#naruto 700

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Started watching naruto for the first time

I know I was warned but nothing could have prepared me for this

...they whare't kidding, that sas sure can gay

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tbh I don't think the issues with Boruto necessarily stem from any negative opinions toward Naruto on the part of the creators. tbh I don't think there's that much thought and passion going into it to begin with lol

My understanding of some of these points:

The kicker is that Kishimoto, from what I've heard has not been that active in Boruto. His editor pretty much runs the show is what I have heard a lot.

The Boruto manga was not made by Kishimoto to begin with, I think this was known from the start? I believe its creator was one of Kishimoto's old assistants. In fact, there was a bit of a splash when, several years into it, Kishimoto stepped in and supposedly took over.

From wiki: It initially began monthly serialization under the title Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, with Kodachi as writer and Kishimoto as editorial supervisor in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump in May 2016, and was transferred to Shueisha's monthly magazine V Jump in July 2019. In November 2020, Kodachi stepped down, with Kishimoto taking over as writer.

it goes out of its way to shit on the Naruto series (taking away Naruto and Sasuke's power-ups at the first chance which basically reverted them to beginning of Naruto, Naruto and Sasuke).

Given that Naruto and Sasuke are basically god-level by the end of the OG series, this was always going to have to happen in some form. I don't think this can be used as indication of anything in particular, aside from the writer not being terribly imaginative.

They just really don't like Naruto as a series because: [...] They hate ninjas because everything is now aliens and machinery in Boruto. Also, a lot of retconning Naruto stuff to be oh aliens are the reason this exists.

Kishimoto did that to OG Naruto, honestly. Once he escalated to aliens with Kaguya, there wasn't really any walking back, and Boruto is generally following the trend from there. Additionally, Kishimoto also started leaning toward the tech thing himself as well, with stuff like zoom conference calls in late-stage 4th war arc, and then Naruto epilogue having laptops, etc.

Orochimaru is just there and no one remembers he's not to be trusted.

Kishimoto did this one too. Orochimaru got weirdly whitewashed way back halfway into the 4th war, when he suddenly returned from the dead as Sasuke's weirdly dependable plot device ally, and Kishimoto just never bothered dealing with him after that, so he just... made it out of the war with no consequences at all.

The general trend really does seem to be that Kishimoto started all these issues, and Boruto is just a rather bland natural outgrowth of the direction the last parts of Naruto took. I would even say that the characters going in the direction we get was set up by Kishimoto as well.

That doesn't make it enjoyable, and Boruto is not in any shape or form good at what it's trying to do, but the writing was on the wall even before it started, imo.

"Here's 40 episodes of Kakashi and Itachi in ANBU" or something, I don't know. I'd watch 10 episodes of Sasori's descent into absolute madness.

The anime fillers did this. There's also an entire Itachi novel that is... hm, not good. This kind of thing was basically handled in smaller spinoffs, so the real cashcow did need to be a more open-ended new generation thing that could be milked indefinitely.

So if you want a real answer for went wrong in Boruto let me explain.

Boruto is pretty much written by people who really don't like Naruto as a series because it goes out of its way to shit on the Naruto series (taking away Naruto and Sasuke's power-ups at the first chance which basically reverted them to beginning of Naruto, Naruto and Sasuke). The editor for Boruto is apparently a simp for Sadara. They just really don't like Naruto as a series because:

He's apparently just a missing dad but you probably knew this already.

Absolutely no respect for Naruto characters whatsoever.

They hate ninjas because everything is now aliens and machinery in Boruto. Also, a lot of retconning Naruto stuff to be oh aliens are the reason this exists.

Orochimaru is just there and no one remembers he's not to be trusted.

There's apparently a dimension where one of the villains just has multiple ten-tails clones in there and its weird.

So yeah... I don't even want to know what the fuck happened. The kicker is that Kishimoto, from what I've heard has not been that active in Boruto. His editor pretty much runs the show is what I have heard a lot.

