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Would Sasuke want to revive the Uchiha as a clan unit as well a as a bloodline, do you think? Does he arrange get-togethers roughly the same way the Kunnoichi Club work[s/ed]? Like, all the kids get together, and he teaches them how to breathe fire, ’cause that’s an important tradition for the Uchiha. Now if only he could remember any others … eh, I’m sure he’ll think of something.

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Probably? He definitely wants them to be connected to each other by more than blood–and he does teach all of them Grand Fireball when they turn seven, probably, but given that actual clan status (as the Nara go, anyway) involve things like clan tax and land/etc and there’s only one adult and maybe six kids at most they’re not really capable of being a clan yet. Eventually? But not yet.

Especially since they all live in different households raised by different people. Not sure if Sasuke arranges meetings with the kids. If so, it’s definitely infrequent.

Sakako is probably the oldest (maaaybe Sarada is older?) and so she and Sasuke get to make up the new Uchiha clan traditions. More like coming of age sort of things–seventh birthday, becoming a genin, etc etc. Maybe they get to learn Sasuke’s Fire variant of the chidori at age twelve?

Since the Uchiha matriarch-to-be is half Nara, it’s very possible that the fledgling Uchiha clan “officially” becomes an ally of the Akimichi-Nara-Yamanaka alliance and so there’s an exchange of benefits there. The new Uchiha clan get their ears pierced at becoming chuunin (maybe genin, too, like the A-N-Y clans, but definitely chuunin).

I think Sarada would officially be an Uchiha because of the revival thing, but might choose to use Haruno. The screening for the program must have been brutal, for the bio mom – at least chunin level, no bloodlimit – and any else in the child’s life. I’d guess Sasuke would considered them clan members while Sakako is his daughter. He probably provides stipends for their care, and each is expected to form a branch. Maybe 4 or 5 others, depending on that possible 2nd child, for Lucky 7.

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I was thinking she’d be under Haruno for legal reasons but have an Uchiha note on her medical records. And obviously, whoever’s in charge of the Uchiha repopulation would be able to keep track regardless of names. And, not that they’re going to turn into the weird slavery thing going on with Hyuuga, but the Uchiha name would then denote the “Main” while not having the Uchiha name but still being part of the clan would be “Branch.”

And it’d make it so much harder for bloodline theft if no one is named Uchiha–and since the Sharingan’s default state is dark eyes and not like the Byakugan’s obvious pupil-less white eyes, THIEVES CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE NEARLY EVERYONE HAS DARK EYES AND THE SLOWLY REPOPULATING UCHIHA CLAN ARE SAFE.

But, true, they may very well use both for Sarada. She’d definitely introduce herself to people as Haruno instead of Uchiha since as far as she’s concerned she’s only Uchiha in blood and not in pracitce.

The screening program was pretty brutal–but they probably didn’t rank cap it, mostly because they wouldn’t want to limit potential surrogates to shinobi and thus reduce their labor pool. They did probably check things like chakra capacity even if they weren’t necessarily shinobi. For example, a lot of the medic corps aren’t necessarily ninja but they do learn to use chakra (and also, as medic nin they’d hear of the program first) and would have good chakra control/capacities.

Since the Nara affiliation isn’t technically a bloodlimit, Shikako did pass the screening for it. Though Sakako may very well have been produced outside of it anyway because, you know, Shikasuke.

The surrogates do receive stipends, and Sasuke/the remains of the Uchiha finances do factor for most of it. But seeing as how Konoha would want to repopulate such a strong bloodline, there is a government subsidy for part of it.

There are at least two others that I fleetingly thought of–definitely there are actually more than that, but only two that I even vaguely considered before this. One of the surrogates is Ami who isn’t as awful as she used to be and is kind of like an awkward and exasperated in-law to the giant mass of convoluted relationships that makes up Konoha Twelve+Sakura+Sai. Another is from Kurama clan (aka Yakumo’s clan who somehow didn’t learn the first time) or the Yuuhi clan (aka Kurenai’s clan who already have red eyes naturally and probably are a minor clan who are actually or claim to be long ago branched from the Uchiha anyway) and is trying to make a SUPER GENJUTSU BLOODLINE and possibly take “Main” status from Sakako because of that.

