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Kakashi: I sleep with a knife.

Naruto: Both of you are pathetic.

Sakura: Oh yeah? What do you sleep with?

NOPE

They kissed in the third episode! IN THE THIRD EPISODE! And they kept up that tension, teetering right on the edge of plausible deniability. The show itself keeps adding fuel to the fire with the way Naruto talks about Sasuke, making you look around, desperate to ask anyone, "Are you seeing what I’m seeing?"

And the fandom answers in chorus, “YES!”

Even if you couldn't care less about either of them, you still find yourself seething with a quiet rage, just wanting the show to finally admit that this goes way beyond the boundaries of heterosexuality. But Kishimoto is like, Hahaha, nope! They're going to have wives! :P

And on top of it all, you have to sit through HashiMada, who, in their short appearance, almost outgayed the main gay couple. Madara simply cannot shut up about how great Hashirama is, and Hashirama, with his "gift from the divine" and that GIANT STATUE OF MADARA!.. Oh, sure, Mr. "I want your likeness carved into the cliff," you wanted to do that as a symbol of protection, and not because you wanted to see Madara's face every single goddamn day!

By this point, you’re practically on your knees begging Kishimoto to just admit that the thing he actually wants to do is write gay drama.

Oh, and don't tell me it was all an accident, that Kishimoto didn't know what he was doing. That it's "just an intense interpretation of friendship." The man who drew this knew exactly what he was doing:

let’s break it down

worst first date in history

when hashirama offers a truce, madara is like: kill yourself or your brother. he literally invented the most unhinged compatibility test ever… and it’s the only time he actually won. hashirama chose to end it all and told everyone not to touch madara after he's gone, proving their bond was worth more than his own life. madara saw that proof and finally agreed to the whole “konoha project”

hokage? nah, democracy

hashirama promises him the entire world and then goes “oh wait sorry my little brother said i’m not allowed to.” for madara, this wasn't just about a job title, it was hashirama choosing tobirama and the system over a personal promise. the first red flag that madara was just standing in a very long line behind the village

who is your real brother?

that one panel that still makes my heart ache. madara is leaving and asks: “you call me brother, but who would you actually kill—tobirama or me?”

this is peak “if we’re both drowning who are you saving first?” drama. since he didn’t get a straight answer, madara realized he would never be as important as blood ties and ideology

death by that one

valley of the end. hashirama says he’ll kill anyone to protect the village

hashirama: “you’re a gift from divine!”

also hashirama: stabs him in the back

it’s the final choice in madara’s head. village > madara

madara made hashirama his whole universe, but hashirama made madara just another threat to the status quo

madara spent his entire life asking the same question in different fonts: “am i your number one?”

but let’s be real: even dying for the second time, he just wanted to hear: “you were right, the village wasn’t worth it, you’re the most special one to me. let's go drink some sake!”

Uchiha shenanigans during the fourth war part two (well, if Obito wasn't gone in the kamui dimenion when Madara sensed Hashirama. Don't worry about it)

Just imagine this is an alternate universe where Hashirama took less time yapping and was actually worried about his ex trying to destroy the world.

Obito looked so done with Madara the whole time he was with him, and Madara was rather calm and put together at this point, so it was very funny to imagine how he would have reacted when Madara rushed to meet Hashirama the moment he got a whiff of his chakra.

Monoshin comic !

I made this comic around April, but I decided to why not post it now? I love them 🥹💛 The artstyle is a little different though pfft

The song is called "Wait a Minute!" By Willow 💫 It popped up in my fyp and it made me think of Monoshin, so, of course, I wanted to draw them to this song 😛

(Alternative below ⋆˚꩜｡)

From that one character meme going around on twt