#minatobi

[elenyafinwe]

If you love something put a ring on it.

"Every day with you, it's like I'm a boy newly in love. Sometimes I think I must be living a dream if I'm so outrageously lucky to have you by my side." Minato paused. He looked up at Tobirama. An embarrassed blush crept onto his cheeks that Tobirama hadn't seen there in a long time. "And that's why, ahem ... Well, I ... Ah, I wanted to..."

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Fandom: Naruto (Anime & Manga) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Namikaze Minato/Senju Tobirama Characters: Senju Tobirama, Namikaze Minato Additional Tags: Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Established Relationship, Old Men In Love, Kinda, tobi is still aroace, Aromantic, Hokage Namikaze Minato, Romance, Marriage Proposal, nothing bad happens, Fluff Series: Part 26 of TobiMina timetravel AU

[koroart]

Tobirama and Minato knowing about meme culture because knowing these two, they like to stay informed.

And they use it for evil of course. What better way to spend retirement and a happy marriage than by torturing your son/grandson ( Himawari finds them hilarious and because she's an angel )

Boruto: I can't figure out this jutsu! It's too hard!!

Tobirama: Skill issue bro

Boruto: *SCREAMING*

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Naruto: I managed to get these trade routes approved with the Mizukage!

Minato: OH! That's so pog son!

Naruto: You should have just let me die with mom.

[niidaimes]

Speed husbands obtained ✌🌟

[anannua]

A kiss in red

[raendown]

A commission for @chinchilasarereallysoft! I had fun writing this!

Pairing: TobiramaMinato Word count: 1399 Rated: G Summary: They say you should never meet your heroes - but when has Minato ever listened to good sense?

The story takes place in a canon era soulmate au where looking in to bubbles will give you a glimpse of your soulmate's life; their precious people, favorite possessions, places that have meaning to them, etc.

Follow the link or read it under the cut!

KO-FI and commission info in the header!

Seafoam

When he came to it was slowly, a swimming up from the depths of unconsciousness. Or perhaps the metaphor was only there in his mind because of the water that lapped at his skin, the gentle wash and flow of the ocean around him, the gulls that cried overhead. Wherever he’d ended up this time it was not Konoha. 

At least the weather was nice though. 

Opening his eyes took a great deal of effort, every muscle in his body screaming with exhaustion after yet another botched attempt to follow in his hero’s footsteps. History books claimed that the Nidaime not only mastered the Hiraishin by twenty years old but that he had invented it himself at nineteen. Minato already had one honor under his belt, his very own A-rank jutsu that had taken him a little less than two years to perfect, but if he wanted to catch up to the man he so revered then he only had a few months left of being twenty to get this right. If only the Nidaime’s notes were a little easier to decode. 

Seafoam collected on his fingers and left them tacky as he stretched muggily, eyes gradually focusing to watch his hand grasp weakly at the damp sand underneath him. Bubbles danced across the back of his wrist in senseless patterns. Out of habit he studied them, gazed in to their depths like crystal balls, though the bubbles had never given him any insight before. Where most people saw glimpses of their soulmate’s lives in the pearlescent sheen Minato had only ever seen the empty twisting of rainbows and his own reflection. It took a moment now to register the difference. 

Rapid blinking did not make the vision go away, although it did clear his sight a little more. He stared in wonder at the image of a man with a strong jawline tossing his head back in laughter, happiness radiating from him while sunshine crowned his dark hair in molten gold. Whoever they were they bore a striking resemblance to the Shodaime. 

But more importantly whoever they were they had to be important to the soulmate he’d always thought he didn’t have. All the years it had taken him to accept the idea that he wasn’t fated for anyone flew out the window at once as his eyes shifted to another bubble in the water around him, admiring the brilliant smile of a young child. A younger brother perhaps? Why the universe saw fit to gift him with soul glimpses now when he’d never seen them before was a mystery that would have to be solved another time. For now all he wanted was to stare and smile while his aching body gathered the strength to sit up and figure out where his botched Hiraishin attempt had taken him this time. 

That was the plan, at least, until his ears picked up the barely there shifting of sand near his head belying a careful step. Clearly a shinobi if they were able to get this close without him noticing. Minato tore his eyes away from the image of a gorgeous sword wavering across the ephemeral surface of a foam bubble and fought with his body for the ability to turn over. It was a hard won fight and in the end all he managed to do was flop over on to his back but it was better than nothing.