There’s definitely more, but I haven’t thought that far about it…?

Random, not quite relevant thought – I really hope that Ino and Sai are still technically married and that he totally lives with her and Sakura as their house husband. Maybe he’s still in a relationship with Ino, but not Sakura which is why she did the Uchiha route? Or just really wanted to be there for his kid. But he totally retired from ninjadom for the higher calling of caring for children while indulging in art as a hobby.

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Hm… personally for me, depending on how liberal Konoha’s legislation is on the matter of marriage, I’d like for Ino to be married to both Sai and Sakura. But if bigamy isn’t allowed (and I can understand why that wouldn’t be considering CLANS and INHERITANCE and… you know… that can be exploited horribly as it usually is in real life) then I think I’d prefer it if Ino and Sakura were the ones married.

Then again, Ino and Sai being married would be nice because Sai doesn’t really have a family and being married would mean that he’s now officially part of someone’s family. (I’m not crying, you’re crying). But than can also be achieved by Sakura and Sai getting married?

But, yeah, in their ménage à trois, it’s definitely Ino at the point of their V while Sakura and Sai’s relationship is nonsexual romantic or just plain platonic. They do like each other rather a lot, though, and DoS!Sakura is a lot more accepting(?) of Sai than canon!Sakura who saw him as a shoddy Sasuke replacement.

They all live together, along with Inojin and Sarada (and I just realized that in this universe, Sarada’s last name would probably be Haruno making her Spring Salad), and Sai definitely had to step up and take on most of the child-rearing duties especially since I also realize that in order for Sarada to be genetically-canon!Sarada, Ino and Sakura would have been pregnant at around the same time. So Sai would have had to deal with DOUBLE THE PREGNANT LADIES. But, luckily for him, he does honestly enjoy taking care of the kids.

I don’t think he’d fully retire from ninjadom–mostly because I don’t think that’s really possible in a Hidden Village–but he does definitely orient his missions/duties for, oh I dunno, maybe he becomes a teacher at the Academy (for the younger years) or he learns medic jutsu and works in the pediatric center of the hospital.

(Oh! Another thing I found from narutopedia: whenever Inojin plays roleplaying games he chooses White Mage who are literally medics so, you know, being son of three medics–one of whom is the successor of Legendary Medic Tsunade–is probably heaven for him)

He does also write/draw children’s books on the side, because if Jiraiya can write porn and be a spymaster, Sai can definitely be a father, an author, and a teacher/doctor.

How did Ino, Sai, and Sakura end up together? I’d say it probably went something like this:

“Beautiful,” the cute guy calls her, and Ino just barely controls her blush.

“Obviously,” she says, flipping her hair, “but you’ll have to try harder than that to impress me.”

The cute guy, Sai, nods as if noting it, all but writing it down. “Do you have any advice? A book, maybe?”

Ino smiles; how does Shikako find these guys?

“You should come by the flower shop,” Ino suggests, invites, beguiles, “I can teach you far better than any book can.”

—

Sai shows up at the flower shop the next day and maybe he didn’t really understand what she was offering, but it’s a nice enough conversation.

He actually listens to her, not just stares mutely and tunes her out. He asks follow up questions and by the time an hour has passed she’s discussing the pros and cons of various flower arranging styles as methods of poison dispersal to a boy who actually wants to know more.

She invites him to come back.

Maybe it didn’t turn out the way she wanted it to, but she finds she doesn’t mind at all.

And anyway, he still calls her beautiful.

