It’s funny bc sakuras name is literally a flower name and yet ino assigned her another flower for her flower metaphor
*chair screeches gently as I pull up to the group to be unnecessarily pedantic*
Soooo Japanese names can be written with kanji (Chinese characters with inherent meanings but often many potential pronunciations) or hiragana (syllabic phonetic system without inherent meanings) or katakana (…another syllabic system for reasons that I can’t be bothered to explain why they have two right now).
Kishimoto chose to write Sakura’s name with a mixture of kanji 春野 haru-no “spring field” and katakana サクラ sa-ku-ra. Sakura’s surname is also a pun because while the “no” has a meaning (field) it also sounds like the “no” that means “possessive particle” (think English “of” only in reverse) so “haru no sakura” sounds like “cherry blossom(s) of spring”. But! He did not actually name her 桜 the kanji for “cherry blossom”.
So Sakura is like “I’m barely a flower. I’m like a bud.” And Ino is like “nooooo you aren’t a bud, you aren’t even a spring cherry blossom, you’re an AUTUMN cherry blossom! In fact you might become something even better than that.”
these cuties~
*slowly squeaks away on my chair and awkwardly maneuvers it through the doorway never to be seen again*
Oops, my hand slipped! I originally was just doing figure studies, but Sakura and Ino refused to just float in the air and demanded some background.
So, flower shop AU. Sakura and Ino are happily married in Konoha. Naruto and Sasuke are traveling the world together, in fact, they provide the shop with all sorts of exotic plants.
Sarada still exists (because she is precious and I love her) Sasuke was like “I need to restore the Clan, but I have severe trust issues and know close enough only two women (Sakura and Karin), both of them I tried to kill…hmmmmm indeed”. So Sarada like Persephone lives half a year with her two moms and another half travels with dads. yes, yes, it’s settled. something like this.
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