#madam shijimi

[narutocharacterpolls]

ROUND ONE

INUZUKA KIBA vs MADAM SHIJIMI

Reasons for submission under the cut

Kiba

raises puppy soldiers to use in war and get maimed, injured and killed in human disputes

animal abuse

hella dry

thought he could compete with Naruto

thinks he’s better/same amount of power as Naruto

wasted character

annoying

wanted to kill Sasuke

useless without his dog

Shijimi

is clearly abusing her cat

wastes Konoha taxpayer money

is a drag

[wranrihallon]

Naruto Sexuality + Gender Headcanons

Citizens and random remaining characters Part 3/5

Katazu is a gay cisman who goes by he/him pronouns

Kayo is a straight ciswoman who goes by she/her pronouns

Kiyoyasu Kagetsu is a gay cisman who goes by he/him pronouns

Kokuyo is a straight cisman who goes by he/him pronouns

Korega is a gay cisman who goes by he/him pronouns

Madam Shijimi is a straight ciswoman who goes by she/her pronouns

Mai Kagetsu is a straight ciswoman who goes by she/her pronouns

Makino is a gay cisman who goes by he/him pronouns

Menma is a gay cisman who goes by any pronouns

Sagiri is a straight cisman who goes by he/him pronouns

[kiljoius]

This is mostly for my own purposes, but in case anyone else wants to use this, I compiled just the birth years of every character from this wonderful list for easy picking out.

Year 0: Konohagakure is founded

Year 3: Akimichi Torifu

Year 5: Uchiha Setsuna

Year 5-6: Tsunade’s parent

Year 7: Shimura Danzo, Chiyo

Year 8: Sarutobi Hiruzen, Ebizo

Year 9: Utatane Koharu, Mitokado Hamura

Year 10: Sarutobi Biwako

Year 16: Mifune

Year 18: Uzumaki Ise

Year 19: Hatake Sakumo, Tazuna

Year 20: Yuhi Shinku, Umino Ikkaku, Umino Kohari

Year 23: Uzumaki Fuso

Year 26: Tsunade, Jiraiya, Orochimaru, Kato Dan

Year 27: Maito Dai

Year 30: Senju Nawaki

Year 32: Uchiha Fugaku

Year 34: Uchiha Hazuki

Year 35: Teuchi

Year 37: Hyūga Hiashi, Hyūga Hizashi, Uchiha Mikoto, Kitsuchi, Madam Shijimi

Year 38: Kazekage Rasa

Year 39: Aburame Shibi

Year 40: Akimichi Choza, Yamanaka Inoichi, Nara Shikaku, Yakushi Nono

Year 41: Namikaze Minato, Uzumaki Kushina

Year 42: Nara Yoshino, Inuzuka Tsume

Year 44: Killer Bee

Year 45-46: Namiashi Raido, Uzumaki Nagato, Konan, Yahiko, Sasori

Year 46: Yamashiro Aoba

Year 47: Shiranui Genma

Year 48: Hoshigaki Kisame, Ebisu

Year 49: Uchiha Obito, Nohara Rin, Sarutobi Asuma, Yuhi Kurenai, Shizune, Terumi Mei, Tsunami

Year 50: Maito Gai, Morino Ibiki

Year 51: Hatake Kakashi, Momochi Zabuza, Samui

Year 51-52: Hyūga Hoheto, Emi

Year 52: Mitarashi Anko, Hagane Kotetsu, Kamizuki Izumo, Yura

Year 54: Yamato/Tenzo, Umino Iruka, Gekko Hayate, Uchiha Shisui, Akado Yoroi, Tsurugi Misumi, Darui, Cee, Utakata

Year 55: Uzuki Yugao

Year 57: Yakushi Kabuto

Year 58: Hidan

Year 59: Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Izumi, Inuzuka Hana

Year 60: Ayame

Year 62: Temari, Deidara, Yuki Haku, Kaguya Kimimaro, Jūgo

Year 63: Kurotsuchi, Kankuro, Tsuchi Kin, Abumi Zaku, Kinuta Dosa

Year 64: Hyūga Neji, Rock Lee, Tenten, Sai, Karui

Year 64-65: Uchiha Sasuke, Haruno Sakura, Hyūga Hinata, Inuzuka Kiba, Aburame Shino, Yamanaka Ino, Akimichi Chōji, Nara Shikamaru, Uzumaki Karin, Hozuki Suigetsu, Omoi

Year 65: Uzumaki Naruto,

Year 66: Gaara

Year 69: Sarutobi Konohamaru, Kazamatsuri Moegi, Ise Udon

Year 70: Hyūga Hanabi, Inari

Year 81: Sarutobi Mirai

Year 85: Uzumaki Boruto, Uchiha Sarada, Yamanaka Inojin, Nara Shikadai, Akimichi Chocho, Metal Lee,

Year 87: Uzumaki Himawari

Timeline of Naruto Universe

For my own purposes, I want to sort out a timeline for how I’d like to believe the events unfolded, starting with the founding of the villages as Year 0. There are a lot of contradictory statements about how old people are, when the village would’ve existed, etc. One clear example: I have to disregard the statement that Hashirama became Hokage 67 years prior to Naruto’s events. Since he was Hokage at the time of Madara’s defection, it was actually 74 years prior to Part II at minimum that Hashirama became Hokage, based on the ages of Hashirama’s grandchildren. 

