#lol I think my Itachi ships are showing…

[renaerys]

Hello! I really love the progress of the heiress and the hierophant. The chemistry between Ino and Itachi is just magical and magnetic. What are your head canons regarding Itaino?

To be honest, I'm never quite sure how to answer questions about ship headcanons. I think it's because I don't think of them as one unit, but as separate individuals who, due to their personalities and proclivities, fit together in a dynamic like two pieces of a puzzle.

I see Itachi as someone who is a deeply loyal person, but also a very intense person, often in an extreme way. He doesn't care much about 99% of people beyond a surface level required to maintain standing and reputation in social circles. But when he decides he does care about someone, he dials it up to an 11. He's 0 to 60 in 3.5, in the immortal words of our lady and savior Rhianna. Obviously, Sasuke is #1 always and forever. Aside from Sasuke, canonically we know that chosen person for him was always Shisui (however you choose to interpret the nature of their relationship, that remains true). Shisui is generally accepted as an extroverted, highly gregarious, cunning trickster type, i.e., kind of the opposite of Itachi's personality. I think Itachi would be drawn to people who fall somewhere on that spectrum: loud, feelings-forward, (sometimes, to varying degrees) politically savvy types who are either A) well-liked and popular or B) outcast pariahs doing their own thing and fuck everyone else. Ino and Shisui fall into the first category, and people like Karin and Deidara fall into the latter, but both types are very much "this is me, love me or hate me, I'm here and I'm not going anywhere and you get the immense honor of dealing with me" vibes. Whereas Itachi strikes me as more the type to bend and cave to the path of least resistance in order to go unnoticed or avoid conflict/confrontation with people if he can help it. He's duty and honor, and he needs someone who is like "but what if we got drunk and committed arson and then kissed a bit after". Having that person fill in the gaps in his personality and preferences would be exciting and probably also very frustrating for him, and I think it would hook him so hard.

Ino is someone I see as kind of a contradiction. She has all these cool abilities that allow her to read people literally, and a personality that, to me, seems very much the type to hone in on people's motivations and attitudes. At the same time, though, she is someone who is tunnel-vision determined to achieve her goals (I'm thinking of her in the 4th war in what I consider to be one of the most badass moments for any single character in the manga when she was like "I just have to do it!" re telepathically connecting everyone in the Shinobi Forces right after her dad died). If she decides to do something, it is fucking getting done, bar none. And if we apply that attitude to people, to figuring people out, we have someone who will dig and dig until they draw blood and still keep going. She deals in lies and secrets and neither are safe from her. Pairing her with someone like Itachi who is the cream filling in a roll cake baked out of lies and manipulation is like...both the best and worst thing I can do to either of them. Plus, she is that politically savvy social butterfly who would drag him out of his mission, mission, meticulously steam clean my ANBU uniform, mission, repeat cycle to live his life a little bit. She likes being in charge and running shit, and I think someone like Itachi, who has been sort of forced into that role his whole life whether he wanted it or not, would find surprising and intense relief over letting her take those reins so he doesn't have to deal with it for five minutes.

So idk if that really addresses your question. But this is sort of how I think about them individually and what that would look like when I smash them together Barbie doll style and make them kiss.

[sasukeless]

Hii, I hope you you're doing well I wanted to know if you have any thoughts/opinions on the team 7 vs team taka debate that I see some people get very passionate about😅

oh this is like opening pandora’s box. i have alot of thoughts on it but i will try to keep it simply.

my honest opinion is that both sides are veryy biased.

team 7 stans fear to admit that sasuke cared for team taka even if there’s proof he did because most of team 7 stans are shippers and shippers tend to not like admitting that sasuke does care for other people outside of the character they ship him with. which is not new i mean i see people claiming sasuke loves more naruto/sakura than he ever loved itachi and it’s just not true. again, it’s just a shipping thing i see because i assume they like the “character hates everyone but you trope ❤️” when it definitely doesn’t fit sasuke. they act like sasuke had no choice to be a team with taka when he himself chose them because he wanted them with him. (ik this gets ss especially heated after sasuke rejected sakura when she wanted to come with him. just to later sasuke pick a team that included a girl in it lol) it’s just annoying and honestly pathetic so o ignore them all the same.

on the other hand, team taka stans claim than sasuke never cared for team 7 post part 1 and act like naruto’s feelings are completely one sided. and while it’s true sasuke cared for sakura and kakashi in part 1 and later managed to cut his bonds with them, this is not the case with naruto because sasuke HIMSELF states it. taka also gets too fanonized because ppl see taka supporting blindly sasuke and think that it’s how team 7/naruto should act when that completely ignores that well, sasuke’s path is not free of flaws and his self-harming actions aren’t really smth to ignore. again, taka’s devotion for sasuke is a very blind one, while naruto’s devotion can be a kind of selfish at times, it at least keeps him awake when sasuke is doing smth that’s self destructive. also as perfect as ppl say taka are, they ignore that sasuke doesn’t return the same devotion to his teammates. he’s not completely honest with his goals (as we see him only telling obito in private that he wanted to slaughter everyone in konoha and prior he had been just feigning in front of taka when he said he just wanted the take down the elders only.), he also left and cut them off during the 5 kage arc and he didn’t have any intention of going to seek them again, only after they seek him first he accepted them back to help them. and like Yes, sasuke cares for them as a team as he did for team 7, since we can see him fighting for them in their fight against bee with the same determination he wanted to fight for team 7 in their fight against gaara. but there’s still a disconnect between them. and this is ignored by stans that also blatantly deny that naruto is special to sasuke in a way nobody but itachi is even when sasuke himself is the one saying this and individualizing naruto from team 7 in a way he doesn’t do with any other in team 7 AND in team taka.

so to put it simply, sasuke has show care for both teams but neither team is perfect and there’s things to criticize in each of them and personally it’s what makes them fun! i get having preference everyone has it but this discourse just has both sides acting biased and denying sasuke’s actual characterization to fit either of their agendas

[fireflylitsky]

Hello I am also down bad for Kisame and Kakuzu and I need to know IMMEDIATELY what pet names you think each of the Aksatsuki members uses. I agree with your Kisame "sweetheart" theory and raise you a Kakuzu "dear". "Honey" if we're feeling bold.

