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casliveblog · 11 months

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Custom Toonami Block Week 136 Rundown

Spy X Family: So the group finds out they actually failed getting into Edin College despite what happened last episode but it’s okay since Elegance Man punching out the asshole dude did bump them up to the top of the waiting list and there’s almost always a dropout or two. Yor’s just immediately on board for murdering someone to improve their chances which is fucking funny but luckily it doesn’t come to that and like one night later they get a call that they’re in. They have a mini-party with Count Scruffyhead (I didn’t learn his real name and that’s what they call him for this episode so that’s what I’m gonna call him) and him and Yor get drunk off their fucking asses and convince Loid that Anya deserves a reward for getting in and that somehow turns into him calling in thousands of dollars worth of Spy Resources to stage a Lupin the Third style phantom thief rescue mission in an unopened theme park for Anya’s favorite show. So basically Loid gets to show off his spy skills in the Disney castle to J-pop while Count Scruffyhead hams it up as the villain and drunk Yor vibes in the background. The final boss actually is drunk-ass Yor and luckily she passes out before she can fucking accidentally kill Loid and I have no idea how any of these people have alibis around each other anymore like I guess Loid just thinks Yor’s some Rock Lee style drunken boxers who can flip cows over idk everyone’s really smart about their own secrets and really dumb about everyone else’s secrets but that’s the name of the game I guess but if they ever try to pull an actual reveal where they find out what’s going on there’s gonna be a like ‘You know there WERE signs…’ deal. But yeah, not it’s time for the greatest challenge of all… private school.

Inuyasha: It’s the start of the Naginata of Kenkon filler arc and if you told me this was a recycled script from a scrapped Inuyasha movie I’d believe you. We start off with Kagome sucking at school as usual for someone that goes to school like ten days a year, when Hojo busts in like ‘yo check out my family tree there’s a girl named Kagome that means there’s logical precedent for us getting together right?’ and Kagome’s too full of school-related despair to even acknowledge it at the time but she’s the only know that knows it’s technically possible that it could really be her since they do know Hojo’s ancestor from the second movie. I remember being so confused as a kid because I DID see the second movie but it’s not like they played them in order or anything so I kinda forgot Akitoki was in it by the time this episode came around. But yeah the plot does kinda a decent job of weaving into canon with Akitoki saying he wanted to get his cursed family blade purified at Mt. Hakurei but since Mt. Hakurei kinda blew up at the end of that arc and a bunch of demons flew out it prolly won’t work so Kaede directs them to the second most holy and thankfully much closer shrine around. Along the way Hojo’s Milo Murphying his way through shit because of the curse which I guess having an enormously cursed half of a demon naginata translates to ‘being kinda clumsy disturbingly frequently’ and also they’re being attacked by Demon Ninjas… which are demons that are also ninjas. I feel like playing that scene from DBZ Abridged where Piccolo calls out the filler villain squad every time because we basically always get the same group which is weird because Inuyasha doesn’t do villain squads all THAT often and getting non-Inuyasha fights is usually a nice change of pace but usually there’s not much to the design besides an elemental demon for one of the lesser guys to fight, Anyway they get bombed by the demon ninjas and Kagome and Hojo get thrown off a bridge, the end.

Yu Yu Hakusho: Now that Kurama’s starting to put together the pieces of how Gamemaster’s power works, he realizes that the kid will die when he loses the game since the Goblin King dying is part of the game’s ending, unlike players that have continues and can start over. Apparently Sensui’s nihilism made him pick a game that will off one of his teammates even if he does exactly what he wants, probably a ‘better to die in a game than be killed by demons or live in this corrupt world’ kind of villain motivation. He tells Gamemaster this right before the game starts and the kid who’s only motivation is ‘the apocalypse cancels school right?’ fucking breaks down knowing now that he’s playing the villain the only way out is death. This comes into play as Kurama’s game against him is what I can only describe as Sudoku Tetris which sounds ridiculously hard. Gamemaster thinks back to meeting Sensui which is a scene FULL of stranger danger at this point and it looks like he does have at least some idea of what he’s gotten himself into but was mostly in it to make video games real. The realization that he’s going to die kind of makes it hard to focus even for the guy that knows the fucking code of this game inside and out because apparently Sudoku Tetris isn’t as predictable as the quiz show. Kurama’s not about to hesitate to kill a kid though and brutally ends the game with less than half his screen full. Kurama’s fucking pissed Sensui led a child to throw his life away without even knowing it and Hiei’s just like ‘yeah we kill kids all the time no biggie at least I didn’t have to play a fucking video game’ which I kinda wish we got a scene of Hiei playing Fruit Ninja or some shit but yeah now we’ve got a dead kid and we’re at the final boss and now Gourmet and Kuwabara are in the boat instead of the psychic monk guy so Kurama’s ready to murder everyone because he does not like being forced to murder kids though this series is terrible with sticking to sad death scenes so I doubt this’ll stick.

Jujutsu Kaisen: So yeah Sukuna’s out and about now and challenges Megumi to a fight to celebrate his new body-having…ness but not before ripping out his own heart since if Yuji switches back while he doesn’t have a heart he’ll die but for Sukuna it’s a mild inconvenience. Megumi wants to fight him to force him to heal enough for Yuji to come back but this guy’s the final boss and Megumi’s Part 1 Sasuke levels of ‘stronger than he should be but not strong enough to break the story flow’ and he’s also dropping shadow puppets left and right. We get a little of his backstory which is your standard ‘mom was cool and died but dad named be after a girl and left’ backstory, you know how it goes, hopefully we’ll get more info on that later because we seem to be getting driveby flashbacks without much depth for these backstories. But yeah before Megumi can do his super ultimate shadow technique deal, Yuji comes back and fucking dies on the spot. Gojo’s mad and says it was probably people pissed off at Gojo himself and wanting to spite him for getting Yuji’s execution on hold but that’s kinda fucked up because they had not guarantee it’d be Yuji that died or that it wouldn’t also kill Nobara and Megumi. But yeah, Yuji’s dead and only took three fingers with him, so uhhh… short series, guess we’re focusing on Megumi and Nobara’s survivor’s guilt now. We also meet the second year squad, discount Nanao Ise, Rice Ingredient Man and Pandaman, because we learned from Tekken that if you just throw a Panda into a fight it’ll be way more fun. They invite Megumi and Nobara to your local shonen tournament dealie and their friend just died because they couldn’t beat up a giant naked man without the help of their friend’s four-armed hollow tailed beast deal so they’re like ‘yeah sure training arc sounds good’. Also Yuji’s not dead because of course he’s not but it still is pretty creepy to think that he’s like a corpse and the original heart and hand he was born with are gone now like it’s like the Ship of Theseus how much does Sukuna have to heal him before he’s a completely different person from when he started?

Chainsaw Man: Picking up immediately where we left off with Denji about to feel up Power, aside from her padding her chest the whole experience isn’t the world-shattering nirvana-inducing eternal bliss he was expecting. He brings it up to Makima in a similar yet more crude way to Fullmetal Alchemist: if the pursuit of the dream is more enioyable than attaining it then what’s the point? Makima basically tells him that pleasure is fleeting but you can extend it with torturous teasing and actually giving a fuck about the person by forming a parasocial relationship with them, so basically the same model used by OnlyFans. She also wins him over by promising to fuck him if he gets the big head honcho arc Devil so we’ve basically reset the goalpost of the arc to introduce a real villain. We also get a little of Aki’s backstory and get to see his whole family killed by the Gun Devil which should probably be called the Nuclear Bomb Devil with how it fucking obliterates shit in seconds (if this took place in the 1960s it would definitely be the Nuclear Bomb Devil). But yeah when there’s supernatural devils running around everywhere people just start buying up guns so the whole world became America for a bit and America became SUPER AMERICA so there was a terrorist attack that shot that through the roof (I like how there’s a number of actual attacks this could be referencing but since it’s America it doesn’t even narrow it down a little and probably for the best since relating it too close to an actual attack in your manga about groping boobs would probably offend people). So then the world basically banned and censored guns to cut off its power but peeps are still afraid of it because who wouldn’t be. Also I’m like 100% sure America didn’t actually sign on to the bans because the most American thing to do is be like “GUN DEVIL!? WE CAN SOLVE THAT WITH MORE GUNS!!” But yeah now they gotta collect the jewel shards since enough bullets will act like a compass to the real Gun Devil. Aki Squad and Himeno Squad go to a hotel to hunt down one such bullet-eating devil and spend way too much time talking about smooching Himeno and Denji pretends to be monogamous for like 0.00001 seconds before going balls to the walls on getting smooched. Turns out Himeno and Aki used to be partners and while Aki decided to become Sasuke with a boner for his superior, Himeno decided to literally just fuck around and find out, I mean that’s her prerogative, also she got a ghost hand, feels like a literal embodiment of the fear of ghosts should be able to do more than squeeze shit but I guess that’s all you get for the payment of an eye. Also the hotel is doing some PT-Shining shit and looping and we’ve got a perfect cast of horror movie dumbasses so this should be fun.

Ranking of Kings: Turns out Kage was in Bojji’s bag the whole time and that’s why it protected his head after he fell off the tower and why it returned to him randomly after it got stolen, and it was even Kage protecting him from eating the poisoned food by the campfire, honestly that’s really good foreshadowing, enough to make you realize something’s going on without outright giving it away. Turns out creepy snake dude actually sent Kage to protect Bojji while trustworthy sword dude was the one trying to kill him, real Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone switcheroo. Kage gives Bojji a new crown and leads him down deeper into the literal hell hole saying that the king of the underworld will help make Bojji strong enough to fend off all the attempts on his life. Meanwhile Daida is having a Rick and Morty style montage of multiple things being murdered to create a simple drink including throwing his dad’s corpse into a wood chipper and super murdering a phoenix to make a good ol’ dad shake just in time for father’s day. Turns out creepy snake guy’s full of good advice since Daida flashes back to him telling him struggling for strength is what makes him strong and he throws the dad shake away, fully pissing off his magic mirror but given it’s just a pane of glass it ain’t gonna do shit, though weird Spear Guy who Daida almost had killed is on his way down to find him so who knows. Meanwhile Domas gets confronted by the other guard guy that actually likes Bojji and Domas is flashing back to Daida being like ‘wow you sure are untrustworthy for verbally betraying your student, to prove you’re trustworthy to me you should kill that student’ which doesn’t make any kind of sense but okay. Anyway second guard dude is pissed but he can’t do shit so Domas knocks him out and cuts off his own hand as punishment or some shit idk this episode got real bloody real quick between dismemberments and turning people into milkshakes.

Vinland Saga: With Thorfinn now trapped on the ship of the guy he wants to kill he finds screaming about murder isn’t enough to keep him alive and almost dies of thirst before Askeladd’s crew hit land at another village and Thorfinn passes out long enough for the real pillaging to start. Thorfinn finds Askeladd sleeping and is about to just fucking murder him in his sleep but takes at least part of his dad’s pacifist message to heart and decides if he’s gonna commit bloody murder he’ll at least commit Odin-sanctioned bloody murder and kill Askeladd in a duel. The funny thing is it looks like Askeladd was awake and was ready to let him kill him if he tried to jump him in his sleep but as soon as he gets challenged to a real fight he just beats the shit out of Thorfinn since the kid’s using a sword that’s basically the same height as him. Thorfinn does a mini training arc in the woods and figures out he’s better off with his knife since he can swing it easier and throw it. We also cut back to Ylva and she’s working through her grief in her own way by overworking and as soon as she’s forced to take a second’s rest she breaks down crying (if this series was about Ylva hunting down her father’s killer and being a badass Viking lady I’d still watch that) also Leif says he’s gonna find Thorfinn but apparently they didn’t think to look too hard when they lost him like it’s not a big boat where the fuck did they think he was I really wanna know what happened in that scene. Thorfinn’s basically doing the camping montage from the All is One, One is All episode of FMA and gets like 10% more deadly which is pretty good for what’s implied to be a long weekend but it’s not enough to take down adults so Askeladd just kicks his ass again and tells him he’ll fight him again when he’s proven himself as a real warrior. So now we’ve got our kid with borderline Stockholm syndrome ignoring his father’s wishes to live up to the toxic masculinity of his culture, basically the exact inverse of How to Train Your Dragon.

#ooc #Toonami #Custom Toonami Block #Spy X Family #Inuyasha #Yu Yu Hakusho #Jujutsu Kaisen #Chainsaw Man #Ranking of Kings #Vinland Saga

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idontblushsrry · 3 years

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Request fic

Anon asked:

Would you do a Hiei from YYH fic where Hiei and the reader are in "will they won't they" stage since they clearly like each other but she's not going to push Hiei and Hiei wants to ignore his feelings but he can't once he gets blatantly jealous when Shishiwakamaru makes a comment about her during the Dark Tournament after she turns him down for "not being her type"?

A/N: I kinda messed with somethings because I haven’t seen Dark Tournament in a hot minute.

Word Count: 1624

“Hiei, you’re glaring again.”

“Shut it Kurama. I’m not glaring, merely observing.”

An exasperated Kurama smiles at his friend who despite, verbal assurances that he was “merely observing” seemed to be growing increasingly irritated. Demonic aura rolling off his friend in waves as Hiei’s hand twitched to grab his sword.

The object of Hiei’s ire stood there completely unaware of the death looming over his head. Or maybe, he was all too aware. Shishiwakamaru had no issues when it came to taunting his rival team. You were no exception, the fact that you happened to actually catch Shishi’s eye was nothing more than icing on the cake.

The fact that Hiei looked ready to turn him into a sword sheath made this interaction all the more sweet.

All the while, you were caught in the crossfire between the 2 demons’ mind game/ ego contest. You continued your conversation with Shishiwakamaru out of pure politeness, every question he asked, you answered bored and disinterested, each answer getting shorter and shorter as time stretched on. To be truthful, you’d rather be back at the hotel, you were wasting the team’s precious training time by being here. You tried to shoo them off but Kurama insisted for the sake of being a gentleman and Hiei stayed because he wanted to “scope out the competition”.

Now the competition had more than ended and neither of them had any real valid reason to remain here, demons long gone, any stragglers you’d be more than able to avoid on your way back to the hotel. But you figured the same reason you were still here was why Hiei stayed around. Kurama probably just stayed behind to make sure Hiei didn’t add any extra charges to their long list of crimes.

“If you’re done wasting oxygen, Shishi, we’d like to head back now.”, Hiei, fed up with Shishi’s persistence speaks.

“If you’ll excuse me, your presence is no longer required. I can escort my Y/N back to the hotel if you’re that busy.”, Shishiwakamaru was all too aware of the underlining irritation in Hiei’s voice, more potent than his usual cadence.

That seemed to be the tipping point for Hiei because he grabbed his sword and nearly lopped off Shishiwakamaru’s head if it weren’t for Kurama placing a hand on his shoulder with a look that said ‘save it for the arena.’

Alright, this had gone on long enough, “Actually Shishi, I was thinking of heading back with them, it’s getting kinda late and I don’t wanna be here at night with just you...”, you mumbled the last part out a little awkwardly and gestured towards the exit where Hiei and Kurama stood.