So a lot of this is going to be 1) pure conjecture and 2) selective reasoning. It’s also not going to pay much mind to birthdays aside from their year date, as that might make this overly complicated. It’s a fruitless endeavour, really, but I thought it’d be fun to try to make sense of it all. Below the dates I have character ages where it is useful or relevant, as well as notes on how it fits into the narrative/in respect to other established dates. I’m sure there are better and more precise ones that exist, but this one’s mostly just for me anyway.

So without further ado, here’s my timeline:

Year 0: Konohagakure is founded; village system established 

Characters: Hashirama and Madara approx. age 25

Notes: Konoha is founded in the years following Izuna’s death, who is approximately 24 when he dies. Madara and Hashirama both appear to be 1-2 years older than their siblings based on their appearances as children.

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[ace-shikamaru-quotes]

Sometimes I think about if Asuma ever has seen any of his team do something illegal. I think he had and was concerned but after awhile he just....stopped giving a fuck.

it’s ok the cat gave shikamaru permission to take them

[fuckyeahanimebirthdays]

Madam Shijimi (Naruto)  » December 24

[evilkitten3]

#but also add the medical Nin here too bc that’s still beating sexism

the mednin were excluded bc we wanted to see which women made it to official jounin rank without falling into the women-as-healers trope, so adding them would be somewhat counterproductive. (iirc this whole thing started bc of kurenai, which is why she's at the top of the list. the qualifications - must appear in naruto manga, must be confirmed jounin at some point in the generally understood naruto timeline, must not be a medical ninja, etc - were based on her, so women who otherwise might have been counted may have gotten disqualified from this specific list)

that said, in order to get to this point, we did round up as many naruto manga canon women as we could find, so here are the ones that didn't make the cut ("confirmed" is short for "last known confirmed rank"):

confirmed jounin mednin: senju tsunade, haruno sakura, shizune, mabui, sarutobi biwako

confirmed tokubetsu jounin (non-mednin): mitarashi anko, inuzuka tsume

confirmed chuunin (non-mednin): hyuuga hinata, karui, shiho, tenten, tessa, nara yoshino, suzume, sarutobi mirai

confirmed chuunin (mednin): yamanaka ino, nohara rin, inuzuka hana (she's only a mednin for animals but sadly that does still count)

confirmed genin (non-mednin): kin tsuchi, matsuri, sari, inaho, matsuri (the other one), uchiha sarada, akimichi chouchou

confirmed anbu (non-mednin; rank otherwise unknown): uzuki yuugao, gazeru

confirmed anbu (mednin): yakushi nonou, taji

confirmed kage (non-mednin, no other known rank): terumii mei

confirmed academy student: futaba, ami, fuki, hibari, kasumi, uzumaki himawari

no confirmed rank (non-mednin): uzumaki kushina, uzumaki mito, ootsutsuki kaguya, konan, utatane koharu, fuu, senju touka, white snake sage, tayuya, yurika, miru

no confirmed rank (mednin): hakui

no confirmed rank (not confirmed mednin or possibly even nin-nin but at least med-adjacent): uzumaki karin, otoha, kaori

civilians and presumed civilians: tsunami, uzumaki fusou, keiri, tamae, tami, ayame, agari, ageha, ibara, uchiha uruchi, emi, emiru, okyou, madam shijimi, susuki, sumire (not the bort one), nae, tamaki, tsubaki, nekobaa, momiji, yui

anyway, there you have it - the ladies of naruto. all not very many of them

shoutout to the twelve (12) naruto women who are confirmed to be jounin and are also not medical ninja! (thanks to @tora-the-cat for compiling the naruto women list with me)

yuuhi kurenai

temari

samui

pakura

ringo ameyuri

kurotsuchi

nii yugito

uchiha mikoto

umino kohari

maki

kazamatsuri moegi

hyuuga hanabi

you did it, ladies! you beat sexism!

[villagehiddeninbellies]

Hey shizuna the daimyo wife Madam Shijimi Say she would like to invite you to her home to talk and eat.

- I'm sorry, it's some kind of prank? It's no way daimyo wife invited me for dinner to her house. Food it's one thing - she often send food to Konoha's kunoichies, but invatation impossible. By the Fire's Will, i'm not even did'nt complete any mission in half-year!

[shinobisakura]

A Flowers and Shuriken.

PROMPTS CURTESY OF @shisakuweek FOR ShiSakuWeek2020 

Friday 21st August :

Soul mark AU

 Where you bare a soul mark that corresponds with your soulmate. You can only see your own soul mark, and it flashes when you’re going to meet them soon. 

Chapter 1 sets the scene. Chapter 2 is the real interaction. Might actual make a few more chapters to this, rework it and then post on AO3

 Chapter 1

Early mornings were not good for Sakura. Ever. Early mornings usually meant skipping breakfast, meeting up with Team 7, an all-out brawl with Team 7, Kakashi-sensei finally showing up several hours after he said to meet up and followed up with some incident that usually dragged her on shift at the Hospital.

