#karin uzumaki deserved better

[teawinx]

I have nothing Valentines-y to post today

So instead y’all have to stare at my wives and appreciate them

And better post them all together to mark the end of this weird little project. Idk why I challenged myself to redesign all 6 main Naruto girls in 1 week, but I did it. Maybe because I wanted to test how I could exaggerate them, to explore a wider range of body types. And also for fashion. Can’t forget fashion.

I’m toying with the idea of drawing them as genin, to show how much a person can change in so little time, and the idea of drawing them as icky and awkward 12 year olds is fun to me. Even though, let’s be real, Temari was already a style icon at 13. I’m unsure for now.

Happy Galetines day!

[theheirofthesharingan]

It's criminal there isn't much content on Itachi and the Taka. He'd love them. And they would adore him. The path to Itachi's heart is through Sasuke. When he'd see there were people who loved his brother, were even ready to go full criminal mode just for his sake, and desert everything they believed in for Sasuke's sake, he would be overwhelmed.

The Taka would love him as well. They'd see he isn't the kind of person they believed he was. How he remains detached from everyone unless it's for or because of Sasuke. They'd be very much delighted and also overwhelmed to be around him. Because it's itachi.

They'd notice how he tries to remove himself from Sasuke's life, but can't. They'd play an important role in shaping the brothers' bonding that, if Itachi had lived, wouldn't be easy to heal.

[lesbian-goku]

I wish Karin’s entire personality wasn’t just revolving around her crush for sasuke, she had so much potential and honestly she deserved better too her backstory makes me so sad

[leewritestoomuch]

Naruto Men Smash Or Pass

Naruto Uzumaki: Pass

Just not interested like that. I don’t know.

Sasuke Uchiha: Pass

I go back and forth between saying adult Sasuke is fine as hell to saying I hate Sasuke so I’ll go ahead and pass bc I’m fed up.

Sai: Smash

YALL SEEN WHEN HE HELD KABUTO DOWN???? I STARTED BARKING. HOWLING EVEN.

Shikamaru Nara: Smash

Do I need to explain? CMON.

Choji Akimichi: Smash.

I love him. I want him to know that. He’d be so sweet too. I’m jealous of Karui (and him tbh, she’s so cool and prettyyy)

Kiba Inuzuka: Smash

You are LYING if you say you don’t want him. He’s so fine.

Shino Aburame: DOUBLE SMASH

First of all, he’s canonically PACKING. Second of all, he deserves better. Third of all, he’s fine as hell. And lastly, he’s literally the love of my life. I just know he’d treat me well.

Neji Hyuga: Smash.

SMASH SMASH SMASH SMASH. Sexy man. And he deserves better.

Rock Lee: SMASH.

I just know he got that motion in the ocean yall. CMON. And he’s so sweet. He’d treat his partner like they’re royalty! Cmonnnn

Kakashi Hatake: Smash.

We can recreate those books. That’s all I’m saying on this.

Might Gai: Pass

First pass in a while. Not interested. I don’t like guys like him. Plus, idk if I’m being crazy but he literally uses Lee and Kakashi says that he does Kakashi’s Novel. And honestly, making Lee commit a CRIME for you is crazy. But is that filler? Not count? Idk. Either way, he’s still a pass.

Yamato: Pass

Not interested. Weird face tbh. He’s cool tho.

Itachi Uchiha: SMASH

DO I NEED TO EXPLAIN MYSELF???

Obito Uchiha: pass.

Maybe I’m unreasonable but I can’t stand him. Bro misinterpreted and started a war???? And he’s the cause of like all my confusion for like almost all 500 episodes of Shippuden. Bad taste in my mouth.

Orochimaru: SMASH.

I told yall I don’t smash the bad ones, for the most part, but… yall. Boruto Orochimaru can GET it. I want them to step on me ngl.

Kabuto: PASS. In fact? I’m stabbing him.

HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE THIS MAN WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING. most hated anime men of all time for me are this guy and Shaiapouf from hxh.

Suigetsu: SMASH.

Don’t lie to yourselves, at LEAST once you’ve thought about how hot he is.

Not a man but honorable mention:

Karin Uzumaki: SMASHHHHH

Sasuke never deserved her. Sasuke deserves nobody tbh. I hate him, did I mention that?

Anyways back to the men:

Gaara: SMASH

I don’t need to explain myself

Kankuro: SMASH SMASH SMASHHH..HMM…SMASH

I’m obsessed with this man. Tho Shino has been the one on my mind recently.

This is it for now. I’m tired. I saw somebody do this, so I thought I’d put up my opinions bc… 😈

[mintichoco]

'Boruto' series re-envisioned

tw. opinions (and the wording is all over a mess so read at your own risk), plot-bashing (is that even a thing?)

[This is my opinion on what Boruto, as a sequel to one of the greatest Shounen franchises should have been. Remember, this is entirely my wishful thinking and I don't mean to disrespect any of the writers, animators or the fandom.]

Boruto, as an MC, had immense potential. This point has been chanted to the ground but it is true. He is a third gen Uzumaki and second gen Hyūga. And we all know Uzumaki have monstrous chakra reserves. What he needed was to work hard for it. Where was the training arc?

Think about it. We never got much backstrory about the Uzumaki clan and what their motives and morals were. It would have been cool to see another character use the chakra chains (beside Kushina and Karin). He could have explored Uzushio, the plot could've called for contacting the remaining Uzumaki who supposedly scattered all over the globe.

Maybe Boruto could have worked with seals? Minato, his grandpa, is known as one of the greatest seal masters. If the writers were going for symbolism, why not use that?

Same goes for his Hyūga lineage. We get so much info about the Uchiha in Naruto, it could have been refreshing to see the Boruto lore delve into the Hyūga faction, which isarguably the third (or even the second, not counting the Senju) strongest clan in Konoha.

Think of all the jutsu Boruto could have had in his arsanel with a Byakugan. It's hightime they get the deserved recognition.

Coming to another member of Team 7, Mitsuki is a clever character idea but ultimately wasted postential as well.

If the power scaling continues to get upped in the pace as it is now, there will be nothing left for the Time Skip. Shippuden gave us Sage Mode but Mitsuki already has that. Viewers will look for something new and we all know even Kishimoto wrote himself up a wall with Rinnegan and the Otsutsuki race. What will Ikemoto give then?

Speaking of Otsutsuki, it was sort of dissapointing to see them getting introduced this fast. Some will say Boruto is slow paced and yes, I agree, but in terms of keeping that air of anonymity, it fails terribly.

It would have worked better if instead of Momoshiki landing like a bug out a tree, they got clues and rumors instead.

The whole Code and Kara situation should've been handled first and then led to the reveal of an Otsutsuki nest, perhaps?

Or a portal like the one in Last to a mirror dimension or somthing where the Otsutsuki live? Maybe a dive into how they came to be? It is revealed that humans are an entirely different race and what we see of the Naruto cast are a mix between Otsutsuki and humans.

Also, WHERE IS THE BACKSTORY? Same thing with Hyūgas really. The Hamura thing came out of nowhere. The Last is a below average excuse to tie up loose ends.

Now, Kawaki, I have a love-hate relationship with him. On one hand his backstory provides the perfect intro to post-war tragedies (and a hc of mine that smaller villages in the outskirts still get ignored in favour of the capitals)

But he just feels like a dollar-store Sasuke. As if the writers were like, oh Boruto needs a rival? Add in an angsty guy to contrast his sunny demeanor. I know this is a recurring trope in shounen but it works because it is handled well.

