Imagine If Naruto, The Anime/manga, Actually Wrote Sakura Right

Imagine if Naruto, the anime/manga, actually wrote Sakura right

For those not in the know

Examples of her character not being given the chance to grow:

just becomes a medic after Naruto - no super strength she worked so hard for I guess

marries sasuke - apparently he and Naruto are just Really Good Friends, and she loves him despite all the things he did against her

after time skip, she gets stronger but literally nothing else changes

still has a crush on Sasuke after Konoha crush/actually wants to go with him? Dude he helped the guy who murdered hundreds? You think she likes him after that?

Consider that she wouldn’t be so forward with Sasuke if she had realized the first episode was Naruto flirting and not Sasuke?

Never touched on the genjutsu thing?

Tsunade is the only Sannin with real backlash to using her gift?

Sakura forgives him right away? Even though he tried to murder her? Literally on the sidelines for almost everything?

When you were looking for Kiri!Sakura and you find this piece of gold

@the-formerone *whispers* bro- broooo- help me out here- you know this needs to be written

ok so. we all know wave’s arc. well how about this: when gatou shows up, sakura is the one hit by haku’s needles. the boys think she’s dead and because let’s face it naruto wouldn’t have had the same reaction for sakura, they go on to fight and because sasuke is better than sakura, neither haku nor zabuza dies. however when team 7 goes to collect sakura’s body, thinking she’s dead, it’s gone. turns out sakura has a reality check regarding her abilities, her relationship with her teammates and how shitty kakashi is as a teacher. so she stays hidden until they leave in another direction to look for her, then she asks zabuza to take her as an apprentice. for some reason, he does. the guy has a bleeding heart. fast forward a few years, both haku and sakura are kickass, zabuza killed kisame so he got samehada and gave kurukiribouchou to sakura. they all go back to kiri to stage a fucking revolution, and it works. zabuza becomes mizukage, haku is the head of the kiri anbu and sakura joins the seven swordsmen new generationTM. sasuke didn’t betray the village cause naruto and him got their feelings in order soon enough and they became a two-men squad. one day they’re sent to kiri on a mission, and they come accross the seven’s training ground.

suffice to say, they’re shook

(wanna know sakura’s most famous technique? senbon. senbon sent to a very specifc part of the skull, which she spent years getting right, the part that says to the hear yeah dude, you should keep beating. if she misses, which she rarely does, well… she does have a huge dick, sorry, sword, so she deals with it)

also dedicated to @fineillsignup cause she’s what keeps my headcanons going and she’s awesome for that

His grandma always said "The world is hard on us dreamers". And as Izuku watches the number one hero, his hero, bound off into the distance, disapproving words still ringing in his head, he can almost hear her say "That's why you need to build your spine out of steel. Don't let them entinguish your flames". "Okay grandma" Izuku promised, echoing his response from so long ago, "I won't let them stomp me out".

Random Thoughts: Hades and Persephone Pt. 2

Persephone: Also known as Kore/Kora, which I will be using because it is shorter and spelling is dumb. She is not an innocent maiden. She is someone who is unflinching and tenacious, to see winter and the Death it brings and choose to start again, even though she knows it won't change. She is someone who isn't squeamish, to see corpses staining the ground and use it as fertilizer. She is someone who looks at dead things and grows over them, someone who creeps moss over building to allow for things to grow. She is someone who ate a fruit that looked of blood and loves a man whom most fear. She is someone who was not afraid to walk into that abyss at the edge of the field, who was not afraid to follow the voice and her curiosity. She is someone who looked at her life, found it wanting, and was not afraid to change it.

So while Hades deals with the others, she deals with the bad. She listens to each boast about every bad deed, each hit they throw or take and she decides whether to give them another chance after some punishment, or to chop their soul into bits to feed to Ceberus. And she is not scared.

Persephone is not a tainted lily, nor is she a caged bird. She is not that which is soft against the skin nor that which can be stolen and kept. She is the wind whistling through the cave. She is the flower blooming in a skull and the rot that covers a corpse. She is a garden full of posion all the more beautiful for being untamed. She is a hunter and she is a shield.

Consider that most would use Izuku as the personification of Light and Life, and Shinsou as the personification of Darkness and Death. Then flip.

Izuku being a kind death, welcoming darkness that takes the suffering souls, the hurt souls, and wraps them in his cloak of only black.

Shinsou being a tired life, with light more akin to moonlight than to sunlight. Shinsou giving karma to those that hurt others, and using his light to reveal the talents of those previously forgotten.

Izuku coming to gently lift a soul from a body, and Shinsou being that instinct in your head that refuses to let oneself give up on living.

