#becoming hokage

[bakapandy]

The Reluctant Hokage.

BONUS: Shikamaru contemplating that the cloak feels too heavy on him…

#shikatema #shikamaru #temari #boruto #boruto two blue vortex #boruto spoilers #pandy draws #not the biggest fan of shikamaru becoming hokage but #I can also see why it was the case #we’ll see how things go I guess

[kankuroplease]

Sakura week on Twitter kickoff 🌸

#sakura haruno #my art #sakuraweek23 #q #civilian girl becoming the hokage?? I like

[scrapnick]

Gonna start running again because my man said I did it so poorly when I was running drunk at 4 am

(also because I found the prettiest running shoes and they will make me a better person I promise please please please pl)

#scraps.txt #I’m gonna get sooo fit and sexy I promise I won’t quit I will become Hokage

[obihoe]

naruto people need to become a bit more creative w their dreams for the future at some point i think like it cant be that literally every child who wants to make something out of themselves only dreams of becoming hokage. how about being a weapons manufacturer. build huge fucking scythes and kunais and other cool ninja shit. become a teacher. a trainer for magical animals. something like that. like something thats actually cool sgsgsgs and there cannot be 50 hokage per generation anyway

#posts #naruto #i mean i guess it makes sense since youre raised to admire the hokage #so every child grows up thinking this is the highest goal u can reach #and its ur duty to protect ur people etc. these tags are becoming too serious for the silliness of this post sgsgsfs #but im watching the tsunade retrieval arc rn and she was thinking abt nawaki and dan and like both of them #Of Course they also dreamt abt becoming hokage lol. like both of them #and its treated as such an honourable goal like the characters with honorable aspirations are always connected to the hokage dream #how abt coming up with something new for once LOL #u know who had the correct goal? shikamaru #i dont like him so much but his plan for the future was literally just to be some guy who is chilling #a ninja who goes on missions and looks at the sky and just chills #THATS a good goal. lol

[aranciafiamma]

the fucking iron grip that KHR has on my ass is insane bc its such an EPITOME of found family - bc its not even the side effect of like a shared goal or mission the way found families tend to be - but because FOUND FAMILY IS THE ENTIRE POINT

its the end goal, its the journey, its the whole story

theres a wholeass emphasis on tsuna's big empty house getting more crowded and more noisy

and not only that, its found family and a found purpose - each of the vongola find an achor in tsuna and vice versa - like fuck everybody else, im with them type a way

its that bone gnawing loyalty where not even the hounds of hell could keep these assholes from having each other's back

not just their relation to tsuna - which is the primary focus of the story but their relation to each other - how they must learn to be together bc again

Found Family Is The Mission

#khr #katekyo hitman reborn #bonds bonds bonds #this emphasis also on tsuna growing as a leader #their hearthfire and lighthouse #their home and final resting place #and how this shounen ass protags whole character arc #its not about being hokage #its not about becoming the greatest hero #its not about becoming pirate king #its not a goal to strive for #its a service that tsuna must learn to give #its a role that tsuna must learn to play #there is so much emphasis on how tsuna learns to take care of the people around him #because thats his job and their job and they all must work together to take care of each other #its so good? #also bc lbr the final boss is tsuna's own inheritance #which he is slowly being raised to have #and yet must violently reject in order to make that true and final transformation #to be the best of himself and the best of himself for others #tsuna is at his best when hes protecting someone #likewise tsuna shines the most because he is protected and loved and adored in return

[princess-temari]

Temari when she needs her hokage husband to sign something

#shikamaru becoming hokage did shit to her #shikamaru: *puts the cape on* #temari: *fanning herself #temari #shikatema #temari nara #shikamaru #shikamaru nara

[mixelation]

Lowkey feel like Minato would be so into being Tori's house husband.

Or even the trope of like some foreign power overthrowing the kingdom and their leader marrying that country's princess to claim legitimacy. Imagine that but with Tori overthrowing Konoha and Minato being her hostage/husband.

Like Tori would never do that but I bet he secretly wishes she maybe did.

