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Smol Announcement: From now on, sasusakucoded's Sunday is sasusaku au day. Yay!

Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to write more AUs and fanfics. 🙇‍♀️

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Sakura can't believe how she ended up in this situation— marrying a stranger just because of family ties. In the village, her family is renowned. The Harunos lead the food and fashion industries and Sakura's father is considered as an influential person close to the Hokage.

Her soon-to-be-husband-in-a-few-hours is from the Uchiha clan. They are a humble clan that resides in the remote part of the village.

It's her first time seeing the guy. He looks handsome and quiet but the idea that she has to marry him because of a silly deal between her and his great great grandfathers irks her. Their great great grandfathers were comrades in the last shinobi war. They promised each other to marry off their children to merge their families. The problem is both of them had only one child and both are males. This repeated for several generations until a female was born in the Haruno side.

"You may now kiss the bride."

And just like that, Sakura and Sasuke are married.

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As soon as they reach their new home, Sakura takes out a two-pager from her bag and gives it to Sasuke. "This is our contract."

Sasuke is confused. He thinks it is their marriage contract from the church. He starts reading it and realizes it's a totally different one.

"Let me get this straight. Only my grandfather wants us to get married. My father just agreed because of the stupid pact. As soon as Grandpa is gone, we'll get a divorce."

This shocks Sasuke. Even if he doesn't like the idea of marrying someone he just met, he has made up his mind that this woman is his wife and he has to take care of her.

Sakura is waiting for his reply. It seems that he can't process her plans. She reiterates, "so we just have to wait."

He nods and reads the contract again. The last line says, "do not fall in love with me."

"If you agree, please sign both pages and keep one as your copy."

He signs it immediately and gives the paper back to her.

"Great." She points at the door, "that will be our bedroom. We should still stay in one room in case they visit us. And oh, the contract is between the two of us only. Don't tell anyone."

"Got it," Sasuke says while following her to the room.

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The following days are tiring. They have to attend family functions that Sakura's grandfather and Sasuke's parents have prepared.

Sasuke is shy around the Haruno's acquaintances. He stays in one corner and watches them from there. Sakura is quick to find him, reminding him that it's part of their duties as a couple to mingle with others. She takes his hand and introduces him to their friends. Slowly, Sasuke gets the hang of it and enjoys learning new things about Sakura through conversations.

In the Uchiha's abode, things are different. They have a more intimate event. All of Sasuke's favorites have been prepared. Sakura is hesitant to eat crabs and lobsters and Sasuke notices. Apparently, she doesn't know how to open them so Sasuke gladly takes a few and cracks them for her. This makes Sakura happy because she feels special and she appreciates the food more because he helps her.

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Weeks have passed and Sasuke starts to get more fond of his wife. He learns that she likes designing clothes but her passion is to paint. He likes it when she tells him about the painting techniques she use. He's interested of whatever topic she wants to talk about.

Sakura, on the other hand, finds Sasuke nice and kind. She specially likes it when he prepapres food for her or when he does small things even if she doesn't ask him to do them. He's still too quiet for her though. He only talks when she asks him questions.

They call each other "love" to make their marriage more believable in the eyes of others.

Sakura taps Sasuke's shoulder and gives him a new phone. "Use that. Your current one's cracked screen is an eyesore."

"Thanks, but I can't accept—"

"Just take it," she turns her back and leaves. "I'll be at the gallery until later. Bye!"

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Sakura is preparing for her art exhibit so she spends more time at her gallery. Sasuke decides to drop by and bring her dinner.

He goes in and sees Sakura talking to someone. It is her father.

"—but really? You're going to give me the most basic man and think that I won't file for a divorce sooner or later?! It's so stupid, Dad! I thought you'll agree with me on this!"

"Hey Sasuke, why are you here? Let's go inside!" says Ino, Sakura's bestfriend.

Sakura and her father look at the door simultaneously and see them.

"I– I just dropped by to bring you food." He puts it on the table while looking down. He greets his father-in-law and nods at Sakura before leaving.

"Hey, you're leaving already?" Ino asked.

He just nods and walks towards the train station.

When he thought they're getting closer, it hits him that everything is part of a ploy. They have a contract to follow and he must not misunderstand things.

"Go home now and say sorry to him," Kizashi says in his stern voice.

"Why would I? What I said.. That's the truth.."

Sakura's father leaves knowing that he can't do anything with her daughter's ego. Ino doesn't dare ask questions. She just tells her that she needs to go too.

Sakura continues her painting, constantly making errors here and there. "Did he hear everything? What does he think of me now? Is he hurt? He must be.. Most basic man.. Why did I even say that? Where did I get that term? He's definitely not basic. He's simple, sure, but far from basic. So why did I say that? Well.. Who cares. This marriage is just a phase.. We'll part ways soon enough.. I couldn't care less of what he feels."

She opens the food bag and sees the note.

Don't forget to eat, Picassokura!

She smiles at how silly it is. She also realizes that she hasn't eaten since afternoon. She opens the bento box and sees that it has some of her favorites. She wants to eat it so bad but her guilt is preventing her.

With no progress, she decides to get food from the vending machine instead. "This is what I deserve," she says while taking her first bite.

She enters the house and sees Sasuke in the kitchen. He greets her and immediately sees the food bag.

"Sakura, I'll take care of that," he says while taking the bag from her.

She's hesitant. The least thing she wants to happen is for him to think that she didn't like the food that he prepared. "No, it's fine!"

Too late. He has the bag and is aware that it's still full. He nods and goes back to the kitchen.

She goes to their bedroom and takes a shower. "You're so stupid, Sakura!! That will hurt him further!!"

She's waiting for him to come into their bedroom but he's still in the kitchen. It's been hours since Sakura arrived, so she goes there to talk to him.

