#tengu sasuke

[reii-ichi]

Preview

The preview of my pieces for Love After Love @sasusakuzines 🍅🌸fanzine:

Youkai AU ukiyo-e styled art print

High School AU after school first date diecut sticker

Ukiyo-e styled memo pad of cat!suke on a sakura branch

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Psstt! There's an NSFW digital side zine too! And below is a preview of my piece for that...

Ever think of another use of kagebunshin no jutsu? Papa!suke is practicing it here...

that's it, for now....

Well, if you're interested, just go get this zine before it's too late~

Thank you! ❤️

[beginnings2022]

Did you know that kitsune is credited with the ability to create fire, and tengu has a magical fan that can create strong wind. So, our sasunaru are perfectly compatible even as youkai.

[puppetmaster13u]

Still Thinkin of Yokai Amity

Y'know, where all of Amity have pretty much become yokai creatures. I might be weak for Japanese mythology and cryptids. Or really all mythology and cryptids, but Japan has a lot and it's near never-ending meaning it's fun to continue discovering and learning stuff. But anyway!

Amity Park, practically empty of humans now. Not even following the usual rule that things do thanks to how malleable ecto is. Along with how a form usually depends on ones own thoughts, feelings, and Core.

But anyway, Amity? Kind of having some trouble now that, again, no one there counts as human. Visibly so. Which, yeah the GIW is sort of incompetent, but it's also kind of... not?

Let them reiterate, individually or even in pairs, they can easily deal with the Guys in White. Heck, even a small battalion is easy enough- but they have... a lot of people. And the backing of the government. So.

Plan B? Escape. Where to?

Well, see, they've all had to interact more with the Realms, not to mention that well, the entire town was pulled into it at one point. Which was how everyone got that last bit of ecto to push the transformations from contaminated to Liminal.

Which means? Time to escape through the Realms to somewhere, maybe even somewhen else. But they also can't stay in the Realms indefinitely. Because even with their own Cores, most of them are still Living.

But they also can't agree on a World to settle down in, not with how they're still wary of reactions. So what's a city to do?

Why, pop into multiple worlds of course. A wandering city, the entrance shifting through gates and alleys and doorways that appears through time and space.

Sometimes another haunted being finds their way through, sometimes they visit one dimension more than another- sometimes they leave one behind forever. But tales still spread of the wandering city that flickers through existence.

[lady-otori]

Bird Nesting Amongst Blossoms // SasuSaku // First Half

Hi, lovelies! 🌸🖤✨

I've written a two part Historical Fantasy AU featuring tengu!Sasuke and cherryblossom!Sakura 💖 I hope you enjoy~

Bird Nesting Amongst Blossoms

Read me over on Ao3 💘

“Sasuke-sama,” the tengu calls tentatively. “Sasuke-sama, won’t you come down from there?”

It’s a young one, his wings mere suggestions poking through the back of his robes. He can’t fly yet, Sasuke thinks, peering down through the branches of his perch to where his fledgling cousin stands. In any case, the Uchiha tengu avoid this tree, a fact proven by the way the boy hops from foot to foot like the family’s pet crows. They say the tree is cursed; Sasuke knows better.

“No,” Sasuke replies, turning his face back to the sun.

“Please?” asks the boy. 

There’s something in his voice other than the usual deference. Sighing, Sasuke unfurls his black wings - big, big enough to tangle in the bare twigs surrounding him - and jumps down between the branches, coming to a stop within the tree’s sacred barrier. He regards the tengu boy silently, hands hidden in his robes for warmth. 

“My brother?” Sasuke asks. 

“Your father,” the boy says with a grimace, forgetting himself.

Such is the way of life at the top of Konoha’s highest mountain. Itachi rules the Uchiha clan through love. Their father rules it through obedience. Sasuke lets the slip go: the boy is not even ten years old, and Sasuke isn’t in the habit of shooting the messenger. He steps over the thick rope of the barrier and makes his way towards the main house, tousling his cousin’s hair as he passes. He misses the way the boy’s face lights up with delight, but not the words that drift towards him on a rustling wind. 

“Sasuke, Sasuke, will you come back soon?”

“Always,” Sasuke whispers into his feather fan, knowing the tree will hear him speak. 

But first: his father.  🌸🖤🌸🖤

The tree is older than the Uchiha compound. Older than the Uchiha clan entirely; and when Sasuke was five, the wandering hermit Jiraiya told him that it was older than the mountains of Konoha themselves. 