Usually.

Toady was not a usual day. I was an incredibly unusual day.

“I’m sorry what?” Sakura spluttered staring at her master.

Sakura along with Yamato, Shikamaru and Hinata were all stood in the Hokage’s office for a last minute mission. None of them knew what it was about, and so far all they’d gotten out of the Hokage was that it was an urgent and immediate mission. So collect your shinobi packs and go. This was the type of mission urgency that only ANBU were sent on- with the exception of the Kazekage retrieval mission a few months ago.

“You four are going to the capital for a very important mission. Because its in the capital, I need the best I can get, and right now that’s you lot.”

“Its not Tora again is it? That mission is such a drag.”

Tora. That damned cat! If Tsunade was sending her on another Tora mission she’d just blow her top. Thirty times as a genin was enough thank you very much.

Tsunade however didn’t seem affected by the comment, and remained as stern as she had began the mission briefing.

“No it is not Tora.”

Silence. Clearly despite the urgency of the mission, Lady-Tsunade was trying to think of the best way to explain the mission without exposing anything critical. Hinata looked around for a moment and then chose to speak up.

“Ts-Tsunade-sama, you said you need the best, but, wouldn’t Na-naruto-kun or Saskue-san or Shino be more suited?”

“No this isn’t suited for them. Naruto and Saskue are likely to burn down the capital in a brawl, Shino is too quiet for this mission, and honestly from what I’ve heard, the Daimyo hates bugs. That would go down just as well as sending you with both of the team 7 idiots. I don’t want Kakashi reading porn in the palace and I really, really don’t want to hear that Genma slept with another Daimyo’s daughter or wife. I just about negotiated for his life in the last case.”

That… was sadly very true. Genma and Raidou had been sent to guard Shizune whilst her fellow medic-nin healed Madam Shijimi. Apparently Genma had caught the eye of the Madam and Daimyo’s daughter, who instantly wanted to add a shinobi shaped notch in her bedpost. That had gone so well for him that it had taken the elders, Lady Tsunade and an offer of engagement for his daughter from the Water Daimyo (curtesy of Naruto begging Kiri’s jinchuriki to help arrange it) for the Fire Daimyo to forget he ever wanted Genma’s head on a pike.

Either way, from Tsunade’s explanation she wasn’t necessarily after the best shinobi but rather the most capable of them. At least the most discreet. Shikamaru seemed to see it that way too.

���So not exactly the best, just the least likely to cause trouble. Damn what a drag.”

“I need you four to meet up with the Daimyo’s guard and pass on this scroll to the guard head. You will return accompanied by said head guard, with the exception of you Yamato, who will be taking over the head guards position until otherwise relieved.”

“Why us? This is going to be such a pain.” Shikamaru compained for the third time that morning.

“Because the four of you are the most qualified for this job. The three of you are all chunin or higher.” Tsunade rubbed the bridge of her nose. “In addition to this, Sakura you have your own mission.”

“Me?”

“Yes. It’s this particular mission that is why you will accompany this team. Once there you will be team leader, as your mission takes over.”

“What? But surely the Head-guard would take over being the more experienced jonin?”

“No. This is your personal mission scroll Sakura. It is only for your eyes and you are not to open it until you reach the guard. Once you’ve read it, you will understand why it is that the team will be under your command. Is that Understood?”

“Understood.” Sakura nodded and then hesitated, her sudden departure from the village might cause more problems than Tsunade would expect.. “Tsunade-hime, will you inform Team-7?”

“I’ll make sure Naruto and Saskue know and don’t burn down the village looking for you.” Tsunade nodded. “Go home, collect your essential and then depart from the sothern gates once you’re all there.”

The team stood to attention and then with that the team departed.

 Within only twenty minutes, the newly formed Captial-Team had geared up, departed the village and were well on their way to the heart of the Fire Country.

“Who is the Daimyo’s head guard anyway?” Shikamaru asked.

“I thought you’d already know?” Yamato blinked back in surprise.

“I know he’s Konoha shinobi, but I didn’t bother to know exactly who. The Daimyo goes through them that quickly.”

That was certainly true. When Sakura had been in the academy it was a well known fact that the Daimyo was sending back the Head-guard every few months. None meeting his personal standard, and some not wanting to deal with the Daimyo’s family any longer.

“It’s Shisui Uchiha. Shisui-san has been the Daimyo’s head-guard the last three years.”

Uchiha? Sakura thought. Saskue had mentioned he had a cousin on a long term mission with the Daimyo, but she hadn’t realised it was Itachi’s Shisui.

“Jeeze, that long? What a drag. What’d he do, beg the Hokage to give him relief or something?”

“I don’t know.” Yamato shrugged.

“It’s- it’s probably because Shisui is the most qualified genjustsu shinobi, aside from Itachi-san. There might be a new mission he’s needed for.”

Sakura snorts at that.

