Rabbit Style Jutsu

Hi! I'm Rabbit!

I write, I draw things, I don't care about the discourse. Multi- and Poly-shipper, all of my blorbos are verse switches. I decided to consolidate all my Naruto brainrot into one place, so here we are!

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~Masterlist~

Making Friends AU: A time-travel fix-it where I bully Sasuke into being nice to the rest of the Konoha 12

Omegaverse: My hyper-specific omegaverse worldbuilding applied to Naruto

Rabbit Writes: Snippets, teasers, and fics

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Rabbit Talks: Any of my random text posts or musings

Rin got into some kind of accident over summer break that left her hospitalized and the rumor mill says it was Kakashi's fault or that Kakashi attacked her, so he's got his "friend-killer" reputation even though Rin is still perfectly fine, she's just being home-schooled for the year to help minimize the risks of any complications while she finishes healing, and to free up her time for physical therapy and stuff.

So people think Kakashi is a monster and he's not defending himself because he's absolutely riddled with guilt and Obito does get into a couple fights with people about it but due to misunderstandings it seems like he's fighting people over talking about Rin and not about assuming that Kakashi hurt her, which means the optics of the whole situation boil down to "Kakashi tried to kill Obito's best friend and now he's harassing Obito"

Idk who the pov character should be. Obviously not Guy, who still considers Kakashi his Eternal Rival. Not teacher Minato. Asuma? Kurenai? Hell maybe a rotating cast of povs between all the various jounin and the very wrong conclusions they're all coming to.

“What exactly are you and Kiba planning?”

Akamaru kneads his paws into the soft, cool earth, breathing in the scent of the forest. Rain-damp-soil scents and chakra-rich-tree-scents and sweet-green scents, prey-animal scents, shinobi-comrade-pack scents that linger on the branches and footpaths. For a long moment all he does is breathe it in, and in, and in, and pretend that it all still means what he thought it meant when he was younger, and didn’t know any better.

When his lungs are aching-full and his chest won’t expand any farther, he lets it out again, slowly. Then he turns around.

“Planning?” He asks. “You say it like you suspect us of something, uncle.”

Kuromaru is as hard to read as ever. His gaze on Akamaru is as cool and steady as the earth beneath his paws. “I’m not sure what to expect from the two of you, anymore.”

There it is again. He says the two of you the same way he said planning. Like those words mean something else. Like he’s making accusations, with no cause, with no proof.

Akamaru says “That’s not fair. Everything my master and I do is for the pack."

Kuromaru tilts his head. Says “You say that,” dismissive. Always so goddamn dismissive. “Maybe you even believe it, but that look in your eyes… it makes my fur stand on end.”

That look. That tone. That attitude. That, that, that, always that thing, always something wrong, always another reason for Kuromaru to look at his own blood like a stranger, another excuse for Tsume-sama to speak to Master Kiba like he’s an enemy instead of her goddamn pup, always that.

“That look?”

Master Kiba is tired and sad about it.

Akamaru is furious.

“Why don’t you say it?” He demands, advancing. The days when he needed to look up at Kuromaru are long passed. Akamaru is taller than all of his uncles now, and growing still. “Is ambition a dirty word for you, uncle? Is that why it scares you so much? Because I have it in abundance, and you’ve never had any—?!”

Have any of these genin been seriously harmed? Are the bandages and splints they wear normal for such low-level prisoners, or has Konoha’s T&I enacted undue and extreme violence against them?

He doesn’t know.

It never would have bothered him before, the not-knowing. Now he thinks of the crumpled heap Hinata had fallen into after her fight with her cousin, barely a visible mark on her but her organs shutting down on the inside. He thinks of the way Rock Lee’s Gates seem to both grant him incredible power and cause him incredible harm at the same time. Is Gaara capable of understanding the difference between the one and the other? If someone showed him the signs, taught him what to look for, how to measure something minor against something life-threatening and the steps necessary to stabilize a wound, would he be able to learn?

There are so very many things he does not know. The gaps in his knowledge, in his humanity, are fathomless and daunting.

He does not know where or how to begin filling them. He does not know if he can. He does not know if there is any point in trying.

And yet.

Sometimes the mountain has no peak, Sasuke had said. Keep climbing anyway.

My obsessive deranged over-outlining as reached new and terrible heights

I'm working on a system to outline power progression

As you can see: It involves Skill Trees.

The two blue nodes in the center are Chakra Control and Chakra Points. CC is a level system between 1-30, CP works like mana points and are the "cost" of both purchasing and using a jutsu.

