#naruto fix fic

[ddrqoyote]

I'm thinking of doing a broad strokes writing edit for Naruto Shippuden. A lot of character arcs got dropped or had bad resolutions, and the series' themes get muddled by the end.

Part of that means rewriting Tobi to make him a better final villain (and yes, I do want him as the final villain after hundreds of chapters of buildup and manipulation) while keeping the core of his character. I wanted to make his timeline make more sense. Things like making Kakashi Gaiden happen maybe 5 years earlier so he's not a boy when he sics Kurama on the village and kills the Fourth Hokage. Meeting the Akatsuki on his own instead of Nagato being a pawn from the very beginning with a magical secret double eye transplant. Changing his relationship with Madara to make the man who actually DID everything less of a puppet. And... smoothing out how he controlled Yagura.

Yagura made the whole Mist a living hell for years. He's also involved in Kisame's backstory. Sounds like a big deal. But he barely exists in the story! Everything he did was a genjutsu's fault and it's not even clear what Obito gained from it. We only learn how he was deposed in a light novel, when it turns out it was... Ao? Really? Even when he's reanimated he only gets a few lines and is treated the same as the other jinchuriki who'd never been seen.

That's dumb. So...

The New Yagura

Yagura Karatachi was born the Three-Tails' jinchuriki. The Mist was weak when he was born and many lives were lost to create him. The old Third Mizukage, wanting to keep little Yagura's favor and make sure no one caught him, kept him and trained him like a son in his palatial estate. While his peers killed each other in the Bloody Mist's graduation exams, he had whatever he wanted except freedom.

Now, suppose you were a young, bitter man. You know you have to save the world but you don't know how. You naively believe that a single, huge blitz of brutality will shock the world out of war, at least a little. You tried to use a jinchuriki in Konoha as a human bomb, but it didn't work. So you try again, but what if this time the jinchuriki was willing?

Yagura never knew if the ghost in the mansion was real. No one else saw it, and it walked through walls at night, and it taught him. It said he was too old to keep the worldview of a child, shut up in a palace. It showed him visions of the war outside, the graduation rituals his "father" had set up for children younger than him, how he was only a tool for his village. It told him to listen when the beast inside him spoke, for it also knew the world was wicked. Sandwiched between a hateful ghost and a hateful monster for years, it's no wonder who Yagura became.

However, that ghost didn't think of everything. Tobi assumed Yagura would simply release the Three-Tails, who would rampage until it was put down. But the Three-Tails, with its coral nature and hallucinogenic gas, was the trickiest and most patient beast, and Yagura had a human's social skills, trained by Tobi and the Third. United in hatred, they became the first perfect jinchuriki. Yagura convinced the Third to let him go on missions, where he proved his usefulness and destructive power. The Mist saw him as a hero.

Zabuza's academy murder spree caused a political crisis. The Land of Water is an archipelago, so it's difficult for the Daimyo to enforce laws across his territory, but when word got out he was horrified and demanded academy reforms and the Third's removal. The Third War had ended and there were scandals a civilian government couldn't allow. In the confusion, Yagura struck, launching a coup and turning the next nine years into a living nightmare. The Third's Bloody Mist was born out of desperation, and considering what the other nations did in the Third War, it was as much propaganda as fact. The admittedly horrific academy graduation was the only significantly worse part.

The Fourth's Bloody Mist was born out of spite, and its purpose was to give itself a slow, agonizing death.

Of course, like any leader by coup he was afraid of coups himself, and dissenters were publicly executed by his Seven Swordsmen, sent on suicide missions or driven insane with the Three-Tails' hallucinogenic gas. He reinstated the graduation killings and frequently displayed his powers in the center of town. As he killed more of his soldiers a large portion of the remainder were Kekkei Genkai users, reinforcing their status as symbols of ninja bloodshed in the Land of Water. To replace those dead soldiers he regularly hired the fledgling Akatsuki and gave them much of the money they would later use to become a threat to the world, never knowing he was paying his "ghost". The Daimyo was so terrified that even when Kisame tried to kill him, he pretended to believe Yagura when he said the Tailless Beast had gone rogue. Salvation had to come from outside.

Mei Terumi had fled the village after winning her graduation exam under the Third. Fortunately, she had kept her true power secret: the Boil Release, long thought lost until the right combination of recessive genes activated hers. She tried to leave the ninja world behind her, but she couldn't watch what Yagura was doing to her old home anymore. She gathered a band of rogue ninja and Mist refugees and started a civil war that eventually ended with Yagura's head on a pike and five of the Seven Swordsmen melted by her own hand. As mighty as he was, he had killed too many of his men to resist a revolt, but he died happy knowing he had scarred the village that chained him for a lifetime.