—

Ino looks forward to the kunoichi meetings, tries to go to as many as she can–it’s good for networking and collaborating, true, but mostly she just misses it. Misses kunoichi classes at the Academy, and sleepovers at her house, and the way things were easier and brighter and happier then.

Ino knows she and Shikako have changed too much–seen to much and done too much–to ever really get that kind of innocence back. Not that theirs had been all that pure, honed and shaped the way all clan kids are from birth, but still.

Sakura still has it, that brightness that has nothing to do with the color of her hair and eyes. That core of strength and beauty that no poisonous flower arrangement could ever match.

Ino looks forward to the kunoichi meetings because, at the heart of it, she looks forward to seeing Sakura.

—

Things… happen.

No, that’s not right: Ino makes things happen.

She’s never been one for sitting back and pining–she’ll play things close to the chest like any proper Yamanaka, but she’s always been vocal about her likes and dislikes.

This time around, she gets liked back.

—

Once, Sakura visits her at the flower shop at the same time Sai is there for their meetings–Sakura is usually busy with shifts at the hospital and her lessons from Tsunade-sama, and Ino’s not entirely sure what Sai gets up to when he’s not at the flower shop or going on bizarre missions with Shikako.

Once is all it takes.

Sakura skirts around the counter, presses a kiss to Ino’s cheek in greeting, and for all that it’s chaste it makes her blush.

Sai tilts his head, observant as always.

Sakura nudges her in curiosity.

“Sakura, this is Sai, cute artist,” Ino introduces, “Sai, this is Sakura, amazing girlfriend.”

“It’s nice to meet you, Sai,” Sakura says with a sweet smile.

“It’s nice to meet you, too, Amazing Girlfriend,” Sai responds, a smile of his own, “I appreciate having a senpai in dating Ino. Please look after me,” he adds a polite bow, oblivious to the reactions he receives.

Sakura blinks in surprise. Mostly confused, but a little… considering.

Ino looks between the two of them and has a revelation.

aka, how Sai instigates a poly relationship without realizing it 😀

edit: adding this to ao3 Dreaming One Shots as “Take A Step That Is New”

Your writing for next gen sand sibs gave me so many feels; like the resentment they must all low-key feel for Shikadai, cause no matter how good they are, no matter that he’s from a foreign nation, no matter that they call the Kazekage father there will always be people who insist that Shikadai is the rightful heir by blood. On that note, I could see a lot of pressure for the Kazekage after one of the next gen sand sibs to marry a child of Shikadai, to restore the proper line in Suna.

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Next Gen Sand Siblings (NGSS from now on) are so much more compelling if you interpret them as adopted; either canon or DoS. There’s just something fascinating about the idea that the position of Kazekage is restricted to a clan and yet the oldest child of the previous Kazekage has married into a clan of a different village entirely. It’s all the fun of aristocratic inheritance/successions but with ninja!

As I touched on in Our Share of the World, it’s probably Shinki that has the most resentment for Shikadai and even his is kind of tempered by the knowledge that his biggest competition is his younger sister. Yodo, I think, probably just doesn’t like Shikadai as a person–his possible claim on the position of Kazekage has nothing to do with it. Araya and Shikadai are friendliest by default.

I feel like, considering the Council favors Yodo over Shinki (even though, as I mentioned, he’s the one with the blood limit) that they’re not too focused on the matter of blood lines at this point. Especially since Shikadai has been raised as a Leaf shinobi. Though probably, earlier on when he was just born or even a little before then, there were negotiations to decide on that exactly.

They probably conceded to Shikadai being raised Nara because they figured that either Gaara or Kankurou would have biological children eventually (hahahahahaha, nope) and then by the time they began worrying, Gaara began adopting the NGSS and then a whole other round of debates were instigated on whether or not they were valid candidates and, if so, which would be the better one.