Your “excellent” moderator skills seemed to have worked though because Shishi didn’t put up a fight. He smiled at you before gently taking your hand in his and placing a kiss on the palm of it. “Until we meet again Y/N, you hold my heart in your hands.” With a final smile directed at you, ignoring the way Hiei’s glare intensified, he walked away, leaving you to deal with the aftermath of his actions.

The aftermath being one pissed off fire demon named Hiei.

As you all made your way back to the hotel, you could tell that Hiei was very pointedly, ignoring you. He trailed behind you and Kurama before completely disappearing into the trees going who knows where.

The walk back with Kurama was silent but not unpleasant. You were mainly lost in your own thoughts, Kurama offered you a sympathetic smile but otherwise didn’t bother you. Any advice he could’ve given you would be repetitive, the both of you being closest to Hiei and knowing how he operates.

Upon coming back to the hotel, you note with nary a concern that Team Urameshi’s common room was completely empty. Fine, you needed to be alone with your thoughts anyways. All you wanted was tea, after that, you’d leave.

It did not appear that the universe was on your side as Botan appeared by your side with a cattish grin that said she’d found a new piece of drama to prey upon.

“So, Y/N, me and the girls were playing truth or dare. Since everyone else is out, we were wondering if you’d like to join us?”

She said that all too innocently, it seemed she was either trying to lower your guard or she’d finally put her paws away. It did sound nice though, hanging out with Keiko, Yukina, Shizuru, and Botan in a situation more relaxing than hoping your boys don’t die every time they go out to fight.

“I’m sorry, I have to say no. I’m feeling a little tired from today and honestly, I’m just gonna pass out on the nearest surface, preferably a bed.”

She looked a bit disappointed, but understanding. “It’s just that I wanted you to see that Yusuke’s spirit beast had finally hatched.”

“Oh, good for him, but I’m sure I can see it tomorrow. Aren’t the best things worth waiting for?” She looked a bit confused at your usage of the quote and you took that as an opportunity to leave. As interesting as Yusuke’s spirit beast sounds, you honestly were hoping to wait up for Hiei so you could talk to him about today.

Mind made up, you sped to your room, catching the faintest sight of a black puff of hair atop a blue...blob, before closing the door. You set your tea down to let it cool while you changed into your sleepwear. Pacing all the while and triple checking that your curtains were pulled back and your window was open.

“Why do you look so nervous?”

The sound of Hiei’s voice causes you to jump up in fear, tea cup almost spilling and dropping to the floor as a result. You turn around and see Hiei, perched on the windowsill, as dramatic as ever but also as serene as he’d ever been.

“Hiei, y-you’re here.”, a little caught off guard, you beam at the sight of him.

“Why wouldn’t I be here?”, he states that as if it’s the most obvious thing in the world, the implied affection doesn’t go unnoticed by you either. He jumps down from the window and enters your room, but that’s it. He puts his hands in his pocket and makes no moves to get closer to you beyond that.

Is he-? It’s faint but if you squint and the moonlight hits him just right, you could swear he was blushing. Hiei? Blushing?? You must be more tired than you thought because in what world does Hiei blush?

He opens his mouth to say something before closing it and you’re reminded, this is the world where Hiei blushes. The same world that forced him to compete in a tournament that could cost him his life. And the same world where he cares for you and you him but neither of you acting upon it.

“Hiei I-”

“Y/N look-”

At that you both laugh, feeling some of the tension in the room ease a bit after doing so. You try to urge Hiei to go first but he insists you speak, so you do.

“I just wanted to say that I don’t have any feelings for Shishiwakamaru.”, you figured being blunt would be the best approach, Hiei appreciated it despite him being one of the most roundabout people you knew, “You know I only have eyes for you right?”

At your honest admission, Hiei looks a little guilty, eyes flitting about the room before settling back on you. His blush intensifies as a pout forms on his face, “I know that, I’m not an idiot like Kuwabara.”

Despite him looking like he wants you to finish this conversation for him, you remain silent. He had more that he needed to say to you, even if he didn’t know it.

His eyes took another trip around the room and he fixed you with a glare that said ‘seriously?’. You just smiled innocently and waited for him to continue.

“Listen Y/N because I’m going to say this once.”, he clears his throat, standing up straight and removing his hands from his pockets to point at you. “I find that you’re more tolerable than others. If I let my guard around you...I trust that you’d watch over me.” As soon as he finished, he looked away and plopped onto the floor, legs crossed.

You tensed the slightest bit, this subject was new to both of you, before forcing your body to move and making your way across the room to Hiei. You sat in front of him and placed a daring hand atop his.

To your relief, he didn’t seem opposed and even tangled his fingers in yours. Now both of you were staring into each other’s eyes, waiting for someone to make a move or say something.

An unrestrained smile broke out across your face as you savored the feeling of Hiei’s hand in yours, the warmth of his calloused hands sending a fresh stream of butterflies up your arm and into your stomach.

Hiei smiled too, a smaller one than yours but the happiness in his eyes more than making up the difference. It seemed like the two of you would sit there lovesick forever until Hiei, in an unprecedented show of boldness, leaned in and placed the gentlest kiss onto your lips.

It was clumsy, too firm at one point and angle a bit awkward, but it was so remarkably Hiei. The kiss was so brief that you were left dazed and wanting for more.

Hiei didn’t oppose when you pulled him in for another kiss, nor did he oppose the many that followed.

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thetwofaced · 3 years

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Okay but like. We need to talk about ppl shuffling the team assignments in Naruto. why the hell would you do that it makes no sense ?

Like seriously. Think about it for a minute.

Team 8?

A tracking team why you ask?

Aburame Shino and his kikaichū

Kikaichū are best used for tracking or ambush by draining their target of chakra (useful when tracking an escapee that needs to be captured)

Inuzuka Kiba - I mean come on. They are known for their sense of smell. Again as demonstrated by kakashi in the wave arc a great sense of smell helps tremendously in finding someone despite harsh weather conditions or distance.

With Kiba comes Akamaru and I don't need to point out how useful he is I think.

Lastly Hyuuga Hinata. I got one word for you. BYAKUGAN

Team 10

Predominantly a capture and intel gathering team

I'll start this off by pointing out that they have basically been groomed to work together! Hell its the same thing they later do in Boruto even if I personally hate Boruto, you can clearly see the mindset behind it. WHY would you , as a military dictator - and thats what the Hokage is essentially- why would you disrupt a team thats already adapt at working well together ???

Now. Akimichi Choji. The muscle because honestly they need him. Be it to protect Ino and Shikamaru or to launch an assault attack or provide bait for Ino and Shikamaru to use their Jutsus. Plain and simple. Not to mention someone needs to keep the peace between Ino and Shika sometimes.

Yamanaka Ino. Now listen I get she can be annoying. I do. But. The potential this girl has is scary. She is after all the daughter of Inoichi and like -he works in T&I guys. With ppl like Ibiki and Anko. Yamanakas can not only take over your body (think of all the information they can gain with that! Without putting their team at risk! All I say is the chunin exams) No, Yamanakas can also invade the mind. And if that's not god damn scary and practical I don't know what is. Perfect for infiltration and Intel gathering. FIGHT ME add to that that she is one of the few able to actually motivate Shikamaru do do something other than laze around.

Lastly we have Nara Shikamaru aka the god damn genius with an IQ of 200. Over 200 if Asuma is to be believed. Hes a tactical genius, realistic in his approach and in his and his comrades abilities. Adapt at planing several steps ahead and predicting his opponent's behaviour. There is a reason why he made Chunin so early and why Ino and Choji trust and listen to his commands. And then remember the trapping abilities of his clan shadow jutsu. And the advanced techniques he later learns that enable him to kill with his shadows.

Aaah team 7.

The disaster. I'll start this off by saying that not one person on team 7 is mental stable or sound.

Still let me explain how they were INTENDED to work in my humble opinion.

Frontal assault team.

Uchiha Sasuke. Taijutsu proficient, top of his class. Smart. The second genius of his generation. While not as adapt at tactics as Shikamaru he learns quickly , has fairly big chakra reserves and a drive. Hell this boy learn a fire jutsu at the age of 7. Aka hes good at ninjutus as well. It is no secret that Kishimoto loves the Uchiha and it shows. And that's all before he awakened his Sharingan and the fact he is the last loyal Uchiha left in the village (by the time they form the teams and to the publics General knowledge)

Uzumaki Naruto. The ninjutsu powerhouse of team 7 simply because he is a ) an Uzumaki who were known for their big chakra reserves and b) he's the god damn jinchiruki od the kyuubi. Let's ad to that that I am still mad no one thought to capitalise on his prankster mentality by introducing this boy to traping because God damn it . This boy regularly pranked an entire shinobi village while wearing a bright kill me orange jumpsuit and he rarely got caught. Hell this boy stole the forbidden scroll. Out of the hokage tower. At the age of 12. And learned a kinjutsu in the matter of hours. Who caught him ? Iruka. Why? Because he was the only one who knew him well enough. God damn anbu didn't manage. Ad to that his ingenuity. Naruto is good at coming up with tactics on the fly by thinking outside of the box something that is shown in Shippuden when him and Sakura go against Kakashi,defeating Kakashi not by fighting him even tho that was what kakshi expected but by beating him using his knowledge of Kakshis love for Icha Icha. Boy was robbed of a good education and nobody can tell me otherwise.

And last Haruno Sakura. Book smart, good at retaining information. Have I mentioned perfect Chakra control ? She got the tree walking exercises in one go. Her place on the team is support provided either by Genjutsu or medical ninjutsu.

Lastly it is important to note why team 7 got Hatake Kakashi as their sensei. There are - at the time of team 7s formation- exactly two shinobi in the village that are able to control the kyuubi. Kakshi with his sharingan and Tenzo aka Yamato trough his mokuton abilities. Jiraya would probably count as well but unfortunately for everyone he's kind of busy outside of the village the god damn coward. Tenzo is in anbu and to valuable in his current position so Kakashi got the job. He also got Sasuke because Kakashi is the only Shinibi left in Konoha able to teach Sasuke how to use it. Sakura got thrown in because her grade were good.

And thast on my rant why in my opinion it makes no god damn sens to change the team members in Naruto. Does it mean I think this isn't flawed as hell? Oh Hell NO! I love Kakashi. I really do. But I'm under no Illusion what so ever that he was a shity teacher. He ignored Sakura, and Naruto and focused mainly on Sasuke. Not saying I don't have a theory why that was but we all know that Kakashi was in dire need of therapy before he even made Genin and it shows. He's not fit to teach. Then again its not like there's many other options left considering the situation. But maybe I'll cover that in another post who knows.

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Something I felt I needed to clarify after a conversation that I had with @hotarukanzaki 😂 I am well aware that Kakashi is not able to control Kurama. All im saying is that I personally think is was thought that he would be one of the few thought to have a chance of doing so should the need arise

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cynthiaandsamus · 2 years

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Custom Toonami Block Week 85 Rundown

Code Geass: Lelouch just made himself Emperor and it was surprisingly easy. Also dismantling the aristrocracy and centuries of royal tradition was also surprisingly easy, like I guess being unquestioned Emperor of the largest Imperialist Nation in the world you can just do that but usually they have some restrictions in place to make sure successors stay the course. Anyway now that Britannia’s less shit, Suzaku fucks up all of the Knights of the Round on his own (which you’d think Schneizel would be like ‘yo dudes, hang back with me it’s not time to fight yet, I got a nuke tower’ so they could join his army for the final battle but we’re getting them out of the way now I guess) Even the Knight of One goes out like a bitch because Suzaku’s Ultra Instinct Geass Survival Technique defies space and time to make him a great pilot. Lelouch is then like “Hey can I join the UN and make friends” and everyone’s like “Wait a fucking minute, you own half the fucking world, letting you vote would mean you always win” Lelouch is all “Yeah I guess so huh?” and then Suzaku descends out of the sky and points a gun at the head of the world and tells everyone to vote anyway. Though we’re interrupted because Schnizel uses the Nuke Pillar to blast the Capital City of Britannia which I’m relatively sure has never been named until now and also says Nunally’s alive and is gonna rule Britannia for him. I kinda like how this played out, presumably the Sword of Damocles wasn’t part of the original Zero Requiem and just taking over the UFN would be what makes Lelouch the hate tyrant he wanted to be and then get assassinated. But if your brother’s gonna build a nuke pillar to up the game on being a huge dick you might as well hijack that to make your plan even better.

Inuyasha: It’s “Inuyasha is stuck to a Rock: The Episode” like the plot’s so dumb I’m not even gonna summarize it, just know it’s a trio of dumb monkeys doing dumb things and having a gag fight with Shippo while Inuyasha’s stuck to a rock and everyone’s thinking of cute gags about how his life as a shonen protagonist will be impacted by having to carry a giant boulder around forever. It’s pretty funny but it’s the dumbest episode of the show ever and I am counting the Myoga’s Wife one on that list so that should tell you something. Nothing wrong with some dumb fun though and the Monkey God does give us some more specific coordinates on Naraku so we’re continuing the illusion of these filler episodes stringing the plot along.

Yu Yu Hakusho: We’re up to the second round of the Dark Tournament and Kuwabara has a dream about the enemy team’s backstory and is having a hard time fighting them because they’re basically all Frakenstein and don’t wanna kill and shit and Yusuke still can’t gun his spirit so basically Not!Genkai is doing all the heavy lifting since it’s a free-for-all and Hiei and Kurama are MIA while they chill out in the woods for some reason and are ambushed by two lizards and a robot. Kurama does what I wish all people up against a “This robot is made of Undestructobtainium” creatures would do and just slams the robots arms together to smash them up and break it. Honestly Kurama owning this dude who’s so proud of his cold unfeeling robot is the best part of this round.

Fate Zero: So we’re just going to keep going with Kiritsugu’s backstory, you know what that means, more people he cares about have to die! He’s got pretty slim pickings at this point as he’s down to one. Long story short his teacher Natalia gets stuck on a plane of zombies while trying to stop a deadly bee weapon…

And he murders her because zombies and zombees running around an airport is probably bad. Like I get the idea here but it feels like there were other options, could’ve gone for a water landing or just landed in a field or some shit, with as much ridiculous military weaponry as they have taking out 300 zombies shouldn’t be THAT big a deal, especially if you can get her out and there’s two of you to mow them down. I mean Natalia got to the cockpit on her own through a narrow corridor full of a horde of zombie zombees so they can’t be all that clever. But we know why this happened, it happened because Kiritusgu Emiya must suffer and we’re not allowed to have a cool gunslinging chick because this isn’t FGO. Also because it’s a prequel and everyone that we haven’t already heard of has to die. Kiritsugu has a minor breakdown of trying to justify why he’s murdered literally everyone he’s ever met only to be fed up with his own excuses and just kinda more dead inside which is an accomplishment because he was already basically 99.99% dead inside.

Konosuba: So we pick up right after Thanksgiving with a bunch of giant Chocobo about to run over Darkness for revenge. They end up missing her and just kinda fucking around but Kazuma makes up a plan to trap them in a cave and then also they’re attacked by zombies but Aqua beats them all even though she drew them all in. Basically Kazuma’s group is an expert at solving problems that are mostly/entirely their fault. They finally get to the hot spring town but it’s run by Aqua’s religion which naturally means it’s full of scumbags. Turns out Aqua’s basically the ruler of Fantasy Scientology and they’re hyper evangelical about spreading their beliefs to tourist. I actually kinda really like these gags, it’s a nice change of pace to have these cultists just mildly annoy Kazuma and Darkness as opposed to the usual outright torture the show usually gives them.