Tobi, for his part, was privately horrified by the results of his experiment but knew he couldn't stand alone against an entire great village. He had bigger fish to fry anyway, so it was too soon for him to die. He washed his hands of the whole thing and never met Yagura again after he became Mizukage. However, he was intrigued by the similarity of the Three-Tails' chakra to the Nine-Tails despite their different appearances and powers. He wondered if the mad ramblings Madara had told him about the Sage of Six Paths and the Ten-Tails were true. This eventually led him to realize the Infinite Tsukuyomi was possible and it became his final plan. But that's a story for another day...

[hii-raeth]

Does anyone else ever get sad about the 'Kakashi was a bad teacher!' argument because sandaime put an unwilling, unexperienced, depressed & traumatized 26 year old in charge of equally traumatized kids + sakura with zero support or training and expected that to just... be okay? Somehow?

Two of the kids were probably direct reminders of his traumas

All of the kids needed specialized care and instruction to flourish

so of course Kakashi wasn't great at it. He never got the setup to be a good teacher. Teaching is a skill that requires training and support and he never got either. He was just given three 12-year olds in a world that frequently kills 12-year olds and was told not to fuck it up

But he still managed to foster an atmosphere of trust, safety and affection, which was exactly what they needed

Which given the circumstances was probably the best anyone could do

Or is that just me?

[alienatedtsuki]

Best of Time Travel AU

There are A LOT of time travel fix-it fics, but this isn't my favourite trope. That said, this post might be the only part of the recommendations for this section of Naruto fanfiction.

Uzumaki Revival by Lerya @lerya-fanfic They had been trapped in the ruins of Uzushio for who knows how long, the hastily erected barrier on the point of breaking, which would mean their deaths at the hand of Kaguya, when the Bijuu come with a solution. A solution that requires them to make the ultimate sacrifice, to give them a chance to change it all. - Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura, Kakashi and Obito were reborn as a part of the Uzumaki clan to fix past mistakes. This is my favourite fic, where Naruto is a functioning Kage. Everything is logical in this fanfic. Sakura is a strong and capable woman; everyone in our small group acknowledges how competent as a leader Naruto is. KakaObi and Sns are established relationships; interactions between Sasuke and Naruto are too precious. NaruSasu/SasuNaru | Time Travel AU | Fix it | KakaObi | Kage Naruto | Uzushiogakure (81,338)

French Kissing, the End of the World, and Other Impossible Ordeals by Tsume_Yuki This is it, centuries of excellent genetics, of carefully selected marriages to maximise the potential of future generations and it’s going to be Sasuke who introduces idiocy to the Uchiha bloodline. The ancestors must be rolling in their graves. In which Sasuke is smitten, Naruto is a badass, and timetravel happens. - This fic saved me from depression quite a few times. You could just read it purely for serotonin production. I just can't get over how smitten Sasuke is. They save the world together and live happily ever after. I believe this is the best-written fem Naruto I ever saw.  SasuNaru | Fem Naruto | Time Travel AU | Fix it | Smitten Sasuke | Smart Naruto | BAMF Naruto | Protective Sasuke (16,194)

Two Lifetimes by KinomiAkai @kinomiakai With every passing day, it's becoming clearer and clearer that Sasuke is dead. So what else would Naruto do, if he got the chance to try all over again? - They got another chance to fix everything. Sns is not established YET, but our boys have a happy ending. SasuNaru/NaruSasu | Time Travel AU | Fix it | Eventual romance | Happy ending (11,166)

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The People We Think We Know [Master List]

Status: Ongoing

Started: Sept. 16, 2024

Updated: Jan. 17, 2025

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Pairing: Tobirama x fem!Reader

Available on Ao3

(I will probably update Ao3 first since I'm not as familiar with Tumblr's platform.)

Madara isn’t completely surprised when his father decides to take the girl in as a ward. His mother and father had always wished for a daughter. There is something about her that doesn’t sit right, actions and words feeling disjointed and too experienced for her 5-year-old self. It feels like his first battlefield, staring down this stranger in his home with the odd face, and odd mannerisms, and odd actions.

It’s odd, she’s odd.

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Or: A fix-it fic with built in headcanon world building because if the mangaka won't do, then I'll do it myself

Chapter 1 | Content Warnings: None

Chapter 2 | Content Warnings: Death, mildly graphic description of gore and sickness, mentioned/attempted human trafficking but no actual happenstance

Chapter 3 | Content Warnings: None

Chapter 4 | Content Warnings: Death, mildly graphic description of violence/gore and sickness, child endangerment

Chapter 5 | Content Warnings: Minor off screen death

Chapter 6 | Content Warnings: The ethics and issues of enlisting children as soldiers

[More to come...]