In general, his family’s attitude towards the tree swings between reverence and avoidance, depending on who is in charge. Fugaku doesn’t much like the thought of anything more powerful than him, so for the last two hundred years it has sat and endured the avoidance of a people who once played amongst its branches. 

So it’s nothing new that his father sits and berates Sasuke for being found by the cherry tree once again. What is new, however, is the news that he’s being sent to the Uzumaki clan until further notice. To reduce that blasted cherry’s influence, or something along those lines, but Sasuke stopped listening after hearing that he’s to be sent away. 

“I cannot stand those kitsune bastards,” Sasuke says without thinking. “I’ll go travelling again, instead.”

Perhaps his father hides a smile beneath his impressive eyebrows; either way, the older tengu shakes his head, ruffling his wings for effect. They’re in the formal audience chamber, which is a terrible sign. His mother is missing, too, which Sasuke knows is bad news. 

“You should have stopped speaking to the tree when I asked you, son.”

“But it’s…”

Sasuke stops himself, because he’s not naive enough to call an ancient tree his friend. But it’s something close, and he’ll miss the afternoons spent high above his family’s land, cradled in welcoming wooden arms. It has been many years since he mastered the whole of the Uchiha arts, and as the younger son he has few responsibilities to take up his time. There’s a boredom to his long life, and the tree has a thousand untold stories. 

“When do I leave?” Sasuke asks instead, hiding his frown behind his hand, clad in black silk robes. 

“The family have sent their heir to accompany you down the mountain,” his father says, toneless. “Your mother is packing your things now.”

Sasuke doesn’t dislike the Uzumaki heir, per se, but Naruto is a different breed from him, outgoing and vociferous even for a fox. This will be a long and gruelling visit, he knows. 

Just as he knows why his father has given him no notice of when to return. How convenient it would be for the Uchiha, to have a loyal son stationed at the foot of their lands.

“Very well,” Sasuke murmurs, bowing his head to his knees. 

His red tengu mask brushes the polished wooden floor, and there’s a moment where he considers dashing it from around his neck. But then the door opens and Uzumaki Naruto bowls in unannounced, greeting the Uchiha head with such irreverence that the older man actually recoils. 

Unnoticed, Sasuke manages to keep his composure one last time, long enough to whisper a farewell into the floorboards: venerable old things made from the boughs of his not-quite-friend.

“Come back soon,” the tree replies. 

Sasuke doesn’t answer, because what does soon look like to one who has lived a thousand years? 🌸🖤🌸🖤

The first few seasons down the mountain pass quickly, even to a tengu’s eyes. The Uzumaki kitsune are everything the Uchiha tengu are not: quick to fall out, quicker to fall in with one another. To his utter chagrin, Sasuke thrives. 

Forbidden from flying to the mountaintop by a stern missive from his father, Sasuke spends his evenings - when he’s thoroughly tired from the rambunctious Uzumaki life - sitting on the porch of his small house and watching the tree from afar. They’re too far to converse, but his secret pleasure is to watch the tree cycle through flower, leaf and fall, and his dreams are full of memories of days spent nestled against its trunk. 

So caught up in this reminiscence is Sasuke that he completely misses the arrival of The Girl. Appearing unannounced from Shikkotsu and yet being granted a place within the family head’s household, her arrival sets the entire Uzumaki complex astir with who she could possibly be. 

Sasuke is the only young yōkai in the neighbourhood not to become immediately infatuated with her, a fact which causes Naruto much amusement. 

“I can’t believe you haven’t spoken to her yet,” says Naruto, drinking his sake with the usual reckless abandon. “She’s beautiful.”

Sasuke smirks. “I’m not interested in beauty.”

It’s true: as the younger son of the Uchiha, he’s had decades to rove around the wondrous places of the world and drink in the sight of beauty both preternatural and immortal. It all pales in comparison to a solitary thousand year old cherry blossom. 

Naruto makes a dismissive gesture. “Rather, I’m surprised because she’s called Sakura, like your favourite thing.”

“So? I’ve met a hundred cherry trees and not been moved.”

“Have you seen her yet?”