And people say Boruto is handed everything on a silver platter? Kawaki basically lives with the freaking Head of the Village, the elite of the elites, is looked after by the former heir to the Hyūga and gets to be a genin because he has a cool explody power? And all that why? Because he is a mistreated orphan? (what about the kids who lost their parents in the war? what about aforementioned kids in small-sized villages? what about cases like sumire? what makes Kawaki SPECIAL, naruto?)

Kawaki shouldn't have been given any of those benifits. Let him figure out how the world works, let him make mistakes, show his potential as a good guy, let him prove himself as a character worth stanning. Give him a serious politics-based arc explaining that part of the Boruto era rather than some murderers chasing a boy with some magical cure.

Coming to the side characters (yes, I'm saving Sarada for later and there is a reason behind it), let's start with Shikadai. First thought, he is the most carbon-copied version of his dad out of every next gen character.

It's no news that scenarios and often characters revered as prodigies are dumbed down to make him shine but imo most of it is owed to the factor that there is no element of suspense or an ultimatum for that matter.

Kakashi, Minato, Itachi, Orochimaru, Shisui worked as prodigal characters because of the situation. It was war time and kids were forced to grow up. The stakes were high and even then, the plot revolving around them was such that it made them raise the bar higher.

Shikadai seems flat compared to many characters. Remember, Shikamaru was not called a prodigy, he even flunked tests because he was too lazy, but whenever the situation was tense, us viewers could count on his snippets of thoughts for a clarification, or little behaviors to show he realized and often times refused to work for what is right over what is needed because that is smartness, taking a level-headed decision with the least collateral.

On the other hand, Shikadai is fed information and he just 'explains' stuff like a NPC.

I can't help but think, what if Shikadai inherited Temari's temper? Mix that with Shikamaru's actual genius (not the baby puzzle-solving we see in that one arc with Kakashi) and he could be one of the team members to look for clue about the Otsutsuki's existence. Also, I'd like more windstyle-user Shikadai plz.

Moving on to Inojin. He is also one of those characters that I neither like nor dislike. He's just... there.

What Boruto needs is better world-building and ain't no better way to accomplish that than exploring side characters. Inojin doesn't have an affinity for the Yamanaka mind-body-switch so make him train for other stuff.

Let viewers know where jutsu like that stems from (yin and yang release), give him some productive time with the border patrol, stress on the fact that Konoha's citizen don't go to sleep at peace just knowing Naruto will pull some god-level jutsu.

The Yamanaka are an extremely important part of the security system. Remember how Inoichi was part of the team figuring out Pain's black chakra recievers? Make Inojin do something similar with, perhaps some Otsutsuki relic or remains (going with the mystery au)

Then comes Chocho. How to put it simply? At first I despised her. And no, it has nothing to do with her appearance. Actually, I find her and that new girl from the recent Labyrinth Game arc, Batta, amazing.

The fact lies with her attitude. Tell me one attribute that comes to mind while thinking of her other than Butterfly mode and eating chips. Sure, she loves to eat, we get it. The fact again boils down to her falling flat as a character.

Chocho could use her lightning release in many ways and it must be strong too, considering her mother comes from Kiri. She could have earth-release, that would be great to see as none of the main cast prior to this have that.

And if they are going for a Ino-like character, let the girl have some reality to her. A twelve-year old girl is far mature and has other troubles than just thinking about cute boys and girls.

She can retain that aspect but make her serious when it comes to missions, or her family, show her spending time partaking in her hobbies that do not include eating, ogling at movie stars and muttering un-funny jokes and inuendos. Give her depth, for a lack of better words.

And for Hagoromo's sake, LET THESE KIDS HAVE SOME SORT OF GOAL and not just exist because their parents hooked up smh.

Last but not least, Sarada. I, like many others, really like her character. She isn't yet another girl who despises anything remotely 'girly' and is not afraid to show her emotions and voice her thoughts loud and clear. She is practical and relatively smart without being an overkill.

What bugs me is her very existence.

