#Gaara vs Deidara

[the-winds-of-sunagakure]

This Episode was Gold 😂🩵

Did you like it?

#gaara #gaara of the sand #gaara of the desert #sabaku no gaara #kazekage #gaara forever #naruto #sunagakure #Deidara #Gaara of the Sand Waterfall #Sand Prince #Naruto vs Mecha Naruto #Angry Gaara #Kazekage Gaara #Gaara vs Deidara #Naruto Edit #Gaara Edit #Edit

[thebloodredraven]

Disrespectful moments in Naruto I think about a Lot™

that first lee vs sasuke fight. humbled isn't even the word to describe that.

gai calling kisame a puffer fish to his face, in all seriousness and sincerity

14 year old itachi catching legendary sannin orochimaru in a genjutsu and toying with him. actually, any time Itachi opens his mouth.

that one man groping a 12 year old Sakura and her roundhouse kicking him in the face (deserved)

deidara and sasori arguing about their philosophies surrounding art while using gaara's corpse as a sofa

hidan picking out what instruments konan, kakuzu, and itachi played because he thought they were an emo rock band

hashirama: I'll deal with you later

naruto punching sasuke square in the mouth so hard that he quadruple flipped in the air

literally any time itachi interacts with sasuke after the massacre wtf why was he so MEAN

killer bee too focused on coming up with lyrics to fight but still somehow winning against team hebi

Please feel free to add on

#kisame hoshigaki #naruto #naruto shippuden #itachi uchiha #kisame #madara uchiha #might gai #might guy #rock lee #orochimaru #deidara #sasori #Akatsuki #hidan

[mixelation]

more reborn au chunin exams ->

so i'm trying to backtrack from my "mission goes wrong" post, which is actually a horrible way to construct a plot, but here we are. anyway this post is therefore about the tournament section of the exam, but to recap: team 4's main goal is to extract a captive from iwa, but the iwa-konoha tensions are still pretty high so it has to look like a legit attempt at pushing a team through the exam. the tournament is the day when they can guarantee basically everyone in the village is distracted, so that's the day they pick to do the actual extraction. it's also a day when the entire team has to be seen publically

tori: well i'm not a combat shinobi, so i'll just get out on my first match

kushina: NO >:( you can totally be a combat kunoichi if you try!!!

tori: why are you like this

so i think part of tori's character arc for this section is that she's like. significantly more badass than she thinks she is. it's not that she's a particularly gifted fighter-- it's that my goal for late-plasticity tori is that through wit, creativity, a few minutes of prep time and lot of experimental fuinjutsu, she can actually take out an experienced ninja. she's just having a very hard time integrating "while in the heat of battle!!" into her sense of self.

tori about to wander into unknown circumstances where she can pretend to be a cute little civilian girl: yeah no i got this. idk i'll just make something up. it'll be fine.

tori facing a carefully set up fight: wait no i'll die

both itachi and deidara are both like "aren't you fighting some dweeb? you can't THROW your match people will notice" meanwhile tori is like. no i think there's a very high chance i will try and then just fail

B U T itachi has the match right after her, so if she wins, she'll be up against him next. (we just assume itachi will win, obviously.) i was thinking about how canon made sasuke vs gaara a first round match and how that seems like bad seeding to me if that was the match most people wanted to see..... like i know it was decided "randomly," but..... c'mon. so i decided they made it a first round match because that's how they could GUARANTEE this high-profile match.

so i decided first round for this should be itachi vs kurotsuchi 0:)

the OTHER part of tori's character arc is that despite coming off as "the nice one," she is phenomenally bad about thinking about her teammates as people she should be looking out for and actively protecting. tori understand the benefits of teamwork in theory, obviously-- she's just used to having to actively fight whoever she's working with the entire way, and also maybe one day they will just kill her for no reason.

so tori's chunin exam plan is thus: win her fight with minimal effort so she's fresh as possible to fight itachi, and also fuck up itachi's match as much as she can. so instead of extended training montage or whatever, she buddies up with kurotsuchi tells her how to fight itachi. not like, treasonous amounts of info-- but she warns her he favors genjutsu and stuff like that. also i'm not 100% on how she wins her first match yet, but i'm thinking it involved lies to make the other guy panic and give up, possibly with a low-effort assist from kurotsuchi? (think nibe's fight in homemade dynamite)

anyway kushina is like "nooooo D; tori what are you DOING" because yeah kunoichi are tricky people but WHY DID YOU SELL YOUR TEAMMATE OUT TO THE TSUCHIKAGE'S GRANDDAUGHTER ARE YOU INSANE

tori: ??? itachi? he'll be fine. look, he won

and then i want the tori vs itachi fight to be like. good. like she's not going to win, but she does make him work for it*

*part of it is that itachi doesn't want to seriously injure her, and tori looked deep inside her heart and decided she would beat itachi to a bloody paste if given the opportunity

tori limps out of her fight, and taking her to medical is kushina's excuse for why they both dip out of the tournament early.

