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SASUKE
+ Mai keeping it real:
Sasuke's truly the type of man to accidentally do something embarrassing and then double down on it—just to make it look like he was doing it on purpose and it's actually NOT embarrassing because it's all a part of his Master Plan, and really, he's an Ice Prince who's always Three Steps Ahead of Everyone Else because he's simply Better. Like:
This man will trip, trip, and instead of admitting it, he’ll just land in a crouch and activate his Sharingan like—
“I meant to do that. Tactical evasion maneuver.”
Everyone around him: “…you just fell.” Sasuke: “No. I dodged. The ground.”
Like he could literally walk into a glass door because he was deep in thought, and then when Naruto’s like “Bro are you good???” Sasuke would go, dead serious:
“I was testing the structural integrity.”
This man’s pride is an Olympic sport. If he sneezed mid battle and accidentally shot a fireball at the wrong target, he’d be like:
“That was a distraction technique.”
and then proceed to retroactively invent a whole strategy around it so no one can call him out.
And the funniest part? Everyone around him just fucking goes with it. Because he says it with such conviction that you start doubting your own memory. Like, yeah, maybe he did mean to crash through that window dramatically instead of using the door. He’s just built different.
Naruto’s the only one who ever calls him out:
“You just dropped your kunai.” (Probably because Naruto did something stupid to distract him) “No, I baited them.” “Into what?” “Shut up.”
He’s the kind of guy who would mispronounce a word in front of everyone, get roasted, and double down like “That’s how it’s pronounced in the Uchiha dialect.”
And who the fuck is going to fight him on that? How would they know if there's an Uchiha dialect or not?
He’s not even lying on purpose, he’s lying to reality itself so it conforms to his version of events.
Megan thee Stallion and Sasuke Uchiha arrive at the 2022 Met Gala
ugh. guys. i love sasuke.
i fucking love how chill sasuke is
I love Sasuke so much that it’s probably not healthy—HOWEVER—I love Naruto an equal amount and that’s not healthy for me either 😍🥰🎀💕✨
Sometimes I wonder if I’d have been more mentally stable had I never watched Naruto.
This is something I’ve been thinking about lately, and I wanted to put it somewhere.
Then I remember I’m a weird little freak and have always been a weird little freak and I will continue to be a weird little freak forevermore.
My very first fixation started at the young and impressionable age of exactly 3 years old—sharks.
After a few years, a classmate eventually called me a “shark freak” and that’s kind of stuck in my head ever since—hence the username.
It’s a bit of reminder that my obsessions never really fade—they just seem to take a bit of a backseat until they randomly resurface again.
13 year old me adored Naruto. And then I didn’t think about him again properly for years until all of a sudden, last year, on a random night I woke up in cold sweat from a dream about Boruto and Shippuden’s ending.
The intense sense of injustice, revulsion, anger, and near religious fervor I felt cannot properly be conveyed in words. I wrote Chapter 1 that night in a haze—before spending the entire day somewhat revising and editing it before posting it. Pressing the post button baffled me; I’d never posted on Ao3 before despite being a lurker for the longest time.
It was strange. Naruto had been gone. I hadn’t thought about him in years. Why had he come back? As it turns out, I was the one who’d left.
I know I talk about him as though he’s a real person. But—years after I’ve watched the show, it’s like he’s come back to teach me about things I haven’t learned or have already forgotten in the brief period we spent apart. To me, the impact he’s had on my life even as a fictional character is undeniable.
I felt like it was fate. I hadn’t thought far enough about what to do with the plot, but I knew what I wanted out of this fic: to write it.
My fic is just a fic. It’s random fanfiction. However, the compulsion I have to write it out, feels like, to me, fate. I’m being weird and intense about this, of course, but dear reader, if I wasn’t as weird and intense as I am, I wouldn’t be able to write them the way that I do.
My dear Naruto and Sasuke. I adore other characters. Of course I do. My obsession with them may fade again one day—switching from the driver’s seat back to passenger’s seat. But it will never be gone.
I believe other people share this sentiment too: to see your own wounds reflected back at you in another person or circumstance in life is the greatest, yet most humiliating form of validation, acknowledgment, and recognition a human can experience. It’s addicting. It’s repulsive. It’s euphoric. It’s nauseating. It’s all these things all at once. And for that, I love Naruto so much.
I won’t forgive you itachi