I can see them possibly considering an arranged marriage another generation down the line or some kind of Kazekage clan repopulation thing like what’s going on with the Uchiha repopulation in Walking Around (Like Regular People). But I also feel like, given the trend towards more liberal stances of marriages and families and that Temari has already no doubt flouted the Council’s authority and married Shikamaru despite their likely protests, an arranged marriage won’t hold up unless the NGSS that becomes Kazekage is just like, yeah okay why not.

(You may want to check out this post thread speculating how various Kages may be chosen in the Elemental Nations, which started with me wondering about Shikadai’s possible claim to the Kazekage position. This was before I discovered the NGSS existed, of course, but still relevant.)

Mangekyo no Sakako being able to influence/talk to the dead she sees. Mangekyo no Sakako setting ameratsu on people’s SHADOWS and burning them spiritually. Mangekyo no Sakako using sealing techniques with her scary af Susanoo. I just need some Mangekyo no Sakako. That’s all.

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Oh gosh, Mangekyo no Sakako would be frightening.

I kind of have an idea for what her “default Sharingan” skills are and I’ll probably write something with her so she gets her own ficlet (though a lot shorter, probably). But I did not consider a Nara mutated Mangekyo O_O

Tsukuyomi = target can now see all of the people they’ve killed/haunts them. Sakako let’s the ghosts get revenge. I’m definitely liking your Amaterasu of burning people’s shadows (that’s pretty in line with both of her parents’ “when in doubt blow it up/burn it)

Susanoo just seems to be fairly straightforward as a personalized massive chakra construct. I don’t know how a Nara/Shikako weirdness inheritance would change that much. I mean, I guess she could reinforce it somehow with seals or her Susanoo looks creepily a lot like the Shinigami?

~Mangekyo no Sakako~ 😀

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(I don’t know if you’re the same anon, but since it’s regarding Sakako, I figured I might as well reblog it in this thread.)

Reincarnated!Sakako… hm… do you mean reincarnated from the real world or reincarnated from the Naruto world? Because on the one hand, I’ve always been interested in a SI!OC who has to deal with the repercussions of a previous SI!OC making changes in the world–what knowledge has been rendered useless, what information is still valid, etc–and the idea of Shikako finally having company in her biggest secret is nice, though probably a bit weird considering it’s her daughter. 

But then again, the idea of some canon character reincarnating as Sakako would be pretty interesting considering her now more and more likely power to see ghosts. Like… which canon character? Will they see the ghosts of people they knew in life? Is she confused as to why she’s not a ghost still? Is she a Warring Clans period Senju reincarnated as this new Uchiha clan heiress?

Buuuuut… I think her being able to see ghosts is already a big enough impetus for her own story that her being reincarnated would either overrun the ghost seeing or just might as well be redundant as an isolating trait. Like she’s already a newblood (term borrowed from Effloresco Secundus, a Hermione-reincarnated-as-Sakura!fic) in the fact that she’s the first of her ability to see ghosts so she’s not normal in the Naruto world (which is in and of itself overrun with weird abilities) she doesn’t need yet another layer of rarity.

… I’m going to have to write a Sakako ficlet now, aren’t I? (aaaaaaaah! i just made her up so Shikadai could have five cousins!)

edit: I wrote it. Well, I didn’t get up to her Mangekyo status, but it’s a Sakako ficlet so…

Mangekyo no Sakako being able to influence/talk to the dead she sees. Mangekyo no Sakako setting ameratsu on people’s SHADOWS and burning them spiritually. Mangekyo no Sakako using sealing techniques with her scary af Susanoo. I just need some Mangekyo no Sakako. That’s all.

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Oh gosh, Mangekyo no Sakako would be frightening.

I kind of have an idea for what her “default Sharingan” skills are and I’ll probably write something with her so she gets her own ficlet (though a lot shorter, probably). But I did not consider a Nara mutated Mangekyo O_O

Tsukuyomi = target can now see all of the people they’ve killed/haunts them. Sakako let’s the ghosts get revenge. I’m definitely liking your Amaterasu of burning people’s shadows (that’s pretty in line with both of her parents’ “when in doubt blow it up/burn it)

Susanoo just seems to be fairly straightforward as a personalized massive chakra construct. I don’t know how a Nara/Shikako weirdness inheritance would change that much. I mean, I guess she could reinforce it somehow with seals or her Susanoo looks creepily a lot like the Shinigami?