EDIT: iwa does not pass any of them for petty bullshit reasons they just make up.

minato, reading the report they send a month after they've blown up 80% of the demolition corps: hilarious. anyway you're all still genin

#reborn au

[narutocharacterpolls]

First round will start tomorrow at 12pm EST

Matchups listed under the cut

LEFT SIDE

LEE vs HINATA

AKAMARU vs KIMIMARU

NEJI vs BISCUIT

SUIGETSU vs KURAMA

KAKASHI vs SAKURA

ZABUZA vs SHUKAKU

OBITO vs OMOI

HAKU vs KIBA

NARUTO vs MINATO

TEUCHI vs UTAKATA

KILLER B vs SHISUI

SASORI vs KANKUROU

GAI vs KABUTO

HASHIRAMA vs DARUI

IRUKA vs MITO

SAI vs SHIZUNE

RIGHT SIDE

SASUKE vs DANZOU

CHOUJI vs SHIN

TOBIRAMA vs IZUNA

KISAME vs TENTEN

GAARA vs SHIKAMARU

TEMARI vs HIDAN

NAGATO vs HANZOU

JUUGO vs SHIKAKU

DEIDARA vs ITACHI

YAMATO vs YUGITO

KONAN vs MIKOTO

SHINO vs KARIN

MADARA vs INO

YAHIKO vs KAGAMI

TSUNADE vs PAKKUN

KUSHINA vs SAKUMO

#bestnrtcharapoll #< all relevant posts will be under this tag #naruto #polls #naruto uzumaki #sasuke uchiha #sakura haruno #rock lee #neji hyuuga #kakashi hatake #gaara #kisame #obito uchiha #maito gai #itachi uchiha #ino yamanaka #kushina uzumaki #yamato tenzo #iruka umino #id in alt text #for complete transparency i replaced yoshino with mikoto because mikoto somehow got deleted and i didn’t realize so i just replaced her with #one i didn’t originally intend to include #i chose to replace yoshino over sakumo/biscuit because i had a reply stating those two specifically make sense to be included #and yoshinos reason for submission was not actually about her

[bestnarutoduo]

Here we go! Another poll, this time with a focus on character’s outfits.

Voting will start tomorrow at 10am (MST)

Left side

Mei (blue dress) vs Gai (Retired fit)

Sasuke (Chunin exams) vs Bee

Temari (Shippuden) Vs Sakura (Blank Period)

Kiba (Shippuden) Vs Karui

Sai Vs Utakata

Tenten Vs Kankuro (Stone of Galele)

Kakashi (Green Jumpsuit) Bs Gai (Speedo)

Anko Vs Naruto (War Paint)

Ino (Shippuden) Vs Genma (Kid)

Kurenai Vs Gai (Teen)

Fuen Vs Izari Funato

Deidara Vs Kakashi (Retired)

Naruto (Shirtless) Vs Gaara (Shippuden)

Gai (regular fit) Vs Hako Kuroi

Akatsuki Cloak Vs Temari (Og)

Right side

Temari (Boruto) Vs A

Rock Lee (Og) Vs Hinata (The Last)

Shino (Shippuden) Vs Mirai

Sukea Vs Guren

Kushina (Kid) Vs Ino (Blank Period)

Kimmimaro Vs Hinata (Red Dress)

Izumi Vs ChoCho

Sasuke (Shippuden/Non slitty edition) Vs Neji (Shippuden)

Gaara (Og) Vs Obito (Fourth Great Shinobi War)

Karin (Shippuden) Vs Kankuro (Shippuden)

Lee (Crescent Moon Kingdom) Vs Sakura (Crescent Moon Kingdom)

Madara Vs Naruto (Pein Arc)

Sasuke (Shippuden/Slutty edition) Vs Sasori

Tsunade Vs Kakashi (Kannabi Bridge)

Sakura (OG) Vs Kakashi (Chunin Exams)

Choji (Boruto) Vs Temujin (Stone of Galele)

#Best Naruto Outfit #Best Naruto Fit #Hatake Kakashi #Temari #Maito Gai #Yamanaka Ino #Uchiha Sasuke #Uzumaki Naruto #Haruno Sakura #Rock Lee #Hyuga Hinata #Hyuga Neji #Uchiha Obito #Akatsuki #Tsunafe #Uchiha Madara #Uchiha Izumi #Uzumaki Kushina #Kimmimaro #Gaara #Kankuro

[luna-blood]

I was debating on YouTube about Sasuke but YouTube deletes comments, especially those that have a link. It was also difficult for me to search for the publications. So I gave myself the task of collecting posts from all Sasuke fans and neutral critics of the work 'Naruto' that talk about Sasuke and his relationship with the other Naruto characters. I have also included my contributions, such as questions to other users and post responses. I hope this post helps you when you need support when you are debating in favor of Sasuke. Without anything else to say, I leave you the links:

Positive qualities of Sasuke.

Sasuke's chakra is extremely powerful, voluminous, and denser than Senjutsu chakra!