Sailor Moon Crystal: So after the revelation that Chibi-Usa is from the future everyone’s like “Hey let’s just go to the future and sort everything out there” but Chibi’s like “Nah the future sucks, I wanna sleep over at my age inappropriate crush’s house” and they do and Usagi’s talking to Mamoru about how fucking weird his relationship with Chibi-Usa is but he’s like ‘wtf are you on girl she’s like nine’ and I’m like 90% sure Usagi and Mamoru fuck right there with Chibi-Usa in the next room. Usagi’s probably the first person that lost her virginity twenty feet from her daughter. But yeah we go to the future and Sailor Pluto’s like “Chibi were you being Future Trunks again I told you that shit’s fucked up but okay ily” so now everyone’s in the future but apparently the Black Moon can still just send peeps out there so I guess they exist outside of time since they keep calling the 20th Century “the past” and the 30th century “the future”. Tuxedo Mask gets Tuxedo Masked by Future Tuxedo Mask and gets some advice that helps them win the fight. And surprise surprise Chibi-Usa’s future parents are Mamoru and Usagi… sort of, it’s 1000 years in the future and they’re like re-reincarnations or some shit.

Durarara!!: We’re at the season finale and Masaomi, Mikado and Anri all have the “I’m sorry I didn’t tell you I was a gang leader” moment, to be fair how do you even explain that? Also Kadota’s gang have slipped into Horada’s Yellow Scarves and make this a full blown brawl while Celty gives chase and Shizuo fucking slices Horada’s car up with a highway street sign before they get arrested by the cop that hates Celty. Anri tracks down Izaya and he does his whole ‘your plan was part of my plan’s plan” thing before getting decked in the face by Simon to show he’s earned at least a little karmic justice for all the shit he’s stirred. It’s just fucking neat to see him get fucking walloped out of nowhere. Masaomi gets over his conflicted feelings about Saki and gets the courage to ask for her forgiveness before they run away together. First Seiji/Mika and now this, this is the second arc that ends with random high school kids running away together, starting to see a theme. We get a nice little epilogue and Celty tells Shinra they gonna fuck so yeah, fun times. Onto x2 next week and new territory, I’m going blind from here out!

#ooc #Toonami #Custom Toonami Block #Code Geass #Inuyasha #Yu Yu Hakusho #Fate Zero #Konosuba #Sailor Moon Crystal #Durarara!!

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lucille-grim · 3 years

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DISCLAIMER: I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho, it is owned by Yoshihiro Togashi.

FATE HAS IT

Part 1

Today was Yusuke's Birthday. He was supposed to be happy, like any person who celebrates the day of their birth. He had an entire part set up and ready for the occasion. He had the cake, the drinks, the presents, but the punchline was was that could enjoy none of it...

"I can't believe that Pacifier Breath has me going to complete another mission." Yusuke griped to his teammates. "What do I look like? His Hell Hound?"

"Fitting words." Hiei snarked. "The title as Spirit World's dog does suit you well."

Yusuke heaved a sigh as Kuwabara moved from her seat to sit beside him. He offered him some of the chips from the small bag he had carried with him. In turn, Yusuke grabbed a small hand full.

"Things will get better." Kuwabara spoke softly as he watched him. "When we return to your apartment, we'll throw an even bigger party. A grand celebration, one worthy of you."

Yusuke looked at him questionably. "Where am I going to get the money for that? I've spent most of my money yesterday."

The other three Reikai Tantei members stared at him. The nearby bullet train's wheels squealed on its tracks while it passed as a moment of silence passed between the four.

"What?" Yusuke responded. "Everything's gotten expensive these days and it takes money to make money."

Kuwabara shrugged. "I can throw in a few dollars and change myself." He offered as he pulled out his wallet from his jeans.

The wallet was a classic man's wallet, he having liked the pattern on its outside cover. He pulled out two-hundred and fifty United States dollars worth in Japanese paper currency and handed it to him.

Yusuke blinked.

Kuwabara grinned after putting his wallet away. "Let's start out with that, shall we?"

"Wait?" Yusuke counted the money. "You work, Kuwabara?"

A scowl formed on Kuwabara's visage. "School is over, what else am I supposed to do?" He crossed his arms.

"Aren't you going to college?" Yusuke asked him, seeming to be curious.

"Heh. College costs money." Kuwabara stated and then started staring off. "And my old man owns his own business..."

Yusuke quickly blinked a few times and then grinned. "Thanks, Kuwabara!"

As Yusuke placed the money in his pocket, she muttered in reply; "You're welcome."

Yusuke looked over at Botan, who had been been there all along. "Oi. Botan... Can you tell us who we're up against?"

"Oh, uhhh..." The fairy thought for a moment. "Your dead ancestors?" She sweat dropped.

Yusuke stared at her, perplexed. "What?"

"Uhh, your dead ancestors. Demonic ancestors. In the casket there is a stone, this stone has special abilities." Botan repeated what Koenma said prior.

"What kind of abilities?" Yusuke asked further. "If I am fighting the dead, especially demons, I best know what that goddamn stone is for. The Toddler was in a hurry, he didn't tell me shit... So, spill it."

"Well, obviously..." Botan sighed. "Okay, this is what I know. The Soul Stone is a Rejuvenation Stone. It returns you back to your full strength. Not only can it restore your strength, it can break supernatural barriers, let's say seals, and return you to your true, full power. It can likewise bring the dead to life, making it also a weapon of Necromancy. However, in the hands of a human or even if used against humans, it can be severely detrimental to them."

"Ah, makes sense now." Yusuke nodded. "Where are we going?"

"Well, to limbo." Botan said nervously. "The Mazoku couldn't be destroyed, so their souls were placed into a hellish dimension of their own."

Kuwabara's eyes widened in horror.

"How did any of its members escape?" Kurama asked.

"We don't know." Botan answered truthfully.

"Limbo isn't some place you enter and just leave." Kurama pointed out. "There had to have been someone behind this."

"That's what Koenma said, but we don't know who exactly would be behind this." Botan replied.

Yusuke looked at the fire demon. "Hiei..."

Hiei uncovered his third eye to see. After a few minutes of using his Jagan, he sighed. "I can't make it out. Not even my Jagan will tell me."

"What? Are you serious?" Yusuke responded, himself in a state of shock.

Hiei nodded as he covered his Jagan Eye back up.

"How peculiar..." Botan uttered.

"We shouldn't go." Kuwabara objected solemnly.

The other four looked at her, surprised by her.

"I don't have a good feeling about this." Kuwabara enlightened. "It would be wise not to go."

Hiei appeared amused. "Hah. The Clown has a point, Detective." He spoke. "Even an idiotic fool like him can see that this mission spells DEATH for the three of you."

Kuwabara frowned deeply. "Don't help me. Please, don't. You suck miserably at it."

"It's never been my intention to help you nor to save the likes of you, human idiot." Hiei rebutted. "In the midst of us, you're nothing but a joke."

Kuwabara glowered at him. "Oh, yeah? Well, you're shit. That's what you are. A pile of dog feces that's being so stubborn to come off the bottom of one's boot and manages to likewise stain the carpet!"

Hiei stared at him smugly with a devious glint in his eyes.

"Okay, you two need to make out. Seriously." Yusuke commented.

Kuwabara turned red in the face, blushing hotly. "Aw, hell no! I'm not kissing him!"

Hiei snorted. "He wishes, but no. I would never kiss that, let alone touch that."

Kuwabara glared at him. "You better watch your tongue, March Hare I don't care."

"My gods, the sexual tension!" Yusuke remarked. "You can cut it with a spirit sword right through it."

Kuwabara turned to him. "Are you putting this all on me? Are you serious?"

Yusuke smiled as he shrugged.

Kuwabara became pugnacious. "What gave you the conclusion that I like him? That I even remotely like him?"

"Not to be rude, but Spirit World needs your help!" Botan interceded. "You four are the only ones who can get the Soul Stone back! In the wrong hands, there will be severe consequences for the rest of everybody and not just Spirit World!"

Yusuke gave an assuring look to Botan. "The decision was already casted... We're going."

Kuwabara heaved a sigh as he placed his own palm on his own face, then shook his head.

...TBC...

GO TO PART 2:

MY FAN FICTIONS:

#yu yu hakusho #yyh #kuwabara kazuma #kazuma kuwabara #yusuke urameshi #kuwabara #hiei #kurama #anime

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intobarbarians · 4 years

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part three to this

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Toguro brings down a building on Yusuke’s head and says, “If you don’t fight in the Dark Tournament, I will hunt down and kill everyone you know and love.”

Yusuke trembles in his shoes. Toguro buttons his coat. Like an after thought, he casually adds, “Make sure the little one comes, too. He’s also a special guest.”

Hiei watches it all happen from the overpass a block away. That man is dead, he thinks. I killed him.

But Toguro keeps walking away.

He finds a concrete wall and starts pounding away at its face. His fists are bloody and torn and the rock crumbles beneath the incessant beating. I killed Toguro. I killed him. I killed him.

Hiei has spent his whole life punching things. He’s beaten up men three times his size when they leer at Yukina. He’s broken doors and windows and he’s shattered his own body more times than he can count. He has fought every goddamn day to be the strongest there is.

Then he met Yusuke Urameshi, who is stronger. Now there are demons and monsters and promises of carnage if Hiei doesn’t do exactly what they say, and they are all stronger still.

Fuck, fuck, fuck.

A long shadow covers Hiei from the sunset. Kuwabara jokes, “What did that wall ever do to you?”

Hiei turns and snarls. “What the fuck do you want?” He wants to scare Kuwabara off with his rage, but he’s terribly afraid that what Kuwabara actually sees is his total, unshakeable terror.

Kuwabara carefully hides his pity. “Came by to see how one of the Dark Tournament’s special guests is doing--they don’t invite just anybody to these shindigs, you know.”

Hiei sees through Kuwabara’s false cheer immediately. “I take it you’re invited, as well.”

Kuwabara nods. “Kurama, too.”

At least they can all be completely fucked together. “Isn’t this exciting. I’d rather be fighting in an underground tournament for the enjoyment of some goddamn robber barons who should be drawn and quartered in the fucking streets than studying for high school entrance exams, anyway.” The injustice of it infuriates him. Anger and panic and fear are an awful cocktail that set his blood on fire.

Hiei turns and starts punching the wall again.

Kuwabara gently catches his hands. “Hey, hey.”

Hiei tries to shake him off, but Kuwabara is unmovable. “Let go of me!”

“Stop hurting yourself and I will. It doesn’t do anyone any good breaking your hands like this.”

“It doesn’t matter!” Hiei shouts. He struggles futilely in Kuwabara’s arms. “We’re all going to fucking die anyway!”

The ensuing silence is loud. They spend a few seconds listening to each other pant.

Kuwabara tips his forehead against the back of Hiei’s skull. “Give us some credit, will you? We might not die.”

Maybe Kuwabara won’t, and maybe Kurama and Yusuke won’t, either, but Hiei recalls exactly how Maze Castle went down. He’s the fucking weakest out of all of them. He’s going to die and Yukina will be all alone. Hiei promised her he’d never leave her, not when they don’t have anyone else in the world and never have.

“I hate this.” God, is he crying?

“I know.”

“I hate this!” Kuwabara patiently absorbs all of Hiei’s weight. Why does he feel safe here? He’ll never be safe again. “I wish I never met Yusuke. I wish I never went to Genkai’s tournament. I wish I never agreed to fight the Saint Beasts. I wish I never rescued-”

The words catch in his throat. How can he think that? How can he think that for even one moment?

Kuwabara knows what he meant to say. “It’s okay.”

“Shut up.” Nothing about this is okay. Shizuru would still be imprisoned and tortured into making Hiruseki stones if Hiei hadn’t helped Yusuke save her. The most beautiful and incredible woman in all of the worlds who Hiei loves so much--how can he regret setting her free?

Kuwabara sighs. “You’re right. I should have spoken more clearly. The situation we’re in is fucking terrible. Absolutely no doubt it! There is a non zero chance that either death or dismemberment is in our near future. But the things you’re feeling right now? Those are okay. I promise; you’re not a bad person.”

There’s a lot Hiei could say to that. He wants to find everyone responsible for this fucking tournament and tear them into pieces. He wants to bathe in their blood and make them regret, with every second he allows them to live, ever fucking with him.

What comes out is, “They’re threatening my sister. If I don’t fight, they’re gonna kill Yukina.” They want to kill her, all because she has the misfortune of having Hiei for her brother.

“Yeah, that’s pretty standard for the Dark Tournament. They threatened Kurama’s family, which was real fucking stupid of them. That’s one messenger they’re not getting back. If I had a family, they’d probably-” Hiei feels Kuwabara’s breath against the back of his neck. “I guess they’d have to find her, and they probably would.”

Hiei stays quiet. He’s not sure if Kuwabara knows that he's aware Shizuru is his sister.

“I’m gonna do my best,” Kuwabara says. “I swear--I’ll do my best to protect your sister and Yusuke’s mom and Kurama’s family and win the Dark Tournament.”

Hiei looks at the wall he spent an hour crushing into powder with his fists. Toguro demolished a fifteen story building--and all Hiei can do is this.

“How long did it take you to learn how to use a sword?”

“Ha.”

Hiei tilts his head back and glares.

Kuwabara grins that dumb, goofy smile of his. “Well, someone taught me the basics. After that, there was a lot of trial and error--mostly error. Some might argue that my technique leaves much to be desired.”

Hiei is one of those people, but beggars can’t be choosers. “Teach me.”

Kuwabara considers him for a moment. “Okay.”

Hiei is suspicious. “Okay?”

“We’ve got a few months before the tournament starts. Better use our time wisely and train like hell. Yusuke is already on his way to Genkai’s, I bet.”

“And Kurama?”

Kuwabara looks away. “He’s been waiting for me to bring you to the train stop for the last twenty minutes or so.”

Hiei blinks. “What?”

“Well, he and I were talking and we agreed to be sparring buddies. Then we talked some more and thought it would be great if you joined us! But somehow it ended up being me who got saddled with asking if you wanted to train with us--Kurama’s slick like that.”

These two demons, each a capable warrior in his own right, want Hiei--a human--to train with them?

Hell fucking yes, they do.

Hiei fights off a grin. “I’ll see if I can clear my schedule.”

Kuwabara openly smiles. “Great! Because we’ve got a little detour to make.”

He starts dragging Hiei down the street. “To my house?”

“Yep! You’re gonna tell your sister where you’re going for the next three months so she doesn’t get worried about you. Why are you groaning like that? Is your stomach upset or something?”

#yyh #my fic #hiei x kuwabara #hxk role reversal au

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zukalations · 5 years

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All For One - Tamaki Ryou interview (July/August 2017 MUSICAL)

The mainstream musical theater magazine MUSICAL features various interviews with Takarasiennes in every issue. This interview with Tamaki Ryou comes from a feature discussing the then-upcoming production All for One.