~Mangekyo no Sakako~ 😀

Prompt: Shikadai and/or Shikako’s child/children. Gaara/Shikako, Shilamaru/Temari – learn your family’s relationships in history class, or the most awkward history lesson

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Hi anon, thanks for the prompt. Awkward kidfic sounds like it’ll be fun! 🙂

Though I think I’m going to have to do something like “Five Cousins Shikadai Might Have Had” kind of thing instead of just one strictly Shikaara kidfic…

It’ll probably have some Kareru from You and Me and Baby (Makes Fifteen), the as of yet unnamed but brainstormed Shikasuke kid, and… well. I dunno yet, we’ll see?

Okay, anon, so I went and did some research and I’d kind of like to get your opinion on something but since you’re anon I obviously can’t message you hence reblogging this post. So here’s the issue:

I’m looking at the Narutopedia pages for Gaara’s kids and it’s very easy to interpret them as being adopted (in part because none of them look like him and also because it only says that they’re part of the Kazekage clan and that Gaara’s their father but no mention of a mother). And I personally headcanon that Shikako and Gaara would adopt anyway. So I guess what I’m saying is, do you mind if I just use the canon second-gen Sand siblings as Shikako and Gaara’s kids?

I mean, it’s not like we know very much about them anyway. So I can just make up how Shikako and Gaara (and probably Kankurou) would raise them in Suna…

What do you think, anon?

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Excellent! 🙂

Aaand I might as well say that “today” (September 3rd) is a missed post because I’m still working on this ficlet–should be posted up for September 4th’s post.

Filled here!

Prompt: Shikadai and/or Shikako’s child/children. Gaara/Shikako, Shilamaru/Temari – learn your family’s relationships in history class, or the most awkward history lesson

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jacksgreysays:

Hi anon, thanks for the prompt. Awkward kidfic sounds like it’ll be fun! 🙂

Though I think I’m going to have to do something like “Five Cousins Shikadai Might Have Had” kind of thing instead of just one strictly Shikaara kidfic…

It’ll probably have some Kareru from You and Me and Baby (Makes Fifteen), the as of yet unnamed but brainstormed Shikasuke kid, and… well. I dunno yet, we’ll see?

Okay, anon, so I went and did some research and I’d kind of like to get your opinion on something but since you’re anon I obviously can’t message you hence reblogging this post. So here’s the issue:

I’m looking at the Narutopedia pages for Gaara’s kids and it’s very easy to interpret them as being adopted (in part because none of them look like him and also because it only says that they’re part of the Kazekage clan and that Gaara’s their father but no mention of a mother). And I personally headcanon that Shikako and Gaara would adopt anyway. So I guess what I’m saying is, do you mind if I just use the canon second-gen Sand siblings as Shikako and Gaara’s kids?

I mean, it’s not like we know very much about them anyway. So I can just make up how Shikako and Gaara (and probably Kankurou) would raise them in Suna…

What do you think, anon?

Missed Post (2016-08-14)

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Today had a lot of ups and downs–more ups, technically, but the downs were more down than the ups were up, and some of those downs were supposed to be ups that fell through… if any of that makes any sense.

Basically the moving in process is two steps forward, three steps back.

Also, I realized for Stars Also Dream that I did the math wrong–Yoshino doesn’t need to have stopped aging, she needs to have suddenly aged… at least mentally. So I guess I could do something where physically she’s in stasis, but mentally she ages? Which is weird but… hrmph. I’m disappointed in myself–how could I math wrong? I love math! Alas, it clearly does not love me back.