Sasuke shrugs a no. He’s busy teaching during the day, wrangling the kitsune cubs into a semblance of decorum, and in the evenings he’s busy training to keep his edge sharp. The whereabouts of a mysterious girl hold little interest for him, Sakura or not. At his response Naruto grins like a fox, all teeth. 

“You’ll see,” the Uzumaki heir says. “You’ll most definitely see.” 🌸🖤🌸🖤

Ever the contrarian, Sasuke spends the next season trying his very best not to meet this Sakura. It’s not difficult: his schedule is very rigid, and even his drinking sessions are carefully slotted into his days.

Oh, he sees her from afar, sure; the complex is big but he is bound to it by his father’s word, and there are no other people with pink hair amongst the blonde-and-red Uzumaki. He is unmoved by her beauty, as it is not striking from a distance. 

In fact, he doesn’t think much of her at all, until spring rolls around, and the Uchiha cherry blossom puts out no flowers. Flying as high in the sky as he dares, Sasuke sees that it’s completely bare, without even the hint of a bud.

The matter is serious enough to the clan that Sasuke’s brother Itachi makes a rare trip down the mountain. The Uchiha pretend not to see the tree, but a thousand years of protection are hard to ignore.

“What do you think could be wrong?” Itachi asks.

“I can’t tell from here,” Sasuke replies, striding back and forth across his garden. “Did Father say I could return home to take a closer look?”

The other tengu’s grimace tells Sasuke all he needs to know. No, Uchiha Fugaku has not given leave for his younger son to return to the roost. From this distance Sasuke is as clueless as the rest of the Uchiha, and twice as worried. 

“I’m sorry,” Itachi says, spreading his hands in apology. “Mother and I are trying, but-”

“But Father is as immovable as the mountain itself,” Sasuke finishes. It’s a well-known proverb amongst their family. “In any case, please… keep me informed.”

Itachi nods, poking Sasuke’s forehead affectionately before taking off. It’s hard not to feel jealous of his elder brother, Sasuke thinks, watching the Uchiha heir’s black wings blot out the sun. Born to a blessed position and rising to the challenge, Itachi is the kind of man that other yōkai dream of following. His presence is so large that Sasuke must make do with a reputation for defying their father, and being enamoured with an ill-favoured old tree in the courtyard. 

It hurts and helps in equal measure that Sasuke loves him greatly. 

Itachi’s visit distracts Sasuke from his sadness until it’s time to return home from the main hall of the Uzumaki complex (nothing but the best for the Uchiha heir), where he spots a thatch of pink hair disappearing around the corner. 

“It’s her,” Sasuke mutters under his breath, annoyed at the pink-haired interloper despite himself. 

It is not The Girl’s fault that his tree is beleaguered, and yet he finds himself hurrying to catch up with her all the same. He doesn’t know why, only that his ill-temper needs an outlet, and this new face is beloved enough that one detractor would barely make a dent in her happiness. Rustling his wings as they catch on his robes, Sasuke rounds the corner only to find Sakura sprawled on the floor, her hand grasping one slippered ankle. 

It is hard to be angry at someone who has fallen to the ground, but Sasuke gives it a shot. 

“What’s this?” he says sharply, wincing as she looks up from her foot to meet his gaze. 

His voice is brusque, and his mask is foreboding. It’s no surprise that her round lips tremble and a tear rolls down her cheek. But this is not what Sasuke notices as Sakura looks at him for the first time since her arrival at the Uzumaki complex. 

What he notices, instead, is this: eyes as green as leaves in summer, and hair that is not pink thatch but rather blushing blossoms, curling and delicate. A kanzashi in her hair that is shaped like a steady branch, made of polished dark wood. Her celestial scarf, cherry-red and floating as though borne on a mountaintop wind. 

And finally, her expression, which is indignant through her tears. 

“Aren’t you going to help me stand?” she says, with all the pique of an imperial princess. 

Sasuke jolts back to the present, clawing his attention back from the gentle rustling of her hair. He feels himself blushing under his mask. 

“No,” he says abruptly, turning on his heel. 

He hears her hiss at his back, the sound of it razor-sharp against his spine. 

Well, Sasuke thinks, trying to walk as though he is unaffected, Itachi always was the one known as a gentleman. 

“Come back!” she demands, but he is already committed to leaving, and her words do not spark the memory that they should. 🌸🖤🌸🖤

That night, as Sasuke lies in bed and stares at the ceiling, he thinks back to The Girl (he refuses to call her anything else) and how she’d looked in the corridor, her angry surprise at his lack of assistance. 