The most I've seen of Boruto was the movie, where Naruto being an absent parent was solved because Boruto just didn't realise how cool his dad was... I think. I just kinda left that movie gobsmacked. Don't you see how cool your dad is Boruto. And also 'jutsu in a can' is illegal in the Chuunin exams for some reason? Literally why, they're a tool you can use...

Thanks for the response, I appreciate the insight. I can see how some of these problems might have come around, like trying to balance Naruto and Sasuke's absolutely absurd power levels against literally any kind of threat, or coming up with an enemy for Konoha to fight that wouldn't leave a black mark on Naruto's reign as Hokage... and the inherent issue of 'no one is watching this for the new characters, they want to see the old ones, but this isn't about them' you'll inevitably get with a next-gen sequel.

No one watched Boruto the movie for Boruto. No one.

But like... why make a next-gen sequel for Naruto of all series? I get why from a 'we want money' sense, but I feel they could've just animated the light novels or fillers into eternity and people would've been happier with those.

"Here's 40 episodes of Kakashi and Itachi in ANBU" or something, I don't know. I'd watch 10 episodes of Sasori's descent into absolute madness.

Maybe the reason they went "ALIENS" is because of Kishimoto's failed sci-fi manga? But it's weird he's hands off given I thought he took over the manga from someone else...

Btw, to add onto what the anon that sent the I gave up on Boruto ask, its a bigger problem than it being the typical female characters don't matter still in Boruto. Its that no one matters in Boruto except Boruto and Kiwaki. Everyone else just gets shit on. Like imagine the old Naruto is x fanfics but actually made real. That's Boruto. He's got everything and he's the bestest and specialest boy.

:/ That sucks. Why bother forcing so many pairings to produce kids if you don't even wanna use 'em. Sasuke didn't deserve this. But also, how are you simultaneously a simp for Sarada and don't really use her? Just shove her in stupid outfits and call it a day...?

I still don't know anything about Kawaki!? He's a moon boy too, right? It feels so weird to neglect the rest of Boruto's team, though. What's the point.

Boruto does really feel like an edgy OC. He's got Byakugan+1 AND Sasuke is his teacher... honestly, Sasuke as a mentor to Naruto's kid is cute in theory, except for the part where he's also a deadbeat dad to a whole other child (his own).

I couldn't help reading TBV thinking "...why didn't they just do this kind of plot with Naruto himself or something". Though I guess they kind of? Did? With Road To Ninja? The opposite direction?

Btw, unless I'm mistaken I don't think Naruto actually forgave Orochimaru. I think he just forgot because Kishimoto forgot about a lot of what happened in part 1 of Naruto except Sasuke imo.

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i can’t believe this they literally don’t even like hinata and sakura at all. hinata and naruto’s big moment was literally 50% about neji, naruto has never shown interest in her, has never acknowledged her feelings, and he grabs her hand in order to share his power with the army… naruto is extremely expressive and open about his feelings and yet even we the reader don’t see a hint of emotion towards hinata. also his last words to his dad were him stuttering to his mom about being sorry for not being able to marry a woman like her!

and sasuke just straight up loudly and openly dislikes sakura up until the very end. their “big moment” is the quick shot of him leaving the village, telling her she can’t come cuz “this has nothing to do with you” and then flicking her on the forehead. aka what his brother used to do to him to annoy him. before he goes and has an emotional moment with naruto.

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konoha elders: we aren’t going to send all of you on missions together, we have a standard of using the three man squad

full team seven clinging tightly to each other: if you try to separate us again we WILL start a revolt

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10 years ago today, the NARUTO manga ended!!! The manga ended after 700 chapters, 72 volumes, 14 arcs and 15 years of serialization!!!

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🍥🍅 sketching~

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uchiha shisui x reader - forever

author's note: this is my first time writing a reader insert that is a full length one-shot, so i'm still getting the hang of it. i went through thoroughly to make sure i edited any accidental references to the reader's gender out, as there were a couple in the first draft, so if i missed any at all let me know so i can edit them out immediately!

rating: teen

fandom: naruto

pairing: shisui x gender neutral reader

warnings: suggestive content, existential musings

word count: 2340

summary: you spend a stormy evening on the beach with your beloved

Plop.

