please please continue your time travel fic where littlw sarada was send back in time and keeps calling sakura mama please🥺🥺
back in the day, whenever i got requests for that, i would just write other time travel ficlets.
so like here’s genin team 7 + blank period sakura.
“sakura-chan looks sad.”
the woman before them tries to smile even though it’s pointless. “always so observant,” she teases, making naruto pout. “naruto, i’ve been separated from my husband through time and space.” her hand falls onto her midsection. “and i’m in a bit of a precarious situation.”
she’s been very tight-lipped about the circumstances that led up to this — both how this grown up version of haruno sakura appeared in their world and just how she apparently ended up married and pregnant. she’d given kakashi enough details to confirm her identity and gain his trust, so he’s currently speaking to the hokage while the three of them babysit her.
it’s not that sasuke doesn’t believe that she is who she says she is. technically, she didn’t even claim to be haruno sakura. but her features are fairly distinct and there’s just something about the way she carries herself around their team, relaxed and all too trusting.
“you have nothing to fear,” sakura tells the woman. “we won’t let anything happen to you.”
“yeah!” naruto agrees. he’s positively beaming. “i’d never let anything happen to future wife.”
the woman smiles fondly, and sasuke feels a strange sense of dread just as naruto grows elated.
“wait, so it’s true?!”
“as if!” yells sakura—his sakura—well no, not his. sasuke grits his teeth while sakura whips her horrified gaze over to the silent woman. “please don’t tell me you’re married to naruto?!”
the woman considers them for a moment with a quiet, calculating look. sasuke’s come to the conclusion that she’s at least a jounin. if she really is from the future, she’s smart enough to know she shouldn’t be sharing much information lest she alter anything.
as her silence continues, sakura shoots a worried look his way. he glares back at her for presuming that the idea of her and naruto getting married and having a family would bother him at all.
finally, the woman tells them, “no, i’m not married to naruto.”
sakura’s sigh of relief is so loud it covers up sasuke’s.
naruto crosses his arms and scowls at sasuke. “don’t tell me you actually married that asshole then—“
“oh!” the woman yelps as she stands straighter, hands tensing over her belly.
sakura looks at her in alarm. “what’s wrong?”
“hm?” the woman just laughs as she rubs the bump. “sorry about that. nothing to be concerned about. my little one just kicked me really hard.” she smiles at them. “would you like to feel?”
as sakura touches her tentatively and naruto does so warily, loudly proclaiming that stomachs shouldn’t move like that, sasuke finds himself annoyed that she cut naruto off. did she do that on purpose? of course she did. sakura’s intelligent and clever, so this woman is too. and so what if she said she didn’t marry him? it’s not like that was something sasuke actually considered a legitimate option. it’s not like he cared. it’s not like he wanted that.
“sasuke-kun?”
sasuke blinks and notices sakura standing in front of him. her hair is still cropped short, and he wonders why the woman grew hers out. sakura bites her lip, pink dusting her cheeks.
“the…lady…she’s asking if you want to feel the baby.”
“no.”
“oh…okay.”
they continue their chatter, the woman carefully controlling the conversation to avoid any of naruto or sakura’s questions about the future. they wait for kakashi until they all feel a huge flare of chakra and tense. team seven all stand on alert, but the woman seems unfazed. sasuke frowns because the signature is unnervingly strong and yet somehow familiar.
“ah, that’s my husband,” the woman says, already gathering naruto into a tight hug. she moves on to sakura. “you kids be good now, okay?”
“what?!” naruto yells. “just what kind of badass are you married to sakura-chan? i gotta meet him!”
“i don’t this so.”
“but why? is it actually me and you just don’t want to tell me?”
“oh naruto.”
“sakura—“
sakura—his sakura—promptly punches naruto’s arm. “don’t be so nosy, naruto!”
“as if you don’t want to know!”
“of course i do!” she blushes, likely considering who her future husband might be. “but we just…shouldn’t.”
“exactly,” the woman agrees, coming to stand before sasuke.
he scowls at her, willing her to back off, but she pulls him into her arms anyway. he feels awkward with the way her baby bump protrudes between them, and even more so when she leans in closer to whisper to him, “you’re going to be okay, sasuke-kun.”
when she draws back, he eyes her warily. “what—”
“i’m glad i ran into you guys,” she tells them all. she casts a series of seals to teleport away so they can’t follow her. “thanks for keeping me company.”
i am going to sound ssssooooooo mean. but. i legit do not care if it wasn’t that couple’s intention to start a wildfire. like...no kidding. i never thought it was. who would intentionally set california on fire for a gender reveal??? they still deserve to be ridiculed as much as they are. sorry
as a californian, we know when wildfire season is. we watch it every year. we know what point in the summer is most dangerous for things like bonfires or outdoor barbecues or fireworks. how self-centered do you have to be to set off explosives in the middle of a dry field, in the middle of california, in the middle of august? in the middle of a PANDEMIC? for a GENDER REVEAL! i’m fucking livid
not even so what if they’re teens—my mom was working minimum wage at 13 (she lied about her age) to help put food on the table; millions of teenagers today are forced to do the same thing.
Kusanagi was talking with an editor about a clear file freebie, and they were asking for one that featured all the older guys together in suits. Kusanagi was like, “Who’s gonna like that?” and the editor was like, “Um, me.” Kusanagi was then like, “I’m gonna make it a gag,” while the editor pushed back with, “No, it has to be cool.” They kept going back and forth, and in the end the idea was scrapped and a Hak+Suwon clear file freebie was released instead.
i learned that in ancient Athens, only the 300 wealthiest citizens had to pay tax; this was considered a high honor, and taxpayers competed to provide the greatest public good (x)
YOU HAVE QUALIFIED TO PAY TAXES! WITH THIS ACHIEVEMENT YOU WILL SHOW ATHENS WHAT A SMART SKILLFUL BAD MOTHERFUCKER YOU ARE AND HOW MUCH PEOPLE LOVE AND NEED YOU WITH EACH PAYMENT!ONLY BY PAYING TAXES CAN YOU MAINTAIN THIS ELITE STATUS!
It's funny how ONE reasonable breakdown in a span of only one night deemed as erasing the strength Yona got after chapters of development. It also took several abduction/hostage situation to show how she build a strength to defend herself and people around her.
High politic is less about strength and even more about human chess with information, a familiar setting with heavy baggage doesn't help either. Story wise this arc got a lot of potential info that we could have. Let her take some down time, we know Yona's capability.
Thank you for summarising in two paragraphs the feelings I have been failing to try and write about for months now.
I’ve been finding it quite interesting how Yona is always praised as a “strong female character” and gushed about every time she draws her bowstring or tells someone off, yet as soon as she shows emotional vulnerability of any kind (or makes a seemingly ‘incorrect’ decision, no matter how 'rock and hard place’ it was *glances at the chapters where she decided to come to the castle*) the immediate reaction in the fandom is to say that she has regressed and is no longer “strong”. Or for some to claim that she is acting out of character and needs to go back to being the “strong female character” we knew before. I don’t think these claims would be so bad if Yona had been acting this way for multiple arcs with no real cause given, but these reactions usually come after single chapters/events that a) haven’t even been concluded in the story yet, and b) justify quite well imo that she has every reason to be upset/confused/mistaken/you name it.