Let me know if any links are broken or point to the wrong post, I'm new to posting on Tumblr

Tags are subject to change

[okay-letsdothisonelasttime]

Jesus, I'm always so slow drawing these, I really need to work on my efficiency with digit art.

But here (for the couple of people who are interest) have a baby badass Team 10 from the goat fic 'Of Harrowed Hearts' by @sablescribe.

I recon I've improved in some areas since the team 7 draw up, so hopefully we are ony going up from here....

[moldy-flowers]

Sakura is so crazy cause like what do you MEAN you created an antidote for a poison that was developed over thirty (30!) Years in eight (8!!!) Hours.

Its so disrespectful honestly that was Sasoris life work and in what, like a few hours she just destroyed it? What the fuck Sakura.

[tianasficrecs168]

Random Naruto Fic recs

Most of these are going to be general fic recs, ones without a ship, just focused on family/friendship and whatnot.

Also I'm obsessed with time travel, so like. There's a lot of that here.

A whole bunch of abandoned works, as well, sadly. This doesn't mean they aren't worth reading just bc they're unfinished!!! Please give 'em a chance.

Edit: some fics from here have been moved to a different list (yes I figured out how to categorize stuff just now, shut up), you can find them on my Warring States Era Naruto Fics

Here's the sitch:

A black dot • means it’s a one-shot

Brackets (…) means it's still being updated/not done/WIP – and I'm paying close attention to it

(000) -> disappeared off the internet (don't worry I have a copy shh)

(general+) -> Time travel or dimension hopping – something along those lines

100demons: "Ten Years Gone" (general+) a series, one of three Thirty year old Kakashi was supposed to have been killed by Pein during the Invasion. Instead, he wakes up in the body of his twenty year old self. (It gets a lot more complicated.)

Chica Blanca: - "One Chance" (...) (general+) last update: 2020 Revenge never tasted so bitter. It never was supposed to be this useless waste of life. Now Sasuke has a chance to go back and change everything.

Frozen Shattered Roses: - “Loop” (...) (general+)                       last update: 2009 My name is Naruto and I'm cursed. I'm trapped in a loop of time, reliving the final fourteen years of my life for the third time. Only this time things will be different, because this time I have a plan to escape.

Phoenyxx: - “Unofficial adoption” (general) • A bed-ridden, sickly Kakashi receives a tiny unexpected visitor late at night, which causes a few interesting discoveries. Another moment to add to an alternate universe.

Jedi Honor Bound Ninja: - “To Be Cared For” (general) • Naruto doesn't often get sick, but when he does he knows his routine: hunker down and be miserable. But this time around maybe he can finally have a taste of what others normally have.

Laurelsblue: - “Summer Grass” (general) • There are many misconceptions about her. 20 Truths about Fuu, the Nanabi Jinchuuriki.

Blackkat: “Sweet baby, I need fresh blood” (general+) • Shukaku fixes the timeline. Grumpily. And with a lot of bloodshed.

Blackkat: “With friends like these” (general) • If she isn’t utterly mistaken, there's a flush rising in Orochimaru’s pale cheeks, one she only ever used to see when Jiraiya was being especially handsy during their genin days. It’s been a long time since Orochimaru got over that particular crush, and Tsunade stares at him now, at the averted eyes and rising color and aggrieved slant to his mouth, and feels glee bubbling up inside of her. “Really?” she says, delighted. “Who?”

Blackkat: “This is the passing of all shining things” (general) • There's a monster whispering in Minato's head, curled around his soul. It’s vast and hungry and full of fury, radiates it and basks in it and lets it spill over through the bars that cage it. If Minato had one ounce more energy, he would rage too, but— Anger is a luxury right now, an indulgence. He can't afford it.

Blackkat: “Switch It Up” (general) • Yamato is assigned to Team 7 as their jounin sensei. He may or may not be an evil mastermind, but it all works out for the better.

QuoteMyFoot: - “In The Name Of” (general) • Slowly, Sasuke forgets what 'living' is. (Post-massacre)

Searching.For.Enadi: “If the shoe fits“ (...) (general+)                     last update: 2020 Time travel. Technically, she could consider this the greatest mission she has ever undertaken, or a brilliant opportunity to finally hit the hot springs. (Or, the one where Haruno Sakura really, really needs a vacation).

Whispering Darkness: - “The life and times of Hatake Kakashi: nukenin” (...) (general+) In the sealed scroll he finds a Bingo Book – his own page marking him as an S-class nukenin with flee-on-sight orders. “Ok. That is definitely different.” In his head he blames Naruto – even if his number one unpredictable student had been nowhere near him on this mission. When things go this stupidly impossibly wrong it must somehow be the future Hokage’s fault. *it's marked as completed but the story's not done in my heart. so i live in delusional hope that it'll be updated one day

Narf—for-the-Garthoc: “Beautiful Day” (general) • Naruto focuses on his last day as Hokage and the people who mean so much to him.

