@nonbinary-itachi
Orochimaru is very good at imparting his gender fuckery on his students. Just look at Sasuke's Shippuden outfit. That is not a typical cis male outfit. This got *so* long. i did not intend that but you've activated the special interest.
bonus headcanon: since shisui is inoichi's student he's also close to ino and views her as a little sister. one day she excitedly tells him about a little paper her kunoichi class is doing about powerful kunoichi of history she saw an uchiha woman on the list and decided to pick her. shisui blinks when she tells him the name.
Did you say *mikoto* uchiha? ino nods excitedly and goes on and on about the research she's already read and how badass she was during the third war. shisui knows everything she's saying already but takes great joy in listening to her talk about his other surrogate mother (the yamanakas have also adopted him unoffically). and telling her he personally knows the woman she's talking about. ino's eyes go wide and she squeals in delight before trying to shove him out the door so she can meet this woman faster (later he can't resist flicking on the sharingan to capture Mikoto's look of absolute shock when he tells her about this. mikoto's brain short circuits. what do you mean academy kids are learning about me??
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Orochimaru's Students: I survived Orochimaru and all I got was trauma and a weird-ass relationship with gender /ref
Anyway ur welcome on the special interest ๐๐. I don't remember what posts these tags are from but ye ๐๐
AWWWWW INO AND MIKOTO WAIT I LOVE THEM ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ. Mikoto would literally be the best mentor on the kunoichi of the Konoha 12, wait I'm actually gonna cry ๐ญ๐ญ. SHE'D TEACH THEM SO MANY THINGS!!! AND SHE'D BRING ALONG ANKO AND KURENAI!! AND THEY'D BE THE BADASS WOMEN WE ALL DESERVE!!!!
(Meanwhile Fugaku is restocking the ibuprophen bc he's watching Mikoto bring out all her old weapons and tools and knows the boys are going to be in it for a Long Oneโข๏ธ--their faults, most likely, but he is still technically under oath to treat them. Technically. Especially knowing Naruto will likely come back to him to complain about Sakura properly learning her chakra control [which that part is actually all him, and he revels in the looks of betrayal from Sasuke and Naruto when they come home one day during his and Sakura's lessons to teach her + Ino and the occasional other kunoichi ๐๐])
