#hiruko

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in light of the naruto mobile animation...

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For those of you who don't remember (because the movie kind of sucked) the Naruto Will of fire movie gave us Hiruko, a(nother) Orochimaru-copy villain - a scientist obsessed with youth and whatnot. However they actually did something interesting and made his backstory that he was childhood friends with the Sannin.

Hiruko is doing the flashback narration here where he claims to have been best friends with the Sannin.

However, despite Jiraiya and Tsunade both appearing in the movie, neither of them has much to say about Hiruko. While they do seem to have known him, they don't really acknowledge having been close to him, much less having been his "best friends". Orochimaru doesn't even make an appearance in this movie outside of the flashback (and a hallucination - we'll get to that later).

With that in mind let's look at that flashback again:

After Hiruko stumbles and falls behind, Tsunade gives him a "don't mind" gesture with her hand but her expression is pitying. We don't hear what Jiraiya says but he smirks as he's talking and Orochimaru's expression is blank.

These reactions give me the impression that he wasn't their best friend. Friend, maybe - they don't seem to hate him or anything. But there isn't any closeness either. My guess is that he was in their class at the academy but once they graduated to Genin the three became tight knit with each other, and Hiruko no longer fit with them. Which is honestly fine - I think we've all had friends from school who we stopped talking to once we were no longer forced to be around them 8+ hours a day.

However, due to them becoming distant after graduating, from Hiruko's perspective it likely seemed like he was losing his friends because he wasn't strong enough. Thus he became convinced that he had to get stronger and catch up with them.

And how can he do that? By forming a lifelong obsession and mimicking them of course!

While we know full well that Orochimaru eventually had a secret evil lab and experiments going on, prior to that they had a more normal lab setting. This one was likely public knowledge as we see Anko casually hanging out there, so it's easy to reason that Hiruko would try to emulate both Orochimaru's passion for science and their interest in discovering new jutsu. The fact he specifically worked on experimenting with animals also seems indicative of him copying the Sannin, given each of them has an animal that they closely identify with.

It's as if he thought combining himself with an animal (or animals) would replicate the same strength the Sannin gained from partnering with their summon animals. Notice that a snake is one of the first animals we see him experiment with.

(sidenote: the sheer number of similarities that Hiruko has to Orochimaru really drives home how much of a copycat this character is. However, if we look at it from an in-story standpoint it makes it seem like out of the three Sannin, Hiruko is particularly obsessed with Orochimaru)

Then, after seeing Kakashi come home with Obito's eye, able to use the Sharingan despite being born without it, he gets the idea to steal kekkei genkai in order to gain power.

There are a few unfortunate aspects to this:

While this does later make him powerful, it eats away at him physically (again, much like Orochimaru)

Hiruko sought Kekkei genkai in order to have the same strength as the Sannin, but the Sannin are unique in that - unlike many strong characters in the series - they have no Kekkei genkai. No special eyes or anything, they're just exceptionally good at what they do. While those special abilities would make Hiruko stronger, his strength still wouldn't be the same as theirs. There'd still be that degree of differentiation.

And perhaps worst of all is that at the end of the movie, Kakashi tells Hiruko that he should have turned to his friends, as they would have been there for him, and saved him. Some hallucination ghosts then show up and agree, saying they would have been there for him (well, Jiraiya, Tsunade and Hiruzen do - ghost Orochimaru apparently refused to participate in this bullshit and stays silent)

This is a nice sentiment but...is that really true? It's possible the Sannin might have been willing to talk things through. Maybe they could have helped him. However, I've been studying the Sannin long enough to know that regardless of how much they may have wanted to, they couldn't have saved Hiruko.

Think about it: no matter how much they loved one another, they still weren't able to save each other.

How could they have possibly saved the tagalong?

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Hiruko

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love triangle with hiruko & darumi

pairing: darumi amemiya x gn!reader x hiruko shizuhara

tags: romantic rivalry, clingy & affectionate!darumi, darumi falls first (& accidentally makes hiruko fall for you too)

darumi fell for you first! after all, she's someone to fall quick and hard, while hiruko takes a lot longer to develop feelings for someone

darumi is constantly clinging to you, trying to spend every moment with you and making it pretty clear to you that she likes you, without actually making a move on you yet

meanwhile hiruko isn't even interested in you at first. when darumi first suspects that hiruko likes you (simply for talking to you about an upcoming battle), hiruko isn't even into you yet!

hiruko keeps denying darumi's accusations that she's into you! she constantly makes it clear to you that darumi is wrong and just jealous… until hiruko actually falls for you!

well, the next time darumi accuses hiruko of having a crush on you, hiruko isn't hiding it anymore. she makes it clear to darumi that she does in fact like you, but that she's not trying to play any games here! she wants to handle this like adults

once darumi knows hiruko actually likes you, she clings to you even more than usually! but hiruko is more direct about wanting to spend time with you as well now, so darumi can't prevent you from being around hiruko…