#neji deserved better

[oraclesblog]

If you ever think your least favourite ship is the worst, just remember that Naruhina had to…

mutilate and fridge a 14 year old girl.

And then kill off a fan favourite character.

In order to pull off the ass pull of the century by making two characters with barley any page time of interactions end up together purely for the sake of fan service.

[rikustarlight]

A little sweetness of my babies 💜 The twins really do love their little sister and they hug all the time no matter how old they are 🥹 they’re such mushes like their father! Neji can’t keep his hands off of Tenten some times LOL

Hizashi on the left and Nozomi on the right and of course little Meiten in the middle.

Nejiten kid designs | Nejiten Family headcannons

[thisearthycat]

my top three fave naruto charsss

[sweaterskeletons]

So I saw this post originally by @darling-imobsessed and and and so I drew some of them here you go

[tae-shimura-is-my-wife]

Yeah you favorite character may have died, but they weren't a super powerful and interesting character that got wasted and forgotten by the narrative to then appear again and die to a piece of wood because the author wanted to develop a couple in an ACTION SERIES

[ap-kinda-lit]

Lee: NEJI! YOU'RE HURT! Neji: No, I'm fi- Tenten: NO! NOT AGAIN! Neji: It's nothin- Lee: YOU'RE BLEEDING! Tenten: WHERE'S THE FIRST AID KIT!? Neji: It's just a paper cut- Tenten: SCREW IT! WE'RE TAKING YOU TO SAKURA! Lee: I'LL CARRY HIM! Neji: Please don't.

[mmprviolet]

As a teen i shipped myself with a ninja named Neji

[supertvngames]

When your relative who suffered through slavery, lost his dad, and got killed just for a "shipping fuel" even if you get to be with your crush.

[lilias300yearhusband]

Wow Naruto is giving Kuramas chakra to everybody I hope Neji gets some… OH WAIT HES DEAD!!! STOP SHOWING NARUTO AND HINATA HOLDING HANDS NEJI IS DEAD. HE COULD HAVE GOTTEN THEM OUT OF THE WAY HINATA COULD HAVE MOVED THEM OUT OF THE WAY HIASHI WAS RIGHT THERE

AT LEAST KAKASHI WONT DIE AGAIN I HOPE

[oprescuewagon]

Happy birthday Neji Hyuga

[depressedhatakekakashi]

Pokemon journey

The fifth badge has been secured, but not without a cost.

I’m afraid Neji the Meditite fell in battle, exactly like the character he was named after. A sacrifice to protect a Pokemon i refused to lose (Sasuke the Luxio)

[fusionblitz28]

Yes, yes, yes to all of this 👆🏼👆🏼👆🏼 I’m looking at you SasuNaruSasu 😬 Naruto and Sasuke have wayyy more chemistry than they do with Hinata or Sakura whom they both canonically marry. Even in Boruto, SasuNaru spend more time together than with their families and it’s cruel to their wives. Canon would have been better off putting them together (after Sasuke gets some major therapy).

Hinata’s entire personality is Naruto even though she has awesome abilities and a heartbreaking backstory that could have been explored more to have her come into her strength of her own accord. Instead her entire screen time hinges on her obsession with Naruto. She and her sister and Neji could have banded together to take down her father and do away with the branch family and their awful seals. Even if Hinata didn’t want to lead the clan her character could have had so much influence and done so much more then we are given. They could have made Neji the head of the clan. It would be a full circle moment for the three of them to escape their so called “fates” and rewrite the story for their people. Instead Neji dies for the sake of her and Naruto getting together. His sacrifice was wasted. He only escapes the seal in death which means he had never escaped fate at all.

My girl Sakura is the only member of Team 7 with ZERO backstory- nothing about her family, barely anything else bar the whole Ino fight in the chunin exams. She becomes Tsuna’s apprentice and is a baller medic and fighter but she only gets one awesome fight and her personality still hinges on her love for Sasuke. It would have been cool to see her grow past the obsessive little girl crush and love and care for Sasuke as a teammate. He had done so much wrong to her and the rest of the team and all of it just gets swept under the rug. Sasuke leaves right after being exonerated and Sakura just waits. And waits. For him to come back and they get married. The relationship gets no development and neither party matures enough to be together.