“That’s what Sasuke will have you think. I have it from good authority that Shisui is better than Itachi.”

“And who’s that?” Shikarmau scoffed.

“Itachi himself.” She snorted.

That was true. Itachi had once told her over dango that he and his cousin often spared, but Shisui was always one step ahead. Apparently Itachi said that even Shisui’s sharingan was stronger than his, which was a feat in itself as usually it was only main branch Uchiha who’s sharringan had that much potential.

Hinata giggled at that and Shikamaru groans.

“I do believe that is a good authority.” Hinata quipped.

The team lulled into a silence for a couple more miles before Shikamaru spoke up again.

“So Ino said your soulmark’s been flashing.”

Ah Sakura thought. Yes that was true. The last couple of days the soulmark on the inner of her elbow had began to flash bright every so often. She’d only noticed it the morning two days past, having taken of her guards to realise the mark was flashing. She couldn’t tell if she was excited, happy or terrified at the prospect of meeting her soulmate. The mark itself already telling her she’d have feeling for whoever it was.

“Yeah. So?”

“Well doesn’t that usually mean that your about to meet your soulmate?”

“I don’t know Shikamaru, did that happen when you and Temari met?”

“Ugh. You and Ino are going to kill me with your questions. But if you must know yes. What about you Hinata? Did your soulmark flash when you met Naruto?”

“N-no. I believe that the Soulmark only flashes if you and your soulmate are going to have a romantic meeting.”

“But it has flashed for you and Naruto?” Sakura raised her eyebrows.

“Y-yes. Naruto’s soulmark flashed just before he asked me to dinner in Suna.”

That was surprising, seeing as Hinata had been making moon-eyes at Naruto since pre-academy. But then again, Naruto had had a crush on her until two years ago when Sakura explained soul marks to him. Apparently no one had bothered to teach Naruto in the orphanage and since Saskue had met his own soulmate- and it was Uzumaki to everyone’s amusement, Naruto had been confused as to why Saskue was interested in talking to this brash girl since he hadn’t even bothered looking at Sakura.

It had been funny to see Naruto realise that the mark on his hand which no one else had seemed to ever notice, was in fact his own soul mark- A Lion. Then barely a week after it had began flashing and he was Hinata using her new Gentle Step style. Since then the two had began dating and Hinata had blossomed in confidence whilst Naruto developed a new self-awareness (at least where Hinata was concerned). Sakura had thought the reason Naruto’s mark only flashed then was because he hadn’t known that it was his soulmark, but apparently Hinata knew otherwise.

 “What about you Captain Yamato? Did your soulmark flash when you met your soulmate?” Sakura looked at her team captain. Said Captain turned bright red and nearly missed ducking a branch.

“What makes you think I have a soulmark?”

“The fact you just turned bright red?” Sakura pointed out. “So who is it?”

“None of your business!”

“Oh come on. Hayate and Yugao are soulmates. Naruto and Hinata, Shika and Temari. We deserve to know!”

“Asuma and Kurenai. Hanabi and that Konohamaru kid.” Shikimaru added with a nod.

“Even Kakashi has a soulmate.” Sakura shot in too, and Shikamaru glanced over to her in surprise.

“Really? Who? Not Gai right?”

Sakura snorted but before she could reply Yamato yelled back at them.

“OF COURSE KAKASHI SEMPAI’S SOULMATE ISN’T  GAI!”

“…Is it you.” Shikamaru asked a sly grin on his face before he dodged a kunai thrown at his face.

“I guess so. Wouldn’t have seen that coming.” Sakura grinned at the other two before they continued on, joking as they went.

 It didn’t take them too long, and they arrived at the capital in less than a day, and after an hour of paperwork and approval, they found themselves in a cheap hotel on the outskirts of the city.

“Tch. The Daimyo certainly knows how to treat his shinobi.” Shikamaru groaned.

“I thought you’d be pleased, you get to sleep in a bed before we go speak to the Daimyo and his guard.” Sakura quipped back.

The group unpacked their gear slowly making use of their down time before the following day.

 “So. What’s your soulmark?” Shikamaru asked raising his brows.

“Shikamaru-san! You can’t asked that.”

“Why not? Might help us narrow it down. There’s a good chance she’ll beet whoever it is in the city, seeing as it only recently started to flash.”

That was true. Soulmarks always corresponded with Soulmates in one form or the other. It just took a little longer for some people to work out.

“Good point. Only fair you tell me yours first.”

“Meh, mine is a fan. You know, cause Temari uses them or something.”

Hinata giggled at that before adding her own.

“M-mine is a kitsune-festival mask.”

Sakura laughed.

“Oh, those are definitely big hints. Although if you didn’t know Naruto it might take a little longer.” Sakura shook her head. Those were easy to recognise.

“So what is yours.” Shikimaru asked, breaking Sakura’s thoughts.

“It’s… It’s weird. It’s like some strange curved Shuriken or something.”

“A shuriken?”

“Kind of? It’s just weird. I thought maybe I’d run into a shinobi who used a custom shuriken or something? Maybe a pinwheel? But I don’t know anyone outside of wind country who are related to pinwheels.”

