#uzumaki naruto

[hellcifrogs]

Still sad that Sakura never had the chance to beat Sasuke up like an older sister. She deserves to be a little violent as a treat

Sibling fight!! Violence!! What everyone deserves!!

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New Iruka and Naruto Banpresto Prize figures (September 2024 release) I'VE BEEN WAITING 20 YEARS FOR THIS *cries*

[pearliegrimm]

nardoe,,,,,

[sassykinzonline]

anyways lets talk about the actual real problem with boruto aka the massive retcon and plothole that is the heterosexual marriages.

in the original manga its already established that iruka + itachi serve as the platonic foundation of sasunaru: the imperfection of these important bonds highlight the necessity of both boys to each other. iruka tries to accept despite inhumanity and inability to contribute to strength. itachi emphasizes weakness and dehumanizes, but accepts regardless. this is the key significance in the confessions: they make explicit reference to unconditional observation of strength and humanity to each other. these imperfect platonic foundations serve as the lifeline that allows for further "perfect" love to be explored and understood.

so it doesnt make sense that in boruto with 0 explanation whatsoever (this is even accounting for the light novels), sasunaru becomes the "platform" for the relationship for the suddenly more important relationships with the wives. why? if you have an exclusively perfect relationship, youre not gonna look for another. moreover, ideas like "you acknowledged me more than anyone else" and "i cant lose you" and "you alone make me feel less alone" and "only you make my life worth living, only you bring me light" and "you are my prayer and my hope for the future" are randomly attributed to women who were explicitly told the opposite. in those same light novels, sasunaru becomes a relationship exclusively of conflict/desire for space and distance, but in the boruto manga they cant stay away from each other while scorning their wives.

total actual clusterfuck, the character assassination of sasuke and naruto by that point is entirely secondary and becomes borderline understandable when you consider key values and themes are totally abandoned to give way to these couplings.

[motheryoon]

the girls go see a horror movie

[whatacatch]

Itachi: You’re alone… Why aren’t you running

Naruto: I don’t want to and also Sasuke’s coming for you so then I get to see him <3

Itachi, in his most “what are your intentions with my baby bro” voice: you’re obsessed with my brother

Naruto: yeah and

Itachi wanting to make sure his suspicions are correct about Naruto caring so much about Sasuke that he would tear the world in half for him: why

Naruto: *angrily and determinedly explains how he’s closer to Sasuke than itachi ever could be*

Itachi, knowing full well the unhinged things he’s done for Sasuke: Perfect. Goodbye.

[linggluu]

ahhh<3

[fruitchakra]

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[malfack]

i can accept everything, but not the fact that sns ended up marrying girls. especially sasuke who never wanted to be burdened w something like marriage. this whole wedding thing just broke his character and made his entire development senseless. my favorite deep character became ordinary and lost his personality in an instant. and for what - the boruto money ?

naruto and sasuke may not have been a couple, if that's what kishimoto decided, but they definitely were supposed to be free at last. BUT - unfortunately everything was ruined by unnecessary weddings and children.

so we have naruto who sleeps apart from his wife, and sasuke who left his family for many years. just because naruto and hinata don't love each other, just like sasuke doesn't love sakura, and u can't prove me wrong.

[purpleskiesupwards]

Is Naruto the most important person for Sasuke? Hell yes!

*i was having a conversation with my friend about this, so thought to share my thoughts*

Because when others were chasing after Sasuke for some motive or self-serving notion; Naruto chased after Sasuke FOR SASUKE.

Despite his dire need to cut his ties, Sasuke gave Naruto his every bit of attention, as much as he could. And everyone says, Naruto held back in their last fight, I believe Sasuke held back too, he was conflicted to give his everything in that fight and kill himself and naruto but then he gave up, he didn't necessarily lose just like Naruto didnt, he simply gave up. Because Naruto was always going to be there, he knew, he accepted. Only because NARUTO was everything to him at that point. He considered Sakura and Kakashi his family, but Naruto surpassed them in his heart. Naruto was his guard, his pillar and his punching bag. And with no self-serving notion, with no ulterior motive - which is all Sasuke ever wanted.

"When I see you burdening all of your pain alone, it hurt me" Naruto summed up his intentions with just this! And that was why he was the most important person for Sasuke (Now Sarada I believe)

"Why are you so obsessed with me?"

"i was also interested in you"

"I also felt hurt"

"Because naruto is my closest friend"

"My body moved on its own"

"what exactly is a friend to you"

This was Sasuke in a nutshell about Naruto, RAW emotions that he had for no one before except itachi, surpassing Itachi in his heart (i know controversial opinion, but that's what i believe)

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ナルサス by あすon pixiv Posted with the artist’s permission. Don’t remove the source. Reblog, don’t repost.

