im sooo intruiged by the konoha spin-off of that kakasaku au... and also by the actual au tbh. are sasuke+ naruto still in konoha? what role does rin play in konoha's politics? is she a jounin sensei? what was the team minato dynamic like without kakashi? how do sakura and kakashi's lives go? how weird is rin being about interpersonal relationships (if she has any)? and id be interested to hear pretty much anything about this au lol feel free to infodump :3
⭐️ i have. a lot to say ⭐️
at first i wanted to swap sakumo with a kiri shinobi. then i realized, nothing ever changes. one man doesn't start or stop a war. he didn't change the system.
fandom misconception: apparently sakumo gets blamed for a mission that started a war? what are timelines? who said that? i know that when one is writing a fic it's easy to conspiracy-brain this & say something like "root sabotaged the mission" to keep sakumo like... "perfect"? or that danzo for some reason staged his death? we're just adding crimes to the old man's portfolio huh
sakumo's kiri existence leads to sakura's parents -- in this they are civilian merchants -- settling in the land of water and having a child earlier. let's say they are originally from around wave. they are fairly shinobi-positive: "our bloodthirsty little girl wants to learn to stab people? okay sweetie :)" ...sakura may or may not have younger siblings (who remain civilians)
i'm keeping some fun sakumo & kakashi material to myself for now ^^
topics to explore in the future:
[story] sword legacies, expectations
[meta] girls with big weapons
[meta & story] lack of tragic backstory for sakura
let's be real, you're here because of rin.
some of this is just my unwillingness to derail canon too much.
rin follows canon kakashi's path: anbu, maybe a short stint in root, jonin, some more anbu work alongside visible jonin missions, and finally jonin-sensei!
she doesn't spend hours staring at the memorial stone; she carries everything on her. she stares at people. all the time. sometimes hidden with genjutsu, sometimes just standing there like a statue. blink goes the sharingan. don't mind her.
canon kakashi came to meet his new team late; rin was standing in the (ceiling) corner since early morning
don't worry, she still has terrible identity issues; the shared eyeball stuff really messed her up.
"i will see the future through you" but twice. she is team 7 now.
there's a monologue about team roles brewing in her head, you can bet edo tensei'd minato will hear it as soon as he leaves the coffin!
hiroto (our hyuga oc; born to rage and die) & obito bring major "fuck the clans" energy.
rin sees the aftermath of eyeball politics:
fact: obito voluntarily gave a body part to an allied combatant (who previously lost an eye)
was obito's body his to give away? or does it belong to his village? or his clan?
decision: hiroto can keep the sharingan but he's on thin ice
fact: hiroto later gave the same body part to another allied combatant
fact: rin was part of the original team, obito's other friend, so she's someone who could have received the eye then if the situation was a tiny bit different
suddenly it's all "would obito want rin to have the sharingan?" and "we don't know that", obito's decision is now the law, not hiroto's, so please give it back to the uchiha
thankfully obito's dying words weren't "go be hokage"; she would burn the hat
decision: rin can keep the sharingan but can't even think about gifting it to anyone else, since her original team is gone (and minato doesn't want it)
when the uchiha die, rin's first thought is "who gets to keep the eyeballs?"
(answer: danzo. probably)
rin has a complicated relationship with being a medic. as in, she refuses to be called that anymore.
when she meets tsunade it's going to get messy -- whether it's upon waking from the itachi mind torture special or not.
“no medic ninja shall ever die until they are the last of their platoon” <- all-consuming Rage 🔥
most of rin's relationships are... weird. people think she's weird; she agrees, but their reasons are so wrong. (someone misunderstanding rin? never seen that before...)
however she has a best friend, who deserves a whole separate post. who is it? not that hard to guess, but very hard to describe what they have going on. that relationship is built.
they could feature in any "siblings or dating?" game. the answer is obviously neither.
(most adult interactions to be fleshed out later)
topics to explore in the future:
[meta & story] seals & flying thunder god jutsu
[story] what to do with a sharingan
[story] from terrible misunderstandings to mutual character growth
rin-sensei gets team 7: naruto, sasuke & third character (anime only, so not quite an oc). sakura is very lucky to Not Be There
yeah, this too is getting its own post later. not much material yet
#pink tsunami au; the konoha spinoff is taking form