Oh, god, yeah pretty much! The most recent chapter is just… a lesser shinobi than Neji (and, let’s be real, many shinobi are lesser than Neji) would have screamed when a flying cloud of shadowy death flew towards their face.
I screamed when I was reading it, and I’m not even there.
Obviously any team that Kakashi “casually invents an one hit kill jutsu as a teenager” Hatake got his hands on would be a bunch of over powered juggernauts. I mean, not even considering Team Seven’s respective backgrounds. No wonder Yamato/Tenzou is constantly exhausted if that’s what he had to put up with.
And Sai, oh that poor sweet baby has no idea what befriending Team Seven will do to him. He can’t even human properly and now he’s being thrown into the deep end with a bunch of weirdos. It’s like Aggressive Friendship 101… except maybe not 101, because that would imply its an introductory course. There is no introductory course. In the Game of Friendship you play to win or you die.
Hahaha, yeah. Team Gai are suitably bewildered by Shikako. Then again, TenTen knows that the kind of mind that can just produce the seals Shikako does is probably a frightening place. Impressive, but frightening.
I wonder if each member of Team Gai is most afraid/intimidated by different members of Team Seven? TenTen is like: oh no, Shikako is just socially awkward, but she’s a nice person. And Lee and Neji just have horrible flashbacks to the Forest of Death. And now eldritch horror no jutsu. O_O
Oh, god, yeah pretty much! The most recent chapter is just… a lesser shinobi than Neji (and, let’s be real, many shinobi are lesser than Neji) would have screamed when a flying cloud of shadowy death flew towards their face.
I screamed when I was reading it, and I’m not even there.
Obviously any team that Kakashi “casually invents an one hit kill jutsu as a teenager” Hatake got his hands on would be a bunch of over powered juggernauts. I mean, not even considering Team Seven’s respective backgrounds. No wonder Yamato/Tenzou is constantly exhausted if that’s what he had to put up with.
And Sai, oh that poor sweet baby has no idea what befriending Team Seven will do to him. He can’t even human properly and now he’s being thrown into the deep end with a bunch of weirdos. It’s like Aggressive Friendship 101… except maybe not 101, because that would imply its an introductory course. There is no introductory course. In the Game of Friendship you play to win or you die.
Oh, the star is meant to be Staryu. I guess I ought to have properly linked the post with my Team Seven Pokemon team headcanon…
Like, I know it’s not really part of the set, and it’s not even Rock type, but I thought that it still had a nice celestial body vibe to it and, early on, she did use to do that water chakra technique in the training grounds so water type works out nicely. And the red gem in the middle had a nice Gelel stone feel to it even though that is Sableye’s role… but Minior is a nice choice too!
Hmm… thematically that’s a good choice–since, as you said, that is the first time she summons Heijomaru in a combat setting–but I’m just… Her Deerling is her first Pokemon, so that seems awfully late.
Then again, Ash’s Pikachu is never going to be a Raichu and it’s been how many years?
Then again, again, Raichu needs a Thunderstone so Pikachu can just avoid that, whereas Sawsbuck are only a level 34 cap so…
Unless that’s where Shikamaru’s Deerling evolves?
I feel like, between the twins, Shikamaru probably wouldn’t use his Deerling as much in battle so maybe Shikako’s Deerling evolved earlier (the equivalent of when she would’ve signed the summon scroll).
Ugh, I dunno. I also don’t know how I would translate certain fights into Pokemon battles which is why I kept everything vague.
To be honest, anon, I’m not entirely sure what to do with this prompt. Like you said, it’s basically canon that Team Seven overthrows corrupt dictators even though, usually, that’s just a byproduct of their main mission to protect their client.
I suppose the issue is that they can’t go around doing it deliberately without it being a political overreach on both Konoha and Land of Fire’s behalves: as if they were either meddling in foreign affairs or turning Land of Fire into and empire. Already the friendship alliance going on with Mist and Sand is highly suspicious in the eyes of Rock and Lightning so…
And… well… how many countries are there even? How many dictators could there possibly be before news of Team Seven spreads? How long would it take before Team Seven has to take a look at their own government for corruption? And, well, it is also canon because… Danzo… but surely there are evil schemers in the Fire Court. Or perhaps even the idea of nobility/royalty will start to seem like dictatorship…
I guess what I’m saying is who watches the watchmen?