Please note: All for One apparently went through major revisions after the press conference performance. Thus, what Tamaki discusses in this interview may not entirely match up with the show as finally performed.

All For One - Tamaki Ryou interview

The lead role of All For One - d'Artagnan and the Sun King will be played by Moon Troupe's young Top Star, Tamaki Ryou, who broke new ground with her mature allure in her Top Star debut role of Count Felix in Grand Hotel. There are high hopes for how her dynamic allure will shine in this adventure tale of love and courage.

~ How did you feel when it was decided you would perform All for One? I love adventure tales, so I was really happy! I'm playing d'Artagnan, from the world-famous 'Three Musketeers', and on top of that it's an original show by Director Koike, so I'm awfully excited.

~ How does it feel to take on the role of the 'undefeatable hero', d'Artagnan? d'Artagnan is full of a sense of justice, a good-natured young man who has a huge ability to sympathize with others. I want to focus on that, and create the character of a man who, while still lively and cheerful, has a very strong core. He'll risk his own life to protect someone... And that 'someone', in this show, is Louis XIV. And the way he fights for his friends is wonderfully romantic. I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of d'Artagnan will be born once the rehearsals start. Director Koike was good enough to say that he wants me to display my inner generosity in this role, so I hope that I can use that to show the generosity that the country-raised d'Artagnan has possessed since birth.

~ Your partner, Manaki Reika-san, will be playing Louis XIV. Louis XIV is a huge key to this story. I'm sure that the audience will have great expectations for this, and I think that the relationship between our characters is something that only me and Manaki could do. Passion: Jose and Carmen, Le Roi Arthur, Grand Hotel...up until now, the shows I have done with Manaki have all had bad ends, so I'll be happy if people look forward to seeing how things will turn out for d'Artagnan and Louis XIV with excitement.

~ We are looking forward to your relationship with the Three Musketeers, as well as Countess Montpensier and Bernardo. Miya (Rurika)-san, who plays Aramis, had a friendly relationship with my character last time, in Grand Hotel, but that started out with me lying to her, and aside from that we often play enemies, so I'm happy that in this show we can play characters who have a deep bond with each other. Uzuki (Hayate)-san, who plays Athos, has also often played antagonists, but we were raised together in Moon Troupe so I'm looking forward to perhaps being able to display that relationship on stage. And then the young Akatsuki (Chisei) also joins us as Porthos. I hope that she can use her energetic charm to keep up with the rest of us, and I also hope that we can help her bring out a new side of herself. It's my first time in a long time performing with Saou (Kurama)-san, who plays the antagonist Countess Montpensier, and it's my first time with Tsukishiro (Kanato), who plays Bernardo, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how they create their characters.

~ I'm so excited for the show, evenafter watching just the press conference performance. Thank you so much! The theme songs we were presenting have uplifting melodies and amazing lyrics, and also, the character introductions are blended into that...even us performer were getting really excited as we were doing it. The costumes are also a really modern style design using denim and leather, so as soon as I put them on I feel like I'm in the world of the show. I think it's sure a show that will delight the audience's eyes and ears.

~ What other shows have you worked on with the writer and director, Koike Shuuichiro-san? He has worked on shows such as THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL, Romeo et Juliette, Puck, 1789: Les Amants de la Bastille; he's so meticulous about the smallest details, and has an uncompromising desire to achieve his goals, so I think he's a really incredible person. Every time, we create the show by trying again over and over by trial and error until we gain Director Koike's OK. I always feel like not only is what we're doing really valuable, but I can sense a deep love from him, so I'm looking forward to it this time too.

~ How does the title, All For One, feel to you? Originally, the whole phrase is "One for All, All for One". I'm sure Director Koike was thinking about many different things when he chose "All for One", which means 'everyone for the sake of one person', as the title. This is my second show in the Grand Theatre as Top Star, so I want to be steady and take the stage confidently.

~ What was it like to play the role of the Count in Grand Hotel, as well as to meet Tommy Tune? Tommy-san is so pure and sensitive, and I could tell that his inspiration was really coming through in the wonderful direction for the show. Just listening to him speak struck me right to the heart. That was a huge and valuable experience in my life as an actor. While the Count was a role that was rather challenging for me and made me grow a bit, I was really happy while performing him, and I felt so honored to be able to sing all of the wonderful songs.

~ What do you think about your partnership with Manaki-san? I feel every time we do another show that our hearts interact in a different way each time to create that performance. I hope that our energies can impact each other more and more so that we can give birth to a huge power.

~ Has there been any change in your feelings towards the stage or your attitude since becoming Top Star? My attitude of putting in effort on top of effort hasn't changed at all, but now I think more than ever about the whole troupe and the troupe members, and I try to keep an eye on things. When I look at each person while we're on stage, even the junior actresses are making such lovely faces...I can feel how much everyone enjoys performing on stage. In Grand Hotel and Carousel Rondo, I was able to experience what an amazing thing it is to perform in such an impactful ensemble, and I think it was a big turning point for me. In All For One, I hope that Moon Troupe can use its abundance of energy to explode with fresh appeal.

~ What is the otokoyaku image that is your current goal? First I want to be both an actor and a human with a strong core. Also, on top of that base, I want to continue to hold on to a love for Takarazuka, and an inexhaustible desire to improve and learn as an otokoyaku, and be able to take on many different styles.

~ Can you give us a message looking forward to the opening of All for One? As it's called an 'Action Romanesque', there are three different fight choreographers attached to the show, and I think the action scenes, such as duels and combat sequences, will be a big attraction for this performance. Just imagining the scene where all the otokoyaku are ranked together as the Musketeers is so thrilling to me. This show is full with abundant new appeal for Moon Troupe, and it's a perfect musical for summer and early autumn, a fun musical full of love and hope. Moon Troupe will all work together to put on a powerful performance, so please look forward to it!

#takarazuka #article translation #troupe: tsuki #sienne: tamaki ryou #show: all for one #mag: Musical

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tribusdaemones · 5 years

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TAGGED BY: @spiriitgun TAGGING: you

* getting to know the mun :

NAME : (Redacted) NICKNAME : Axel FACECLAIM : N Harmonia from Pokemon Black/White PRONOUNS : She/her or he/him I am very fluid. HEIGHT : 5′3 BIRTHDAY : January 5th AESTHETIC : autumn, wind, abandoned buildings, flannel patterns, cute animals, pens and paper LAST SONG YOU LISTENED TO : Ashes of Eden - Breaking Benjamin FAVORITE MUSE (S) YOU’VE WRITTEN : I...I don’t know? I’ve written a ton. I seem to have a habit of writing protective characters?

* getting to know the account :

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO TAKE ON THIS MUSE : Like...initially or when I made this tumblr?

Way back when I wanted to RP YYH characters because there was this person who wrote Kurama on the rp forum I belonged to and I really wanted to write with her ( Hey, Kim-chan, if you can see this! :3 ) I wrote Yukina because I was very unsure of myself and felt like Yukina was minor enough that the odds of me doing something wrong was considerably less than if I were to write one of the main four.

I then started writing Yomi because, when the 3 Kings Saga came out, Kim/Kurama-mun set a lot of her writing in Gandara Castle.

How I came to write Itsuki is a really long story that I won’t flood the dash with unless asked, and Kuronue came because...ships.

I put them all here after talking the good ol’ days with Kim.

WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE ASPECTS OF YOUR CURRENT MUSE : Oh boy...um...I’m just gonna do Yomi and Itsuki, because I can put my finger on aspects of them I like, where Kuro and Yukina I just...like? In general?

Yomi’s to blindness is super interesting to write. In the anime he describes to Kurama how he sees certain things, like how he knows where someone’s eyes are pointing via the heat their eyes give off, or how, in his fight with Shura, we hear him counting down to the point of impact so he knows when to move.

I also adore his perspective on his life: How he went from being a selfish, impatient young man to a calm, level headed yet incredibly cruel war-lord...to a caring father. I know a loooot of people in the fandom don’t like him... and I’m fine with that. I love him.

Itsuki’s also interesting to write, mostly because his obsession with Shinobu is something I find interesting. He seems to genuinely love him, but his love is pretty messed up. He makes no attempt to save Shinobu’s mind because he finds an innocent soul’s slow descent into corruption to be so fascinating. I don’t think this means he doesn’t really love Shinobu, he does, it’s just that his concept of love is... y’know, not healthy.

WHAT’S YOUR BIGGEST INSPIRATION WHEN IT COMES TO WRITING : The...source material? And seeing everyone else write their muses so well, that’s super inspiring!

FAVORITE TYPES OF THREADS : Fluff. Angst. Cute things! Painful things.

BIGGEST STRUGGLE IN REGARDS TO YOUR CURRENT MUSE : My biggest problem with...basically every canon muse I write is that I have no confidence what-so-ever. When I see other people writing that character I pull back, because I feel in competition with them, despite other writers being lovely people that do no such thing. I just...can’t convince myself of that.

It’s partially because there was a situation once where this did happen. Dude came along, stole my headcanons and went around trying to convince our mutuals that he was a better this character than me... Given that was ten years ago, and I’d probably still be an anxious wreck with no confidence even if that didn’t happen.

#{Dash memes}#Axel speaks #munday memes

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thekazumakuwabara · 5 years

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A moment I really love in Yu Yu Hakusho is when Kuwabara confronts Yusuke about keeping secrets from him, after his fight with elder Toguro. It's a really good scene and it hit me in the gut when Kuwabara said, "I thought we were a team, but I guess I'm one big joke to you all aren't I? Well this joke has feelings." Just ouch, I felt so bad for him after he said that.

That scene will always give me feelings right there. And like… you can understand both their points of views because Yusuke thought by keeping it from him, he was protecting Kazuma, but Kazuma feels like lack of trust or that he thinks Yusuke felt like Kazuma couldn’t handle it and oh that hurts so much. Which is probably why Kurama tells Kazuma that Yusuke didn’t tell them, they’d figure it out themselves, which probably honestly made Kazuma hurt more.

But it’s interesting that earlier in the series too Kazuma says how people always underestimate him and this definitely counts. People underestimate just how much he can handle, physically or emotionally. Which is probably why later in the series Kurama tells Kazuma wtf happens in the Three Kings Saga and keeps him up to speed.

While yeah, Kazuma punches Yusuke (who frankly deserved it a bit lol) right after that, but he really surprised them all by just…telling him to kick Toguro’s ass and avenge Genkai. Not only that, but he also sacrifices himself later, which also in character, surprises everyone.

Also, I think it’s a nice testament to the strength of all their friendships with each other too – a big secret like that kept from someone is one of those things that can break friendships. But while Kazuma gets rightfully upset, he doesn’t hold it over their heads later nor does it become the catalyst to start a rift between them later on.

(Though…the idea of the whole keeping the ‘Hiei is Yukina’s brother’ secret, which ends up happening ONLY BECAUSE Kazuma managed to leave at the wrong time, is another story that I won’t tackle here lol.)

#ask #anon #meta #kazuma kuwabara #don't get me stared on that last point #but thank you for sending me this ask coz that moment ALWAYS gets to me too ahhhhhhhhhhhh #right there in them FEELS YO #right #there

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An interaction with Shikako, Sai, and Kakashi - what's Kakashi's perspective on Shikako adopting socially-stunted Root agents?

hell yes more Sai. i love Sai so much.

takes place some time after the current chapter (ch 146/145) but doesn’t really contain any spoilers or anything.

I’m pretty sure that Kakashi hasn’t actually met Sai — Sai was at Naruto’s going away party, but Kakashi was in the hospital for chakra exhaustion. I didn’t check this very closely tho.

also i’m pretty sure that Shikako hasn’t told anyone about her water whip thing but I only like… scanned the Wave arc for that so who knows.

word count: 1973

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There’s a stranger in Team 7’s training ground.

It’s not like Kakashi or his students ever actually book the training ground, because it’s rare for anyone but them to chose to train so close to the memorial, and most of the people who might consider it know that it’s Team Kakashi’s space. Still, there’s always some wayward unobservant chūnin or fresh genin looking for a place to train, and occasionally they end up here. They’re always easy to scare off, and if they get snotty Kakashi sends them to Gai’s training ground for all the training they can stand.

(This is a punishment for them and a favor to Gai. He loves helping.)

The boy in the field is about the age of Kakashi’s precious not-genin-any-more genin and he’s not even training. He’s leaning up against the training posts, lapdesk out, drawing. Kakashi will give him this: it’s an unorthodox use of a training field.

“Aa, this seems like something you could be doing anywhere,” Kakashi says as he drops into view.

The boy is not surprised. He looks up at Kakashi calmly and gives a slow blink. “I believe there are several locations where this would be difficult,” says the boy.

A shiver walks up Kakashi’s spine. The blandness of the boy’s expression, the flat look in his eyes… he’s not confused, or annoyed, or nervous. He’s not anything, not like he should be with Kakashi standing over him and hinting that he should get out.

Tenzō had been the same way when Kakashi met him. Untouchable and untouched. Not missing social cues so much as not even attempting to look for them, sorting every interaction into Orders and Not Orders. And Tenzō had had the same bland tantō, the same standard-issue shoes and slightly subpar equipment pouches.

“I have training scheduled here,” Kakashi says, “so this is about to become one of those places.” He does not waste a smile or a cheerful, friendly tone on this boy. He speaks flatly, directly.

Kakashi is the boy’s superior and he will order him away if that’s what it takes to keep Danzō’s grasp from closing in around his kids.

The boy smiles, a rearrangement of his face with no feeling behind it. “I checked the training ground bookings and no one was scheduled to use this field,” says the boy. “But I think we are here for the same training partner, because you were Nara Shikako’s jōnin-sensei.”

“Don’t be rude, I’m still her sensei,” Kakashi says, and then gives the boy a second look with this new information. “You must be Sai.”

“I am,” says the boy, and now Kakashi feels rude.

And even more worried, because Naruto has described his and Shikako’s occasional mission partner as ‘kinda weird, but good, y’know?’ and Kakashi had had no idea that Shimura Danzō had managed to get one of his lackies so close to the kids. What in the fuck is Tsunade thinking.

“I’ve heard a lot about you,” Kakashi says. “Why don’t we spar? I have to make sure Shikako-chan’s teammates can keep up.”

Kakashi had thought that he could depend on Tsunade to keep unsuitable mission partners away from his team, but apparently not. He’ll have to get a little more hands on, starting with a good evaluation of Sai.

“Yes,” Sai agrees blandly. “It is good to know if someone precious to you has teammates they can trust.”

The problem with ROOT agents is that you can’t even tell when they’re being threatening. Tenzō used to say things like, ‘I’ll gut you like a fish’ in the same tone of voice he’d say ‘I’ll lend you my whetstone’ and that tone of voice was wrong for both.

Sai tucks his drawings away and they fight. Sai is good, but uninventive. He uses a lot of the same moves Tenzō started out with, at least right up until he pulls out a scroll and a brush.

Kakashi has had this skill of Sai’s described to him a couple times by Naruto, with lots of enthusiasm and little technical detail, so he’s not surprised when chakra constructs leap of the page but he is surprised at how fast Sai can produce them. Faster than any Kurama Kakashi has ever known, although that’s not saying much — the clan heir that Anko is teaching is maybe the only one who’s ever attempted to use the Kurama clan jutsu for combat, a choice that has Shikako’s fingerprints all over it — and Sai has the advantage of working without color.

