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Unbeknownst to the rest of the village, Sakura lives a double life as a trained assassin who reports directly to the Hokage’s office. For three brutal, bliss-filled years, she served beside Kakashi in ANBU— equal as peers, partnered together on the most dangerous of assignments. Then Tsunade steps down, Kakashi becomes the Rokudaime, and he is once again her superior. Frustrated by the reversion, Sakura finds herself pushing at his boundaries and reaching for whatever power she can take back. KakaSaku | canon-divergent | Explicit

Welp, I stand corrected. Apparently these are the casting details for the Naruto live action and it seems that they’re going do be covering the series during the shippuden era. Or perhaps they’re simply aging up the characters to 16.

Lately the specific example of this that has been pissing me off is people generalizing Shikamaru's and his father's intellect. Shikaku is supposed to be a once-in-a-generation genius strategist. His son inherits this from him. This is unusual and unexpected. Everyone is surprised to learn Shikamaru has as much potential as his father, maybe even more since Shikaku has had the experience of a great war to refine his skills, while Shikamaru seems to have prodigy talent from his childhood.

But soooooo many times I see people acting like all the Nara are just gifted geniuses?? When thats simply not true... There is no evidence of that.... Even within the Ino-Shika-Cho trios of the past and future, there's not really anything to say that the Nara has to be The Smart One. Like the Akimichi or Yamanaka could just as easily be the smartest in the group. The Nara clan does not have a Super Brain kekkei genkai. This is not a thing. I can see why people think that, because the only two Nara who are important characters in the story happen to be geniuses, but thats not like, their niche in the village.

In fact they have a canon niche and its medical research, especially based on using the antlers of their sacred deer, within the context of coming up with antidotes to the Akimichi clan's food pills. So. Yeah. I mean don't get me wrong its only briefly mentioned, but it is in fact there. You'd probably have to be some kind of freak who watches naruto over on over on repeat to know that off the top of your head though and who'd do something as crazy as that *cough cough.*