“Now my job is to help the next generation and set a good example for them. And, for that, I’ll gladly lay down my life, and I’ll be smiling the whole time.”

Furry sannin brainrot

Chapter 374

The Last to Leave

AU where Oro joins Tsunade in leaving Konoha post the 2nd Shinobi war, rather than getting with Danzo and terrible experiments and such. More info under the cut

I was partially inspired by this wonderful Tsunade centric fic, and thought about how Tsunade, even in grief, channeled it into something productive. In this case, I thoroughly enjoy the idea of her creating a whole new system/organisation that prioritises saving lives/improving wellbeing. And the only way to do that is to leave the system of militaristic shinobi villages.

In this au, Oro decides to join her as head researcher, and the two go on to set up their own ways of doing things I guess???? Idk. But yeah, it kinda kills my soul to think about how the Sannin, if banded together and away from Konoha, could cause a paradigm shift in the Shinobi world, with Tsunade at the helm rejecting the shinobi way of life.

Jiraiya isn’t here because.. it kinda sucks that it’s canon??? That Dan dies sometime after he decides to stay in Ame. sdlkjfgsd. The trio is all toxic, but I think this AU’s tsuna is less so and her and oro keep each other in check.

Out of all the characters' dynamics I will literally always return to the Sannin because how could you not... the deadlock. The fallout of decades of love.

There's nowhere they can go from where they are. No way to fix it. Because it's been too long and there's been so much time to grow bitter. They've hurt each other in too many ways to be able to see eye to eye in ways that no one else could. Because they knew each other so well, knew everything about one another or thought they did. And in the end that knowledge is only used to twist the knife.

The love and hate and exhaustion in their relationship is just so palpable.

NARUTO CHARACTER POPULARITY POLL #4 (2004)

I love the Shizune/Anko/Konan fanart!!

But it has to make me wonder, what kind of relationship did Anko have with Tsunade and Jiraiya?? Canon never showed them really interacting...

I know right?? Feels like she never even met them before Tsunade became hokage... But again, Anko was left COMPLETELY forgoten after the chunin exams and that one tiny appearance at the end :(

And she was so cool and had so much potential and background to work with...

November 11: Happy Birthday to one of the members of Team Hiruzen and one of the Legendary Sannin alongside Tsunade and Orochimaru, mentor and caretaker to Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan, teacher to Minato, and later Naruto up until his death, the Naruto character of Jiraiya.

expression practice ft. naruto characters as requested by some of my discord server buddies (thank yall for the suggestions)

*i have just been informed that there is, indeed, a canon pattern to kakuzu’s scars. sorry to all the kakuzu fans for my failure to adhere to canon (except the top surgery scars. those were deliberate and unapologetic)

A kissing meme I did from Twitter

I love that Mei Mei is such an off-putting freak. Even if I don't personally like her, I love that she exists. I love that Gege Akutami is not afraid to fuck up, scar up, and kill off his female characters. I love that they're as strange and eccentric and varied as anyone could be.

He doesn't treat them delicately, or with kid gloves. He treats them with the exact same consideration he does his male characters. As vehicles for the story first-- because that's what they are.

more bunni art + cringe cat jiraiya ♡♡♡ he's cuter as a cat I'm ngl

Why you hate my poor boy naruto :( bby suffered enough

LMAO, nah he didn't.

All he suffered was being neglected by the village because of some bum and had a bad time with a toilet. He may have lost his pervert teacher, but at the same time that old pit stain used his money and well...wanted to groom him while he was using his female transformation.

Sasuke suffered more, but all you guys ignore that shit and call him emo. Gaara had to survive all because of the dickhead of a father wanted his ass dead. Nagato, Konan and Yahiko were war children. Madara and Hashirama's brothers died in front of them in a war. Kakashi had to kill his best friend, saw his best friend and dad in front of him. Neji is a slave to his younger cousin. But only Naruto isn't bashed because of his backstory is sad.

vague au to the left of canon in a timeline where jiraiya being a creep is treated, like, seriously and not as a one-off gag with no legitimate bearing on the plot or whether or not he's trustworthy around children, where sakura has enough (unfortunate given she's also 13 or whatever) awareness to get an earful about jiraiya having naruto use his sexy jutsu during training from naruto and freak the hell out about it and basically the chain of command this gets bumped too is => wigging out to ino => ino wigging out to her dad => The Head Of T&I Does Not Want To Hear This Shit From His Preteen Daughter