#rin lives!au

[holly-natnicole]

My Canon-Compliant Headcanons 'Bout Nohara Rin:

Her Number 1 most Favourite colour is black. She even befriended Uchiha Obito & Yūhi Kurenai initially coz of it. Rin saw their hair on the 1st day of school then instantly went to go tell them "Your hair is pretty!!" as soon as break-time started. Rin likes pouring black ink onto white sheets of paper & shift the paper around, watching the ink spread as she tilts the paper. Her 2nd Fave colour is shades of violet, but she's allergic to all flowers in the genus Viola and doesn't particularly care 'bout flowers nor flower language at all (Rin doesn't dislike them, though; she's fully neutral).

Rin fidgets with her hands a lot; whenever she's not doing so, her feet move instead. It's basically impossible for Rin to stay still unless she's unconscious or under the influence of a genjutsu. Even when asleep, Rin keeps moving the entire time; sometimes she falls off her bed as a result. The red headband Rin wears on her wrist is a 5th birthday gift from her mum since her fingers messing with it helps Rin concentrate when someone is talking to her.

She feels an ache behind her eyes each time Rin makes eye contact with someone, so she tends to look at people's noses or foreheads when trying to indicate that Rin is paying attention to someone who is speaking to her and she openly stares all over her surroundings if she thinks the person won't get angry at the incorrectly assumed lack of listening. Rin's eyes also are sensitive to light, so she carries sunglasses with her everywhere in a pocket or in her weapons pouch. Regardless of whether indoors or outside, she puts them on to give her eyes a break from the pain brightness causes to them.

Rin loves strawberries and sea turtles!! She ever since infancy is always eager to eat the former and ever since age 3 adores any strawberry or turtle themed item she can find. Her biological parents' 4th birthday gift to her is a strawberry (Fragaria × ananassa) in a pot suspended from the ceiling of her bedroom. Rin's dad works as a gardener, so he helps her take good care of it. Her bio fullsister Nohara Ren's 4th birthday gift to her is a shuriken in the shape of a sea turtle (Chelonioidea).

Ren & Rin are very different from each other. Where the former is good at interacting with other people, the latter is fully socially incompetent. Where Ren easily wakes up early & enjoys sunlight, Rin can sleep through anything & anywhere and likes moonlight. Where the former can't use medical ninjutsu & is skilled at using genjutsu, the latter is skilled at using medical ninjutsu & can't use genjutsu. Where Ren can read a 205-paged textbook in 5 minutes and remember & understand everything she'd been reading, Rin needs to take a lot of breaks for the same book & give herself practice tests then revise before she manages to learn anything. The former is energetic, the latter is mostly quiet. Ren has zero issues with her eyes and can sit still without moving at all, Rin (as mentioned earlier) struggles a lot. However, despite all of these differences, the 2 sisters love each other and Rin (who is 5 years younger than her big sis) respects Ren a lot.

Until tragedy strikes. Ren graduated at 6 years old then was recruited into Root by Shimura Danzō (who secretly had the jōnin whose apprentice she was assassinated). The mental strain eventually caused 12 years old Ren to murder her loving bio parents and spare Rin (who witnessed the whole thing) solely coz her sisterly love had turned twisted. Ren knocked Rin out with 涅槃精舎の術/Nehan Shōja no Jutsu/Nirvana Temple Technique then snuck out of Konohagakure and lived the rest of her life as a nukenin, travelling all over the Human World 'til she died from microscopic polyangiitis at age 17. Rin started learning medical ninjutsu and how to identify & resist & break genjutsu due to her trauma from Ren's betrayal & their caring, civilian parents' death.

Rin usually is genuinely nice, but her social incompetence & her bluntness often get Rin into trouble. She dislikes arguments & so tries to be the peacekeeper between Obito and Hatake Kakashi, but often fails at it since Rin lacks diplomacy skills. She respects Namikaze Minato a lot for having the same background as her – a kid with civilian parents and no kekkei genkai – yet growing extremely skilled thus Rin develops a fascination for fūinjutsu.

Rin's most Fave word is friendship (in Japanese yūai which is written as 友愛 in kanji). She's a lonely person who holds tight to the very few friends (her parents, Ren, Kurenai, Obito, Kakashi, Minato, and Uzumaki Kushina) she manages to gain; although Rin doesn't always forgive them if they wrong her in some way, she does always give them a second chance and never holds grudges. It's not that Rin is unable to hold a grudge or incapable of spite; she feels those emotions, but they fade away as soon as Rin sees her loved ones since she's grateful that her family interacts with her at all. She's bad at setting boundaries and a hypocrite whose morality vanishes when her friends are the ones who do something she'd never tolerate from anyone else (not even if the person has always been sincerely nice to her). If she had lived past her suicide at 14 years old, Rin coulda grown out of these traits with some help from her family and a competent therapist. She also woulda bit by bit befriended Isobu the Sanbi (as Rin at the time of her canon death is the Three-Tails' jinchūriki).