“Weird.” Shikamaru agreed. “Usually a Soulmark is connected to something unique about the person not their weapons.”

“You literally just said your soulmark for Temari is a fan.”

“Because her jutsu is unique and connected to fans. There have only been three shinobi in Suna history to use fans to slice air.”

“Fair enough.” Sakura slumped down. Her mark would be difficult to work out.

“Look lets sleep on it. Maybe in the morning you’ll know more.” Hinata added and they nodded in agreement. Sleep sounded wonderous. 

Chapter 2

“YOU WANT TO WHAT?!” 

Apparently the Hokage had not sent word to the Daimyo about the change in his guard. Said guard was stood, face entirely blank, beside the screaming noble. So far the scroll handed to him had only upset the Daimyo into something of a tantrum. In fact, Naruto’s own tantrums when told he couldn’t have ramen seemed like an elders council speech compared to the display before the team.

“We are here to exchange Captain Yamato here, for your current head guard Shisui Uchiha. Whilst we understand the lack of notice -something urgent has come up that only Shisui can help deal with. Yamato here is more than qualified to guard yourself and your family Lord Daimyo. In fact he is the only Shinobi aside from the First Hokage to have the Mokuton. Lady Tsunade selected him personally to ensure your safety.”

If there was one thing Sakura had learned from her master, it was the art of kissing up to nobles to get the outcome you want. Well that and how to hold ones liqueur. But only one of those skills was useful right now, and if anything Sakura would kill for a drink to help deal with this.

“Why?” 

“Because your safety is paramount to the peace of the Land of Fire, my lord.”

“No. Why do you need Uchiha?”

“I’m afraid that’s above our clearance to know. As the Hokage’s apprentice she thought that my presence might help reassure you the urgency of this mission as well as our knowledge of how important you are to the Land.”

A little lie didn’t hurt either. 

“Yes, yes. I did find it odd for Tsunade to send two clan heirs and her own apprentice.” His face seemed stunned for a moment before he masked it with a sagely imitation of wisdom.

Clearly, only now had the Daimyo realised who Sakura was, probably having thought she was simply a pretty face added to placate him. Technically that was probably also part of Tsunade’s planning, but Sakura didn’t need to let him know that.

After a little more back and forth, Shikamaru adding that technically Shisui was due to leave from the guard anyway, the Daimyo finally agreed. With that they regrettably left Yamato in place of Shisui and the group left. Not having shared a word with each other until they were long out of the capital.

The group stopped after an hour of running and opted to set up camp.

“Holy shit.” Shikmaru finally burst. 

“Y-you sounded very convincing S-sakura-chan.” 

Sakura, to her credit, simply shrugged as the other collapsed in giggles.

“I had to train with Homura and Koharu in the art of politics. The Daimyo is nothing compared to those old bats and the clan elders.” 

Shisui laughed at that. It was warm and reminded Sakura a bit of Naruto.

“Right, before anything else. My name is Shikamaru Nara, this is Hinata Hyuuga, and the political negociator over there is the Hokage’s apprentice.”

“The name’s Sakura.” She grinned. “Very sorry for the unexpected legal kidnapping.”

“I honestly didn’t expect it. So tell me, why have you retrieved me?” 

Sakura opened her mouth before closed it. She didn’t actually know, she hadn’t even read her scroll yet, so right now it could be anything. Technically the brief had been to swap Yamato for Shisui and have him accompany them in whatever the new mission was.

“Gimmie a second.” She finally said, pulling out her own mission scroll. It was written formally like any other mission scroll, but there was an obscurity about it that made Sakura scowl.

Sakura, apprentice of Hokage Tsunade. Your mission is to heal the damage done to Shisui Uchiha’s eyes through use of the Sharingan with the assistance of Hinata Hyuuga and Shikimaru Nara. Here is the knowledge compiled on the degenerative abilities of the Sharingan, and what little knowledge we have on preventing it. 

Please report back to the village once you are confident in having gathered all the necessary things.

Dispose of this once read 

Signed. 

Homura Mitokado

Koharu Utatane

Hokage Tsunade Senju. 

That- That was impossible. Tsunade herself had explained to Fugaku that the sharingan’s damage was irreversible. 

“Are they- THEY CAN’T BE SERIOUS!” Sakura yelled, ripping up the scroll.

“What? What?!” Shikamaru, for once in his life, looked worried. 

“Those- those idiots are expecting a miracle.”

“What?”

“Tell me Uchiha-san, how long have you been going blind?”

The following exchange went from Shisui initially denying it to finally Sakura giving him a lecture that he was acting like Saskue did when he was being stupid about a critical injury on a mission. Shikamaru and Hinata decided to make themselves scarce during this exchange, which Sakura thought was probably from learnt experience with her and her squad. After a bit more back and forth Shisui pouted and sat down as ordered, allowed Sakura to cast a diagnostic jutsu after explaining she was a medic-nin. 

“So you know Saskue?”

“I’m on his dumbass original genin squad. Sakura Haruano. I’m pretty sure Itachi probably mentioned me at some point.”

“You’re Sakura?” 

