#Densetsu no Sannin

[evilkitten3]

au where orochimaru manages to use edo tensei to summon madara at some point pre-canon

tsunade: where'd you even get his dna?

orochimaru: oh the senju mansion

tsunade: ...why was uchiha madara's dna in my grandfather's house?

orochimaru: ...are you in the right headspace to receive information that could possibly hurt you

#naruto #naruto shippuden #legendary sannin #densetsu no sannin #orochimaru #senju tsunade #uchiha madara #senju hashirama #hashimada #although given how heteronormative the narutoverse is she might assume madara was banging mito #probably not tho. i feel like growing up with orochimaru would be enough to counter most of the cisheteronormativity in the world

[jaguarys]

Do you think there ever would've been a way for all the Sannin to see eye-to-eye on something, or are they always destined to stay stuck in an eternal deadlock?

OHO y'all are asking me the real questions.

Honestly... I think a key aspect of their dynamic is that for a really long time they just. Assumed. That they saw eye-to-eye. Each of them was walking around thinking they were all on the same page while they weren't.

I think they had this crazy-close connection, but they were always looking past one another while thinking they were looking at one another. For lack of a better word... I think all three of them have big egos. They don't always look past their nose.

I certainly think that they could've changed. That they could've begun to actually see one another. But it would've taken time that they didn't have, seeing how things went. Had things gone differently –– Ame, Dan, Nawaki, etc. –– they might have been able to grow.

I think these difficulties only made them grind in their heels, though. They only became more stuck in their ways the more they went through. And so... deadlock.

#i love them but their relationship was so dysfunctional yaknow? #their dynamics are so fascinating #thank you for asking! #type: mail #type: meta #fandom: naruto #sannin naruto #sannin #sannin ot3 #densetsu no sannin #naruto shippuden #naruto #orochimaru sannin #orochimaru naruto #orojiratsu #orotsu #orochimaru #tsunade senju #tsunade naruto #tsunade #jiraorotsu #jiraiya naruto #jiraiya

[olivegardenhunter]

one thing that I find really really interesting is that in practically every scene where it's just jiraiya and tsunade alone, kishimoto very deliberately draws at least a panel of the two of them being completely silent in each other's companies, even refusing to look at each other.

when jiraiya got drinks with tsunade in og

when he got drinks with her before he left. notice that neither of them are making any eye contact, refusing to look at each other.

the iconic bench scene ofc

why this is important to me is cause I think it's an excellent way on kishi's part to show the dynamic and history between the two of them (and the sannin as a whole too). ((note this isn't a jiratsu post))

the few scenes we get of the two of them talking alone, you always get the impression that there's a secondary, entirely silent conversation going on in the background that only the two of them even know about. a conversation about all the things they cannot say. and he conveys that so well in these deliberate panels. you can SEE in their expressions, in the things that they do say when they choose to break the silence. there's so much between them, so much they yearn to say. and the weight of all of that, the depth of those feelings and emotions, is ultimately what makes them not say anything at all.

because you've known each other since you were SIX years old, you fought WARS together, this is a person you'd put your life on the line for without a second of hesitation. yet. there is a 20 year gap. you haven't spoken with each other for as long as you grew up together too. they've lived an entire lifetime together, but then an entire equally as long lifetime apart. they're the same person they've always been but yet... you can't really recognise the person in front of you. they both can see that they've become shells of the people they used to be. you both have gone through so much, and you know the the other person knows this. you know it so intimately, what things you can say, what things you can't. youre being so careful yet you both know there's this pretense going on.

there's so much left, yet so little. after all of that, what is there even left to be said? what CAN be said? they're already so intimately aware of what the other is thinking, there's nothing new, yet somehow, there's this gap. there's this emptiness that both know they can't really do anything about.

in the end, the sannin are a tragic trio. and kishi does an excellent job of showing this through their stories and histories, sure. but he does an even better job at showing it through their small interactions together. the way they always end up talking about the past, the attempt to bring up happier times (like tsunade trying to reminisce about their genin days as team hiruzen), yet how they ALWAYS come back to ultimately how they fell apart, and the world kept spinning, and all they can do is try to make sure the future doesn't make the same mistakes they did.

what can you even say to someone like that? it must've been so freeing, to have someone that understands them to such an extent. that would know them more than anyone else in the world ever could imagine. and yet. so suffocating. because they're a reminder. a reminder of what you used to be, a reminder of what could've been, a reminder of how everything went wrong, every single mistake you ever made. and so despite the person in front of you being the only person in the world that likely knows exactly how you're feeling, what you're going through, all your experiences, they're also somehow the last person you can ever speak to about any of it. because it becomes like a trap almost. they're constantly reminded of their pasts when they look at each other. how can you ever begin to move on with someone like that right in front of you?

