#kusagakure

[phanta-soba]

Naruto Oc week day 2!

Photograph | Friendship

Short fic + art at the end

Fic warnings: some swearing and mention of alcohol, mention of a character's deadname

It all started with a dumb joke about baby pictures.

Hidan, Keiharu, and Deidara had been hanging out at a bar in Ame, near the Akatsuki base. They had just been joking around, and the topic of lost records came up. Things from their old lives, like old toys, favorite childhood books, and of course, baby pictures.

“It's a damn shame that I won't ever get to see little you, blondie.” Keiharu teased, nudging Deidara's foot under the table. A blush rose to his cheeks, and he mumbled something that sounded like “good..”. Hidan laughed at the exchange, leaning against the table.

“I bet he looked like a little girl!” He cackled, downing a gulp of the cheap beer all three of them had. Hidan had drunk the most so far, while Deidara had hardly touched his, not liking the taste. Keiharu sat comfortably in the middle.

“I did not, un!” Deidara protested, his ears flushed a color that was comically close to Keiharu's hair. “You probably looked like a deranged rat.” He huffed, making Keiharu snicker at the mental image that provided.

“God, I really hope my village burned my records.” They groaned, not even wanting to think of the embarrassment they'd feel if their pictures were recovered. Hidan’s smirk grew, a sinister glint in his magenta eyes.

“They didn't.” He said ominously, making Keiharu's eyes snap to him.

“The hell does that mean?” They asked, brows furrowed in worry. Hidan grinned, pulling out a small sleeve of pictures from his pocket.

“The archived records of one Haruhi Uzumaki.” He announced, wearing a shit eating grin. Keiharu's face flushed an embarrassed scarlet as they jumped to try and wrestle the pictures from him.

“Don't you fuckin dare!” They snarled, just as Deidara confusedly asked “who?” Hidan laughed, holding the pictures just out of reach. “How do you even know that name?!”

“I'm just that good.” The Jashinist bragged, making Keiharu scowl. They aimed a sharp kick to the shin, making him wince for a second before his grin returned. “Fine, fine. You told me one time when we went drinking. Me and Kakazu recently had a mission near Kusa, so I decided to pay a visit to the archives.”

Keiharu groaned. That unfortunately sounded like something they would do. They finally gave up wrestling the pictures away from him, slumping in their seat, resigned to their fate. Deidara peered over curiously as Hidan revealed the pictures.

“Hang on.. is this you?” Deidara asked, taking the first picture from Hidan. Keiharu just groaned in response. The picture displayed what appeared to be a young girl with long red hair training with two other shinobi her age, laughing as they worked out together. Deidara smiled down at the picture. “You were so cute.”

“Fuck off..” Keiharu mumbled, their cheeks matching their hair perfectly. “I left that stuff behind me a while ago.” Their protests seemed to fall on deaf ears however, as Deidara and Hidan spent the rest of the bar trip teasing Keiharu about their younger self.

Despite it all, Keiharu was still happy that those two morons were their best friends.

One of the pictures featuring their old teammates:

Itō Ishikawa, Haruhi (Keiharu) Uzumaki, and Maki Kitagawa

[emeraldlupin]

Two shots this time. Never tried that before, so let's see how it works out. Both are also from Shippuden 431. The one on the left is the house Karin and her mother when they lived in Kusa for their anime-exclusive backstory. The one on the right is the "northern fortress," also part of the anime-exclusive backstory.

[emeraldlupin]

A shot of the hospital in Kusagakure, courtesy of Shippuden 431. Nasty place.

[phanta-soba]

Enter Keiharu! A new-ish Naruto oc of mine.

They grew up in Kusagakure but left to train alone when they were around 14, and ended up abandoning their village entirely when they met someone who promised to grant them everything they wanted in life (which, predictably, was a horrible decision)

[yamanaka-shin]

Kissing @moonamayillu for all their hard work every time they draw something for me 🧡🧡

This time it's a scene from the past that will eventually be explored through fic (the past in general, not necessarily this specific scene). Hyakutori and his only child, Shin, before the rest of life went from bad to worse, in an actual decent moment between unpleasant ones. He's even got one of his giant otter summons, Parduoc, for extra company. Back in Kusagakure (located in what I he is called the Land of Mushrooms), thankfully far away from where he came from and never wants to go back to, aka Kirigakure. There will be unpleasant things to go back to at home and he'll be partly to blame for it. But at this very moment, none of that is happening.

(unfortunately, there is not a happy ending to any of this. just wanted to indulge in some Hyakutori time since Moona actually helped me get his looks down.)

Never posted this but this is from several years later, when things DID go from bad to worse. Shin ran off and got picked up by Root. The only good thing that came from it is that Hyakutori finally got the divorce he should have pursued a long ass time ago. Life is bad when you're a war deserter whose only child ran away from home because you and your now ex wife would not stop fighting in front of them.

There ARE some better things that will come his way. But he's still guilty of not so great parenting even though it could have been avoided through the magical invention known as divorce. Until said good things start rolling in, he's really gotta reflect on his behavior. And do some healing as well because he's got his own problems that stem from outside that disaster of a marriage and genuinely are terrible. Hyakutori is not a good man or a bad man, he's a product of the world he lives in and I'm fascinated by him. Yes I created him. Yes I also need to study him and even kiss him.

[galacov6]

Naoshi Umi | 海 尚志 Naoshi Umi is a shinobi from Kusagakure and of a squad comprised of him and his classmates Hibari and Amane. He is the son of Shiu Umi and does not know who his father is. Shiu was a former hero to the village, but has fallen from grace in more recent times. She also has never been the best mother to him, with constant neglect in favor of hunting for a new man to drag home, as well as not hanging around the best crowds either. Naoshi's childhood goals were to become a better hero to Kusa than his mother was, and to have the village taken more seriously and stop being trodden over by the bigger villages such as Konoha and Iwa.

By the time the Fourth Shinobi World War rolls around, he gets his chance to be seen as a hero as he's sent as part of Kusagakure's special forces to aid the bigger villages in the war.

Naoshi has a chain-based kekkei genkai, just like his mother. His "chains" are comprised of chakra-charged keratin (the proteins that makes up hair, skin, and nails). They can extend and retract as the user pleases.

Naoshi's birthday is November 18th, his blood type is A+, and his height is 5'10.

1. by clubbingclown 2. by satanism

[galacov6]

Amasa Furude | 古手 天草

Amasa Furude is a Kusagakure shinobi on Team Koumei, alongside classmates Kanata and Sayuri, and their jonin instructor Koumei. Amasa comes from a civilian family who disapproved of his aspirations to become a ninja and was kicked out, but thanks to Koumei, his neighbor and childhood friend's older brother, who also had come from a civilian family, was taken in by him when Koumei's brother, Akari, was old enough to become a ninja as well.

At the Kusagakure Academy, Amasa was already very proficient in ninjutsu and bukijutsu and graduated top of his class. To his luck he was assigned as part of Koumei's squad and eventually entered into the following chunin exams, which he managed to be one of only 2 Kusagakure genin to get promoted to chunin.

Later on, he eventually makes jonin and becomes part of the special forces Kusagakure sends in to assist with the Fourth Shinobi World War.

1. by satanism 2. by clubbingclown

[galacov6]

today is a grass ninja kinda day

art by satanism!