“What were you expecting. Some burly woodcutter type?”

“I was expecting someone a bit... Younger?”

“ARE YOU SAYING I’M OLD!”

“No! No! I just keep imagining Saskue and his team as 12 year old genin. It’s hard to picture him as anything but.”

“Well him and Naruto technically still are genin. Saskue ended up injured the past two chunin exams. Different incidents of course. And Naruto went on a round trip with the Pervert himself.” 

“Pervert... You mean Jiraiya?” Shisui seemed stunned at the name.

“Yes. Could you activate you Shaingan for me?” 

He obliged. 

“Okay. Now seeing as its just us. Can you show me your other form of sharingan.” 

“You know about the Mangekyo.

“Itachi mentioned it on one of his physicals. Said it was draining.”

Shisui nodded, and then activated it. 

Sakura froze completely and almost immediately Shisui deactivated it.

“I'm sorry! You asked me to activate it!”

“You- you - you-” Sakura couldn’t get the words out. 

How. How the hell was her soulmark in his eyes. 

Of course she knew the answer. He was her soulmate.

“I ams sorry. I know that it’s a bit intimidating, but you didn’t seem-”

“Shut up a second!” Sakura finally cut him off. “What’s your soulmark?”

“What?! What does that have to- It’s a flower. Actually, hang on!”

He pulls out a pressed flower from his jacket. It was a purple bell shaped flower, and instantly Sakura recognised it.

“That’s Aconite.” Sakura blinked at the flower.

“Yeah?”

“It’s poisonous.”

What kind of dumbass walked around with a press of a posioness flower in his jacket. Sakura herself didn’t do that. That was beyond stupid and dangerous. Sure she used it all the time, but she was a medic nin she could handle and accidental poisoning. Unless of course Shisui was a poison expert and was using it in some sort of concoction. 

“It is?”

No. Apparently he was a dumbass like Naruto.

“Yeah. It is. Why do you carry it around in your jacket? Are you trying to kill yourself?”

“Huh? I just carry it in case I run into my soulmate, then I could pull it out and present it to her.”

Oh, never mind kill himself, he wanted to accidentally kill his soul mate too! If she hadn’t known better, he’d have killed her.

“I use it in my antidotes and- Well its my favourite flower.”

“Your favourite flower is poisonous?”

Sakura snorted. “Ino- my best friend- compared me to an Aconite bud when we become friends. It stuck with me I guess.”

Shisui’s face seems to fill with realisation.

“So... This flower has a special connection to you?”

“Yes, and clearly the curved shuriken is connected to you, seeing as its in your eyes.”

“Wait! Are you trying to say-?”Apparently she had to spell it out for him.

 “That that weird dumbass shuriken soul mark I’ve been branded with is actually your mangekyo? Yeah.” 

“Huh.”

Sakura snorted once more. 

“I guess I’ve got a real reason to be motivated to find your cure now.”

[pearlescentpearl]

About Tora the immortal demon cat: Tora is so offended! There is a bright, orange, loud human that reminds her of the flowery buffon that always stole her favorite humans attention away! What the hell! This is not ok! She will not tolerate him! Team 7 NEVER get‘s the Tora mission ever again after that first time. Everybody is mentally and physically scared. But if they thought Tora will give up after this, they are sorely mistaken. She has a grudge and she will settle it.

Yet another of Tobirama’s demonic creations haunts Konoha from beyond his grave. They thought freedom was at hand when Madame Shijimi adopted it but no, the Reign of Tora’s Terror is Forever.

[narutocharacterpolls]

ROUND TWO

MADAME SHIJIMI vs ABURAME YOJI

Reasons for submission under the cut

Shijimi

is clearly abusing her cat

wastes Konoha taxpayer money

is a drag

Yoji

stain on the illustrious and unproblematic Aburame clan

killed Shisui

told Itachi Danzou was correct and he should follow his orders

tried to kill Itachi.

probably would have done the Uchiha massacre if Danzou had asked him to

has extremely cool overpowered bugs and probably could have killed Danzou if he wanted but instead chose to support Danzou with his whole pussy

dog of the state

dies badly

basically diet-Danzou but cursed with Aburame disease of being forgotten/unknown

[nashifics-blog]

Our First Real Mission! On To The Land of Wind!

This chapter is the start of an original story arc, which will continue up until the beginning of the Chunin Exams

Teams Seven and Nine stood in front of the Hokage, waiting to be assigned their next missions. They had just finished catching Tora the cat for Madam Shijimi. Again.

“Ooohh! My poor little Tora, Mommy was so worried about her naughty little fuzzykins, yeeees~!” Nanashi winced as the woman forcefully cuddled the poor thing.

Naruto laughed loudly, “Stupid cat! That kitty deserves to be squashed!”

“No wonder he ran away…” Sakura muttered.

They all turned their attention to the Hokage as he began to speak, “Now then. For Squads Seven and Nine’s next missions we have several available tasks. Ah… Among them, babysitting the Chief Counselor's three year old, helping his wife to do the shopping, digging up potatoes, and---”

“Nooooooo!” Naruto cut him off, “I wanna go on a real mission!”

