#if anyone actually wants to know though—Oro actually says ‘I miss your long hair’

[just-a-tiny-goldfish]

Leave! Her! Alone! I like her short hair 🥺

I like to think Ortega randomly remembers how annoying sidestep was

[naruto-nerd-anime-lover]

Boruto: Naruto Next Generation Ep 22 review

Hey there everyone! Sorry i wasn’t able to post my review earlier than expected. 

So in this episode we had the DNA test but we all know who the real mother is right?? haha unless others haven’t read the manga.

First i want to talk about this:

Forehead Poke (favorite scene)

We get to see the FLASHBACK my goodness,Sakura is so beautiful, she’s like a goddess with long hair and through all of the episode Sakura’s voice was really so motherly and very gentle, Sarada is sssooo cuteeeee like she stole my heart, we need to protect her at all cost haha, damn the Uchiha fam surely have great voice actors!! i don’t have anything else to say. 

we all know the meaning of the forehead poke right, it is the ULTIMATE EXPRESSION OF LOVE from the uchiha’s starting from Itachi, believe me i really miss itachi a lot, since he’s one of my favorite characters.

Itachi and Sasuke may not be that kind of person who shows their affection through words but it is through their actions. Sometimes we misunderstood both of their character like how Itachi tortured Sasuke in his Tsukiyomi and even beat the crap out of him. But it was for his own safety and Itachi’s own way to to make sasuke grow stronger. He even sacrificed his own family, clan even his lover Izumi for the sake of the village and peace. And this is how I see Sasuke doing his own sacrifices. 

Although I am not really glad that they added this scene. They are making Sasuke look like a heartless husband/father, they could have change this scene though like he could have said this when sarada asked him “Your mother is capable of taking care of herself, she is strong and I believe she will be fine, so you don’t have to worry” not only that but through this words he will be able to reassure sarada and at the same time comfort her as a father. 

This SCENE

I didn’t expect this, Madara, Hashirama, Tobirama, Tsunade, Kakashi wow deadly and powerful people were also in this ep for only a few seconds.

This people too, we get to see them again. While Juugo, Suigetsu and Yamato-sensei aged Orochimaru just got younger like isn’t it supposedly the opposite? Like oro’s age is suppose to be 70+ hahahahaha..him and his experiments

I don’t want talk about the DNA scene (i dont hate karin btw although i ship sasusaku i never did hate her) it’s just that the DNA scene makes me sad :(, i understand that Sarada is in an age where she is curious and the purpose of the story is that “Blood connections aren’t important, as long as their is LOVE that’s the real deal” that this message is what Kishi is trying to deliver to the readers, I just dont like the fact that Sarada is doubting her parents especially about Sakura who was there throughout her entire life, its because of some glasses. I admit, i really prefer Sarada without her glasses she looks cooler and more beautiful with long hair. But dont worry guys, I’m fine with just the way how things are flowing. :) 

My second favorite scene

Naruto doing the TALK-NO-JUSTU again

Seriously, a lot of people have been saved because of this Talk no justu. Naruto is after all the Uncle of Sarada or godfather, and he cares whatever happens to his friends daughter, he was there to reassure sarada that the most important thing is not blood connection but love.

 We get to see the flashbacks from naruto the trials that he have been through, including those people he doesn’t have blood connection with. 

This is actually the scene where i started to cry, like after all he has been through he now has a family that loves him. He fulfilled his dream you know and creating a better Shinobi World together with all his friends and the people in naruto series. 

Sasuke Calling Sakura his WIFE (tsuma in japanese)

my wife, wife,  MMYY WIFEEE!!kyaaa hahahaah >///

Cut Scenes

It’s in the ending song but I believe that this scene will be in episode 24, it is one of the most important scenes after all,  since Honda in twitter told us that Ep 24 will be the epilogue and one of my predictions are: birth of sarada, sasusaku travel, uchiha fam moments before sasuke’s mission, sarada’s sharingan. I don’t want anyone hopes to get high but these are just my prediction, so don’t get you hopes high okay? :D

They cut this scene except for the “My wife is not weak” and i’m a little dissapointed :(

Lastly, Naruto yelling at Sasuke 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA I don’t know about you guys but i absolutely love this scene. It was Naruto bickering with sasuke again, brings back memories. 