"Hey.. I'm sorry," she starts. "I– I said those words because I was really pissed. I told Dad about the contract and hedidn't agree with me at first.. That's why.."

"It's okay.. What you said is true.. A basic man like me doesn't deserve someone like you.."

"No– I didn't mean–"

"It's okay. It's good that you were upfront."

"But I offended you.. I swear I didn't mean to say those words.."

"Maybe I was offended.. But it's no big deal. That's the truth, I can't do anything about it."

"I want to make it up to you. Tell me anything you want!"

"Paint me," he laughs.

His laughter makes her a little relieved. She agrees to paint him and both of them go to bed.

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Because of that incident, Sasuke starts to distance himself from Sakura. After all, there's no reason for them to be closer with each other now.

Sakura's days are per usual— she goes to her gallery and paints the promised portrait. It's a surprise to her that she can actually paint him without a reference. She thinks of his face when they eat together, or when he sleeps, or when he's doing some chores.

She calls Ino to look at the painting. "It's done, finally!"

"Wow! Sasuke must be really pleased! Looks like he's from one of those period dramas.. What's the title?"

"I don't have a title yet, to be honest. Do you think he'll like it?"

"I'm sure he will!"

For some reason, Sakura keeps on looking at the door and checking her phone, as if anticipating someone's arrival or message. Ino has noticed this and asks her, "expecting someone?"

"No.. Why?"

"You keep on glancing at the door.. Also, I haven't seen Sasuke these days. Did you tell him not to go here?"

"No, I didn't." It occurs to her just now that Sasuke doesn't visit her anymore. Not even once since she started painting his portrait.

This thought remains in her mind for the rest of the day. Now, she can only think of the things he stopped doing ever since that incident at the gallery happened.

"What do you mean he stopped doing things?"

Aside from her dad, only Ino knows about their situation and plans. She's open with her and trusts her very much.

"He doesn't text me anymore. Before, he sends me multiple texts a day, asking if I've eaten. He doesn't eat dinner with me too. He still prepares the food but it's either he eats later than me or he doesn't eat at all. He also stopped calling me 'love' when we're alone. He only calls me that when we're outside."

"What's the problem? Isn't that what you want?"

"Yeah.. But abrupt change is confusing.."

"Your contract is rather confusing! You say you don't care about him and he shouldn't care about you.. But you keep on doing things for him."

"Ino–"

"You had his parents' distillery up and running. You bought new equipment for his football club. You paid for his clan's mortgage–"

"It's not like I paid much money for that–"

"That's not the point, Sakura. You're doing all these wifey things for him in secret and you're telling yourself that he deserves them because he's nice."

"But.. He's really nice–"

"Yeah! Your driver is also nice. Would you do the same thing?"

"Ino, that's different!"

"And now you're bothered because he stopped doing the little husband things he's been doing."

"I'm not bothered! I'm just.. Confused.."

"Sakura, it's not like your contract is something concrete. You can always terminate your self-made contract, you know. I don't know if you're aware but you talk about him almost 24/7."

"I don't! I just talk about him because he's my current subject!"

"Yeah right! 'Sasuke's football skills is top-tier! Sasuke's hair should be the standard for men's hairstyle! Sasuke did this, Sasuke did that!' Sakura, please. Don't kid yourself."

"But.."

"I haven't seen you paint so passionately before. So, there's really something different. Think about it."

Sakura overthinks about it indeed. She never cared about any guy before. This feeling is new to her, so she's not sure if she just misses his presence or if she's really in love with him. Regardless, she's excited to go home to tell him about the painting.

She's about to close the gallery when she sees a familiar car outside. It's her grandfather. It also seems that he's with her dad.

"Dad? Grandpa? What are you doing here?"

"I am sorry. You shouldn't be burdened by the pact, Sakura," her grandfather says as he enters the gallery.

"What do you mean?" she asks, looking back and forth between her grandfather and dad.

Her grandfather sees the painting. "For someone who doesn't care about someone, you sure did put effort on painting this.. Well, Sakura. You don't need to anymore. You don't need to pretend."

"Grandpa?"

"Sasuke paid a visit this afternoon. He told me everything. You can cancel that contract or whatever deal you have with him. You can file for a divorce freely."

"He went and told you?"

Her grandfather inspects the painting closer. "He said you don't deserve to be punished like this. He'll take the blame if people will ask. He said you shouldn't be trapped because of a deal that happened way before your birth. He's right. I'm sorry, it's my fault. I really just wanted to fulfill my grandfather's wish."

Sakura doesn't know how to react. She wants to say many things but words are not coming out of her mouth.

"Starting tonight, that contract is void. You can live in peace. I'll make sure of that."

"Grandpa.. So.. Does he hate me? He didn't say anything to me.." she asks, almost sobbing.

"No, not at all. He said he loves you, so he knows he has to let you go."

"He said he loves me? He never told me!"

"Because it's part of the contract right? It's funny because it seems that he has memorized every line of those rules–"

"Wait, is he at home?"

"Yes, he said he'll pack his things asap so it's easier for you–"

"I must go. Dad, please close the gallery for me!" She gives him the keys and runs towards her car.

"Hey, don't drive fast!!" Kizashi reminds her.

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She's panting when she arrives. He's there, ready to leave. He's waiting for her to say goodbye properly.

"Sakura–"

"So, that's it? That's the reason you're not calling me 'love' anymore? That's the reason you stopped doing things you used to do for me? You want to rescind the contract–" She can't continue her statement and starts crying while holding onto him.

"Sakura.. This is what you've always wanted, right?"

"Is it true? You love me?"

"It doesn't matter.."

"Is it true?!" Sakura repeats her question louder.

"It's true! I love you! It hurts that you'll never love me back but it hurts me more to see you miserable with me! I'd rather let you go than see you hating your life because of that stupid pact."