Shikako shows up when Kakashi is closing in on destroying Sai’s last ink beast. She lingers on the edge of the training field, cautious as always about interrupting even a spar as lazy as this one.

(Well, lazy for Kakashi. Sai has worked up quite a sweat. He’s not entirely useless, but he’s still probably the enemy.)

When Kakashi stops and looks towards where Shikako is waiting, Sai halts, too. Shikako practically bounces onto the field moments later.

“Sorry I’m late, Kofuku-oba trapped me with more questions about Shika’s arm seal,” she says. “Hi, sensei! I see you met Sai. And stuff.”

“Yes, we’re acquainted now,” Sai says. “I have been assessed to see if I have weaknesses that may lead to you being injured or killed while working with me.”

“Okay,” Shikako says slowly. She looks at Kakashi critically. “I’m sure that’s not exactly what you meant, right Kakashi-sensei?”

“I was just curious about his combat skills,” Kakashi says innocently. “Naruto is terrible at explaining things, you know.”

“Don’t bully my friends,” Shikako chides, like an academy teacher lecturing pre-genin to share their kunai.

“How come you always assume the worst of your poor sensei?” Kakashi complains. “I just wanted to make sure he wouldn’t break on one of your rough, scary missions.”

“It was a good spar,” Sai says. “I enjoyed having my skills assessed.”

Shikako looks suspiciously between them, dissatisfied, but eventually decides to move on.

“Fine,” she says, and claps her hands together. “Since sensei is so interested in making sure your combat skills are developed and well-rounded—”

“I never said that,” Kakashi objects, uselessly, because he can see where this is going.

“—he can teach you some new things!” Shikako says. “He knows lots of water jutsu, you know.”

“You teach him some water jutsu,” Kakashi demands.

Shikako blinks at him. “I don’t know any? I mean I guess there are some in that book you gave us, but…”

“You used water whip months ago,” Kakashi says. “Without seals. Teach him that, it’s B-rank.”

“What?” Shikako asks. “When do you think you saw me do a B-rank — are you talking about the chūnin exams?”

Kakashi says, “I understand it can be hard to remember what exactly you pulled out in the heat of the moment.to please the crowd.”

“You said that your chūnin exam fights in Grass weren’t very interesting,” Sai observes.

Shikako is such a liar. It’s actually almost embarrassing.

“Really?” Kakashi asks, keeping his voice mild and raising his visible eyebrow at Shikako. “I guess we remember those fights very differently. But you definitely used water whip.”

“Sensei, I did not,” grumbles Shikako. She crosses her arms and gets that look that says she thinks she’s going to say something embarrassing. “It’s just a dumb chakra trick. For chakra control. I can’t just teach it to someone unless they want to spend a year or two messing around with it.”

“A… chakra control exercise,” Kakashi repeats.

“I think it becomes a technique once you attack someone with it successfully,” Sai offers.

Shikako says, “Well, it didn’t really do anything.”

“That’s because you were attacking the Kazekage,” Kakashi says dryly. “What kind of chakra control exercises have you been doing?”

“I made some up,” Shikako says, which doesn’t answer the question.

“You attacked a foreign Kage?” Sai asks. He actually manages to sound like… something. Worried, maybe? It’s probably Kakashi’s ears playing tricks on him.

“He wasn’t the Kazekage yet,” Shikako grumbles.

She gets so petulant when people start talking about her like she’s impressive. It’s adorable.

“Show us your chakra trick.” Kakashi waves in the general direction of the stream. “It’s a good learning experience for all of us.”

“Sensei, you’re not getting out of teaching Sai something,” Shikako warns him, but she does lead them over to the stream and show them her water whip.

It starts with water scooped out of the stream into a hollow ball of chakra. The chakra becomes a cylinder. The cylinder becomes a whip, and Shikako uses it to smack an impressive splash out of the stream. Water, she explains, is noncompressible. Also she doesn’t really know how to use a whip but it’s an easy shape to make and more impressive than a staff..

How is it that Shikako still manages to surprise him all the time?

“How long can you hold that?” Kakashi asks.

Shikako shrugs. “I don’t know, I’ve never tried to test it. Two hours? More?”

“Well, I guess if your fight lasts that long it won’t be chakra exhaustion that gets you,” Kakashi acknowledges.

“Oh,” says Shikako. “No, that’s not what I meant. After a couple hours the chakra bleed would mean that I wouldn’t be able to reabsorb any of the chakra, it’d be all used up. But I’d still be able to make another one.”

Kakashi huffs. “Chakra cycling. For external chakra manipulation. And you didn’t think you should mention that?”

Shikako’s brow furrows. “Is it a big deal?”

Is it a big deal, she asks. Kakashi wants to laugh and cover his face. Instead he says, “You’re probably right that you can’t teach Sai that. So, fine. Water jutsu. But I want something in return. I want…”

Kakashi turns to Sai and lets a sliver of ominous intent work its way into the air between them.

Kakashi draws the moment out, watching the way Sai reacts — his shoulders pull back, his stance evens out. Preparing to take a blow, literal or metaphoric, but not scared for his safety, likely because he registers that Shikako is exasperated by Kakashi’s dramatics rather than concerned.

Tenzō used to tense by relaxing to accept a blow just the same way, especially when it came to receiving instruction. Kakashi catches himself planning how to fix that in Sai, too, and kind of hates himself for his own predictability. Maybe, at least, he can introduce Sai to Tenzō and his kohai will do most of the work?

“…drawings of my ninken,” Kakashi completes.

Sai’s eyes open a little wider. His mouth falls open for just a moment and he feels the need to glance at Shikako as it to make sure Kakashi is serious. His surprise is immensely satisfying.

Carefully — probably unsure if this counts as backtalk or intel gathering — Sai asks, “How many ninken do you have?”

“Lots! Which is why he’ll give you one jutsu for each drawing,” Shikako interjects, before Kakashi can snow Sai into doing all that work for one C-rank water jutsu. A look at Shikako shows she’s definitely going to stick to that, too. No arguing her down with that look.

Damn.

“Fine,” Kakashi says, aiming his best woe-is-me face at Shikako. “You work this old man so hard.”

She laughs at him. “Someone has to,” she says, like coercing him into sharing his precious jutsu with random Danzō minions is some kind of public service she provides for the good of the village.

At least now Kakashi will be able to keep a closer eye on Sai. The boy can’t very well disappear into whatever muck Danzō usually has him wading through when he owes Kakashi eight dog portraits. Shikako looks so satisfied by this arrangement that Kakashi wonders if this is exactly what she had planned.

#kiezh #asks #dreaming of sunshine #ask prompt #kakashi #sai #shikako #tenzou #kakashi all #sai all #shikako all #tenzou all #future fic #words words words

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amitds · 6 years

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Someone’s mad?

Actually I blocked you because you’re the one who can’t accept facts and why should I waste my time repeating what the manga and databooks (Kishi) state and promote? Why should I keep having to repeat myself? Are you that special?

I already gave you canon proof and you keep talking about what you think catch up means and what the fandom thinks power means. So again, what is the point? We’re just going to go on forever and I don’t need to say the same things, see you say the same things and get notifications about it.

I posted facts like the character and the databook written by the author both stating that Sakura caught up to them and I mentioned the fact that they are called a new three way deadlock and a paralleled to the legendary sannin and still you kept talking about Sasuke and Naruto as if EMS Sasuke and KCM Naruto are equal feat wise.

As if we didn’t see KCM Naruto summon Kurama, use rasenshuriken, shadow clones, minato-like speed, tailed beast bombs vs. EMS Sasuke’s incomplete susanoo and amaterasu feats.

I posted canon, factual data and you reply talking about who you think would beat the other based on what exactly? You talked about this fandom not considering healing and chakra reserves as powers when I said it was part of Sakura and Tsunade’s power and boosted their fighting prowess too.

I literally posted Japanese raws with literal translations as well as VIZ versions of what Sakura and Databook 4 stated and what was your reply?

“The sannin are not equal”

“I haven’t seen anything in 700 chapters to prove that Sakura surpassed Tsunade.”

“Sakura said she wouldn’t stay back after they were Gods so do you think she was equal to them there too?”

“Databooks are merely supplementary.”

“Sakura’s healing, regeneration and chakra reserves don’t count, only fighting power counts.”

“Sakura saying she caught up doesn’t mean she is on par with them.”

“You can only be equal if you can beat exactly the same enemies.”

“Type advantages don’t exist so saying Orochimaru and Jiraiya are equal despite Jiraiya’s sage mode making him better suited against Pein is wrong.”

“Manda is stronger than Katsuyu and Gamabunta.”

“Sakura fans are the most biased.”

“Tsunade could barely beat Kabuto so she isn’t on par with the others.”

“The new three way deadlock only refers to the animal summonings.”

“Sasuke and Naruto surpassed their masters with sage mode and mangekyo sharingan and Sakura didn’t get a power up then so she needs to get a power up in the Pein arc and then another in the war to be equal to them.”

“ When Boruto and the kage went after momoshiki Shikamaru said it’s the strongest fighters and that’s false just like Sakura saying she was equal to them.”

Oh yeah and for the final time. Since Sakura is stronger than the sannin and has more chakra than Tsunade, more strength than Tsunade and Ai, Katsuyu, the power to heal and army and charge its chakra and the ability to regenerate her body like Hashirama and Tsunade AND Sakura and Kishi in DB 4 and the last’s guidebook state that she was on par with EMS Sasuke and KCM Naruto when she said it then guess what?

ACCORDING TO KISHI AND THE MANGA SHE WAS AS POWERFUL AS THEM WHEN SHE SAID IT. THEREFORE SHE WOULD BE ABLE TO STAND BY THEIR SIDES WHEN THEY FOUGHT SOMEONE WITH HER STRENGTH AND REGENERATION OR EVEN IF IT’S IN A SUPPORT ROLE (GIVING CHAKRA, HEALING THEM BOTH).

And if we really want to get into feats...

EMS Sasuke’s feats without Jugo or Naruto’s help includes his chidori and its variants, amaterasu, sharingan genjutsu, Aoda, an incomplete susanoo and controlling his amaterasu to form Enton: Susanoo Kagutsuchi.

Sakura in canon has reserves beyond Tsunade, is resistant to genjutsu, has strength beyond Tsunade and Ai who were beating incomplete susanoo formed by Madara, regeneration, Katsuyu and evasion that could avoid Kaguya’s instant chakra arms which God leveled Naruto and Sasuke feared as super fast and thus would be faster than Enton: Susanoo Kagutsuchi based weapons.

So yes I can conclude that if Sakura were to fight EMS Sasuke without emotions involved, based on Kishi hyping them as equals like Tsunade and Orochimaru, that she’d put up a good fight.

This is specially likely since Danzo reacted to amaterasu burning him, Pein pushed it away with force of an almighty push (Sakura can make an explosion with a punch or stomp), it took a while to burn through Karin’s clothing and Sakura can easily discard clothing or flesh (to regenerate) in a battle, which btw would be close ranged and involve Sakura constantly moving, punching the ground making explosions and punching Sasuke’s susanoo so amaterasu isn’t even a one shot in theory.

Furthermore as I said and as the manga promotes, you can be as powerful as someone even if you can’t beat them in a fight since advantages of fighting styles and strengths and weaknesses arise for example: Jiraiya vs Pein and Orochimaru vs. Pein. One has sage mode which would help against a rinnegan user while the other does not yet they are both equals and rivals.

Offensively Sakura can be just as powerful as EMS Sasuke with his Enton: Susanoo Kagutsuchi with her own power; her full strength which was never shown in can i.e. a full powered cherry blossom impact (a portion of her full strength took out Juubi clones and only a portion broke Kaguya’s horn) with her seal released, despite probably not being able to fight him and win one vs one.

I cannot say for sure how a fight would go because unlike you all I don’t ignore the fact that Sakura and all the girls were treated like shit and since they are hyped as equals it’s not as easy to call like Hinata vs. Sakura or Sasuke vs. Gaara. Regardless two main facts remain:

She was as powerful as the boys when she said it.

Fighting power is not the only aspect of ‘ninja’ power i.e. defensive powers can supplement your attack i.e. Sakura’s strength with her regeneration and reserves.

Additionally since Sakura herself said that they were ahead of her in the end and we know this since we saw their God powers and the Indra/Ashura parallel replaced the sannin parallel I don’t see what is your Sasuke loving issue? lol

Again posting the facts you seem to ignore:

“A lonely blossom that flowered in Konoha! Tsunade is the strongest Kunoichi in Konoha history, every bit a match for Jiraiya and Orochimaru. Her whereabouts – indeed, her survival – are currently a mystery, but her name blossoms in the noble inclusion of the shinobi.”

- The Naruto Secret: Scroll of Soldiers Official Fanbook by Masashi Kishimoto

“…Are the only ones who can fight against the Sannin the Sannin themselves?” - DATABOOK 2- THE SANNIN

“This time, we’re [or “I’m”] going back to back” and thinks “Tsunade-sama… I… it looks like I was finally able to catch up with those two!!”

The verb is 追いつく, ‘to catch up with’ or ‘to overtake’, and it’s conjugated at the past potential form (‘was able to’). The ‘looks like’ part is expressed by that mitai at the end.

Caught up to is precisely what oitsuku means if you look up in a Japanese-English dictionary. According to Japanese dictionary, regarding oitsuku, its definitions are:

1 – when a person who was behind is lined up with a person who was ahead.

2 – when you get at the same level with someone who had superior skills

A New Three-Way Deadlock (新たなる三竦み, Aratanaru Sansukumi) , Volume 66 cover:

And what is a SUPER SAKURA FAN?

I’m sorry I like a character and read up about them without acquiring your permission LMAO!

Once again:

CHARACTER QUOTES + KISHI’S DATABOOK STATEMENTS

OUR OPINIONS

I also asked someone to prove to me and sadly, you didn’t. So that ‘challenge’ was still not met. Maybe you think you did but you didn’t. As I said prior, it wasn’t up for debate in the first place and you can’t debate with me because Kishi, the creator already showed and wrote it.

SAKURA CAUGHT UP TO THEM AND EMS SASUKE, KCM NARUTO AND YIN SEAL SAKURA CREATED A NEW THREE-WAY DEADLOCK LIKE THE SANNIN BEFORE THEM.

I look forward to Sarada, Mitsuki and Boruto doing the same in these filler series just to prove my point more.

And notice you mentioned my name on your blog after I ended it and blocked you so I am well within my rights to post this now.

