#then sakura-naruto-lee-sasuke-gai

[fishdance]

not sure why i made naruto’s skin orange but here we are

[yunulus]

in hindsight gai definitely should have won but i think the kids turned out well so imma post this anyway

[jventureart]

go vote for gai I beg u

Ty @/narutocharacterpolls for putting up with us lmao

[nourtarts]

team bonding time 🍥🌟✨

[superartsy-carnival-0]

[yowyowyaoi]

*Kakashi trying to sleep in bed*

Gai, “whispering” in the kitchen: Good job, Lee! You can never add too much pepper to eggs!

Sakura: Yes you can! That’s way too much; Kakashi-Sensei doesn’t even like spicy food!

Naruto: Oi; is there supposed to be so much smoke coming from the oven —?

Gai: Ah! My blueberry muffins! *pulls them out to a billowing cloud of smoke* Damn … where did I go wrong?

Neji: For starters you had the oven up to 500 degrees, when it was only supposed to be 350.

Ten-Ten: No; he went wrong when he decided to make Kakashi-Sensei breakfast in bed for his birthday instead of just taking him to a nice restaurant!

Gai: Kids, come on. I know you’re young but when you’re older you’ll appreciate the thoughtfulness of romantic gestures such as these!

Lee: I’m sure Kakashi-Sensei will appreciate the youthfulness of your actions, Gai-Sensei! And everything isn’t a loss; the bacon looks delicious! Great job, Sasuke!

Sakura: Sasuke-kun … are your eyes bleeding?

Sasuke, sharingan activated, super focused: You want this bacon to be perfect or not?!

Sai: Shouldn’t they be doing something else? My book says romantic couples engage in all kinds of things on one person’s birthday, like hugging and kissing, and se —

Naruto: Are you kidding, Sai?! Kakashi-Sensei is an old man, he doesn’t have the energy for all that, dattebayo!

Sakura: Right; he exhausts his chakra just standing up in the morning! There’s no way he can handle … that.

Kakashi, trying to decide whether he should “wake up” or sneak out the window:

[twinvenus]

naruto sketch dumbp... Find ya guy!!! + some closeups

[ladykissingfish]

Sakura: Sensei … why is Gai-Sensei following us?

Kakashi: *sighs* The Hokage thought that, since I exhaust my chakra so much, it would be prudent for me, for our team, to have a … um, well, a body guard, during more difficult missions.

Sasuke: THAT’S who he assigned to protect us??

Kakashi: Eh? Gai is a splendid ninja! He —

Naruto: Sensei … he’s tripped over a rock like five times in the past hour.

Sakura: He’s been scratching at his arms all morning … do you think he ran into that poison ivy bush a few miles back?

Sasuke: *scoffs* Some body guard … well Naruto, Sakura, it was nice knowing you. But I’m pretty sure this mission will be our last.

Kakashi: Kids … have a little faith, huh? Although I have complete confidence in Gai’s abilities … I DO have a backup. Just in case.

Naruto: A backup? What do you me —

*Rock Lee suddenly falls out of a tree in front of them, decked out in camouflage*

Lee: Oops! Er … pretend you didn’t see me … *hurries away*

Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke:

Sakura: Looks like you were right, Sasuke-kun. This IS our last mission.

Sasuke: Hn.

[sardonicfactory]

those plushies w magnets sewn inside so they can hold hands

[sickflowerbed]

One thing I hate about Naruto is that Kishimoto wasted so much potential for Sakura, Team Gai, Hyūga clan, Kurenai, Shino, and so many others.

For me, Sakura is the most wasted because she's one of the main characters, yet it didn't seem that way. Compare Sakura and the other mains. She is more like a side character who's a fan favorite like Shikamaru, expect a lot people hate her.