Especially when doing so revealed the weapon held directly in his line of sight, a magnificent blade he had only just been admiring a moment ago. It was even more impressive in person. Yet it was gone from Minato’s mind entirely in an instant when he lifted his eyes and was left slack-jawed with shock.

“Who are you? And how do you know that jutsu?” For all the many times he had fantasized about getting to talk to his ancient hero Minato had never imagined the man would have a voice so deep. “Answer now and it will be much less painful for you.” 

“You’re supposed to be dead,” Minato replied, his intelligence deserting him momentarily. 

“I feel quite hale for a dead man,” Tobirama shot back with one brow lifted in judgement. It was an expression that obviously saw a lot of use; it was also an expression that very much worked for him on a face that didn’t look much older than twenty. 

Unable to think of anything else to say, Minato let his brain take a short holiday to join his intelligence wherever it had gone. “You certainly do look good.”

In the silence that followed wherein they both stared at each other without knowing what to say Minato reflected that he could probably guess what had happened. Evidently fiddling with half-translated notes for a space-time jutsu was just as likely to send you through time as it was through space. Not that hard to figure out. Much harder was trying to wrap his poor mind around the concept that he had somehow thrown himself back decades in to the past and located the soulmate he never thought he had. An already unbelievable set of circumstances even without his surprise soulmate turning out to be the one person he looked up to the most. 

From what he knew of how things had been a hundred years before during the founding of Konoha he would not have been surprised if Tobirama killed him then and there for being so forward. He even seemed to be contemplating it, expression thoughtful as his eyes tracked their surroundings for any information it might give him about this stranger half dead on some unnamed beach. 

The moment he spotted the bubbles was visible.

“Yeah,” Minato said with a nervous chuckle. “I did the same thing. Never seen a soul glimpse in my life until suddenly I’m lying on a beach and there you are. In the bubbles and out. You’ve got good timing, I’ll give you that.”

It took a long time for Tobirama to gather his thoughts. Or maybe he was trying to consider their situation from every angle, playing out all the possible scenarios in his head. He was supposed to be an incredible genius after all. When he answered at long last it was accompanied by a shifting grip on the sword he had yet to lower. 

“First you are going to answer my questions. You will tell me who you are, how you know that jutsu, and where you come from. I’ve never seen that clan mon before. Then...perhaps I may have other questions as well.” The neutral tone would have led anyone not looking at him to believe he was all business as he should be. Minato, however, was watching just closely enough to see the slightest hint of color rising on pale cheeks. It appeared he was not the only one interested in exploring this surprise bond if the chance was available. 

“Whatever questions you have I’m sure I would be happy to answer them,” he said honestly. “I’ve got one of my own, though. What clan mon? I’m not wearing any.”

“Is the symbol on your headband not that of your clan?” 

Minato reached up to touch the engraved leaf with a smile. “Ah. I guess you haven’t invented this yet. Don’t worry, it’ll come up when I explain where I’m from. That’s going to be a very long conversation - and you’ll no doubt find it very interesting.”

He could already see from the brightening of Tobirama’s eyes that the man was intrigued and it was a little hard to suppress the thrill of being considered even slightly interesting by possibly the most interesting person history had ever produced. 

Getting him back on his feet took a while, his muscles wobbling like jelly, but Tobirama waited patiently until he was able to walk under his own power. Where they were going he didn’t know, what year he had blown himself away to he didn’t care. Minato followed wherever he was being led with a smile that only grew each time he caught his guide peeking over at him with curiosity naked on that beautifully sharp face. 

Not since childhood had he so looked forward to the next time he could bathe. What else might he learn from gazing in to a million little crystal balls as he cleansed himself of the future past?

[blackkatmagic]

Tobirama/Minato Prompts

Tobirama/Minato:

·       TobiMinato, smutty hero worship?

·       Tobirama didn't die, he tried to Hiraishin to safety but his target was destroyed and he was lost in the transition somehow. Like, sent but not received if that makes sense? Fastforward and Kurama is rampaging and Kushina is dying and Minato is about to do something inadvisable but necessary, and he Hiraishins, and Tobirama appears with him at his target. Who better to reseal Kurama than him? This screws SO many evil plans!!

·       I just got slapped in the fave with Tobirama/Minato so thanks for that. Maybe a prompt of that in an au of thr reverse au? (or just plain old smut, I'm okay with that too lmao)

·       Minato has ONE job, stop Madara from believing in black Zetsu and his younger brother from dying; que Minato forgetting about everything after he sees Tobirama for the first time. Somehow he still saves the world, and gets the guy.

