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So in this verse, Tsunade never ends up teaching Sakura- as that role is fulfilled by Chiyo. (But she DOES return to Konoha eventually).
And Chiyo's first rule (for everything lol) is: Nothing is Free.
Chiyo always demanded something in return for healing, and unlike Tsunade, she considered medical jutsu a part of her arsenal. If it could kill, then it was always an option.
So Sakura learned from that mindset, trading her services and using her rare skillet as a powerful negotiating tactic, especially during Tea Country's civil war. Her healing effectively kept her, Enji, and Saeko in relative safety and provided her a card to play when she needed.
And, while Sakura is nowhere near as jaded as Chiyo is, and often enough of a bleeding heart to help people for damn near free, (a place to stay, food for the night, a new holster for her kunai), she is also VERY pragmatic about her skillset. The civil war taught her that sometimes, letting someone die is better. This puts her at odds with Tsunade, who has a very different mindset (and was, historically, bitter enemies with Chiyo).
Another issue that arises with Tsunade, is that the Godaime is a doctor- while Chiyo is more of a healer. Their understanding of the human body comes from a different place.
Tsunade can name every bone and muscle and perform open-heart surgeries. Sakura can heal bone and stitch back together muscles and flesh on a very basic level, but she's never going to be able to open up a human body and revolutionize medical history like she does in canon. (In canon, Sakura creates a Jutsu that allows her to do a four-man surgery alone; she can't do that here.)
However, she can do some stuff that Tsunade claims is impossible—like reconstructing/altering someone's chakra network, unblocking tenketsu, sometimes turning off someone's dojutsu from a distance, and lite-healing remotely (Tsunade is very upset about this one specifically). A lot of it comes from her mastery of Genjutsu.
Genjutsu, as I reworked in my comic, requires a complete understanding of someone's chakra network to control ALL their senses. Sakura's understanding and control are so prodigious that she can almost autonomously control people's bodily functions (a skillset that is GREATLY aided by training with Chiyo's puppet mastery).
She uses Genjutsu as a tool to understand the body and employs it as both support (helping an ally maintain a sense of gravity as they're pulled underground or flung in the air, etc) and offense.
And that's it for the wall of text! Once again, thank you SO much for the amazingly kind words and all the interest in this AU! <3
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I can't take these two frames seriously, look at the dumb ones. the first dude came just to gossip and flirt, and the second one makes it even worse with his sudden jojo face (and probably voice). also the dialogue is SO AWKWARD WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS. repeating the villain's name three times in two frames in a row is definitely not suspicious, especially for that idiot in a mask. "oh, which one?" yeah that's the point.
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NaruFox AU Recovery mission pt 8: Kiba and Neji's fights.
I decided to skip to where the mission starts to differ so...
Prev / Next
This time they attempt and fail to trap the enemy and Kiba is the second to get separeted from the team. So Neji decides to follow this strategy and face Kidomaru on his own. Hoping to give the other 3 more chance to defeat Tayuya and still come back to help Kiba and Chouji.
They do have information about the sound four, but even Orochimaru hadn't seen them in a while so it's still not perfectly accurate.
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I don't understand why everyone is getting their panties in a twist over Shoko reviving Gojo suddenly. She couldn't regrow Hana or Inumaki's arms. Why would she suddenly be able to bring people back to life?? And even if we go with stuff like "Utahime strengthened her RCT", then why didn't they do that before to heal the people around them? Reviving Gojo is fine, but they couldn't be bothered to give Hana back her arm and wings because that would make Angel too op for the story or smth?
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i just finished this fic, and it started with silly kakashi & tobi interactions and light hearted and playful and BAM, RIGHT IT THE FEELS, geez, did not see that one coming let me tell you
its called We Build It Up to Pull It Down by pygmelions, with a following one shot as some sort of epilogue (only registered users can read)
(ao3, completed, no explicit content, they dont even kiss ok? its the slowest of burns, but jokes on the author because i like that too)
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I finally saw the Naruto Road to Ninja movie last night, and I gotta say, it was really good! I went in knowing it had quite a bunch of Narusaku ship tease and wacky alternate versions of the Konoha cast I knew and loved, and then got hit by surprise by all the family drama and feels.
Really I'm surprised and disappointed there's not much discussion or content related to that movie (especially among Narusaku fans, since this movie is an obvious goldmine!), but maybe I'm just coming to this topic years late and missed it.
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naruto: wow i’ve had a crush on sasuke this whole time huh?
kakashi: you didn’t realize?? what even goes on in your head?
naruto: i keep telling everyone - not much
sakura: are you sure there’s anything at all going on in there because SERIOUSLY you didn’t realize you liked sasuke??
naruto: if it helps i also didn’t realize you can eat those containers that the ramen comes in until a few years ago!
kakashi: you’ve been eating what—
sakura: we’re going to the hospital. right now.
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just watched the episode where naruto meets minato, and. idk if it's because i completely skipped the battle beforehand & therefore tense battle atmosphere or if i'm just older and more resentful now, but.
if i were an orphan who had no adult guardian most of my life and had to fight for respect, and then train my butt off to survive because my dad sealed a fucking wanted monster inside of me, and then said dead dad said "😀 i did it because i believe in you. you're my son after all. idk how you're going to solve the systemic problems of our world but i blindly believe in you because that's what parents ought to do". i think i would have puked and also aimed at his shoes.
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