It is false that Bee could have killed Sasuke any time he wanted.

¡Sasuke has been shown to nullify mortal wounds with Raiton!

Sasuke is literally the first person to survive the Raikage's Liger Bomb.

All Sasuke received from Raikage was a small lip bleed, while Raikage lost an arm and another Kage, Gaara, had to intervene to save his leg and his life.

Orochimaru's "physical condition" has nothing to do with his ritual and Sasuke's victory.

Analysis Sasuke vs Deidara.

Sasuke killed Danzo; he did not commit suicide.

Are Itachi and Kakashi really prodigies at the level their fans believe them to be? No.

The only reason Naruto managed to hurt Kaguya was because Sasuke forced her to change dimensions more than once and she herself had changed dimensions about four times in total.

Because Sasuke haters say that Haku is simply more tragic and a better person than Sasuke; and Batman too!

What is it about Sasuke that provokes people so much, compared to all the other fictional characters (in and out of Naruto) who have done bad things? Gaara was killing people for fun in part 1, but no one ever complains about him not being punished. Zuko from ATLA burned down a village of civilians, sent a hitman after Team Avatar, and was just lucky that no civilian was injured/killed, but everyone adores him. But Sasuke is unredeemable for threatening to destroy the village?

A back and forth on why Sasuke is a much better realized character, with thematic and narrative depth, compared to Kurapika and Zuko.

Sasuke is the imperfect victim unlike the perfect victims of ATLA and Full Metal Alchemist.

Sasuke's character is too good for the Naruto universe.

Are people upset that Sasuke was going to let the Shinobi Alliance perish?

Sasuke as a feminist icon.

Sakura is a female incel.

Sakura inserted herself because she wanted validations from people who were out of her league, that's why. She is perfect for self-insert.

The mere idea of turning over an entire manga in your head in which Sasuke hides a raging boner (at age 12) for Sakura is... repulsive. Don't you have anything better to do?

Sasuke never kissed Sakura.

The blow on the forehead is not the maximum expression of love.

Naruto Gaiden is a fucking masterpiece!

Sasuke retsuden is not canon.

Sasuke retsuden is not canon, Jun Esaka herself said it and if you are a fan of Sasuke it is normal that you hate Sakura because Sasuke is unhappy with her.

Sasuke still considers Sakura inferior.

Sasuke didn't push Sakura away because of the curse of hate.

Sasuke rejected Sakura, Ino and Karin, he didn't push them away because he was afraid.

Sasuke is not in love with Karin and did not have sex in part 2 with Karin.

Why Karin's fans say she had sex with Sasuke in part 2.

What does Kakashi know about the genocide and the physical and mental torture that would lead the child victim to a fatal coma, at the hands of a family member?

Naruto is a narcissist.

Why Naruto is the worst character.

How can anyone read the two chapter panels showing two very different worlds the characters occupy and be surprised by the way it ended? They were not going to reconcile since the world where Sasuke exists is the antithesis of the world where his former team resides.

The Intellectual Dilemma of Rock Lee's Fanbase.

Shikamaru's revenge is meaningless unlike Sasuke's.

People who support Nagato but vilify Sasuke sound a lot more idiotic than they think.

In defense of Fugaku.

How does Sasuke's revolution develop?

Why didn't the narrative validate Sasuke's radical change from Konoha's Will of Fire to the Revolution?

Itachi massacred the clan out of conscience.

The difference between Kushina and Itachi is not that big.

The policies of Tobirama Senju and the Uchiha genocide.

At what point will people stop demanding Sasuke?

Tsunade was at the forefront of the Second Shinobi World War that massacred the people of Nagato, plundered their land's resources, and continued to use the land as a battlefield resulting in mass deaths, poverty, and suffering. A war that Konoha started.

Why do so many people still blame Sasuke for Sasuke's past?

Uchihas do not have mental illnesses.

Sasuke vs Readers without empathy.

Kishimoto canon vs Studio Pierrot fanservice.

The brilliant change of perspective and theme between Hebi and Taka Sasuke; and that there is no writing defect in the moment in which Sasuke stabs Karin to reach Danzō.

Tobirama never accepted the Uchiha as true allies like Hashirama did, never trusting them, something he admitted so openly that his brother had to warn him "not to continue pursuing the Uchiha." And the Uchiha weren't planning to kill innocent people, they were planning to take over the government itself.

Kishimoto is anti sasusaku and anti naruhina.

Kishimoto never wanted to write Boruto.

The real Sasuke fans.

#sasuke #sasuke uchiha #pro sasuke #anti naruto #anti konoha #anti sasusaku #anti sasukarin #anti narusasu #anti sakura haruno #anti kakashi #anti itachi #anti shikamaru #anti rock lee #anti tobirama #anti danzo

[bakapandy]

Excuse my question, but you're like the only person who loves all sand sibs equally, so I know your answer is gonna be objective and unbiased. Is it true that Kankuro is the "most useless sibling" as many people claim? Cause he does get many scenes for a secondary character. Like, the Gaara rescue arc, the war where he not only fights Sasori, but in the anime, has extra scenes guarding Deidara and fighting Chiyo. People like to compare him to Temari a lot (ofc we know that none of them compares to Gaara), and say she's done more stuff. But in the Gaara rescue thing, she does nothing. In the war, I can remember Kank's fight vs Sasori, I can't remember Tem fighting anyone of relevance. So like, I don't get people who call him useless, or worse "the Sakura of the sand sibs", when Sakura ain't useless either. Idk, what do you think about this whole thing? Do you think Kank is the useless sibling?

Pd: I don't intend to make anyone mad, I really just want to know your opinion, since this whole discourse has been going on in the Naruto fandom for ages, and Kank has been called useless too many times to count, so I wanted to know your take on this.

I literally have never heard this take before so I’m not sure what branch of fandom you’re in. Granted, although I’ve been watching Naruto since 2006, I rarely engaged with the fandom and the point I am now is the closest I’ve ever been in fandom but I still ignore like 98% of it bc I don’t have the time or the energy to deal with such insignificant and petty discourse.

As for my opinion on the take itself…I think it’s ridiculous. Each of the siblings have their strengths and weaknesses and they are successful because they complement each other as a unit.

I love to joke that Kankurou suffers from Middle Child Syndrome but honestly he’s incredibly talented in his own right. He currently leads Suna’s terrorism division and is described to be a charismatic and well-trusted leader. Skill-wise, he’s the best puppet user in the village, if not in Suna history at this point. Yes he fell to Sasori during the Gaara rescue arc but he was like 16??? To Sasori being a whole adult with much more battle experience??? But by the time the 4th War rolled around, less than 2 years later, Kankurou had advanced in his puppetry enough to surpass both Chiyo and Sasori and be formally acknowledged by the two as having done so. He may not have a destructive wide-range fighting style like his siblings, but his precision and tactical strategy is unmatched.

Yes, he’s definitely the silliest of the three but that’s a part of his charm. His outgoing and approachable nature is something that makes him well loved by the village and his subordinates. Gaara is stated in his novel to envy Kankurou’s ability to built rapport and relations on a personal level with their people. Many people in the village actually wanted Kankurou to replace Gaara as the Kazekage. Honestly, I highly doubt Gaara would have been able to gain favor in the village as quickly as he did if it weren’t for Kankurou’s steadfast and open support. Temari’s as well, but Kankurou and Gaara had a particular bond as brothers, and he fiercely protective of his younger brother.

Anyway, that’s my rant bc Kankurou deserves better lmao

#ask pandy #frankly #I’m also of the opinion #that if your interpretation of any character is like this #sakura included #then your understanding of the characters #is very superficial #I don’t consider myself a Sakura stan #and I’m not happy with several aspects of her characterization #if you discount the hard work and rapid improvement #she went through to better herself and become stronger #and just call her useless #then I have no reason to argue because there’s no critical thinking there #also let me clarify #that by ‘you’ i mean generally #not you specifically anon

[everygaara]

I just wanna ask, do U remember what ur reaction was to gaara’s reveal in shippuden for the first time?? And if so, what did u think?

This is a good question! Unfortunately, I don't have a satisfactory answer ><;

I got into Naruto very late in life (I only started seriously watching when I was already 20 years old. Although, I attempted to watch when I was 16.) I'd seen pictures of Gaara in Shippuden and Boruto at that point and had a vague understanding of his role. So I don't recall being surprised to see him as Kazekage - it felt kind of obvious in a way?

I will say, I was very upset that Gaara "died". Even though I knew he lived because I'd seen him in Boruto screenshots, it was still shocking. I surprisingly had avoided a lot of spoilers so I was biting my nails during Gaara vs Deidara!

#not gaara

[evilkitten3]

naruto volumes i own rated by how much sasuke is in them

vol 37 - he's mentioned by naruto a couple times. shows up in the preview for the next volume. 0/10 where is he

vol 45 - we open with sasuke! couple pages of naruto, one of some unimportant kumo nin (and jay. dw bby ur important to me) watching sasuke, then it's back to sasuke thinking about all the teams he's been on. cut to naruto for some light reading (books with jiraiya: this time, it's NOT porn!), then back to sasuke. then we cut to a flashback but it's still of sasuke (and some masked guy who's mostly just there for sasuke to angst at (i know who tobi is before anyone @s me). now we jump to the raikage lifting a weight for. some reason, naruto gets a few more pages, and then sasuke returns, bringing with him the panels that got animated and eventually became the Is Nothing Easy meme. cut to jay for half a second before sasuke shows up and kills his lizard (also presumably jay. rip in pieces my guy you will not be forgotten). zetsu and totally-madara-why-would-you-even-ask-get-off-my-dick chat for a panel, and then we get a bit more raikage followed by team samui (i think this is their introduction??? idk i love these three tho). naruto does some more stuff, the cloud nin find jay, and i haven't seen sasuke in nearly 20 pages wtf. the tragic lack of sasuke continues, with the only tagentially sasuke-related thing being the revelation that nobody bothered to change the locks after itachi (officially) went rogue. finally we hit something more direct but it's still just kisame noting that killer bee pulled a fast one on him, followed by killer bee saying that sasuke (or, "that sharingan dude" is probably the toughest opponent he's ever faced (rip to the three other people who were also there i don't think he noticed), and that's the last we see of him. 7/10 strong start but we got offtrack