From the heathery gray clouds raging above in the wind, a freezing drop of rain dribbled into your scalp. Your eyes turned up to admire the rolling landscape of the storm brewing above the raging monotone sea. Occasionally in the distance, a coil of thunder would snake through the clouds, its rumble reaching you within seconds and vibrating the very air. When a particularly strong gust struck you, your toes curled into the icy sand and your bare arms mimicked the motion of reaching for a hug; you wanted the essence of nature surrounding you to encapsulate and invade your entire being. This moment would be etched into your memory for all of your time alive. Sometimes, when the temperature of the air froze against your exposed skin in just the right way, when the scent of a stormy summer night tingled in your nose, when every single atom in your body vibrated with the excitement and purpose of being in the moment, you felt alive. Not in the sense of existential dread, no, that was way too typical in your life. You were pretty sure everyone always felt the constant pressure of that void in the back of their skull. This feeling was rare, though. It built you back up. If only for a moment, you captured the glory of existence, saw the meaning of life, whatever the hell was going to pull you out of that deep hole. And as tragic as watching a movie you know has a bleak ending, it slips through your fingers. Fleeting. Just like life itself.

At the bottom of your peak in emotion, a soft hand slipped into yours outstretched, grounding you in the shifting sands. Without Shisui there to hold you together, you thought you might fall apart, slip right in-between the grains of sand.

"I guess you were right… it is beautiful, huh?" he gently asked against your ear, muting the wind.

"It's always one of the most beautiful sights in the world," you confirmed to your boyfriend beside you, a smug hint to your tone. Hair whipping in the gusts, you turned to face him. "But it doesn't compare to you."

A tinge of rose crept up onto his cheeks, although you couldn't tell if it had been there before from the chill. His almost-black eyes met your own from behind his shaggy hair of the same color. It's a saying, that the eyes are the window to the soul. It sounded like bullshit for so long, but Shisui's, conveying pure love and adoration for you, convinced you that you'd just not been looking hard enough at everyone else.

And his smile. God, his smile. If you didn’t know any better, then from your perspective the storm had ended before it ran its course, and the sun was radiating its kind and warm light right in front of you, chasing away every chill in your bones. You couldn’t help but raise your free hand, stroking his slightly rough cheek with a whisper of your fingertips. His own grasping for the back of your neck, Shisui latched on and pulled you in for a deep, gentle kiss, his hands and lips pulsating warmth into your wind-ravaged body. The kiss was over all too soon for your liking. 

"Come on. I think we've spent enough time out here. Let's go and warm back up," he suggested kindly, swiping a thumb over your icy knuckles and gently tugging you up the slope of the dune.

“I’m going to need more of where that came from, as well,” you teased while following Shisui. Your eyes turned back to face the main road of the shore town you two were staying in for the next two weeks.

The vacation from your full-time jobs — your guys' first since graduating from university a year ago — was a blissful one. You and Shisui had already spent many days on the beach while it was crowded and sunny, flying kites, splashing around in the deep waters, or building sandcastles. But on the drive here, your hand resting feather-light on his thigh as you kept the car steady, you’d lamented that the best beach days were the ones when chaos and storms roiled over the ocean.

“What? But then you can’t really do anything but stand there and look if everything there will kill you,” he’d replied with an audible pout, glancing at your focused gaze. “And how am I supposed to dunk you under the water if we’re not in it?”

You stole a glare at him in the passenger’s seat, your neck going pink at how cute his scrunched nose was, before once again focusing your gaze on the road ahead. “Yeah, yeah, idiot. That’s the whole point, though. There’s just something so captivating about seeing a storm over the sea from the shore. Like, beauty and peace in something that should be ugly and sorrowful. I like it.”

