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Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”

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It's late. Even underground, in the winding labyrinth of tunnels beneath Konoha where no natural light falls, Danzo can tell. There's a scent to the air.

Normally, he works through these quiet hours with the same dedication that he carries at all times. Tonight, however, his stacks of paperwork have all been meticulously combed through, signed, and filed. No one needs his attention. Nothing is wrong.

Danzo picks up his cane and begins the trek back to his old clan compound. He does not visit often. He is usually busy. He is not busy tonight.

His bones ache with a sort of weariness that denotes no real problem. He has learned to ignore this sort of pain. He ascends out of the tunnels, not bothering to muffle the sound of his footsteps with chakra.

He does not blink when he comes out to Konoha's streets. It is just as dark out here as it was in the tunnels. It is late out. A glance at the thin, crescent moon puts the time somewhere around 1.

Danzo makes his way past shopfronts, apartments, and fields. His memory of the layout of the village is annoyingly spotty. The streets have changed too much since the Kyuubi's attack, and he does not spend much time in them.

He walks past Hokage tower. The light in Hiruzen's office is on, casting a dim, yellow glow into the air. Danzo does not stop to see him. Soft, tender moments would ruin the sparks between them. He cannot think of anything more unappealing than stopping to relearn everything about the man who puts poison in his tea once a week.

He used to know Hiruzen. It was a mistake. A good shinobi does not have time for sentiment. Teamwork is a strength- relationships are weaknesses.

He wanders the streets for what seems like an eternity, a ghost in the village he has given and will give everything for. He does not regret it. He does not regret anything. He has done everything right.

Like the dull, distant pain in his hip, something tugs at his gut. Danzo ignores it. He knows what he is protecting. He knows why he does the things he does. He does not regret it.

He does not look back at the light in Hiruzen's office. The hair on his neck prickles- he can feel Hiruzen's gaze, how it carefully avoids him, observing the street around him, but not Danzo. A good shinobi has no time for sentiment. Hiruzen may be starting to fall apart in his old age, but lessons he learned alongside Danzo decades ago still stick to him like wet, rotting leaves.

Danzo finds his way to the Shimura Compound. There are heaps of fertilizer sitting in the garden, ready to be mixed into the soil. The smell of rotting leaves dances around the smell of the night. Crickets, hiding in bushes of nightshade, chirp a quiet, steady song.

The siding of the buildings in the compound is all pristine, brown and orange and achingly unfamiliar. Danzo knows how to ignore aches that do not matter. There are twelve in total, each housing one or two families. Danzo knows every name and face of his clan. He has met sparingly few of them.

He does not miss them. He does not miss the way he used to live. He creeps into the house in the center of the compound, past the rooms where the clan head and her four nephews sleep, into his old, dusty office. He will rest here, for the night, only because there is nothing else for him to do.

Danzo reaches across old scraps of paper with shaky writing and sloppy drawings and turns on his old lamp. A dim, yellow glow fills the room. He leans back in his chair. His hip aches. His hands shake. He does not regret anything, but quietly, because there is nothing else to do, he allows himself to feel very, very bad.

The lamp burns, and the leaves rot, and the crickets chirp. Dim yellow light slips through the window and paints stripes through the garden of poisonous plants. Danzo rests, and lets himself ache, and the night drags on.

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if you think about naruto as a piece of propaganda rpf within the world of naruto it gets alot more fun.

#hmmmmm why do we keep trying to pin the actions of an entire nation on like 2 or 3 bad apples? #oh i know! its to convince people that konoha are still the good guys ^_^ oh phew #rin would be seething from the afterlife if she saw how she was portrayed. girl in heir defense that was how you acted

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also time travel fix-its annoy me. the tragedy was not in the event it was in the inevitability.

#if obito had not died at kanabi bridge he would have died elsewhere. #if sasuke did not leave bad things still would have happened. someone would have died. #or if hey were lucky? they'd all just slowly get used up by the system and then discarded. #there are no happy endings within the framework of this system. no one would be able to do better on a second run.

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next post i see critiquing konoha through a modern day american lense gets blown up <3

#you guys hae got to learn how to contextualize things. and also nuance. #the uchiha were priveledged and opressed in different ways. both can be true. you know. #like idkkkkkk man. obviously you gotta look at things from a different angle than they're presented #because konoha AINT the good guy here lmao lmao #but. also. there is different rules and history and stuff here. they're at a different point #if you point to danzo as the scum of the earth and the root (haha) of all of konohas problems. #you have fallen for the propaganda. ninja love their scapegoats. #and its so much easier to point to one guy as the problem than examine all of the other things that led to that poibt #you know what im saying yeah?? if we're gonna like. examine how growing up in a militeristic dictatorship #affected characters. you cant just leave one out. lmao

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just remembered hiruzen's crystal ball again. swag tbh. i can forgive the war crimes

#where did it go do you think? did it get smashed D:? #...i could do smth with that. the crystal ball.... was a metaphor... for his relationship with danzo... #lmao.

