#jiraiyas kids :(

[ssnapdragoon]

[mixelation]

on writing minato: i decided in an attempt to not just shallowly be like "naruto is a complete kushina clone but with minato's hair," that naruto's childhood attention problems come from minato, not her. so i write minato getting distracted by his own thoughts/ideas and constantly fidgeting or bouncing his leg. i also write minato as sometimes being like "oh boy Namikaze, stop fidgeting, it makes people nervous when the deadliest person in the room fidgets :')"

this just affected minato a lot less than naruto in childhood because he was like "yeah i only looked for two seconds, but i got it!! anyway, have you seen this frog--" but also he did not graduate early despite "genius" status because sometimes..... you just forget there's homework

[team7-headquarter]

Tsunade loves to see the kids she used to know now as adults with families and responsibilities

[evilkitten3]

naruto crack au where kakashi manages to successfully drill the "never abandon your comrades" thing into team seven's heads

so when sasuke deserts naruto and sakura immediately desert with him. like he gets to the village gates and they're just waiting for him bags packed like "what took u so long we doing this or what"

he tries to get them to go back bc of course he does. "no you losers this is about me i'm going to kill my brother. also i'll have to kill my best friend for the super sharingan and you two are like the only people i talk to". but they do not listen. teamwork sasuke we will defeat your brother (OUR brother #communism) with the power of teamwork. just like kakashi-sensei said

suddenly orochimaru has to deal with three horrible little goblins with an even more codependent relationship than his old team

[sannin-three]

Tsunade and Orochimaru first met when Tsunade ditched her lessons to go play in the forest and get her clothes and hands dirty for a change. She bumped into this weird pale kid who was sticking their arms down into random holes to look for snakes. She asked them if they were afraid of being bit and they said, "No. Snakes like me. Plus their venom doesn't affect me," which is like the coolest thing she's ever heard. So she shows them a slug she's been carrying around in her pocket and instead of saying anything about it being gross, they just nod and say, "Cool."

BAM, instant best friends.

[yeahimaninjavampire]

uhh. i drew the sannin as scene kids enjoy

why do they naturally have scene hair

[joy-girl]

Naruto 405

[tired-reader-writer]

“She is a lantern-holder on the water, a task for the apprentice miko, but the kannushi allowed her this, and none protested this allowance. [...] The kannushi recites a prayer aloud, and the miko trace the rhythm of the ripples of the water's surface as she does. Upon the kannushi's face, the mask of the Shinigami. Upon the miko's faces, the masks of the ayakashi that serve him, of the countless and many Uzu-no-Mikoto. They flicker to life in moonlight, glow like ghosts upon the darkened sea. The kami they represent are neither gentle nor serene.”

The shrine of the sea in Uzushiogakure, formerly known as Uzunoshima.

—Foxes, Pillars, and Sea-salt Rust: Chapter 1

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There are other descriptions of this shrine in the chapter, of course, but they're so specific it's honestly hard to find photographs that fit them, and yes the kannushi and miko are all Uzumaki, they're supposed to be red-haired, but good luck finding any photographs of miko with red hair, LOL.

The shrine (and what it represents) is very important to our protagonist, Hoshiori, and will be quite the part of her character further down the line.

If you haven't seen my fic announcement post, Foxes, Pillars, and Sea-salt Rust is about Hoshiori, the younger granddaughter of Hashirama and Mito born in Uzunoshima (Uzushiogakure), offering to take Kushina's role as a jinchuuriki. The prologue, or rather chapter 1 here, serves to set the context for that decision to come. The chapter, and the fic as a whole, will cover a lot of worldbuilding and political dynamics of the Elemental Nations.

[consideredahazard]

Anime redraw. Because we were deprived of this sweet sweet moment. Boruto got to go back in time and meet Jiraiya but I would've loved to see Jiraiya meet Mitsuki. That would have been way more interesting.