No, I do not want to get roped into a 'sasusaku : good or bad' debate but they just don't make sense to me. And this is coming from someone whose first anime ship as a ten-year-old was sasusaku.

In any case, Naruto (not citing the last few chapters) made it clear that Sasuke did not see Sakura nor Karin as a romantic interest. And honestly, I still am onboard with him being an aro ace because, hello representation!

And whatever happened behind the scenes post The Last are only headcanons, so the idea of Sasuke suddenly marrying Sakura seems a stretch to me. Let alone him having a kid who he suddenly cares so much about after ignoring her for twelve years...(coming to the problem of 'as to why he did that anyway' later)

Sarada, in my opinion, should not exist.

Like, okay, Naruto has a kid but why should Sasuke as well because of that? PTSD is a thing and we are repeatedly shown that Sasuke has grown a fear of familial bonds due to obvious reasons.

If we calculate their ages, the new gen was born sometime when they were 20-23 y/o. Yeah, I'm willing to bet Sasuke did not get past that nagging anxiety of eighteen years in just three or four.

If they wanted to make Sasuke the mysterious sensei figure who is rarely in town and is always going in these crazy amazing solo missions, don't make him a deadbeat dad. Come onnn...

Canon!Sasuke would never just abandon his wife and child for the sake of the village that ruined his family (again, trust issues), the village that he saw ab*sing a child because of something out of his control (who's to say Sarada was not picked on and scrutinized because she is a former nuke-nin's kid and an Uchiha like Naruto was due to Kurama?)

Instead, Sasuke should have just been a traveller. He should still be wandering the nations to find his way in life, being someone beyond an Uchiha and escaping the burden that was placed on his shoulders at a very young age.

You know how I keep mentioning the small villages that probably get ignored? Show him helping them, him cleaning up traces of corrupted organizations like in the last few episodes of the anime.

Show his kinder, softer side in a believable way (not the comic relief that Boruto provides), show us him seeing the beauty in life and finding a reason to live.

The Sasuke we see now just feels like an empty shell. I remember seeing a post the other day saying that he showed genuine emotions in Shippuden but now he looks like he has lost all motivation to even stay alive. And he was definitely guilt-tripped into returning to Konoha.

Yes, that would mean Sakura would remain either unmarried or marry some no-name character. Though, that seems unlikely as her pining over Sasuke eliminated all chance of relationship progress with any other character.

It would be refreshing to see her let go of her childhood crush and just moving on, leaving behind the last link to a Sakura she did not accept, the one she changed. I don't mind having an episode dedicated to them having a heart-to-heart as good old pals, all romantic feelings aside.

Maybe on that bench too, if you get what I mean. It would show us how far they have come, as shinobi, as Konoha's ninja and as people, from naïve kids to being the village's pillars.

Now, as to what the overall plot of Boruto should be, I have this idea of the war still going on when Naruto ends. Just hear me out.

If Ikemoto wants to resolve the Otsutsuki matters in this series, why not begin it with an intense fight scene where the generations following the main cast (Konohamaru and the rest) are fighting some low rank entities who serve the Otsutsuki.

It could lead to multiple of these strange class of aliens attacking from portals like ones the Rinnegan creates and base the entire series as a survival genre. Not only would that raise the stakes from being a one-episode conflict resolve, as it is now, it would mean the generation in the middle would become hardened veterans who the kids could look up to, not cannon fodder.

Make the prior war times return, but this time with an unknown race altogether. Make rifts between the Alliance, comment on how that affects the social and economical standings of various nations, involve the Daimyo.

Naruto can still be the all-powerful Hokage but make the rest of the caste equally useful.

Another idea that just popped up while writing this: what if they made mosters like in the Worm series appear? That threaten the world and some villages are forced to break the truce as they believe some ancient jutsu caused these attacks but cannot figure out from which nation.

Not even jutsu, it can be scientific modelling too since the Boruto era are scientifically far advanced.