Agent Malkere: - „What You Knead“ (...) (general) last update: 2022 It started, as most things did in Kakashi's life, with a mission gone wrong. (In which Kakashi accidentally acquires an emotionally healthy coping technique.)

Katlou303: - „Time Flies Like An Arrow“ (...) (general+) last update: 2021 Sakura traveled back in time with the intent of changing everything, but something went wrong, and now she's a four-year-old civilian having nightmares about impossible monsters and losing friends she has yet to meet.

Deletrear: - „Kick The Habit“ (...) (general+)                              last update: 2020 Yes, Itachi's emotional and physical well-being is his first and only priority. No, Sasuke does not have anything remotely resembling a plan to ensure this. It's fine, honestly.

Wroth_and_ruin: - „About Face“ (...) (general)                                      last update: 2017 A little yellow-haired boy saves Sakura from the bullies. And everything changes.

Elumish: - „Adoption by Defenestration; or, A Family Can Be A Fox Demon, Its Jinchuriki, and Three Dozen Highly-Trained Assassins” (general) • He will not be the ANBU who let the jinchuuriki plummet to his death out a fourth story window. Let that be another ANBU’s legacy.

Elesrea: - “Anachronistic Drift” (...) (general+) last updated: 2021                                    Her plan was flawless. Save Shisui. Save the world.

Cyan96: - “Kurama” (...) (general)                                        last update: 2018 Namikaze Minato makes a mistake. Uzumaki Kushina makes a choice. Naruto ends up growing up with a red haired, foul tempered older brother who wants Konoha to be atomized, preferably yesterday.

Dragonpyre: - “Time Travel? What the Fuck?” (...) (general+)                                                       last update: 2020 Basically, Team 7 vs. Kaguya, final smack down. Then suddenly POOF they’re twelve again and waiting to meet their sensei on team assignment day. With no way to get back they decide to stop the war before it begins, and maybe save some people along the way. But they’re twelve, how are they supposed to do that? Starring: Naruto Everyone's-My-Friend Uzumaki, Sasuke Maybe-I-Won't-Destroy-Konoha Uchiha, and Sakura Better-Than-This Haruno; with a guest appearance from Kakashi's guilt complex. We'll be in for a ride folks.

Tozette: - “Strike A Match” (general+) • Sasuke could have reversed time to save the world. He could have done it for his mother and his father, he could have done it for his clan or his village. That's... Those are sweet ideas. They're sort of like what might happen if you let Naruto imagine a motive for Sasuke to return to his hellish childhood. Save the village. Save the world. Be a hero. Sasuke makes a terrible hero.

YumeMadarame: - “I’ll fix it for you” (general+) Kurama wakes up in the dark, trapped inside a human body. The memory loss doesn't help. The Uchiha body either. When he finally understands he’s been sent years in the past, – decades, even – before Kaguya’s revival, before the devastation that had come with it, and before Naruto’s birth… he realizes he’s been given a chance to start anew. An opportunity to make things right, this time around.

Microgeek: - “Fox and Son” (...) (general) last update: 2021 Kurama has little love for humans and even less for his jailors, those Uzumaki with wind and tide in their blood, audacious enough to trap a god beneath their skins. But there is enough love left in him for his newest host, who had as little say in this life as Kurama did, and asked Kurama for friendship anyway. (In which Kurama raises a child out of love, hope, and spite, Naruto grows up to be terrifying, and Konoha collectively regrets that an ancient chakra-beast is better at parenting than they are.)

AvocadoLove: “Teach Your Children Well” (...) (general+)                    last update: 2010 What difference can one man make? After Madara and Sasuke's final attack on the village, Rokudaime Kakashi finds a time-travel scroll. Now he's Team Seven's sensei again. And this time, he's going to do things differently. 

Lolistar92: “Kit and kin” (general+) a series, one of 8 (no this isn't a typo. 8) The Sandaime is resolute when he shakes his head. “No, Kakashi. Naruto is safe where he is. Return to your post, as ordered.” Kakashi doesn’t move. “I’ll give you time to reconsider,” he says, jovial tone chilling with how juxtaposed it is from his previous killing intent. ~~~~ Or, former Rokudaime Kakashi wakes up in the body of his 14 year old self, fresh from the Kyuubi attack. He may not have been allowed to save his first pack, but he sure as hell is going to save Naruto.

[indras-curse]

Hey.