[fandom-susceptible]

Compressed timeline AU where the Hokages retire younger instead of mostly dying (Minato still kicks the bucket, sorry man, should have called Hashirama to deal with Kurama instead of trying to tackle it yourself) and you just have them wandering around the village when Naruto's growing up

Bonus points for Kakashi's mom being a Senju so he ends up adopted by Tobirama. Hashirama would have volunteered but he already has Tsunade and Yamato and Mito said they weren't taking any more.

Kagami Uchiha/Tobirama Senju is a thing and Madara's still pissed about it

Madara's homophobic repressed gay

Hashirama is a useless bisexual who's absolutely crushed that Madara "hates" him

Naruto and Sasuke had screaming matches at the academy about who was going to get to be taught by the Shodaime and were both *terribly* disappointed with Kakashi, until Kakashi took them to a family dinner and they realized Hashirama is very powerful but can't teach to save his life

Kagami used to be terrified of his cousin but by now he's just like *bitch, at least I had the guts to marry the guy who kicked my ass and made me fall in love with him, fuck off*

Tobirama and Madara fucking hate each other and will leave family dinners if the other is there

Sasuke fucking hates Tobirama and Kakashi by extension until Kagami sits him down and is like "Madara's an idiot let me tell you why" "he's our clan head!" "do I look like I give a fuck-"

Sakura low-key loves Tobirama's work but she pretends to hate him at first because Sasuke does. Tobirama never quite respects her for that but after the Character Development where she learns to do things for herself he might teach her a few things if Tsunade asks.

People still keep ripping off Tobirama's jutsu and forgetting he invented it and yes he's still salty about it

He and Orochimaru got along very well before Orochimaru left the village

Naruto was upset at first but later if Tobirama scolds Kakashi for reading Icha Icha when he's supposed to be teaching this 12 year old is 1000% ready to throw down with the Lord Second for being mildly disrespectful to Kakashi-sensei

Kakashi is mildly embarrassed. Tobirama is vaguely nonplussed. Kagami is laughing so hard he can't breathe.

Shisui still dies but Kagami finds out and grabs Itachi and he and Madara get a confession out of him and killing Danzou is the only thing Madara and Tobirama have ever agreed on. They hate it but Tobirama still tells Hashirama to shut up when Madara lights Danzou on fire. It goes a ways towards the younger Uchiha stopping calling him the White Demon of the Senju.

[every-jiraiya]

[jaguarys]

For the record I don't think the Sannin had some sort of dramatic falling out. I think they grew apart in a way that they almost didn't notice. I think they found different interests, different people, and no matter how much they told themselves they were still as close as they'd always been they weren't. And I think it was a process of continually realizing these people aren't who you idealized in your mind; that they are maybe, kind of, sort of bad people; that they have done things you can't ignore, and that, maybe, they are your enemies. But there's no closure there. There's no sense of relief to be gained. Because you love them. You love them more than anyone in the world��– more than your students, more than your spouse, more than your family, more than your village. They know more about you than anyone ever will or ever could. They hold pieces of you, not only in your knowledge, not only in your youth, but in your soul, because they are one-third of it. You know them more, and less, than anyone could, and definitely more than you should

[im-still-watching-anime]

naruto: wow i’ve had a crush on sasuke this whole time huh?

kakashi: you didn’t realize?? what even goes on in your head?

naruto: i keep telling everyone - not much

sakura: are you sure there’s anything at all going on in there because SERIOUSLY you didn’t realize you liked sasuke??

naruto: if it helps i also didn’t realize you can eat those containers that the ramen comes in until a few years ago!

kakashi: you’ve been eating what—

sakura: we’re going to the hospital. right now.

[cebwrites]

Tae lives alone.

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He moved out of the family home when he turned 20 and it's been that way ever since. He comes over to clean once a week if he can help it since the work is a lot for Hyou to juggle alone on top of his own schedule.

When he's not out in the field, his days go pretty routinely with work down in T&I, writing mission reports and filing other general paperwork, and coming home long after sun down. Sometimes he'll join peers and superiors for a drink; meaning he'll have to help carry some of them home before his own commute.