Nanashi immediately jumped in next to him, “Yeah! I do too!” The two Sensei shared a tired look, but didn’t say anything.

“Something challenging and exciting, not this little kid stuff! C’mon, old man!”

Iruka stood up, slamming his hands on the table, “How dare you?! You’re just a brand new Genin with no experience! Like everyone else you start with simple missions to develop skills and prove yourself!”

Naruto puffed up angrily, “Are you serious?! Babysitting is not a mission, it’s just a stupid---” He was cut off by Kakashi punching him on top of the head, knocking him to the floor.

“Will you put a lid on it?”

The Hokage finally spoke up again, “Naruto!” Naruto started whining, rubbing his head, “It seems you do not understand the tasks you have been given!” That caught the boy’s attention, “Listen. Many different requests come into our village every day, from babysitting to assassinations.” He continued to explain, but soon the boy lost interest, turning to talk to the others.

“--So I had this tonkatsu ramen yesterday, and I’m thinking miso ramen today--”

“Silence!”

They all turned their attention to the Hokage. “Oh. Sorry,” Kakashi said simply.

Naruto started yelling again, “You always lecture me like you’re my grandfather or something! But I’m not the little brat who used to pull pranks all the time! I’m a ninja now, and I want a ninja mission!” He spun around, still seated on the floor, “Hmph!”

Reiko raised her hand, “Lord Third, I gotta say, I agree! We want something more challenging!” Emiko just nodded in agreement.

Kakashi shared another look with Koukatsu, rubbing the back of his head, “We’re going to hear about this later…” The other man sighed, shaking his head in despair at the kids.

The Hokage began to laugh, “Naruto wants us to know that he’s not a brat. He’s a former brat.” Nanashi nodded once in agreement, “ And he wants a mission. So be it.” The Genin all perked up in surprise as he continued, “Since you are so determined, I’m going to give you C-Ranked missions. Squad Seven, you will be bodyguards on a journey.”

Naruto whipped back around, “Really?! Yes! Who?! Who?! Are we guarding a princess?! Or some bigwig counselor?”

“Don’t be so impatient. I will bring him in now.” He turned his attention to the door, “Send in our visitor!”

The door slid open and an old man walked in, “What the..? A bunch of little snot-nosed kids?!” He paused to guzzle down the bottle of alcohol in his hand, “And you, the little one with the idiotic look on your face! You really expect me to believe that you’re a Ninja?”

Naruto laughed, looking around, “Who’s the little one with the idiotic look on his fa--” He stopped laughing as Sasuke and Sakura stepped closer, measuring their height, “Huh..?”

“That’d be you, buddy,” Nanashi chimed, trying to hold back her laughter. Reiko wasn’t even bothering trying to hide her own.

Kakashi quickly grabbed the blond by the collar of his jacket as he tried to attack the man, “I’ll demolish you! Let me get---”

“You can’t demolish the client, Naruto, it doesn’t work that way.”

Once Team Seven had left on their mission to the Land of Waves, Team Nine directed their attention back to the Hokage. He cleared his throat before addressing them, “I had already intended to send someone to the Land of Wind to speak to Lord Kazekage about the arrangements for his ninja to participate in the upcoming Chunin Exams. Therefore, I want the four of you to go to the Village Hidden in the Sand.”

Koukatsu took a step forward, “Understood. His children are competing, aren’t they? They’ll need a place to stay while they’re here.”

The Hokage nodded in agreement, “That is something you can arrange with them while you are there.”

Nanashi started bouncing excitedly next to her father, “A real mission! I can’t wait!” She bounded toward the door, Reiko and Emiko following right behind her, “We can leave right away!”

Koukatsu hurried after them, “Wait a second, hold on, we have to get packed first.” Nanashi just waved her hand in dismissal, “You really expect to survive out in the desert without any supplies? You don’t even have anything to eat on the way, you know!”

Nanashi froze mid-step, “N-No food?”

“Not a crumb.”

“W-Well, then, I think we should start packing right away…” Koukatsu hummed in amusement, “and then we can get on the road!”

“Thaaaat’s more like it, Kid.”

As soon as they had finished packing, Team Nine was on the way to the Village Hidden in the Sand. Three days later, they were trekking their way through the desert. After several hours of walking in the blazing heat, Nanashi gave up. “Daddyyyy, carry meeee!”

“Nanashi, you’re a ninja now. You have to be able to make these trips yourself.” Koukatsu sighed, pushing some hair out of his face, “Besides. If no one can carry me, everyone has to walk.”

“Dad?”

“...Yes, Nanashi?”

“How much longer?”

He paused for a moment to shift Nanashi into a better hold on his back, “Shouldn’t be too far now.”

“Are we almost there, Sensei?”

“Yeah, just a bit more.” He had to stop again before he lost grip, one twin settled on his back and the other being carried Koala-style.

“We made it!” Nanashi panted heavily, holding Koukatsu up under his arms. Each twin was supporting one leg.

