#sageswap

[thottyimagines]

I need what the sasuke/tsunade training dynamics would be.

Sassy brat + alcoholic takes no shit = funniest thing ever actually

Sasuke/Tsunade Sageswap

Sasuke tries his surly shit and gets decked on the first day.

He also gets decked on the second, third, fourth, tenth, thirtieth, and sixtieth day.

Sasuke is...a slow learner when it comes to not attempting to pull his Uchiha privilege.

Tsunade contemplates invoking the old Senju/Uchiha wartime hatred of it all. Then she remembers she can just beat this brat into submission and he doesn't even hate her, he's just traumatized and doesn't know what to do about the growing familial feelings he's developing for her.

In turn, she develops familial feelings for him and grows 10x more aggressive, for now he must survive.

Sasuke is forced to learn to heal without his Sharingan first. He needs to learn chakra control for a what-if worst case scenario.

Then he needs to learn it all over again with his Sharingan, because now he can see the chakra flow and it's so much easier it's insane.

He's furious with Tsunade for depriving him of his natural advantage. He does not realize the gift she gave him with learning chakra control all by himself until he's well into adulthood.

Sasuke makes himself a Yin seal by 15.

Tsunade is appalled.

Sasuke becomes a slug sage and weaponizes his awesome healing power into pummeling Itachi and forcing his cells to heal and reproduce to cancerous levels. He commits fratricide with the tools Tsunade gifted him.

Tsunade glows with the knowledge that she is the only one who has an apprentice truly surpassing the master so quickly.

Given this particular sage swap, I guess Orochimaru is miserably attempting to override the nine tails' willpower and possess Naruto's body, and Jiriaya is no longer allowed to write porn or be a massive pervert and is instead teaching Sakura everything he knows about sealing.

[thermodynamic-comedian]

ok but here's my sageswap au designs for team 7 btw. please send me asks abt this au im so insane rn

design stuff under the cut

the kanji on sakura's jacket says "grow"

naruto's short-sleeved jacket was directly inherited from tsunade, same with sasuke's red cardigan from jiraya

jiraya cut sasuke's hair, hence the messiness.

orochimaru gave sakura that black ribbon as a gift for her 16th birthday. nobody knows how they figured out when her birthday was. she never told them when her birthday was. they'd never celebrated it in any way before. nobody knows where they got the black ribbon from, or why they gave it to her. they refuse to explain it. (please ask me about it please please plea-)

naruto dyed the tips of his hair orange at the age of 17, mostly because tsunade told him that doing something to your hair was an essential part of teenagehood.

jiraya made sasuke put on red eye makeup once as a joke, and he got really attached to the look.

naruto couldn't become a proper medical ninja no matter how hard tsunade tried, so instead his training focused on protecting his teammates. he got really good at that, and tsunade thought he deserved the med-nin gem in some capacity, so she gave him an earring that looked like one, unofficially declaring him konoha's first protection ninja.

[1rakus]

sageswap inosaku moodboard

[sasuketheenegro]

sageswap sakura would absolutely learn how to ninja crispr/cas9 your genes to make u bioluminescent and poisonous for fun

[konansgirlfriend]

sakura should be orochimarus pupil so she can unleash her mad scientist energy

[cappucino-commie]

  Okay but I like the idea of SageSwap Sakura where Naruto & Sasuke are just totally convinced she’s dead. I mean, she disappears during the Konoha Crush, hundreds died, what the fuck else are they gonna think? It changes their entire character arcs. Naruto becomes a healer, determined to never lose another comrade. Sasuke starts learning from Jiriaya because he needs the strength to protect his friends and kill Orochimaru to avenge Sakura (people tell him that before he sets out on a journey of revenge to dig two graves- he’ll need far more than that).

  But just spending 3 years coming to terms with their dead teammate and living to honor her memory. And then, both being dispatched on a raid on one of Orochimaru’s labs, and the betrayal when their long lost teammate steps out from the shadows.

[sagaciouscejai]

Ah okay! Wait how old is kasen in the Modern and other AU? And how old was she when she lost arm?

Modern AU Kasen is probably like, in her mid 40′s? 50? She’s definitely an older lady with history with other characters. I can imagine at least a decade has past since she lost her arm, but i could also see much longer as well.

Sageswap AU was originally a Touhoustuck derived, so all the younger sages in this setting are designed to be teens in high school by default. It definitely makes the arm loss thing a WAY more recent thing for Kasen, maybe even a bit too soon, as a lot of Yukari’s whole thing is basically dealing with feelings of long-term internet-style abandonment, but yeah. We could push it to have the incident happen in high school and the current day be college with very little being lost on the feel of the setting.