You think you could write smth about like Minato as a Hokage investigating some weird stuff in the village and accidentally discovering the whole Root and Danzo thing. And like Danzo wondering wth just happened.

Sorry for my english.

Hey! No worries, your English is good.

I imagine that as soon as Hiruzen was out of Hokage's office, things would have been tense. Hiruzen gave Danzo the benefit of the doubt, they were good friends, and Danzo didn't seem to have the same intense hatred the rest of the village had for Orochimaru. Good friends!

But Minato is different, because Jiraiya was different.

Because Kushina is different.

And Danzo was all too eager to fall into the good graces of the woman, who had control of the Kyuubi had the power to decide what comes and goes, besides it was a known fact that Minato is a sucker for his wife and would do anything for her if she asked.

But, while Minato looks like a softie, he definitely isn't being passive with his attempts to take power away from ANBU and consequently, ROOT. He seems to have some inside knowledge that there is a difference between organizations, that another one within ANBU even exists.

Danzo has made sure to cover his tracks so nobody should be suspicious of him, yet they are.

Not only that, but if there is anybody who could undo the seal of silence ROOT members have, it would be that pair, both are extremely talented with them.

Danzo is not nervous, but he is not happy.

He tries to speak to Minato the way he did with Hiruzen, with the hope that the younger man would listen to the voice of the experience, but he didn't budge, even shot him down a couple of times saying he appreciated his advice but he was Hiruzen's advisor, not his.

That damn, brat.

I imagine Kushina would have sensor abilities because of the Kyuubi and she would have sensed a ROOT member trailing Minato, they may have just thought it was just a kid doing kid things admiring the Hokage from afar, but once they get a hold of him, they notice this child is weird.

Completely shut down and uncanny in the way he expressed himself. They check him to make sure everything is right with him and discover he has a seal, which Minato dispels.

And it all comes crashing down.

I think Danzo would have teamed up with Orochimaru, hence Akatsuki, keeping in mind the timeline.

If Minato had called, perhaps Jiraiya might have come to help with the fight.

So, I just think the civil war would have happened sooner but in this case, the Uchiha would be on Minato's side.

Minato would have given the Uchiha the respect they needed to trust the village again and they would have made them powerful.

You made me realize Minato couldn't be alive for half the story to work lmao he would have just solved everything.

Because Minato's generation may have been still preserving the hatred cycle, but his disciples were definitely done with it, it would have changed him to spend more time with his kids the same way it changed Kakashi to spend time with Team 7

Goddamit Kishimoto

[whitesnakewine]

read a fic last night with the most unusual philosophical teacher! Orochimaru Ive ever read

-> look up writer's blog

-> neurosurgeon + scientist

[tentenismybitch]

Me a nosey and messy bitch:

Soooooooo, whats the hot take 🧐👀👂

i was gonna be like "come off anon and i'll tell you privately!" but honestly idgaf, this is my blog!!

i've been reading fanfiction since i was 9 years old, and writing it since i was in middle school. in my early teen years i mostly read fanfic for "het" ships (primarily nejiten, sasuino [lol] and shikatema.) as an older teen/adult i've been consuming more gay content. as y'all know i love team gai. my fave ships are kakagai, nejiten, and gaalee, so these are the ships i read the most fic of. and i've gotta say.

IN MY EXPERIENCE!!! fics for gay ships are usually way better written! BY A COUNTRY MILE!!! and idk why it is!! i have found NUMEROUS long + incredibly well-written fics for kakagai and gaalee, less so for nejiten. even searching ao3 and seeing fics for other "het" ships that nejiten is a side pairing of, just on the summaries alone i can tell A LOT of them are not for me....sorry! sorry!

like i don't want to be a mean and messy bitch but alas here we are. sometimes, the plots just aren't giving. like, they're not interesting! but also, i am primarily talking in terms of technical writing craft and skill!! summaries be riddled with grammatical issues and typos*, or don't make sense, or, again, aren't compelling and make me want to read the fic. or the characterization is abysmal! from blatantly out of character actions to, just, like, fundamental misunderstandings of the characters

i just find a lot of nejiten fics that are written exactly in the way that i used to write when i was 14!! and i'm sorry again! that may work for some people but i am a voracious reader and also want to write as my CAREER, so that's just not gonna cut it for me....

of my 3 favorite naruto ships, nejiten is the only one that i've been shipping SINCE the beginning of my days in the naruto fandom (aka when i was 9/10 years old!!) but of my 16 ao3 bookmarks, only 4 of them are nejiten-centric fics–two of them are by the same author (shoutout to @winterberryholly) and 1 of them is a oneshot.

hence the point of my original post. WHERE are the well-written, nejiten-centric fics that are, like, longfic. i've found cute oneshots or shorter fics here and there but it's like damn. what's a bitch gotta do for a 300k slowburn friends to lovers bi4bi ptsd trauma + healing nejiten fic? write it myself?!

