#karura

[hokagekushina]

naruto & kushina / gaara & karura

[bakapandy]

Karura was the best thing to ever happen to Rasa but for the power he sought, he lost her and with her, his own humanity

[aleksandracoffan]

"No matter where you are, the sand will always protect you. This isn't Shukaku's power. This is your mother's power… Karura's"

[unicornbars7]

Mother's lullaby

[narutwitter]

[animeglitch]

[thena0315]

Shikamaru is now the 8th Hokage

Thus also meaning:

Shikadai is the 8th Hokage's son, the 4th Kazekage's grandson and the 5th Kazekage's nephew

Temari is the 4th Kazekage's daughter/eldest child, the 5th Kazekage's elder sister and the 8th Hokage's wife

Gaara is the 5th Kazekage, the 4th Kazekage's youngest son/child and the 8th Hokage's brother-in-law

Kankuro is the 4th Kazekage's eldest son/middle child, the 5th Kazekage's elder brother and the 8th Hokage's brother-in-law

Shinki is the 5th Kazekage's adopted son, the 4th Kazekage's adoptive grandson and the 8th Hokage's adoptive nephew

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Shikaku was the 8th Hokage's father and the 4th Kazekage's daughter's father-in-law

Yoshino is the 8th Hokage's mother and the 4th Kazekage's daughter's mother-in-law

Rasa was the 4th Kazekage, the 5th Kazekage's father and the 8th Hokage's father-in-law

Karura was the 4th Kazekage's wife, the 5th Kazekage's mother and the 8th Hokage's mother-in-law

Yashamaru was the 4th Kazekage's brother-in-law, the 5th Kazekage's uncle and the 8th Hokage's uncle-in-law

[backgroundcharacterno5]

Gaara Week 2024

Day 6: Wounds will Heal

Daily Gaara: Day 17

[paxerle]

Merry Christmas✨

Thank you all for this wonderful year. Thank you for the reposts, for the likes and the feedback. Every comment makes me extremely happy and gives me motivation.

You all deserve a wonderful Christmas time 💛

[thatsprettylane]

Assorted Naruto Characters + Assorted Text Posts (Part 3)

[nyctereutes-procyonoides]

Village disco. Well, this is another redrawing of screenshots, but this time with people. I'm afraid to draw people, I don't like how they turn out. But I'm working on improving this skill. Shukaku is just for my personal peace of mind here, I rested when I drew him. My emotional support beast.

[bakapandy]

There was a Suna chara art style mem on twitter I thought it would be fun to do!

[aleksandracoffan]

[narutwitter]

[archer3-13]

Its kinda funny that the naruto fandom when presented with dozens of effectively blank slate female characters in the form of the various throw away mothers in the series, and by and large they collectively lumped them together into a generic perfect mother figures amorphous blob in fan characterizations. the abused or long suffering perfect victims in light of their husbands stupidities/abuses.

and thats boring. dont give me yet another karura who angelically smiles in blood soaked pain as shes forced into turning one of her children into a jinchuriki.

give me a karura who willingly goes along with the plan, one who also sees the dire economic strains sunagakures fallen into and per the blind shinobi demagoguery agrees that only a jinchuriki can change their villages prospects. or hell, consider gaaras sand. if it was always infused with karuras love as opposed to shukakus/the ichibeis power, what does that say about the kind of love karura infused into it? a sand that violently lashed out, maimed and killed without distinction at the smallest hint of a threat regardless of its veracity? I honestly wouldn't be surprised if people hand waved away that line about gaaras sand [outside of forgetting about it anyways], because of those implications it raises about karuras love. that its not just some idealized perfect clean form of love, but a violent almost possessive one unwilling to broke challenges or threats to what it thinks is right. that in trying to protect him, karuras love ended up smothering and isolating gaara before snowballing into the misery young gaaras life would become. i would certainly argue kishimotos unwilling to interrogate these implications anyways.

anyways, this is to say that my new headcannon of karura is not of some demure flower, but rather a twitchy elite jounin hopped up on an endless amount of coffee, trauma and hair trigger murderous reflex impulses. a woman who, when presented with her husbands bad ideas does not softly rebuke them but instead doubles down on them because its go big or go home when you live in sunagakure the shittiest village of the big five hidden villages. and aint that saying something when "caught in perpetual civil wars cause they can't stop murdering their own citizens" kirigakure exists.

[everysabaku]

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