Aizawa who thought he would get a mini-him and is now stuck with this super kind soft child that for all intents and purposes looks like a Sunshine Child.

Yamada thinking that he would get someone bubbly and talkative like him, and instead getting this lazy snarky child that would fit in better with the Abyss Children.

And of course, Nemuri and Oboro were the Dawn and the Dusk Mentors, though better known as Twilight children.

You know, you're scrolling your tag and you see like two ideas and you just want to smash them together? No? Well I do sometimes. So here:

Consider Izuku as a vigilante for longer than the police realize. They only have figured out in the past week or so (not the current year or two ) because Izuku basically cosplays as different underground heroes. And I'm not talking put a wig and outfit on and call it good, I'm talking wearing makeup, and indiscreet voice changer (or quirk at bottom), outfit as close as possible, with stilts or pumps heels even and contacts and wigs and mannerisms. He planned this out for months, spent hours researching different underground heroes just to get their mannerisms, fight styles, patrols and hobbies. He got so good he's fooling not only the civilians, but other pros at a distance. The only reason there was a report a new vigilante was out and about was because he literally ran into Eraserhead while cosplaying as him. So now Eraserhead is trying to find his double and Izuku is committed now to staying as Eraserhead.(He doesn't want to be caught in a different cosplay and cause more suspicion or paranoia). (Alternatively, he just focused on Eraserhead because he was the easiest to copy)

Notes on Izuku profile: Notably, there would be some changes. Considering Aizawa is 6ft ish/ 183 cm, Izuku would have to be decently tall to be close. Let's say between Shinsou's height of 177 (5'9) and Kirishima's 170 (5'6) so about 5'8-5'7 (Add 1in pumps) It's still a solid four inches, but if Izuku doesn't actually slouch as much, just gives off the appearance, or doesn't stand close to Aizawa, no one can tell. Also consider that his hair would be shaved shorter so that wigs would stay on easier. (More crew cut like, at least on the sides (think undercut?)) If you really wanted to, 3-4in pumps (but that seems clunky) Listen Izuku got really into his cosplay, of course he shaved his sides.

Effects of world around him? One, people are more confused about what Eraserhead's quirk is, because sometimes he erases quirks and sometimes he can...taze people? Move really fast? Heal overnight/in hours? (Because they switch) If USJ, Shigaraki takes longer because the underground has no clue what the cues are either

Two: UA could probably be for sixteen (not fifteen) years olds, just to make the height difference easier.

Three: On April 1st, Aizawa creates a truce and he makes the vigilante (Eraser Head or EH/Eh Rubberskull? Rubbernoggin? Pencillead? Leadtail? for short) be him instead. His friends only catch when Izuku starts skipping away. They have several seconds of bluescreening before that though.

Midoriya's possible quirk? Mimic: Whether it be just a voice thing, or expands to mannerisms and or quirk (very slightly/asthetics) (Shinso bonding or Monoma bonding?)

Or, alternatively, a minor shape-shifting quirk, not enough for permenance (does it once and it lasts for like 4hrs) and has to perfect by himself. (Or a friend who could do that to other people)

Finally, Echo: has a set of three quirks that he can echo- can activate for 3-5 seconds. Easier and longer the more time he spends in their presence, and are consciously chosen. (He can use his mom's for 20 minutes, but only because he grew up with her). (Monoma bonding?)

Other Random sidenotes:

Izuku bringing Shinsou in on it (maybe once on the day before the next April fool's, after he was caught)

"Are you sure it isn't mitosis? Because I'm staring at three Aizawas and I'm pretty sure I'm not seeing things "

If the whole class is involved:

"Guys, Aizawa multiplied. There is no class, and mini-hims are all sleeping around campus. I almost tripped over one of them on five separate occasions."

"You think that's bad? We ran out of coffee again. We bought coffee beans last week! One of them even hissed at me like Aizawa does when I tried to get my own!"

Meanwhile Aizawa: no schoolwork :)))

Random student: *traumatized* there are neon yellow catapillars everyone and Everytime I look back they've gotten closer

Other random: At least you know where they are. When I look back, they Vanish

Izuku standing next to Aizawa, both dressed as Eraserhead.

"Are you sure it isn't the shorter one?"-Mic

*Both give Mic a disappointed look*

Mimic!Izuku in 1A:

"Guys guys watch this- *changes to Aizawa voice* -Hi I'm Aizawa, I'm 30, going through my midlife crisis, sleepless and part cat and catapillar. Also I despise everything-"

Or *in Aizawa voice "*cackles* Logical Ruse!"