#i seem to be incapable of talking about the nationals arc without making reference to The Thing so..

[suckishima]

The trailer for the Garbage Dump movie and Furudate's new mini stories from the movie announcement event got me super hyped and I couldn't stop thinking about this, so here's a little one-shot centered on the moments between and after both the Nekoma and Kamomedai matches :)

Summary: While waiting for the quarter finals of Nationals to start, Kuroo tries to mess with Tsukishima, Yamaguchi's brain short circuits, and Tsukishima continues to play it cool.

Words: 5,935 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Tsukishima Kei/Yamaguchi Tadashi Characters: Yamaguchi Tadashi, Tsukishima Kei, Kuroo Tetsurou, Hinata Shouyou Additional Tags: Friends to Lovers, Fluff, Canon Compliant, POV Multiple, POV Alternating, Mutual Pining, Volleyball, Haikyuu!! Manga Spoilers, Haikyuu!! Chapter 298 Spoilers, Haikyuu!! Chapter 369 Spoilers, Getting Together, One Shot, Some Swearing

Excerpt:

“Have you noticed how Tsukki seems to only compliment people behind their backs?”

Tadashi chuckled. “Oh, definitely. But I hope you weren’t looking for more compliments from him out of me, Kuroo-san, because to be honest he mostly just talks shit about you,” Tadashi said with a not-so-guilty quirk to his lips.

Kuroo barked out a laugh. “No, no that’s fine, I deserve that—what I was wondering was if you knew what he said about you during the match?”

AO3

#tsukkiyama #hq!! #tsukkiyama fic #tsukki #yamaguchi #my writing #my fic #mine #behind your back #aahh it feels nice to be writing again and it was a lot of fun to write something that felt like less pressure on myself lolll #hq manga spoilers #HEAVY spoilers for the fic itself lol #i seem to be incapable of talking about the nationals arc without making reference to The Thing so.. #i really wanted to write the fic so that it was just focusing on the nekoma stuff so that it could be spoiler free when the movie comes out #but uhh it took a turn toward more and tbh i think the story is better for it so #sorry lol it will continue to be spoilery until the rest of nationals is animated #hq #x

[unknown-de-mordor-blog]

Uchiha Itachi for Mirror Image

I’m going to be writing an arc involving Itachi, so I need somewhere to keep notes on how I interpret Itachi for the story. This is actually a long message I sent to Ashimodo when we were discussing his character.

“How I interpret Itachi from that is that Itachi is a hyper-intelligent person who likes to see how everything connects and works together. The problem of having that kind of intelligent and systematic thinking and being young is that the people aspect tends to get lost in the abstraction. I'm sure Itachi knew that people are important, but he wouldn't be able to see how they really fit in with a high-level concept like peace. A little digression here. I personally think that is why when terrorist group radicalize people, the ones that respond are the young people in their teens and twenties. They don't have a lot to lose. They haven't seen the world enough. They haven't met a large and diverse group of people to be able to factor all those experience into the high-level concept that like honour, greatness, or right and wrong. If they already think something is wrong with the lives they are living and are isolated from outside intervention, they will be highly susceptible to that kind of message. I think Itachi went through similar thought process before he decided to kill his family as well. By the way, I'm going with what I got from the manga. It takes too much time to keep up with all the versions of the story with all the different media. Anyway, I think that's the reason that Itachi accepted Danzo's solution and carried it out. Danzo is also a high-level thinker like Itachi, so it was not hard for him to convince Itachi that this was the only way. Not to mention Danzo has a bias against the Uchiha. The massacre becomes 'the mistake' that Itachi mentioned to Naruto. It was a swift course of action, the one that sacrificed the few for the many. It made sense from that point of view, but the thing is the needs of the many does not always outweigh the needs of the few when it comes to a muddy territory of people and politics (Sorry, Spock). Itachi didn't understand that then, so he carried out everything with the best of intention, and that led to his second mistake: Sasuke. I agree with you that he played the villain to give Sasuke a purpose in life, but the part I cannot see is how being an avenger could make Sasuke a hero. Revenge is a personal thing, selfish even, which hardly constitute a heroic act. I don't think someone who values the good of the many even above his own family would think revenge is a good thing. Because we never get to know everything Itachi was thinking back then, one possibility is that he didn't even think about the hero part when he set out to kill his clan members. He just wanted Sasuke to live at that point. Actually, writing this makes me realized that there is a missing piece of the puzzle: what did Konoha intend to do with Akatsuki when Itachi was sent in? My headcanon is that he is the source Jiraiya referred to when he talked about Akatsuki, but normally there would be an endpoint somewhere when they extract the spy out: an arrest or something like that. Going in without some timeframe or end point seems crazy to me. The toll on Itachi's psyche must have been immense. Here he was in a mission he had no way out but death, ridden by the guilt and sorrow of the clan massacre, which I'm sure he wasn't quite prepared for, while pretending to be indifferent to it all. He was also constantly shadowed by Kisame while having to keep his secret as a Konoha spy under wrap. He would also be exposed to many things that he wouldn't have being a Leaf shinobi. I think this is when the people aspect started to click into place and what nekomode referred to as Itachi's madness began. He knew now that there could have been other ways. Killing his clan was an option but not the only option. (Is that not always the case when it comes to hindsight?) How could he live with himself with that nagging in the back of his mind? He had to convince himself that his action was worth it somehow. I think that was when Itachi became convinced that Sasuke would become a hero of Konoha through avenging his clan. It's backward rationalization exactly like what I'm doing right now. I can see Itachi being completely blindsided by the fact that Sasuke was going to turn his back on Konoha one way or the other. He didn't want to acknowledge that, and I think he's incapable of understanding that. An eight-year-old child normally has no deep association with an abstract collective entity like a village (or more appropriately a nation-state because that's what Konoha felt like sometimes). Itachi probably had, and that was why he didn't think that Sasuke would be any different. When Itachi got the news that the Third died, he came back to send a signal to Danzo. I don't think he would have met Danzo. They weren't working together per se, and Itachi knew that Danzo cannot be fully trusted. He only needed someone to report to Danzo that he was in the village and that would be enough. Moreover, Kisame is with him. He couldn't let him knew that Itachi might still have some connection with the village when he claimed he had not. That was why he went after Naruto in the pretence that they were hunting the Nine-tails. Danzo would also be in a bad position if he got caught associating with an Akatsuki and a clan murderer, not unless there is some kind of deal both sides wanted to be fulfilled then I'm sure he'll take the risk. In this case, there wasn't any, so Danzo wouldn't do it. In that case, there is no way that he would know about Team 7's encounter with Orochimaru. So I don't think there would be anything different in the way he handled Sasuke in the canon. There is also a question of whether Itachi anticipated running into Sasuke at all. From the almost run-in before his fight with Kakashi, I don't think he actually planned on announcing himself to Sasuke in any shape or form. This means his encounter with Sasuke was purely by chance. So Itachi wasn't fully aware of Sasuke's progress or about his team. He used the only weapon he knew work -- their family -- and reinforced in Sasuke's mind why he needed to kill Itachi. Naruto would not have been on the radar until maybe towards the end of the fight.”

#naruto #fanfic #meta #mirror image #uchiha itachi #my post