#dreaming of sunshine

[buymeanewlaptopty]

U know it's about to go down when Shi-lets steal a river-kako has a plan. And no one knows as well Sa-is used to her bs-suke.

#dreaming of sunshine #nara shikako #shikako nara

[jacksgreysays]

(Not sure if I can qualify for another prompt after the last wonderful prompt fill but here goes:

The Academy was perfectly fine with Shikamaru’s imaginary friend Shikako, until she managed to ____.

Oh dona, there are so many things that can fill in that blank. SO MANY THINGS. And, I’ll be honest, a lot of what comes to my mind range from funny to alarming. But the on that I think is the most encompassing—without being too boring—is simply “get caught.” Because that opens up so many opportunities for what else she could have been doing before she got caught in such a way that also builds a dynamic between those who are in on it (ie, the Rookie Nine, maybe even the full Konoha Twelve since Team Gai IS only just one year older) and those who aren’t (presumably the teachers of the Academy) However, in order to narrow this fic down into something writable, I should figure what Shikako is doing before she gets caught… and, maybe this is just me, but I kinda like the idea of… now maybe this is too specific… but basically, Shikamaru’s imaginary friend Shikako, aka his literal sentient eldritch horror twin sister that lives in his shadow, just straight up eating Danzo. Just. How do you get rid of something? Eat it. Because, like… okay. My brain goes something like this:

“Hm,” says Shikamaru as they hide in the treetops from Iruka-sensei.

Normally, Shikamaru is content with being out of the classroom that, outside from telling them the plan needed to ditch and stay hidden, he stays pretty quiet either cloud watching or napping.

Chouji, in his spot next to Shikamaru and equally satisfied with just being outside, is the only one to hear him. “What is it?” He asks.

That gets Kiba and Naruto to perk up, starting to get bored after their flawless escape with minimal conflict.

“Shikako says she’s hungry.”

Good friend that he is, Chouji offers some of his chips. A tendril of Shikamaru’s shadow shakily takes one, wobbling even under that weight, but Shikako is also a good friend so she eats it.

Well. She tries, anyway. Shikamaru’s shadow curls around it, mimicking a chewing motion, but it remains unchanged.

After a moment, Shikamaru reports, “Shikako says thank you, but she might need to eat something else specifically?”

Naruto, ever curious asks, “What does a shadow even eat?”

Shikamaru shrugs. “She says she’ll know it when we find it.”

Kiba, and an Akamaru squirming with eagerness, declares, “Akamaru and I are the best and finding stuff. We’ll get it in no time.”

—

Iruka-sensei finds them before they find the ambiguous “it.”

To be fair, they were searching through the refrigerator in the teacher’s lounge, and their self assigned mission had carried them through to lunch time. So really it was their own fault.

Didn’t stop Naruto, Kiba, and Akamaru from yelling and howling up a storm as Iruka-sensei grabbed the two boys by the collars of their shirts. Mizuki-sensei at least just gestured his two charges forward, trusting that Shikamaru and Chouji would cooperate since they had been caught fair and square. And plus, it was lunch time.

Distracted as they were, none of the boys noticed Shikamaru’s shadow stretch itself to connect to Mizuki-sensei’s.

Without that context, none of them made the connection when, not even a minute later, Mizuki-sensei stumbled, nearly falling, before catching himself in an uncertain stance.

“You okay?” Iruka-sensei asked, caregiving nature winning over his desire to continue lecturing the boys.

Mizuki-sensei waved him off with a strained laugh, “Ha, I just felt a little tired—midday slump, probably.”

Kiba and Naruto, sensing weakness, re-aim their efforts from complaining to making fun of Mizuki-sensei’s age. It draws his ire, never mind that he tries to seem cooler than Iruka-sensei, but he musters a woozy, half-hearted defense at best.

Shikamaru glances at his shadow, darker and deeper than it was before.

Shikako isn’t as hungry anymore.