vol 50 - this time he's in the first panel!!!! and seems to be getting his ass kicked. lots of things are on fire. we have a bit of sasuke vs the raikage until gaara shows up and saves. honestly probably both of them (the other sand sibs are also there), and the raikage hacks his own arm off bc it happens to be one of the many things that are currently on fire. gaara projects on sasuke a lot, his siblings point out that he's kinda wasting his time (temari is the only one with a good argument here ngl), and sasuke doesn't really care about gaara's problems. we get a bit of danzou and some other people who are in the same room as him, and then it's back to sasuke vs the sand sibs (+ darui and sasori's corpse) but susano'o no sells all of them which i gotta say must feel really awkward bc this is three jounin and a kage against a guy who never made it past genin. sasuke gloats a bit bc he's earned it and then sets about destroying some shit having seemingly decided "fuck this building and everyone in it" (karin not included) but somehow no named characters die. there's some more sasuke-less panels and then we finally get everybody's favorite upside down sasuke! he and danzou glare at each other for a bit before some guy (mifune? i think???? idk) attacks him and accomplishes nothing. danzou fucks off and sasuke has to get through the mist nin now. the mizukage hits on him but unfortunately her name is neither Revenge nor Naruto so sasuke isn't interested. for some reason choujuurou thinks sasuke killed zabuza which. ok sure idc, and sasuke puts up a pretty good defense until he gets thrown through a wall and we learn that all his cells hurt (i don't know if that's actually physically possible but i don't care enough to find out). the mizukage seems to be the only person intent on actually causing sasuke some problems but fortunately (?) zetsu shows up to help out (sasuke. to help out sasuke. nobody else is having a good time). the iwa nin decide to maybe do some stuff even though the tsuchikage really doesn't give a shit (and credits sasuke with deidara's death. which. bro he did that to himself). karin thinks sasuke is dead and something maybe happens with kankurou but it's not clear what, but then tobi i mean madara shows up with sasuke's presumably unconscious body (he looks silly. i won't lie). cut to sakura being Up To Something, followed by kakashi on clean up duty, and naruto on sitting-around-thinking-about-sasuke duty. sasuke gets kamui'd, which nobody is happy about, and then so does karin, which nobody but her cares about (sorry bby). obito sits his gay ass down and vents at the assembled governments, call them all pussies for believing in hope, and declares war. lastly sakura tries to balance caring about multiple people and naruto continues to ignore his ongoing bisexual crisis. 9/10 so much sasuke

vol 51 - i'll cut to the chase this is basically sasuke the book the movie the tv show the bible the play. there's so much happening here it's a sasuke soap opera inside a sasuke soap opera. sasuke's replacement tells sasuke's boyfriend that sasuke's girlfriend is planning to kill sasuke. sasuke's teacher and sasuke's teacher's kouhai are also there. sasuke's boyfriend envisions the polycule shattering and sasuke's boyfriend's other sandier boyfriend shows up with his sibs to drop some hot info at the worst possible time. meanwhile sasuke's abductor/helper/cousin/uncle/guy who helped sasuke's brother kill sasuke's family talks to sasuke's current murder target. sasuke's target and sasuke's target's brainwashed minions attempt to fight sasuke's least/most helpful family member. sasuke's boyfriend dumps sasuke's boyfriend's other sandier boyfriend and sasuke confronts sasuke's maskiest relative and demands to be released (along with sasuke's girlfriend two electric bitealoo). sasuke's target shows off the result of sasuke's mutilated family members and sasuke demands confirmation on sasuke's brother's true mission. sasuke's boyfriend thinks about sasuke and has a panic attack. sasuke's target accuses sasuke's brother of treason (the one crime sasuke's brother objectively didn't commit, for better or worse), and we go into eyeball battle while sasuke's girlfriend two electric bitealoo tries to figure out wtf is happening. also sasuke has a hawk now. sasuke's target manages to piss off sasuke even more by having an open mouth with words coming from it, and sasuke's brother shows up to jumpscare him but it's actually just an illusion. sasuke gets trapped and sasuke's girlfriend two electric bitealoo tries to help but unfortunately she's a girl in a shounen manga so that's illegal. we learn that sasuke's worst chemistry teacher was working with sasuke's target at some point bc friends who war crime together win together i guess. sasuke's personal exposition machine exposits izanagi which he totally won't use to be a jackass later haha don't worry about it. sasuke's target also has a summon (@ english manga that is a fucking baku not a tapir good grief). sasuke tricks sasuke's target into thinking his eyes were still open and sasuke's girlfriend two electric bitealoo lets him chormp. sasuke's target isn't dead tho and manages to take sasuke's girlfriend two electric bitaloo hostage but sasuke really wants him dead so oops surprise break up via stabbing i guess. sasuke's evil senpai cheers him on, sasuke's target has a flashback and kills himself bc fuck you, and sasuke's girlfriend knocks out sasuke's girlfriend's sasuke hunting team to go on alone. sasuke's (ex) girlfriend two electric bitealoo has a flashback about a bear and sasuke's boyfriend tricks sasuke's teacher's kouhai and chases after sasuke's girlfriend. sasuke and sasuke's girlfriend try to kill each other but sasuke's teacher steps in. sasuke's teacher decides to try to kill sasuke himself and tells sasuke's ex girlfriend to kidnap sasuke's other ex girlfriend. 10/10 lots of break-ups but plenty of sasuke