Okay, so, I needed to visualize the math in order to make sure I wasn’t messing up again and came up with the following for Stars Also Dream:

(under the cut in case you’d rather not know exact ages and keep the ambiguity…)

So Yoshino is a 15 year old padawan when Anakin goes Dark side and Palpatine takes over as Emperor and the Skywalker twins are born. Which isn’t too bad considering Obi-Wan was a padawan up through his twenties. Also, Yoshino could have started off as a very young padawan ~10/11 and only had four years with Master Bant making it in line with “for a handful of years” in part 2 of SAD (… omg, is that really what this series abbreviates to?)

Since I am obviously ignoring Naruto canon and replacing it with DoS canon (which makes a lot more sense) then that means in DoS/Sunshine Sidestories canon, Yoshino only mentally refers to herself as 24 years old in her POV chapter and it’s never specifically brought up in either fic otherwise. Since SQ has given me tacit permission to age up DoS Ibiki for the sake of this series, I’m hoping that extends to physically aging Yoshino down by three years. Which isn’t too bad (and means I only have to age up Ibiki by seven years instead of ten, hooray). 

While that does mean the “physical” age difference between Shikaku and Yoshino is four years (as opposed to the “mental”/canon age difference of one year) that’s totally respectable, especially since I’m pretty sure they don’t start a relationship until Yoshino’s at least physically ~17/18 and mentally ~20/21 and while Shikaku is ~21/22. Given what people in this world are getting up to at age twelve that’s more than playing it safe, I think.

It’s my fanon understanding that most of the Rookie Nine’s parents were older than Naruto’s parents by a few years (barring, perhaps, Sasuke’s mother Mikoto). But since Yoshino is a little bit aged down, that means it’s very likely that she is the same age or not too much older than Kushina. And thus that subplot can move forward without any hangups on my part.

Now how to resolve the vertical blue line of rapid aging… I kinda have an idea but I need to ponder it some more and I’ll probably turn it into a proper installment for the series. It’ll probably be emotionally taxing–SAD, one might even say.

I worry about Shikasuke having a child together. Uchihas usually get a lot of emotional turbulence (Pretty aure that’s canon? Might also be the Curse of Hatred, tho I don’t know about it too well), and I feel like that won’t mix well with the Nara’s thing with souls and shadows and the need to be at peace with yourself (else you’d fall into black/the shadows eat you, i guess).

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Oh man, a biological Shikasuke child? Well, actually, even an adopted Shikasuke child I’d be a little worried about.

Mostly because as they are still such children themselves right now (even with Shikako’s reincarnation, she’s a teenager up against monsters and murderers and that’s really… she comes off as a very mature and mostly rational teenager, but still a teenager) and I’m hesitant to extrapolate what kind of adults and thus what kind of parents they’d be.

(I mean, I guess if I were to write something like this it would be Shikasuke child traveling back in time (or, alternatively, Shikako/Team Seven traveling forward in time) so that Shikasuke child meets Shikako when they’re all the same age.

Which would actually be kind of hilarious and… I mean, it’s happened before hasn’t it? Naruto travelled back in time to meet his parents in the anime, right? And he doesn’t even have the penchant for fuinjutsu experimentation or possible Mangekyou Sharingan omnipotence that Shikako and Sasuke do.)

Uh, anyway. I guess the thing is that on a purely biological point, an Uchiha-Nara child would be pretty dangerous. The Sharingan mixed with a spiritual predisposition for shadows? I would not want to be on the wrong end of that kunai. But I guess you can consider the mix of genes in three ways: either the child will have a genetic preference towards either the Uchiha traits or the Nara traits, the child will have both with lesser intensity than their parents, or the child will have a unique combination of the two.

(I mean, can you imagine how horrifying it would be if all the kid needed to do was connect to your shadow and you get sucked into an unbreakable genjutsu? WHYYYYY? Or, alternatively, all you need is eye contact and this kid has control of your body? OMG O_O )

That being said the other “clan traits” of the Uchiha and Nara–being powerful but emotionally unstable vs being intelligent and lazy–would probably end up in a kid that, yes, would be at risk of both clans’ psychological problems.

