“I think–” he says, then stops. He looks toward the back of the cave, face wan in the pre-dawn light. “If you could start all over again,” he starts again, very soft, “would you?”
There is blood lingering in the lines of Sakura’s palms. She has not been fully clean in a long time. It would have been hell on Kakashi’s nose, she notes distantly. It had been, back when there were more of them, when they felt safest clumped together, when there were enough of them to clump together.
“Yes,” she replies, just as soft. “I would make it better.”
more of my “kaguya causes the apocalypse” au, which is also a time travel fix-it according to my earliest draft. listen. obito and sakura would be a fucking power team. they’ve got an itemized list of lives to save and asses to kick.
gnnn OP your tags, i lov:
#they wld also be hilarious bc i mean. cmon. obito spent like sixteen years pretending to be madara and at least one year of being tobi #mash those two things together and you get some wretched hashirama-madara child #with all of madara’s angst and all of hashirama’s traits that madara HATED #in the bingo books they publish his family as madara and hashirama and sakura almost cries with laughter #like – ideally someone will resurrect madara anyway and there’s also hashirama and tobirama and minato etc etc. #madara is yelling HASHIRAMAAAAAA as is his wont. gearing up for a truly villainous speech #and then – #naruto (yelling up at him): HEY! HAVING A KID WITH HASHIRAMA WASN’T ENOUGH?! YOU WANT TO /COMBINE YOUR BODIES/ TOO?! #madara stops short and is like … What #hashirama (who has been blithely ignoring madara) tunes back in like Wait ? Kid? What? #naruto: YOU DIDNT EVEN TELL HIM HE WAS A FATHER?!?!!!?! #obito (somewhat further back): DAD HOW COULD YOU?
Gaara as an adult probably naps a lot but I think if he ever does stay up at night he’s thinking of that moment during the Chunin exams arc where Naruto offers his name and Gaara just goes, “No,” wondering if Naruto feels bad about it so he sends Naruto a messenger bird at like 2am that won’t get to Konoha until at least the next morning, asking, “Are you mad at me?”
Gaara, approximately seven years later, in the middle of the night: My god. What have I done.
Sometimes, Sakura will activate her byakugou when kissing Karin. It’s a reminder of what she can do, of how she won’t ever need to use Karin’s abilities for herself. She won’t ever hurt Karin.
And maybe Tsunade would disapprove and say it’s a waste of jutsu but –
(Karin stares at the glowing marks on Sakura’s body, and she breathes more easily. She is not needed, and as such she is free. Sakura’s kisses won’t hurt her. That knowledge is healing, in a way.)
we all know there were some raw as hell moments in naruto but can we just talk about how shisui no anesthesia no tools no nothing just a bare hand uchiha fuckin just…rips out his own eyeball
i love gaaras confidence hes like “That was past me im past that. Im a different person now.” after like one year and meanwhile its been 20 years and sasuke is still living on the woods by konoha to repent
I’ll never forget the change in Gaara’s facial expression when Lee drops his weights, for the first time ever he looked like he feared for his life
Imagine the first feeling of pain in your life coming from a pile of sentient sand drilling a tattoo on your forehead and the second one from a wizard who cant use magic drop kicking the FUCK out of you
coming off anbu kakashi probably has a terrifying reputation i bet absolutely no one gives him shit until this squad of twelve year olds show up and rip him to fucking shreds its so fucking funny
kakashi: *is extremely good at killing, has reputation for being cold-blooded and willing to kill fellow konoha shinobi*
naruto (twelve, doesn’t know about any of that shit): haha your hair looks bad old man
LMAO i didn’t know if anyone read that tag but hsjdfjsd okay
the shower/reading dichotomy is another theory at my house that came from the marriage of a long-standing “naruto uzumaki is functionally illiterate and there is canon evidence to this fact” joke and the single use clothing sasuke theory.
basically we figured naruto can’t read and sasuke doesn’t shower (because he just wears his clothes once and throws them out #singleusesasuke) and thought it would be funny and in-character if they could do the thing the other couldn’t. so naruto can’t read but probably showers from time to time, whereas sasuke is well-read af but hasn’t bathed since he was 8.
anyway it got out of control and we realised you can apply it to anyone. shikamaru can read but is too lazy to shower. ino showers (probably too much) but secretly can’t read and makes shikamaru do it for her. hinata can’t read but showers, neji reads but doesn’t shower. sakura can do both and kiba blissfully makes no attempt to do either.
it’s called the shower-literacy test and it’s the world’s most lose/lose tag yourself
the only valid naruto meta is the single use clothing sasuke theory my flatmates came up with after a drunken binge of the chuunin exams
“Single Use Clothing Sasuke” is a complex, multi-layered theory borne of the complex, multi-layered minds of my flatmates. It essentially boils down to the idea that Every Single Thing sasuke wears from the day of the uchiha massacre to the day he leaves the village are entirely different yet identical versions of the same two outfits. He only wears them once and then throws them out.
The idea behind this is based on the implications that a) sasuke lives alone in the uchiha compound which is intended to be lived in by hundreds of people, b) he was not cared or provided for in any way by the village adults after the massacre, and c) there are entire city blocks of empty uchiha houses full of free shit just sitting there, ESPECIALLY clothing.
Theory is as follows: sasuke, clearly unable to do his own laundry because he’s 12 and a moron, spends four years of his life using the abandoned clothes that previously belonged to the children in the uchiha clan as disposable clothing and there’s a landfill in Konoha somewhere just full of black playsuits.
Companion theory “One-Shirt Uzumaki” where naruto owns exactly one (1) set of clothing that he furiously hand washes every night at 1am.
you know what this is pretty plausible actually all things considered