NGL i do kind of like this idea. you're right that tori wouldn't organically come to conclusion she should be in charge, and i do not think she would like the amount of work she'd have to put into it (both to maintain her authority, and just to be anything approaching competent-- if tori decides to do a task, she prefers doing a good job)...... but i like the idea of her and minato mutually going kind of off the deep end. like maybe he could CONVINCE her this would be a good idea because he's like "it's be hot tho" and she'd be like "oh no"

except i was also playing with the idea of them deciding to end all ninja villages

#actually this would be a really fun minakushi fic #like au where kushina goes off the deepend after whirlpool's fall and she's like #'i am forcefully becoming hokage now. you're my hostage-husband' @ minato #he's like: oh noooo... i am not turned on at aaaaall......... (twirls hair) #asynchronicity

[evilkitten3]

the concept of orochimaru and sakumo having been a thing is so funny to me, especially from kakashi's perspective. imagine your government-assigned babysitting charge runs away to go live with an evil scientist war criminal. who is also your stepmom. you speak of this to no one

#naruto #naruto shippuden #hatake sakumo #hatake kakashi #orochimaru #sakuoro #orosaku #within three years you're the president and both you and your stepmom have died and come back #and also your stepmom resurrected the first four presidents. also like 80% of the world's known corpse population has been resurrected. but #sakura: lord hokage are we planning on doing something about orochimaru #kakashi: ok so. hm. i may have a slight conflict of interest here #sakura: well yeah i mean sasuke-kun- #kakashi: orochimaru is legally my mom #sakura: excuse me. #kakashi: you're excuse. also i'm putting sasuke in jail for hurting my feelings #naruto: sensei that's an abuse of power #kakashi: hurry up and become hokage then i don't even want to be here

[sasunarualways]

Sasuke everytime he saw Naruto chasing him throughout Shippuden lol

#sasunaru #narusasu #that smug smile on Sasukes face when he whispered in Naruto's ear “all that time chasing me you should've spent on becoming hokage naruto”

[opens-up-4-nobody]

#i could add more but idk those seem like the worst. i hesitated to add karin bc her story is interesting and her actions make sense but #ya kno. for me its gotta b rin bc shes not even a character. shes a non entity. just a memory there to welcom obito into the afterlife #and i fucking hate that. but kushina comes in second for me. bc shes written as wanting to be hokage and then has to watch her husband #become hokage and then b happy abt it. that just feels mean. but. i mean. should the answer actually b sakura? #shes not even interesting as a character which is pretty bad. ok i think rin is the worst bc kishimoto forgot to make her a person #and then sakura for forgetting to give her literally anything interesting and useful to do. so much potential wasted #then kushina bc kushina is my baby girl #so so so much potential. oh god but theyre all so badly written. its an impossible question #naruto #naruto ramblings #polls

[akatsukitrash]

Not to be an Orochimaru apologist but the demonization of Orochimaru by the narrative/Konoha is just a way for them to erase the fact that Orochimaru was a victim of the state. Yes he experimented on children, but it never was bc he had “darkness in him even as a child” or bc he was a “born psychopath” or whatever other ableist bs. Orochimaru is a product of Konoha’s cruel war machine. They sent his parents to their deaths, left him an orphan with no psychological support, used him as a child soldier, sent him to war where he witnessed countless atrocities that shaped him to become the cruel, apathetic man we know now. He then had to watch his friend Tsunade mourn the deaths of her 12 YEARS OLD brother and her boyfriend. His disgust and fear of death literally come from the second handed trauma of seeing Tsunade cry over the mutilated body of her baby brother. It’s canon. Is he a cruel megalomaniac who grooms and tortures children? yes. Is he responsible for his actions? yes. But Konoha is responsible as well. They made him a monster, then they turned around and acted like he just woke up one day as a creepy crazy snake man, when it’s literally the result of decades of severe trauma and brainwashing. 

How do you expect a mentally unstable child thrown in a battlefield to react? Did they think he was going to grow up to be a nanny? He was taught to torture and kill. Why are they so upset about it? They have a Torture Department that operates in BROAD DAYLIGHT in Konoha. A good chunk of the beloved Yamanaka clan works there. Danzo kidnapped, groomed, brainwashed and experimented on countless children, but bc it’s for the village, it’s okay. Orochimaru is only evil because he hurts people for his OWN gain. That’s why they’re now fine with him in Boruto even though he still experiments on people. Now it benefits Konoha, so the fake morals they dredged up against him previously just vanish.

