#nonitxt

the uchiha successfully complete their coup and purge the dissidents (itachi) on their way becoming a junta

the sand village never recieves the cooperation offer from orochimaru and decides to overthrow their monarch instead, instead replacing him with a loyal puppet ruler

yahiko sticks around long enough to discover maoism and turns the og akatsuki into a guerilla fighting force

obito still gets his paid for hire goons (the akatsuki we meet in the show) but they take far longer to accomplish their goals and frequently beef with the og akatsuki to get access to nagato & his rinnegan

kiri revolt against the brainwashed mizukage but fail to form a successful government so now kiri is basically a lawless no man's land with several factions ruling territory each

iwa continues to tolerate deidara's anarchist terror operations as deidara never gets recruited into obito's group

kumo claims to not harbor any criminals but frequently is involved in coups so they have an excuse for their bloated military budget

orochimaru's head on a spike after a prison revolt

the peasantry ultimately decides the ninja villages and their daimyos are useless at protecting their lands so they get starved into submission after a brief civil war period

naruto but kishimoto reads at least two books on how war the military and feudalism in east asia actually worked irl

students with famous mentors who share a common past (tsunade/chiyo)

having a common figure one wanted to protect (barely knowing them) and one wanted to destroy (knowing them their whole life)

being an extension of their mentors

sakura's other mentor being the son of sasori's parents' killer

the only person aiding sakura coincidentally being the only person sasori is related to

sakura's super strength being the only thing that successfully breaks sasori out of hiruko's body and also the only reason the third is destroyed (something that never happened before)

sasori's impossibly complicated poison being combated by sakura in minutes, the antidote being repurposed as a buff (so we know she can do that)

sakura being able to figure out sasori's fighting pattern in minutes (so we know she can do that)

sasori's fighting style used to show sakura's quick reflexes (so we know she can do that)

being the first and last two people he has every needed to resort using his best weapon (himself) on

knowing both orochimaru and kabuto (one's info used as a central reward for the other)

fighting sasori showcases sakura protecting ppl that aren't in her immediately circle (chiyo)

sakura openly questioning a villain on their humanity and their logic (something she hasnt been able to do on her own, so we know she can do that)

sasori and sakura both having silly season related names

sasori and sakura both having a blonde with bangs companion whom they do not respect enough and also happen to share their sister signs with

only fight that she was involved in and did not have interrupted or taken over by other team 7 members

and last but not least the playing field being leveled by having next to no prestigious bloodline abilities or super buffs involved. everything sasori threw at them was in some way countered by chiyo-sakura

anything to keep this wonderful community alive <3 if tumblr doesnt have a steady influx of sos related shitposts anymore that means i am dead

sasori every year he's suggested: