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Hatake clan shenanigans

I don’t think Shippuden talked about the friendship Naruto and Sakura developed enough.

scenes that make you go insane

New Iruka and Naruto Banpresto Prize figures (September 2024 release) I'VE BEEN WAITING 20 YEARS FOR THIS *cries*

he’s always the center in these discussions. patron saint of yaoi culture

[ID 2: Tweet by 326 @ lawlightautism reading, why r yall writing disingenuous af thinkpiecies on why women like yaoi "women like yaoi bcuz they want to project" "women like yaoi because they hate yuri" Maybe women like yaoi because they like seeing Sasuke getting his prostrate massaged /End ID.]

Itachi does genuinely love Sasuke imo which is why it makes it even stranger his treatment of him at first glance, but I think it makes sense for his character. This is a man who was being turned into an emotionless killing machine for the state starting at what….age 4? Itachi is deeply fucked up. His ideas of love and human behavior and rationality are not fucking normal, they’re severely distorted. I think he did what he was forced to do to “save” Sasuke, and also selfishly indulged in brutalizing Sasuke out of a desire to use Sasuke to self harm. He wanted Sasuke to personally punish and kill him, that’s straight out of canon. Itachi loves Sasuke but he doesn’t fully understand or respect or see him as a human and an individual. It was basically second nature to him to go way too far, to be way too cruel with him. I think Itachi is objectively always and forever the villain.