If we think about, if this was naruto in his genin days he would beat the crap out of sasuke for knowing the “truth”, before he just acts without thinking but in this scene he is mature enough to think and believe that sasuke wont do such a “thing” (you know what i mean)  and prioritize first in saving Sakura, T_T can’t believe he is already mature and thinks and acts like an adult too.   (you know what i mean)

I am REALLY REALLY looking forward for the next episode. We all saw the preview right. More Sakura Vs Shin fight, team 7 moments, Uchiha fam moments and sarada doing some action finally, a many more. 

If anyone can tell me the soundtrack in Sakura and Sarada flashback scene i would really be happy, but i think it wasn’t released yet. I was looking for it in the youtube.

Hope you enjoyed my review. See yahhhh!! happy day everyone :DD

[eloarei]

Charmed

words: 1,464 fandom: One Piece characters/ pairings: Makino, Shanks, Ben Beckman, Ben/Shanks, Makino/Shanks flirting tags: oneshot, minor characters, drunken flirting notes: I started rewatching One Piece, and decided I was going to write a short fic about each of my favorite less-popular characters and/or pairings. I’ve never written about any of these characters before, although Ben/Shanks has always been on my periphery as a ship I know I’d be head over heels for if I tried it. (lol actually, I have several doujinshi of them, so it’s weird that I never looked up any fic.) Cross-posted on AO3. ~*~  There was something charming about the red-haired pirate, and even if he hadn't shamelessly and drunkenly flirted with her several times, Makino thought she'd probably still think so.