[ziegenkind094]

march was a wild month

[dokirosi]

Happy sasunaru day 🍅🍥 07.03

[sassykinzonline]

when people talk about naruto's repression they kind of miss a crucial element which is that it actually makes complete sense.

firstly from the power perspective, simply put, by its very nature he requires repression to function on a most basic level. this is opposite to the sharingan, which thrives on huge displays of emotion. im going to assume that the reason this is missed is because it runs counter to the personality traits each character is known for: the "emotionless, calm and cool" one actually is constantly accessing and expressing the most powerful of emotions, and the "expressive, empathetic and emotionally honest" one is actually warring with letting true emotions come to the surface. comparatively, when you look at starfire and raven from teen titans, you see that their personalities reflect their power. starfire is bright and expressive because thats how she best accesses her powers, and raven is subdued, controlled and calculated in order to control her powers. this means that contrary to popular belief, naruto isnt starfire-- naruto is raven. there are actually a few moments where you are subtly shown just how calculated naruto's displays of emotion are, and how they are reinforced in such a way (context is naruto being saddened that his request for parental affection was rebuffed):

which brings me to my second point: socialization. this part is straightforward. from itachi actively causing and incentivizing hatred and anger, to various mentors/people of influence (eg. kakashi) remaining silent at clear expressions of violent anger-- these negative emotions are not punished or discouraged when it come to the context theyre in. why? they are beneficial to the agenda of various characters. the revenge plot only starts being punished when its disadvantageous to the state. remember that there is a monetary value attached to the murder of itachi uchiha, and this is actually a common way to earn money. when you look at naruto, there is never a single instance when naruto is encouraged or even tolerated for having these emotions. the only exception who does this leaves him due to their own parallel struggle (side note: this is why naruto distinctly says the reason for his obsession is that this person accepted him more than anyone else, given this person is the only one who saw naruto's pain and anger and actually blamed his aggressors for it). naruto, raised implicitly to know that everyone seeks to be a tool of the state, and that in his case this is not just a choice but a requirement for his humanity. iruka's acknowledgment of naruto comes with an indication of possession, implying conditionality. people like kakashi, hiruzen, and others in positions of influence witness the abuse he faces, and ignore it or groom him into accepting the idea that he should appeal to his abusers for eventual acceptance. naruto meets gaara, someone with the same condition as him, but with radically different circumstances. whereas naruto's condition symbolically papers over his pain over time, gaara's is self-protective and defensive against his pain. gaara also occupies a position of power as the member of a royal family, and has siblings who are afraid of him but do hold some level of affection towards him. gaara's feelings of loneliness, while rational, come from a different place than naruto's. for gaara, he is surrounded by community that he doesnt know how to access. naruto has no community, he needs to find a way to forge one, but even when he does it is superficial. this dynamic is repeated in his introduction to killer bee, who from an early age is granted family and institutional protection. this isnt to say that the treatment of jinchuriki is ethical or healthy, but that naruto's situation is actually uniquely oppressive. kushina is the closest naruto gets to someone who validates this pain, but she cannot truly relate to him because she is never cripplingly alone (again, not to say her life was not difficult or oppressive or traumatic) and the object of her affections returns those feelings consistently and early on. naruto's trauma is thus compounded over and over by the conflict his need for his specific love interest causes: naruto is only tolerated as a weapon of the state, and in order to be an effective one he needs to love and be loved, but his love interest who allows him these negative emotions is an enemy of the state, leading to further isolation/tension from the state and pushing him towards the love interest.

as such, i actually think naruto does remarkably well at balancing this conflict and tension in a way that keeps him functional. though, obviously and eventually the compounding of his trauma and the repression of his pain is something that needs to be addressed. the only person who is capable of doing this in a way that puts naruto's wellbeing first ("when i saw you in pain...i also felt pain" and the subsequent frequent moments of protection and defence) only reunites with him at the end of the manga, so you never get to see that actually happen.

im assuming the reason why a lot of this is missed is partially because through framing this repression as positive through the majority of the manga (aside from naruto's own personal thoughts), the reader is never really forced to decide how they feel about the concept unlike the inherent conflict of the radical revenge plot. the other part is the grander, underlying allegory in the naruto story which is the varied manifestations AND expressions of trauma. through readers' responses and attention to certain individuals in the naruto story, you can learn how they relate to and look at trauma. to me, naruto himself is actually the example of a trauma victim who shows a brave face and thus isnt recognized. naruto is the woman who puts on makeup to cover the bruises to go to work a day after she is assaulted. who tells herself that she must have some part in it, so it isnt abuse. maybe she grew up in a family where no one answered when she cried, so she learned to keep it moving and stop crying.

lastly, on a greater scale, people also forget a crucial aspect of "yin/yang" is that things with a large properties of one, by nature will also come with a small amount of the opposite. thats what the smaller inner dots represent.

a more surface level example of this is that naruto's face is brash, large, and masculine-- these are yang traits and they are predominant in his appearance. however, looking closely at his rounded cheeks and eyes and the soft nature of his eye colour, there are subtle yin elements. naruto's "positivity" or "optimism" is fueled by a certain level of negative repression.

[maicenaconmate]

scene from S1 C4

So yeah, just a sumary of Naruto's plot, and spoiler: he does fix him.

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