I've been seeing a lot of really cool, really cute self-inserts/sonas lately, which made me wanna embrace the cringe and make my own, just for fun. So now Kotori exists !!

Her first name, Kotori 小鳥, means 'small bird' because Bird. And her last name, Kimura 記村, means 'record/chronicle village' because obligatory fanfiction joke

The Kimura was once a Wind country shinobi clan with a bird themed kekkei genkai. Generations back, the clan was involved with the dog pound mess alongside the Hatake, Inuzuka, Orochi and Hoshigaki. Only a few of them were caught up by the hunters, but it was enough to send the clan on a downward spiral similar to the Hatake. In modern day, they're practically non-existent— and the few who remain ended up migrating to Konoha, which is how Kotori came to be.

Kotori is only half Kimura, and so her kekkei genkai is much weaker than what it could have been (essentially just being the decorative wings on her head and an ability to turn her neck around like an owl) She likes to jokingly call it "the world's most useless bloodline limit."

I wanted Kotori to have appropriate inoffensive background character vibes, and I feel like Kotetsu and Izumo match that kind of energy so I slapped her onto a team with them. Tsume is their sensei bc I love Tsume and I think it makes sense that Kotori would be placed on a team with a teacher who has an animal-themed bloodline limit of her own. Yippie team Tsume !!

(Tsume is very disappointed in her unambitious students)

Kotori is some sort of desk shinobi, but I'm undecided on what she does specifically— possibly something T&I related tho, or like whatever the Konoha bingo book department is. She handles a lot of files and sensitive paperwork, and has gotten in the habit of taking notes on everything she does.

Her hobbies include making color-coded lists she rarely manages to actually finish before getting distracted, reading icha-icha she's re-packaged to disguise it as another book so she can read it in public without looking like a freak (unlike SOME people), and researching and recording clan histories and lore— particularly any under threat of being lost or forgotten. She'd like to be a jonin only to be able to have her own genin team, as she likes kids and thinks having a team sounds fun, but her skills aren't quite up to par and also that sounds like a lot of work she doesn't wanna do.

Anyways !!

one of my favourite scenes, i can't help but read satoko's monologue out loud every time it's so good XD

i'm SO pleased with how this turned out, drawing comics is always so intimidating until i start and then i'm like wait a second, i'm a genius and i'm brilliant and i'm so good at this LOL it also serves as a solid warmup for drawing satoko a bunch, which is something i haven't done in like... over three years :'D

it's also my first time drawing t10!! they're so fucking cute n funny ; v ;

my original thumbnails were also hilarious so i'll include them here:

Fun animal companions :)

Naruto’s gonna bring healthcare and housing to Konoha through the power of friendship, just you watch.

i wanted my oc to just pop into naruto’s universe completely drunk, on a tractor. she’d just finished her last year of high school, gone back home to the countryside, and celebrated with her two cousins because she’d gotten into a university (engineering program). they stole their parents’ alcohol and her uncle’s tractor (the tractor’s name is Rupert, the uncle’s name is Herbert). and after a long night of drinking and joyriding across fields, she wakes up the next morning — gross, hungover, and alone (as one does) — with only the tractor for company, in some weird vegetable crops (i don’t reckon there’s industrial farming in the naruto world, ig maybe the plan was to make her implement it).

at first she was supposed to be this stereotypical girl who hated her hometown, hated the family’s cows and sheep, and dreamed of becoming a big city girl™ because she hated smelling like animals and shit (+ she kind of wanted to be rich). so basically, she was a snob (which could be very funny in a story about the weakest person to ever live in naruto).

but as i was crafting her personnality up and what i wanted her to do in a story, i realized A Big Problem :

i, personally, never worked more than a couple of days at a time on a farm, i could make up everything with what i know (which is still more than a lot of people i think, but nowhere near enough), or search for it intensively on internet which would bore me quickly as during my studies i choose the specialization that would distance me the most from agriculture/agronomy.