vol 53 - ok this is scary bc more than the first half of this volume is naruto and he doesn't think about sasuke even once. is he ok. did he hit his head. what's going on buddy you can talk to me. but anyway kushina shows up and through the power of flashbacks we are given baby sasuke! who kushina thinks is a girl at first. he's only there for like three panels but ch 501 has a cover of baby sasuke and baby naruto, so there's that. we then get some more baby sasuke with pre-bad decisions itachi who makes a very sweet promise that he probably shouldn't have kept as hard as he did oops. 5/10 there was some sasuke but not very much. extra point for cuteness tho

vol 54 - naruto thinks of sasuke as a friend he's "not getting along with right now" which is a very interesting way to describe their past few interactions but alright. he's not mentioned again until deidara yells that he killed sasuke and the tsuchikage realizes no one bothered to tell him that sasuke is not only fine but probably forgot about that whole encounter three seconds after having it. 2.5/10 it should probably be a 1 bc sasuke is barely even mentioned but kisame is my favorite character so i'm giving this volume a bonus sasuke point in his honor, and a .5 for konan

vol 56 - the only sasuke is the ch 531 chapter cover. unacceptable. 0/10

vol 58 - naruto acknowledges that "madara" is influencing sasuke's hate, which seems to be the biggest reason why naruto knows he's a bad guy (also the nagato thing). he's only going to try talking to him after he's been stopped. sure naruto whatever you need to tell yourself. we get a cover for ch 548 with all three of the team seven teens (poor sakura is trapped in the middle and barely shows up in tankouban volume format... kakashi's stuck in the background too but at least i don't have to practically flatten the book to see him...) itachi shows up and is shocked to learn that his plan to give his little brother as much ptsd as possible left him ever so slightly not ok. itachi has an excellent response to this, by which i mean he tells naruto to buckle down on the lie so the uchiha family name isn't tarnished (...buddy.) and then says that he actually had a backup plan in case the first plan (traumatize sasuke -> die -> hope no one ever told sasuke the truth and also that no one immediately went back on their word and killed him anway) went to shit. of course this other plan happened to be "just strip him of his free will and force him to do what i want bc there's no way this could possibly backfire", which is now also no longer an option bc he just used it on himself. remember that whole "itachi loves sasuke more than the village" thing? yeah that's maybe not quite as true as he'd like it to be. luckily for itachi naruto sees blind loyalty enforced through brainwashing as a good thing (if it benefits him. if, say, someone had a secret army of brainwashed children and sent one of them to kill sasuke, that would be bad. but if itachi does the same thing it's good bc naruto gets to have him where he wants him regardless of sasuke's personal opinion on the matter. this is a healthy and normal way to react to this sort of thing). itachi tells naruto to never forget his friends (which i mention bc he immediately thinks of everyone except sasuke (and the sand sibs. rude)) and then destroys shisui's eye bc he can't use it against sasuke anymore. itachi says that he isn't going to talk to sasuke bc last time he tried that he failed (which. does not remotely cover the scope of his fuck-up but all right). finally we hit some actual sasuke in the form of zetsu carnage so he can have some practice with his eyeballs. it only lasts a couple seconds but he seems to be having. some kind of time. 3/10 not enough sasuke too much of the walking bad life choices zone (i'm sorry itachi i promise i really do love you i just can't go five minutes without giving you shit about literally your entire life)