Okay okay okay let's get into this. A small disclosure first: pet names really depend on the setting and the ship (like Hidan would not be calling Kakuzu "baby girl" because Kakuzu would find out a way to kill him for real, but if he had a cute little cinnamon roll gf yeah baby girl is her legal name as far as he's concerned) so these are just general assessments.

Kisame- I will say, Kisame could vary a lot depending on AU. I could totally see a modern AU where he's a big lovable jock tossing "babe" around. Generally speaking, Kisame is a class act, a real gentleman. He's going for classics like "sweetheart" or "hon". Sorry to the "kitten" fans, I just don't see it 🤷‍♀️(unless he's using it to antagonize)

Kakuzu- Him calling you by name is a goddamn miracle in and of itself and should be considered a pet name. If he says your name without anger? Hoo boy, he's into it. If he's dropping any sort of actual pet name? I agree, it's going to be something like "dear". Short and sweet, suits his old man tendencies. You are basically married if he hits you with a dear. I will once again go on record saying this old man is not calling anyone "kitten" lmao (I'm sorry it's just... what is with all the "kitten" I see???)

Itachi- He's not calling you anything in front of other people, sorry. Very formal in front of company. Behind closed doors he will be sweet. Not excessive, but sweet. He's an "angel", "dearest", "my love" kind of guy. I could see a case being made for "darling". He's in deep and awkward about showing it, but he'll drop a pet name every once in a while when it's just the two of you.

Hidan- Make way for the absolute chad of cringey unapologetic pet names. Hidan doesn't give a FUCK he will pretty much use any name under the sun unironically. He's throwing around "baby" and "baby girl" like it's your god given name. Sweetheart? Sure. Kitten? Alright. Is he using them sarcastically or seriously? yes.

Deidara- He's a babe/baby guy idk. I don't have a whole lot to say on him, I just think he prefers things simple and punchy, he's artsy yeah, but not poetic. I don't think he's getting extravagant with his names, but once he starts using them you basically never hear your actual name anymore.

Sasori- Pet names are not his thing. I've seen "doll" thrown around... hm, a bit too on the nose for me, but I get it. I don't think he would like them, personally. Not everyone uses pet names *shrug* Closest he gets is literally “pet” and only because it has a naturally demeaning implication that establishes a hierarchy with him in control lol

[tozettastone]

Whats your ranking on akatsuki ships, partnered or otherwise?

I contemplated doing this ranking with all of the most common Akatsuki related ships but there were over 20 without even counting the OFCs and Reader fics. There were 4 Sakura pairings alone LOL. So I'll do a partner ship ranking I think.

I know that when they did this same ranking earlier today, @mixelation accounted for how the fandom treated these ships in their rankings. But I am ranking based on what dynamics I think these ships could deliver me. I'm not judging by what fandom actually gave me. I'm measuring with my ✨heart.✨

6. Orochimaru/Sasori

I cannot imagine this as a sexual or romantic ship, but I can admire the sheer amount of psychic damage these men would do through pure pettiness. This is really two dramatic judgemental bitches leaving no survivors. So that's fun, right? But as a ship? Nah.

5. Konan/Pein

I understand the canon basis for this ship but I am not very interested in either of these characters and they are not improved by proximity.

4. Sasori/Deidara

They're both cute and their philosophies are completely opposed. However, I think Sasori's regard for Deidara is not really articulated in canon and it's hard to imagine him having positive feelings about him? I don't think there's anything really interesting to chew on here, personally? It's like arguing and not much else, to me. It's an aesthetically pleasing pairing but the character dynamic is not compelling me.

3. Deidara/Tobi

Incomprehensible but at least I can see that Obito enjoys baiting Deidara and Deidara shows curiosity about Tobi. You can build a ship from the ground up if the characters are interested in drawing a reaction out of each other. I can see Obito getting attached and becoming extremely weird about it, which is always a plus. Obito has the canonical Uchiha problem of really imprinting on his precious people so I think it could end up being quite fun if written from an "Obito is erratic and unwell and Deidara is just beginning to realise he's bitten off more than he can chew," perspective. Good ship vibes.

2. Itachi/Kisame

Nobody writes this ship as a Kisame, who hates lies, deceiving himself about the character of Itachi, whose entire acquaintanceship with him is based on a lie, and I understand that this is extremely complicated to manage from a character perspective. In my heart this is a complicated relationship between a guilty and increasingly sick Itachi who can't quite dedicate himself fully to his partner, and a wilfully (as opposed to medically) blind Kisame who absolutely can.

Anyway, we love a ship that features a giant toothy violent dude whose leash is very loosely held by a consumptive teenager who is, deceptively, capable of equal or greater violence.

Also, service top Kisame. Like... yeah?? Obviously. I'm into that.

1. Hidan/Kakuzu

I am predictable. Everyone knows what I'm like about Hidan and Kakuzu. They are spouses who slay together. S-tier pairing. I have written... so... much... about... them....

[reilleclan-blog]

The fact Sasuke Uchiha was equivalent to a school ooter and ALOT of ppl saying he was right is very hilarious. (Also I'm a fan of Sasuke I just hated the shippuden part of him cause he was sounding so fucking dumb when he's fighting Naruto)

Sasuke was so scared of love that he wanted to kill his "bff" over it cause Naruto never stopped loving him. "Never gave up on him" or "cut him off" the most love Sasuke ever felt was with Naruto that's why he was constantly reminded of his family and Itachi when he was with Naruto. Sasuke had to hate Itachi so he could be able to redeem his family so he was alone but Naruto would remind him of the good and the bad of what happened with his family . That's why he was so adamant on killing Naruto. He wanted to be fully alone cause// Sasuke was disguising his fear of love with the idea that he wanted to avenge Itachi and shit but to be fair Sasuke was lied to his whole life so I still understand why he went crazy asf and wanted to kill danzo but afterward he had to direct his anger towards something else so it was towards the leaf village. (He eliminated his brother's biggest enemy but he still chose to fight the leaf// that turned into him wanting to become "hokage")

Also to pivot back to the topic of Sasuke wanting to become the "most hated" or "take on all the hate" he was essentially trying to make himself into the next Madara and we see how that was turning out cause he was literally living it. Becoming the most hated is pointless when u are already surrounded by ppl that are trying to love u, but Sasuke again was terrified of it it's as if he thought he couldn't deserve that love as well. Like in the animation he is pained his face he makes trying to "not believe" Naruto and believe he could be back in the good graces of the leaf or feel loved like Naruto keeps telling him.

And then when they think they are both dead after their big fight , Sasuke looks and acts relieved that him and Naruto are together but dead. Naruto was the one freaking out about being dead while Sasuke isn't even trying to figure it out he's just chillin with Naruto lol. In a way, when he thought they were both dead Sasuke seemed like he was missing Naruto once he vanished (i guess when Naruto woke up)

Also Sasuke always freaks the fuck out everytime Naruto basically says "I WONT STOP LOVING U" and Sasuke is just like "PLEASE STOP LOVING ME LET ME BE ALONE" that's basically what it was. Platonic or romantic love I like the ideas of both. I have no preference towards shipping. Ship, laugh love.

Another thing I'm gonna say is so many ppl hate Sakura either they are misogynistic or they think she's a terrible character. 1) most of the shit ppl hated Sakura for was literally the SAME SHIT Naruto and or Sasuke had done in the show but no one cared when them two did said thing.

2) Sakura was never ever planning to kill Sasuke she would never have it in her to ever do that to him. Literally the first time Sasuke is leaving the leaf village Sakura is trying to say anything to make him stay and since she knows he's not gonna stay she just tells him "let me come with u" and it's like Sakura was smitten with love(cough cough* like Naruto). And funny enough ppl love to bring up how Sasuke found her annoying but he constantly said the same shit about Naruto ... why b/c they BOTH LOVED SASUKE. They both loved Sasuke just in very different ways and ppl don't talk about it at all.

ppl talk about how Sakura and Naruto both wanted Sasuke back but never notice how they show their love so differently. Sakura could never fight Sasuke, Naruto was ready to fight Sasuke no matter the cause NARUTO STATES THAT HE WOULD BREAK EVERY BONE IN SASUKES BODY IF IT MEANT HE WOULD DRAG HIM BACK TO THE LEAF VILLAGE . Sakura would've just either let him kill her or joined in b/c she just loved him that much.

Anyways um yeah that's it I guess if u get mad over this imma just block u idc. I just wanna post about my hyperfixation don't dtm please also I'm surprised ppl don't talk about Sasuke being in confinement. Lol also Sasuke is neurodivergent 😴

[nyxielovespythons]

Why NejiTen should be canon

Before I say anything, I can recognise that NejiTen is not canon, although I want it to be lol. Everyone has a right to their own opinion, so I ask that you respect mine, and if you want to challenge it, you can *politely* do that in the comments.

The major countering ships to NejiTen are: NejiHina and LeeTen, so I will talk you through why these ships don't work out.

First with LeeTen (because I don't want you quitting after the drama of NejiHina). Lee and Tenten are seen as very close throughout the series, though Tenten makes it clear that she finds Lee annoying and hot-blooded. This is the opposite to Neji, who Tenten seems to admire a lot, since she liked to train with him, and even put on lipstick in the manga for his chūnin exam finals. They seem like the perfect best friend duo, in my opinion. Romance doesn't need to be involved in every since best friend duo, there are enough of them already. In the Boruto series, Lee is seen with his son, Metal Lee. Many think that Tenten is the mother, due to the eye shape, and I think she could easily be. I mean, she's the only kunoichi in Konoha in the same age group as Lee (I think, I haven't fact checked yet), and the girl in his team. Tenten is probably the easiest choice for Lee's wife that Kishimoto could've made. However, if they were to be married and have had a son together, they would now be divorced. This therefore means, that if they had got married, then the relationship would not have worked out, and LeeTen would've failed. If they had not got together, then Lee would've married a different woman, and even if Lee then divorced that mystery woman, they clearly do not have mutual feelings for each other any more. They might have had feelings for each other, at different stages of their lives, but they either both grew out of their crushes or it was only one-sided to begin with.

Second. The NejiHina incident. I'm sorry, but I will have to go on for even longer than LeeTen, because some people don't understand that this ship is incest, and I'll tell you why. Excluding the fact that Neji had strong resentment towards Hinata for quite a period of time, they still wouldn't work out. Their relationship only evolved into *family* love, as confirmed by Kishimoto, just as Boruto loves Himawari, or Temari loves Gaara. What's wrong with a "big brother-little sister love"? Why must everyone make everything romantic? Neji cares deeply for his cousin, as does Hinata. She calls him 'Big Brother Neji', showing that she only sees him as her older brother. Besides, Hinata was so deeply in love with Naruto, she would've never agreed to the marriage. Moving on, a lot of people, from a range of cultures, some of which invite cousin relationships, think that Neji and Hinata getting married and producing heirs is okay. Some of them (purposely?) forget that the reason you don't have kids with your sibling is because it increases the chance of genetic defects dramatically. Although having kids with your cousin is legal (at least where I am), it still has quite a high risk. These people try and back it up by saying that the Hyūga clan would've wanted a pure Hyūga-blooded heir. Hm... Uchiha clan, anyone? Sure, this was common, but there are plenty Uchihas that are so distantly related that it would be fine to have offspring (such as Itachi and Izumi). The same could be said about the Hyūgas. Maybe Neji would've been their best option for a pure blood husband, but there would've been other choices, more people that were much further distanced in relation. I've got this far, and I haven't even mentioned another key fact: you know that Hiashi and Hizashi are twin brothers, right? Identical twins, to be exact. Lemme show you something: "Identical (i.e., monozygotic, or MZ) twins share 100 percent of their genes". You see that? It means that Hiashi and Hizashi share the same DNA. And this means that Neji and Hinata are genetically closer than cousins. They're actually genetically half-siblings. Hm. The Hyūgas are smart enough to figure out that it probably isn't the best idea to inbreed them, right? Well. That doesn't matter, because even if they overlooked all this incestuous evidence, there's this. Hinata isn't even the current heiress. If Neji survived the war, he would not have married Hinata in Boruto. If the Hyūga clan forced him to marry the heiress, and have children to keep a pure bloodline, he would've married Hanabi. Hanabi is the current heiress, so she would be the one married to Neji. Got it yet? Neji and Hinata would never have happened.