I write mostly KakaSaku and I always struggle to write Sakura’s perspective over Kakashi’s. And it’s this reason. Kakashi has a fully fleshed out and complicated backstory and past and so much growth as a character. Sakura is nearly a clean slate which can be fun but it’s also overwhelming cause I have to add more to her because canon was lacking. She deserved more. All the female characters in Shonen deserve more.

This is not hate on NaruHina or SasuSaku or any other ship. I am 💯 pro ship whether that ship is canon or not. This is criticism of a much bigger issue where females get left out of complexities in writing. Or left out of writing in general.

It just kills me when writers create franchises where like 95% of the speaking roles are male, then get morally offended that all of the popular ships are gay. It’s like, what did they expect?

[rikustarlight]

The ending they deserved TBH. I have some head cannons here of if you want to take a look. Neji and Tenten definitely had three kids.

BRB sobbing:

My head cannons explained on my fanfic account:

Nejiten head cannons | Tenten Head cannons | Neji head cannons | Nejiten Family Head cannons | Full kid designs

[lil-bri]

Something about Naruto’s character has always made me so incredibly sad and horrified and I have no idea why. I don’t know if it’s due to his different treatment to both his parents, something about him immediately punching Minato the moment he realized that was his dad, that his father was the one to give him such a heavy burden, or something about him sobbing his little heart out and holding onto his mom the moment he met her. Like the little kid he was when he lost her (literally as a newborn) and the little kid he still was when he first properly met her.

Or maybe is something about how much he holds on to whoever doesn’t treat him badly. Even if he’s just being ignored, his sole existence not being acknowledged, he isn’t being treated like a filthy animal. Maybe not being treated badly was what Naruto thought love was. Maybe that’s why he’s always hold onto Sasuke. Because, in a way, they were one and the same, at least in Naruto’s eyes.

He doesn’t care for where does that love come from, or from who. As long as he’s not being hurt then Naruto is bound to think that that’s love. Because he grew up without it, so he doesn’t know how it should feel like.

Maybe it’s something about Naruto’s emotional dependency that has always made me so horrified and upset.

[yesulart]

I HAVE BEEN THINKING

Soo a month or two ago I watched the opening and endings of Boruto for the first time, and while I think they are nice and don't hate the characters or anything like that i couldn't stop thinking of how good it could be if the Naruto ending was just a little bit different and more satisfying for all the characters and overall plot.

I would love Boruto an Himawari and that other child they have if the NaruHina ship had ANYTHING in the canon, I would accept Sarada existing if she was Sakura child exclusively or they managed to make SasuSaku non toxic. I would love Orochimaru's child if the show actually made Orochimaru pay for anything that he has done instead of making him a comedic character.

I would adore the Boruto series if it showed how Naruto changed the Shinobi world like he promised to. If the hyugas changed to never allow something like the side family seal to be used again(and if Neji was still alive instead of following the hyugas destiny/curse) . If Konoha made anything to compensate Sasuke for the Uchihas massacre. If the Konoha people ever apologized for the treatment they gave to Naruto and so many more small things like that. But I know for a fact that none of that happens, so even though the colors and songs of the boruto series are nice I can't enjoy them because I know the story never progressed. And I wanted to enjoy them.

I can't fix the series nor I have the intention to do that, I just wish it was different because I like what Kisimoto was doing until the last bit of the war arc.

Idk I just needed to ramble a bit about this, because I do plan to make a next gen au with my headcanons of the story, picking and choosing from canon and filler. But I'm making it with the bitter taste of knowing that the next gen already exists and could have been perfect if it had just little adjustments.

[stinkychibikko]

NEJIII AND TENTEN MY HEART </333

Finished animation! Happy Nejiten Month! 🥺💖