The next night, it’s how her hair had curled over her cheek. The night after that, he cannot stop thinking about the girl’s celestial scarf, deep and fruited red. The rest of the week is lost in her pale green gaze.

“This cannot go on,” Sasuke murmurs after a fortnight has been laid at The Girl’s feet. 

Even then, it takes him another week to find her. He is busy, he reasons, and tengu love routine. When he does chance upon Sakura, she is sitting under the ancient maple by the kitchens, her head tipped back against its trunk. It looks for all the world as though they are conversing, though her lips are pressed tight shut.

“What’s this?” she says as he stops before her, looking down past the red nose of his mask.

The mimicry is not lost on Sasuke. He chooses to ignore it, sitting with the grace of someone who has spent lifetimes learning how to move like liquid. They say nothing for a while, long enough that the sun creeps downward and their stalemate loses its teeth, becoming companionable instead. The kitchen busies for the evening meal before Sakura opens her eyes. 

“What’s this?” she repeats. 

“Where did you come from?” Sasuke asks, ignoring her question. “Do you have anything to do with that?”

He points to the left, where his thousand year cherry grasps the rays of the evening sun. The Girl does not look, not even for an instant. 

“I’m from the Shikkotsu Forest,” she says, smiling with all her sharp, pointed teeth. 

“There are no girls like you there,” Sasuke retorts. 

Shikkotsu is a damp, dark place, a rainforest of drowning marshes and secret springs. She does not, he knows with the instincts of his long life, belong in such a place. He doubts very much whether she has ever even ventured to it. At his response, Sakura only laughs. 

“And what kind of girl am I?” she asks. “A celestial maiden, come down from the heavens? Am I an oni, sent to tempt young yōkai from the righteous path? Or I could be the slug princess, perhaps.”

She is making fun, Sasuke realises, of the young men who have followed her around since she arrived, of their speculation and their gossiping ways. And she is making light of him, too, for his behaviour on their first meeting. It ruffles his feathers, so to speak.

“You didn’t answer my question,” he reminds her. 

“You did not ask the right one,” Sakura replies, tipping her head back against the maple.

She says nothing else, not even when he gets to his feet. Her hands rest on the ground, and if not for his keen senses he would say that The Girl is asleep. Her disinterest galls him in a way Sasuke does not want to understand. Is he really the same as the rabble of the Uzumaki, to be so interested in a girl of not-quite-otherworldly beauty? Surely not. Adjusting his robes, Sasuke unfurls his wings in a luxurious stretch, blocking the last of the sun. 

He’s vindicated when she opens her eyes, frowning at the sudden darkness. 

“I’ll see you later,” he mutters.

“Come back soon,” Sakura replies, her voice slow and drowsy and familiar. 

Because Sasuke is too preoccupied with taking off in a way that’ll cause the budding maple leaves to fall on Sakura’s head, he misses her words until that night, when they drift into his dreams. As it has a thousand times before, a whispering voice speaks into his ear, hoping he’ll visit again soon. That it has more stories, should he wish to hear them.

Only this time, instead of bearing him deeper into sleep, the whispering voice of his friend sounds like The Girl’s voice, and it makes Sasuke sit up in a sweat, black hair stuck to his forehead. His robes are in disarray, his wings caught under him as they haven’t been since childhood. 

“Wait,” he barks aloud in the quiet of his bedroom, “it’s you?” And somewhere in the depths of the Uzumaki compound, a dry laugh echoes through the halls. It’s loud, and disturbing, and irritated, like the bare branches of a thousand-year cherry tree that should be in full bloom.

🌸🖤🌸🖤

[hellcifrogs]

What do you think about the idea werewolf Naruto- well werefox i guess, Witchs apprentice Sakura and Vampire Sasuke? was thinking about them today thought i'd see what you think

Clearly I think it's super interesting, considering that is SO close to this AU I have, but instead of Sakura as a witch it's Sai.