The last reason NejiTen should be canon: their chemistry. Tenten is shown to greatly admire and respect Neji, constantly calling him a genius, and she has blushed because of him in the manga several times. He believed in her abilities enough to sit under the practice dummy she was hitting with kunai. Neji comments that her fight would be interesting, showing that he thinks she is a good fighter. He is also shocked at her defeat, further proving that. In the first databook, Kishimoto confirms that Neji and Tenten trained every day for a month in preparation for Neji's chūnin match against Naruto. During this training, Neji reverse engineered and perfected the moves only reserved for the main branch of the Hyūga clan, mainly the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms and the Eight Trigrams Palms: Revolving Heaven. You should also note that while all the other contestants trained with jōnin, Neji chose to train with Tenten. "During one of their training sessions, birds are shown flying in the sky and Tenten tells him that she is exhausted and can't keep going. Neji responds that he thinks he used too much of his chakra and faints. Tenten is seen running to him and asks him if he's alright." Tenten wore a different outfit to watch Neji's match, and as I said, in the manga she also wore lipstick. After his fight with Kidomaru, Neji remembers seeing Lady Tsunade with Tenten. In the Shippuden, during Team Gai's fight with Kisame, Neji rushes to Tenten's side when she seems to struggle in the Water Prison.

In the image above, it shows the two finishing each other's sentences. They can communicate with little dialogue and know what the other is thinking with only one word. Tenten winks at Neji and invites him to go to the bathhouse with her, both in the anime and the manga. Later, after Neji's death, in the manga, she expresses anger, thinks about Neji and asks why he left her. In her memory, Neji doing the "nice guy pose," which has been performed in the past by Gai, Naruto and Lee. The pose signifies that one will keep their promise until death, as Lee states to Sakura during the beginning of the Sasuke retrieval arc after Naruto does the pose and promises to her that he will get Sasuke back. Neji doing this pose before Tenten implies that he promised her something that he intended to fulfill until his death. In the anime, Tenten holds her hands in a prayer and asks why he left her as she remembers Neji doing this "nice guy pose" to her, then she walks away crying and says that she's never going to forgive him. The implied promise that Neji made to her is not known, but it was significant enough for Neji, who tends to be stoic and serious, to use the cheerful and significant pose his "hot-blooded" sensei and teammate have used in the past. When caught in the Infinite Tsukuyomi, Tenten dreams of more mature versions of Lee and Gai as well as Neji being alive and by her side. She's the only person whose Tsukuyomi dream involves not only Neji being alive, but being with him.

They are shown constantly beside one another throughout the entire story, similar to the couples Asuma and Kurenai, and Shikamaru and Temari. While Neji is very formal and strict, he is shown to be comfortable around Tenten. He isn't shown to mind when she teases him or winks at him. He is also rarely portrayed as a character who apologizes to anyone, but he is shown apologizing to Tenten. In both the manga and anime, birds are present during the scenes where Neji and Tenten are shown alone together. In the manga, the only male character Tenten is shown alone with is Neji.

Other Trivia include:

Tenten's name and Neji's themes compliment each other. "Tenten" literally translates to "heaven heaven" in Chinese, while "Hyūga" translates to "place in heaven." In the new Chūnin Exams arc, Neji is shown holding two heaven scrolls with the characters 天天

Tenten's weapons shop in Boruto is named 忍具転転転, which directly translates to "Ninja Tools Turn Turn Turn." Furthermore, the characters "具転転" in the name translate to "revolving." Thus, the name of Tenten's weapons shop can be a reference to one of Neji's primary moves, Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven.

During the blank period, Tenten wears a uniform that includes a dress with a flame pattern similar to the flame in the Hyūga clan's emblem.

Neji and Tenten are depicted as compatible: the Databooks reveal that Neji is a Cancer and Tenten is a Pisces. In Western astrology, Cancer and Pisces are considered a compatible and harmonious pairing. The Databooks list Neji's blood type as O and Tenten's blood type as B. The blood type personality theory popular in Japan considers O and B blood types romantically compatible.

Neji, during his death, is portrayed as a Phoenix on fire. In the anime, Tenten utilizes the moves "Twin Rising Dragons" and "Exploding Dragon Strike." In Chinese folklore, the Phoenix and Dragon pair symbolize perfect harmony and balance between yin (Phoenix) and yang (Dragon).

Among the Konoha 11, Neji and Tenten were the only ones who were 18 years old during the Shinobi war, whereas Naruto and Hinata were 16 years old and the rest were 17.

Neji and Tenten share the same hairstyles as Hashirama Senju and his wife Mito Uzumaki.

[wispforever]

for the controversial naruto question ask game thing

11, 13, & 19 (or just pick one, you dont gotta answer all of them)

11. Is Itachi a martyr, a victim, or a perpetrator?

answered here :)

13. Was Kakashi trying his best? Was he a "good" sensei?

answered here :)

19. Pettiest fandom opinion you've blocked someone for?

I don't keep track of people who block me. In fact, I don't even know an easy way to do that. I have had a few people be weird about me drawing adult Sasuke and Naruto together and calling them cheaters jokingly. Also, I get oddly defensive tags about calling Fugaku a misogynist, which I don't really understand. Of the men to defend, why him? Makes me laugh a little. I guess there's no proof he's sexist, but there's certainly no proof he feels different about women than anyone else in the series. He sure doesn't know how to love his kids LOL

edit: realized I read this question wrong LOL answered it as if it was about people blocking me. I block TONS of people. Not really on my art account bc I do most of my scrolling on my other one. I block anyone who shows up on my dash that posts things I don't like, don't want to see, am not interested in. Doesn't have to be things that offend me. I think people forget you can just block anything that junks up your dash. It's like not subscribing to things you don't care about. Seems like some folks only block when something pisses them off, but it can be great to block as a way to curate your experience. It's my space, so I use the block to only see things that I want to see.