Maybe I'm just reaching but with the huge power scaling like they have done, the stakes actually need to be high. Or else, every situation that they come across, we know they will get through it because of high rank jutsu they possess.

And for the last issue, just 'Boruto'. As in, the name. I'm aware it is supposed to be an homage to Neji but it feels so rip-off. There are so many good ones like : Hiro(for its irony as he is to be a hero and it starts with 'H'), Akihiro (personal favorite, means bright), Kaito (means ocean, an homage to the land of whirlpools), Asahi (mirror's Hinata's name meaning which is sun), Shinya (genuine, personal favorite), etc. etc.

A/N : That is it for this part. I can make another as I have ideas just buzzing in my mind and no time to turn them into fanfiction. Let me know if you enjoyed these and feel free to PM or reblog adding your own ideas too!

Also, anyone wanna be friends? 😅 I really want to rant about Naruto with someone and none of my friends watch enough anime to even comprehend what I'm saying most times.

[notsofastwawa]

Karin Uzumaki deserved better 😤

She should have never fully forgiven Sasuke for almost killing her! The only reason she helped deliver Sarada is because of Sakura and only Sakura. Karin should have done the bare minimum when it comes to interacting with Sasuke.

[narhinafan]

they did Sasuke dirty by making him end up with a fangirl who wanted him all to herself. Karin or Ino would've been better.

but I prefer SasuKarin. they both deserve each other since they've got no families, had tough childhoods.

sure, Karin was a fangirl like Sakura, but at least she did it when they were alone and she never abused her teammates (except Suigetsu, but she had reasons to) and she even refused to admit her crush on Sasuke in front of others. she's respectful of Sasuke's boundaries, too, unlike a certain pink haired trash.

Sasuke shouted out to Karin when the black flames burnt her, refused to leave her when Jugo suggest it, he unlocked a new ability to deactivate the black flames, ordered Jugo to get Karin.

Sasuke acts differently around Team Taka/Karin than Team 7/Sakura. he was willing to let Kakashi and Sakura die many times and even Naruto one time. he literally only sacrificed himself for Naruto, never Kakashi or Sakura (which is stupid because Kakashi taught him the Jutsu he uses the most and probably how to control the Sharingan). with Team Taka, he refused to let anyone die and protected them, especially Karin.

Sarada should've been SK's daughter but lets be honest, Karin don't need that piece of shit either.

I feel like Karin wouldn't have a daughter with glasses, especially if it has Uchiha & Uzumaki blood. she'd probably have a pretty daughter who actually appreciate her parents, have a good personality, not abusive, and pretty, someone who's worthy of being shipped with Boruto or Kawaki, the two most strongest shinobi as of currently in their gen.

Agreed Karin or Ino would be better even a new character would have been better.

Same SasuKarin works better not only does Karin have a genuine reason to like Sasuke, but as you said neither had good childhoods.

Sarada already looks like SK's daughter just doesn't have the personality. I think Karin would have handled Sasuke's absence better or even he would take the time visit and check up on them. Karin would properly explain things Sarada and won't be any confusion as Karin wouldn't hide Sakura's existence or couldn't cause she is living in the village.

[whoslaurapalmer]

karin like many female naruto characters deserved soooooo much better. this cool sensor healing ninja!!!!!! and she's an uzumaki!!!!!!! and she's got glasses!!!!!! but then she got the main personality trait of OBSESSED WITH SASUKE

[kishimotomasashi]

You don't understand, I need to read your Team Taka AU!!

I do have some questions!

1. The missions that Team Taka accepts, are they only shinobi related? or are they also more mundane like farming, building?

2. If they're shinobi related, do they have hard nos? and what are they willing to accept?

3. You said that Danzo dies with the help of all Taka, but do they take more actions? making it public? destroying the world?

First of all. thank you!!! I am so glad I have interested at least one(1) person in this AU idea. And I would love to read it too, but unfortunately I would have to like... actually write it. Bummer.