—

A/N: And then something something Ino and Sakura spot the boys questing for Shikako’s food and they also believe in/like Shikako anyway so they try to help out, Shino gets pulled in because they end up on Aburame territory and he’s holding his smiling baby sister and his untouchable vibes are way lowered, at some point they’re like… maybe Hinata can use her cool eyes to FIND what Shikako needs (and she’s stalking Naruto anyway so we might as well actively include her) and then Sasuke kind of feels left out ALTHOUGH… I may have a separate thing for how Sasuke gets pulled in. Anyway the kids try to figure out what she’s doing—she doesn’t eat chakra, she eats life energy, but only out of people that she wants to kill anyway and the amount she eats from them is maybe based on how much she wants to kill them? (she really does almost eat Kabuto to death the first time they encounter him lol)—and they’re like… well… we also don’t like the people Shikako doesn’t like anyway? Here’s where plot maybe comes in and maybe where Sasuke gets pulled in but basically if this is pre-Uchiha Massacre then there could be a day when Itachi goes to pick up the little Uchiha members from the Academy and Shikako is just like ??? DO I want to kill and eat him??? because he hasn’t done anything (YET) so it’s just like… the rest of the kids investigating into Sasuke to investigate into Itachi which then somehow Scooby Doo style gets them to Danzo and MAYBE he’s being a creeper and visiting the Academy to recruit future ROOT agents or MAYBE the Academy building is near the Hokage’s Tower (I think???) or Shisui and Itachi are BOTH picking up the various Uchiha Academy students and Danzo tries to use the opportunity to intimidate/threaten them both “subtly” and Shikako’s just like !!!!! FEAST MODE!!!! And fully just eldritch style swallows him whole in front of some Academy teachers :) And it’s not like Shikamaru can get in trouble because he’s BEEN telling the truth about his imaginary friend Shikako the whole time. And as far as they know it LOOKS like a Nara clan technique so they’re like… well… uh… maybe we should tell the Jounin Commander about this. And Shikaku’s just like… uh… Kasuga… what the fuck… And Kasuga turns to Sembei-obaasan and also asks what the fuck… And Sembei-obaasan has to search deep deep into the Nara oral tradition for what the fuck is going on And Shikako is just in Shikamaru’s shadow, totally pleased with herself. I’m not hungry anymore :)

#jacksgreyson #donapoetrypassion #ask box advent calendar #dreaming of sunshine #shikako nara #shikamaru nara #chouji akimichi #hungry sister

[pumpkin-padparadscha]

i love nara shikako

do you think the other clans will treat her as a warning. "last time there was a motivated nara, she ascended to godhood, you should be thankful your coworker is so lazy" XD

#nara shikako #shikako nara #dreaming of sunshine

[cursingcoyote]

Day-dreaming about warm chicory.

#original photographers #original photography on tumblr #nature #nature photography #landscape #pnwonderland #pnw #flowers #dripdrop #water drops #plants #chicory #dreaming of sunshine #dreaming of summer

[waffliesinyoface]

Stone of Gelel is a funny movie because

A: it almost feels like a crossover with a different series entirely, on account of the extremely western style knight armor temujin wears

B: i read Dreaming of Sunshine several times before ever getting around to watching this, and its used in a much more interesting way there, so my brain is just like "man whats with this weird AU where Shikako doesnt exist."

#naruto #dreaming of sunshine

[whos-the-queerest-of-them-all]

Aesthetic//Dreaming of sunshine//Nara Shikako//

#dreaming of sunshine #naruto #shikako nara #dos #aesthetic

[akthepotato]

Nara shikako doodles!! :3

(Srry 4 bad handwriting :’)))

Character isn’t mine, she’s from the amazing Naruto fanfic dreaming of sunshine by silver queen!! U should totally check it out!!!!

#shikako nara #dreaming of sunshine #naruto #nara shikako #fanart

[ngs991-2]

Little Girl Gone by CHINCHILLA is such a Shikako Nara song.

#shikako nara #dreaming of sunshine #naruto #little girl gone #chinchilla

[lady-hallowtide]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Dreaming of Sunshine - Silver Queen, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Olana Chion, Nara Shikako Additional Tags: Silver Queen's Dreaming of Sunshine Universe, Dimension Travel, Worldbuilding Summary:

It should really be harder to take over a clone regiment. Shikako basically showed up, flashed her lightsaber - which wasn't even a real lightsaber - and clones were falling all over themselves to follow her orders.