Although in a more abstract interpretation of your prompt I did think of an idea sort of like… a post-post-post-canon Rise of the Guardians-esque story. In which many generations have passed and ninjutsu is as much a matter of legend as ninshuu is for current canon shinobi. There are still injustices in the world–old injustices given new faces–but children have less access to the abilities to save themselves. And it’s kind of…
Well, in line with the Rise of the Guardians vibe I suppose my idea is a little based on Esama’s All Hallows and joisbishmyoga’s Lullaby, in that after Team Seven dies they become guardian spirits to protect children from all the awful things in the world. And they’re held together more by belief of a thing, by ideals and hope and the need for help, than actually ghosts.
So when a child is being hurt by an adult, or when they have no one else to turn to, or when a child is on the verge of death… one of Team Seven appears and helps them however they might. And sometimes that’s getting rid of their abuser, sometimes it’s bringing them to a place that can help them. Sometimes it’s just being there and holding their hand as they pass on.
Children pass the story on–in the way there exists a children’s culture separate from adults, certain rhymes and games that spread from playground to playground without ever being heard by adults–about how if you’re afraid, or if you’re hurt all you have to do is call for them and one of Team Seven will come to help.
A little bleak, sorry, but that’s what came to mind.
I suppose a different twist on that might be something where Team Seven is like King Arthur? In that they will return during the hour of the Elemental Nations’ greatest need? And whether that means in a literal sense–they’ve died and are the last hope for a group of rebels who summon them/their spirits to save them–or a more happenstance sort of way–the rebels only know that this mysterious chakra device will help somehow but they don’t know it will specifically be Team Seven and so both the rebels and the team are surprised when the three are summoned–or… I dunno. There’s a lot of takes on that.
I am now getting very strong Final Fantasy vibes. I mean, Shikako already has her Gelel stone which is very much like the summon materia in FFVII. And I’ve already posited that FFVII and the Naruto world could easily be one in the same if millennia apart. So maybe instead of FFVII being before the Naruto world, this would be the other way around with DoS being before FFVII? And AVALANCHE happens upon Shikako’s Gelel stone and she gets summoned to help fight ShinRa and Sephiroth?
I don’t know how Naruto and Sasuke get summoned, too. Though given both of their respective heritages/superpowers no doubt there’s some way for them to get preserved/summoned as well. I mean, I did also posit that the bijuu are very much like WEAPONs so that could be what happened to all of the jinchuuriki. And as for Sasuke. Well… Sharingan. Who even knows what that can do at this point? Not Kishimoto, that’s for sure, and definitely not me.
… OH! You know, I just realized, upon trying to look through the confusing mess that is Kaguya Otsutsuki’s naturowiki page, that her “go from dead planet to young live planet and eat their vitality” is not only reminiscent of Jenova but also is like Jadis from the Chronicles of Narnia.
So if you include Sakura along with Team Seven then that would make the four of them “two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve” (never mind that Adam and Eve are not in the Naruto world) so in the same way that my still as of yet unwritten Once Then Always has the Lost Kids take the place of the Pevensies, then you could have Team Seven take their place instead.
And, well, if anyone’s a corrupt dictator in need of overthrowing then it would be the White Witch.
Hahaha, yeah they would be super terribad at being royalty wouldn’t they?
I think the problem is that, unlike the Pevensies who are still children and grow into themselves in Narnia, Team Seven are already adults in the eyes of Konoha and fully capable warriors. Not only that, because of how capable they are, they would be able to overthrow the White Witch quickly.
… possibly too quickly, actually, because if you consider the White Witch as… even if she were S-rank, she’s the only one who is S-rank. The rest of her soldiers are, at most, chuunin level and easily taken out. So given one S-rank enemy against Team Seven? I mean, they haven’t yet gotten to fighting Akatsuki yet, but I believe at this time all four of them would be able to take on one S-rank easily. And that is, again, if we give Jadis the benefit of the doubt and consider her S-rank.
So Team Seven overthrowing Jadis too quickly is a problem because they’d then view the situation as the many other times they’ve overthrown a corrupt dictator. They got rid of the problem, and now it’s time for them to go home while the natives sort out their government. Except in Narnia they’re the new government.