It makes sense to not like Sakura in the beginning. That's what character development is for. Sakura was supposed to go from boy-crazy to the strong independent heroine, and if you read the manga, it does feel that way but, in the end, she ends up with Sasuke now, that would be a problem if she didn't immediately forgive him, she was the one who told Naruto to stop seeking Sasuke because she could tell, that it was pointless and the damage is evident. Kishimoto himself said he regretted Sakura's character, failed, and said that even if he expanded on her it wouldn't raise her popularity. It was too late the damage was done. Kishimoto knew Sakura wasn't popular yet chose moments for Sakura that needed understanding of her badly written character.

All of the team members of Gai had so much potential, Gai & Lee being the best Taijutsu users, Neji being the genius of the Hyūga clan, and Tenten even though we don't see her a lot, in the manga, we don't see the fight between her and Temari, but we see a few scratches on Temari. Of course, we didn't see the official fight, and Tenten still got folded, but it's the thought that counts. It's a shame we never got to see her get better. She could have used her chakra and infused it with her weapons like Asuma does. We never got to see them fight after the Kazekage Ark, and we never saw them fight as a team, a beautiful dysfunctional team.

The Hyūga clan at the start was shown was the strongest clan, and we learned a lot about the clan during the chūnin exams. With the Hyūga clan, I see the loss of potential with using about them. Personally, I'm fine with Hyūga clan being put in the sidelines for the Uchiha clan to shine. But we only had two main characters from Hyūga clan, Hinata, and Neji. Compared to the Uchiha clan, we don't see any other characters aside from fillers. I just wished we got to learn more about the Hyūga clan and their connection to the Ōtsutsuki clan, which we only saw during the last movie.

I always feel bad for Kurenai because she was done dirty. We were told she was one of the greatest genjutsu users, and the only time we see her fight is against the greatest genjutsu user, Itachi Uchiha. Of course, she gonna lose against him, and that's the one time we see her fight apart from fillers. Then she ends up pregnant and boom she's nothing but a mother, which is fine. Most of the mothers in anime are dead, but we are told that Kurenai is a genjutsu specialist and we never got a chance to see that canonically.

Shino has shown potential in the fights we have seen him in, but we never went into depth into Shino how he uses his bugs and gets better at using them. Apparently, the Aburame clan can identify and counter genjutsu because their kikaichū don't have the brain structures for it. I mean it's a shame we didn't see especially since the show later was centered around the Uchiha clan.

Overall, the reason many characters got left out of the series or ignored was that Kishimoto focused everything on Naruto, Sasuke, and popular characters due to the fans.

[sischan]

An update for this sketch I've previously share for this little project. I'm still finishing up the outline, but I wanted to share the progress currently. ^-^) Thank you for viewing my artwork~

Remaining characters to outline is Kankuro and his puppets, Sasori, Puppet Mother, and Puppet Father.

[narutocharacterpolls]

First round will start tomorrow at 12pm EST

Matchups listed under the cut

LEFT SIDE

LEE vs HINATA

AKAMARU vs KIMIMARU

NEJI vs BISCUIT

SUIGETSU vs KURAMA

KAKASHI vs SAKURA

ZABUZA vs SHUKAKU

OBITO vs OMOI

HAKU vs KIBA

NARUTO vs MINATO

TEUCHI vs UTAKATA

KILLER B vs SHISUI

SASORI vs KANKUROU

GAI vs KABUTO

HASHIRAMA vs DARUI

IRUKA vs MITO

SAI vs SHIZUNE

RIGHT SIDE

SASUKE vs DANZOU

CHOUJI vs SHIN

TOBIRAMA vs IZUNA

KISAME vs TENTEN

GAARA vs SHIKAMARU

TEMARI vs HIDAN

NAGATO vs HANZOU

JUUGO vs SHIKAKU

DEIDARA vs ITACHI

YAMATO vs YUGITO

KONAN vs MIKOTO

SHINO vs KARIN

MADARA vs INO

YAHIKO vs KAGAMI

TSUNADE vs PAKKUN

KUSHINA vs SAKUMO

[thottyimagines]

Which Naruto characters would fight a goose coming after them, but they have no chakra (and the goose has no chakra) and they are weakened physically/have no weapons?