and after thinking about it, i realized what i wanted from this story was not the rise of a tractor girl who would take over the naruto world by reinventing industrial farming (which would still be pretty funny), but more generally an oc coming in the naruto world with a big mundane object, zero aptitude for shinobi life and whose journey ends up being to establish a civilian mafia that rivals the akatsuki on the simple basis that they can't do ransom video to gain money

for her name, i still don't know if i want something that could be prononced by the character she would encounter or if i stay with ***Dallas Dedale*** which is stupid and idk which one id her name and which one is her surname

Tobirama ran and ran, a careless dash through the forest floor as he rushed to where Itama's too-small ball of chakra was, to where the distinctly bigger and flaring, flame-like chakra overshadowed his.

He wouldn't make it in time. He knew that, but he still pushed his body to move faster, because he thought Itama would already be dead by now.

He and Hashirama had left camp the moment after Itama's team returned without him and explained they'd been separated, that the Uchiha had signaled out Itama in an ambush and forced him deeper into Uchiha territory and away from them.

Five adult Uchiha against his brother. Another pointless death, just as Hashirama said. An honorable death, their father would claim.

Tobirama's stomach curled.

Hashirama had gone to search the Uchiha border territories to the north, while Tobirama had sped west.

And Itama, somehow, was still alive. Tobirama leapt forward over a gnarled root and into a clearing, sliding to a stop and jerking his blade out to aim at his opponent in the same motion.

But he stopped upon seeing Itama.

Itama was sitting on the floor against a large boulder, a black-clad figure folded over the top of it. His brother stood quickly upon seeing him, his chakra low, but not as low as he would've expected after being battered by five Uchiha, and looking relatively unharmed for having been in Uchiha territory alone for over three hours.

Tobirama didn't understand. He understood even less as Itama tapped the hanging, limp foot of the pre-teen, and the pre-teen sat up. Tobirama's eyes widened in alarm at the visible sharingan as the pre-teen rubbed his eyes, and his body moved without another thought.

"Away from him, Itama!" he yelled, leaping up to get high enough to strike at him, and it alarmed him even more when the pre-teen only gazed sleepily at him.

"Tobi, wait!" Itama said, holding out his arms in defense of the Uchiha, and it made him hesitate for a brief moment and land in front of his brother, because his chakra didn't feel disrupted like it would be if he were in a genjutsu.

Still, Tobirama grabbed his brother by the shoulder and made the release seal. "Kai!" he shouted.

Itama blinked at him, but his chakra didn't change. It made even less sense.

He paused, still holding the seal, but he couldn't wrap his head around why his brother would willingly be in Uchiha territory with an Uchiha.

"He saved me," Itama quickly explained, grabbing his arm. "I was surrounded and—and he stopped them from killing me!"

Tobirama stared blankly at him, then lifted his gaze to the Uchiha staring down at them, sitting casually just above them with his legs hanging down and his pants rolled up practically to his knees.

"Why?" Tobirama asked, his voice steel. "You're an Uchiha. Why would you stop your clansmen?"

"You talk formally for being so young," the Uchiha said. "Tobirama Senju."

Goosebumps prickled along his skin. He shoved Itama behind him and brandished his blade at the Uchiha. But the Uchiha didn't look threatened at all.

"Have your brother explain it to you," he said with a yawn. "I don't have much more time. But since I didn't hear you fighting anyone on the way here, everyone must've gone home."

The ability to stop his clansmen, the casual, but powerful air about him, his knowledge...

Tobirama took a step back. "Sunless Asahi," he named his enemy.

Heir to the Uchiha clan, a prodigious talent, son of Tajima the Butcher, and the second-greatest threat within that clan as a whole.

The Color of Summer, one of my favorite Naruto SIOCs. Naruto has a twin who isn't as fond of the village as everyone would like him to be. They make friends with the Uchiha early on, but we all know how that's going to go.

It really well written, I love this fic so much. Mind the tags, though.