To answer your questions:

1) They're a mix of both! What I had in mind is that they're often moving a lot, village-to-village, town-to-town, maybe even the city, in search of information on the things they're searching for (The 7 Swords of the Mist, traces of Juugo's clan, traces of the Uzumaki, etc.) and so here and then they'll either find someone who needs their immediate help or ask around if they can help with anything if they need the money. Sometimes a mission will be "my son got kidnapped after a village attack please helpme find him" or helping with groceries. Like your usual shinobi missions, really.

They never take more money than is strictly necessary (which is at Sasuke's insistence) when they move as a group. Sometimes they'll split up around a town to take a few individual odd jobs, and Karin and Suigetsu will sometimes take a little more than they think the mission is worth, but only if the client looks well off enough. Sometimes they will do missions for free if they look particularly dire and they feel too bad to charge the client, which happens a lot more than they'd expect.

2) They discuss what their limits would be, when they're acting as a group, among each other. Since Sasuke's no longer leading them towards a goal that is his alone, "just do what Sasuke says" isn't how they function anymore (Suigetsu and Karin will constantly remind Juugo of this, who just kind of already decided how that would be how he'd work for himself. Some encouragement from Sasuke himself and more time getting used to working as a team eventually leads him to speak up about what he thinks more). What they decided after long discussion is:

They will not take assassinations as long as they can all agree that the person being assassinated deserves it. Which kind of people fit into that is another subject for discussion but they can all agree that they won't entertain petty rivalries or requests from people in high positions (rich, noble, etc.) that are clearly abuses of power.

They will not bother helping people who can clearly help themselves, if it's for mundane every day tasks. They will check for it if that happens to be the case.

They will not take on anything that keeps them in one place for too long, given that they're still on the run and two of them have their faces on official village watchlists.

3) I hadn't thought as far as "what do they do with what they know now and after killing Danzo", actually! That part is still something I'm working on. But they're definitely not gonna go public as far as like being the faces of the Revolution, or something. They don't have the power or the resources for that, and prefer (and are better-suited) to do some individual direct action.

I did mention that Obito/Madara as Akatsuki ringleaders are completely absent from this AU, making it so that the Akatsuki and what they do are 100% the work of Konan and Nagato, so... at some point, Hebi are radicalized enough to see the Akatsuki less as dangerous criminals and more as people who had a point. They eventually face with Kisame, who has a sword Suigetsu wants, who is perfectly happy to tell them what the Akatsuki wants and what their true motives are. So they could collaborate with what's left of them from time to time (that being just Kisame, Konan, and Zetsu, lol). I do not believe in Konan trusting Naruto so readily like Nagato did so she won't do that in this AU. She will try to rebuild the Akatsuki, or at least a movement that can stand against the Hidden Villages and challenge them, bc it's what she deserves. And Hebi can help with that, what with the connections with other people they've built, and such.

[whitelilynh]

Hello. I wonder how it would be like if the ending is a genjutsu and they lay down in the war field. Then there is Madara who has no time left and wants to seal the juubi (10 tails) aways and senses uzumaki chakra, which is karins, and then seals it into her. While doing that sasuke sees that, then somehow gets into karins memories and sees her past, (how much similar they were) etc, so she becomes now the juubi. how would that change the story from now on? Since now Karin would be much more important to the story.

Hi!

Well, I need a moment to think about this 😅 tbh, I haven't spent much time thinking about Karin, and what I did differs greatly from this.

I have a few doubts though.

One, from which point on the genjutsu starts? I mean, what of the war Arc is true and what is genjutsu.

Two, why does Madara have little time left and why does he need to seal the juubi elsewhere? I mean, wasn't he the juubi's jinchuriki?

Three, how does Sasuke sees past the genjutsu and through Karin's feelings/memories?

I'd like to know the answer to this before going fuller into a suggestion of events from my mind, but overall I can see some interesting things here.

