rivals!

HE WAS SO MAD

tsunade: i’m quitting as hokage so you have to be the next one

kakashi: what? lmao no

tsunade: you’re the only candidate who would pardon sasuke, if you don’t do it he stays in prison

kakashi: ……are you using the kids to blackmail me into becoming hokage?

tsunade: yep. have fun being in charge.

I just love this dynamic.

💜 Day 6 - Rin-Sensei! 💜

I put Rin in the Jounin standard uniform she never got to wear, and had some fun customizing the kid’s uniforms a bit!

@rinweek2023

one pet peeve of mine in founders-era fanfics is when madara's whole,,,, everything is solved by izuna just being there

like maybe this is just me, but i don't think izuna surviving or even coming around to the idea of a truce with the senju would've been enough to keep madara from the path he ended up on.

izuna wasn't the reason he left - he was definitely part of madara's issues, but he wasn't the why. even if izuna had stuck around, and even if that had been enough to keep the uchiha clan from losing their faith in madara, i think he would've still come to realize konoha wasn't what he'd hoped it would be.

best case scenario, i think izuna's survival might've caused madara to stick around a bit longer, but i don't think it would've lasted. honestly, even then, that might've just made the inevitable break-up between madara and hashirama even more agonizing (particularly for izuna)

it's a fun idea to play around with for sure, but frankly i don't think canon!madara could've ever been 'saved' from that path. certainly not if the hidden village system ended up getting set up in the same way.

Scenes with the Nanadaime from the last chapter of the Konoha's Story: The Steam Ninja Scrolls Manga

3rd hokage: teaching the kids will be good for you! go on a few d-rank missions, connect with your juniors!

kakashi four years later listening to naruto talk about how he plans to save sasuke via both of their deaths: this is so much more stressful than murdering people in anbu wtf

Third drawing today and the one I hate the least. In my personal Naruto world, Kakashi took over caring for Naruto when he saw the shit job Hiruzen was doing.

@atereal :-)

The senseis of the Konoha 12 and what do they think about the families of their students :

( for my Genin Konoha 12 — Special Classes! au )

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— Kurenai : She's not close to them but they are mostly fine. Except for the Hyuugas. She holds an active grudge against Hinata's dad for the way he has traumatized his daughters. Or in other words, he can go fuck himself, Hinata is an amazing kid. In Shino and Kiba's case, she sometimes go to talk. In Hinata's case, avoids them like the plague.

— Asuma : In good relation with all of them and actually enjoys talking with them about the kids. Best case scenario. He's like their uncle, being honest. Still he's amazed at how much they don't know about their children sometimes. Not that they are bad parents, but there's so much about their kids they don't understand...

— Gai : Passively sits to listen to Kurenai when she complains about the Hyuugas, which says a lot about his own opinion of them– you know it's serious when Maito Gai stays silent. Otherwise, he is Rock Lee's dad (for all that matters anyway) and Tenten never talks about her family, so he doesn't really care. Those are his kids. It's all that matters.

— Kakashi : Refuses to give his opinion, it's clear to everyone that's not a topic to be discussed with him. First, he won't get caught saying what he really thinks of Hiruzen after seeing where Naruto lives, (never has he ever been so enraged on the behalf of his sensei). Second, it does not take a genius to hate the way the Uchihas used to operate and treat their children. Third, he is still convincing himself there's nothing wrong with the Harunos. It's not working, so he opted to forget their existence, just like Sakura conveniently does.

Let’s talk about how Naruto didn’t have any friends until he was put on a team. That’s 12 years of just straight solitude

Not to be an Orochimaru apologist but the demonization of Orochimaru by the narrative/Konoha is just a way for them to erase the fact that Orochimaru was a victim of the state. Yes he experimented on children, but it never was bc he had “darkness in him even as a child” or bc he was a “born psychopath” or whatever other ableist bs. Orochimaru is a product of Konoha’s cruel war machine. They sent his parents to their deaths, left him an orphan with no psychological support, used him as a child soldier, sent him to war where he witnessed countless atrocities that shaped him to become the cruel, apathetic man we know now. He then had to watch his friend Tsunade mourn the deaths of her 12 YEARS OLD brother and her boyfriend. His disgust and fear of death literally come from the second handed trauma of seeing Tsunade cry over the mutilated body of her baby brother. It’s canon. Is he a cruel megalomaniac who grooms and tortures children? yes. Is he responsible for his actions? yes. But Konoha is responsible as well. They made him a monster, then they turned around and acted like he just woke up one day as a creepy crazy snake man, when it’s literally the result of decades of severe trauma and brainwashing. 

How do you expect a mentally unstable child thrown in a battlefield to react? Did they think he was going to grow up to be a nanny? He was taught to torture and kill. Why are they so upset about it? They have a Torture Department that operates in BROAD DAYLIGHT in Konoha. A good chunk of the beloved Yamanaka clan works there. Danzo kidnapped, groomed, brainwashed and experimented on countless children, but bc it’s for the village, it’s okay. Orochimaru is only evil because he hurts people for his OWN gain. That’s why they’re now fine with him in Boruto even though he still experiments on people. Now it benefits Konoha, so the fake morals they dredged up against him previously just vanish.