#Hallowtide Recommends #Star Wars #Naruto #Dreaming Of Sunshine #Shikako Nara

[buymeanewlaptopty]

#nara shikako #dreaming of sunshine #shikako nara

[jacksgreysays]

I bet eating Orochimaru is a bit like eating spaghetti--it's all noodles and sauce, because of how he's turned his soul into a mostly-coherent mass of snakes.

Alternatively, one extremely long noodle that Shikako can follow and find all the people with curse seals and, like, eat JUST the curse seals, lolol.

I guess if she can eat JUST the seals that are evil but leave the person who was sealed intact then she could probably do that with the ROOT agents... and I guess maybe also the Branch Hyuuga?

#jacksgreyson #loveelemental #shikako nara #orochimaru #dreaming of sunshine #review response #hungry sister

[pumpkin-padparadscha]

What if I just read "The Art of Losing" by @wafflelate a million billion times because it's my favorite.

Anyway the rest of this post is just going to be me going !!!!! so, spoilers ahead

Things I think intensely about:

-how suna is going to react to Gaara deciding to become the kazekage

-how any detractors of his new position are going to be IMMEDIATELY shut down because the "first" thing he does is "contract with a seals mistress to get the dead wastes converted into arable land" (who is going to prove it WASNT a seal? Sunas sealing sucks lol. And technically it did originate from a seal. Gelels seal.)

-how devastated Gai is going to be upon learning literally everything Kakashi went through

-how pissed as fuck people are going to be upon discovering that root seals can apparently block soulmate bonds? I feel like sealing people without their informed consent is about to become very very illegal outside of emergency circumstances.

-how the fuck is cat feeling. Does he believe Kakashi is dead? Does he hope Kakashi is alive?

-nara shikakunand yoshino are about to fucking eviscerate the elder council. Either they were aware of this bullshit or they were criminally negligent. Oh, what's that inoichi and shibi? Some of your family got kidnapped too? Maybe we should bring torture back to t&i. Just this once.

-kakashi is going to be so fucking proud of shikimaru. In his super repressed way. Maybe in a he deserves that legacy more than I ever did if he's feeling self deprecating.

-do you think temari has to sit through a million drafts and revised versions of kankuros shikabane play the more information comes out. Soul mates who were cut off completely from their connection, one believing the other dead, and the other never even educated about soul bonds. Them still recognizing each other enough that Kakashi was kind to her and she freed him instead of killing him. Please kankuro why can't you make the fight scenes longer.

-shikaku seeing shikakos complete shadow transformation and being like "yeah that's insanely dangerous to so much as think about attempting, I don't want to consider how bad things had to be for her to create that. Forbidden jutsu on account of who the fuck knows how she didn't end up falling into the black"

-does Gai feel like he failed Kakashi. Does he swear never to do so again. Imagine him thanking shikako for saving his friend. Imagine Kakashi being shocked Gai still considers him a friend

-hi inoichi this is my soulmate Kakashi, he did not take thinking I was assassinated well at all, do you have any self help books because he hates talking about feelings

-obviously she knows about seals because danzo wanted his own nara level intelligent seal master. Obviously she hid as much of her skill as she could from him because she isn't stupid.

-anyway here's a book a better storage scroll some medical seals and the seal to get rid of roots evil tattoo of shittyness.

-actually now I'm thinking about what if she DOES join suna because Kakashi has trouble feeling safe in konoha or just because being around a shikamaru who never knew her and idolizes Kakashi is kind of awkward.

-if they share dreams do you think she explains her original world to Kakashi after he dreams of cities he's never seen.

-wondering who was the first person to remember the lookalike yoshino nara missing nin that got mentioned in that one report.

-if I think about how nervous Kakashi is going to be the first time he trolls shikako and how he'll feel when she grins or laughs or goes along with it I experience An Emotion™

-"I don't know if you'll like them, but here's other you's favorite books. They make a good social barrier, and you've been looking a little overwhelmed."