Rin likes following her usual routine and dislikes it being interrupted (she's not a spontaneous person). She hates the taste of tsukudani and feels conflicted 'bout kids, in her teens wanting to someday become a bio or legally adoptive mum yet her whole time as a ninja up to that point always being utterly terrible at D-rank missions which involve babysitting (Obito is good at those and Kakashi relies on books to be at least semi-competent at them, her teammates' success lowering Rin's self-confidence since she sometimes compares herself to them, Kurenai, & Ren).

Ren & Rin's parents are civilians who were born in the Village Hidden in the Leaves, their respective bio parents having been civilians who were born there too to a few of the first civilians to join Konohagakure after the Village Hidden in the Leaves was founded. As stated above, the cisgender girls' dad Nohara Daisuke works as a gardener; he also grows as much of the family's food as he can. The girls' mum Nohara née Terada Ran is a housewife who (after a talk with her husband to figure out what they'll do) upon finding out she was 3 months pregnant with their 1st kid quit her job as a waiter in favour of focusing on raising the couple's children, Daisuke raising their daughters whenever he wasn't busy with work or his garden. Ran has the same violet filled-in square tattoo on each facial cheek her daughters have, getting the 2 tattoos on her 5th birthday same as her children do. The tattoos are a tradition started by Ran's bio mum Terada née Ōkan Ruki who at age 4 got them for herself; upon 3-year-old Ran wanting them, she told her only kid: "If you still want them next year, you can have them." Ren & Rin got the same choice too.

Her hobby is collecting sea shells, coz she ever since age 3 loves how pretty they are.

[holly-natnicole]

Rin had lived, maybe Kakashi would have later liked her back romantically; the two standing back to back as 2 jōnin.

If...

[mayskalih]

[kankuroplease]

Day 7: KakaObiRin, tickle

Rin being extra ticklish will probably result in Obito getting kicked in the face or crotch, but it’s fun while it last 😆

[equill]

The Warden

Panel: No escape.

Ok, now just some silly ideas to share (playing around with the au)

Comic 1: Invading dreams

Extra: no thanks.

Comic 2: Unwanted attention

[holly-natnicole]

Also, Nohara Rin coulda gotten Haruno Sakura started on learning medical ninjutsu immediately after the Wave mission and (if she's still Isobu's jinchūriki) helped Uzumaki Naruto start befriending Kurama. I dunno how canon Rin coulda helped Uchiha Sasuke, but my version of her has a similar backstory thus she coulda been his confidant whilst Hatake Kakashi handles teaching him kenjutsu. It'd be adorable to see Kakashi-x-Rin partially parenting the jōnin-sensei's 3 subordinates (although, Sakura has her bio parents and Naruto kinda has Iruka; of the three, Sasuke would need the support most since he doesn't have anyone if the Uchiha massacre still happens even when Rin survives being kidnapped by Kiri-nin). I'd be excited to see what plot-affecting choices Rin makes and how her relationship with Kakashi & friendships with other Konoha-nin develop. Plus there's Konoha civilians and non-Konoha people she could interact with! Maybe Rin would develop a bitter platonic rivalry with Terumī Mei? There's so much potential to develop her character! What little was shown of Rin in canon is a good start and simply needs some polishing.

Their body language tells everything. Imagine if they were growing up together. Kakashi complaining about his daily life as jounin teacher, when his team gave him a headache, he will grumble a lot, and Rin would listen wholeheartedly: "Yes, I'm listening to you, Darling."

[green-crocs12]

for context, obito lives after kannabi bridge mission au and kakashis left the team to join anbu (it’s been around 2 years since they’ve properly talked to the guy)

little bonus scene + the sketch :)

[ratsunie]

the trio

[rinlivesnarutoau]

more sketches of Rin, and following some tutorials on how to draw eyes and heads.

[anannua]

team minato snooze pile

[holly-natnicole]

My Headcanons for How Nohara Rin's Ninja Skills Coulda Grown:

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[windshieldwiper]

the blue lock hogwarts au brainrot is real

[no-nic]

ame-chan!rin 🌧️

(no, not from amegakure)

disappointed that blood-bending enemies is not possible (blood is too charged with a person's chakra)

inventor of spray bottle no jutsu (for "training" obito and kakashi) (water user on main)

strong urge to visit the library whenever she wants to know something, like. in the middle of a conversation

wears bright tracksuits because it doesn't matter in ninja stealth. and even if it did, she wouldn't care

changes hairstyles because she is not a background anime character

convinced that to minato she's the easiest student to deal with. she is actually the hardest

to her orochimaru-sensei is a model medical professional

big fan of body modifications

surprisingly strong opinions on unimportant things

desperate for a summoning contract (might want to marry kakashi because he comes with eight free dogs!)

refuses to be ashamed of anything

several times was introduced as "rin or ame-chan, my soulmate"; by obito of course. they're not dating

no death by chidori but still manages to traumatize both her teammates: "obito, you're my best friend. and this is your fault."

#and they lived au; an experiment in writing a favorite trope

[mayskalih]

15/09.

[kankuroplease]

For Obito’s birthday…. maybe adult Jōnin Obito who never left Konoha having a sake party with Kakashi and Rin?

[dazzelmethat]

Outfit planning for my Vocaloid space opera au that plays inside my brain. They'd all be androids but Neru/Teto/Haku would be made up of pirated software and an unofficial unbranded AI while they all fly in space together.