A heart of steel starts to grow...

Stress relief drawings, continuation from this.

i mean lookit them

and i realized

i waS LIKE SASUKE

tHEN REALIZATION PT 2

HE WEARS THOSE dUMB LOOKIN ARMBANDS CAUSE FIRE

The Naruto world does not share our morals.

 It likely doesn’t share our mental capacities, either. Research shows that things like trauma ultimately alter our brains and the brains of our descendants. The people of the Naruto world literally do not feel like we do. 

We’re led to believe that the world has been constantly at war- Konoha itself is proof of that, being built by mercenary clans. Each and every member of the Konoha Eleven is being trained as a lethal killer. They’re twelve. That’s normal. 

 Leaving an orphan to grow up mostly in solitude IS NORMAL. Advancing a twelve year old to Jounin captain and sending them out to fight a war IS NORMAL. Only truly outlandish crimes which have nothing to do with outer conflict- like the Uchiha Incident or Zabuza’s murder of an entire graduating class in Kiri- are considered abnormal. 

To the people of the Naruto universe there is not a single thing morally wrong with turning children into soldiers.   

This is why Hashirama and Madara were such outliers. They were the first ones to look at the world and go ‘WHY is it this way? Isn’t this fucked?’ 

It is no surprise to me that they by and large failed in bringing about peace. They wouldn’t just be changing the clans of Konoha, they would have to change years of accumulated mental shifts based on societies designed for warfare. 

Even Naruto shouldn’t have been able to manage as quickly as he did in The Mistake, which has a lot to do with worldbuilding that went right out the fucking window when someone decided to continue the series after the abysmal tommyknockers ending. 

(am I the only one who remembers the ninvillages AREN’T the ruling government authorities of the five great nations…?) 

Anyway my point stands. 

“But why didn’t they-”

They wouldn’t.

she’s never seen using them yet her canon nature types are earth and water (the two elements needed for wood style) 

yamato, the only other living wood style user, was literally her captain and could’ve trained her like naruto - and as a wood style user she could’ve trained with naruto by controlling kurama instead of sitting around with sai and watching

she’s the student and successor of tsunade (hashirama’s granddaughter) and surpassed even tsunade’s byakugou - as in, the closest jutsu to hashirama’s regeneration

from the beginning her character and narrative have heavily involved nature and growth (even down to her name - literally “spring field of cherry blossoms” - and color design - green + floral pinks)

she has a much higher focus / concentration and learning speed than naruto, who reached sage mode! she should be able to just as well!

sage mode is already taught by both the toads and snakes, so narratively the slugs should be able to teach it too - and sakura already has an established summoning ability and connection with katsuyu

just a little thing, but sakura’s clasped hands shown repeatedly in openings and endings could’ve grown from a passive gesture to one of strength - the snake hand sign iconic to wood style

best ninja

The most underrated character, doesn’t he?