"Who said I was miserable? Because of that one incident? Sasuke, you don't understand. I've never been this happy before.."

"You were happy.. with me?"

"I was in denial because it would hurt my ego. I made that contract.. I made the rules.. Then I'll be the one to break them? I kept on telling myself you're just nice.. You're kind and cool.. That's why I like you. But it's deeper than that, Sasuke. I love you. I know it took me so long to realize.. But I can't see myself living here or anywhere else without you by my side."

Sasuke can't believe what he's hearing. This can't be real. He can't process that the woman who despises the idea of getting married to him is now in love with him.

"Sakura. Are you sure? It's your chance to be free again."

"Did you know, I've finished your portrait today. I was so happy. I was pleased with the result.. Before I left the gallery, I put the title on it thinking I'll surprise and show you tomorrow." Sakura takes his hand. "You know what, come! Let's go there now."

Sakura calls her dad to go back and open the gallery for her. He complies and even her grandfather is intrigued.

When Sasuke and Sakura arrive, it's already open. It's obvious that Sakura cried on their way and her father can't help but worry.

"This.. This is beautiful, Sakura. Thank you.." Sasuke says while looking at its entirety.

"There's the title," Sakura points at a small card at the bottom of the painting.

"Love of the Artist's Life.. Sakura?"

"If that's still not enough for you to believe that I love you–"

Sasuke pulls her for a hug. "I'm sorry. I should've told you. You don't have to prove anything, Sakura. Just tell me I'm allowed to love you and I will. With all my heart."

Sakura takes the contract from her bag and torns it into pieces. "Null and void! Sasuke, please love me with all your heart and I promise you that my heart is yours and yours alone."

"I think we can leave now, Kizashi. So, nothing changes right? You guys are still married. Our ancestors are pleased with the fulfilled pact.. Everybody happy. Good." Sakura's grandfather laughs. "Sasuke, you take care of her. That's my only wish."

"I will, sir. That's a promise."

Kizashi leaves with his father. "Dad said everything I wanted to say. Take care, Sakura, Sasuke. We're leaving."

Sasuke is still staring at the painting. "It's really detailed, love.."

"You don't know how much I missed you calling me that."

Sasuke kisses her and says, "let's go home. I have to unpack and organize everything again."

They shared a laugh. "Don't worry, your wife is going to help you."

"You mean the love of my life."

"Hey, that's my title for you! Pick another one!"

#sasusaku #sasusaku fanfic #sasusaku au #uchihas #sscoded no 225

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sneezemonster15 · 2 years

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I once read a fic where sakura was written exactly in character and when she discovered n and s relationship she immediately got angry at naruto ( like I think she would in canon), but then some people started to flame the author about why are they writing sakura like that, like they're being too harsh on her.

So yeah, I think in some cases authors write H and S more likable so they don't upset anyone and get bullied.

Hmm it's plausible. However, writers usually write what rings true to them, what seems believable to them, otherwise it reads insincere and it shows in their writing. I can't say much in relation to fanfic writers given most of them aren't professional writers, they mostly just write for fun or self comfort.

What I do know for sure is that if one is sincerely writing a canonverse divorce SNS fic in Boruto era, one has to pay attention to the granular nuances that Kishi himself so shrewdly wrote and drew himself in Gaiden and Boruto the movie. He insistently puts repeated emphasis on how Sasuke mindfully keeps physical and emotional distance from Sakura. Their relationship looks dysfunctional, stilted and forced. While Sakura still tries to establish/force intimacy with Sasuke like usual, he still consistently keeps her at a distance, even now when they are married and have a child together, to the point he doesn't even know what his own daughter looks like. Sarada suspects her own mother is hiding something from her about her own father. Kishi succeeded to do one thing that he definitely wanted to achieve with Gaiden. To create doubt, suspicion. To make SS look shady and phoney. Because it just wouldn't have been in character for Sasuke to be happy or content in this sham of a marriage. Because he is a gay man stuck in a het marriage with a woman he doesn't like or respect. He is unhappy and displeased to see her, doesn't even crack a smile, hasn't seen her in years btw. They talk to each other in such a cosmetic manner, calling each other my husband and my wife. Never kissed, to Sakura's great dismay. Does this look like a dynamic that would facilitate Sasuke canoodling casually with Sakura?

Kishimoto insistently shows Naruto idle away his time at his office, counting headbands, even when there's nothing significant keeping him there. Like he purposely doesn't wanna go back home. He sends his clones to attend important ocassions with his family. But for Sasuke, he is always, always there in person. He sleeps anywhere but in his own master bedroom he shares with Hinata. His wife knows nothing worthwhile about him that she can tell to comfort her son about his own father. Instead, Kishi makes Sasuke satisfy Boruto's curiosity that Hinata wasn't able to. Naruto thinks of Sasuke when receiving the love bento and not Hinata who made it for him. His own son reminds him of Sasuke and not his spouse who birthed him.

Both these families are pointedly portrayed as highly dysfunctional. The husbands aren't there more than 90 percent of the time, the women know nothing of worth about their husbands. Sakura doesn't even know if Sasuke wears glasses. They have been married for over 12 years, happy families who have been together for such a long time don't behave like this. Naruto and Sasuke look perennially tired, wretched, and downright miserable.

If two gay men were forced by circumstances to keep appearances, by being married to entitled and self absorbed women they have no love for, wouldn't this be exactly how they would behave? These women who were only motivated by what the boys represent and not by who they really are. Hinata and Sakura don't know their own husbands. And it's in character for both of them. A spouse who wants to possess their object of desire without any concern for anyone but their own selves, wouldn't they behave exactly like Sakura and Hinata? They would.

And thing is, when the boys are with each other, they clearly look like their older selves. Spirited, lit up. Happy. Never with their families.