[diamondnokouzai]

i like the idea of sageswap sakura specifically if shes orochimarus mentee because those two both have such crazy rich girl who bullies people energy but i think that if for some reason like jiraiya ended up sakuras mentor i think that someone would end up stabbing the man.

[thottyimagines]

more orochimaru & naruto teacher student duo I am Begging

Naruto & Orochimaru Sageswap

Orochimaru finds himself being Naruto's unwilling therapist as he works out the rage and rejection of the first ~12 years of his life. Orochimaru also agrees that the way everyone handled things was supremely fucked up.

Naruto quickly demands a contract with the snake summons. He then also wants a neat tattoo to have on his body at all times, and he manfully sheds only a few tears as Orochimaru inks it on under Manda's baleful gaze.

Much to Orochimaru's irritation, every colleague, snake, and experiment he has likes Naruto way more than him.

Orochimaru attempts to study Naruto's insane ability to just...talk anyone out of or into anything. Surely it must be some sort of genjutsu at work.

Naruto almost talks Orochimaru out of his quest for immortality during the course of the experiment.

In retaliation, Orochimaru forces Naruto to create dozens of shadow clones and kills them all in strange and painful ways so that when they pop out of existence, Naruto gains the memory of what his shishou would like to do to him, if he only didn't have a demon in his body.

[1rakus]

sageswap!sakura/karin thoughts?

theyre fucking and also insane coworkers who do NOT like each other, but they're both so uniquely bitchy and volatile that they orbit each other somewhat obsessively, like twin stars.... or lesbian preying mantises.... it actually gets better when sakura kills orochimaru because their power dynamic changes, so they both calm down somewhat. the first time karin sees sakura and ino interact she's like sakura you're a pussy for not IMMEDIATELY wifing that bombshell

[t1sunfortunate]

this is why sageswap rocks btw

jiraiya is the only one who doesn't know who his team 7 parallel is btw. tsunade and oro both know on an innate level that they're the sasuke and naruto, respectively. jiraiya thinks he's the naruto. this is because he doesn't see women as people

[thottyimagines]

Going off of the Sasuke+Tsunade dynamic, would Sakura then be trained under Jiraiya and Naruto turn evil under Orochimaru? Also how would their dynamics be??

Ugh, I'm actually way more interested in the potential dynamic between Sakura and Orochimaru because they could be evil scientists together. But I dug this hole, so let's lie in it:

Sakura/Jiraiya

It's so miserable for both of them for the longest time.

Sakura has crying fits trying to convey to Jiraiya that she does not want to travel the world with a huge pervert. She'd rather go home and be an eternal genin, because she does not feel safe like this.

Jiraiya has to reflect and repent. He's sorry, women.

Jiraiya needs a new cover for his spy master intel gathering, because his sweet new apprentice is too young to understand that his ladies of the night are passing him info.

Sakura makes Jiraiya write a poem apologizing to women as a whole. Tsunade somehow gets the poem and prints it in the government-run Konoha paper.

Anyway, Jiraiya can't teach Sakura to summon frogs for forever, since the amount of her chakra is so meager. But she can totally seal!

Sakura becomes a sealing mistress. She somehow revamps Tsunade's strength of a hundred seal without ever studying healing. It's insane.

Tsunade demands to take her for her masters or whatever the next level of ninja education is.

Naruto/Orochimaru

Orochimaru cleverly lures Naruto into his clutches by showing him basic human decency and telling him he appreciates him for his beastly and monstrous powers and will teach him to wield them properly. Also, Sasuke won't learn as fast as him!

Naruto is in.

Orochimaru spends his days beating the shit out of Naruto, trying to figure out where his chakra limit even is. It seems that the boy taps into the kyuubi's chakra without even noticing.

This eliminates the possibility of Orochimaru possessing Naruto's body. Therefore, Naruto must lure his boyfriend, Sasuke, to the lair.

Naruto is surprisingly not so keen on this plan.

Years are spent in a battle of wills as Orochimaru begrudgingly trains this orange brat, for he needs a sweet weapon of his own and Naruto feels some loyalty toward him due to proximity.

Orochimaru realizes he has an eternal genin and actually gets Naruto to retake the chuunin exams, in part to legitimize him, in part to show off how totally cool and legal their apprenticeship is (it's not).

Naruto beats away anyone who tries to take him from Orochimaru-sama before he's good and ready. He may have developed some form of Stockholm syndrome.