[urjacamiyu]

I was write a fic about tobirama as onmyoji and uchihas as tengu clan... but i axed it, because writing in english is frustating me... these sketch was my inspiration when writing it. I like how itachi would protective towards his otoutou, sasuke is a brat who want to prove his self worth to his fmily/clan, madara is tengu patriarch who fallen to his human contractor... so many possibilities

[evilkitten3]

#both sound very good topics mutual!#it’s hard to choose tbh 😂#but Izuna having a susan’oo! I need to read this

izuna it is!

so tbh i've gone back and forth on this in my head bc i really don't think everyone needs to have a susanoo (case in point, shisui. why would you give him that. it adds nothing and only makes him look like an idiot for not using it when danzou was trying to yoink his eyeballs), but ultimately i came to this conclusion for two reasons:

first, it's canon that a susanoo changes once you move from the regular mangekyou to the ems. to illustrate this, here's sasuke's susanoo in chapter 484 (i'm pretty sure it's 484, it's definitely volume 52, but unfortunately i don't own that one yet):

compared to his susanoo in 574, after implanting itachi's eyes:

iirc we first see sasuke's incomplete susanoo at the five kage summit in chapter 463 (according to the wiki; unfortunately i don't own volume 49 either), well after he awakens his mangekyou in chapter 402. the third databook states that one must be able to use both amaterasu and tsukuyomi before unlocking susanoo, although if that's true then it's only the case for itachi, as no one else has ever used tsukuyomi ever, while just about everyone has susanoo. however, the implication is that there's a learning process, which neatly slots into sasuke learning to both activate and extinguish amaterasu at different points in time (and with different levels of intent. stop putting your jutsu in people without asking, itachi, it's really weird).

my second piece of evidence is what madara says the first time we see his susanoo (chronologically, during hashirama's flashback): 「この前の傷が元で弟は死んだ・・・うちはを守るためにオレに力を残して！」 "my little brother died due to the wound from last time... he left me the power to protect the uchiha!"

now, we never see madara use susanoo pre-ems, so we have no idea what it looked like before izuna's power was added to it. my theory is that it looked similar to this:

but we really don't see much of the other face at all. the best image i could find was this one:

the back face is hardly ever seen by the viewer, and it's not visible at all in hashirama's flashback. i actually went back and checked just to be completely sure, and yeah, in every single susanoo panel in the flashback, the second face is completely obscured. when he first summons it after izuna's death, the angle is such that the second part is almost impossible to see at all

i think this serves two purposes - first and most obviously, as a physical manifestation of madara's deep-seated trust issues. he can't fully put his faith in anyone else. however, in spite of hating having people behind him, when izuna's life is threatened in their childhood, madara flings himself in front of him without hesitation.

(sorry for the poor quality, that's what i could find. believe me, it's better than it would've been if i'd just tried to take a picture myself lol)

as much as madara dislikes having people stand behind him (and thus dislikes being in a position that would require such a thing, like being a leader), he puts his love for his family - especially his little brother - over his personal discomfort.

so to me, the double-sided susanoo is a representation of both madara's inability to trust others and his desire to keep what he loves shielded with even his own body.

side note: the seals the susanoo face i view as madara's original is making when he summons it in the fourth image appear to be the mirrored ram seal, which madara also uses to become the juubi jinchuuriki (so does obito) and after that to throw lightning out of his hands like he's emperor palpatine or something. the seal the rear face is making appears to be a version of the ox seal, although with the palms pressed together rather than being perpendicular and all of the fingers folded. possibly this is due to madara's susanoo's hands having six fingers rather than five, not sure.

so i've been thinking about the susanoo and i can't decide if i'd rather discuss why the anime changed itachi and sasuke's respective susanoo's colors or why the second susanoo on the back of madara's is definitely izuna's and was not there pre-ems

[yg-arts]

Inktober 2024

Day 23 - Sasuke x Tengu

[al-hekima-madara-blog]

Did Madara become a Tengu or a Susanoo?

Have you noticed that Madara possess the biggest susanoo even bigger than Sasuke?

The real Susanoo in shinto tradition is related to the God of typhoon and oceans. It's not really how it is portrayed in Naruto. They left the watery element of the mythological Susanoo except the excessive warlike character.

The real inspiration (especially for Madara and Sasuke) is the Tengu an other supernatural creature. In japanese folkore it's associated with the divinity protector of the forest and the mountain, skillful in martial art, swords, naginata. The Tengu is described as a an angry yokai, with a long nose, sometimes a bird-like appearance.

Something unique about Madara's perfect Susanoo is that it goes in two phases before he can settle his chakra.