When writing a divorce SNS fic, one has to at least try to write a believable narrative. And no one has to even look anywhere else, just look to Kishi, he has already given us a lot of material to judge and interpret the characters the way it would be, realistic, believable. Kishi's writing rings true.

Naruto and Sasuke are akin to two outsiders living in a world that doesn't or wouldn't acknowledge their truth. A world where they can't be their true selves. An unfair and prejudiced world. A reflection of the real world as understood by Kishi. Naruto and Sasuke are driven to live in the shadows, having secret meetings. So if one decides to write a fic where they are made to officially unite, they will need to acknowledge the reality of world that had been stopping them until now. Hinata and Sakura are not only part of this world, but are also complicit in Naruto and Sasuke's suffering. So if one wants to portray a narrative that culminates into Naruto and Sasuke taking a stand against the world that had been the reason they were apart till now, then one will need to portray this world in character, including Hinata and Sakura. Otherwise, the narrative will not only not ring true, it will be disrespectful and unjust to Naruto and Sasuke's characters.

And then and only then, will their union look justifiably and accurately portrayed. If Kishi's worldbuilding depicts Konoha to be unsupportive of same sex relationships, and Naruto and Sasuke are a part of this world, then one will have to develop the narrative accordingly to justify their official union. If you write this world, which includes Hinata and Sakura, out of character, then you aren't really doing justice to SNS canon narrative, nor to Sasuke and Naruto's own characters.

Before anyone leaves some whiny, non-sense comment or remark about subjective interpretation on this post, please know that I don't have the energy nor the patience to deal with such comments kindly. Please really think about what I am saying. Deconstruct canon narrative, peel the layers, see what lies underneath. The issue I am talking about is bigger than some sorry ass fic. If you don't depict the challenges and conflicts of the characters in a well rounded way, you will never be able to write a believable or just narrative. Characters are not written in abstraction, they don't come out of oblivion. They are shaped by their surroundings, people around them, their world's weltenschaung, their accepted way of life, a certain philosophy, a belief system. Without taking that into account and building the narrative accordingly, one simply can't write a story or characters that ring true. And Kishi KNOWS this, given he is a master writer. Look to him, be guided by him, if one can't figure it out by themselves. Do your due diligence. Put some effort and understanding in it. Watch other gay media for research, see how these dysfunctional relationships are portrayed. Try and stay true to gay narratives, establish the gay characters' conflict, their struggles, their compromises, their woes, their bitterness with respect to the world they live in. If you wanna write a fic that does justice to SNS and Sasuke and Naruto's characters ie.

#ask #sns #sasunaru #narusasu #fic #naruto #sasuke #gaiden #boruto the movie #anti boruto #anti nh #anti ss

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sonorous-cicada · 4 months

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wip game: The Shifting Sands of Time KAKSAKU LONGFIC????? 👀

Okay this is a story concept I started forever ago in August 2020. I made it about 166 words in before stopping and moving on to something else. At the time, I didn't have the skill set necessary to complete it.

It's a time-travel AU. Starting out with 30-year-old Sakura who divorced Sasuke about three years prior due to spousal abandonment. Two years after the divorce, she and Kakashi were married and he adopted Sarada. (It's all very cutesy in the beginning).

I never got to write down how it happened, but somehow they *both* traveled into the past. Sakura deals with the guilt of leaving behind Sarada. She has to grapple with who she feels is more important in her life. Is it more important to her to continue to follow Kakashi and try to 'fix' the timeline? Or is it more important to return to Sarada? I think, a lot of questions like that have no right answer. Sarada doesn't exist if the timeline changes, and that's something Sakura realizes in this story. So what do you do if your child doesn't come to be? What does that guilt do to a person? Because either way there will be guilt.

Later on, Kakashi and Sakura become separated as the time continuum shifts again. I was thinking a dark Sakura and white knight Kakashi as the end game. Like the grief drives her mad and she tries to 'unfix' all that Kakashi has done in order to try and bring Sarada back, to try and make her exist again.

...I also started it with smut. lol Angst and smut, my favorites.

(Thank you for the ask! Sorry for the ramble)

#kakasaku #kakashi #sakura #sakura haruno #KS #naruto fandom #WIP ask game

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narutobad · 4 months

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Ok ok I'm normally not a person that would do this but I have thoughtts that have been eating me feom inside and I feel like ur insane enough (/pos) to understand this but like

Have ur ever got the energy Abt sasusaku being like tragic? I not really into them bc I never got the right vibes for them to really appeal to me so I never really cared or paid attention to them in a romantic sense but after seeing some ppl talking Abt them divorcing put this ideas into my mind of them clearly loving caring respecting and trusting each other but being together as in married or commiting ina relationship doesn't make them happy or it even makes them unhappy but the idea of letting go especially now it's so painful that they stay and even when they try to break it of they end up back together bc staying with each other is always a better option then being without the other even if they know it's not doing the good

But idk um a sucker for divorce and doomed tragic relationships and am being a bit delusional lol

i do think there is a lot of tragedy around sasuke and sakura's relationship, yeah. there is so much grief there, with sasuke's history and trauma and sakura's complicated feelings towards him, so many years of waiting and all of it festering.

i like to think that with time, patience and the love they undoubtedly share they're able to figure it out, and thats part of why i like them, how complicated their relationship is - but just as easily there is a possibility of them not being able work it out, of course. and that's also interesting.

i can see it going the way you're pointing out, especially if you consider how sasuke behaves in boruto, which i personally don't because i find it ooo. in that universe, divorce is the answer yup. god, they'd grow to resent each other so much, it'd be super toxic.