I do think their priority will be trying to get home and finding that they’re unable to? (At which point I’m concerned they may try to go after Aslan for “keeping them captive” which, obviously, would not be a good thing and not just considering that Aslan is much stronger than Jadis. There’s the whole, you know, Jesus thing O_O)
So if, for some reason, that issue is resolved, then I think there would be even more culture clash. Noble Clan of Uchiha aside, none of Team Seven are actually nobility in the sense of knowing how to build infrastructure. Shikako might know something similar only because she is the Nara Clan Head’s daughter, but even then that doesn’t help because Konoha is a military society and it’s just like…
What.
There would be so much political intrigue that Team Seven are wholly unprepared for because they can’t just use ninjutsu on the problems to make them go away.
That being said, I do like the idea of Team Seven accidentally making Narnia too militaristic and the surrounding countries being like… we thought the eternal winter thing was bad, but now they’re turning beavers into warriors?! (I mean, ninken exist, so it doesn’t seem too out there for Team Seven. And Reepicheep is a swordsmouse so…)
Narnia is probably mostly ruled by regents while the actually kings and queens travel around the kingdom and use their abilities for the good of the people.
Basically, overthrowing the dictator isn’t the problem. Cleaning up her mess is.
To be honest, anon, I’m not entirely sure what to do with this prompt. Like you said, it’s basically canon that Team Seven overthrows corrupt dictators even though, usually, that’s just a byproduct of their main mission to protect their client.
I suppose the issue is that they can’t go around doing it deliberately without it being a political overreach on both Konoha and Land of Fire’s behalves: as if they were either meddling in foreign affairs or turning Land of Fire into and empire. Already the friendship alliance going on with Mist and Sand is highly suspicious in the eyes of Rock and Lightning so…
And… well… how many countries are there even? How many dictators could there possibly be before news of Team Seven spreads? How long would it take before Team Seven has to take a look at their own government for corruption? And, well, it is also canon because… Danzo… but surely there are evil schemers in the Fire Court. Or perhaps even the idea of nobility/royalty will start to seem like dictatorship…
I guess what I’m saying is who watches the watchmen?
Although in a more abstract interpretation of your prompt I did think of an idea sort of like… a post-post-post-canon Rise of the Guardians-esque story. In which many generations have passed and ninjutsu is as much a matter of legend as ninshuu is for current canon shinobi. There are still injustices in the world–old injustices given new faces–but children have less access to the abilities to save themselves. And it’s kind of…
Well, in line with the Rise of the Guardians vibe I suppose my idea is a little based on Esama’s All Hallows and joisbishmyoga’s Lullaby, in that after Team Seven dies they become guardian spirits to protect children from all the awful things in the world. And they’re held together more by belief of a thing, by ideals and hope and the need for help, than actually ghosts.
So when a child is being hurt by an adult, or when they have no one else to turn to, or when a child is on the verge of death… one of Team Seven appears and helps them however they might. And sometimes that’s getting rid of their abuser, sometimes it’s bringing them to a place that can help them. Sometimes it’s just being there and holding their hand as they pass on.
Children pass the story on–in the way there exists a children’s culture separate from adults, certain rhymes and games that spread from playground to playground without ever being heard by adults–about how if you’re afraid, or if you’re hurt all you have to do is call for them and one of Team Seven will come to help.
A little bleak, sorry, but that’s what came to mind.
I suppose a different twist on that might be something where Team Seven is like King Arthur? In that they will return during the hour of the Elemental Nations’ greatest need? And whether that means in a literal sense–they’ve died and are the last hope for a group of rebels who summon them/their spirits to save them–or a more happenstance sort of way–the rebels only know that this mysterious chakra device will help somehow but they don’t know it will specifically be Team Seven and so both the rebels and the team are surprised when the three are summoned–or… I dunno. There’s a lot of takes on that.
I am now getting very strong Final Fantasy vibes. I mean, Shikako already has her Gelel stone which is very much like the summon materia in FFVII. And I’ve already posited that FFVII and the Naruto world could easily be one in the same if millennia apart. So maybe instead of FFVII being before the Naruto world, this would be the other way around with DoS being before FFVII? And AVALANCHE happens upon Shikako’s Gelel stone and she gets summoned to help fight ShinRa and Sephiroth?
I don’t know how Naruto and Sasuke get summoned, too. Though given both of their respective heritages/superpowers no doubt there’s some way for them to get preserved/summoned as well. I mean, I did also posit that the bijuu are very much like WEAPONs so that could be what happened to all of the jinchuuriki. And as for Sasuke. Well… Sharingan. Who even knows what that can do at this point? Not Kishimoto, that’s for sure, and definitely not me.
… OH! You know, I just realized, upon trying to look through the confusing mess that is Kaguya Otsutsuki’s naturowiki page, that her “go from dead planet to young live planet and eat their vitality” is not only reminiscent of Jenova but also is like Jadis from the Chronicles of Narnia.
So if you include Sakura along with Team Seven then that would make the four of them “two sons of Adam and two daughters of Eve” (never mind that Adam and Eve are not in the Naruto world) so in the same way that my still as of yet unwritten Once Then Always has the Lost Kids take the place of the Pevensies, then you could have Team Seven take their place instead.
And, well, if anyone’s a corrupt dictator in need of overthrowing then it would be the White Witch.
I love Natsume Yuujinchou! (I mostly read the manga, but the anime is very sweet too).
I do think she helps out when she can, but she doesn’t go out of her way necessarily to help ghosts move on. I am thinking that at least one mission does revolve around her helping some noble’s ghost ancestor move on, and that would be when the differences in civilian’s opinion of mediums and shinobi’s opinion gets discussed.
Shinobi are more afraid of mediums, I think, than civilians weirdly enough. For civilians its the equivalent of a priest/priestess having a greater connection to the spiritual world. For shinobi it’s a person who has access to abilities/knowledge that they cannot control.
So, yeah, ironically enough Sakako is more frightening to shinobi than to civilians.
I do also think as the Uchiha heiress she’s been helping the ghosts of the clan move on–and there’d be an emotionally charged arc in which, once the rest of the clan has moved on, Sakako has to say goodbye to Itachi-oji because he thinks its time for him to move on as well. Of course, there’s probably a bit where Sakako uses her ability on Sasuke so he can say goodbye to Itachi, conflicted as his feelings on that may be. T_T
I mean, it’s not unprecedented, anon. Shikako already has three ghost related missions on her record (even though one of them was more a Scooby-Doo-esque who is behind the mask caper) and she doesn’t even have the ability to see ghosts so…
I don’t know if she can see other spirits though… I mean, ghosts of dead humans are one thing, but I don’t know if Sakako’s abilities extend as far as Natusme’s…
And I also feel like ghosts are limited in their range of movement as opposed to spirits. Like… spirits are free to come and go wherever they please, pretty much, but I think ghosts probably have to stick to the specific place/person/item that they’re “haunting.”
I think a significant chunk of Uzushio’s fallen population probably piggy-back off of Kareru and benignly haunt him so they can see more of the world than just their ruined home… Probably Minato and Kushina switch between benignly haunting Naruto and their grandchildren (and probably enjoy conversations with the other ghosts from Uzushio that they come across).
… anyway… I don’t think the ghosts can specifically seek her out to help, but maybe whenever they notice she can see them they call out to her and ask if she can help them. Or maybe if she’s on a mission, they’ll help her so long as she helps them in return…
Or maybe, in Lucky Seven tradition, whenever her team goes to the admin building for a mission she always ends up with one that has a ghost involved. Yes, even the D-ranks. And she’s not even the one picking them? Literally one time Konohamaru-sensei just closed his eyes and pointed and that mission ended up with three different ghosts so…
A/N: I had originally thought of a crack version of this after a frankly bizarre dream, but the more I thought about it the more it worked pretty well for a… less cracky version, so the “summary” as much as it can be called such is for the less cracky but I’ll talk about both.
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Sailor Shinobi
Fighting evil by moonlight Winning love by daylight Never running from a real fight She is the one named… … Hyuuga Hinata?
Luna has been waiting a long time for the reincarnation of the moon princess, watching the village of warriors grow around the destined location of her rebirth.
Finally she’s found her–as well as the reincarnated guardians, fortunately enough. Now, if only they’d stop sending her back to the Fire Daimyo’s wife.
So cracky version: I was on the topic of Sailor Moon and Dreaming of Sunshine because, well, canonically mentioned. And for some reason my brain was like… is Sasuke Sailor Moon?
Because, see, the Uchiha are the ones connected with the Neko-baa. And Tsukuyomi is related to the moon. And Sailor Moon’s colors are the same as the Uchiha colors.
And you can’t tell me Naruto wouldn’t make a fabulous Sailor Venus in that orange seifuku. (With Shikako as Tuxedo Mask, of course, because of that one art by AngelsFallBeforeUs).