·       the Hiraishin’s origins are in fact paradoxical. It’s creation was a collaborative effort between Tobirama and a time-displaced Minato, who accidentally went back to the Warring Clans era while trying to recreate it based on Tobirama’s notes.

·       maybe a continuation of that minatobi porn scrap you posted (you’re my river running high) with them fucking in tobirama’s lab? since that was mentioned at the end

·       minatobi time travel au with tobirama going forward, maybe due to some Unknowkn Uzushio Fuinjutsu™️ he found. minato tries very hard to contain his massive nerd crush on Tobirama

·       MinaTobi gods/mythology au? maybe they race? maybe there's smut?

·       Tobirama/Minato AU where they’ve been married for years and both get jobs at the same company, only they’re concerned about how it might look (the inter office relationship policy was a bit unclear) so they pretend to be strangers. What they didn’t count on was their co-workers trying everything under the sun to set them up with each other and at this point it’s a bit too much fun to give up the charade

·       How about a Tobi/Mina college AU. Minato frequents the library, naturally, however now it's not just for academic purposes, as a new transfer student has made himself at home in the library and Minato is smitten. Kushina, being the helpful friend she is, proceeds to "accidently" shove him bodily over the table and into Tobirama's lap as they're passing his table.

·       Tobirama is in an accident (bc no one can read DANGER - DO NOT DISTURB on the door) and is thrown to about a week before the Kanabi Bridge mission. Minato and Kakashi are nerdy fanboys, this is the real reason for the prompt. Just the image of them squeeing (internally) about seals with Tobirama. So cute.

·       Tobirama/minato in which tobi is so very sick of people stealing his jutsu

·       How about Tobirama/Minato where Tobirama gets frustrated with a seal and just makes an entirely new one to summon a sealmaster from the future (Minato) to get future knowledge of fuinjutsu so he can finish whatever seal he was originally working on- maybe Hiraishin- or not? (and he doesn't want to ask Mito because she'd be all smug about him admitting he needs her help) but when Minato gets there, he just ends up completely fanboying over Tobirama? :D Bonus if he forgets to ask about the seal!!!

·       Tobirama/Minato bonding over teaching and exchanging stories about their respective students getting into ridiculous situations somehow? Possibly the students just being completely petulant about them talking about things that they'd agreed they'd never speak about again ("because it didn't happen, okay?!") in the background sulking?

·       Minato/Tobirama, science bros modern AU.

·       how about Tobirama/Minato ritual sex? It could be a magic au, but I also think it would be super interesting if it had something to do with seals.

·       ANBU!Minato/Hokage!Tobirama pls?

·       A young Tobirama has a mishap while inventing the hirashin and gets summoned by a young Minato. Bonus points for comically failed landing ending in a kiss or compromising position for viewers.

·       MinaTobi - fuinjutsu expetiment gone wrong seals Tobirama into [ ] until Minato unseals him

·       Tobirama/Minato, Time Travel, a group of senju have been sent to investigate activity (or rather a suspicious lack of it) near the edge of their lands and /why the hell does this hut have such complicated sealwork around it/ with impressed tobirama and awkward minato?

·       After a hirashin snafu, it only makes sense that Minato consult the creator himself, Tobirama Senju. He's stuck in that time period, after all. It's convenient, really. Falling in love with the man? Not convenient at all. Especially since it looks like his feelings might be returned. (Bonuses: [1] Hashirama is supportive! God help them all. [2] Izuna demands to know why there are so many speedy pretty people in this world to annoy him and/or make him consider a harem.)

·       Tobirama/Minato "You are too cute and volunteer at a local animal shelter, so I keep dropping by to ask you for advice on how to raise my 15 cats even though I am a renowned cat scientist"

·       TobiMina clothes on cosplay smut lmao maybe student/teacher or patient/doctor?

·       Tobirama/Minato, maybe something about them both studying in Uzushio? 

·       Okay, what about Tobirama/Minato, superhero-modern AU, first meeting, one of them is studying med and other one is a vigilante. Hero goes to prevent a big drug deal, mistakes the student as the dealer, and oh look, both police and the real dealer is now after both of them.

MinaTobi "you're pretty but i'm romantically incompetent so i ask my romantically competent best friend for tips and i really should've known better to not follow her advice" ft. Kushina

[naruto-shipping-confessions]

[simplyonehellofahokage]

[ possessive ] :3

Non-sexual acts of dominance meme

[ possessive ]  your muse resting their hand on mine’s leg or the small of their back while they’re sitting beside each other .