I think another interesting opinion floating around is the idea that Yona is acting out of character because she didn’t just storm the castle and/or hasn’t told off the people around her trying to control her. Again, I’ve been wanting to rant about this for ages, but the short of it is that this current situation is nothing like what she has experienced in the past. I feel that every villain in AnY has served (or, tried to serve, some fell flat - that’s another rant I’ve half-finished and never published) to teach Yona something important about leadership, giving her life experience and varied viewpoints to look back on and use if she ever takes the throne. It’s why I’ve never gotten up in arms about the villains in AnY typically being defeated very easily - they are usually flawed characters who are not meant to be physically strong or necessarily super smart. They are manipulators and scoundrels who misuse their power or influence and there are lessons on how not to lead/how people work to be learned from them. The same can be said about this current arc. Usually the people Yona has to deal with are obviously in the wrong for some reason. She (with the help of others more closely involved with the situation - see Lili, Tae-Jun, Kouren, Tao, etc.) can easily remove them from the picture and try to fix their corruption, or push them back because they have tried to invade Kouka and that’s obviously not going to fly. This current scenario is SO DIFFERENT. People are not necessarily being hurt under Soo-Won; rather, the opposite. He has seemingly won the favour of the people more than Il ever did, and has been doing “good” for the country. (I say “good” because all of this is subjective and I know the scale could be argued to be tipping both ways, but that’s a debate for later). He is not someone abusing power to harm the people. We know how he got the throne and that Yona and co. have a right to dislike him, but the people don’t know this. Taking him or parts of his team out could start a civil war if done incorrectly. I’ve been saying for a while but this arc is about “perceptions” - about acting in such a way so that your actions don’t conflict with how you need to be seen by others. As you say, it’s ‘less about strength and even more about human chess with information’ and Yona is not super skilled in this area yet. But I have 100% faith that she will learn. We’ve already seen that she knows she and her friends are being manipulated. Her glaring at Kye-Sook/Joo-Doh/Soo-Won and calling them out in private (because she can get away with defying them openly there because no-one is watching) is obvious proof of this. However, her ability to do a lot about it is still lacking. I’m hoping this will be a great learning experience for her and she will start to pick up on ways to get what she wants without ruining her “status”. I get that sneaky politics doesn’t seem very much like Yona and the person we know her to be, but I think it’s important for her to learn. Even if she doesn’t use manipulation to get what she wants, learning how to spot it and work around people trying to use it is so important if she eventually wants to rule, because others WILL try to take advantage of her, no matter how kind and steadfast she is. I’m sure (or at least I really hope) she’ll start to figure it all out, but she needs time. As you mention, her current location and the heavy baggage she is now carrying are definitely not helping, but as she always has done, I have faith Yona will stand up again and figure out what to do. Her showing emotion and getting upset here are not signs of weakness or regression imo. They are signs that, despite everything going on around her, Yona has not lost her compassion and ability to love.
You know what, Minsu’s situation in regards to possibly being vengeful carry devastating differences compared to Yona and Hak’s.
The one who gave away castle statuses, schedules, etc. that Suwon and Keishuk used for the coup was Minsu. Unlike Hak and Yona, who had no part in the coup, not even indirectly, the casual information that Minsu gave was. He was used.
He blamed himself for it. He was hurt, and to rub it in real good he was assigned to be Suwon’s physician. He had to serve the people who killed his king and betrayed Yona and Hak, had to take in the news of Yona and Hak’s deaths and believed they were for months, saw the current ruler going against everything Il believed regarding war, and he was completely alone the whole time.
Yona and Hak found other people to become friends with and trust. They found a new family. They traveled around and saw things that contradicted what they had been told growing up and living in the castle. They gained supporters, people to confide in when they just needed to talk. For Yona it was Lili, and for Hak it was Jaeha. Minsu all the while had absolutely nobody. He’s kept it bottled up the entire time.
i think we should go back to the time-honored tradition of bread riots. the cost of essential goods gets too high? we all just show up at our leaders’ houses and threaten to haul them and their family to the guillotine if they don’t fix it. i think we’ve become too polite, as a society
Our president has been charged with misconduct through the only proccess that is outlined in our constitution (impeachment). The next step in the process is that the president goes on trial. Republicans in the senate, where the trial will take place, have already said they have made up their minds and will vote based on bias. They have stated that it will be a quick trial with no witnesses and a guaranteed vote on acquittal. The democrats, who control the charges, have said that they will not release the charges to the senate until fair rules have been established. Republicans seem shocked by this turn of events
In case you’re wondering why this would make the republicans upset, the need this to go to trial or Trump will be on record as having been impeached and not acquitted.
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If you have time, register for an absentee ballot in your state. That way you don’t even have to go to a polling place, you just have to fill it out and mail it in on time.
Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z outnumber Boomers. More of us are Liberals who care about each other and social safety nets. More of us give a fuck about the future because we have to live in it.
Flip the Senate. Fucking Vote. It’s so goddamn important.
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