all in all, for sasusaku to work out, there has to be a lot of healing on both sides, so much maturity and grace in both of them. i could see sakura making herself smaller for sasuke, as she often did when she was a child, and sasuke being emotionally unavailable, and taking and taking from sakura. i could see them being stuck in that dynamic, loving each other so much still, unable to let go.

that is tragic indeed, but in my interpretation by the end of the manga neither sasuke nor sakura are those people anymore/they are well on their way of leaving those people behind, and that's why i place my bets on them figuring it out 😝

#the resentful sasusaku fics are good tho yupp #not you being like YOURE INSANEEE. ill take it #ask #thanks for the ask i love being asked my opinions hehe #sasusaku

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atoriv-art · 8 months

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keeping watch

#kakashi hatake #sasuke uchiha #obito uchiha #uchiha sasuke #uchiha obito #2023 #art #fanart #naruto #its hard being one of the only people invested in sasukes weird familial dynamic with obito but its honest work #its already hard being invested in his familial dynamic with kakashi tbf.#again. sasuke child of divorce propaganda #kakaobi

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lunelantern · 1 year

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People who are always away with business and psychically absent from the kid's life most of the time + children =/= family.

People who aren't present in their lives of the kids aren't parents; they're breeders.

If you have children, BE there for them, rear then. Children need the physical presence of their parents in their lives; the rest is just purely poetical-garbage propaganda with "oUr bOnD iS StRoNg".

For emphasize and parallel with the abominable natalist propaganda, Boruto manga, the following are NOT families:

1. Uchiha family is NOT a family and Sasuke is NOT a father, period. Whoever argues against is just an irresponsible, brainwashed natalist.

In fact, the forced natalist garbage ruined SasuSaku and tore a potentially amazing and meaningful romance to shreds.

Sasuke has no fatherly bone in his body and Sakura acts exactly like a desperate woman getting pregnant to trap an unconcerned, troubled man into a marriage. This couple as it's portrayed in Boruto is pathetic. The only glimpses of intimacy and romance are in fanfiction universe, the non-canon amateurish novels and the imagination of the natalist fans.

From an adult's standpoint, Sakura is a single mother having a kid with a man who can't find a purpose in his life, has severe psychological damage and is an ex-convict. I can't comprehend how women can side with Sakura and actually praise this pair. What woman would you want to be a single mother and the wife with a man who's never beside her? The fact that literature glamorizes such toxic relationships and glosses it over like something inspiring and romantic is alarming and sheer propaganda.

I'll never be able to come in terms with this abomination of the ending.

2. Uzumaki is NOT a family and Naruto isn't a father, period. He's married with his job and enamored with the idea of fathering the entire village. His biological kids aren't, in Naruto's view, anything more special than the rest.

If there's a remnant of decency in Hinata's body, she should just divorce Naruto and move back home where her kids would get a sense of family. The constant drama with Hima and Boruto constantly being dumped by Naruto should be a wake up shout out to every young person who aspires to have kids ; parenthood implies commitment, personal sacrifices and it's simply NOT FOR EVERYONE.

The only functional, normal and healthy family is... Akimichi. My respect to Akimichi Choji for actually being a father who's there for his kid and supporting his kid and wife.

Nara family... It could work... For humoristic purposes or an uninspired satire. Shikamaru admitted in the novel that he'd do better without kids.

Yamanaka... Not that bad. Sai is an underrated character and a good father.

Nothing justified the absence from a child's life. The rest is purely unadulterated natalist propaganda.

I don't want to hear the imbecile "ThEy dEsErVe tO bE hApPy" bingo. This toxic selfishness of natalists reinforces the fact that not everyone deserves to have kids. If one cannot put the kid's INTEREST FIRST, then he isn't suited to parent.

#antinatalism #shit natalists say #childfree #Naruto children

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maoam · 2 years

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man, i'm sorry you gotta put up with nh spammers like that. and obnoxious folks in general. they pop up like whack-a-moles no matter how many times you bonk them with the block button it seems.

also i find it funny how they included a bunch of family photos in their collage and neglected to show this damning one:

naruto not only missed out on himawari's birthday, but it's strongly hinted he's missed out on at least one of boruto's too. damn.

like i can't stand nh but boy do i feel bad that the kids gotta experience the fallout of these hollow, loveless marriages. and it's not helped at all by the fact that instead of comforting her child, hinata belittles boruto's problems and throws a blanket over his issues in order to make sure n-n-naruto-k-kun is comfortable.

bizzaro-world stuff. crap parent and crap spouse and it's all informed by canonic text.

Thanks. They are indeed annoying, and disturbing as well. They really think they are supporting a great romance or something lol. Meanwhile the writer doesn't even like one half of their ship.

Hinata is such an empty head. One reason why fix it fics and comics don't tend to work for me is because the creators often make Sakura and Hinata too understanding and too caring. Sakura is literally jealous of how much Sasuke cares about Naruto and pestered Sasuke their whole life despite his disinterest. As for Hinata, she literally almost killed herself in front of Naruto and put him in danger because she wanted to confess. Yet people make her so caring and selfless in their divorce aus. Hah.

#dinojisan #ask #anti nh

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Spoilers for What He Left Behind | Chapter 2 | Rated T

The autopilot hadn’t let up. Hinata went to work, came home, and sat in her room when she wasn’t cooking. The meals she left made him feel bad because she also paid rent for her room. Her cooking was everything that Naruto said it was, and it was bitter to enjoy it. She didn’t go out, though she was constantly reviewing messages trying to coax her out. She ignored the buzzing on her phone by just staring at it. He got sick of it. Sasuke picked up her phone and deleted the messages then blocked the last five numbers she ignored more than once, and handed her her phone back. Sasuke readied himself for rage, but it didn’t come.

“Thank you,” Hinata whispered.

It didn’t take long before it got out where she was. She was taking a different way to work, and they were seen together getting groceries. People asked him if she was okay after he blocked their way to pester her.