You both made it back up to the house, clothes wrinkled and hair knotted through. Using the hose at the entrance, you and Shisui took turns washing off your bare feet of sand. He offered for you to go first, and you happily obliged, wishing to change into something comfortable, order dinner, and get snuggling as soon as possible, but that was an incredibly rookie mistake. As you turned around, an unseen smirk played on your trickster boyfriend’s lips, and he pointed the hose at your swimsuit-clad back. Before you were able to go in, he landed a direct shot on you.

“Ah! Shisui! Are you kidding me?” you shrieked, jumping into the house. Through the thin wooden wall, you could hear his deep laughter at your reaction. Your face flush, you stomped to the bathroom with your outfit in hand, an oversized t-shirt, comfy pants, and fuzzy socks. As fast as you possibly could, you rinsed yourself off in the shower, washing and combing your hair, getting every bit of sweat and grime off of you and emerging feeling clean and refreshed.

When you traded places in the bathroom, you and Shisui each had the same idea, and smacked each others’ asses in unison.

“Damn it!” he gritted while peeking out from behind the bathroom door, ready to slam it. “You couldn’t let me have that one?”

“You always get me when I least expect it, ‘cause I always trust you. Case in point, the fucking water hose. Couldn’t you let me have one? Or maybe I’ll catch you off guard one day, you little shit,” you jaunted from over your shoulder, rounding the corner to the living room while you heard the shower thrum.

“My partner, they call me nothing but terrible, terrible names! How horrific!” Shisui yelled, sounding farther away than he actually was.

You just shook your head and settled down on the plush couch, flicking the television on to a streaming service, so when he came out of the shower, you two could continue watching your show. Before long, he had made his way out, wearing a comfortable-looking cotton t-shirt and sweatpants. Despite what looked like some sort of effort to dry off, his hair was still extremely damp, and clung to his forehead in strands. You couldn’t help but gawk at him a little bit, knowing his skin would be extra soft and warm to lay against when he sat down next to you. With no hesitation, that is exactly what he did, settling into the corner of the couch and opening his arms wide.

In a flash, you hooked your legs over his lap, wrapped your arms around his waist, and plopped your head right onto his chest. Ever since this morning in bed, when you had to pry yourself off of him like a bandaid off of skin, this was the only thing you could think about.

“Someone’s impatient, yeah?” he asked through a gentle laugh, bringing one arm around your shoulders and another to rest on your thighs.

Now this, this was your safe space. You closed your eyes, the only thing registering to you being Shisui’s scent and breathing. His soap, that cute sugar vanilla one that he always begged you to buy from the mall, wafted into your nose and intoxicated you. Behind that, his faint and musky natural odor mixed with the saltiness of the ocean came through. His body also radiated heat, his skin especially hot from the shower.

“It’s not often that I can lay claim to you for an entire day,” you admitted, turning so your cheek now rested on Shisui. “So I’m taking advantage of this entire vacation.”

“Hey, I know. I feel the same way. Life’s just been so busy lately. Work and all, for both of us.” He buried his nose into your own damp hair.

“Yeah. Sometimes it just feels like it doesn’t stop, and my head keeps spinning and churning out thoughts. The only place where it stops is right here.” You uncurled a hand from around him, and poked him in the chest.

“My chest is a pillow for you and you alone,” Shisui brought a hand to press your head more firmly onto him. The sound of his heartbeat became faintly audible. “Anytime you need me to protect you like this, I will be there. Don't you forget that.”

You felt like your heart could burst right out of your chest. Shisui’s declarations always stirred your emotions, even after the four years you’ve spent together. You didn’t know what it was about today, though. Perhaps you had borne your emotions to the world back on the beach and you needed a release, or maybe finally relaxing after the brutal work schedule you had for months coaxed something out of you. Your eyes began to water, a familiar tingling sensation creeping up your throat muscles to your face, making you scrunch up.

“Hey, what’s up?” Shisui asked gently, feeling the change in your expression on him. He gently grabbed your chin and turned your face to meet his own, noting how your eyes darted around. “Look at me. Are you happy-crying or sad-crying?”