once upon a time, they were the hope of konoha. they were the young shinobi, meant to bring in a new era of peace, meant to be the change. and they wholeheartedly believed this too. and then, to make it to 50, after everything they went through, and realising they were no better off than the generation before them. that everything they ever stood for, ever fought for, were all practically in vain. and how suddenly the people meant to be the change for the future can only hope to make sure there is still even a chance for change for the next generation.

really, what else are they meant to do around each other than continue their little dance or chess game and let the unspoken remain unspoken?

#like i said i have a lot of feelings and thoughts about the sannin #i cannot get enough of their dynamic #it doesnt help that kishi barely explores them at all #i want to see more of them #i wanna see how three carefree children grow up together and become as fractured as they did #theyre so different from team 7 too #cause team 7 doesnt have that much history that much shared experiences #team 7 are what the sannin couldve been if the sannin didnt give up sure #but there is definitely a reason that made the sannin give up in the first place #we need a prequel #sannin #jiraiya #tsunade #meta #hc #nart #naruto #naruto shippuden #the sannin #the legendary sannin #densetsu no sannin #tsunade senju #sorry im a rambler at heart #a yapper #i cant help myself #what is left???? #this is what people mean when they say the silence is so loud its deafening #analysis #stream of consciousness #NOT A SHIP POST

[ellbie]

The whole “three-way deadlock” metaphor for the Sannin doesn’t really hold up once you realize Tsunade could easily snap the other two in half.

(thank you @coulsart for the draw your squad meme 🙏 As soon as I saw it I was like “yup. that’s them. that’s my ot3.”)

#nothing but respect for her 😌💪🏻🐌 #naruto #tsunade #jiraiya #orochimaru #sannin #legendary sannin #densetsu no sannin #fanart #naruto fanart #ot3 #draw your squad

[theoucafe]

伝説の三忍, Densetsu no Sannin

THE LEGENDARY SANNIN

#naruto #naruto team 7 #the legendary sannin #sannin #tsunade #jiraya #orochimaru

[peepingtoad]

伝説の三忍

#legendary sannin #jiraiya #tsunade #orochimaru #densetsu no sannin #idk just wanted to play with these panels because it's my faaave #added tsuna's seal #{edits} #{densetsunosannin}

[majoraflame]

Naruto AU

Aight so I’ve got this idea in my head about a Sannin-centric Naruto AU where all the Sannin still leave the village but like in the same situation of like Jiraiya’s departure. Meaning that they’re still kind of loyal (yes, even Orochimaru) and they still help the village in little ways but they just don’t live there. So anyway, in this AU the shinobi population of Konoha are kind of sick and tired of the third hokage and all his fuckery. Since he’d been reinstated after the Kyuubi attack, he made lots of decisions (Hyuuga affair, segregation of Uchiha clan, etc.) that just really frayed his relationship with the shinobi. Basically, at this point everyone’s like “we need to get that old man out of that fucking chair” and Hiruzen agrees! He thinks he’s way too old to still be doing this shit. He already retired once for a reason. But of course there’s no one in the village who can really replace him. No one really has both the strength as a shinobi and political clout necessary to becoming a Kage and the only people that do are kind of fucked in the head (coughcoughdanzocoughcough). So everyone’s thinking it over and then someone’s like “hey. why don’t we drag the Sannin back to Konoha” and Hiruzen’s like “yes I think we should do that.

Now the Sannin, during this time (I imagine they all left pre Kyuubi attack), have been wandering around the elemental nations collecting kids. Jiraiya went to Ame and fully adopted Konan, Yahiko, and Nagato and now the four of them are a part of Konoha’s spy network (fuck the akatsuki and fuck making ame a better place). The kids gained Konoha jounin status by working with Jiraiya and shit.

Tsunade, of course, is running around with Shizune and Tenzo, still an alcoholic but not as anti-Konoha as she is in canon before Naruto drags her ass back. Shizune is also a Konoha jounin who is a medic-nin and poison specialist. Tenzo, in my head, is the biological child of Dan and Tsunade and was born with Mokuton which isn’t as powerful as his great-grandfather’s but is strong nonetheless. So Tenzo and Shizune are cousins.