While the idea of Sasuke and Naruto in seifuku with Shikako in a caped tuxedo is absolutely fantastic, I couldn’t really figure out which of the other boys were which scout. And the more I thought about it the more I thought… wouldn’t it work better with Hinata as Sailor Moon?
The Otsutsuki subplot bewilders me, but from what I understand it’s a clan of moon aliens? And they have the Byakugan as well? And the idea of Hinata being timid out of costume and confident in costume just gives me very strong Miraculous Ladybug vibes that I greatly appreciate.
To be honest, picturing Hanabi as Mini Moon really solidified it for me even though I know Chibiusa is Usagi’s daughter from the future. As for the actual scouts there’s Sakura as Mercury, Ino as Venus, Shikako as Mars, and TenTen as Jupiter. Maaaybe Yakumo as Saturn, Anko as Uranus, Isaribi as Neptune, and Kurenai as Pluto??
I don’t know who would have the honor of Tuxedo Mask, though. Do any of the boys have the panache for it? I mean, I know for parallelism sake, it ought to be Naruto. But would Naruto really engage in the secret identity thing? I don’t think so.
As for the plot, well, the fake fic summary does have it concurrently with being shinobi in the DoS ‘verse–though that wouldn’t be very practical, seeing as how shinobi don’t exactly have normal bed times–as opposed to a more “real world” scenario… hm. Maybe Luna/Tora has some kind of teleporting ability? Which, yes, explains why she keeps escaping so damn often, but also maybe the evil things the Sailor Shinobi are supposed to fight are on the ruins of the moon kingdom as opposed to invading the “Earth.”
I dunno.
I do REALLY love the idea of the Sailor Shinobi throwing around sparkling beautiful attacks and smacking down the Akatsuki.
I agree with you anon that Kakashi definitely has the mysterious and hands off vibe of Tuxedo Mask (and the whole show up, do nothing, and walk away pointedly is very Kakashi) but I’m not sure–and not even in a shipping way–if he has a strong enough relationship with ALL of the Sailor Shinobi, in particular Hinata, instead of just Shikako (and now, sort of, Sakura).
I suppose by that logic, Tuxedo Mask might be Iruka-sensei?
…
O_O
Ibiki?
Uh, no nevermind. Well, perhaps for the Sailor Shinobi, Tuxedo Masks need not apply 😛
I totally get you anon. Ino definitely qualifies as Tuxedo Mask and would pull off such a role with style, but I don’t know if she’d choose to be Tuxedo Mask when she can be Sailor Venus, Warrior of Love and Beauty, instead.
Maybe in the Sasuke-is-Sailor-Moon version?
Too true, anon(s?). I think Ino would be more magnificent as Sailor Venus, but I will not deny that if Ino wore a tuxedo and a mask and handed me a rose that I would not swoon from the sheer charisma that she exudes.
InoSaku would be pretty cute in the way you’ve described, anon, but I don’t think it ought to be completely discounted from the Sakura-as-Mercury and Ino-as-Venus configuration. I know Ami/Minako was a rare pair (if it was even a ship at all) but just because they have the same planetary assignments doesn’t mean their relationships have to be the same. I mean, they can still have that bit of a rivalry when they’re Mercury and Venus because Sakura and Ino have that little rivalry–it doesn’t need to parallel the Sailor Moon canon too much.
While I’m sure Shino could pull off the outfit, he’d probably be more comfortable if that cape and hat were a cowl and hood instead.
@jickysilver brought up the idea that maybe the transformation item for Tuxedo Mask is a really innocuous pen that keeps getting picked up by different people. Can you imagine how paranoid the paperwork ninja would get? EVEN THEIR PENS ARE AGAINST THEM.
I think the identity for the Moonlight Knight is as much up in the air as the Tuxedo Mask identity since… you know… same guy.
Does there even need to be a Tuxedo Mask? What if he’s someone awful on the shinobi side, like Kabuto? Or what if he turns out to be someone entirely random? (Aoba, I choose you!)
I do like the idea that Tuxedo Mask keeps changing because the transformation item keeps getting picked up by different people. Maybe Tuxedo Mask is meant to be Naruto but because he’s not in Konoha the transformation item just keeps transforming whoever is currently nearest to it–which leads to That Cursed Pen being passed around the administrative building like the weirdest game of hot potato.
Her Deerling is her first Pokemon, so that seems awfully late.
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