But you also have to consider that a lot of Sasuke’s emotional problems are because he legitimately has PTSD and basically raised himself at the scene of his family’s murder. Like… it’s surprising he’s as well adjusted as he is in canon before the Orochimaru bite.

This child would (hopefully) have at least one parent around growing up (seeing as how both of them are essentially un-killable) and possibly biological/honorary uncles and aunts, grandparents, and the entire Nara clan (Which might as well be the entire Akimichi-Nara-Yamanaka alliance) so there’s no chance of this kid ending up like Sasuke because that’s a fairly individual set of circumstances that will almost definitely not crop up again.

Will this child possibly end up like their parent because of a different reason (like Boruto basically acting like Naruto, not because he’s an orphaned pariah but because his dad is probs depressed and bad at parenting)? Yes, maybe. But I think this kid, especially seeing as how their mother was integral in making the Rookie Nine/Ten more cohesive than canon, will be the “it takes a village” kind of child than the simultaneously-put-on-a-pedestal-but-considered-a-potential-walking-bomb that was Sasuke’s childhood.

Actually, I guess maybe I should try to extrapolate what Sasuke and Shikako might be as parents… but another reason why that’s so hard for me is that I don’t actually think they want to be parents. Like, sure, Sasuke wants to “revive his clan” but that’s a lot different from “having and raising a child.” Whereas Shikako, during the babysitting missions they had early on, had been good at it but had also not been super keen on it.

That being said. DoS Sasuke wouldn’t be weirdly exiled from Konoha like canon!Sasuke is, so he would be around more for their kid’s childhood than for Sarada’s. Which is not to say that he’d be around all the time (maybe his village lockdown days will ingrain him with a sense of wanderlust, or maybe he really will just settle down okay in Konoha without the driving need to get stronger/revenge always pushing him forward) but definitely more often.

Ditto with Shikako. I mean, I kind of wrote a thing about what I thought a future/epilogue Shikako might be like but that’s literally only one of many possibilities. She, too, may prefer settling down since, presumably, the Akatsuki/Danzo/Madara/Kaguya threat has been taken care of. And we have seen her be especially academic–when not in danger, her tendency seems to be to research and invent–and staying in a peaceful Konoha would help with that.

I don’t know, anon, it’s still a little difficult for me to imagine. I mean… I actually think–if they are both active parents and, more importantly, the two primary guardians–that Sasuke would be the one who is better at the emotional matters than Shikako. Like, if that child gets scared? Shikako would probably reassure them that there’s nothing to be afraid of–which isn’t bad parenting–but Sasuke would be the one to coach that kid through their fear, be like “if there is a monster under the bed, we will do this and this so the monster can’t get you” (and then proceed to teach their child Grand Fireball, probably) which is acknowledged to be a better method of dealing with your child’s fears.

Just… conscientious snake versus rabid badger, you know?

I think this kid will be scary. I think this kid will be smart and emotional and ruthless. I think this kid will probably overstep their limits on multiple occasions, will fall into the black at least once, will hurt people around them when they’re angry. But that’s what a lot of kids are like–probably both in the Naruto world and in the real world.

This kid will have the advantage of having a loving support system. This kid will probably love their friends and family fiercely, will be loyal and the best person to have beside you in a fight and watching your back. This kid will probably invent jutsu that impress, bewilder, and exasperate people because do you know how much paperwork this is going to be? Let’s be honest, this kid will probably end up being the Hachidaime or best friends with the Hachidaime and will make their parents (and uncles and aunts and grandparents) hella proud.

So I don’t think we need to worry too much, anon, I think this child is going to be alright 🙂

edit: Wrote a bit about “Sakako Uchiha” in this ficlet here!