But the lord didn't question Madara's surprised expression--that was to be expected.

"Is this one of yours?" asked the lord.

"Yes. He's mine." Madara said. He reached through the cell's bars. His gloved hand was closer to his enemy than it had ever been in combat over states and borders. His fingers touched Tobirama. He gently combed the white hair back. He gained a clear look of his bruised face. This was unmistakably Tobirama Senju.

"He definitely belongs to me."

[maagicmushies]

I want to talk about Hashirama. Specifically his really weird abilities. This isn't gonna be a well structured thing like any of the analysis posts I've made, it will literally be insane rambling because a lot of things about this man fascinates and kinda confuses me. Like, for starters - his wood. If you don't know Naruto I am so jealous of you, but this has to be the most important and plot relevant wood in human history. A "Kekkei" """Genkai"""" where by mixing earth and water chakra, he can grow trees, plants and create golems and such out of wood. In a universe with gravity manipulation, magic eyes that can briefly see the future and whatever the tailed beast are, this doesn't sound too crazy, but wood release just does stuff that it doesn't sound like it should be able to do. Like, sapping the chakra of people it touches and passively reducing their will to fight. Hashirama in particular was able to just make a shit ton of it as well, producing the forest that would become the foundation for Konoha and making 100m tall buddhas for fun. But here's where a less discussed aspect of Wod Release's insanity comes up.

THIS IS THE ONLY NATURE RELEASE TO CREATE LIFE. Yes, the creation of life, the sage of six path's big thing that he needed Yin-Yang chakra to accomplish? Hashirama is just out here doing it for fun. Casually. The plants that he grew ended up outliving him. In my opinion there are 2 explanations for this. The first is that Kishimoto either doesn't know that plants are considered to be "alive" or considers their life to be fundamentally different from animal life. The second explanation is that wood release is at the very least incorporating Yang release. Everyone who performs wood release techniques are credited with being able to use yang release and while few techniques are credited as being explicitly yang release techniques, we do know that the purpose of yang release is to alter living matter and breathe life into empty vessels. I think this can explain a character like Yamato who normally fights by producing wooden beams, but when shit gets real serious, he can create trees just like Hashirama and Madara. Without their massive stores of chakra, it just doesn't make sense for him to do that if he really doesn't have to. That is pretty clearly the explanation that I like more.

Anyways, I'm still not moving on the wood because like. It's called a Kekkei Genkai when it very clearly is not? Wood Release has never been passed through blood. Hashirama has Wood Release and everyone else who has it is just a by product of leeching off of Hashirama. The problem here is that Hashirama is a reincarnate of Asura and Asura's reincarnates are born completely talentless, unable to inherit the abilities of their parents. That why Naruto doesn't naturally have Minato's speed and intellect or Kushina's chains. Therefore it doesn't really make sense for Hashirama to inherit this ability AND for it just die off with him. Sadly, we never see Hashirama use the ability as a child and we never see him realizing that he has it. He just whips it out one day against Madara with zero explanation. We can try to narrow things down, because there is one more natural user of Wood Release, that being the Ten Tails. We never see Kaguya herself manage to use Wood Release, only the Ten Tails while it is in it's mindless state and this sort of makes sense because when she is conscious, Kaguya never shows any of that rafflesia aspect in her design that the Ten Tails does. The Ten Tails is also said to lack any thought, any sense of malice, just being a gigantic mass of pure nature energy (Yknow... like a tree), which points to a link between Wood Release and Senjutsu. We know that Hashirama is a sage of some kind which raises the question of if he learned Wood Release on his journey to sagehood. It is pretty similar to the Ryuchi Cave technique of breathing life into inorganic material. Anyways, we will never get an concrete answer to this, I'm pretty sure. Also, there's definitely a link between the mild chakra suppression of Hashirama's Wood Release and the very aggressive chakra draining of the Ten Tails in its God Tree form. Oh and if you REALLY want to start stretching, one could link Wood Release and Shikotsumyaku or Kaguya's All Killing Ash Bones (I wish there was a better translation for this). They are both Kekkei Genkai which alter the way that the user's body's functions and instead of being conjured, the techniques tend to sprout out of the user's body.

There's even a tiny link in the way that all of Kimimaro's Shikotsumyaku techniques are named after flowers. Maybe Kaguya's Bone Techniques + the chakra fruit that turned her into the Ten Tails = Wood Release?

Since we we're talking about Hashirama's sage mode earlier, I want to bring up a cool theory (Credit to Doron's World on YT) about it that I really like and it's that Hashirama is a sun sage. The theory goes that the marking on his forehead paint allusion to the symbol used in ancient chinese writing to represent the sun and that the markings around his eye are instead allusions to the Eye of Ra.

This theory doesn't have much in the way of textual evidence and is mostly riding on logic and theming. Plants need the sun to survive and as the counterpart to Madara, who is all about the moon, Hashirama would be deeply reverent of the sun. But the reason why I really like this theory is how is compliments Naruto. While it's pretty easy to figure out the similarities that Sasuke and Madara have because they're literally related, Naruto and Hashirama is a bit more muddied. However, if Hashirama is really a sun sage, that links him to Naruto who has these sun symbols in his Nine Tails Chakra mode.

Karin also likes Naruto's chakra to the sun.

So, yeah in my mind it is just perfect if this same warmth also manifested in Hashirama, but since Asura's reincarnates can't really pass anything through each other, it manifested as his Sun sage mode and affinity with plants instead of Naruto's specific spin on Kurama's chakra. Oh right, speaking of Kurama and Naruto/Hashirama parallels, let's talk about the Torii Gate because after getting the Nine Tails Chakra Mode, Naruto just reveals that he can do this in order to seal Kurama again.

The new Torii seal is even represented on his body through the arch going over his chest in this form, pretty cool. This is another one of Hashirama's techniques, but it's never listed as a Wood Release thing. He can just do this somehow and presumably Naruto can as well. Kinda weird, right?