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tomioneer · 6 years

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yyh rewatch number 11 WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO MY KIDS NOW

been a few days bc I am BUSY AF irl, and I made it through the dr ichigaki fight--just barely without tears--by watching with a friend. now we’re at episode 35 and watch straight through to 42, and I can’t help but blog about it because HELLOOOO, NINJA BABES

guess who’s here

it’s jin and TOUYA BITCHES

kurama recognizes them, I wonder if he's actually fought them before

I remember that hiei and kuwabara both get taken out of the fight, but can’t recall if genkai does as well

what I figured out when my friend asked why koenma knows genkai’s younger face is that since she was on a mostly human team in the past, she was probably one of the special guests at the tournament? and thus a member of a team koenma technically owned

it’s upsetting that toguro didn’t seem to recognize his EX GIRLFRIEND.

jin speaks so quickly I can hardly understand him

it’s like merida in the new wreck it ralph trailer, just.. irish

ps JERRY FUCKING JEWELL again, for those keeping track

I’m gonna go ahead and mark yusuke and jin down as a ship now before I lose control

also, jin and touya

ship count: 8/400

I should really make a list of whose’ who in that count lol

oh yeah, here’s the medical exam, I remember it

her hair is gorgeous I would marry him if she asked

WOW she doesn’t even take kuwabara just genkai and hiei

a barrier master

and she’s just

oh man she took her coat off and I melted

STOP ELECTROCUTING MY KID BABE

epilepsy warning for this whole arc

koenma you’re a jerk

jin decides to fuck off because he doesn’t like fixed fights, bless him, he’s a terrible shinobi

demon makeup cool. not cool? the FUCKING RACIST image in the back during the explanation. I SAW that feathered headdress, togashi!!

kurama isn’t BOTHERING to attack because he’s observing

and hiei tells us why kurama is going to be fucked

jin is so done with this subterfuge bullshit

the audience is eating this up and touya speaks at last, my love, my darling, my short spiky blue beautiful man

I would kill to be able to put on makeup that perfectly, that easily

I know how kurama finishes this fight, but my friend can’t remember. I love it, this is so good.

“with his hair??” she asks, shocked

“only an amateur depends on arms and legs for victory”--kurama, with a whip coming out of his hair

“How is he controlling that?”

“With his spirit energy?”

isn’t there more behind why this guy is trying os hard? they’re not being blackmailed are they

oh.

there’s more, the patterns--

fuuuuck

and of COURSE his reiki is sealed, and as long as he’s standing--goddamn

wait

touya fights an immobilized kurama?

I don’t remember that!!!! son of a BITCH

“how will yusuke’s shattered team survive” asks the narrator. “This is bad” says yusuke

this is not good

I hate that kurama seemed to observe that gama’s paint was made of blood but didn’t like. pay attention to it?

friend just punned: “Touya is a cool dude”

I’m screaming she hates puns

one of the black black club just asked sakya why he is sharing “Ass space” with demons. fucking. what.

why does the committee want yusuke so dead, when they invted him? I guess that’s the whole REASON they invited him, ugh.

genkai tries to be optimistic for the first time in this series, and kiei shuts her down immediately

ohhhh the shinobi just need attention so they keep getting jobs

koto freezes to death, it’s very sad

touya somehow thinks a theif can’t keep running.. and seems to be right

“running like a baby is perfectly brave if the odds are uneven enough”--Koenma’s words of wisdom

such an inspiring leader the spirit world has

doesn’t he smudge the seal withhis own blood HEY he does

I am remembering these things seconds before it comes into play

touya’s attacks are honestly amazing

koto is a bit twisted

kurama plants something in himself, and then that’s what holds him immobile for the next guy right?? the big one yusuke kills

why doesn’t touya know who he is??? I thought, if they called him a traitor, we could ASSUME they knoew who kurama was??

why was touya blishin’?

the ICE SWORD man oh man one of my old old old old mary sues had that attack

oh yeah there it is, the arm wound, he plants it in that

“son of a frickin bitch”--yusuke urameshi

Koenma: Why do I get the feeling our most intelligent fighter is about to do something incredibly stupid?

Kurama: Let me do what I must... *does something stupid*

touya decides they’re friends now, so he wants to kill kurama painlessly

is touya fucking DEAD

oh good he’s alive

but also it’s not good

oh but okay kurama won

three more then

I know kurama vs. bakken is terrible

kurama also thinks they’re friends

faint heartbeat

amazing

ah, bakken

I hate him

“a fighter standing in the ring cannot be removed agains this will. as will cannot be determined...”

hatred

hiei is ready to go to war for his man

how is that motherfucker even a shinobi

yikes that last shot of the ep is absolutely awful

yusuke promises the audience that of he goes, it will be with a bang. I remember more of a whimper when sensui kills him.

who is that last guy on team masho? I remember bakken, and it’s clearly jin, but the third one, I can’t remember

BAKKEN JUST BITCH SLAPPED KOTO

yusuke is my BOY

I love him

this “kill the traitor” count is just. horrible

kuwabara is STILL out for the count

kick his ass baby boy

yusuke is my hero

why is uh. bakken sweating so much

mist made from his own uh. sweat. that’s pretty nasty

yusuke: I hate saunas.

I don’t remember this fight taking even this long???

yusuke has such great eyelashes

boy is already so like. pumped to fight jin.

yusuke just used eighth grade science”you can get on your hands an knees and start begging.and maybe, just maybe, I’ll listen.”--yusuke urameshi

KILL HIM YUSUKE

he’s ready to commmit murder and it’s amazing

jin didn’t even flinch

“That’s a pretty good fight”

kurama’s gorgeous and also awake

he’s making plant jokes and I hate it

I STILL DONT REMEMBER THIS RISHO BITCH

look how great these kids are.

I DID remember about ruka’s barrier thing healing hiei

no way jin can’t fight first if he does how does yusuke fight him SECOND????

“If I win my whole team’s screwed and if I lose I have to fight again.”

jin is amazing. seriously. also, can these boys get married please?

you know I’m a multi shipper right

well that was a fun match, sad it’s over

jin is just

such a happy guy I love it

they call them brothers but really the chu thing is much closer to that

“ass space” bbc guy now claims to pull the tournament committee by his the “ass hairs”

so quick!!

kuwabara seems insistent on the fact that he is “spiritually aware” in situations where he lacks that talent to actually observe

yusuke lands exactly one punch and jin floats up to let the impact wear off

“Hey, I needed that!” says yusuke when his spirit gun is deflected by jins wind

jin thinks he’s very funny

he’s right

why is boan lashing out at kuwabara, when she’s supposed to be TREATING HIM

somehow Jin with his irish accent--or rather, Jerry fucking jewell with his irish accent--isn’t triggering at all lmao. maybe because this is how I prefer him

yusuke’s hero eyes, at it again

how many reigun shots does yusuke have left?

jin’s so good at fights I love him so much

“something always comes ot me at the end” say yusuke about his battle stretegy

hiei

genkai, sarcastic: you truly havbe a way with women, hiei

JIN IS HUMMING LOVE HIM

yusuke plans to try the spirit wave, somehow forgetting his shotgun move???

shizuru once again knows exactly what’s up

bless the kuwabara family sixth sense

it’s so weird how genkai is speaking in third person

have I mentioned how much I love Jin’s eyes?

yusuke call shimself a freak because he enjoys fighting

okay we’re back to who the fuck risho is???

if jin’s the official captain---

oh my god I just screamed when risho revealed himself and dropped my laptop holy shit

like a gut punching, throat-tearing godawful scream.

“IT’S YOU!!!”

oh my god I don’t reember anyting about him other than earth and rocks and how much I HATE HIM

does he fight kuwabara? yukina just showed up trying to get in to see the tournament, does she heal kuwabara for this fight?

touya comes up. does risho attack him? that would explain why I hate him

yusuke defends koto, who he doesn’t like

hiei

i love

these two children are so angry

lkjlkjdasdflkjsadfkhjsdfasdf;lkjsadf

shizuru finds yukina and recognizes her from watchign that video, bless her

girls helpin’ girls

kuwabara was never technically ruled ineligible to fight, and I hate life

ginger son, don’t do it

he is so goddamn fucking helplessly sacrificial

yukina, go inside and heal your goddamn boyfriend

yukina is looking for her brother, oh SHOCK

shizuru intimadates an entire crowd of demons

her legs oh my god

just wait kuwbara, your girl with healing powers will be there soon

kuwabara is doing his best

keiko gets hit on by a bouncer and murders him

shizuru once again takes out a demon

can kuwabara shizuru marry kino makoto please???

risho is a dick

koto is clearly a sado-masochist

hiei GET OUT OF THERE

ruka is just like. a fetish indulgence of the artists. I know she’s hot but how long are they going to draw this out?

koto: I’m goign to take the ocunt now, so everybody make sure to tell me how I’m doing it wrong, okay?

savage

START the DOUNT KOTO, he’s OUT of the ring

shizuru WRECK THEM

oh yukina has ptsd flashbacks when she runs into toguro

sakyo lets shizuru escape bless her

kuwabara prepares to sacrifice his ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE and becomes telpathic?? bless

kuwabara can’t imagine what to say to yusuke, who means so much to him, goddamnit

yukina is in the stadium, babies

YOU’VE GOT TO BELIIIIIIIIIIIIEVE IN THE POWER OF LOOOOVE

IT GIVE MEANING TO EACH MOMENT

IT’S WHAT OUR HEARTS ARE ALL MADE OF (just look inside)

oh my god

amazing

“That’s my girlfriend!”--Kuwabara Kazuma, aged fourteen

yusuke is astounded by his boy

koto isn’t counting either of them

SPIRIT SWORD

GET IN THE RING

damn kuwabara

I can’t beleive he did it that’ s an highly unlikely triumph

hiei

“She’s... really here.”

Kuwabara bonds with yukina while keikpo and keiko FINALLY talk

KILL HIM BABY GIRL

pls get married

t;dr I would marry shizuru in a heartbeat if I didn’t know she was meant for sailor jupiter

shoutout to @batmares!!! thank you ever so much for joining me today for the Urameshi vs. Ninja arc of the dark tournament saga!

#yyh #yyh rewatch #jin #touya #genkai #hiei #kurama #kuwabara kazuma #team masho #team mashotsukai #gama #angst #dark tournament arc #dark tournament saga

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幽☆遊☆白書 | YuYu Hakusho: Ghost Files

Rated: T; no archive warnings apply

Characters: Hiei, Yukina, Kurama, Kazuma Kuwabara, Yusuke Urameshi

Notable Tags: Modern, no demons AU, inspired by Facebook, possibly reads like crack, Yukina is a good sister, Hiei and Yukina have an actual sibling relationship, I apparently can’t write something where someone doesn’t swear

Summary: “My brother does not know I’m doing this and would walk right of here and not talk to me for a year if he did.”

Questionable decisions aside, Yukina really only wants to help her brother (and to stop the endless moaning of the last two months). She's a good sister, she swears. She's just not sure if she's out to get her brother a date, chew Kurama out, or embarrass Hiei to death.

I was fixing up some tags and apparently I never posted this here? Its nearly a year old now, but I’ll be damned if its not here.

Can be read here or on Ao3!

She hesitates over the post button on her phone, but eventually hits it anyways. She stares as Facebook uploads the pictures of the two piece swim suit and her own sell ad, waffling between leaving it up or deleting it as soon as the post was live. Though Botan had suggested it, Yukina wasn’t so sure of the idea. The teal haired young woman flops down on her couch with a swirl of her blue stripped skirt.

The two piece swimsuit was certainly a color she likes (a few varying shades of blue she thought had a fantastic ocean look to it), but she had never meant to buy it. It was smaller than she was comfortable with, but she hadn’t been able to get it back on the rack after determining that.

(The truth of the matter was she, Keiko, and Botan didn’t know what exact set of whirlwind events had caused them all to walk out with items they hadn’t intended to buy – what they did know was they’d left to police coming in and the store had been on the news that night for both fire damage and busted windows. They hadn’t been back.)

But facts are that she has the swimsuit, she’d paid for it, and the receipt had been long gone by the time Yukina had worked up the nerve to return the item. And Shizuru had already helped her track down a more appealing swimsuit just a couple days later in time for the beach trip, so it wasn’t as if going back to the shop for store credit or exchange had been appealing either.

So here she is, attempting to sell the small two piece blue swimsuit on a Facebook buying and selling page – the one she thought Botan had suggested but now she isn’t quite so sure.

“I should have just donated it…..” she mumbles into a throw pillow after stuffing her phone between the cushions, unable to look at it any longer. It wasn’t as if the suit had ever been worn, somewhere would have taken it, right? Her phone buzzes once but she ignores it. It buzzes a second time, but she misses it entirely as her front door is slammed open.

If she was a betting woman, she would have place her money on their father being where her brother had gotten this particular set of melodramatics from.

Yukina can hear him muttering and cursing as he fights to kick off his shoes in her entry way. She gets no greeting as he shuffles across her apartment to flop half over the back of her couch with a groan and a whine. Despite her suggestions, she can see Hiei had opted to roll up his shirt sleeves but at least he had attempted to do so nicely. She digs her phone back up from the couch cushions and snaps a picture of the spectacular pout on his face. The shutter noise her phone insists on making is enough to force him out of his self-imposed pity party to stick his tongue out at her. Hiei hauls himself off the back of the couch with another groan and he begins to shuffle back towards her bedroom.

“Oh I’m sure Kazuma couldn’t have been that bad!” Yukina calls behind him, busy moving the photo around in her phone files to group it with all the rest of her brother’s pictures that the world is certainly not ready to see. The world would not survive knowing how much of a dork he could be when left with the right people (which is basically just her – being a twin has perks. She can see right through his facades so Hiei doesn’t really try with her).

When she doesn’t get a retort about her boyfriend, she knows it was something else. She ignores the two notifications for her Facebook post in favor of checking on her twin.

“Oh no…” She’s so glad that a blanket burrito in the corner of the bed had become the new hiding place. (Once upon a time it had been a weird fort of a blanket and four pillows under a bed where she was only other one who could squeeze in there to reach him – they had both grown out of that embarrassingly late.)

“Are you telling me he managed to ignore you again?” Yukina would have been embarrassed to admit it came out as a shriek if wasn’t for the whine that left the blankets taking up the corner of her bed. Her brother is miserable.

“But how?” The teal haired woman moves to her closet even as she asks the question. “And get out of that blanket – those are the only nice clothes you have!” She begins to look around for something of Hiei’s that had been left behind on a previous night of frustration and planning. She has found a shirt by the time Hiei had gotten his head out of the blanket burrito she was sure he had almost literally rolled himself into. She tosses the dark shirt on to his newly uncovered head and digs around for literally anything else that can fit him.

“I don’t know!” Hiei is making an embarrassing habit of whining his way through these almost daily conversations. Turning back with a pair of sweatpants she is almost certain are Hiei’s (she doesn’t own much grey), Yukina catches sight of his miserable expression. Hiei had disentangled enough from the blankets to remove the t-shirt she had thrown him but is idly fidgeting with the buttons on his dress shirt with a mournful expression rather than saving the only button down he owns from wrinkly extinction.

“I was serious, change clothes before we have to replace half of the only suit you own.” Yukina is kind enough to actually hand him the sweatpants this time. But looking at his face causes her to pause. She can count the number of times Hiei has cried on one hand, but the frustration has clearly moved to a whole new level because, try as he might, he has to actually bite his lip and keep his glossy eyes impossibly wide to keep it all contained.

Yukina sits on her bed with a sigh. She has a few choice words for the object of her brother’s affections if he’s this close to frustration tears.

“I have never seen you this infatuated with someone,” she says instead. Hiei snorts, but its watery. He finally moves to actually take off his blue button down and pull the burgundy t-shirt over his head.

