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I hate romanticizing Itachi's forehead pokes.
And honestly, everytime I see Itachi do it, or Sasuke doing it for Sakura, or Sakura doing it to Sarada, or Sasuke doing it for Boruto, I always feel sick.
Not because I hate Itachi or anything, but from my point of view, I feel it's a symbol of a promise Itachi knew that he can't fulfil. He would tell Sasuke that he'll train with him later, but he never trained with him later, and before he died, he said, maybe next time, but there was no next time.
To me, it's a symbol of tragedy, a symbol of one knowing the horrors of the truth while the other is waiting for the lie to become truth, it was never supposed to be about love.
#itachi uchiha#naruto#tbh sasuke’s character and his storyline are like#everywhere after chapter 698#rly makes me feel :|#boruto leans on nostalgia in some sigh inducing ways
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kabuto can very easily be read as transmasc or transfem but the truth is that neither side is really that eager to claim him
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zabuza and mei co-parenting haku, suigetsu and chojuro fic tonight, queen 👀
#mei terumi#zabuza momochi#haku#suigetsu hozuki#chojuro#naruto#i want to write this so bad#but i already have one mei/zabuza fic stuck in development hell#i do NOT need another
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you know his ass was getting winded in them long ass orochimaru hideout hallways
My favorite thing about kabuto not being good at taijutsu is that according to the third databook it is not necessarily his worst stat - he has two worse stats; power and stamina.

So he has some (though not much) TECHNICAL knowledge of taijutsu, he's just not physically strong enough to be effective with it fJGDKSGNGD
#also i love this because we know that a prerequisite for his sage mode is a physically gifted body#so this is like a potential taijutsu specialist just wasting away with nerd shit#hes doing what part 1 sakura did but for his entire life
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Honey wake up new naruto mobile Kabuto content dropped.


And a little Nonou bonus

She got cute little chibi icons

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Thinkin about obkk noncon jutsu
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Orochimaru to Kabuto
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another tiny detail i love about the kabuto fight is that the eye itachi sacrificed to izanami was his tsukuyomi eye, the ability that represented his desire to deceive the world and warp it to his desires. itachi's time as an edo reincarnation is spent realizing the failures of that mindset and not only does he get to cast it away, he gets to do so by freeing another ex-spy who wished to do the same.
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we all got that one friend who's always thinking about how much of an impact haku had on naruto's narrative despite the fact that he only existed for about 15 of the 700 chapters
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I don’t think Shippuden talked about the friendship Naruto and Sakura developed enough.
#YESSSSS#this is one of my favorite relationships in the series#sakura has so much love for naruto and wants to protect him from the harsh truths of the world#but he has no love for himself and those harsh truths just seek him out#so theyre in constant conflict despite being best friends#so much more could have been done with them
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Quick kkg bonus prompt for today! Sweat
under cut just in case bc tis a sauna ;) Points uuuh 10 +3(x2)
Gai: Sharingan, really? Kks: I'll try and be a little more subtle then.
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i kinda hate the trope of “trans girl that we aren’t allowed to acknowledge as a trans girl” in anime. but i did get a kick out of kishimoto doubling down and just making haku. far more feminine when reintroduced in the war arc
#naruto#haku#part of this is just art style shift#kishimoto largely forgot how to draw fat on people’s faces#as well as rougher jawlines#so everyone looks slimmer and more delicate#compare part 1 hashirama to every later appearance that man used to be a DAD#but im choosing to ignore art style shift and would rather believe that there is estrogen in the pure lands
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I will never understand why people think the idea that Naruto can't tell the difference between loving ramen and loving someone makes sense. It literally undermines his whole character. His strength comes from his love for his friends. Gaara started to respect Naruto because Naruto's love for his friends resonated with Yashamaru's words on love, leading Gaara to decide to change because of that love. Really, saying Naruto doesn't understand love is just pure retcon. Just look at those panels...




It's also very interesting that Naruto parallels both Gaara and Haku. Haku was really impactful on him.
#naruto#naruto uzumaki#sabaku no gaara#haku#this is one of the big ways that both anime and fanon writers consistently mischaracterize naruto#he is deeply emotionally intelligent from chapter 1#and motivated almost purely by love for PEOPLE#for all of kishi’s faults#hes really the only writer who gets it#and he doubled down with the minato one shot#his entire clan his seal his signature technique EVERYTHING is patched together with love for people
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