I Love This So Much

I love this so much

This is probably how most of their study sessions go. I love these dorks so much

ok so like i know the reason is just. sexism but one thing that really irks me about how the post-timeskip naruto manga handled which characters became medic nin bc it makes absolutely no sense to me

sakura's decision to train under tsunade makes sense, and i love that she got a super strength power up, so no notes there, but the other teams.... yeesh

so first off, team ten. we're told that ino decided to follow sakura into mednin land to keep being rivals with her... despite that at no point factoring into their rivalry at all beforehand. ino never showed any interest in that, nor was the yamanaka clan ever mentioned to have anything to do with healing as far as i can remember. it's like going to art school to stay with your bestie when your goal is to become a dentist. why are you there. find other ways to spend time together. it also kinda goes against her family's whole thing as. the guys who do the torture stuff. and it's barely ever relevant anyway

for team ten, i think the team medic should've been shikamaru, and i think this not just bc i think it makes more sense skill-wise (something about the way the nara clan's various shadow jutsu work just screams "you need good chakra control for this" to me), but also bc i think it would make asuma's death a thousand times more painful. bc shikamaru is a slacker. he's not learning medical ninjutsu bc he wants to, he's learning it bc someone on the team has to in order to stick together. they're all chuunin now; one of them has to be a medic. them's the rules. but he doesn't really care that much, even when he is trying to learn, and he's so used to being smart enough to not have to pay attention in lessons anyway that he's not prepared for classes that require his full focus. and then asuma dies and shikamaru is doomed to spend the rest of his fucking life wondering if he could've saved him by paying just a little more attention to those medical ninjutsu lessons (he could not have (but he'll never know for sure))

team eight makes some sense, since giving the girl who struggles with fighting the healing job isn't exactly out of nowhere, but i do feel it was the lazy choice. kiba already had a sister involved in the medical business, even if she deals more with animals, so he could've started learning from her and found that he liked it. plus kiba's goal is to be hokage, and the current hokage is a mednin, so it's not like it wouldn't support his goal. or shino could do it; would add another layer to his character. hinata works fine but. it's just not a very interesting development imo

but what really gets me is team gai. good freaking grief. out of every single team, team gai was the one with the most obvious choice. bc there was only one choice. lee can't do any kind of ninjutsu, and tenten's only real backstory is that her chakra control isn't good enough for her to be a medic nin. so it had to be neji. canon establishes that every team has to have a medic; this is a policy tsunade got passed even before she became hokage, so no way in hell is she going back on it now.

moreover, neji becoming a medical ninja - especially if hiashi encouraged it - would show some development for the hyuuga clan maybe starting to suck a bit less. bc as a medic, neji would be bound by oath to stay alive for as long as possible. imagine a world in which hizashi came back and hiashi was able to tell his brother that not only was their family starting to change, but his son had chosen a path that would prevent him from ever following in his father's footsteps. it would be the first step (of many) to show that the hyuuga clan was freeing itself from its own bullshit.

also it would've made sakura catching the zetsu pretending to be neji a thousand times funnier. like that's her coworker. they've shared shifts at the hospital together. she's seen neji drink vodka straight from a bottle and then crash on her couch after they got out of a twelve-hour surgery on the fucking dumbass chuunin who managed to step on his own boobytrap. she knows him.

Naruto: *smashing a watermelon with a chair leg*

Sakura: Hey, Naruto... what's going on, man?

Naruto: I'm mad. So I'm channeling all my rage into this stupid, stupid watermelon.

Sakura: Sounds good. You wanna talk about what's making you angry?

Naruto: Soon... this watermelon is still pissing me off.

Sakura: You get it, Naruto. I'm gonna go set up your bed for a cuddle and talk therapy session

Naruto: Alright, cool... can I have a hug before you go?

Sakura: *hugs Naruto gently* Of course you can. You want some tea?

Naruto: *sniffles a little* yes please...

Sakura: I got you. I'm here.

Naruto: Always?

Sakura: Always

Obito Week: Day 5 - Clan Customs

// Before Sasuke's birth, the Uchiha clan would all gather monthly to celebrate life, birth and death. Children would paint with their mothers and fathers, play with their friends and learn the clans songs and dances. Adults would help by carving their instruments, sewing their special kimono and assisting with the creation of their own hairpins and fans. Children played a vital role in life, bringing joy and laughter, helping the darkness that loomed in war disappear. The village tarnished the clans love for celebration before Sasuke could experience it in his childhood, so after the war, Obito decided to give it to him and his family now, in a era of peace and acceptance.

// @obito-week

What other shounin series you think sakura couldve benefitted in terms of writing if she was in that universe instead?🤔

The only other Shounen I've read or seen enough of to make a judgement is Demon Slayer, which I've finished and really loved the writing of. The way the mangaka wrote the characters really makes you feel for them, even the "bad guys" got me emotional, the only character I didn't feel fully for was Rengouku but I think that's just because he wasn't around for long. I still felt for him though in some way. In the writing of Demon Slayer, I could see her benefiting in some ways, the characters are really well fleshed out in Demon Slayer and the backstories are very emotional, and if given to Sakura it could do her good but some original elements of her character may be lost. Simply because KNY and Naruto have different worlds, world building and character building. Also, I think it's important to note that even if her world was changed, she'd still get hate just like Kanroji Mitsuri getting hate for having a family that's alive.