“Me neither,” he mutters in annoyance when his head pops back out. Yukina’s phone buzzes again in her hands. She busies herself with it to let her brother change. Among the replies is an interested woman who wants to know the size of the suit – Yukina double checks and sure enough she did leave the information in the ad. She gives a reply anyways. Hiei has wriggled from his blanket prison, changed to the sweatpants, and carefully laid out his dress pants in the time it takes for her to answer. Yukina watches him for a moment.

“Wouldn’t it be easier to ask him on a date instead of attempting to seduce him – or whatever you seem to be aiming for?” she gives her brother a pointed look, “He sees you half naked three times a week already.” Hiei’s face goes vaguely scarlet and in one fluid movement he moves the blanket back over himself.

“I’m not seducing him,” she can hear him mumble.

“Not successfully.” He lifts the blanket enough to sort of pout-glare at her. Yukina can’t help giggling. She snaps another photo. It’s a blurred mess of the blanket coming back up to hide Hiei from any more of her incriminating shots.

“But seriously, Hiei,” she starts, deleting her unsuccessful picture, “just ask Kurama out on a date. Kazuma couldn’t speak more highly of him; he’s not going to react badly. It has to be more productive than trying every outfit combination you have in your closet.”

(Literally every combination – his most flattering shirts, his tightest pants; from the colors that bring out his eyes to Yukina’s best attempts to bring out a groomed and sophisticated look on a man that some days looked like he never brushed his hair. Anything to convey to Kurama that, while short, Hiei was strong, capable, and hopelessly wanting. It would have been embarrassing if she hadn’t put him through the same ordeal the day before her first date with Kazuma. They had always played petty revenge tit for tat after all.)

Hiei mumbles something under the blanket. She gives him a moment before prodding.

“Loud enough for people to hear?” She grimaces, realizing she sounds like their mother. Her brother seems to chuckle for a moment. She clears her throat.

“Please?” She expects exaggerated melodramatics – partially because her brother has chosen that route for dealing with the extended frustration but also because she just mom’d him by accident. Instead, he speaks just loudly enough for her to hear him.

“I did…” She pulls the blanket back enough to see his face – cherry red from embarrassment but still absolutely miserable. There are so many things she wants to say, to ask, but Yukina bites her tongue instead and waits for him. Lifelong history says it’s the better choice for dealing with her brother anyways.

Finally he rubs at his face with a sigh.

“A couple months ago I tried to ask him to that botanical garden because I know he loves plants and there was no way he’d already be going with Yusuke or Kuwabara. Maybe someone else, but the season was just starting, Yukina, so I didn’t think it would be a big chance.” Yukina nods along encouragingly. Gardening is not her brother’s first choice of outdoor activity, he’d clearly thought more about Kurama in the location choice than himself.

“I knew exactly what was going to be in bloom, what other plants would be there – they were going to have an exhibit of tropical plants in the special greenhouse even – I checked for restaurants nearby so maybe we could get food if he was actually willing to spend more time with me after I floundered the whole god damn morning away in a botanical garden of all places and –,” Hiei lets go a great big sigh. “And I went to meet up with him and Yusuke and Kuwabara were there and we’d apparently ‘changed our minds’ and were going to the amusement park a train ride away.” He lifts his hands from his face.

“I don’t know what the hell I did, Yukina,” the confusion is evident on his face. “I asked him on a date. Somehow it became a group outing and nobody else thought it was weird….” He looks at her and it’s a face she’s seen so many times in their childhood – absolute confusion. Her phone buzzes annoyingly in her hands and without hesitation she stuffs it under one of her pillows and motions for her brother to move over. It’s only after they are securely hidden under her fuzzy blanket that she says anything.

“You are just so unlucky with people…. How does that even happen?” Well, she knows one way it happens, but it’s not one she would have expected out of Kazuma’s friends. Her brother groans and stuffs his face into her shoulder. It’s a common occurrence for her brother to have a social miscommunication with another person but this probably took the cake in the weird department. (And normally it was because he was something of a sarcastic asshole.)

“Well, I know you’re perfectly capable of asking people do things with you without inviting other people into it, so even if you didn’t call it a date there’s still no reason for it to have become that.” She begins to card her fingers through his dark hair. She hums.

“I could have a word with Kazuma….” Hiei groans into her shoulder again. “I know that’s not the answer you want, but he’d probably set up a fix-it date if I asked….” She feels her twin shake his head.

“I don’t want a ‘fix-it’ date – especially one set up by Kuwabara,” Hiei speaks without lifting his head. Then he sighs heavily. “I don’t know what I want. All I’ve figured out is Kurama is fucking blind and Yusuke can’t run out of jokes.”

(This part she knows, because Kazuma tells her the better ones – half the time she can’t tell if Yusuke is trying to flatter or embarrass Hiei. She even bets that one of the many buzzes from her phone since her brother arrived is whatever decent “joke” Yusuke made that day about the dress clothes.)

Yukina continues to play with the hair at the nape of his neck. It’s clear that Hiei had decided against asking for a second (replacement?) date until he could gauge interest but the plan has led to nothing but moping. Her twin is, normally, perfectly capable of fixing things himself (for better or worse, though often it seems to be worse) so she decides against offering more suggestions until this moping spell is over. Probably whenever he gets hungry or her own stomach rumbles loud enough for him to notice. Additionally, it’s stuffy under the blanket but she doubts he, the walking space heater he is, will notice before his stomach kicks in instead. In a way, she’s perfectly content to sit there with him – stuffy as it is – especially now that she feels caught up on entire story.

However, it’s the resulting silence that lets her know that her phone is still happily pulling in notifications, causing it to vibrate under the pillows. She ignores it and settles down to her brother’s pillow as long as he decides he wants one. It’s nice – they don’t get to do this much anymore. A buzz here or there should be easy enough to ignore, Yukina decides.

She dozes off at some point, waking only when there is a sudden loss of heat. Bleary red eyes finally focus on her brother who is pulling her phone from under her pillows. Hiei lays back down and pulls the blanket back around them, looking no more awake than Yukina feels. Finally, he hands her the phone.

“It won’t stop buzzing,” he complains before curling back up at her side. Yukina pops up her screen and enters her passcode. She’s promptly greeted by a dozen Facebook notifications, two texts from Kazuma over LINE (one she notes is a sticker and she wonders what funny cat she’ll be greeted with today) and oddly enough several Facebook messages from a new contact. It’s clearly the messages that had woken her brother as their time stamps are the newest.

Their content however causes her to make a high, squeaky noise in the back of her throat and her twin is immediately awake and grabbing for her phone. Hiei makes a noise of disgust as he reads down the line.

“Ew, creepy fuck,” Hiei pulls a face. Without asking, he immediately blocks the sender.

“Hey!” she grouses at him more to reestablish that it’s her phone and account than over any actual objection over blocking the man.

“Oh come on,” Hiei sneers at the screen, still going through the messages. “First off, who’s bright idea was it to have you list that swimsuit on Facebook? Second, who the hell asks for pictures, especially like that? Asking for a model doesn’t exactly hide any intent, idiot.” Hiei scoffs the last bit under his breath.

(Yukina decides against answering the first question for Botan’s safety.)

“You already answered the second question,” she reminds him. “I thought I had the settings so I couldn’t get random messages….” Hiei is already looking through her privacy settings for just that. She snatches her phone back before he can go into any kind of overprotective mode. The teal haired woman gives Hiei a hard look she hopes will keep him from her phone in the future, makes mental note to change up her passcode, and sets about answering the other Facebook notifications – which thankfully do not include anyone else being creepy. Hiei sticks his tongue out at her and goes to dig his own phone out of his dress pants.

She’s in the middle of answering Kazuma’s messages, giggling over the dark cat rocking out on a guitar her boyfriend had found to express his excitement over a new Megallica CD, when her twin speaks up again.

“You know,” he drawls without looking up from his phone, “We could fuck with him.” Yukina eyes her brother warily. Hiei puts his phone down and rests his head in his hands with a grin that never leads to anything good. “He said he wanted a model, he didn’t say it had to be you.”

(Someday Yukina will learn to turn down her brother’s suggestions – today is not that day.)

Yukina had sent her brother home before the trains stopped operating – Hiei had gotten into a far better mood after their warning prank to her creepy message guy. A decent dinner had put him in even better spirits and she had even weedled a promise to reassess the Kurama situation with a clearer head the next day. She had been sure it was bright, promising chance to end all his moping.

Yusuke had apparently destroyed it with a single group LINE message for coffee and some extra workouts. Kazuma had promptly invited her along to the café to give them a chance to see each other before he was off for another day of training for whatever martial arts tournament Yusuke had dragged the four of them into this time. Hiei didn’t even send her a flurry of messages for advice so she arrived to the coffee shop feeling optimistic.

In retrospect, no messages from her brother should have been a warning.

“Did you even look in a mirror before you left?” Yukina asks as she digs out a hairbrush from her purse. She hopes her tone conveys the worry she has over him instead of sounding like she cares more about his appearance in public. Most of his wardrobe can mix and match and she always has a ready hair brush to wrangle her own hair back into its ponytail, so there’s little that can truly go wrong. But today he looks like he rolled out of bed, fell into his closet, and walked out the door. Hiei takes the brush from her and pulls it through his hair without an argument.

“What happened?” Yukina touches his elbow, worrying about his sudden disheartened look. Hiei hands her his phone along with the hair brush. He unlocks the pattern for her and she’s greeted to a LINE message screen – one between her brother and Kurama. The last two messages are from the red head. One is a happy fox sticker. The other reads “You’re a good friend Hiei.”

(Both she realizes are from late last night – before Yusuke had sent the morning message calling the group together for coffee, for extra training. Before the rest day had been cancelled forcing him into awkward close quarters with Kurama.)

“Got my answer, that’s all,” her twin finally says. Yukina lets him take his phone back. Hiei shrugs and gestures to the coffee shop, where the others are waiting.

“I’m fine, we should go in.”

She watches as her brother plasters his usual façade into place and then holds the door open for her. She squeezes his hand before she enters.

“Yukina!” Kazuma greets her with his usual enthusiasm and bright smile. Yusuke’s on the phone in line and he gives her a quick wave as she and her brother move towards them.

“Oh be quiet, you’re damn loud,” Hiei grouses with half his usual venom at her boyfriend. It throws both men in line off for a moment, but then Kazuma answers with his usual retort and before they even manage to stand beside their friends, Hiei’s attitude is back on point much to the disappointment of the baristas (who, Yukina is positive, are rather tired of dealing with her brother and boyfriend). Yukina spots Kurama at a booth, already sitting with his own drink. The red head shakes his head at the scene and then gives her a smile and wave in greeting.

She doesn’t realize she’s staring until Hiei jostles her to answer Kazuma. Her twin eyes her with concern so she gives him a small smile before focusing on her taller boyfriend.

“You okay?” Kazuma asks her. All three of them are watching her and she’s sure Kurama is too.

“I’m fine! I was trying to remember if I got all my papers sorted the other day at work and didn’t realize I was staring off.” It’s a simple lie and it rolls of her tongue easily. Working at a bird sanctuary, where no one in the group but her brother had a full idea of what she does, comes in handy at times. (Even handier is that her brother would not call her on her lie – certainly not today.)

“I’m sure you did!” Kazuma says with confidence and it makes Yukina smile. He knows she can worry about work a little too much sometimes and his reassurances are often quite welcome – today they are especially welcome if they bolster her fib. “What would you like today? I can buy!”

She’s momentarily startled, because as much as Kazuma would love to pay for everything on their outings and meet ups, normally they split the bills – especially something as simple as coffee. Yukina wonders if she looks as off as her brother for some reason. She sees Kurama move out of the corner of her eye and makes a split second decision.

“That would be great Kazuma, thank you!” Hiei gives her another look, but gets taken away by Yusuke to move up in line. She can hear the taller man working conspiratorially with Hiei to find out Kurama’s mystery drink order even as she gives her own to Kazuma.

(He looks so happy to buy her coffee she almost wonders if she should let him do it more often. Or maybe he just doesn’t want to get dragged into Yusuke’s never ending quest to figure out Kurama’s order again.)

She lets Kazuma move up the line to order and pulls out her phone. As she walks to sit with Kurama at the booth, she unhesitatingly sends three of the photos from the prank the night before. She watches Kurama check his buzzing phone and nearly spit out his drink as she sits down.

(After last night, she now knows her brother could probably pull off a speedo if he wanted to. It’s more than she ever wanted to know, but it’s true. Apparently Kurama is more appreciative than she is of this information. Or so she wants to believe with the red that’s come to his face.)

Kurama coughs a little before he manages to say anything to her. Yukina fixes the wrinkles in her long, dark skirt and simply fixes Kurama with a far too innocent look, phone back in her hand.

“Yu-yukina what-?” She quickly supplements the pictures of her brother in the skimpy two piece suit with one of him making faces at her through a window. Then another of one of the many outfits she had helped him pick out. One of him in the full suit before they both remembered that as much as Kurama clearly enjoyed dressing nicely (at least, sometimes, his jacket is bright orange today), he would stand out way too much. Another of her brother doing the splits, a random ability of his she’s envied since childhood and she knows he doesn’t show off. Yukina tops it off with a short video clip of her brother dancing to the radio in her apartment – one she swore to him she deleted. She celebrates a victory that Kurama has his phone set to stay lit far longer than any of the rest.

Kurama’s face has gotten redder and redder with every picture and he grips his drink cup tightly at the still for the video – her brother half way through some kind of dance move in his boxers and a too big t-shirt he’d never leave the house in.

“Yukina,” he says in a strangled, embarrassed tone.

“My brother does not know I’m doing this and would walk right of here and not talk to me for a year if he did.”

“Then why are you…?” Yukina almost regrets her rash decision with how confused Kurama looks. Yukina looks at her phone and sends the picture of her brother’s pouting face from the night before. She stares the red head down as his phone buzzes and simply waits. If there’s a weak point to Kurama, it’s that his curiosity is often too strong – he doesn’t manage to leave the text alone. He looks at the picture and then back at her, still trying to catch up.

“Him, last night, after he spent a whole bunch of time with me picking an outfit and got to listen to Yusuke crack jokes instead of getting any kind of compliment from you.” She starts to send more pictures of more outfits – outfits she knows Kurama will recognize if he eyes work at all.

“The same thing that’s been happening for, like, two months now.” She sends him pictures of almost every outfit they ever considered – some are even from Hiei himself, taken in a mirror to get her opinion. She doesn’t look at Kurama until his phone stops vibrating in his hands.

When Yukina looks back up, it’s to Kurama’s still confused face. She starts to get angry at that when it hits her. She is angry on her brother’s behalf, of this she is certain. But she has no idea what she’s trying to accomplish by doing this. In fact, the only thing she knows she has accomplished is sending personal photos of her brother to a man who’s only interested in a friendship and possibly shaking the trust between two people about to partake in some kind of crazy fighting tournament together. Not talking to her for a year? Yukina will be lucky if her brother doesn’t die of embarrassment. She flushes and tries to find something to say. (And they say her brother is the one who rushes through things…)

She looks down at her phone. There’s a preview for a picture of her brother, double peace signs and his tongue stuck out in the doorway of his apartment – probably the day he’d moved in and moved from her previous phone. She sends it and Kurama checks it despite himself.

