#kizunaverse

[sasubaeuchithot]

i love how kh naruto's reasoning for having sex with sasuke is he can help sasuke RELAX. he can help a guy out! that's what friends do! like i get it but. he's so oblivious.

he genuinely just wants to help sasuke in any way he can and if that means dicking him down in the moonlight so be it

[alienatedtsuki]

Hello there! You can call me Tsuki or 月, which translates to "moon" in Japanese. Feel free to use any pronouns you're comfortable with, as I'm good with any. I am in my early twenties, INFJ I'm fluent in 4 languages, currently honing my Japanese(5th language) to perfection. I ship NaruSasu/SasuNaru wholeheartedly.

Why did I start this blog with sns fanfiction? I currently have 452 fanfics downloaded in my sns folder. I've read all of them. It is only logical I share my thoughts and recommend some of them. This is the list of the best sns fanfiction I have ever read. (There is one post with Shisui/Naruto and Itachi/Naruto – "If life gives you other Uchiha, make it work", but that's it) Enjoy, dear 🍅🍥 fans! Right now we have such posts as:

Best of the best (single fic/author per post):

Best codependency series "Hopeless Wanderer" by dawnstruck [1]

Biggest, healthiest(they visit a therapist!), mostly SasuNaru, modern AU fanfiction [1]

"Kizunaverse" by YoungAndOverIntelligent [1]

Best of Domestic | Slice of Life | Farm AU [1]

Best short NaruSasu/SasuNaru Fanfiction [1]

Smut Recommendations:

Dom!Naruto/Sub!Sasuke [Kinktober 2023 Part I] [1]

Best of Kitty Play [NaruSasu] [1]

Best of A/B/O NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Oh, how useful are these shadow clones [1]

Best of Modern AU [4]

Recurring posts:

Redefining the normal | Post Chapter 698/699, NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1 2 3]

Valley of the End is truly the End [1]

After the Timeskip [1]

Naruto, take the wheel [1]

NaruSasu/SasuNaru, but they are smol (genin and younger) [1 2 3]

Child Neglect, NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Best of Modern AU [1 2 3 4]

Best of Office AU NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Best of Time Travel AU [1]

Best of "5 + 1 things" [1]

Best of oblivious Sasuke, NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Domestic NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

Kyuubi | Nine-tails | Kurama Appreciation Post [1]

When Heroes Turn Writers, NaruSasu/SasuNaru [1]

[sasubaeuchithot]

I think about KH Sasuke trying to unpack his Itachi related trauma so much, it’s ridiculous.

Ive read KH a few times and I adore the little bits where Sasuke thinks about Itachi and is immediately like “I dont have time or capacity to unpack all of that so im just not gonna think about it” very valid.

Im curious what you think about Naruto and Shikamaru’s friendship, cause I feel like their dynamic is underrated in sns fanfics. Probs due to Shikamaru’s general misogyny, but I can’t see Naruto venting relationship issues with any other friends. There’s way too much baggage with Sakura, Kakashi, and Gaara to whinge about Sasuke’s cleaning habits.

ooh yeah, every time I went to go write a bit about Itachi Sasuke did NOT let me venture deep lmaoooo. i think he needs to sort himself out quite a bit before confronting just how damaging the brother he still loves deeply was to him. such a juicy dichotomy I really look forward to biting into in the sequel. i think he's gunna have to confront the negative impacts of Itachi with what plot i have so far for him

i would love to write about naruto venting his sasuke troubles to shikamaru, mainly because it would be absolute torture for shikamaru lmaooooo. shikamaru so far very much hates sasuke. I can imagine naruto venting about how Sasuke doesn't let him kiss him in public and shikamaru wanting to die on the spot about it. shikamaru himself isn't a mushy type so he'd hate it from anyone, but especially if he was forced to imagine it from Sasuke.

[sasubaeuchithot]

In Kizuna Hikari, what is Naruto thinking when he greets Sasuke in a more subdued way in the middle/later chapters? There's a few times (after they've done there initial smooching, when theyve already woke up together and not been awkward) when sasuke comes back, maybe after a few weeks or something and he notes that Naruto doesn't greet him with his usual shouting etc. Is it cause kyubi is speaking to him or he's like forgotten how attractive sasuke is and is just stunned?

one specific moment that comes to mind first was right before the bath scene in suna. I actually show what happened to Naruto on that day that got him into that mood at the end of Gaara's pov. gaara had convinced him that Sasuke is wasn't coming that night, and while Naruto didn't wholly believe him there was definitely the "abandoned child" part of his brain that was triggered and made him doubt. when Sasuke did show up, Naruto was immensely relieved, however he also was plagued by the new knowledge of how bad things were between Sasuke and the rest of the world, which kept his mood somber despite how relieved and happy he was that Sasuke was there.

other moments follow kind of the same reasoning. sasuke's arrival does not always immediately fix the deep complex emotions Naruto has. naruto's abandonment issues torture his psyche, and Sasuke being away for the whole week, sometimes longer, does not do that part of him any good. that time early on when Sasuke missed a week had brought Naruto awful depression, and Naruto wasn't ready to forgive him for it immediately.

so it's all situational based on naruto's mood as to how he greets Sasuke! every reaction was written intentionally to depict Naruto's state of mind in the moment

[sasubaeuchithot]

what's kh sasuke's favorite form of affection from naruto and vice versa?