-yoshino is going to cry so so so much. Her baby needed her all this time and she never knew it.

-kakashi learning that he was absolutely invited to shikakos funeral and danzo is just a dick who lies

#nara shikako #shikako nara #dreaming of sunshine #wafflelate #the art of losing by wafflelate #the many gardens of shikabane hime #is that everything? no. i love that fic. #ive actually only read it seven or eight times so far

[math-is-magic]

are you the same mathismagic person from the dreaming of sunshine forums? i stumbled upon you on accident on tumblr and i wanted to ask

Yep, that's me!

Hi from the wild! It's so funny running into people on other sites, huh? Like running into your teacher outside of school.

My AO3 username is also math-is-magic, and I have some more DoS works posted there if you're interested.

#dos #dreaming of sunshine #ffnet #throwback #lol

[ace-4-fuck]

various verses in the garden!verse

So. Shikako is traveling from the temple of Jashin to Konoha to the Dead Wastes. Over abd over again. Sometimes there's immedite clues she's not home yet, so she skips the Konoha stop. Before she sends a shikako to everywhere there isn't a shikako there's a lot of things she could run into. These are just some ideas I haven't seen done yet, feel free to use them as you'd like.

Uzumaki Kushina whose been kidnapped by Kumo nin and Namikaze Minato is chasing them. Fallowing chakra trails is more efficient then fallowing trails of hair.

That one kumo nin actually made it out of the village with little Hinata. He won't make it past shikako.

Kabuto is infiltrating the local hidden village for ROOT. shikako has to walk past him and not panic.

The deaths of Senju Nawaki and the rest of his genin team happen during one of the early wars. Running into explosions is preventable.

Shikako v. The sage of six paths and his brother. A nice meeting or a fight? That depends on how they take the perversions of their teachings.

shikako and baby biju. She'll need a camera. After all the hell she goes through, shikako deserves evidence kurama likes chin skritches, that ibosu is the best, and that the one tail was a cry baby.

The corpse princess is the baddest thing in the multiverse. The senju and uchiha clans during the waring clan peroid? Not so much.

The first time minato tried to help her. She just helped prevent his sons kidnapping, his wifes death, his death. He can look at a seal for her. But what she did is beyond him.

Shikako cant go to a world with a shikako in it. This worlds shikako just died.

shikako v warring clan era nara. Shikako sends the clan head so far into the black ameago has to take over early.

#nara shikako #dreaming of sunshine #Garden!verse #plot bunnies

[waffliesinyoface]

i think, its very funny when SIOC fics have different viewpoints that show the main characters in different light

like, off the top of my head: Tori Mendoza: [screaming internally, thinking about the ramifications of yogurt-sealing, thinking about alfalfa] Enemy Ninja: “Oh god... its the fucking SPLEEN EATER”

Shikako Nara: [okay i know i need to show off if i want to get promoted, and i need to clue gaara in to his sand’s weakness, but... this is gonna suck.] Everyone in the crowd: “what the fuck. what the fuck. how did she just do tha- how many explosive notes does she HAVE” The Raikage: *offscreen fury* Netsui, Cloud Genin: ᵒʰ ᵍᵒᵈ ᶦ ᵗʳᶦᵉᵈ ᵗᵒ ᶠᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵃᵗ 

Keisuke Gekko: “hey isobu it wouldn’t be too overkill if we did the v2 cloak, right? That’s probably not unheard of in this dimension??” “I’m bored, so, i don’t care. Let’s smash some shit.” “thanks isobu” The Entirety of Class 1-A: 

#fanfiction #Plasticity #Dreaming of Sunshine #Catch Your Breath #Shell Game #i specifically referenced shell game!Kei in this post because that is Kei trying to tone it down. and failing. #also netsui's reaction comes largely from View From the Clouds by Witchbreaker on Ao3. #RIP netsui; probably shouldve looked in a bingo book #the raikage's reaction; however; is canon.

[dosbysilverqueen]

#dreaming of sunshine #submission #video #nara clan