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Entry for @kisames-corner's KisaWeen2024 Halloween event: Apple-Picking

tl;dr: Konan and Kisame go apple-picking because that's the prompt and godDAMMIT I'M GOING TO WRITE THE PROMPT

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Konan plucks the fruit from the limb and turns around. "It's tradition." Kisame nearly rolls his eyes. "What tradition? I don't recall Akatsuki having apple-themed parties."

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'Keep running. Almost there.' He runs so hard he tastes blood. Bodies all around him. Mud splashing on his shoes. Mud made of...

"Itachi-san," Kisame's voice shakes the past's hold on him. He realizes he's been standing in the same spot on the open road for a while. "Something on your mind?" Kisame always sounds gruff, but rarely displeased.

Itachi adjusts the sugegasa, tipping it backward so he can look across the field from the hill-road. Summer wildflowers are in bloom, blips of orange and purple in an ocean of tall grass. In the distance, a string of silver as the sunlight reflects off the river. It's not far.

"The battle of Abukuma," he replies in earnest.

Kisame raises a brow, "Oh? I'm surprised you know of it. It wasn't decisive."

Itachi lets his partner's trivia linger. Though he speaks truth, it creates a new reality to hide in. He could let this be nothing more than a passing memory of some history lesson.

"Although now that I recall," Kisame starts again, "Fire sent Uchiha troops, didn't they?"

So much for hiding.

"Yes," Itachi replies, "50 against 200 Iwa shinobi."

Kisame clicks his tongue, "Not enough against your kind."

The Uchiha were too prideful to see anything beyond a crushing, satisfactory victory.

"They were no match for us."

It was exactly what Fugaku wanted Itachi to see. It wasn't until Earth crossed the northern border of Fire that anyone realized it was a simple diversion.

Kisame turns to him, curiosity practically dripping from him. " 'Us'? You sound as if you were there."

Itachi merely flicks his eyes up at him. "Is that so hard to believe?"

"But you would've been just a child. Barely old enough to leave home."

Itachi sighs through closed lips. "Kirigakure isn't the only cruel place in the world."

"Aye," Kisame acknowledges, lips pressed in a frown. They both set their eyes on the field. Though it is beautiful, not even tallgrass and wildflowers can hide the deep craters bore unnaturally into the earth. The tree line is so obviously shaped by wielded fire. If they ventured into it, they'd occasionally find hitai-ate poking out from the soil. A little further and they'd find bald spots, patches of dirt. For too much blood sank deep into the land and nothing would ever grow again.

"A child should never know war like us, Itachi-san" he says softly. Definitively. Apologetically. With sadness behind his gruff voice. Itachi steps closer to him, trying to find comfort.

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Podría poner todo esto en mi pared

Kisame, mio caro, I love you so much

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first kiss

request

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Tried new materials😞

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Atsuko Tanaka; the Japanese VA of Konan (and many other amazing characters) passed away the other day. Konan is one of my favourite female characters in Naruto (I even cosplayed her and made paper cranes a few years ago) and I had to draw her! Now I’m tempted to draw her again and the whole gang. RIP Atsuko Tanaka.

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perfectionism is so funny cause i’ll just be swimming at the gym as this 30 year old woman, doing my own thing, living my life right?

no.

apparently now i’m trying to race the HIGH SCHOOL SWIMMERS who probably had to come in for “extra practice” that day.

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I just want him to be happy. Is that too much to ask for? Thinking about all the guilt he kept inside of himself until his last breath is suffocating in the most wretched way.

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excuse me while I go drown in the feels

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Kunoichi Week Day 2 ♡ ➳ Color Palette/Nature

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I hope I could enlighten you all a bit on the topic of our lord and saviour, Izuna Uchiha ❤️

(If any of my professors or my bosses ever see this travesty of a ppt pls kill me)

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(These are my ACTUAL notes from my friends birthday party who absolutely did not know who the fuck Itachi and Kisame were or how pairing names work or what a ship is.)

Writing kisaita (on and off) for 15 years

Never get tired of the ship

Excellent, friendly people in the fandom to keep making content (Cynni)

Presentation is less about the specific ship and more about the general qualities that make their ship S-tier. You may find this echoed in your own OTP, IDK.