Naruto loves anytime he has sasuke's full attention- his love language is definitely quality time. his favorite though is any time he notices Sasuke does something for him that he never does for anyone else, like open up emotionally. it makes naruto feel special and valued.

Sasuke loves the physical affection the most. he finds that having Naruto touching him untangles the mess in his mind and calms him down. Naruto holding him makes him feel safe in a way that he never was before.

this is why the bed was such a big plot device lol. Naruto loved how vulnerable Sasuke let himself be when they would lie together, and Sasuke loved how safe he felt

[sasubaeuchithot]

what do you think about sakura? i've always been very conflicted or even indifferent to her. i feel like i've either wanted to really like her, but she falls short on every expectation, or i've wanted to really hate her, but she's too bland even for that. i've seen one half of the fandom raise her on a pedestal that i feel she doesn't deserve and the other make her absolute rubbish and that you're supposed to loathe with all your heart.

when it comes to naruto and sasuke, i do think both of them have love for sakura (even sasuke, even though it seems almost blasphemy to say this out loud), as both of them have love as their core characteristic, especially sasuke. i think sakura loves them both too, but i also think she's shallow in her feelings but is capable of reflecting on them. but i also think, often giggling to myself, that she's a smelly sweaty nervous girl when it comes to sasuke and it takes time to grow out of it.

all in all i think people in this fandom often seem to forget nuance and context when talking about her.

i enjoy you writing her, because she has dimension and she's capable of self reflection, but you don't put her on a pedestal.

sorry for the rant, i need other things to think about than my life right now. hope you're doing good and beating your writer's block with a stick!

sakura is very complicated for me. as a character, she enrages me- but not because of her actual personality. it's important when watching any form of fictional media to remember that these are characters, characters who were created by a real person to try to tell a story. all of her unlikable flaws for me all stem from the fact that she was created specifically for the male characters around her. even as early as her character introduction, which was the first plot device we are ever given to paint the rivalry between naruto and sasuke; we are introduced to sakura by naruto proclaiming he has a crush on her, only to see her brush him off and shallowly fangirl over sasuke. this continues throughout the entirety of the story in ways you don't necessarily notice at first, but become glaringly obvious the more you understand the misogyny in kishimoto's writing.

in the beginning of the land of waves arc, kakashi has all three students practicing tree climbing. Sakura, we see, excels at this. this seems great for a female character, right??? look, she's better than her two male teammates!! except that when you take into account that that is basically the one of the like. two times in the entire story we ever see her do better than either Sasuke or Naruto. this moment does more than just fall short due to never being supported again in the narrative once you realize that in actuality, kishimoto wrote her to have excelled so well at controlling her chakra because he wanted to write her out of the scene. that is literally the only reason he wrote her being adept in that moment. he needed naruto and sasuke to bond over training, and he didn't want sakura to be a part of the sentiment. narratively in his mind, she couldn't be! her entire existence was about the OPPOSITE; she was created to show the divide between the other two, so she can't be there to assist in showing their bond.

this is also where the concept of "Sakura is useless" comes from. her character was not created to showcase the world building of ninjutsu, nor was she meant to be the one saving the day. kakashi's character was about worldbuilding; he is the teacher-character who dialog dumps all of the information about how this ninja world operates. and at the beginning, saving the day was largely sasuke's job- to display the incapabilities and shortcomings of naruto- and then that moved onto Naruto's job- to show how far the protagonist has worked and to push the story forward. sakura's purpose of being the representation of how sasuke is Wanted and naruto is Unwanted does not fit in battle, so she is sidelined. for the entire first part of the story, she doesn't even have a jutsu she specializes in!!!! in a show about ninjas!!!!!!!! she is never allowed to display her own adeptness, because it would get in the way of her male counterparts' story. and then in an effort to keep her character relevant later on (and to placate fans I'm sure), kishimoto decides to make her. a fucking medic. a caregiver.

the misogyny of it angers me. she's the main female in your story, and her sole purpose is to support male characters both within the narrative and on the paper. but if i choose to watch/read the story as most other viewers do, devoid of my knowledge of writing fiction, I start to like her come Shippuden. i love the balance she has between her strength and her feminity. i love loud, determined women who show their gentleness selectively. i love her "headstrong combined with arm strong" (I'm quoting myself lmaoooo). but i despise how ALL of that disappears around Sasuke. it's so hard to focus on what I do like about her when kishi takes every opportunity he can to display the fact that she is very much Written By A Man™.

