(English Translation)

Sasuke, largely, was right about many things towards the end of the manga, but I'm not a Stan who condones everything he did. For example, him asking Sakura to kill Karin in order to join him is not justifiable as 'working through trauma' or whatever you guys say it is. That's not a Sasuke who is acting justly and in line with any morality and I don't like that version of him. Those acts speak to some kind of darkness beyond righteousness. In a better-written manga, that coldness is what Naruto should have helped him resolve so that Sasuke could continue to make the changes he wanted in a just manner. Even if you sympathize with him, you have to admit there was an actual darkness to Sasuke, though perhaps not one as all-encompassing as canon suggests wherein he was apparently wrong about everything. He's not that black and white in my opinion.

(English Translation!)

Sasuke watches as Itachi picks up a Mandarin orange and puts it down, his tiny round face frustrated.

Itachi: *Gives a look like he would like Sasuke to peel the orange for him.*

(End)

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Important.

still can’t believe itachi’s ultimate dream was to be a housewife that would just cook, raise sasuke, and tend to chickens, but his clan was just like “oh shit this four year old can do sick flips with a knife” and forced him to kill people. wild.

I'm so glad you like this silly, sweet crack fic! Thanks for the recommendation ~

by @kmtranslationsxxx. she writes BEAUTIFUL crack fics

Everyone in the Ninja World decides to put aside their differences, come together, and finally get a consensus about who tops and who bottoms in the multi-faceted Sasuke-X-Naruto relationship! Arguments are had, and battles are fought; will they be able to ever see eye-to-eye, and sort out this very important issue? (Too bad there was no point in asking Naruto and Sasuke about it; they hadn’t even realized they were dating yet.)

Tags: No Archive Warnings Apply, Uchiha Sasuke/Uzumaki Naruto, Minor or Background Relationship(s), Haruno Sakura/Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru/Temari, Hyuuga Hinata/Inuzuka Kiba, Gaara/Rock Lee, Surprising & Cute Friendships!, Uchiha Sasuke, Uzumaki Naruto, Hatake Kakashi, Umino Iruka, Tsunade (Naruto), Mitarashi Anko, Shiranui Genma, Haruno Sakura, Hyuuga Hinata, Yamanaka Ino, Uchiha Itachi, Uchiha Mikoto, Uchiha Fugaku, Uzumaki Kushina, Namikaze Minato, Uzumaki Karin (mentioned), Gaara (Naruto), Temari (Naruto), Kankurou (Naruto), Orochimaru (Naruto), Rock Lee, Hyuuga Neji, Teuchi (Naruto), Ayame (Naruto), Inuzuka Kiba, Inuzuka Clan (mentioned), Nara Shikadai (mentioned), Nara Shikamaru, Jiraiya (mentioned), Hyuuga Hanabi, Uchiha Shisui (mentioned), Crack Treated Seriously, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Didn’t Know They Were Dating, Alternate Universe, Post-Warnon-epilogue compliant, Humour, Idiots in Love, But Everyone else knows they are, Ino is a Great Writer, Reversible Couple, the ending we deserved, Icha Icha Series, Icha Icha Reboot!, Complete! (Adding Epilogues), The Hyuuga Reconciliation

Word Count: 28,000

Rating: Mature

Random thought but I really liked how in the Original Naruto, all of the characters' forehead protectors were tied on - and by that I mean that they were each a single piece of cloth knotted, not a circle of fabric slipped over the body.

I liked the symbolism that Kishimoto was able to invoke when he had characters tying their head bands, or when their head bands slipped off in the heat of battle. It was all quite evocative in my opinion. It made for a lot of heated dialogue between Naruto and Sasuke, and even Sakura and Ino to a lesser extent. The scene where Sakura cuts her hair and her forehead protector flies off is a great one, plus the one where she and Ino both punch their protectors off. And of course the scene where Naruto looks at Sasuke's flung off forehead protector from when he tried to scratch his forehead after Sasuke said that there's no way Naruto would be able to land even a scratch on him, is iconic. And at the very end, the last battle, when Naruto's forehead protectors comes off too, it feels like they aren't shinobi anymore, they're just Naruto and Sasuke.

Aside from the asethetics of how without the ties, the forehead protectors look more like athletic headbands, I think it is sad that we won't get moments like that in Boruto where the characters have to contend with what it means to tie the protector around themselves and be Konoha shinobi. If you ask me, it speaks to how it's no longer important to consider how each character defines themselves in and out of the Konoha ninja framework, wearing or not wearing their forehead protector, in the Boruto universe.

Of course the tension in those scenes was also developed through much stronger character backgrounds which few (if any) Boruto new gen character has, but it seems strange to think the symbolic option is precluded entirely.

ino introduces naruto to make up.. he taps into sage mode once and inspires the next generation of ninja to love and appreciate orange eyeshadow

(English Translation)

Sasuke: You're not scared... You're not scared... *pspspsps*

(Fin!)

NARUTOごちゃっとまとめ | 桜庭ちづる [pixiv] 

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