Now, I need to say, what I've thought about Karin is, in summary, that she deserves better and deserves warmth and happiness. I don't think going errant/going back to Orochimaru is a proper ending for her, who was always on the run, alone and suffered so much.

Initially I wanted her to be welcomed on Konoha, since she herself said it felt warm like Naruto's chakra. I want her to have friends, a home, maybe even a family of her own. Ofc, I need Konoha to change for it to be a truthful warm and safe place, I said a bit about it before on another ask.

Now, I don't like to pair Karin with Sasuke. I think Sasuke had no romantic feelings towards her, though he regarded her and the rest of their teammates as, let's say dear friends, at least as close to that as Sasuke accepted back in the day. They were his family for a while, so I want to believe he has affection towards them. I still need to forgive him for having attacked Danzo through Karin 😅 this special part is what makes me go against SasuKarin the most. Although Sasuke does apology later, I still think he doesn't love her romantically, and Karin deserves to be fully loved. So I'd pair her with someone else.

Regarding your question though, I think Sasuke would try to protect Karin, and to actually try to *prevent* Madara from sealing the Juubi inside her, because yk, what the Juubi does to it's vessel. I think he would fear Karin wouldn't be able to fully control the Juubi and it took control of her instead. Even if she did, he would fear she would be used as a weapon and suffered even more. After all, he has seen her suffering at this point, he knows Naruto's story (a life as a jinchuriki) and he knows first hand the cruelty of the elites and governments of the Ninja Villages. Those are valid fears he would have for her as a true friend, I believe.

But then again, I'd like to know the answer to the questions I made 😊.

[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

AU where Karin is Naruto’s sister

No she’s not Kushina and Minato’s kid, she just saw this lonely orphan with the same last name as her and was like ‘mine’. Yes her mom’s alive in this because canon can die by my blade. They adopt him and she’s like a feral guard dog who can and will bite people. And then the whole Mizuki thing happens and she punches him in the arm and says ‘IF YOU WANTED TO DO SOMETHING ILLEGAL TO GRADUATE YOU COULD HAVE ASKED ME ASSHOLE’ and then hugs him for a really long time. And then they just put her on Team 7 too bc its less work than attempting to separate them.

And anyway she doesn’t like Sasuke in this bc she thinks he’s an ass to Naruto because yeah Naruto’s also an ass but whatever he stole her rice ball once by accident so. She also doesn’t like Sakura because she’s not nice to Naruto- because yeah Naruto’s also kind of an ass to her but she’s biased because she doesn’t like Sakura for other reasons also that are way too petty to even be mentioned. Kakashi takes one look at this clusterfuck and nopes out for a day to cry into his therapy porn novels before doing his whole bell test shbang.

Somehow it devolves into Naruto and Karin vs Sasuke and Sakura. Yep, somehow they wind up on the same side after a particular misison where Sakura witnessed Sasuke nearly die trying to farm potatoes for a D-rank because you know that boy knows literal shit about growing stuff, but Sakura was best friends with Ino (and still is but don’t tell anyone) so she at least knows something. It’s a bit hard to continue crushing on a guy after you see him accidentally put dirt down his pants.

They all get their shit together eventually and Sasuke never leaves because unlike in canon, Sakura actually talks to Karin about that she thinks he’s leaving and they girlboss their way into committing treason together and drag Naruto along with them. So yeah he DOES leave plus Sakura, but Naruto and Karin stay and conspire with Kakashi who has been Inspired(TM) to not be a bootlicker by anarchist-Sakura after she read a bunch of banned political theory and philosophy (as she should), also-anarchist Sasuke, equally-anarchist-Karin, and confused-but-he’s-got-the-spirit-Naruto. Why? To overthrow the government from the inside and outside.

At some point they adopt a weird tree geek who somehow owns all the braincells and a dumbass artist who reads porn to try and read social cues. He fails. Now there’s seven of them and you should probably fear for your life.