Powerful, badass characters who can kick anyones asses no problem, as depicted where they are casually taking a stroll after Kisame (who still has his little fo-hawk) casually takes down the four-tails

Kisame is noted as the ‘tail-less jinchuuriki’

Itachi is clearly a fucking powerhouse, we don’t need to debate that

Working with strong characters means you are more easily able to portray their weakness and explore that side of them since that rarely gets screentime

Auxiliary, not main characters

Main characters are harder to write because they spend a lot of screen time accomplishing their goal and doing Plot

Auxiliary characters are more malleable, and morally gray ones especially so

Depicted here are Itachi and Kisame, separately, being ordered by their villages to kill their own people. They carry this order out, but do not particularly like it. Nor are they particularly loyal to their own villages, despite carrying this order out. It’s hard to say where their loyalities lie.

The answer is WITH EACH OTHER OBVIOUSLY

Any ship that has a timeskip has LOADS of canon-verse material you can work with, especially if it feels like the characters have changed or their dynamic has changed.

For Naruto especially, WTF are Kisame and Itachi doing for three years? Clearly neither of them are out capturing jinchuriki. They aren’t seen lounging around Amegakure or Akatsuki headquarters. They are just traveling the world. Probably doing hits. Probably hitting on EACH OTHER WOOOOOO

Long time skips mean a few thing: 1) Canon divergence, 2) Canon compliant, 3) pre-time skip, 4) during time skip, 5) post time-skip; and that’s not even the AU’s

They clearly haven’t made any other friends during this time either so lots of relationship to explore

The Naruto franchise is notorious for retconning. Probably because Kishimoto (the writer) was pushed to create at a pace that was impossible for any sane or healthy man to keep up with.

Fanficition writers can take advantage of this poor writing by interpreting the character in a lot more ways than if the character was solidly written.

There are a lot of different ways Kisame is written, and accepted as so

Itachi less so but we don’t have time for that

Retconning allows you to take a writers mistake and turn it into utter brainrot that ten other people (me) will reblog every 3 years

This one is kind of specific, but if you like angst then OH BOY this ship has a lot of potential for it

Any OTP that involves an angsty edgelord and a sadistic tagalong can indulge in either EXTRA ANGST and be able to balance out the angst with humor

The KisaIta ship has 4 great themes about it:

Redemption

Acceptance

Forgiveness

And Existentialism of course

Dynamic:

Sharkboy / lava girl

Edgelord / goof

Leader / follower

Maybe old? / a touch too young

Respect for each other

S-tier OTP because of strong themes and repeatable dynamics

Kinkfest here we come

S-tier OTPs must be able to withstand an intense variety of smut writing

Powerful level = able to handle pain and dish out pain

Body things? = more positions

The Shape of Water was one of the single best thing to happen to the KisaIta 18+ fics because (even though it existed before the movie came out) a lot more readers were into it now

Also, Kisame makes this ship work more than Itachi. He is fucking DEVOTED

at this point I was running out of my 10-minutes (THEY HAD THE AUDACITY TO PUT ME ON A TIMER) so i just backfilled the rest of the presentation with fanart and memes i like

Why do I like KisaIta?

I mostly write smut

They’re great at smut

I also like angst

They’re always great for angst, either character

Also look at them they are hot AF

Beefcake service-top vs. ‘shaped like a katana’ masochist

Healthy dose of hurt-comfort

They’re extremely flexible to write and so there’s a lot of stories you can create

thank you for not reporting me to the powerpoint police

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(These are my ACTUAL notes from my friends birthday party full of people who absolutely did not know who the fuck Itachi and Kisame were or how pairing names work or what a ship is.)

Writing kisaita (on and off) for 15 years

Never get tired of the ship

Excellent, friendly people in the fandom to keep making content (Cynni)

Presentation is less about the specific ship and more about the general qualities that make their ship S-tier. You may find this echoed in your own OTP, IDK.