Sometimes when Kotetsu and Izumo know he'll be out late, they swing by Tae's apartment later to hang out and ease the tension left by being around his superiors for too long. They find him collapsed in front of his apartment door one night running a high fever and immediately rush him to the hospital.

Carrying Tae there wasn't a problem, but once he was laid out on the examination table Tae woke up panicked and disoriented demanding who the doctor and nurses around him were. In his defense, with his vision blurry and only his chakra sensory to rely on, the only things Tae could make out were vague figures in a place he didn't recognize. For all he knew he could still be out on the field; trauma brain took over from there.

He landed two kunai in the wall, thankfully Izumo was still in the room to deflect them - lest they ended up in their intended targets. They don't get the chance to sedate him before Tae throws up at his bedside and loses consciousness again on his own.

Tae's a lot more agreeable the next morning, gets a good earful from Tsunade for waking her up, too. Tsunade doesn't seem surprised when she asks what was the last thing he ate was and Tae draws a blank. He's ordered at least three more days of bed rest after his fever goes away, it's non-negotiable judging by the crack in his bedside table she leaves.

Shizune has the courtesy to smile and say that his brother visited earlier as they leave.

Kotetsu and Izumo swing by to bring him snacks on their break, through his throat is too sore to eat yet. It's a short lived fifteen minutes, but they brighten up the room considerably with chatter and Izumo having to pry his partner off the doorway to get back to work. Kohaku delivers a bottle of tea.

Kakashi comes over with a fruit basket for this fruit basket when he hears his baby brother will be hospitalized for a while. Tae has to remind him that he still can't eat solids for the moment, so Kakashi takes the liberty of eating an apple an a packet of biscuits from the previous goodie bag in front of him like the smug bastard he is. They share a comfortable silence before Kakashi breaks it by mentioning he caused a real fuss last night.

Like a wounded animal fighting against its cage, some nurses said. He points out that Genma and Hyou weren't expected to be back from their respective missions for a few more days, but they'll be worried when they are. Tae winces a little.

Kakashi doesn't mean to interrogate him like this, especially with Tae's history of being put in similar situations, but finding a way to prevent an incident like this happening again took precedent; although Tsunade had her own theories. She saw the state he was in when Tae returned with his mission report - the scroll was pristine but his uniform was still filthy, dried blood Taeru didn't bother to clean marred his vacant face.

Wasn't his own so it wasn't important.

I don't know, was the response Kakashi got, between the hazy recollections of what he did after returning to Kohona, he couldn't place what really happened over the past week, or much beyond recent memory, for that matter. It was enough, though, for Kakashi to piece together what probably happened - functioning solely on autopilot until the mission was over, being unable to muster up the energy to so much as change or eat.

It was like looking into a mirror. A mirror that would reflect what most shinobi would go through at one point in their life or another, and Kakashi knew it well.

Taeru balled his fists into the blanket over his lap, shaking with frustration as he said no matter what he did, no matter who he helped, he still continued to be a burden on the people around him. If his jaw was any tenser it seemed like his teeth would crack, though his expression was still as apathetic as the day Danzo ordered Shikaku to taking him in for "questioning" by suspicion of being in conspiracy with the Uchiha.

Kakashi says that's not true, pulls him close and tells him how important he is to not only his family but the people he's formed bonds with, however difficult that might be to see right now.

But Tae's unable to cry.

[evilkitten3]

team minato modern middle school au where kakashi is the annoying genius who skipped like two grades, rin somehow lives in a hospital (no one's sure which nurse/doctor is her parent but. it's one of them. right? it's gotta be. no way did a bunch of worked-half-to-death medical staff accidentally adopt a baby someone forgot about. definitely one of them is her parent. her birth certificate is around here somewhere i'm sure look i'll get back to you once my shift ends in six hours), and obito is the class clown who lives with his awful anarchist stoner grandpa and calls his house "the cave"

minato is a former student of kakashi's dad's friend and he's their carpool driver bc no way in hell would that man be allowed to teach in real life