TLDR my hot take is that gay ships tend to have much better written fic than "het" ships

[burstbubbbles]

at this point my toxic doomed yaoi of the season (bakudeku) has toxic doomed yaoied too close to the sun. i might just go back to my original toxic doomed yaoi (narusasu) to Feel Something

[boo-cool-robot]

it's kind of funny that I finished my Naruto read going "oh my god....Naruto and Sasuke are in love....." but it turns out I don't really like most SNS fan content and all my fic reading time is spent on epics about Sakura getting good at punching stuff or Itachi being a little weirdo

[alienatedtsuki]

Redefining the normal | Post Chapter 698/699, NaruSasu/SasuNaru Part III

before today is over by oshit Above him, Sasuke leans over the edge of the pier to watch. Naruto hears him laugh and even with his face draped in shadow, he can imagine Sasuke’s cheshire grin, eyes crinkling with mirth. He feels Sasuke smiling at him. Naruto would pluck every star from the heavens to keep that feeling. - This fic is about a fantastic day near the sea that boys spent with each other. How Sasuke tries to court Naruto is way too cute.  NaruSasu/SasuNaru | First Date | Talks about Feelings (12,280)

Baker's Dozen by mylilchickadee In the aftermath of war, Sasuke struggles to deal with his new life while Naruto struggles to deal with him. Love, friendship, and baking. - First, amazing recipes. I love the idea of how Sasuke decided to express his fondness for Naruto with baking. Second, this fanfic has a lot of angst; all the problems are there, and there are even some suicide attempts from Sasuke's side. But they eventually figured everything out. NaruSasu/SasuNaru | Angst | Baking | Gardening | First kiss | Love Confessions (24,820)

Enough by MadeNew Their final battle is ending. Sasuke's winning. And then he wakes up in a world where Naruto was never born - and all the changes that come with it. - Sasuke is sent by Naruto to another dimension, where he figures out how life would be without him in it. I love how well Sasuke is written in this fic; this is what I call an eye-opener. His talk with Minato is incredible.  NaruSasu/SasuNaru | Angst | Parallel universe(he goes back to Naruto at the end) | Love Confessions  (6,607)

Won't Let Go by ninagum (orphan_account) Naruto and Sasuke wake up at the hospital after the war, worn-out, with an invisible red-string still laced between them. "You’ve called me your friend so many times... But..." "Say it." "I don't think you really mean it like that." - This fic is one of my all-time favourites. In this one, Naruto kills the council! I was so happy when I read it; I love darker Naruto in the fics. I love how the writer decided to encapture their dynamic with a lot of angst, passion, and open questions. It took some time to find what would work for them. This fic is just exceptional. NaruSasu/SasuNaru | Angst | Dark Naruto | Happy Ending(They are together in every universe) (66,441)

And here's the reason why I wasn't there…I am learning how to draw so that I can add cute fan art to every recommendation post. This is my take on the ending of a cute comic about Naruto saying Sasuke is his friend. Enjoy <3

[confuzzledsani]

- Oneirophrenia: “A state where a person becomes confused about the distinction between reality and dream as if he or she were living in a dream state.”

New fic is up! Good to be back in the Naruto fan base.

Read it here!: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56480035/chapters/143528380#main

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The People We Think We Know

Chapter 1

Pairing: Tobirama x fem!Reader

WC: 2,145

CW: None (9.16.2024)

Madara’s brothers’ names come from sennokami and fineillsignup, I liked their theories.

Read on Ao3

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Madara isn’t completely surprised when his father decides to take the girl in as a ward. His mother and father had always wished for a daughter.

He had seen the small flicker–not quite disappointment–the day that it was announced that Tajima had been ‘blessed with a fifth son' upon Izuna’s birth. Their second child was planned to be named Myoko, changed to Kou when the medical staff revealed him to be a boy. And initially they brushed it off, happy to have two strong, healthy boys to take up their positions as immediate heirs. So, they tried again, picking out the beautiful and cute name of Kurohime; and everyone chuckled and joked–when Kuro was born–about his mother’s ability to bless her husband with so many sons.

And then Mother nearly died giving birth to Togakushi. Madara was four at the time, but he vaguely recalls the entire pregnancy was rough for her; morning sickness through the entirety of it, fainting spells, migraines, if something could go wrong it probably did. He vividly remembers having to leave a sobbing three-year-old Kou with a one-year-old Kuro while he went running to the medical building the first time she passed out. When Father had returned later that night from a skirmish at the border, he had praised his quick thinking before spending the rest of the night quietly hunched over Mother as she rested, her hand tightly grasped to his chest. The medical team and midwives discouraged another pregnancy when they had to use resuscitation techniques on her and Togakushi during the birth.