Which would win? And how would they win?

Which would fail and get pecked?

Which would try to run away and get away?

Which would try to run away, fail and get pecked? Would they scream while running away?

Which would climb a tree and be safe, but now the goose is camping them?

Just whoever comes to mind!

GOOSE VS. NIN BATTLE ROYALE

WINNERS: KAKASHI (wins because he's miserable and exhausted but desperate to survive), MADARA (fights like a goose himself (courtesy of @tengenswhore))

FAILURES GETTING PECKED: SASUKE (thinks he can win so he doesn't run), SAKURA (underestimates the goose), HASHIRAMA (thinks the goose will sense his excellent vibes and befriend him), SAI (tries to draw something to eat the goose, but the goose gobbles up his paper and pecks him), SHINO (his bugs get eaten and he cries), CHOJI (uselessly swatting at the goose), SHIKAMARU (tries and fails to outwit the goose), HIDAN (refuses to run from a goose, gets pecked)

SUCCESSFUL RUNNERS: GAI, ROCK LEE

FAILED RUNNERS, GETTING PECKED: NARUTO (gets distracted by Sasuke not running, feels inferior, gets pecked and screams), INO (goose grabs her by the ponytail and she screams), DEIDARA (goose grabs him by the ponytail and he screams), TOBIRAMA (does the smart thing and runs at first, then feels indignant that a bird is chasing him away and stops so he gets pecked), KIBA (trips and falls and tells Akamaru to save himself; he does so as Kiba gets pecked and screams).

Geese can fly so a tree won't save anyone, but YAMATO might make himself a little wooden hut and try to wait his tormentor out.

[everynart]

[watermelonsloth]

I would’ve added “the fandom” but I’m much more interested in people’s opinion on the writing itself.

[yowyowyaoi]

*Kakashi in bed*

Kakashi: *groans* I can’t believe this happened to me …

Sakura, sitting at his side: You mean you can’t believe you completely exhausted your chakra during one of your ridiculous competitions with Gai-Sensei? Yeah, me either. *holds up a spoonful of medicine* Say ahh…

Sasuke: You know, you really should just leave him alone. He’s never gonna learn if you keep babying him every time this happens.

Sakura: Sasuke-kun, you’re REALLY not one to talk right now, considering your “patient”.

Naruto, from his pallet on the floor: C’mon Sasuke! More ramen! I can’t get better without more ramen, dattebayo!

Sasuke: Tsk; you idiot! Eating that crap is what got you into this in the first place! You and Kakashi!

Kakashi: In Naruto’s defense …

Sakura: No, there is no defense here, Sensei. You know spicy food upsets your stomach, so you shouldn’t have agreed to Gai’s ultra-hot udon eating contest! I’m no Uchiha but I’m pretty sure the sharingan isn’t supposed to be used for things like that!

Sasuke: And usuratonkachi, if you and Lee had just stuck to ramen you probably would have been fine. But no, you had to add five-alarm hot sauce into it!

Naruto, indignantly: A challenge isn’t a challenge unless it’s super-hard, idiot.

Kakashi: You two, stop fighting. This noise isn’t helping my recovery. I have to get better as soon as possible; there’s a bbq eating competition that Gai asked me to do in three days, so -

Naruto: Oh, hey, bushy-brows challenged ME to that, too! *struggles to sit up* Sensei, let’s train together so that we beat both of ‘em!

Kakashi: Great idea, Naruto! Sakura, Sasuke, can you guys run to that bbq place that Asuma takes his team to? Pick us up some wings with the hottest sauce they have, so Naruto and I can practice —

Sakura: *bonks Kakashi over the head so that he passes out*

Sasuke, to Naruto: Are you going to be a good boy and go to sleep by choice? Or do I need Sakura to persuade you, too?

Naruto:

Naruto: *turns over on his side and starts exaggeratedly snoring*