You willed your eyes to still and meet his own, a grin creeping across your face. In the light of the house, you could see more of the brown within them, but Shisui’s pure feelings of love still radiated out of his irises.

“Happy-crying. I just love you so much, dumbass.”

“Okay, that’s good. I love you too, my queen. I’m gonna have to kill two birds with one stone, though,” Shisui contemplated, his eyebrows furrowing and an expression of deep thought crossing the rest of his face.

“Huh?”

“Well, I have to cheer you up. Can’t have ya crying like this,” he said, with a stroke to your cheek where a tear fell. “But you can’t keep calling me an idiot all of the time either, so I’ve gotta convince you to call me something else for once.”

“And how do you plan to do that?” you challenged, using the shoulder of your shirt to wipe your eyes.

“Like this.”

The little bastard tugged you in for a kiss and stuck his hands up your shirt, gliding his fingers gently down your sides and back. You kicked your legs, clinging onto Shisui even tighter than before.

“Mmpfh!” you shrieked against his lips. You felt Shisui smirk against your lips, running his calloused fingers back up for more of your sensitive skin while you tried to wiggle out of his grasp to no avail. You were able to break away from the kiss and shove your head back into his chest, your giggles muffled by his shirt. He was laughing right along with you at your reaction, the vibration of it in his chest comforting you.

“Okay, okay fine!” Shisui let up his teasing touch as you conceded and instead placed his palms flat on your bare back, unmoving. Breathy laughter was still interspersed with your words as you surrendered, “You’re my pretty man.”

While you were disheveled from Shisui’s attack, your stomach quivering, it was now his turn to look embarrassed. His gaze flickered around the room while you sat up straighter to get a good look at his face at an equal level. You grasped his face in your hands and planted a kiss on his lips.

“You really are. You’ve got such a nice nose, especially,” you said to him, while his gaze meandered in embarrassment. “Look at me, now.”

His gaze snapped to your eyes immediately, his mouth open just slightly. You continued complimenting Shisui, saying: “And you have these, like, beautiful eyelashes that make you look like you’re always wearing mascara. The way your hair frames your face is perfect, it gives you such a nice silhouette.”

You kept going, stroking each part of his face you spoke of, knowing you would work him up until steam was coming out of his ears and his entire face was tomato red. When you achieved your goal (quickly, mind you), you admired your work for a second and then sat back, instead opting to sit shoulder-to-shoulder with your boyfriend. Wordlessly, you clicked on the show that you’d intended on starting before, and settled in next to Shisui, wrapping your arm around his waist and settling into him with a satisfied hum. He did the same, leaning his head on your shoulder and evading eye contact.

If you could choose, you would opt to spend the rest of your days curled up like this with Shisui, chatting about anything at all, or silently drinking in the presence of each other. It was your personal haven, one of the only places in the world where you were able to relax fully and completely. You shifted further into him, relaxing every muscle in your body against his radiating heat, and you allowed your eyes to droop closed.

“So, what did you want for dinner?” he ended up asking out of nowhere as soon as your stomach violently growled.

What timing Shisui Uchiha had.

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Naruto 700- Anime Boruto 🍥🔩💛🧡

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I think it's so funny when a person is a Naruto fan and it's a Naruto (character) anti lol

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Oh, my darling~

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Regarding the Konoha 12, Kishimoto tried to circle back to them during the 4th arc.

Choji had some spotlight when Asuma got brought back with Edo Tensei, and the entire group was highlighted as "coming into their own" when the... statue was rampaging I think? They also tended to have a lot of short cutaways to them during the duration of the arc, like showing their lotus eater dreams, or stuff like Ino's and Shikamaru's dads getting killed, or just showing them in the middle of big changes to the whole battlefield.

People really latched on to them in Chuunin Exams and the Sasuke retrieval arc, and Kishimoto did continue to use them as a kind of "bystander" characters to fill out scenes or portray what it going on outside the Naruto-Sasuke stuff. Plus, some of them had a lot of focus for various reasons (Shikamaru, Hinata), and kind of served to elevate the entire group.