Phase 1

Phase 2

It's never explained why he does that. There is an aesthetic effort on the first phase but I didn't know if it meant something symbolically. I know that Kishimoto never draw an important character like this by chance. For instance, the two-faced susanoo represents Madara's fear for backstabbing. So I did a little research and I came with this hypothesis:

The phase 1 seems to be a reference to the Yamabushis, an order of warrior monks. They seek enlightenment through rigorous physical and spiritual training in the natural environment, particularly in mountainous regions. Look at how those monks are depicted in their war gears :

They have strong linked to Tengus, some venerate them, other stories said that arrogant priests are turning into Tengu after their death. Or those creatures kidnap priests to turn them into Tengu.

Tengus are known for their supernatural abilities, including shape-shifting, flight, and martial prowess, which align with the mystical aura surrounding Yamabushi.

Whatever the version, I found that Madara's susanoo/Tengu with his two phases, is also a strong metaphor of his unique path as an Uchiha. Similarly to the yamaguchi, Madara is a powerful warrior who went into an ascetic lifestyle, cutting link with his clan, his friend, his village to retire from civilisation in order to gain occult potent powers and ended up transforming into this fearless god of war. The size of his Susanoo manifest the full scale of his destructive anger and arrogance. He seems to have spent more time underground that in the mountain however this is the region that has been Madara's hideout for the obscure 60 years of his life after he lost at the Valley of the End. This place is called the Mountain's graveyard.

So the mythology of a Yamaguchi monk turning into a Tengu can be a metaphor of his path as a rogue shinobi becoming this almost mythical warlord. Living by the sword, belligerent and excited by the battlefield.

A last thing to note about Tengu closer to shinto tradition like the Uchiha, there is also a lot of stories of them opposing Buddhism. trying to corrupt priests, disrupt temples ect... And the Senju have a lot of affinity with Buddhist culture.

[joltai-showa]

LEJFPAMFKDMDPGNWLNFIFH3ODNF

holy shit I am going insane right now

A new merch line got announced, and the theme is yokai (which is. actually fucking pog?)

then the character selection feels like an actual lottery ticket, because generally Naruto merch lines include team 7 in full + some other token protagonist-alinghed character + 2-3 members of Akatsuki with Itachi, Deidara or both being selected as they are by far the most popular ones among Akatsuki. Pretty often if both get chosen then we get the next one in terms of popularity which is Sasori. So you can imagine why I am rolling on the ground wheezing from the fact that along with Deidara and his first "Uchiha-induced crisis" we actually got his second "Uchiha-induced crisis" in Obito. Like. Holy holy holy fuck.

The yokais that the characters are supposed to be representing are a bit weird at times, but pretty cool anyway. My knowledge of yokai is pretty limited and mostly derived from whatever the hell I remember from Persona series and Genshin Impact LMAO, but I am pretty sure that Naruto is supposed to be a kitsune (which is. duh.), Sasuke is something like Yamata no Orochi(?), Sakura is a nekomata (I guess they just wanted a catgirl in the merchline), I am not exactly sure about the next three, and Deidara is a kasa-obake (these are playful yokai that are portrayed as having one eye, one leg and a giant tongue which is. honestly. really funny and fitting for Deidara) and Obito is a tengu (which is a weird choice considering that Itachi would have likely been a better fit for an avian/crow-like yokai? but he looks sick anyway, and I guess tengu do have long red noses that are oftentimes represented by tengu wearing a mask with an elongated nose, which would connect Obito to this particular yokai?)

anyway I am off to shake with my whole body for a few hours, holy shit this is so good

(also respect to the designers in recent years that started to realize that Itachi simply looks better with glasses)

this is now my Roman Empire

THEY LOOK SO GOOOOOOOOOOOD

I certainly did not expect to begin my year with actual Obidei crumbs in Yokai AU in 2025, but I am not complaining🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

ALSO DEIDARA WITH TITS OUT

[asumiverde]

doodle page of a naruto!yokai au i have a vague idea about lol, mainly for fun designs than plot gaara = tanuki naruto = kitsune sasuke = tengu sakura = amabie lee = kappa

[beginnings2022]

Artist: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4930362176967652

[hellcifrogs]

Close ups for The Witch, The Fox and the Fire Forest Creatures~

Sakura - Born from a warrior tribe, raised as one of her kind.

Sai - Human witch, peacemaker, on a mission looking for a Fox.

Sasuke - Tengu clan, last warrior of the Bird people and desperate for help.