They asked the question Sasuke couldn’t answer. “Why did you take her in?” Sasuke didn’t think about it at the time, but it would look like he knocked her up, and Naruto left, so he took her and his child out of guilt.

He could ignore the accusation, but he wasn’t sure she could. Hinata was still shut down, and that wasn’t good for the kid or her relationship with it once it was born. He didn’t ask her if she considered other options because if she thought about it, she would have done it already. He didn’t need to be involved, but he was sure she would keep it because she didn’t have a problem being a mother. She just had a problem with the father running off.

Hinata filed for divorce first. The papers were on the counter when she came home from work. Naruto must have never filed. Somehow that made it worse.

Sasuke had no clue how his usually relatively responsible best friend could screw up so much. He should use ‘responsible’ a lot more loosely, but come on.

Every time he thought about it, he didn’t understand it. She was sweet, clean, sane, a good cook, willing and ready to be the mother of his children, and Naruto tossed it at the first sign of everything he had ever said he wanted. He was kind of waiting for something to be wrong with her.

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Hinata sorted through his and her laundry, something he never asked her to do. She just did. He noticed a little set of baby clothes.

“It’s pretty soon for those, isn’t it? You’re not even showing.” Sasuke raised an eyebrow at the small onesie.

“People aren’t sure what to get but want to help out. Infant clothes of all sizes will be useful as the baby will grow quickly.” Hinata mumbled.

Her lack of real opinion on these things was frustrating. “What do you need, anyway?” He had never really taken an interest before. He didn’t act like she wasn’t pregnant. He just didn’t bring it up.

She set her folding aside, and went to her room, returning with a notebook with a list of her clean writing of what she would need to find before the baby was born. Things like a car seat carrier, baby blankets, a crib, bottles, pacifiers, a breast pump… he didn’t want to know what that was. But it was a short list. Shorter than he thought it would be, there wasn’t a single toy on it.

“Don’t you need baby toys and high chairs?” Sasuke wondered.

“A high chair won’t be needed until it can hold its head up and eat solid food, and there isn’t much more than a rattle or chew toys that are needed to entrain a child of that age.” Hinata looked at the minimal list.

“I guess the minimalist approach works.” When most parents split, the parent who ended up with the kid tried to give them everything to make up for it, but I guess the kid wouldn’t have known, and Hinata didn’t seem the one to give in to emotional impulses. It dawned on him that she may be trying to keep it small, so she didn’t invade his home more than she had to.

“I’ll get you a crib.” Sasuke pointed to the list. “That way, I don’t have to pick out clothes or bears.”

“You don’t need to get anything you have already given us so much by letting us stay.” Hinata tried.

“And I’ll be a dick to everyone else if I don’t get a gift. Just tell me the one you want, and I’ll get it.” Hinata sighed. Sasuke’s nose twitched. “You don’t have to make a big deal about it.”

“You don’t have to make up for what he did. I appreciate all you have done for us, but please don’t feel obligated to take us on because Naruto failed to be the husband I married.” This was the first time Hinata addressed the situation. How long had she held her tongue? She looked like she might turn blue.

Maybe she thought once she said it, he would throw her out and wash his hands of her. “Nah, he’s a bastard, and I’m done cleaning up his messes, but I sat and listen about how wonderful you were for years, and I don’t know.” He took a breath. “I guess I want to see what was so wonderful that he could just leave like that.”

Hinata closed her eyes.

“I know I took you in because I’m used to cleaning up his messes, but you can stay as long as you want. I always wonder what kids were like.” Hinata wiped her eyes. Sasuke didn’t mean to make her cry.

“Thank you.” Hinata started weeping, and he didn’t know what to do. He wasn’t going to hug her but…. What did he do?

“You okay?” Sasuke turned to make tea. That’s what she did when he came back stressed from work.

Hinata sniffled, accepting the cup when he finished. “I’m sorry, it’s just, your the only person not pressuring me for answers about Naruto and not asking me what I’m going to do on my own and….”

“That’s all anyone wants to talk about.” Sasuke finished. She nodded.

Sasuke had gotten that too. Constant questions. Was the real father? Why did he take her in if he wasn’t? What did he think went wrong? What would he do when he got sick of her? When was he going to kick her out for freeloading? No amount of actual truthful answers worked, so he stopped answering.

“The girls at work are half and half. Some of them are so giddy, they only want to talk about the baby. The other ones think I tried to tie him down with a baby and failed, or I cheated, and that’s why you took me in.” Sasuke rolled his eyes and nodded, knowing that one. “My friends want to know what happened and what my plans are….” Hinata hiccuped a sob. “And right now, having the baby is all I have planned. I don’t have any further because all I had... had Naruto in it.” That explained why she stopped going out altogether. Her friends were nothing but reminders that she was drowning in her uncertainty. “Thank you for not adding to it.”

“You’ll figure it out. Even if I hadn’t offered the room, I think you would have found a place you could afford and worked it out. You’re not that fragile. If anything, I would say you have handled this better than any other time I’ve seen a girl get pregnant and someone run off. The last I saw had a breakdown and blamed everyone else then ...drank” Hinata flinched, putting her hand over the slight bump.

“Thank you, it means a lot that you think so.” Hinata sighed, looking at her list.

“If you want to talk about planning, I’m here. Just don’t make me shop for baby bullshit.”

Hinata smiled for the first time since she ended up in his place. “I won’t.”

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The void was filled, they could stay in the same room with each other, and it wasn’t filled with tension. On her phone, Hinata showed him what she planned to get, a small bedside crib that would work until the child was old enough not to roll over and suffocate on a futon. He ordered it with his card, one less thing for her to worry about.

