#diamond girls

[team7-headquarter]

Genuinely into chronic pain Rin and how gentle she tries to be with her team because she knows they worry about her, but she's so tired of them being scared that she'll die as if she's fragile.

Rin, who was a medic nin in war times. Who took a chidori to the chest, so there are many of her nerves that she can't even feel. Rin, who has been told she cannot exit Konoha for a mission because she's an excellent medic nin and Tsunade would rather have her alive and saving lives than dead on an unnecessary mission for a rich asshole.

Rin, who cried of rage on Tsunade's arms the first time she got a panic attack. Because Tsunade was like her. They were scared and broken and it all happened when they were so young— Rin, who receives bottles upon bottles from Tsunade, but she decided to collect them as a reminder. It's not as bad as it could be, she doesn't need a drink.

Rin, who took one look at Sakura and knew that she needed to get out of her team. They loved her too much to allow her to grow into a kunoichi. She knew. She knew that if it was for Team 7, they'd take her away, protect her innocent smile and all that kept them thinking the world should be like that and not as it was. Rin, who was as strict as Tsunade to Sakura, but she never allowed her to forget that it meant something. It was hers. All of it. She should take it.

Rin, who is capable of being morbid. She learnt all she could about poisons from Shizune. She asked Anko to teach her torture techniques. Why, you ask? Because she remembers how they tried to turn her into a jinchuuriki. How helpless she felt, how she later thought "I need to learn more".

Diamond Girls au Rin, my beloved.

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grahh girlfaves part 2 !! 💗

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I wish I’d been a teen idle…

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[team7-headquarter]

To be clear, the reason why Minato and Kushina got killed on the Diamond Girls au is because they saw the Hidden Villages system as a step towards a better world and not the final state.

People with chakra and kekkei genkais survived by forming clans bases on family/blood relationships to fight off other clans and take violent jobs that would pay for their sustenance. Later, Hashirama and Madara founded the hidden villages system to stablish an standard of alliances between clans that would offer greater protection, along with the ability to obtain greater resources by liking their services to an element nation.

Knowing that Hashirama and Madara wanted to live in a world where children didn't have to fight and die all the time, it feels stupid to consider the hidden villages system as the final products. The economy of a hidden village is violence and death and suffering; there's simply no way it should be considered the finalization of their dream.

Minato saw that. He realized that Tobirama took many decisions that deviated from the original Hashirama dream, but that were necessary at the moment given the state of the world around them and the pressure of war. For example, Tobirama institutionalized soldier children by creating the Academy. Teaching children how to kill is indeed counterproductive on the long term, but at the moment it was better for kids to learn how to defend themselves and fight, because war knows no age and the enemy wouldn't spare them. If it was Tobirama's line of thinking, no one knows, but it could be rationalized like that.

The real problem came with the corruption of the original dream, which happened with Hiruzen and Danzo. For once, they were more Tobirama's kids than Hashirama's. Danzo saw the hidden villages system as the perfect machine that should be protected and maintained at all costs, which it wasn't. Hiruzen didn't necessarily shared Danzo's point of view, but he was unable to continue the change and limited himself to maintaining the status quo. That means, he preoccupied himself with maintaining Konoha's supremacy over other hidden villages, so that the threat of their power would keep others at bay.

When it came to Minato— well, the man was bold and had the benefit of an outside view (his) and a insider (Kushina). They agreed that society should not be solely on clans or hidden villages, at least not anymore. Clans were good and should be maintained given their tradition, cultures and the feeling of kinship with the family, but to base the shinobi system on clans could lead to maintain archaic practices like the secondary branche of the Hyuga clan, or the prejudice against clans like the Uchihas. Bloodline, kekkei genkais and other clan related elements were important, but again, it could generate unhealthy pressure upon heirs or discard really good shinobis that came from non clan families, among other problems.

The issue with the hidden villages system is that it was too reliable on violence and taking jobs from the elemental nations. It's partially given that the elemental nations want hidden villages to depend on them / fear the independence of the hidden villages, partially due the lack of other military like structures. On paper, the relationship between the elemental nations and the hidden villages is one of mutual benefit, but they don't particularly act like they are all part of the same community. Instead, it's more like an alliance. The division between shinobis and civilians in Naruto is too great for it to translate to our reality.

Minato thought that it was time to start working on lessening the division between clans, civilians and common shinobis. A difficult thing to do, if you consider that "turning shinobis more cilivian" or "going for hidden villages independence from the elemental nations" or even "lessening the impact of clan bloodline in hidden villages politics" sounds awful to the traditional parties, like you're telling them to be more weak.

In reality:

1) You cannot keep an ongoing state of war and then expect war not to break in. Most shinobis are seen mostly as weapons and not at all like people, which is part of the problem (see ROOT, if you want an example). So when you talk about turning shinobis more into civilians, it only means to give them a sense of peace, normalcy and care that reminds them that killing might be their job at the moment, but it doesn't have to be who they are all the time.

2) Minato doesn't want to immediately erase the Hidden Villages, but that's the goal, isn't it? If they aim for peace, having states dedicated to killing and violence is not ideal. Shinobis are bound to disappear one day and that's not a bad thing to want or look forward.

3) A lot of the violence of the shinobi world comes from the difference between common people and chakra users. That means that kekkei genkais and other chakra abilities are feared to the point of genocide (some examples include the jinchurikis, the Uzumaki clan and Haku). At some point you need to deal with that discrimination, creating opportunities for chakra users to live civilians lives and know that being a shinobi is an option, not a rule anymore. It means guaranteeing stuff like the safety of an Uchiha of the main clan if they want to become civilians and never learn how to fight or kill other people. Highly complicated, but you need to start somewhere!

4) Clans cannot dictate most hidden villages rules and, in Konoha's case, being from an important clan should not be a requirement to be a hokage. Minato did amazing proving that point, but he had to further work on it. Funnily enough, this point was easier to tackle. For example, Uchihas were prideful but highly understanding and they were willing to change in order to achieve peace. The Hyugas were a bit more of a problem, but it was not impossible and Minato was a fuinjutsu specialist, he really wanted to deal with the seal of the second branch and erase it once and for all. Minato wanted to protect their heritage and their traditions (like he couldn't do with the Uzumakis) while simultaneously freeing them of the burden of their past mistakes.

As it's evident, it would have changed the whole shinobi world. People like Danzo didn't like Minato because he thought he was brilliant, yet naive. It was not that easy and the process would weaken the village and allow others to attack. At the same time, other villages wanted to stop Konohagakure advance because they (those villages) either still depended highly on working as militaries or they liked the violent system. Of course that elemental nations hated it as much; they were terrified of the day Minato would declare Konoha didn't need the Fire Nation anymore, as distant as it could be.

I'm really enjoying thinking about the political aspects of this au. It's simply to see that I based it way more on the Classic than on Shippuden, but that was an easy decision.

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I wanna stay inside all day, I want the world to go away

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baby if you love me, take me to the gas station✧⁠*☆ﾟ⁠.⁠*⁠･⁠｡ﾟ

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