To the left we have Ninjutsu branches, which include "colorless" Ninjutsu as well as branches for every Release -- Elemental, Yin, Yang, Barrier, and Medical. Every branch includes nodes for "purchasing" Jutsu between levels D and S, except Colorless, which includes E-Rank. Wood Style is included but requires a special unlock.

In order to purchase a Jutsu level you need to have core stats high enough to use it.

E-Rank Jutsu cost 2 Chakra Points and require between level 1-3 Chakra Control

D-Rank Jutsu cost 4 Chakra Points and require between levels 3-5 Chakra Control

C-Rank Jutsu cost 7 Chakra Points and require between levels 5-10 Chakra Control

B-Rank Jutsu cost 10 Chakra Points and require between levels 10-15 Chakra Control

A-Rank Jutsu cost 15 Chakra Points and require between levels 15-25 Chakra Control

S-Rank Jutsu cost 20+ Chakra Points and require between levels 20-30 Chakra Control

CP is also how much it "costs" to use that Jutsu. So, for example, we know that when Sasuke first learned the Chidori, he could only use it three times in one day. Since the Chidori is noted as being a uniquely taxing Jutsu, lets say it costs 30 CP. That means at the time of the Chunin Exams, Sasuke had 90 CP and level 20-ish Chakra Control.

Looking up we have a Taijutsu tree, which is basically treated like the Physical stat and includes nodes for strength, speed, stealth, endurance, tenacity, and skill/style (which allows you to master a specific fighting style or purchase and mix/match other ones) as well as weapon proficiency and weapon specialization.

To the right is the Genjutsu tree for sensing, breaking, enduring, and casting various types of Genjutsu.

Down south we have Sensing, which includes both normal perception and chakra/Jutsu-based Sensing abilities (Range detail clarity etc)

There are offshoots for Kekkei Genkai/Hiden which each connect to their own unique tree based on the bloodline or clan of the person connecting to it, Sage mode which has its own tree, Trap Making and Sealing which have their own trees, and Intelligence/Strategy and Charisma, which aren't strictly Jutsu or Chakra abilities, but let's be so honest, Naruto's Talk No Jutsu is his greatest weapon, and Shikamaru's brain is like 90% of his skill set.

Since we know in order to graduate the Academy you need to be able to preform three E-Rank Jutsu (Substitution, Transformation, Clone) we know the bare minimum core stats for an Academy Graduate are 6 CP and level 3 CC (probably closer to 10-12 CP actually since the kids don't show any visible exhaustion after using all three jutsu.)

We don't really know much about the genjutsu or taijutsu teachings in the Academy other than It's A Thing That Happens, so let's say the absolute bare minimum is at least one point in Recognizing, Breaking, and Casting a genjutsu, as well as one pont each in Speed, Strength, Weapon Proficiency and two points in Skill/Style (Konoha Kenpo)

That means the absolute most bottom of the class level you can be at and still graduate the Academy is

10 Chakra Points

Level 3 Chakra Control

5 points in Taijutsu

3 points in Genjutsu

Based on some calculations I'm pulling out of my ass, that puts the average Academy graduate somewhere closer to

12-15 Chakra Points

Level 4 Chakra Control

7 points in Taijutsu

5 points in Genjutsu

With more skilled students obviously having higher points in whatever categories they excel at.

Based on some more totally legit and definitely correct calculations, that means

Average person taking the Chunin exams ranks at about

75 Chakra Points

Level 12-15 Chakra Control

35 points in Taijutsu

25 points in Genjutsu

and at least 5-20 points in other specialties

Tokubetsu Jounin stat blocks tend to look kind of like

150 Chakra Points

Level 15-20 Chakra Control

75 points in Taijutsu

45 points in Genjutsu

15 points in other Specialties

Whill a Full Jounin averages at about

225 Chakra Points

Level 25-30 Chakra Control

105 points in Taijutsu

75 points in Genjutsu

15-30 points in other Specialties

And of course using these as the base blocks, I can shuffle points around and add more wherever a character uniquely excels or uniquely sucks at a particular stat, like taking basically all of Lee and Guy's stats and putting them into Taijutsu, buffing Kurenai's genjutsu stats, figuring out how many CP a single Shadow Clone would cost, multiplying that by I think it was like fucking 150 clones that Naruto used in his fight against Mizuki, and using that to guesstimate about how much Chakra Naruto has at the start of the series compared to everybody else.