Her cooking was good. It felt like the home he and Naruto never had as orphans. It gave him a pit in his stomach when he realized that he hadn’t had home-cooked food like this in… years since foster care, and it hasn’t been good cooking since his mother.

Since the day Hinata started cooking, she had it on the table at the same time every day. If she came home late, she panicked until she was sure it would be on time. He hadn’t thought much of it until the day she broke down crying when she was 15 minutes late to the table because she set the oven too low. He hadn’t even noticed until she started crying.

“I’m sorry….” Hinata whimpered. Sasuke stared at her misery, unsure what to do or what brought it on. He didn’t even notice the time. “It’s late...” She explained.

Was it just stress, or was genuinely worried about the time? “Hinata. Honestly, I don’t care when you feed me. You don’t even have to feed me.”

It didn’t seem to calm her. Hinata buried her face in her hands to sob. Sasuke took a deep breath. Maybe this was the time for a hug. He crossed the room to reach for her, and she flinched when she noticed he got close.

The fear hit him like a train. Sasuke slammed his hand on the counter, seeing red. “He HIT you!?”

“No!!” Hinata shrieked. Looking horrified, she hugged herself, and it was clear that wasn’t the whole story. No, Naruto wouldn’t have hit her, but he knew Naruto when he wanted something. Was his best friend above yelling at his wife when she didn’t have dinner on the table, or was she so afraid of disappointing him that even the thought would make her this afraid? Was this why she wasn’t mad? Did she feel like she deserved it?

He felt sick.

Sasuke reached back out. This time Hinata let him set hands on her shoulders. She wiped the blubbering tears, but they kept coming. “I. Don’t. Care.” He pronounced. “Your cooking is a favor. You can stop tomorrow and only feed yourself. You bought all the groceries. You put all the work in. It’s your food. You are choosing to share it.” He made sure not to break eye contact as he tried to get his point across.

Hinata nodded, still sobbing. What the hell had he done to her? Naruto said she was the perfect wife but had he made her that way, or did she rise to his image of perfection?

Sasuke got her to sit down and eat. She picked at her food, but he stayed there until she was done.

“What happened if dinner wasn’t on time?” Sasuke asked.

Hinata picked at her napkin, keeping her eyes down. “He had this image of how the perfect marriage would be and would be upset if the routine was broken. If I were late enough, sometimes he would say… that I wasn’t trying hard enough to make the marriage work. I didn’t love him enough… He never said cruelly, and he didn’t mean it.”

“Don’t make excuses for him. If the story paints him bad, maybe it’s correct.” Sasuke growled. “Once you start making excuses, it turns from bad behavior to abuse.”

Sasuke was putting the pieces together now. His apartment was clean as could be, cleaner than when he moved in. Hinata was attentive to him when he talked but only gave words of encouragement, even if he was just ranting about bullshit or was the bad guy. She was particular about making his morning easier. Coffee made for him and ready to his liking. His lunch was always something he would eat. Dinner, well, they just covered that. If he didn’t like something, she would apologize and fix it to his liking, even if it was at her expense. How had he not seen all this before? She was so eager to please, and his lack of negative response was starving her need to improve constantly.

“I’m not a hard man to please,” Sasuke added. “You could serve me a mountain of sweets, and the worst you get out of me is a sarcastic remark, and I won’t eat it. I didn’t buy the food. You pay rent. You aren’t a burden.” He tapped his hand on the table so he would look up at her. “Alright?”

Hinata wearily nodded. Did Naruto think she was so wonderful because she was ready to serve him? Why was he the one to leave? Where the hell was he anyway?

What He Left Behind

Pairing: Sasuke x Hinata Rating: T

Description: When Sasuke is confronted with an abandoned pregnant Hinata, he does the only thing he can think to do, he takes her in. Strangers to friends. Friends to lovers.

Image by Gaelle Marcel

#sasuke x hinata #Hinata Hyuga #hinata hyuuga #sasuhina #sasuke uchiha #what he left behind #full chapter

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you know what would automatically change my hatred to love for sasusaku? If their genders were reversed. Majority of the reason why I hate sasuke and sakura relationship is because the type of environment and the culture I grew up in where it's been fed to women since basically birth to always be faithful to her man no matter how terrible he treats her, even after marriage. The pharse, "Just be patient and he will change", infuriates me to another level. Seeing sakura chasing after sasuke throughout the series after numerous rejections and an attempted MURDER on her by him made me roll my eyes so hard like girl just move the fuck on omfg. And even after their "marriage" sasuke's treatment towards her doesn't get better lmao, leaving her alone with a whole ass child to take care by herself?? BYE sakura's patience for him is outmatch cus I would've divorced his ass for that. Though, the more I mature, little by little I begin to understand the complexity of their relationship after putting my gender issues aside for a second and look deep into them. And especially now, after reading your perspective on their whole relationship, it really did made half of my hatred go away and understand the relationship wholeheartedly. Like yeah, I absolutely love the trope of one person saying they don't deserve the other person's love but the other person keep loving them anyway, that stuff makes me giggle and swing my legs in the air and shit. It's just that the only way this trope would work for me if the person loving them has enough self-respect for themselves AND if it's a girl in the former & the guy in the latter. And honestly, I found naruto being borderline obsessed with sasuke annoying too but the reason why I can digest it more well is because naruto can go head to head with sasuke without backing down. Like, I wanted to see at least ONCE sakura having a heated argument with sasuke, or punch him in the face in the series. I feel like sasuke deserves a punch from her at the very least 🤷🏽‍♀️

Sigh, I really did wanna love their relationship and their journey to love (that scene of him catching her when she was about to fall and then having that iconic eye contact had me feeling butterflies ngl) since it has all the tropes I love but the execution is just so...