But to get to petty blocks LOL I block anti accounts in the naruto fandom cuz they piss me off, I block naruto blogs that focus on the popular hetero-ships (sasusaku, naruhina, etc.), and I block accounts that focus too much on characters I'm not interested in (obito, sasori, deidara, etc.). As for my pettiest block? More than once I've blocked an account for drawing kakashi with his mask off too often LMAO I'm so insane about it I get offended on HIS behalf. LIKE leave him ALONE let him cover UP he doesn't LIKE THAT XDDD references my own let him eat his sandwich gdi post

Thanks for the ask :)

[sneezemonster15]

I hate when Narusakus mock Naruhinas for being a "filler ship" because of all the Hinata fillers SP pushed but then turn around and use filler scens with Naruto and Sakura to prove Naruto always loved Sakura!! It's so hypocritical. One filler moment that comes to mind is when Naruto tells that one woman that Sakura is the girl he fell in love with and talked about her cute smile.

Haha yeah that one. But like, aren't all of those ships hypocritical? Nh stans take Naruto telling Hinata that she is strong in the war arc to be the proof that she is strong and he admires her but simply ignore all the other times, almost every time, when she falls down flat on her face or enters a battlefield without thinking or stumbles on a tinny rock or shows next to no level of skill or intellect. Or when NH proclaim Naruto to love Hinata because he breaks out into kyuubi after she is struck by Pein but simply ignore all the other extenuating circumstances that surround that moment? That Naruto was already in a very vulnerable state and he would have turned kyuubi for almost anyone else at that moment? And this is all canon.

Like sure, you are entitled to your gripe and I get it. But honestly, most shippers and all ships are like this. Even in SNS subsets, you would see SN stans announce Naruto and Sasuke symbolising moon and half moon using filler images from anime (with Ashura and Indra) when it's pretty clear for anyone to see that they are sun and moon. In canon. They are so ridiculous.

Anti SNS are very funny too. I mean these sillies would reblog my anti Sakura or anti Hinata posts with tags like - so real or well said OP, or great analysis OP, but when I talk SNS, all of a sudden, they start to doubt my analysis because it doesn't satisfy their takes. Similarly, Hinata stans reblog my anti Sakura content and Sakura stans reblog my anti Hinata content.

Seriously, this fandom is the definition of hypocrisy. Itachi stans, Sasuke stans, Naruto stans. What have you? Tobirama stans who also ship SNS would scream till their lungs gave out about how Hinata and Sakura stans are hypocritical about their favs but when it comes to Tobirama, they will gush about how he was portrayed as a good leader but ignore Kishi himself giving him derogatory names or his understanding of sharingan which is really stupid at best and evil at worst. Mentioning SS stans in this context would certainly be overkill. Lol.

Anon, except for a few handful of fans, most that I have seen have been hypocritical about something or the other. And they don't realize it. And would fight you about it too, which makes them look very sad.

I don't like some things about the manga myself. But I deliberately make it a point to stick to canon and not headcanon, reason and not wish fulfilment because I realize it's very easy to go down the slippery slope of seeing what one wants to see. It's insidious. People almost don't realize they are doing it. Some people have the honesty to acknowledge it when someone points it out to them. But Naruto fandom isn't really known for honesty or sincere introspection.🤷

[chattegeorgiana]

I admit I didn't really like SasuKarin back then but I decided to give it a chance after reading On Sasuke Uchiha and his bonds with Itachi Uchiha, Naruto Uzumaki, Karin Uzumaki and Sakura Haruno and your posts concerning them. I still don't ship them but my opinion has changed of it a lot and I actually think those two had a better chance at becoming a pair. But I think what raised my respect for it even more was their fan children. I have a soft spot for fan children so it's not really a surprise, but they are all so cute and beautiful! My personal favorites are Akari Uzumaki and the U-Twins! Speaking of the U-Twins, you and Pumiih did an awesome job on them! They look so cool and mysterious just like their parents and I love what they are meant to represent! They're hairstyles also remind me of Madara so that's funny to me lol. I also really like the idea of Sasuke growing his hair out into a ponytail to honor Itachi. The side shavings on his hair makes him even cooler in my opinion. I also noticed something. I don't know know how to properly explain it but I'll try. We see more male Uchiha clan members than female (despite there being some such as Naomi, Izumi, and Mikoto) and we see more female Uzumaki clan members than male (despite there being some such as Ashina, Nagato, and Naruto). It's almost as if those certain genders hold the more importance. So I think it's interesting that it's reversed with the U-Twins. Sorry if I didn't explain it well (couldn't really find the right words) but all in all, I'm excited to see what you'll do with them in the future, make sure you don't rush, take your time and rest, and again, awesome job! 💜❤️

Anon, I don't know who you are, but first of all THANK YOU for your kind and introspective message.

I want to say this is one of the messages that definitely won my heart because you SAW what I meant to do. You explained everything PERFECTLY! That's exactly what I wanted to do. A "gender roles swap" to show that change that is meant to bring in more ways than one.

Because while I do express these changes through my preferred ships, I never really forgot about the CORE elements of what made the Naruto story so beloved, and one of that is the clans & the shinobi system.

Their design have a thought about element from the very strand of hair to their overall design... I don't know if you know me for a long time or not, but one of the things I'm obsessed about is symbolism. So when I create something, there's a symbolic meaning behind almost everything!

When studying Literature, symbolism has been one of my favorite parts. I just love how one can transmit certain themes, ideas, beliefs etc in a symbolic way.

I feel as if this manages to stay with the reader/viewer better. It somehow enters your soul.

Being part of the Shinachiku Kosen team & doing Kaika myself, I can tell you that both Akari & the U twins have a great deal of symbolism behind them & were created with much love.

I know people don't taste SK that good, especially given how the great metas of the past about them has been lost. I only touched in that analysis you mentioned like a small, surface-level way.

If you would've been here in the past when Skania or Homusubi wrote their metas (both great known names in the SK fandom), you would've at least been able to understand where the SK fandom comes from. Or came. There aren't many left anyway.

You don't have to ship them, ofc.

I didn't particularily do it either in the beginning, but then when I saw the symbolism that was building up, Sasuke awakening such power to protect Karin and their similar backgrounds, I couldn't help but fall for the possibility of it. Plus, the comedic act of it. It was something different about them. But alas...

Once again thank you for your kind and introspective message! I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. And trust me, as a writer-wanna be, it lit my soul on fire to see someone properly getting the "underneath beneath the underneath" I was trying to show there. Gives me a lot of mood to keep pushing through this, even if I'm so late with how I planned for the project to go & all that. But hey, adulting will somehow do that with your plans lol. This year has been quite busy on a personal level for me. But now things start to look up, so I should be able to soon get back to it & bring about all this vision I had in my mind to life. So thank you once again for your message and your interest in Kaika! All the best,

Chatte.