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sketch 🌸

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rin nohara you will always be cool and amazing

#god thats so real

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ive said it before and i'll say it again. but the irony of obito doing All That for rin + kks telling him that this isnt what rin would want :CCC vs rin being totally chill/actually enjoying the idea of infinite tsukoyomi but LOATHING the fact that these two keep framing their arguments around her is just. everything to me.

#kicking my feet twirling my hair giggling SHES EVERYTHING TO ME #rin girly of all time for REAL.

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Good morning! I see you're a fan of Danzou. Though he isn't one of my personal favorites, it's quite rare to see genuine fans of his and I get excited when I do. Lately, I find myself gaining an appreciation for him (however begrudging, and based on what he offers to the story).

If you please, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the character! What makes him one of the best characters in your eyes?

I mean, he's...hm he's definitely not a good guy lol. Did he do a lot of bad things? Hell yeah, he did. But I think a lot of people either ignore or forget the time he grew up in, the values that were instilled in him and others of the time. Is that an excuse for his actions? No, but Danzo is also a victim of the same cycle he participates in, doing things the only way he knows how.

In the end, he was simply doing what he thought was right for the village, no matter the sacrifice. Was he wrong for it? Oh, absolutely. But he's just as broken and damaged as everyone else. He was just left completely unchecked, and Hiruzen even enabled him. Like how do you just shrug off one of your former teammates trying to kill you?? Like HELLO! That should've been a wake up call that this man, your friend, was deeply unwell.

Something something, Danzo being the product of a failed system that ultimately failed him too. He is by no means a "good guy" but he also isn't the root of all evil here either.

He did what he thought was right no matter how twisted, he did things the only way he knew how and God damn he didn't have any kind of support system because in the world of Naruto what even is mental health.

Tldr: I love this horrible old man, who isn't the cause of everything bad ever (looking at you, Tobirama)

But that's just me lol.

#THATS WHAT IM ALWAYS SAYING!!!1!!11! #based.

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A little sketch to shake off all the fluffiness from artober 🔪🔪

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i know minato's infamous 1000-kills-in-a-single-battle moment is supposed to just be a "wow, how cool and badass" moment, but i love it because it paints a very specific image of minato, as like. a person.

Let's compare and contrast, shall we?

Here's Kakashi, fighting Zabuza. Note how he has Zabuza effectively pinned and helpless. Instead of instantly going for the kill, he talks to Zabuza for a moment here, and tries to convince him to stop going after Tazuna, because he is beaten and he is going to die. The clear underlying tone to this is "I will kill you. I'm tired, and I don't want to kill you. But I will, unless you stop. Make your choice." Kakashi is offering Zabuza mercy here. It's a very sharp, pointed mercy, but he gives Zabuza enough time to know he's beaten, and enough time to realize he will die if he doesn't surrender.

and then in contrast!

Minato does not care.

The reason he was able to personally kill 1,000 people is because their deaths were utterly irrelevant to him.

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*clears throat* so the thing is that chidori is bright and shiny and sort of looks like the sun or moon or whatever and considering rin's childhood dreams mostly consisted of "going to space. maybe. someday." we can thus see her suicide on kks' chidori as her choosing to view a sort of fake world (going to the sun) before she dies which parallels the infinite tsukuyomi because fake worlds. in the akatsuki!rin timeline she is trying to put the world in a dream not because she thinks things suck but because she thinks that a fake world is the only possible path she could take to go to space. does that make sense.

#moth rin is EVERYTHING to me and i get jumpscared whenever i see her canon design and she doesnt have little attena :C #give them back!!!! thats her symbolism hairdo!!!! kishimoto GIVE ME CUSTODY YOU DONT KNOW HER LIKE I DO

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FIRST BASE IS MANIPULATNG HER INTO HELPING YOU DESTROY THE WORLD SECOND BASE IS ACTUALLY FALLING IN LOVE WOTH HER THIRD BASE IS REALIZING THAT IT'S ALL A FACADE TO COVER UP THE GAPING HOLE OF APATHY IN HER CHEST. EXCEPT FOR THE PARTS THAT WEREN'T.

#kagurin

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#I WANT THAT TWINK OBLITERATED!!!!1!