As they got to the entrance of the village, Nanashi unceremoniously dropped her father in the sand, the other two following suit. Koukatsu groaned in pain, sitting up slowly. “We should find where we’re staying before we go to the Kazekage and get cleaned up…”

[fandomsunshine]

Nart Watch S1 E6

- A Dangerous Mission! Journey to the Land of the Waves! Alright so they’ve been doing boring baby missions so far. Now they’re finaly getting their first serious mission. Escorting a guy to a bridge so he can fix it. But then it turns out more dangerous than it’s meant to. AKA the episode where Naruto as a series starts to get kinda serious

- Oh yeah they have walkie-talkies and everything. Microphones. They have TVs don’t they? And phones. I can’t recall any cell phones. 

- The wife of the land of fire’s daimyo/feudal lord Madame Shijimi and Tora the cat. So I guess the land has a feudal lord? More research needed

- Okay so according to the wiki, daimyo are in charge of the political doings of their hidden villages. They handle the budget and ultimately select the kage of their nation. If the hokage dies, the position temporarily goes to the daimyo. They send shinobi out but rarely dirty their own hands. 

- There are council members to, and a chief council. They even get a mission to baby sit the chief councilor’s kid. So these aren’t ninja, yeah? They’re civilians? Or does it not matter?

- Naruto is sick and tired of getting baby missions. So is Sasuke! I think Sakura sees it as proper training. Kakashi figured they were going to get like this soon. Iruka says everyone needs to gain experience from simple missions. 

- Missions range from babysitting to assassinations. They’re ranked D, C, B, and A, with D as the easiest and A as the toughest or most important. There are jounin, chunin, and genin beneath the hokage. Jounin get A, Chuunin get B and C, Genin get D and C. They go up in price depending on the ranking. The money from the client comes in, and the team gets a share from it. 

- Naruto says he’s matured, but he grumps and pouts on the floor like a kid

- “The smallest one with the idiot face” “Haha who’s the small one!” they all line up to show that yeah naruto is the shortest here.

- Tazuna, a bridge builder! A grumpy old man and a drunk

- This is Naruto’s first time outside the gate! Well that makes sense. 

- It’s cute that Kakashi keeps holding Naruto back by the collar or backpack 

- No ninja in the land of the waves. But there are ninja in other villages. The number and ability of shinobi shows off a country’s strength.  It’s how nations maintain relationships with neighboring nations. But the villages aren’t in control of them, they’re equal in rank. There’s no need for shinobi in the land of waves, an island region that’s hard to reach. 

- There’s fire, water, lightning, wind, and earth nations. The Five Great Nations. Konoha is in the fire nation, hidden mist village is in land of water, cloud village in lightning, sand in winds, and rocks in earth. Only these great nations have a kage. They reign over thousands of ninja in their nation. 

- Yeee Kakashi patting Sakura on the head. Super cute

- Sasuke notices that Tazuna is nervous. He always was most perceptive 

- Some foes appear! They apparently tear Kakashi apart. But of course they don’t. They target Naruto, and Saske takes them ot with shuriken and kunai to stop their chains. Kicks their butt easily. Even Naruto has to call him cool. Sakura stands with a kuunai and Sasuke has to block her. 

- Sasuke do your arms hurt from carrying this team? 

- Of course Kakashi is fine and takes them down. Sakura and Naruto are really happy at least. Sasuke is not surprised and calls him a show off. 

- How did Sakura do well? I guess she did stand her ground. Saske wasn’t scared at all of his first real battle. I mean he’s a bit of a death seeker so

- “Were you hurt, bibi-kun?” fuhahaha

- This is a B rank mission, not C! Whoda thunk. Which would have been expensive

- Naruto still stabs his hand to remove the poison like a hard bitch, A+ 

- It’s cute how hard he really is trying. He works out all the time and reads scrolls constantly and meditates. He does not want to be a loser, or lose to Sasuke especially! He’s not a cowardous person. Everyone’s at least a little impressed. And of course his hand is already healing, just like a jinchuuriki. 

- Chunin ninja from the mist village. Do we ever get their names? 

- We get a brief glimpse of Zabuza Momochi, demon of the hidden mist

[2dcharacterbirthday]

Name: Madam Shijimi From: Naruto Date of Birth: 24 December Gender: Female More info: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Madam_Shijimi

[villagehiddeninbellies]

Hey shizuna the daimyo wife Madam Shijimi said she like your hard work and she send you a absolutely large feast it was enough to feed 15 people !

- D-Domo Arigato, Shijimi-dono... - a little nerve say Shizune. - ...15 people. I'm need help. Sakura-san, can you come up? I'm hope her stomach empty...

[anime-birthdays-365]

Happy birthday Madam Shijimi! (Naruto) December 24

[narutocharacterpolls]

Propaganda:

Please vote for Madam Shijimi! Her evil nature is hardly ever mentioned; plenty of people have pointed out Aburame Yoji. And please remember that she is absolutely a terrible character for abusing her cat (Tora), forcing twelve-year-olds to return Tora to her horrible ‘owner’, and using up the taxes of people risking their lives to make a living in order to spoil herself instead of spending it to better the lives of people in Land of Fire.

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