[sessakag]

also, what about SasuHina in the poly? Sasuke and Hinata don't really interact so how does that work? Again, no shade or anything, I love your stories with Sasuke in them.

My bad, I completely forgot to add the part about Sasuke, lol.

I see that argument a lot and it really doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. We don't know what happens off screen with Sasuke and Hinata, and by Boruto, Hinata knew him enough to speak to him informally when he showed up looking for Naruto, not to mention, Karui and Choji weren't shown to interact either and look how that turned out. If people (not you in particular) don't like SasuHina, just say that, lol. This "they don't talk" makes no sense to me. It's not hard to imagine their paths crossed somewhere since they are both close to Naruto.

Anyway, poly situation.

This is mostly my own wish for Sasuke to have someone that will treat him sweet and kind as Hinata would for Naruto. I love Sasuke and I have unending compassion for the horror he went through and the self destructive behavior that caused him even more pain. What makes me think those two could have more than a "sharing Naruto" relationship is the fact that Hinata lived in a Clan that is similar to his, where excellence and high standards were the rule by which the Clan lived by. She would understand the pressures, and the strangle hold that has on Sasuke better than anyone. Not only that, they were both treated as "lacking" compared to their sibling. Sasuke lived in Itachi's shadow, wanting his father's approval and Hinata was the same with Hanabi, also wanting her father's approval. You cannot tell me that's not a deep bonding mechanism between them!

Hinata shares the same story with Naruto, about being a proud failure, but she also mirrors Sasuke's struggle of "not being good enough".

I don't ship this throuple just because they're sexy together, lol.

There's logic behind this madness.

I could also see Sasuke not being attracted to women in the same sense of bi-sexuality, rather it being unique to Hinata because of their similar backgrounds, her kind nature, and the fact that she wasn't a fangirl in their youth, lol. He can trust that her interest in him is pure and unfiltered and that would be something he'd respond to, as that is reminiscent of Naruto.

So yeah, poly cuz it's hot af with these three, and it makes sense.

Sasuke deserves to be loved on by two people that truly love him despite his flaws and past mistakes, or rather because of them. People that would and do understand why he went so far off the deep end in a way most don't get, in the show and in the fandom at large.

[akkivee]

ooooooh 13 okay i think that was around the time i was into naruto??? i was into the naruhina/sasusaku stuff but thru both hinata and sakura i discovered i really liked multishipping lmao and would draw hinata and sakura with the boy or girl i fancied for them for that day lol

[captnjacksparrow]

Hi, I love your blog and I read it every day... ❤️

I have a question, do you think that Sakura, Hinata or someone from the village knew or suspected the true feelings of Naruto and Sasuke?👀

That's right, in the manga, when Naruto is talking to Sakura about Sai, Naruto gets nervous or something like that, however the face that he puts in the manga is as if he was putting it to the test.

I don't know maybe I'm just hallucinating but I want to know your opinion. I'm sorry if you don't understand, my language is Spanish.

🍅🍅🍥🍥

Aahhh!!! Insanely interesting ask, Anon. I love this one!!!!

I think no one suspects their feelings between them but they know Naruto and Sasuke feels ‘something’ about each other to the point when something happens to one of them, the other would react in an intense manner. 

I mean, Kishi cannot put a scene , say Sakura, doubting their feelings for each other otherwise it would stir up a lot of trouble, that is, it would confirm something’s really going on between the two. (Which is not ‘typical’ of Shounen. Sigh!!!)

However, Kishi does things in his own way by making it as a joke or a casual thing. And I am going to include everyone from the Narutoverse, not just someone from Konoha.

PEOPLE WHO MILDLY ‘SHIPS’ NARUTO AND SASUKE IN NARUTOVERSE

Alright, people, Here ‘Ship’ means not in a romantical sense. But in a platonic or friendly sense.

HAKU

When I watched this series for the first time, I always wondered ‘What made Haku think that attacking Naruto would make Sasuke fall into the trap?’. 

Then I realized Sasuke was carrying Naruto around to protect him from Haku’s senbon attacks at any cost, which made Sasuke expose his weakness and Haku just fount it and used it against him. 

OROCHIMARU

Some other shippers claim ‘Forest of the Death’ Arc belonged to Ms.Pinky. But Orochimaru and Kabuto’s analysis proves it otherwise. But what did he found there?

Designing a lengthy password which Naruto cannot remember to lure Orochimaru out.

When Naruto came to save Sasuke, he panicked and asked Naruto to ‘Run Away’ and gave up the scroll.

Fought back Orochimaru after seeing Naruto got knocked out.

Kabuto found that Sasuke was overusing Sharingan even to the point of enduring Cursed Seal’s pain to protect Naruto.

KABUTO

“Hardly behaving as a man”... LOL. 

OROCHIMARU AGAIN

This whole battle is to provoke Naruto using Sasuke’s name. And when Orochimaru used the word, ‘My Sasuke-kun’... Naruto just got deranged to the point of sprouting 4 Tails. 

KAKASHI

Sasuke is Naruto’s strength. Kakashi said it. It’s canon, Guys.

KIBA

It’s surprising that Kiba also knows that Naruto gets Hot-Headed when it comes to Sasuke. 

KABUTO AGAIN

Gosh!!!! These Orochimaru and Kabuto duo maybe absolute trash. But they do know something about Naruto and Sasuke.

PAIN

LOL.... How did Nagato know about Naruto chasing Sasuke??? Is this some International news? 

ITACHI

I always wondered as to why Itachi posed this particular question to him? A question which forces Naruto to choose an option. An impossible option which Itachi chose and endured a lot of pain for. Naruto protecting the village is obvious. Why did he ask Naruto about Sasuke? What did he saw?

The answer is in part 1. When Itachi visited the village after Hiruzen’s death, he ‘planned’ to kidnap Naruto. When Sasuke came in between, Itachi just beat the crap out of him. 

But Naruto was so furious to draw Kyuubi Chakra to protect Sasuke. Itachi noticed this very well and hence came to this conclusion. That’s why Itachi didn’t pay any attention to Sasuke. LOL. Which made Sasuke go crazy.