Naruto - Young Nine tails Fox, likes helping humans and all creatures in need.

Hinata - Runaway princess, heiress of the Sun warriors' clan.

Other characters I have roles in mind are -> Kakashi, Obito and Rin. Itachi, Ino, Kiba and Neji. Tsunade, Shizune, Kushina and Kurama.

[semi-imaginary-place]

naruto blogging part 8? chapters 695-697

695: and of course it turned into a kaiju battle. Someone needs to make a compilation of every time that swing from naruto's childhood shows up. It has more screen time than most off the female cast

There's an interesting design contrast going on between naruto and sasuke's kaiju fight. Naruto's fox shroud design has a very sleek modern almost minimalist design bold lines and geometry. Sasuke's susanoo resemble tengu with a lot of intricate details and elements of traditional armor.

alone together

naruto really just can't leave sasuke alone

696: ah another reading each other's heart through combat scenes. this one makes as much sense as the last one. i get that they're coming to understand each other's intentions but they way these are framed as conversations. it like half way between them actually talking and each of them imagining what the other is thinking, but also like symbolic from an audience perspective. it doesn't quite work.

sasuke's master plan is to become the enemy of the whole world so that everyone has a common enemy to always fight against and then keep doing that forever alone. really stretching the definition of hokage there. ... why was i expecting a better plan from him, this is exactly the single braincell thinking sasuke has been doing the entire series. in that sasuke often has good points yeah the shinobi world is pretty messed up, yeah konoha's government is a dumpster fire, yeah the 5 villages are only cooperating because of a common enemy, and then he veers off into the wildest most extreme conclusions.

at this point im not even going to question the new powerups.

shadow clone jutsu at a symbol of Naruto's weakness/strength. For Naruto strength comes from everyone coming together to work towards the same goal. For Sasuke strength is being alone and weakness is relying on others. To Sasuke kagebunshin is just Naruto compensating for his loneliness but having fake comrades which are just copies of himself.

697: In the anime Sasuke's inner forearms with the seals are purplish in color and that makes me wonder because I assumed those were tattoos but why's his skin purple.

This panel amuses me. and again Sasuke eats shit from an Uzumaki Barrage. I do love how their grand fight dissolves into a fistfight bar brawl, seeing these two beat each other to a pulp is great.

Even as he's beating Naruto's face in, Sasuke's eyes are closed.

I think it would have been fine for the fight to end without this last hit and blowing their arms off. for the end of the fight to end in a wimper instead of a bang to contrast their last fight, it ends from exhaustion instead of like blood loss

[kendochick-moor]

Hey friends,

It's been a tough few weeks. We could use something nice. How about I open up the "Serial" tier with a free trial period for the next week?

Sound good?

It's done. :)

Go enjoy yourselves, you deserve it. This offer is open to all members (paid or free).

If you're currently part of another paid tier, please shoot me a DM and I'll arrange your access without it affecting your current subscription. :)

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"Serial" Tier Description & Fics:

Do you have a preference for the Uchiha/Sakura fics? Me too! This category collects all my UchiSaku fanfics together. If you're just here for our dark-haired heroes and pink-haired heroines, this is the place to dip your wick.

INCLUDES over 100+ fics:

Pop the Top, UchiSaku Modern Business AU, A Parley of Thieves, Forest Fire, RPM, Secret Royalty/Baby AU, Kimono no Onna, Turning Over a New Leaf, and many, many more!

A Parley of Thieves Series (Itachi x Sakura)

Akatsuki Sakura (Deidara x Sakura, Itachi x Sakura)

Altocalciphilia (ItaSaku)

Apparitions (Madara x Sakura)

Blinding (Minato x Sakura)

Club BED (Birds of Paradise) (Shisui x Sakura)

Coals (Itachi x Sakura x Sasuke)

Condition #3 (Madara x Sakura)

Corvus (Sasuke x Sakura)

Cute MadaSaku Dragons for Iscriptikus

Desert Rain (Fugaku x Sakura)

Doctors Without Borders (Izuna x Sakura, Madara x Sakura)

Doe (Madara x Sakura)

Falling Into You (Itachi x Sakura)

Forest Fire Series (Itachi x Sakura x Sasuke)

Gotham United (Sasuke x Sakura)

Grey's Anatomy AU (Itachi x Sakura x Kakashi)

