"you'd fight me if you actually liked me" so obito logic is that kakashi liked him in the other timeline but not in this one... bc he's been made less miserable by the butterfly effect changes obito had...? bc he has to be miserable to like him back...? naruto please invent therapy.
NARUTO PLEASE INVENT THERAPY PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
That's a definite solid interpretation. The other timeline was 'more correct', and emotions were expressed 'correctly'. There was more suffering and suffering = good, so less suffering = bad, and bad = less conflict, and less conflict = No Naruto Therapy-no-Jutsu, etc, etc...
You can also think about it as: on some level Obito knows he's in Naruto, and he knows how things are supposed to go. He's a rigid thinker (gnc of him) and he's trying to operationalize his life by diving it into shonen tropes. In shonen, the way Kakashi would express his love for Obito would be through a climactic therapy-no-jutsu fight. There's a flashback to Naruto on a swing. Of course, in this tropey Naruto-based understanding, Obito will have to die. The heteronormative happily ever after is built on the foundation of his death. That is part of the reason why Obito thinks he has no place in Sakura's new world. The world works a certain way, so Kakashi could only ever love him in this way, and it will always be tragic. Hey, the more I talk the more I'm wondering if Obito is autistic. Anyway.
This fic truly could have only been written by someone who views all shonen in the context of Naruto (somehow adjacent to how one ought to view all dungeon manwha in relationship to Solo Leveling). Unavoidable side effects of understanding that Naruto is the archetypal shonen manga and that all other modern shonen manga has to purposefully differentiate itself from Naruto while also being basically Naruto, because shonen is one of those genres that has to be formulaic by virtue of its genre and audience.
An insane part of me wants to rewrite the entire story to be a spoof of Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters, changing almost nothing. Another insane part of me wants it to be a spoof of Saturday morning super-hero cartoons. It's all the same thing, right? You see how it's all the same thing?!
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Old sketches from 2021🥲. I cleaned up the line art a bit and tweaked the colors!
I feel like Sakura wouldn’t really wear many matching sets, since her outfits tend to be on the less match-y side, but I think this is cute :)
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Side One: Group Two: Round One
Evan Buckley x Eddie Diaz from 911 vs. Naruto Uzumaki x Sasuke Uchiha from Naruto
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SasuGaa would be in so much love with Naruto haha
In the fusion kids/Junko AU, Naruto the series is a cringe romance show they can watch, and SasuGaa's favorite character is the fox protagonist.
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