KARIN

This doesn’t need any explanation, does it??? Probably Sasuke might’ve reacted to his name and Karin noticed it. Who knows? Anyways, it’s interesting that a person outside of Konoha could able to connect Sasuke with Naruto, meaning, Karin could able to see something’s going on between them.

KURAMA

ROFL..... There’s no one better in this world to ask Naruto, this particular question, other than Kurama.

KURAMA AGAIN

“What kind of flavour did that Sasuke’s lips have?”.... Gosh!!! This is such an useless scene. Most importantly, Naruto is getting Nose Bleed here. 

ITACHI AGAIN

No doubt, Itachi is the No.1 shipper of SNS. He knew Naruto can change Sasuke.

OBITO

Well, Obito was right about one thing... Naruto’s death can bring powers to Sasuke. But he was wrong about underestimating both of them, that is, they will fight on Obito’s accord. 

OROCHIMARU AGAIN

One of my favorite underrated SNS scene. There is no mention of Pink Trash or anyone else. Well, he lived with him for 3 years. He is the only person who can read Sasuke’s expression perfectly. 

TOBIRAMA

Gosh!!!!! This!!!!! This is just an alien level shipping. Tobirama, a person who rarely compliments, but when he does, it must be damn excellent. Like he was so happy to see Minato was so fast in performing Hiraishin no Jutsu, a jutsu he invented. He openly admitted his admiration 3 times. 

When he complimented the ‘Level of Unison’ achieved by two 16 year old boys, which takes YEARS to achieve is so heartwarming. Because, only we, the audience, knew that Naruto and Sasuke fought together for the last time way back when they were 12 in Land of Waves arc. Even then they could team up together without any direct communication. 

Damn!!!!

OROCHIMARU AGAIN

This is another underrated scene and Orochimaru scores for SNS. We saw Naruto was crying rivers when Obito sucked everyones’s chakra. Sasuke’s face seems to be in a bad mood. 

Orochimaru really is the Mood Finder of Sasuke.

PEOPLE OF KONOHA

Damn!!!! This is my all time favourite!!!!!! 

This is when Ebisu Sensei, fondly remembers how Naruto has grown from a Deadlast (in Episode 1) to an Hero (End of Pain Arc). During one of his memories, People of Konoha appreciates Naruto for stopping Gara from Invading Konoha and Bring Tsunade as Fifth Hokage. When it comes to retrieving Sasuke, this panel appears.

Even people of Konoha themselves knows that Naruto will be depressed if Sasuke is not there in Konoha with him. 

I mean, for every achievements Naruto made, the villagers praised him. When Jiraiya was dead, the villagers felt, ‘Naruto will not lose heart, He’ll keep on going, like always’. But when it comes to Sasuke, the villagers implicitly felt that Naruto will be depressed. 

Kishi is showing us that everyone in Narutoverse understands the feelings between Naruto and Sasuke, but he didn’t drew the extent as to how far it goes. He just left it ambiguous. 

But one thing is sure,

‘Everyone knows that they both are connected somehow and both of them have certain influence on each other which no other person has in Narutoverse and they know that one will suffer without the other.’

[sasukesun]

naruto for the ask game 😁

hiiiii ima! yes, thanks for this i love talking about the boys

favourite thing about them: i. just. love. him. but if you want me to be specific… how genuinely good he is, despite all the (valid and that shouldn’t be repressed btw) resentment and anger he has, how much love he has to give even though he grew up with none, how he never gives up, his optimism can be naive sometimes but it’s still inspiring to see, and i also love how fucking crazy he is

least favourite thing about them: how fucking dirty they did him at the ending and in b*ruto omg how you go from i want to change things, live and work with me sasuke and valid resentment towards people that wronged him to… that, fuck youuuuuuuu

favourite line: i think it’s cute when he says he is strong because he has people to protect but also “it’s just that when i hear you blabbering about carrying everything on your shoulders, i can kinda feel the pain too, it hurts inside so much, i can’t just leave it alone” wtffffff crying my eyes out, that’s romantic idc

brotp: best relationship is with iruka (if you don’t count sasuke) but i’m not sure that’s a brotp because iruka is his dad™… if not, i would say sai lol

otp: heh. narsas ♡

notp: same as sasuke, any ship that is not narsas because naruto is not interested… also the whole naruto x k12 guys is cringe, they aren’t in love with him, and honourable mentions to naruhina boring ass bad couple and narusaku (you’re a firmly believer in the inherent eroticism of being in love with someone else, which happens to be the same person)

random headcanon: he is into gardening and he uses the spices in his garden to cook ramen, which is the only thing he knows how to cook (i have a whole hc about him cooking actually if you or someone else want to see)

unpopular opinion: also tough to say because the unpopular depends on which part of the fandom you’re looking at

naruto shouldn’t have “put sasuke in his place” like the dudebros like to say. naruto never held anything against sasuke because he knew sasuke was hurting and he wanted to understand him and help him more than anything. he is sasuke’s equal

i think part of his development should’ve been him realising his dream about being hokage started because people couldn’t give him basic human decency and he just wanted respect (which he’d gotten later, even though it was hypocritical of people because he had to almost die for it). and i know he also wanted to be hokage because he wanted to protect everyone, but he should’ve put more thought into the whole hokage thing and not repeating itachi’s dumb words (itachi again spreading bad writing everywhere)

kage summit is a great arc for him, the dudebros hating on it because he had a panic attack just don’t understand nuance and love and naruto

naruto is not a shoujo protagonist. he’s very much masculine. typical masculine. the guys aren’t in love with him. they just used to see naruto as a loser until naruto proved them wrong, so they started to respect him. they don’t want to fuck him. this shouldn’t be unpopular but his female self inserters are something

his writing was done dirty at the end idc what his haters say, he is ooc as well as sasuke

he did not manipulate or “beat sasuke into submission” at the end jesus fucking christ do people know what talking is? how do people even read the last chapters and assume such a braindead idea i’ll never know

naruto is not emotionally inept, he fucking knows what love is, he has a lot of emotional intelligence actually, if he doesn’t show interest in someone (cof cof hinata), it’s because he’s. not. interested.

song i associate with them: hero’s come back by nobodyknows+ lol

favourite picture of them: also impossible. i’m particularly fond of caps where he looks like this -_- but it’s impossible. have naruto being right in compensation for it

[mixelation]

sorry if you’re not taking these anymore lol but can i ask sasuke for the ask meme? the tags of your answer for karin ensnared me and now i need to know what you think of other options for him

(meme fill in question)

send me a character and i'll tell you:

My NOTP for them: It//aSa//su. Censored because I don't want to be negative to fans of it if it shows up in a search, but also I would very much like to avoid it.