Things are really coming up Orochimaru, for all that his pupil can barely read.

[1rakus]

now where’s the akatsuki in this sageswap au?

doing the same stuff mostly. both sasuke and sakura are gathering intel on them the entire time and secretly have a pretty comprehensive case file between the two of them. as far as everyone else knows, they're not in contact at all, but sakura does randomly appear in his room at inns when jiraiya is out for the night to trade information and make teasing remarks on how he's perpetually single

[1rakus]

Sakura's relationship to the members of taka?:)

Also, the Kabuto stuff was all funny but the part about him getting his own case but getting looks for it made me weirdly sad lol

suigetsu's weirded out and scared but hes accepted that all women in his life are like this so he goes along with his day. juugo is stressed and doesnt like her because she genuinely doesnt have a moral compass but also really likes her because her upbeat attitude breaks him out of his shell but also doesnt like her because that means they get up to really weird and pretty destructive shit together. karin is fucking her but in a casual, vaguely hostile way. like fucking your coworker you don't really like because you find each other attractive and it's efficient cuz they're there

yeah kabuto's a miserable dude when he's not orochimaru's best little son-henchman-protege-handler

[1rakus]

sasuke killing off jiraya… maybe when he finds out he was the yondaime’s sensei and naruto’s godfather? family is a touchy topic for him

sasuke in sageswap becomes much more levelheaded and tactical, so he reserves his murders for opportune times and doesn't make as many decisions based on big revelations. he's initially building a case file on itachi's whereabouts but begins to discover the murky depths of why exactly itachi committed the genocide and the labyrinth of the konoha state apparatus. pein still kills jiraiya in sageswap; sasuke doesn't like him but ultimately wouldn't let such an enormous intelligence asset go to waste

[1rakus]

sakura orochimaru sageswap dynamics

- sakura, fed up and losing her fucking mind with self loathing and impotence after seeing sasuke and naruto's power post-shukaku, craves growth and achievement, wants to become something, wants to build herself into something because she's MAD she KNOWS shes BETTER than them so shouldnt she be AHEAD? the most feared one, the one who gave sasuke power, the sannin with no apprentice right now is orochimaru

- she saw what he could do and the leaf is thankless, pointless, she's not growing, she wants to be something, anything, wants to be better than them all--

- she finds orochimaru herself.

- at first he's amused, skeptical. she explains she is top of her class and she's going nowhere, sasuke and naruto are growing by leaps and bounds and she wants more than the power she'll grow into. she wants Glory. not in so many words but her eyes are green green green with it

- oochie is like. well. you're a little batshit arent you. kabuto take her on

- kabuto takes her on and she takes to all the shit he does, his espionage and his little mind games and his horrible horrible science, she takes to it like a fish to water, chakra precision out the ass

- she develops a scalpel with her fine chakra control. the rasenshuriken but delicate and entirely deliberate

- tooooo gung ho about doing whatever the fuck. really her morality falls off about two months in when she gets gleefully Really Results Oriented. orochimaru begins to kind of adore her.

- kabuto begins to really respect and kind of fear her. hes basically immortal and shes like haha you dont mind if i test this shit out on you do you? great. i'm going to remove your spine now. don't squirm.

- kabuto is now Kind Of Terrified Of Miss Sakura Chan-- I MEAN SAMA, SORRY,

- BACK IN THE LEAF

- ino is losing her mind. really like frantic screeching hysterical fury and worry about why the FUCK nobody is SEARCHING for her

- naruto is distraught too but also really like. enjoying the newfound attention he's getting from tsunade. and hes BUSY dude hes learning a lot and he's exhausted.

- ino goes full cia

- 3 years later sakura gets confronted by ino, sai, and naruto and they meet someone who is Glowing

- hair luscious, eyes this almost horrible bright green, confident and calm and beautiful and grinning a little maniacally and maybe worst of all she's friendly

- amy dunne voice i made myself and you would drag me back to that shithole of a country? you want me to shut up and sit down, want me to become another slave to the leaf, another cookie cutter kunoichi. hell no. I'm it, baby.

- orochimaru (doting mom having the time of his life) spilled all his fun tea about his past state sanctuoned human rights violations and thats when sakura sort of reoriented her path towards not Ignoring What's Right For Results but Getting Results For What's Right

- SAKURA is the one who's like "we're going now :)"

- cue ino: i'll beat your ass from here to hell to take you back.

- the next time they meet ino drops the L bomb and sakura is legitimately thrown off balance

- sasuke, has been meeting w sakura and the leaf the entire time: im so tired. youre all so tiring. im getting a drink