She had no idea what made the Red-Hair pirates decide to camp out in their quaint little town, because Fuusha was neither a bustling port city nor a remote vacation destination, but she didn't mind. Well, she minded at first; like any other village maiden, Makino was aware of how terrible pirates could be, and she was as wary of them as anyone. But they ended up being truly alright sorts, and what was more: they paid for their drinks. As bartender, that was a huge step towards a good impression on her. The little island had bandits galore (they liked to hide up in the mountains for some reason), but pirates rarely stopped through, so Makino didn't have a good idea of what they were supposed to be like, except for hear-say. (And there was plenty of that, these days, since Gold Roger had gone and sent everybody into a frenzy.) People said pirates were loud and rude and took what they wanted and were generally to be feared, and the Red-Hair pirates proved that to be mostly true and yet very false. They were definitely loud. They spent hours at the bar, sometimes a week in a row before they went out again, and the place had never seen so much activity. Butts in every seat (and table, and empty bit of floor space) and drinks in every mug (and sometimes hats and boots and skulls and other places drinks didn't normally go), and laughter filling the air. They were truly a boisterous bunch. Bartending had never felt so much like attending a party. Admittedly, they were rude too-- but never to her, or the other villagers, or even the bandits. It was just how they treated each other, with a sort of casual violence and disregard that might have seemed alarming if you didn't pay closer attention to them. But Makino could tell that they all genuinely cared about each other, despite the pushing and shoving and punching and insults, or maybe because of them. It was their own special brand of camaraderie, how they showed their affection. Well, mostly. They were a drunken bunch, and free with their affections, which mostly meant fighting and insulting, but sometimes meant draping themselves over one another and pressing messy kisses all over each other's beer-reddened faces. Their captain (the eponymous red-hair, Shanks) was the worst offender. Makino could hardly count the number of times she'd seen him leaning heavily on some crewmate or another, periodically slobbering on their face like a big excited dog. None of them seemed to mind; even the ones who didn't respond in kind would only shove him away enough to get some breathing room, grinning still like it was just another quirk of their beloved captain. Shanks had even come on to her a few times. She remembered the first time in painful clarity, like she could still feel the burning in her cheeks. He'd been slouched happily at the bar and just reached over and grabbed her hand and started pressing kisses to it like it was something they did all the time. “Ah, Makino, you're my favorite! You're the best bartender in this town. No, no, in the whole world! Has anybody ever told you that?” Even in the faint reflections of the glasses she'd just been cleaning, she could see clear as day how the color had risen in her usually-pale face almost bright enough to match Shanks' hair. She wasn't sure what she was feeling: some volatile combination of mortification, irritation, and exactly what you'd expect to feel when a charming and attractive man starts lavishing affection on you. She didn't have the strength or presence of mind to pull away, but luckily Shanks' first mate was never nearly as drunk as anyone else, and was on captain-guard-duty that day. “Lay off the woman, you lout,” Ben Beckman told his captain in a low rumble that was maybe a bit menacing, but definitely full of exasperated affection. He reached over and pinched Shanks' arm when the man didn't seem to hear him. The captain had the grace to look a little sheepish, even through his drunken haze. He pulled back from Makino's hand (damp on top from his messy kisses, moist on the palm from sweating), and gave her as polite and charming of an apology as he could probably manage. “Sorry, Miss Makino. I was just so impressed by the spirits today I could hardly help myself!” She'd brushed it off, of course, laughing and brushing her hair back behind her ear in a nervous sort of gesture. It had left her a little preoccupied for a few days, but she knew it didn't mean anything. It wasn't even that she wanted to date Shanks or anything (women did, of course, sometimes marry pirates, or marry a man that later went on to be a pirate, but it didn't seem like an appealing life, always waiting for him to come home, hoping he hadn't gotten himself killed), it was just that it was hard not to get a little flustered in a situation like that, even if it was clear as day that he wasn't really interested in her. (Not as more than a friend and provider of booze, at least.) No, she was fairly certain that Shanks was already involved with his first mate anyway. Beckman always kept an eye on his energetic captain, and never seem terribly upset when the man started getting handsy with their other crewmates (or the bartender). But he was always there for Shanks to stumble back to, and Shanks did. As touchy as he got with the others, the captain always still seemed to be playing. With Beckman, though, he looked more serious. He didn't perch on his lap in quite the same haphazard way, and he wasn't always full of laughs and sloppy kisses. Beckman was the one he went back to when his mood had started to calm. He'd slouch next to the tall man, lay his head on his shoulder, fiddle with his long black ponytail, and gaze up at him with a deep considering look you only ever saw on people who were drunk, or in love. (Makino's bet was on 'both'.) All the while, the first mate would puff on his cigarette and act like he was pretending he didn't notice or care that Shanks had melted into him, but from Makino's front-row seat she could see the way Beckman shifted gently to bring them closer together. Also they had sort of told her. After they'd stuck around for a while and she'd decided she wasn't hoping they'd go away any time soon, she realized she didn't know all that much about them and had started asking the usual questions: Where did you come from? Which island has been your favorite? Why did you decide to become pirates? It was just the two of them at the bar when she asked, “How long have you been together?” and she didn't realize Shanks had misunderstood her until halfway through his answer. “Oh, since we were back on the Oro Jackson, I guess. First time I hit on him, he thought I was trying to bribe him or something, since he had more seniority with the crew.” He laughed at the memory. Beckman gave a smirk that, on him, might as well have been a grin. “You always were shameless.” Shanks slapped him lightly on the shoulder. “Hey now, are you really gonna talk about your captain that way? You're gonna have to make it up to me later.” Rolling his eyes at Shanks' playfully lewd (and hopeful) expression, Beckman turned and raised an eyebrow at Makino. “As I said: shameless.” The group stayed a little less long that day than they normally did, and Makino got the impression that Beckman didn't mind his captain's shamelessness one bit. She never did figure out how long the crew had been together (her original intention with that question), but she figured the answer was 'long enough', given how much each of them clearly adored their captain. Then again, maybe it didn't take very long at all for Shanks to inspire that sort of loyalty; she'd only known him a few months and already she'd be hard-pressed to deny that she sort of adored him as well. That charming man, there was really just something about him. The Red-Hair pirate crew did eventually decide it was time to leave their little island, and Makino was sad to see them go, but glad she had a chance to meet them in the first place. And who knew? Maybe when the Great Age of Piracy was over, the great pirates would come back around for another long vacation.