“I know he can be a good friend, Kurama. But couldn’t you have said that when he asked you out?” It’s all she can think to say. It’s probably all she actually wants to know. Just so she can pick her brother back up and dust him off – be whatever support he’ll accept.

Understanding blooms across Kurama’s face.

“The garden, I-”

“Yes the garden, the date you said yes to!”

“No, Yukina, you don’t understand, we-” Yukina cuts him off again.

“Of course I don’t understand!” She sets her phone down roughly and it makes a louder noise than expected. She pushes on anyways, feeling her anger flare on Hiei’s behalf again. “I don’t know why you couldn’t have just turned him down, or tried to change it then if you didn’t want to go on date with him. Why would you change it without telling him? Why would you do that?”

“Yukina, it’s not like that!”

“What else can it be?!” She throws her hands in the air, swept up in her own confusion and the miserable look on her brother’s face from the night before.

“A lot else!” Kurama says indignantly.

“Oh yea, then prove it to me!” Her challenge is louder than she meant it to be but she doesn’t back down from the look she’s pinned Kurama with.

“I-”

“Oh come on!” Yusuke groans loudly from the registers, failing again to drag Kurama’s usual order from the barista. The sudden interruption causes both of them to jump and pause their arguing. The couple of occupied tables nearby are not so discretely looking at them, eavesdropping. But to their luck, Hiei and Kazuma look to be too wrapped up in Yusuke’s pleading to notice the heated conversation.

Kurama’s face goes red again and he sinks down a little in the booth. Yukina is sorely tempted to follow him.

(People are sorely wrong to think she doesn’t have a temper to rival her brother’s – but her fuse is much longer in the end. A healthy dose of embarrassment also drives her off far easier than Hiei. She hadn’t meant to get so loud!)

The red head across the table groans and rubs at his face. Yukina watches him stare at his phone for a moment and then swiftly unlock it, open his conversation with Hiei on LINE, and push the phone for her to look at. She doesn’t want to. She is still angry with him and the entire situation – even if she’s now acutely aware of their onlookers – what good will it do to see the conversation from his side?

Kurama bites his lip.

“Please?”

It’s only knowing she can’t get any answers from just looking at him angrily that gets her to pick up Kurama’s phone. She runs down the conversation without really reading it – a few stickers, Hiei answering some question the red head had sent him, the message that had put such a damper on her brother’s hopes. There’s nothing after that message, no text that didn’t send that would have made a better ending for Hiei. Yukina almost passes it back to Kurama to demand an actual explanation, when she realizes that something is sitting in the message box, waiting to be sent.

‘Hey, so, would you like to get dinner with me sometime?’ The text ends with one of LINE’s many emojis for the word ‘date’ – Yukina knows most of them from Kazuma’s texts. There’s no ambiguity in the little image. She looks back up to Kurama who is idly playing with his drink cup waiting for her response.

He catches her eye and flushes heavily. Sinking into his seat again he begins to mumble to her.

“I have been trying to ask him that since the amusement park date went so badly. I swear I type it at the end of every conversation but then I can never hit send. I never even shut my phone down last night – it’s been sitting there, mocking me since midnight”

“Then…why…?” Yukina passes the phone back to him. Kurama shrugs, refusing to meet her eyes.

“…I got home after Hiei asked me to garden and realized it was where I was taking my mother for her birthday literally the day before the date. I’d been so surprised I had completely forgotten about it. I couldn’t cancel on my mother, we’d been talking about it for months and flowers are a passion I got from her. But I didn’t want to call your brother up and look like I’d just been unable to turn him down in person.”

Yukina checks on the rest of the group at the counter before she responds.

“Then how did you end up at an amusement park.” If it’s possible, Yukina is almost positive Kurama looks even more embarrassed.

“I may have asked Yusuke for help.”

(It takes a lot of willpower for Yukina not to smack her face into the table.)

“Why in the world-”

“I had four places,” Kurama cuts her off in a rush, “and Kuwabara was at classes so I called Yusuke and between the two of us I got down to the amusement park. It would be open, the timing was good, it wasn’t too far away…. I should have called him then, I know I should have.” Finally the red head makes eye contact with her. He grimaces before he admits, “I chickened out, ok?”

“Why did Yusuke and Kazuma come?”

“That….was not actually planned.” If it’s possible, the red head looks even more embarrassed. “Kuwabara came in when Yusuke was trying to get me to call Hiei and somehow we got the grand idea to pretend Yusuke had won tickets and was using them as a group surprise. We knew Hiei hadn’t mentioned the date to anyone so we were just going to use that to lure him there and then Yusuke and Kuwabara were to get accidentally ‘separated’ from us and….. Look, it was a terrible plan, I was too nervous and completely misjudged it,” he haphazardly tries to defend the final thought process.

“Can any of you handle social situations?” she blurts out. Kurama chuckles uncomfortably.

“I’m almost positive it’s why the four of us work so well together. We run on the same wavelength.”

“But you’re usually so good at this…”

“Too much practice and a level head. Neither of which I had that day, believe me.” Kurama sips his drink awkwardly. Yukina looks him up and down.

“So, you do want to go on a date with Hiei, right?” Kurama swallows roughly.

“Yes, but I keep putting my foot in my mouth.” The red head looks over to Hiei, waiting for his drink to be called. Yusuke is going down the list of drinks to him, though for what reason they can’t tell. Hiei doesn’t look to be quite as into it as when Yukina had left him with the other two to order. Finally, Kurama turns back to her.

“You think there’s any chance after what I did last night?”

(Yukina wants to scream yes, to tell Kurama just how badly her brother had been pining. She wants to point out that they’re both morons who can’t properly talk to each other but she’s almost positive it’s just that both of them are overthinking everything. She wants to march her brother over there right that moment and personally secure the date herself. They’re perfect for each other, Yukina just knows it.)

Before she can say anything, the barista rattle off the names of their companions and Kazuma bounces over with her latte and his coffee. Yusuke and Hiei are not far behind. Reluctantly, they let the conversation go as everyone maneuvers into the booth.

Yukina stands and insists on Kazuma sitting all the way in and Hiei forces Yusuke to sit by Kurama by dawdling on his way over. He grabs a chair from an empty table and sits at the end of the table. They aren’t busy enough for it to be a bother, yet Yukina notices that all three of their companions give him an odd look for it anyways. Kurama slumps a little after its clear this will be the arrangement and begins to fiddle with his drink cup again. Hiei is staring at his own drink and notices nothing. Yusuke tries to move things forward by loudly, almost too loudly, trying to pry Kurama’s drink order out of him. Kazuma groans, trying to figure out why he’s so obsessed. The atmosphere at their table is awkward, but they press on.

(It occurs to her that Yusuke, and perhaps Kazuma as well, has been attempting to play wingman since they had caused the first date to go belly up. They don’t seem to know what they are doing.)

Fifteen minutes later, when Yusuke and Kazuma have started a heated argument over training and what qualifies as too much and her brother has gone back to the counter to get something to eat (he skipped breakfast, which Yukina has to admit is probably the most usual part of the entire morning), the teal haired woman takes a chance. With half the table distracted, her brother waiting at the counter, and Kurama silently watching on, she knows she probably won’t get another chance before they leave to head to the local gym.

She texts Kurama under the table.

‘I have a date plan, do you want it?’ Yukina watches Kurama grab his vibrating phone and check it lazily – there hasn’t been much enthusiasm from that corner of the table since the rest had sat down. He blinks at the message and then slowly lowers the phone so the other two can’t look over and read his screen.

Kurama’s reply is probably the most enthusiastic yes fox sticker LINE has. Green eyes flicker to hers and she smiles before looking back down to her phone.

‘Take him to the aquarium.’ Kurama only sends a question mark back.

‘Take him to the aquarium, he’ll love it because we haven’t gone in forever. YOU HAVE TO TELL HIM IT’S A DATE. Don’t you dare not tell him it’s a date, Kurama, I will know. It’ll make him nervous but you two can’t afford anymore miscommunication. Now this isn’t going to be the nervous you know, trust me. Be polite when he spouts forty minutes of stingray facts because he thinks the date is bombing. Take him to lunch/dinner because you know he’ll skip breakfast at the very least. He likes you, so please, don’t chicken out this time.’ She sends and then pauses.

‘Also I’m serious; I really hope you don’t hate stingrays.’ She knows she should leave it at that, but can’t help adding on again.

‘Be glad they don’t have the space for manta rays.’ Yukina flashes him a quick smile. Kurama mouths a thank you just as Hiei comes back from the counter with a breakfast sandwich.

Her apartment door swings open unexpectedly just as she finalizes the sale of the swimsuit. Yukina listens to her brother once again haphazardly kick off his shoes in her entry way before he shuffles further into her apartment.

“The suit sold,” she announces to him once the message is marked as sent and read. However, she doesn’t get an answer and Hiei doesn’t come to the couch. She can hear him bouncing on his heels in his socks from the doorway. She’s already begun composing the scolding of Kurama’s life in her head before she turns around.

Instead she gives her brother a long once over, raises her phone, and snaps a picture.

(She assumes by the sheer size of the stuffed stingray in her brother’s arms that the date went very, very well.)

#yyh #KuraHi #Hiei #Kurama #Yukina #Kazuma Kuwabara #Yuusuke Urameshi #kuwakina #because they are dating and it is mentioned #au - no demons #Oddity Fanfiction

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Boruto Part 1: M.F.F

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MOTHERFUCKING FRIENDSHIP. Boruto and Mitsukis friendship is a chocolate covered marshmallow. Its sweet and pleasant and if i'm ever sad it's the first thing i’m going to go to. Mitsuki has no concept of personal space, social queues, or normal “human” behavior and that bother Boruto exactly zero percent. Boruto seems to genuinely enjoy how weird Mitsuki is and Mitsuki might actually feed off of Boruto's positive and cocky energy. Sarada is also a fucking delight when it comes to scheming and teasing her friends.

Where her father was a self proclaimed loner and her mother had an inferiority complex that drove her to always try and act arrogant and had a quick tempered, Sarada is willing to go along with schemes if they interest her, is quick to tease and take teases and never feels the need to talk down to a friend unless they deserve it.

Her dry wit matches well with Mitsukis blunt yet playful honesty. An the scenes were they team up on Boruto Are genuinely funny but also show how great they are as friends. Because Mitsuki is always on Borutos side, you know what Borut is doing is wrong when he chooses to side with Sarada. It's fun because we get to see Mitsuki and Sarada playoff each other and we also get to see Boruto without the support of Mitsuki, which he has quickly come to fall back on. Also Boruto's actual life goal of support my friends” is just the goddamn best. I loved Naruto's underdog story, how he originally wanted to be Hokage to prove he was good enough, to get attention and hopefully make friends. That's great, good motivation guy. But FUCK THAT! Borutos goals are so pure and come from such an interesting place that i can’t hate them. He doesn’t just want to support his friends because he cares about them, he wants to give the support he doesn’t feel he has. Boruto feels that his dad has abandoned their family- and he kind of has- and he doesn't want to make anyone feel that way. He wants to be the person who always supports his friends, not the one who leads them. Because leaders have things they have to do, goals they have to put before others and Boruto doesn't want to do that.

To further this point i really want to point out episodes 35-37, were we really get to see the power of MOTHERFUCKING FRIENDSHIP shine through in all the characters. This show has done ten times better than the original when it comes to introducing and evolving a large cast, though this has cost it in terms of pacing and advancing the plot.Or at least thats what ive heard as a complaint. I was to busy in my cloud of loving all of these characters to care. Also i”ve seen and read a disturbing amount of long running action adventure shounen manga, and i've become pretty numb to long over stretched arcs. Shounen anime is my second favorite type of any BTW, My first two being sports anime and magical girl anime. So you can imagine how little fucks i give that the overall plot isn’t going particularly fast.Any way, Those three episodes not only show MOTHER FUCKING FRIENDSHIP at its best it also highlights a really big problem with how the show portrays its character versus how the show -mainly the adults- talk about its characters.

SPOILER,SPOILERs,SPOILERS, GET THE FUCK OUT NOW!

*ahem* Kakashi is hosting the graduation exams this year, but before it he does several interviews were he asks the kids what they want to do and why they want to be ninjas. A large part of this episode is devoted to the fact that Boruto doesn't have a solid “reason” He says he wants to be a ninja because all his friends want to and he wants to support them in their goals and being a ninja is the easiest way to do that. He doesn't really have any plans of his own and is perfectly fine being the Mercy of the group. He originally says he wants to be better than Naruto but that isn’t the only reason. This pisses Kakashi off, he feels that Boruto not really having any plans means he lacks resolve and that can be dangerous on an actual mission. He feels that Boruto should want to become a ninja for some reason and that if he just waltzed into battle because he wants to be with his friends and beat his dad, without any goals of his own he won't have the strength to fight the really tough battles. Kakashi is WRONG. Everything the show ways shown us up until this points completely contradicts this way of thinking, Boruto would never risk a teammate or friend in any situation. His resolve to support his friends would only make him more valuable in a group setting. He has never been shown to be the type not to make up his mind when it counts and always feels responsible for the safety and care of those around him. The biggest reason he was so obsessed with solving the ghost incidences was because he was the only who could see them and felt obligated to help because of that fact. Boruto has never been afraid to ask for help or get advice when he needs it and nothing about his character has shown the lack the resolve necessary to do what he must for his team and village.

Though none of this matters because the conclusion the show appears to come to is that Kakashi is in fact wrong. After Boruto loses and the chips are down he states that he was wrong to become a ninja just to be with friends then figure what he wasn’t and that he inslt strong enough to support those goals. And Everyone says “FUCK NO BRO!” Everyone of Borutos friends tell him that it was his support that allowed them to grow and change as people and that if he wasn”t the way he ways they wouldn't be there.The problem with this is that the doubt he had wasn't there until kakashi said something. It's true that Boruto told Mitsuki it was kind of lame that he didn’t have high ambitions but he was fine with that. He’s just not the type to be overly ambitious, he's happy supporting his friends and knowing that they can fall back him when they need to. The show says that Boruto lacks the resolve to be a ninja, but it shows him to be reliable kid whos good to his friends and family -minus naruto- and who always tries to do the right thing. His friends also say that and they win against Kakashi by working together with Boruto.

And its even worse because at the end Kakashis like “now you have the resolve to do what you have to.” But Boruto hasn't changed in terms of his goals or his mindset. He still wants to support his friends and see them grow, he still as curios and intelligent as before. All that's happened is that he was forced to confront the previously nonexistent idea that maybe he wasn't doing good by his friends and that he needed have more self oriented goals. Boruto's version of friendship is, in my humble opinion, much better than Naruto's. People seem to actually like each other, they actively seek each other out. While a large portion go Naruto story was about him gaining friends in spite of Kurama, that doesn”t change the fact the supposed “friends” he did have treated im and each other like shit. It was perfect for the story that it existed in but can’t hold a candle to its successor.

If you like this stupidly long discussion-rant-review- thing please let me know. If you think i can improve somehow let me, but like in a nice way. If you’re a troll and going to be a dick no matter what, HI!

#boruto #Mitsuki #Sarada #Graduation exam #Genin #Naruto #Kakashi

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