#orochimaru #anti konoha #anti hiruzen #orochimaru should've stayed a villain #he cannot be redeemed but them acting like its only bc his experiments didnt benefit the village irks me #dude had every right to want to destroy konoha lmao #where's that post where someone says that they shouldve maybe questionned why a founder of the village the student of a hokage and like #two other konoha shinobi wanted to destroy konoha so badly #its a hellhole #i like that orochimaru is almost completly apathetic and doesnt whine abt his backstory #but i wish the fandom at least still acknowledged that he became like that bc of konoha #not 'psychopathy' or whatever #honestly his character was ruined in shippuden #i miss part 1 orochimaru lmao #also wouldve loved a real fight between him and tsunade #but not bc tsunade wants to protect konoha or whatever i want her to beat him up to save the kids #i hate that the emphasis is on poor little konoha and not the children he tortured #anyway this has become an essay oof #naruto meta

[bonefall]

naruto as a whole is a fucking mess and i say thisas somebody whos read the entireseries 3 times over. “naruto is going to change the system! haha teehee never mind hes not doing anytning about the child soldiers and slave castes and the genocides.” “sasuke can be upset at his brother for committing a genocide but actually genocide against an oppressed bloodline is good if theyre getting uppity and its sanctioned by the government and also have a genetic predisposition to be evil so he should just get over it and be okay with it” “sakura needs to stop obsessing over a guy whos not even interested and become strong for her own sake. actually shes a housewife now”

kishimoto im going to blow you up with my mind

YOU GET IT

For real though I think what they did with Sasuke's arc was one of the most baffling fucking things I've ever seen. "Actually. Your brother who carried out a genocide loved you :( he only put you in the Torment Nexus for several days because uhhh he wanted you to hate him and not find out about the government who ordered it. Everything he ever did was actually to protect you. And Uchihas are actually kinda rotten anyway so it's good an entire GROUP OF PEOPLE died. Don't think about any babies or children who were also slaughtered btw uhh nope all of them were bad."

Sasuke: "Yes I understand. I will now rule the world through fear. Actually nvm Naruto won our fight so, my philosophy is gone now."

Thank goodness that Evil Sasuke killed the three Bad Government Officials before that point, though. We had this whole theme going about toxic structures, cycles of abuse, and how oppressive regimes can propagate themselves even when a leader is well-meaning... but, like, Naruto REALLY wants to be Hokage, so actually if you just kill these Three Bad Governors it's gonna be fine.

There is no need for systemic change. Slave castes and child soldiers are fine. It's ok as long as the president is blonde :)

#It also bothers me unreasonably. And HAS bothered me since I was like 15. That in the final-- #--scene where sasuke finally lets Naruto Into His Heart he goes off about how they were both just Lonely Children Looking for Love #Like... no!! No actually! Sasuke's WHOLE THING was that EVERYONE was praising him as a prodigy #But that he was pushing away everyone around him because his brother put him in the fucjing torment nexus #It would have been more appropriate to talk about how THEYVE BOTH BEEN MADE INTO WEAPONS #For Naruto to realize (now that he is Useful to his war-obsessed society) that Sasuke was also undergoing a sort of dehumanization #It should be through THEIR GROWTH AS PEOPLE that they finally have a deeper understanding of each other #THEY DID NOT HAVE A COMMON ORIGIN #THATS THE POINT. THEY BECAME FRIENDS IN SPITE OF IT #iM FLIPPING TABLES #They had the opposite problem as each other but through self-imposed ostracization and proving one's 'worth' *NOW* THEY GET IT #But we cant do that bc you'd have to admit that Sasuke hada fucking point and wasnt just wrong the whole time #And that this system is ROTTEN and that Naruto shouldn't become Hokage but DESTROY THE POSITION #because dictators choosing dictators IS BAD. #They should have changed the government to democracy and then Sakura wins the first free election #Because she's actually deeply connected with the people of the fire nation especially outside of the capital city #For like her humanitarian work during the timeskip #And for being the disciple of Tsunade who was a respected leader #And then have a cute moment where Naruto and her banter about it. That she fulfilled HIS dream lmaoo #And also let the three of them be friends im beggign OTL #She gets over her crush on him and theyre just friends #Animeposting #I shouldn't have mentioned sakura now im yelling about naruto on the cat blog

[fangxin-guoshi]

Kinda delusional hot take: Madara would've been fine with hashirama being hokage if not for the external factors that played into hashirama being selected.