"But why would you do all of this" honestly, just for fun! And also to use as an outlining tool to help me conceptualize the way different characters stack up against each other in fights, and how all of them are progressing through the series. I can decide how many points a character gains based on days spent training/meditating/etc, and which nodes or abilities are only unlockable through plot events (like leveling up a Sharingan through exposure to trauma) and use that to map out how many scenes I need exploring a character's pursuit of power, or decide how early on I want a character to gain access to certain branches on the tree.

He recognized her intelligence and her potential. In part 1 he repeatedly is in situations where he just automatically assumes that Sakura will be able to do something or figure the situation out (such as the genjutsu on the door for the written portion of the Chunin exams -- the second Sasuke realizes it's there he immediately assumes Sakura also already realized it) and he's shown to be protective of her and concerned with her well-being and want to keep her safe (his reaction to finding her injured with her hair chopped off in the Forest Of Death was admittedly at least 50% the Curse Mark screwing with his head, but his furious demands of "Who did that to you?!" were very organically his own)

Like yeah he sucks at showing it and he's a great big grumpy tsundere and I think Kishimoto kind of fumbled handling Sasuke's actual like "redemption" after he burned all of his bridges but Sasuke did not actually think Sakura was too weak or stupid or useless to be a Kunoichi. He was just pissed she was constantly getting involved in fights above her weight class and risking her life in the process, and also his and Naruto's bizarre mutual obsession thing didn't really. Leave room, for anybody else.

Gaara didnt just ignore Naruto outright and ask for Sasuke’s name for no particular reason, he dismissed Naruto as a weakling based on his interactions with Kankuro and Sasuke caught his attention with his display of strength (throwing a small pebble hard enough to stop Kankuro’s hand) and the look in his eyes (hard and cold and traumatized, similar to Gaara’s)

Goofy idiot puppy boy Kiba? Clear anger issues, bit himself bloody to calm down during the Chunin exams, was Extremely quick to chose murder-suicide as an option during the Sasuke Retrieval arc.

Sweet, gentle Choji's situation in that arc also read way too much like an allegory for disordered eating, dietary self-harm, and he also ultimately was like "sure I guess" when suicide became an option.

Guy actively encouraged Lee to risk his life on a 50/50 operation because dying was better than living as a civilian, which of course was more about protecting and encouraging Lee's dream but is still a Wild thing to say to a thirteen year old.

Hinata is just already an abuse victim and also Her Family Owns Slaves which is frankly more than enough edginess already, but when we add in that one of those slaves is her fucking cousin who's rage is fully justified but ultimately aimed at the wrong target (her) and then he Also is way too willing to throw his life away.

Sakura has bpd. Shino is desperate for someone to just acknowledge and care that he exists. Ino and Sakura were dieting at twelve years old and this wasn't ever like An Issue for any of the adults in their world. So much of Shikamaru's whole "I don't care and don't want to be here" thing gets revealed as kind of a cover for the fact that he feels so so so responsible for the people he cares about and that weight is absolutely crushing to him. Sasuke.

The kit blinks at him. “My name is Naruto.”

Sage fucking save him. Kurama can't even bare to look at the brat. He drapes a paw and then three of his tails over his eyes, like maybe being unable to see the stupidity will make it go away.

Im always team “Lee should match Gaara’s freak actually” wrt him having a bit of an edge to him that he tries very very hard to smother because he thinks it’s not very youthful and goes against the teachings of his kind and wise sensei (he is wrong, Guy is a shinobi and has done and enjoyed doing horrible things before, he’s just made the conscious decision to stay kind in spite of that and doesn’t realize his student is struggling with that)

Something a little bit more in-line with what we see of Lee when he’s drunk, rude and bold and openly mocking his opponents, delighting in not just the challenge but the violence itself, pushing and pushing just to see how far he can go before either he or the other one breaks—

And I think playing more with that in a gaalee scenario would be a lot of fun. Usually they’re depicted as kind of a Roger and Jessica Rabbit “he makes me laugh” ass relationship where Gaara is seen as powerful and elegant and traditionally attractive and holding higher social status and Lee is his weird ass boyfriend in green spandex and orange leg warmers who people kind of side-eye, but I would fucking love to see Lee grow into (and even surpass) Guy’s reputation as that guy you absolutely do not fuck with, in which case Lee and Gaara together stops being a personality match and starts being the most shit-your-pants terrifying power couple you’ve ever seen.