My BROTP for them: Tbh I like seeing him be friends with Sakura and Karin without the romance.

My OTP for them: It's not really an OTP because I don't actually ever seek out content for it, but the ship that makes most sense for sasuke imho is NaruSasu. If you're ever like "why aren't Naruto and Sasuke in this fic?" the answer is because they're off getting married or fucking each other

My second choice pairing for them: Uuuh you know what. AU where Sasuke's conversation with Deidara goes slightly differently and instead of getting into a fight to the death they agree to team up to kill Itachi. (They both, of course, assume THEY are going to get the final blow.) The vibes are sort of similar to SNS but more of a murdery road trip. Sasuke Has A Type

My fluffy pairing for them: SasuSuigetsu would be cute :<

My angsty pairing for them: uuuuhhh idk i don't have a lot of sasuke ships XD

My favorite poly ship for them: alright anon, here's the one you asked for. someone on,,, reddit, probably, was like "how would one get an ACCIDENTAL harem?" and the answer is Sasuke's fans unionize and then organize their own orgies.

Like, okay: I don't think of Sasuke as someone who really does romance or sexual attraction except to Naruto, but I could buy him occasionally enjoying sex as stress relief/bonding with the right person/people because it's fun and it feels good.

However I don't like his ""fangirls"" (mostly Sakura and Karin, also Ino) with-with him alone because.... idk, usually it just gets handled in a way where the girl is made more boring. BUT obviously InoSaku is very good, and I like SakuKarin too, and I don't like erasing their past feelings about Sasuke because that was part of their characters

So the compromise in my brain is: InoSakuKarin girlboss power threesome, but everyone once in a while one is like "man Sasuke looks so good today" and then they invite him over for dinner and sex. Sasuke usually agrees because he does like them?

It's more like them having a friend with benefits than anything but. Also. A lot of outsiders are like "Sasuke's harem he seems clueless he has????"

My weirdest pairing for them: i don't think sasudei SHOULD be considered a weird pairing but i guess it counts?

[maoam]

that person says sasuke and karin were fucking, that sasuke is fucking multiple women when he's away from the village, that suigetsu saying he didnt know sasuke was a pimp means he's a pimp, that he definitely can't be gay bc kishimoto would never write about gay men. they say that itachi had multiple lovers (like sexually) and doubles down with saying it's not a mistranslation when it clearly is. they complain about shipping and self inserting, but they seem like they want to fuck sasuke too. don't know why they try to sound so smart when they're deliberately being dishonest. on a sidenote, which characters do you think kishimoto actually wrote as lgbt?

Oh I know about all of this. The one about 13 year old Itachi being a fuckboy was just 💀 as if he had the personality or even the time for it while being a double-spy. And she's so triggered about even the slightest suggestion Sasuke isn't a straight stallion who fucks women like crazy. She thinks Kishimoto would never write about gay men because she thinks gay men are abnormals and that a respectable person like Kishi would never want to write about freaks. Being gay is a western invention and all lol

For the characters, aside from Naruto/Sasuke, Haku, Madara, Hashirama, Sai, Gaara. These ones are pretty obvious. And honestly probably characters like Deidara, Suigetsu, Juugo like they just have the vibe (none of them show interest in women but two of them are weirdly tsundere with Sasuke and Suigetsu's introduction was so homoerotic lol and for Juugo is just the fact he's fixated on a dead man). I'm possibly forgetting someone but I don't recall all male characters right now. I actually don't find Kakashi particularly gay, I think he's just repressed so he prefers to read bad porn. I also don't think Shikamaru is gay, most of Naruto's friends seem straight to me minus Sai and Gaara. If you want my opinion on some particular character you can ask for elaboration.

Unfortunately no women. While Kishimoto can write decent female characters one can like, he just isn't invested in women's lives enough.

[mitchie02]

Naruto for the ask thing. Also what other fandoms are u in?

my favorite female character: I will say Sakura, cause we talk about Naruto, otherwise, Sarada. I do have a hot temper, just like Sakura and I was bullied for being a "nerd" and not being sexy or whatever. I also loved to see her grow over the years.

my favorite male character: Sasuke. He is my favorite and my undying love for him made me actually finish the series last year.

my favorite book/season/etc: The original chunin exams arc is my favorite. We got to know the side characters a little better. Sakura got to shine, finally. Orochimaru was something ripped out of my darkest nightmares. We got the stress of the first round, which was mental. I wanted to love the Pain arc more as I was bawling when Minato came, but the ending ruined it for me.

my favorite episode (if its a tv show): It's hard. I enjoy quiet a lot of them. I will go with 373, cause it has the "I finally caught up to them" line that makes the Sakura haters lose their minds. Sasuke smirking is also a big plus. Also, the ending is phenomenal.

my favorite cast member: Sasuke's Japanese VA. That man is an artist. They way he dubbed Sasuke's mental breakdown during the Land of Iron arc was amazing.

my favorite ship: Sasusaku. I think they are my first ship ever. After about 15 years since I started shipping them, I still care hard enough to defend them from the parasites.

a character I’d die defending: No one, lol. I value my life more than I want to prove an idiot wrong. But I will go to great lengths for Sakura. She must be the most underappreciated character I have ever seen. And for a lot of stupid reasons too. But I will not pretend it's not rooted in misogyny a lot of the time, which is why I fight. Girls really do have to be strong to survive.

a character I just can’t sympathize with: I will not say the obvious and go with Itachi.

a character I grew to love: Kakashi. He did some questionable things I do not agree with, but I learned to look past it and like him.

my anti otp: I mean, besides the pedophilic ones(KakaSaku and the rest) and incestuous ones(ItaSasu), I will say SasuNaru. The sns fandom ruined it for me, I cannot enjoy their bromance at all, cause I know in 5 minutes, tops, the shippers will bisect every single interaction and make it seem like romance.