Now Orochimaru. I absolutely adore Orochimaru in this AU. Loyal/good Orochimaru is my shit but add motherhen Orochimaru to the mix and I’m properly dead (i mostly thought of this AU by having constant intrusive thoughts of Orochimaru being the best parent/teacher anyone could ever ask for) When Orochimaru left the village, he left with little Anko right on his heels. They traveled and shit doing their mad scientists thing and pick up a couple gremlins along the way. First, they get Kabuto, who is living with Yakushi Nonou. Nonou lets Orochimaru leave with Kabuto with the promise that he’ll make Kabuto a fucking great leaf shinobi (and with the promise to visit lots :) ). Next, they rescue Karin from being a slave for those shinobi (and they help Karin with burning down the village for killing her mother or whatever) Then, with the help of Karin’s sensor abilities, they find Kimimaro locked in the tiny ass dirty ass cage the Kaguya clan locked him in while they weren’t using him as a dog to sic on whoever they’re fighting and Orochimaru’s just like “the Kaguya clan is too distracted getting massacred to notice me taking this malnourished and unloved child to take care of” And then, once again with the help of Karin’s sensor abilities, they find Juugo hiding in a tree near his burning village and its just like “oh no a lonely child who’s entire life was just destroyed time to adopt” Juugo mostly agrees because with the despair of losing everything he’s ever known he loses control of his powers and he just goes all monster when he gets mad like he does in canon and Kimimaro’s kekkei genkai is the only thing that can control him when he gets like that. Finally, they complete their crew with the addition of baby Mitsuki who is not a test tube baby but as an abandoned baby who was weirdly left in a dense chakra zone (think a body of land that seems to be so imbued with chakra that it feels like the land is alive (kind of like how Uzushio is often depicted in fanon)). 

So the Sannin are all walking around with their kids and sometimes they interact with each other occasionally. Like when Kimimaro begins showing signs of sickness Orochi immediately bum-rushes Tsunade and is like “my kid’s dying fic him.” Or like sometimes they all just get together and chill with each other. Sometimes Jiraiya and Orochi meet up so Karin and Nagato can spend some cousin time together. Maybe they even take them to the ruins of Uzushiogakure to find some of their clan’s fuuinjutsu so they can learn it. 

And boy do I have an idea for the Uzumaki Clan archives !! I’ll get into later since I’m getting so far off track.

So anyway the Sannin are training their kids and making super powerful shinobi and all of the kids become leaf shinobi with the permission of Hiruzen because he knows what his students have been getting up to. But like the rest of the Konoha doesn’t know about them. So when the Sannin are called back to Konoha to discuss the future of the village everyone’s kind of like, “why the fuck is there so much people we only asked for like three” Introductions and new friendships ensue.

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I’m totally gonna flesh out this idea later and I might even make a whole AU tag. This will become my magnum opus.

#Naruto #Naruto AU #Jiraiya #Orochimaru #Tsunade #Densetsu no Sannin #Legendary Sannin #Sannin Kid Fic AU

[mikasa-icons]

save/use, please, like or reblog.

#icons #anime #anime icons #color #psd #Jiraiya #densetsu no sannin #Sato no Kyōki #ero-sennin #naruto #Naruto Shippuden #Minato Namikaze #jiraiya x tsunade

[teenytinylion]

Legendary Sannin Lovers

#naruto #tsunade #jiraiya #orochimaru #traditional art #i'm bacc on my naruto shit apparently #just let those old farts have great threesomes and some luvin' ffs #also do you see the bi pride colors in the back? I'm sneaky af #jiraorotsu #jiraoro #jiratsu #orotsu #naruto au #naruto fanart #this is my happy place where someone somehow saves jiraiya from his little run-in with pain and he gets to live his life with his lovers #densetsu no sannin #legendary sannin #sannin #i don't even know how to tag this #also my background game? still shit but slightly improving #fanart

[claudiasky91]

I hope someday they will do novel or filler episode in boruto about densetsu no sannin. About jiraiya , tsunade and orochimaru. I need it soooooo bad!!!!!!! I mean just focusing to the 3 of them!!!!