Then, one night as Madara lay awake, he listened through a crack in the shoji as the sound drifted down the hall of his Mother begging Father to try one more time. Just once more, to try for a girl once more, and regardless of the outcome they would stop at five. His father quietly, hesitantly, agreed. And soon enough, Izuna was born.

The midwives had chastised them for trying again so soon after the previous pregnancy, and correctly, this time around was fairly hard on her body again. Not to the same degree, but enough so that Mother and Father fully acknowledged that pushing the boundaries any further would end up costing them more than just 9 months of horrible discomfort.

After the midwives leave, Father opens the door to let him and his brothers in to see little Izuna coddled to Mother’s chest. They chatter and coo and awe at him, draped across Mother’s legs and lap. He sits quietly as his brothers eventually nod off in a pile together, small hands twisting and clutching the blankets while he dutifully holds a straight back. And as a five-year-old Madara politely remains at Mother’s side, she gestures him closer, cradling his head to her chest where he can look at his youngest brother.

He’s a tiny thing. Face scrunched but skin smooth and the smallest shock of black hair on his head. Madara can only think of the reason why Izuna was born, the quiet whispers not meant for his ears–recalls that tiny flicker on Father’s face. And when he looks at Mother’s face, she has a soft smile–a genuine, loving one as she has had for every child she has born into the world–but there is a lingering sadness. So, he looks at his youngest brother, his littlest brother, his last brother, and vows to always keep safe this soul that, while loved, is not quite what was wanted.

—

It’s two years after Izuna is born that she appears. The Summer Solstice Celebration was in full swing, with dancing, singing, cheering. Everyone brought out food to pick at, lovers are running about with small streamers, parents with young kids are sitting watching a shadow puppet play, while older kids toss dice. Some of the elders grouse about the lack of the fireworks show, a tradition that was discontinued after the fighting with other clans had grown too costly; a commodity that can’t be afforded when weapons and armor are paramount.

Things are calming down as the sun sets, the younger children are practically comatose from a day of play–to the relief of some parents. The matriarch's of each house are calling to their eldests to come clean plates and dishes, getting only answering groans and complaints. It’s a scream from one of the mikos that has everyone snapping to attention.

Madara races to his room for his weapons as others leap either towards the shrine or into homes. He briefly hears Mother calling for him to come back as she balances Izuna on a hip and tells Kou to watch Kuro and Toga as the sound of her sandals quickly follow behind.

Father is already there with three other shinobi when Madara arrives with a couple kunai in hand. The miko is scolding a small child near the entrance of the shrine that is cowering with her arms crossed protectively over her head. Madara can see the slight quivering rattling her entire body as the adults stare down with distrustful gazes.

“Mayuri,” Tajima cuts off the incensed miko with a stern look, “What happened, whose child is this?”

She turns to him with down turned brows, “I don’t know. But what I do know is that I found her shoveling the food offerings for Amaterasu into her mouth like a starving animal.”

Mother arrives behind him, quickly catching up even when ladened with a two-year-old on her hip. “Madara, don’t go running off like that, you aren’t old enough for battle yet! What if a raid had been happening?”

“Yoko,” Tajima calls, pinching his nose, “If that were the case, you shouldn’t be running about either.”

“Oh shush, husband mine,” she waves a hand as she steps forward. “I could sense that there was no threat.”

Father sighs–a sarcastic ‘I wonder where our children get their hard-headedness from’ dropping quietly from his lips–as Mother swats his shoulder with a coy smile before turning to the small girl.

She silently looks at the child for a long moment, taking in the rice bag that had a neck and arm holes torn into it, a feeble and sad imitation of clothing. The fading light of the sun filters through the back of the shrine, shining through one of the windows to cast a warm yellow square of luminance across Mother as she smiles warmly and lowers herself to the ground.

“Now, what is your name, little one?” She coos.

The girl stares up at Yoko like she is the sun itself. Her breaths stutter out of her unevenly, bringing her hands down to clutch at the front of her rice bag dressings.

“Speak, girl!” One of the shinobi standing about growls, digging his heel into her back, subsequently knocking her to the floor.

The air seems to heat up dangerously as Yoko sends him a scathing look. Madara can see the way Mother’s lip curls into a snarling sneer, the heat of rage licking at her tongue that dampens when the girl speaks for the first time.

“[Name].”

She’s struggling back to her knees as she repeats it two more times.

“And I’m…,” she uncurls five fingers one by one before thrusting them out to everyone. “This many years old.” And Madara practically sees how Mother’s heart melts.