#bc tobirama was the one who proposed a popular vote #but the popular vote was conviently only used to select the first holage #the rest were chosen by the village elders or the previous hokage #not saying tobirama was wrong for the popular vote suggestion but he was taking advantage of the village population's biases against Madara #including the uchiha who were on the verge of kicking madara out of the clan #madara probably knew this #since he was listening in on tobs gossiping abt him #madara picked up on the bias against the uchiha bc of tobirama's *ahem* meddling #and thats the whole reason he was going to leave the village #its not abt hashirama becoming hokage its abt the uchiha's POSITION in this situation that madara was worried abt #and its not tobirama or hashiramas fault that it went down like this either #that was just the circumstances #and of course madara isnt completely blameless #hes just a bit evil but hey thats what makes him hot and sexy #anime #anime and manga #naruto #meta #naruto meta #naruto founders #hashirama senju #tobirama senju #madara uchiha

[sinnbaddie]

Fugaku wasn’t the best father, but no one will ever convince me that Minato of all people is a better father than him

#Fugaku Uchiha #anti Minato #at least Itachi and Sasuke HAD a father: Minato put Naruto through hell bc he wanted to see if he could control a mystical beast #do I agree that Fugaku treated Itachi like a tool for a long time? yes. I also agree that he was in war #and he had to do things he didn’t want to do; if there wasn’t a war and his people wasn’t in danger Fugaku would never put so much pressure #on him; Minato is an idiot as a father and Hokage I won’t be moved on this #and since we’re here #Fugaku would’ve been a better Hokage too #Minato as a character is the core of all nationalistic themes that are in the series #Fugaku wanted to change the system to better his people’s lives and I know he could’ve done it #Minato did not care to change the means of the village and instead lost 2/3rds of his team basically lost his last student to mental health #sacrificed his son to a life of misery and then died leaving the village in worse shape than it was #if Fugaku wasn’t Hokage bc Minato was a better candidate he could’ve at least become it after he died #and also fuck the 3rd; I hate you hiruzen you ugly crinkly smoking bitch I know you smell bad

[kurozu501]

i have a friend i've known since we were both teenagers, we both loved naruto back in the day and he still keeps up with boruto. he was infodumping about the latest developments in it to me today and i genuinely thought he was messing with me. like what in the riverdale is this shit, what do you mean naruto and hinata were banished to the shadow realm by a weird creep kid who retconned reality so he was naruto's biological son and not boruto. what do you mean boruto's turned into sasuke 2.0 and sasuke's probably dead. wtf is that new sarada design. creep kid retconned reality not by stealing naruto and sasuke's super powers or anything cool like that but via a girl obsessively in love with him who casually happened to have the power to rewrite reality, what in the fanfiction…?

#i was laughing really hard by the end of our talk #its so funny #the simpsons-ification of naruto is taking it some truly weird places #all i care about is sarada at this point so someone let me know if she ever gets to become hokage

[zincbot]

ngl i love the naruto fic trend of 'kakashi goes back in time and has to try to fix everything'

#it's so common but also 90% of those fics i've read have been SUPER good #i've seen so many different slight variations on this too #naruto #i really enjoy a hokage-era kakashi because he's the most put together and likely to actually fuck shit up and not worry as much about being #like. suspicious. #an early naruto kakashi might have more time being lost in his memories when surrounded by everyone he lost #i've seen ones where kakashi goes back alone. where he and obito both go. where some of the kids go with him #read one that killed me recently where a post-series hokage kakashi switches places entirely with his younger self #(though what his younger self is experiencing in the future is told entierly through him suddenly remembering things that never happened #as if they were long ago #and witnessing this altering of time and memory. kakashi in the past elects to not tell his team anything about the future #even when minato asks him directly #he takes it as torture and doesn't break. #i read one once where kakashi went back to his child body but the sharingan came with him #i've read one where in his attempt to fix things he gets himself kidnapped in rin's stead and becomes host to sanbi #i've never seen this trend be as common in any fandom as it is with naruto #i guess cause kakashi's past is a series of horrible events that. wouldn't you like the chance to fix them