Powerful, badass characters who can kick anyones asses no problem, as depicted where they are casually taking a stroll after Kisame (who still has his little fo-hawk) casually takes down the four-tails

Kisame is noted as the ‘tail-less jinchuuriki’

Itachi is clearly a fucking powerhouse, we don’t need to debate that

Working with strong characters means you are more easily able to portray their weakness and explore that side of them since that rarely gets screentime

Auxiliary, not main characters

Main characters are harder to write because they spend a lot of screen time accomplishing their goal and doing Plot

Auxiliary characters are more malleable, and morally gray ones especially so

Depicted here are Itachi and Kisame, separately, being ordered by their villages to kill their own people. They carry this order out, but do not particularly like it. Nor are they particularly loyal to their own villages, despite carrying this order out. It’s hard to say where their loyalities lie.

The answer is WITH EACH OTHER OBVIOUSLY

Any ship that has a timeskip has LOADS of canon-verse material you can work with, especially if it feels like the characters have changed or their dynamic has changed.

For Naruto especially, WTF are Kisame and Itachi doing for three years? Clearly neither of them are out capturing jinchuriki. They aren’t seen lounging around Amegakure or Akatsuki headquarters. They are just traveling the world. Probably doing hits. Probably hitting on EACH OTHER WOOOOOO

Long time skips mean a few thing: 1) Canon divergence, 2) Canon compliant, 3) pre-time skip, 4) during time skip, 5) post time-skip; and that’s not even the AU’s

They clearly haven’t made any other friends during this time either so lots of relationship to explore

The Naruto franchise is notorious for retconning. Probably because Kishimoto (the writer) was pushed to create at a pace that was impossible for any sane or healthy man to keep up with.

Fanficition writers can take advantage of this poor writing by interpreting the character in a lot more ways than if the character was solidly written.

There are a lot of different ways Kisame is written, and accepted as so

Itachi less so but we don’t have time for that

Retconning allows you to take a writers mistake and turn it into utter brainrot that ten other people (me) will reblog every 3 years

This one is kind of specific, but if you like angst then OH BOY this ship has a lot of potential for it

Any OTP that involves an angsty edgelord and a sadistic tagalong can indulge in either EXTRA ANGST and be able to balance out the angst with humor

The KisaIta ship has 4 great themes about it:

Redemption

Acceptance

Forgiveness

And Existentialism of course

Dynamic:

Sharkboy / lava girl

Edgelord / goof

Leader / follower

Maybe old? / a touch too young

Respect for each other

S-tier OTP because of strong themes and repeatable dynamics

Kinkfest here we come

S-tier OTPs must be able to withstand an intense variety of smut writing

Powerful level = able to handle pain and dish out pain

Body things? = more positions

The Shape of Water was one of the single best thing to happen to the KisaIta 18+ fics because (even though it existed before the movie came out) a lot more readers were into it now

Also, Kisame makes this ship work more than Itachi. He is fucking DEVOTED

at this point I was running out of my 10-minutes (THEY HAD THE AUDACITY TO PUT ME ON A TIMER) so i just backfilled the rest of the presentation with fanart and memes i like

Why do I like KisaIta?

I mostly write smut

They’re great at smut

I also like angst

They’re always great for angst, either character

Also look at them they are hot AF

Beefcake service-top vs. ‘shaped like a katana’ masochist

Healthy dose of hurt-comfort

They’re extremely flexible to write and so there’s a lot of stories you can create

thank you for not reporting me to the powerpoint police

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tl;dr: An angsty minimal-dialogue take from Nagato's perspective on Konan's behavior through their years in the new Akatsuki.

Excerpt:

Nagato slips into the Tendo path's consciousness. He expects darkness, but finds heaven instead. Slender, soft fingers idly thread themselves through Tendo's hair; caressing Tendo's cheek. He longs to greet his admirer. Rinnegan eyes crack open and bear witness to the fleeting image of Konan's unpainted lips curled into an arc, shining like the sun. As quick as he sees it, her smile shatters under horror and shame. The light retreats from her quicker than the love from her fingers as she realizes the bright sparkle of Yahiko's eyes is Nagato's instead. Hurt floods him.

He speaks to her through Tendo; cold and unforgiving. "What are you doing here?" Red beads on her lip as she sinks her teeth into it. “Leave, Konan.”

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