I showed a friend your reponse to my big ask and they said you forgot to add that in Naruto there was the Konoha 12 that everyone loved. Like them or hate them they were the main characters who each got their own moment (I disagree a little but the point still stands). They had their own fights and little arcs. In Boruto there's none of that. Even the kids of Shikamaru and the others are just not relevant in Boruto at all. All that matters is Boruto and Kiwaki and they're detrimental to the manga.

Hmm... I kind of get where they're coming from, but excluding Team 7, most of the Konoha 12 have been largely irrelevant background characters for quite a long time.

Characters like Kiba and Choji haven't had a day in the spotlight since as early as the Sasuke Retrieval Arc, and I believe Shino's last major point of relevance was.... god, Orochimaru's invasion of Konoha back in the Chuunin Exams, when he fought Kankuro?

A lot of the content that we got for the Konoha 12 were filler arcs, and most of that was in the latter half of part 1's anime. Some of the K12 didn't get arcs at all, actually. IIRC, the real standouts were Neji, Rock Lee, Shikamaru and to a lesser extent Ino and Hinata.

And that was before Naruto's cast size exploded in part 2.

I get why the K12 are deprioritised in Boruto - again, theoretically you're going to want to focus on the new generation, not the parents... but it's sounding like there isn't even an attempt at using them the way early Naruto did (Chuunin Exams, Konoha Crush, Sasuke Retrieval), which is very disappointing.

I do have to wonder if it's annoying to have to use them given how similar they are to their parents, though. If you have a Nara, an Akamichi and Inojin with the exact same powers as Shikamaru, Choji and Sai, semi-similar personalities and they all have to be relatively well-adjusted kids with happy lives because they're the kids of Naruto characters so they had comfortable childhoods with loving parents... That's way less interesting than 'dude i made up that I can do whatever i want with'.

Like, it would drive me insane to have those restrictions put on me, I'd want to make up OCs as soon as I could too. Again, it doesn't sound like it was handled well at all, but I can see why that might have happened.

See? This is why we should've just adopted a bunch of orphans after the war. They could have whatever powers you wanted and all kinds of different tragic backstorie-

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》 Raziela Kobayashi: Boruto Naruto Next Generations - Reference Sheet 《

I'm back with a brandnew Reference Sheet of my Main Oc during Boruto: Naruto Next Generation Series! It's one of her normal Outfits in Sunagakure in that Period. The first time she wore that is in Chapter 700 of Naruto Shippuden.

Here some Informations about Reeze during that Period:

❄ Her Hair is still very long there and she takes deep care of it

❄ Since Shiina is here just around 3-6 years old, she's at home, taking care of her youngest

❄ The Twins are here around 9 years old and go to the Academy

❄ She helps Gaara with the Paperwork a bit from home

❄ The Villagers of Sunagakure, especially the Children, look up to Reeze as Sunagakure's first Lady. She still isn't used to this Status and the Attention it brings

❄ The Marriage with Gaara is still full of care, love and warmth. They still go on Dates when Gaara's life as Kazekage allows it

❄ She stopped working as Kunoichi when the Twins were born, so her work is in that time about taking care of the Kids. Being Houswife and Mother

❄ She and Ryuusei are kind of Friends now, but it's still a bit strange after his bad behaviour

I hope you like it! 💙

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Art (c) _ravennia_

Raziela Kobayashi (c) @xkobayashisoulx

Sabaku No Gaara (c) Masashi Kishimoto

Naruto & Boruto (c) Masashi Kishimoto and Mikio Ikemoto

This Picture was a Comission for me from _ravennia_. I am NOT the Artist of this Artwork. I have the Artists written permission to upload this drawing to my Social Media. ⚠️

Without my written permission you have no right to recolor/repost/trace/edit/use this in any way. Also please don't ask me to roleplay with my Ocs because I don't allow that. ⚠️