i mean if it helps any i absolutely hate post-canon and that's where my primary divide with most sasusaku fans lies 😭 i'm not sure if you read the blue-plums post i reblogged but it's a good dissection of why exactly it fails as a conclusion to both their individual arcs and their relationship arc generally. the post-canon we see is a direct answer to what sasuke's and sakura's dreams are at the start of the series, but the problem with this is that sasuke and sakura are nowhere near being the same people at the end of the series as they were at the start. generally, i don't think post-canon really takes the individual arc of any character into much account. its primary goal is maintaining the status quo with a slight veneer of friendship power draped over it for aesthetics. but nothing at the root is changed despite every traumatic development the characters were relentlessly subjected to. resultantly, you're left with a portrayal of sasuke as a neglectful father who glorifies the lone-wolf hero trope, which goes against everything he could possibly have learned from itachi; and you're left with a portrayal of sakura as someone content to keep house despite the bulk of her character arc being grounded in her ability and desire to take initiative not only at home, but abroad. it's not true to who either of them is by that point and, even more than that, it's a disservice to everything they've put themselves through for the sake of the love they were vying for. so while i love sasusaku as it progresses up through 699, i tend to wholeheartedly ignore whatever comes after and relegate that instead to either my own imagination or blue-plums's in her fics

what i will say about the naruto and sakura distinction is that a lot of people are more comfortable with how sasuke reacts to naruto bc they believe what naruto is doing is right. it's kind of like: if the only thing sasuke will realistically respond to is violence then obv naruto can resort to that violence without dwelling on it too much. but if you think about violence in the context of sasuke's entire life, it's not actually helpful at all beyond its ability to physically bring him to a grinding halt. even when naruto finally breaks through to sasuke, it's not the violence that makes things click for him. it's the words he says after, and it's the words he's always said before that that have stayed in sasuke's mind. violence, in contrast, is a poisonous thing for sasuke bc it's the only thing that has defined the parameters of his entire life. it robbed him of every person he cared about prior to his meeting team seven, and inevitably it intimidated him into seeking out more violence once he realized that he was incapable of saving the new people he'd come to care about as well. everything, at the root, was driven by sasuke's traumatically-exacerbated response to love and loss. the idea of losing naruto and sakura to the hands of anyone else was unbearable. so he decided that he'd rather have killed them himself. it was absolutely irrational. but a twelve year old child put through that kind of successive, relentless trauma was never going to think rationally, and certainly not after being exploited by people like orochimaru and obito (and to an extent itachi) in turn

all of this to say: there is of course a gendered aspect to the fact that sakura's response to sasuke is markedly not violence. but i also think people sort of refuse to dissect her response any further and esp in context of the narrative itself. despite being the hallmark of rationality within the team and perhaps even the series, sakura was inevitably always driven by the value she placed on humanity. it would've been so easy and rational and "right" to kill sasuke bc he was an insurgent, a terrorist, a danger to public safety, etc. but sakura knew it was more complicated than that. even without knowing about the intricacies of the uchiha massacre she'd been a witness to his suffering and struggle and helplessness. she was as much unable to kill him bc of her love for him as she was unable to kill him bc she knew it wouldn't be right. bc really, what would it solve. sasuke being written off or dying would accomplish nothing bc he would become one more person in the long line of victims to nationalism and the military-industrial complex. while naruto's desire to retrieve sasuke was driven by his love for him it was also driven by the fact that he was stubborn and relentless and refused to give up on people. if you won't believe in yourself i'll beat the belief into you. it's a very shounen-esque trait. in contrast, sakura's desire to retrieve sakura, while also driven by her love for him, was significantly driven by her ability to see that sasuke needed help. in fact, that's all she ever wanted him to get: help. and it would be one thing for this to be an isolated desire but when you read it in context of her own goals as a medic and a mental health professional, her unwavering belief in sasuke is a lot more striking. she was the only person in the entire narrative who never resorted to violence as a solution to sasuke's problems. and she was angry, to be sure. much as she loves him the struggle to bring him back and convince him that he was worthy of love and healing left her emotionally exhausted. but they're also children at the end of the day. she could've been angry at him, or naruto could've been angry him, and in the end none of it would've mattered in the face of knowing they'd finally gotten through to him. he had a smile on his face, he didn't have an arm anymore, and for the first time in his life he met a loss with utter peace and content. it was a thing of miracles after six years of relentless grief and sorrow, and nothing else could've been on their mind.

at the end of the day, team seven's love for sasuke isn't rational. the farthest thing from it, really. but that's what makes it so radical in context. if love in naruto was only ever meant to be rational then hardly anyone would survive. love was always written as an act of defiance and for however subtle the depiction sakura exemplified it

#this is already so long i won't ramble any further in the text bc i've gotten across my point #but tldr you're totally valid! like honestly a lot of sasusaku fans tend to take the full scope of post-canon as gospel and it's infuriatin #and it definitely panders to a lot of gendered stereotypes #the relationship is i think way easier to digest if you isolate 1-699 and then pretend none of the rest exists lol #me personally i want sasuke to go on travels and meet lots of orphans and dedicate himself to humanitarian work #and i want sakura to do her mental hospital thing and research and advocacy at the village #before the projects she works on inevitably extend to intervillage endeavors #it's a nice way for both her and sasuke to explore their respective itches while also doing something that overlaps #with what the other person is doing. i am also a gazillion times more inclined towards them adopting an orphan #than i am towards the idea of them getting traditional married and having a traditional family and birthing traditional babies. boh-ring #i have a post somewhere on my old blog but to Me it would be revolutionary for sasuke to separate himself from the idea that the #only real bonds are those borne in blood. bc all that matters is love. i think adoption would be a really good personification of that idea #also occasionally they can come back to konoha and do silly couple things. like go to the farmers market and plant flowers #and harvest tomatoes. househusband sasuke and workaholic sakura. my dream combination truly #outbox

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