@caerula-parma

Without giving it much thought, Minato placed his hand over Tobirama’s, which rested on his knee. He squeezed it briefly, lovingly before returning his full attention to the meeting…but he didn’t let go entirely.

No matter how grim things looked…they would work out somehow.

He had to do his best to keep believing that.

[elenyafinwe]

Remember my first digital art in the beginning of the year, after I dusted of ~10 years of dust from my graphic tablet? This one?

Well, I thought I try another attempt just to look, where I am now with a bit more knowlege about Krita

[koroart]

OK but like , they have phones in Boruto right?

Old man Tobirama just literally being like this-- everytime they try to show him a meme on the phone

[niidaimes]

Only n/sfw thing on this blog will be -

That Tobirama and Minato are both freaks in bed

[anannua]

Welcome to the Ship of the Tobimina. l am not the captain. Dunno who is the captain. l am a stowaway l think. But welcome to the deck!

Thanks random person 🤝 i am ready to set sail with this pair ☀️🌊

[itachii-moved]

They’re gay

[blackkatmagic]

I saw your prompt list, and your example of scifi AU makes me curious to see scifi Minato/Tobirama (possibly Star Wars au, but however you want to do it), but fantasy could be super fun too.

I forgot how ridiculously fun it is to write these two. 

[lossie92]

Tobirama for the ask game please!

Hi Anon! Thanks for the ask 😊

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favorite thing about them

Hands down the sarcasm. His comments made me laugh so hard when reading the manga and they also make him a very fun character to write!

least favorite thing about them

Hmm I don't really have anything about him as a character, but rather his design, I guess...? Cause I find it kind of annoying that his character design is very inconsistent in the manga/anime. Just pick one (1) face and one (1) body type, and stick with it, people, jfc...

favorite line

"That settles it, I've actually found a bigger idiot than my brother."

I would say poor Naruto, but I think the comment actually flew right over his head, so...

brOTP

TobiIzu. I usually write them as friends/frenemies because of that 😅

OTP

MadaTobi. It is what it is, folks.

nOTP

Hmm, I actually have a few ships that I don't really like.

For one, anything with even a hint of incest is an automatic no for me. I just can't stomach it. Makes me hella uncomfy. For this reason ships like, hashitobi, madatobiizu, or madahashitobi are out. I also prefer tobiizu as a brOTP nowadays. Other than that, I don’t care for minatobi - it’s just very eh for me, sorry. 

FYI please bear in mind that I'm not saying it's wrong if you ship these or sth. You do what makes you happy, guys.

random headcanon

He snores 😴

unpopular opinion

I do not think Tobirama had any medical knowledge or training (there is actually no evidence of anyone in the Founders Era being able to heal others using chakra/use iryojutsu) and, for this reason amongst others, I don't believe he performed an autopsy on Madara. Surprisingly enough, you do need to be a medical professional to perform these. Shocking, I know.

I'm also iffy about the idea of him experimenting on human subjects, as I have seen suggested a few times 😶

(Again, if you disagree, please don't @ me for having an opinion)

Oh, and I don’t usually like it when his skills stray from canon too much, which is to say I’m not the biggest fan of BAMF Tobirama.

song i associate with them

Sia's "Elastic Heart"

favorite picture of them

This edit I found. It just makes me really happy 🥰

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Send me a character...

[tobiramas-cumdump]

damn these naruto ships are getting fucking wild-

ok I'll admit some of them actually make sense or seem interesting if you considered circumstances. MadaTobi, SakuIno, SasuHina, KakaGai, and whatnot.

but what the fucK some others really just take the cake

why would people ship obito and madara??? yes i see it since he was his apprentice but MANS IS LITERALLY A GRANDPA . guys he was fucking older than konoha by at least 20+ years. that puts madara around 65-90 years old by the third great war. obito was what? 12-15. ffs-

don't even get me started on things like MinaTobi or NaruKura. i even saw a KakuHidan tag somewhere on AO3. not to mention a SasuZetsu one-

and can we talk about that?? guys pls a part of that thing is a physical manifestation of a will,, the will of a woman hellbent on bringing 'peace' to the world, the other one literal clones made out of long-dead people and a man's fucking plant cells

(and even then it's kinda?? incest if you think about it. zetsu did come from kaguya after all, making him some sort of biological uncle to indra and asura. top it off with that SasuZetsu pairing up there and it's spiritual incest, which, just...no.)

no i refuse because what in the actual fuck guys ,,,, what're y'all smoking??