Oh also Sakura is an illusionist, Karin is a sealing specialist, Naruto goes feral and calls it taijutsu because Kurama should have remained evil fight me, sai does his paint stuff, and Sasuke a medical ninja. Why? Because the idea of Sasuke threatening to kill Naruto while he’s healing him is funny to me. Also healer cat lady but 12 yo boy Sasuke.

Yamato is all too used to the chaos and just mourns in the corner with his braincells and wood figures aka his only friends.

Kakashi is terrified but just glad they haven’t killed him yet.

[teawinx]

The last one The very lastly last Karin!

After going back to the drawing board and reworking her, here’s what I came up with. The blue skin just wasn’t working. Everyone else besides Ino have matching hair and skin, and the blue just didn’t complement her character at all. She’s a hothead, she’s feisty, she’s sexy, she’s intense, she’s RED. And then I could use an electric blue for her outfit, for a nice high contrast and to show that Karin is very fashion forward. I love that her canon hobby is collecting perfume, while also being in charge of an entire jail. She’s got THE RANGE.

And like I said in a previous post, I love Karin’s canon design. She just looks fantastic, at least to me. I love that she’s both nerdy and sexy, in the best ways. Again: RANGE.

[gelatomoon]

make myself tough, making my commotion

going through these motions

[orochimarusimp]

Lemme Rant ‘bout Hinata Hyuuga In Boruto Real Quick

i will NEVER forgive kishimoto or whoever the fuck worked on Boruto for turning Hinata into a HOUSE WIFE in that show. I know i said i love traditional femininity in a female character in one of my last posts, but i also said that i only love it when it’s in a natural and believable context that flows naturally! her being a housewife would have been TOTALLY fine.....

IF HER WHOLE STORYLINE HADN’T BEEN HER TRYING TO BECOME STRONG TO PROVE TO HER FATHER SHE DESERVED HER TITLE AS CLAN HEIRESS AND TO STAND BESIDE NARUTO AS A STRONG KUNOICHI WHO COULD PROTECT HIM LIKE HE DID HER.

Bro, it literally looks like as SOON as she got to the point where her and Naruto finally had a relationship, they just made her stop giving a FUCK about being a good kunoichi!! she’s not even an active duty ninja anymore y’all, COME ON. AND THEY STILL ENDED UP GIVING THE TITLE OF HYUUGA HEIRESS TO HANABI??? ARE YOU SERIOUS??

i get it, she’s not technically a hyuuga anymore, but through that fact they definitely could have opened a storyline about the connections of clans and the calming of the whole pureblood ‘you can only belong to one clan’ mindsets clans like the hyuuga had!!! Her story is SO unsatisfying to me because of this now, i don’t care what you say. they did all of that god awful development, only to reduce her back to simply a love interest and mother when you KNOW, that if she wanted to she could be those things AND A BADASS KUNOICHI. JUST LOOK AT SAKURA DOING HER THING, AND INO HAVING LIKE 5 JOBS BRO.

even in boruto the women haven’t gotten better, the writers have just started disguising how much they don’t care about them by giving them small amounts of screen time, and letting Sakura have her own fights.

i hate it here.

[sasukextherapy]

I really love Team Taka. They were genuinely so funny and showed what actual team work is. I hate how it end for all of them. Why the hell are they working for Orochimaru, the man that abused all three of them, and helping him with experimentation. They all had so much to offer but Kishmoto just threw them aside when Team 7 reunited.

[phoenixyfriend]

Sakura didn’t break Sasuke’s jaw in canon but she absolutely deserves to have done so. She can heal it five minutes later, I don’t care, but the second Sasuke showed up to fight Madara, there should have been a ‘break his jaw’ moment for Sakura.

Also Karin shouldn’t have missed when she broke out of jail. She also deserves to have broken Sasuke’s jaw at some point.