vol 60 - first we see sasuke (and the rest of og team seven) in a commemoration by sato atsuhiro. then we see the boy himself cutting up... rocks i think? idk it looks like rocks. cut to suigetsu and juugo talking about sasuke and karin. there's another (chibi) sasuke in the 5th commemoration by taira kenji, and another sasuke in the 6th commemoration by itakura yuuichi. he gets another mention by kurama and then by yagura, both in reference to the kissing incident. we briefly cut to sasuke standing alone in the rain before he turns and smirks at... presumably nothing? idk. it also definitely wasn't raining before so maybe the rocks he attacked earlier were anti-rain shields or something. cut to karin fangirling over sasuke except plot twist she's actually about to break out of prison. yasss queen weaponize those assumptions. suigetsu and juugo continue to do... whatever they're doing (i can't tell if suigetsu is trying to get sasuke and karin together, thinks they're already together, wants to break them up, or wants to get them together for the purpose of breaking them up). anyway they get in a fight and suigetsu finds [undisclosed information] that he absolutely has to get to sasuke. who, as it turns out, is having some fun playing whack-a-clone with the zetsu gang, one of whom he keeps alive for the purposes of intel before beheading once he's done with his internal monologue about his ongoing divorce with naruto. he thinks about his eyes and also his brother and also his brother's eyes which it turns out are giving him (more) depression. after a brief flashback and madara unveiling his boob tattoo, we cut back to sasuke just as he runs into itachi. 7/10 he's mostly just in the latter half of the volume but he makes good use of his screentime. and who doesn't love disposable clone carnage?

that's all the volumes i have at present. if you read through all of this: why. why would you do that to yourself. do you have better things to do. i don't that's why i'm here. see ya

#naruto #naruto shippuden #uchiha sasuke #fun fact: sasuke is not my favorite character #he's probably the best character #but he's not my favorite #he's not even top five #my top five in order: kisame kisame again ino konan and then one more kisame for good measure #temari is right behind that third kisame #sasuke's probably in the top ten but as these tags should make evident i'm not the sort of person who ranks that stuff seriously #other fun fact: kisame is not my fave bc i think he's hot #he became my fave way before i started thinking that #...i don't know when my interest in sharks and my interest in kisame converged but at some point they definitely did #and it changed me #ranking meme #i ended up cutting some stuff that was funny but not related to sasuke which is the point of this post for some reason

[baked-hylian]

Gaara for the character ask!

Ah yes, the other blorbo from Naruto xD

First Impression Who is this scrunkly little boy and why does he sound so angry < 12 year old me upon first seeing Gaara hanging upside down from the tree. At the time I was still pretty obsessed with Sasuke so he flew under the radar, up until around the Sasuke Retrieval Arc, when he came back with his siblings was when I really started paying more attention to him.

Impression Now Baby. Must protect. I know he can easily do it himself, but god damnit he deserves to have someone protect him for once. Kankuro and Temari did what they could, but when even their own father would keep Gaara at a distance, send people to kill him, etc., well you can't blame the other two victims in the situation when they follow in their father's footsteps to some degree, because it's all they've ever known. And I love it so much, that the three of them were able to grow past that together, because Gaara so deserves to know that his family loves him, and to finally be protected by them.

Favourite Moment There's a lot? Like His fight with Lee is intense. Or when he and his siblings go to help Konoha bring Sasuke home. Or when he defended Sunagakure from Deidara's attack. Or when he called out the Tsuchikage and asked him when he had forsaken himself? Or his fight with his reanimated father? Or his involvement with the Five Kage vs. Madara fight. I'm sure I have a few more moments I could squeeze in here, but my memory is terrible and currently in my rewatch he is still down for the count with the rest of the Kage after fighting Madara.

Idea for a Story I'm going to be honest, I'm not a fan of how Kishi seems to just shrug over some timeline related things. Like how there is no Kazekage between Gaara and his father. So what I'd love for a story is something that fills in the blank of how Gaara, still a genin by all technicalities (since only Shikamaru made it to chunin, that we're aware of,) managed to become Kazekage before anyone else that was ranked higher than him. Like it's fascinating to me since Kishi gives no time for Sunagakure to get accustomed to the new, Naruto inspired Gaara, before making him their Kazekage. (And as an aside, I also would just love? to get some side story content of how the other jinchurikis lived and how their villages treated them, but I digress.)

Unpopular Opinion I don't even know what is a popular opinion with him lol So i suppose I would say the typical, he had every right to want to kill everyone considering this was the only path pushed on him by his father growing up.

Favourite Relationship His and Naruto's is always a top tier. I love that they were able to find a bond through shared trauma (being jinchuriki) and that both help each other in ways the other needed most (Naruto being able to pull him out of that dark spot as a kid, and Gaara being there to support Naruto and his choice to try save Sasuke still during the Kage summit. Like yeah Gaara did warn him that there is a possibility that he can't save Sasuke, but do you think Gaara is going to make that harder for Naruto to do? No, never.) I also really enjoy his relationship with his siblings, but as I established earlier, he deserves to be protected, and who better to do that than his big brother and big sister?

Favourite Headcanon Man I don't even know what's canon xD I suppose I would have to say that ever since Shukaku was extracted from him, he has a hard time not having random little cat naps here and there, and that he always keeps a pillow hiding somewhere in his office just in case.