Happy Belated Birthday Alecto228 (Itachi x Sakura x Shisui)

Happy Birthday Sariasprincy Series (Uchiha x Sakura)

Harvest Moon/Autumn Festival (Madara x Sakura)

Heavy in your Arms (Shisui x Sakura)

Hokage Sakura (Itachi x Sakura)

Hostage (Itachi x Sakura x Deidara)

Hot Wheels (Itachi x Sakura)

I Was Born to Surround You in Flowers (Itachi x Sakura)

Immured (Izuna x Sakura x Madara)

In These Waters (Itachi x Sakura)

Incomplete (Itachi x Sakura x Kakashi)

Inner Universe (Madara x Sakura)

ItaSaku Daddy Business

ItaSaku - Experimental Jutsu

Kimono no Onna (Madara x Sakura)

Live Long Enough as the Hero and Eventually You'll become the Villain (Itachi x Sakura)

Mada-Sensei Series (Madara x Sakura)

MadaSaku - Cost of War

MadaSaku - Farmer's Market Stand

MadaSaku - RPM

MadaSaku Royalty Secret Baby AU

Manly Things (Itachi x Sakura)

Masquerade (Itachi x Sakura)

Matchmaker (Sasuke x Sakura)

My Sweetest Dreams Are of You (Itachi x Sakura)

NYE Fic - Juggling (Itachi x Sakura)

NYE Fic - Longest Hour (Itachi x Sakura)

NYE Fic - First Baby (Madara x Sakura)

NYE Fic - NYE Aftermath (Madara x Sakura)

NYE Fic - Cuddle Bug (Shisui x Sakura)

One Does Not Prank a Haruno (UchiSaku)

Orbit (Madara x Sakura)

Pop the Top Series (Uchiha x Sakura)

Possession (Madara x Sakura)

Prison Sentence (Madara x Sakura)

SasuSaku Secret Santa 2020 (Sasuke x Sakura)

Secret Son (Uchiha x Sakura)

Shangri-La (Madara x Sakura)

ShisuiSaku - Chakra Cuffs

ShisuiSaku - Snowflake

ShisuiSaku drabble

Smackdown (Madara x Sakura)

SS Month 2023 - Dark SasuSaku - Worship, No Air

Stallion (Sasuke x Sakura)

Star Wars AU Series (Itachi x Sakura)

Steal a Kiss at Midnight (Itachi x Sakura x Madara)

Take My Picture (Madara x Sakura)

Tea Party (Uchiha x Sakura)

Tengu and the Red Thread of Fate (Itachi x Sakura x Shisui)

The Art of Dating a Rich Man Snippet - Madara & Sakura's past

The Band (Itachi x Sakura)

The Black Set (Itachi x Sakura x Kakashi)

The Heart of the Ocean (Sakura/Ootsutsuki Indra)

Things Whispered in the Dark (Madara x Sakura)

Time Warp (Uchiha x Sakura)

Tipsy Series (Madara x Sakura)

Tumblr Requests Series (Uchiha x Sakura)

Turning Over a New Leaf Series (Fugaku x Sakura)

Uchiha Utachi's Boombox of Glory (Itachi x Sakura)

UchiSaku - Addicted to Your Sin (Uchiha x Sakura)

UchiSaku - Mob AU (Uchiha x Sakura)

UchiSaku Discord Round Robin Fics (Uchiha x Sakura)

UchiSaku Modern Business AU (Itachi x Sakura x Sasuke)

UchiSaku Week Series (Uchiha x Sakura)

Immured 'verse snippet (Madara x Sakura x Izuna)

Warmonger!Papa Madara (Madara x Sakura)

Forest Spirit (Madara x Sakura)

Modern Demon AU (Madara x Sakura x Kakashi)

Up in Smoke (UchiSaku)

VR - Hokagemon Go (UchiSaku)

Why Don't You Run Into My Arms—And Stay There (Itachi x Sakura x Kakashi)

Wicked Lie Fugaku (Fugaku x Sakura)

ZetsuSaku Request from Tumblr (UchiSaku)

*Access to PDF versions of each story on Google drive will be made available to you to read (no download).

[justblueofjen]

I AM STILL NOT OVER TENGU SASUKE AGENDA

The moon only glows because of the sun ☀️🌙

Ok I’m an hour late, but still wanted to finish! (next year i’ll try to be faster)