one super frustrating challenge that i had was the fact that I had to start out sakura's character in my own fanfiction complying with these awful character traits for her. my goal of kizuna hikari was to have everyone as canonically in-character as possible- which includes inheriting sakura's misogynistic character purpose. but i refused to keep her that way. so her character arc for me was shedding off her male-centric character traits. it took the whole fucking fic to undo kishi's work lmaoooo. i had to really gnaw away at her dependency on Sasuke, which involved keeping her narrative unfortunately still centered around him. but now i feel like now I'll actually be able to write her as her OWN character for the sequel, thank fucking god.

what you said about Naruto and Sasuke loving her is so true, and I see it the same way. their core character traits are both about loving deeply and intensely, so it's difficult for me to see either of them NOT caring about her. Sasuke at his heart is gentle and kind, rude as he can outwardly be. he naturally craves love. Sakura for sure is delusional, and a lot of her infatuation with Sasuke is rose-tinted, but I don't think ALL of it is. she does care for and love Sasuke- she's just lost in her own fantasy with it.

i really enjoyed writing her finally coming to terms with her delusions, realizing what parts of Sasuke she had been glamorizing and finally seeing him for himself. from where I've left off with her at the end of the povs, she did not fall out of love with him even though she came to terms with sasuke and naruto's relationship, which tells me that I think that she does harbor real love for him in canon. i can't wait to expand on her in the sequel and see how that develops.

[sasubaeuchithot]

will kh sasuke ever tell naruto how attractive he finds him?

of course! knowing him, it'll be said very bluntly out of circumstance where such a thing was brought up, and it'll fluster Naruto to no end, which in turn will fluster sasuke because of course he finds Naruto attractive, why is that such a surprise???

[sasubaeuchithot]

howdoes kh naruto and sasuke define their relationshpi

they simply do not define it lmaoooooo.

Sasuke is a bit of a basket case with labeling it and Naruto just doesn't need to? he also doesn't really think about it any deeper than "this is really nice let's keep doing this" and he follows sasuke's lead to make sure he's comfortable. i think that if an outside source asked them what they were, they wouldn't really be pressed about calling each other boyfriends, but sasuke doesn't like feeling like anyone has any type of ownership over him so he wouldn't go around calling them that on his own. And naruto just vibes off of sasuke.

neither of them think that it matters. a typical "dating" label feels odd to them probably because the way they are with each other is so damn different than the way other couples date. like, their 'dates' are them meeting up to punch each other in the face. they are Not Like Other Couples™®©

[sasubaeuchithot]

does kh naruto actually want to see sasuke cook him pancakes in a frilly pink apron?

who wouldnt

[sasubaeuchithot]

It'd be so hilarious :D Naruto talking to a random person in the sequel and they go "yada yada... Oh, ur dating a guy? So ur queer/bi?" and Naruto's just "WHAT???!!!!??!!!????!!"

GENUINELY WHAT HE WOULD DO A FULL YEAR INTO THEIR RELATIONSHIP

[sasubaeuchithot]

was there a specific scene you had in mind that prompted you to write Kizuna Hikari?

nope! it really was just me wanting to continue writing shippuden and explore sasuke's mental journey, because they really left him off RIGHT when he was narratively at his most interesting (which is saying something lol). like he had this big revelation but we never see him actually live with it!! we never see how he deals with the change it would naturally bring him. I basically just took him where he was left off and followed him to see the narrative unfold itself.

[sasubaeuchithot]

has kh sasuke always known that he likes men?

kh!sasuke doesn't like men, he likes naruto. i hc sasuke as demisexual, so it was only ever naruto who sparked his interest. he had wayyy too much else to focus on when he was at the age most kids start looking at other people in that way. he saw other kids his age start that romantic-drama and thought it was literally the stupidest, most annoying thing (especially all of the girls that kept giving him that unwanted attention.) he had all of his focus on training and learning and bettering his skills to get his revenge.

all throughout his child-teenagehood he ignored everything except his revenge. naruto managed to weasel his way into his psyche despite that, even with sasuke trying to actively denounce that part of himself as much as possible. it's undetermined whether Sasuke's demisexuality is a result of his trauma, or if he's naturally demisexual. I personally think it's both.

[sasubaeuchithot]

kh sasuke thinking of his intimate moments with naruto as luxuries is so 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

he still doesn't feel worthy of them :(

[sasubaeuchithot]

Hi, I am not rushing you but when the sequel would be out? We are so excited!!!

😭 unfortunately, a very long time

[sasubaeuchithot]

your last ask reminds me how flustered sasuke got when he realized how intrinsically he trusts naruto when he decided to completely deplete himself of chakra 🥹

he surprises himself routinely with how deep his love for naruto runs 😩

[sasubaeuchithot]

In kizuna hikari how did that dinner naruto and gaara went on in the beginning go? How many times did naruto mention sasuke in the passing lmao

oh, I'm sure it went as expected! naruto yapped and gaara listened; Sasuke definitely came up in conversation, but gaara didn't respond much to it besides an uncomfortable frown. it was a good dinner! Naruto had been ecstatic to be with gaara again