#naruto #jiraiya #tsunade #orochimaru #senju tsunade #naruto next generation #naruto gaiden #densetsu no sannin #legendary sannin #konoha #masashi kishimoto

[naruto-official-art]

Official art of the sannin from part two of the Naruto snack card series

#Naruto #The Legendary sannin #jiraiya #tsunade senju #Orochimaru #densetsu no sannin #Tsunade

[evilkitten3]

thinking about the sannin and abandonment and the past following you wherever you go no matter how hard you try to leave it behind and staying and clinging to whatever you have left until it twists you into something unrecognizable and chases you out and clinging to it even after that while getting worse and worse and watching everything you love die and pushing away whatever you have left and abandoning people who need you because staying is killing you and leaving and leaving also killing you and the worst coping mechanisms known to man and trying so hard not to remember when you were just three kids with a teacher who adored you before everything collapsed in on itself now none of you can stand the sight of each other and the devastation of war and fame gained through clinging to your life and being so defined by survival that you forget to do anything else and people trying to rely on you when you can't even rely on you and dying alone with your regrets and the endless cycle of rebirth and alcoholism

#naruto #naruto shippuden #the legendary sannin #densetsu no sannin #jiraiya #senju tsunade #orochimaru #sarutobi hiruzen #i know jiraiya is. awful but. i do like him when he's not being gross #and there's a Lot going on there. it's just that the grossness is also there a lot #tsunade is so full of issues. like so full of them #also i find it really interesting how jiraiya left and tsunade left and orochimaru stayed #he always had problems too ofc but he became what he became because unlike jiraiya and tsunade he didn't leave #until he had to #how jiraiya and tsunade left for selfish reasons but were ultimately right to do so #how orochimaru stayed and destroyed himself #how sarutobi was the catalyst for so much bc he cared too much in the wrong ways #trusting people you've known for so long and trying so hard to be the man your teacher thought you could be #but never fully realizing the flaws in him or in your comrades or your students or yourself #being given a mantle you didn't ask for bc you offered yourself up as a sacrifice #being placed on a pedestal and being too afraid to step away from it or view yourself outside of it #being a sad tired old man who tried too hard in the wrong ways and not enough in the right ones #dying at the hands of someone you adored but also abandoned in your own right #loyalty and treachery and becoming something new and trying and failing and the consequences of your actions #killing someone you love. loving the person who's killing you. being morned by people who should and one day will hate you #fighting for an ideal that doesn't exist and never existed and never could exist but you can't admit it or else what's the point #living in a world that no longer remembers what a childhood looks like and maybe never knew to begin with #the world breaks you and everyone you love and you break yourself and the world and everyone you love and everyone you love breaks you too #also there's monkeys

[jaguarys]

I think part of what makes the older (50+) Naruto characters so interesting is that they're functionally from a very different time period than the main characters. I mean the Sannin, Danzō, Hiruzen, etc. Like Tsunade is literally Hashirama's granddaughter! He was still alive when she was young!

When you take into consideration how new the villages were when they were growing up, it really provides so much more insight into their actions and their thought processes. These are people who grew up when things were still new, still unstable, still full of the hesitation and trepidation of the promise of a better future. Of course they were willing to do anything they thought would help keep it. In their eyes it was still uncertain, and they wanted to hold onto anything that would stabilize it

#no matter how much hiruzen and danzō suck i will always be fascinated by them because they truly thought they were doing the right thing #it's wild but it's so interesting to think about #personal #naruto meta #naruto analysis #naruto #naruto shippudden #densetsu no sannin #hiruzen sarutobi #danzo shimura #tsunade #orochimaru #jiraiya #fandom: naruto #type: meta

[futurefoundationcartoons]

the legendary sannin

#sannin #legendary sannin #densetsu no sannin #three ninja #legendary three ninja #jiraiya #tsunade #orochimaru #naruto #anime #cartoon #drawing #procreate #digital art #digital #art #ero sennin #konoha #konohagakure #hidden leaf village #ninja #shinobi

[yazzdonut]

after 13 hours of sleep i can finally post some pics of my tsunade cos, katsuyu is the real star tho

#dickbutt face #naruto #tsunade #jiraiya #orochimaru #cosplay #densetsu no sannin

[jacksgreysays]

Character Statistics: Naruto, Densetsu no Sannin

Genin

--- Chuunin

--- Jounin

--- Legend

--- Tsunade

Orochimaru

Jiraiya

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A/N: The Sannin! I made the Sannin because I do have a fanfic revolving around a team of contemporaries and I needed to make sure they were consistently less (but not too much so) than the Legendary Three. The series is called (In)Difference, but this is independent of that.

So... please let me know if anything looks off to you or if you think there are some data points that ought to be adjusted.

I’m not entirely sure when in the timeline they became chuunin and jounin ranked respective to the shinobi world wars (because... time is weird in the Naruto world) so... I am open to alternatives and if the logic is sound then I’ll edit the data.

Please enjoy! :D

edit: tweaked Orochimaru’s Jounin Speed

#jacksgreyson #fanfiction #brainstorm #character statistics #naruto #(in)difference #densetsu no sannin #sannin #tsunade senju #orochimaru #jiraiya