#Thanks for the ask #I've definitely mellowed down with the obsession over him as I got older #but he still holds a little special spot in my heart

[justlookatthosesausages]

Rewatching the Gaara vs Deidara scene from early Shippuden in pure nostalgia and really Gaara and Elsa would get along so well and exchange so much and talk about their unwanted but amazing powers, and how creative and protective they get with them, and how love helps controlling them and--- Ughhh my heart

#gaara #elsa #naruto shippuden #naruto #frozen #parallels #frozen 2

[narutocharacterpolls]

ROUND ONE

DEIDARA vs UCHIHA ITACHI

Reasons for submission under the cut

Deidara

he is an artist!

his clay models are cute, fun and dynamic!

cool hairstyle and sick eyeliner job

set up the mood for the rest of Shippuden with his introduction + fight with Gaara

4 mouths

wants to kill Oonoki

anti-nationalist

bombed several lands just for kicks

likes to appreciate art

faced Gai and his team ARMLESS armed with a kunai IN HIS MOUTH and escaped mostly unscathed

NANOBOMBS

trained one eye to counter attack genjutsus

likes birds and winged animals

fought against Sasuke (A HUGE honor of any character Kishi could have thrown at him he chose his GOAT 🫡)

deranged blue eyed blonde representation

can make his mouth hands make out anytime he wants, power move of the century

caught a Jinchuriki and a Bijuu all by himself

wears a crop top

wears black nail polish

lost both arms and didn't bat an eye

almost strangled Obito

explodes anytime he wants

beefed with Itachi

wanted to kill Orochimaru

long haired men

hates the government

he's annoying to everyone

youngest akatsuki member

hilarious one liners

intelligent, strategic, dramatic, hot, cool

looks like Ino

Itachi

he has one of the most compelling, gut-wrenching and beautiful sibling relationships in the entire anime

despite showing it in a peculiar way he does love Sasuke and honestly that's based

not to sound like a dudebro but his jutsu is honestly incredible and his fights are very interesting and entertaining to watch. Susano’o in particular is very beautiful as well

created Easter Kakashi. Lol

an incredibly intriguing and complex character, there's so many layers to Itachi and all of them are sad

he was groomed from the age of four because the Konoha Elders saw that he had such an intense reaction to witnessing war and realized that they could make use of that

loved his family deeply despite it all

is the reason behind one of the best plot lines and character (Sasuke) of the anime

he gave up his entire life because he thought this was the only way to guarantee Sasukes safety

he stayed with the akatsuki solely so that he could keep an eye on Konoha and Sasuke and to prevent the akatsuki from harming Sasuke by attacking Konoha

pushed Sasuke to his limit in their fight just to be able to get Orochimaru out of Sasuke for good

"you've studied a lot. You're like a snake expert now" is SO funny and he was so genuine about it

he was SO young and had so many voices telling him traumatizing things left and right, and that he was the only solution on both sides

truly genuinely made as one of the most heart breaking characters and character relations to exist

eye bags are real and relatable

men with long hair

bro's GORGEOUS

he was traumatized and manipulated since his childhood and deserved sm better

he just wanted to make eggs for his lil brother!

idiot fool boy

he's supposed to be a genius but his emotional intelligence is in the negatives

even his father recognized that he was a good kid and had good intentions when he found out about what Itachi was doing

malewife

#whoa…. deidara vs itachi……… this is just like the anime… #bestnrtcharapoll #naruto #polls #deidara #uchiha itachi #itachi uchiha #akatsuki #id in alt text

[bestnarutoduo]

Propaganda

Deidara

Iconic hair

Classic side bang and long pony

Long and silky

It slays

Gaara (Shippuden)

Style and colour of his hair matches his complexion very well

Simple and classy

#best naruto hair #best naruto hair poll #Gaara #Deidara

[bubblewhale]

How cool is deidara vs gaara

Dei was older than me when i first watched shippuden and now he's much younger than me

#deidara #shippuden

[sunshinecherryblossom]

Here is the top list of Naruto's most famous battles in order of popularity. I'm too happy for Sakura, hers was truly a memorable battle. In second place we immediately find the final battle between Sasuke and Naruto, in third place Gaara against Rock Lee, 4 Kakashi against Obito, 5 Naruto against Pain, 6 The fight between the two Uchiha brothers (honestly, in my opinion, this is one of the most extraordinary and significant of the series, I was surprised that he was only in 6th place), 7 Gai vs Madara, 8 Minato vs Obito, 9 Neji vs the spider guy (I can't remember his name😅), 10 Sasuke vs Deidara... and you? What do you think about this?

#naruto uzumaki #naruto #naruto shippuden #top list #battle #Youtube

[nightingaleflow]

hiii! 1, 3, 5, & 7 for the naruto ask game?

(1) favorite village

Suna. <3 Sand Village best village.

(3) which villain would you most like to fight

Deidara, though it's less "fight" and more "punch in the face really hard."

(5) how would you have cheated during the chunin exams

Already answered. <3

(7) which battle was your favorite

Gaara and Rock Lee vs Kimimaro. It's my husbands fighting side by side, what more could I ask for?

~

Thanks for the asks! <3

Naruto Asks

#once I get back to writing noncommission stuff I'm going to rewrite the Kimimaro fight with Tori in the mix #ask nightingale #rose-whiplash