“My, that is quite old!” Yoko cheers with a starlight warm smile that the girl returns with a bashful one. “Do you know where your parents are? They must be worried about you.”

[Name] wilts, curling around herself. She shakes her head. “They went to sleep a long time ago. I tried to wake them up, but I guess they’re dreams are too happy.”

The dread in the air is palpable. Madara is seven, but he understands death. He’s had to ever since he started his shinobi training; even more so as his tenth birthday gets closer, signaling his formal introduction to the battlefield.

Mother looks to Father with a knowing look. Father simply closes his eyes.

His mother and father had always wished for a daughter.

—

She looks different, not quite like anyone from any clan that he has seen. The curve of her nose, the angle of her jaw, the lines of her face when she smiles or frowns. Madara notices all of this as she sits at the dinner table with them. His brothers all stare at her as the table is set. She seems blissfully unaware of their eyes, instead her attention gazes about the dining room, tracing the wooden beams and paper shoji screens.

She’s freshly cleaned and wrapped in a clean simple yukata by Mother’s hand–although, the sound of clattering and splashing that had come from the bathroom earlier was a testament to the difficulty of the entire endeavor. The two had come out later with the girl adamantly hiding her embarrassment with her hands and Mother bearing a beaming smile despite her rolled up sleeves being soaking wet. Father had just given her an unimpressed look before carefully pressing about the importance of not scaring their ‘guest.’

Father finally sits at the head of the table, gives thanks for the food and begins to eat. Everyone else calls back their thanks and Madara watches as the girl stumbles through it, trying to mimic the words. He watches as she picks up her chopsticks and leans over to bring the food to her mouth.

The sound of Mother clearing her throat has [Name] looking up at her like a deer watching for predators. Mother pointedly glances at everyone else at the table with their bowls held in hand. Abashedly, [Name] picks up her bowl and straightens her posture; Mother gives a small nod and dinner continues quietly. It’s hard for Madara to fathom how she knows how to use chopsticks and yet is unaware of good manners. Part of him supposes that perhaps she didn’t come from a well off family, or that maybe her family didn’t care.

Regardless, it’s odd, she’s odd.

After dinner, Mother calls out to him as his brothers collect the dishes. “Show [Name] to her room and help her set out the futon.”

“Yes, Haha-ue.” He nonchalantly brushes her hand away when she runs her fingers through his unruly hair, a quiet laugh leaving her as his ears burn red.

He can’t help but think how loud her steps are as they walk through the halls; the boards creak and groan under each of her steps, making the house sing an alarming tune. He isn’t used to the noise of it, even two-year-old Izuna is starting to learn which slats warble and how to avoid them–such is the habits of a shinobi home. It sets his teeth on edge and the hair on the back of his neck stands and won’t settle the longer that he feels her walking behind him.

When they get to the room, one that used to be his aunts before she was killed in a raid, he steps to the side when sliding open the door and gestures her in first. The way bile crawls up the back of his throat when she tilts her head almost knowingly at him makes him want to slam the door behind her in disregard of Mother’s command. But he resists as she steps in and looks around the room. Madara has to force himself to make his movements look less rushed than they actually are. Yanking the futon out of the closet haphazardly in an attempt to make the swing look casual and not like he wants to be ten miles away from this room–from this girl.

When he’s done smoothing out the blanket–as minimal as his effort was–he stands to look at the girl that had been watching him silently the entire time. There is something about her that doesn’t sit right, actions and words feeling disjointed and too experienced for her 5-year-old self. The futon separates them and it feels like his first battlefield, staring down this stranger in his home with the odd face, and odd mannerisms, and odd actions. And he feels powerful as he gathers up a heavy breath to give her a devastatingly serious glare with his words, “Chichi-ue allowing you to sleep here doesn’t make you my sister or a part of this family, you hear.”

And blankly in return, “I know, goodnight.”

Numbly, Madara stares at the closed door of the room that the girl had just shoved him out of, a deep seated embarrassment crawling up onto his cheeks in a warm flush. He doesn’t stomp down the hall, because he is a shinobi and he is above that.

(He hears as his brothers cackle when Father calls down the hall about the racket he’s making; and he swears he hears the girl chuckle too even though he would never be able to prove it.)

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[okay-letsdothisonelasttime]

I once again took forever but I finally finished the last squad pic for my 'Of Harrowed Hearts' draw up.

I intend to do a full rookie 9 set but that will take 7ever, so maybe I'll do some individual summons first.

I'm definitely getting more comfortable with shading and it's nice to have a reason to practice with procreate and different techniques, but there still sooooooo much to learn.

(I have to many hobbies....)