TEAMWORK WRITING MEME. >;(
Because I'm sick and tired of it being all lazy and floppy in its corner of my brain.
Plz give me teamworkverse prompts. By which I mean
-"what was X thinking/doing during scene Y?"
-X's POV on ... whatever
-a timestamp -- Ten years later, two days ago, ten minutes after the end of this scene
where X can be naruto, sasuke, sakura... or kakashi... or kiba or whoever else... or even one of the OCs.
-... yes it can be X-rated. #>____>#
I will not write about the T7 kids except in generic terms (apart from Aoru, the third one. She's not spoiler anymore. XD) I will not write about Itachi past Teamwork 4 because he is also spoiler. (is he dead? is he uncle itachi? did he take madara's eyes for himself and conquer konoha? NO ONE KNOWS.) I will not write spoilerific things in general. I'll tell you if a prompt lands in there so you can ask something else.
Anyway. Two prompts each maximum (please do not make seventeen and then ask me to pick two of them. DX ), and I make no promise they'll actually inspire me. I'll try my best to write at least one for everyone, but. Well. You guys know me by now. ~___~;
plz loev me. T^T
Sakura FINALLY gets married to Naruto. Sort of. (futurefic. WAY futurefic.)
Itachi Finds Out
Cooking Arrangements
Yakitaro of Team Fodder at 18
Gaara on early TemaShikaIno tangle
okay, going to bed, but i'll keep going tomorrow, feel free to post requests.
Plz give me teamworkverse prompts. By which I mean
-"what was X thinking/doing during scene Y?"
-X's POV on ... whatever
-a timestamp -- Ten years later, two days ago, ten minutes after the end of this scene
where X can be naruto, sasuke, sakura... or kakashi... or kiba or whoever else... or even one of the OCs.
-... yes it can be X-rated. #>____>#
I will not write about the T7 kids except in generic terms (apart from Aoru, the third one. She's not spoiler anymore. XD) I will not write about Itachi past Teamwork 4 because he is also spoiler. (is he dead? is he uncle itachi? did he take madara's eyes for himself and conquer konoha? NO ONE KNOWS.) I will not write spoilerific things in general. I'll tell you if a prompt lands in there so you can ask something else.
Anyway. Two prompts each maximum (please do not make seventeen and then ask me to pick two of them. DX ), and I make no promise they'll actually inspire me. I'll try my best to write at least one for everyone, but. Well. You guys know me by now. ~___~;
plz loev me. T^T
Sakura FINALLY gets married to Naruto. Sort of. (futurefic. WAY futurefic.)
Itachi Finds Out
Cooking Arrangements
Yakitaro of Team Fodder at 18
Gaara on early TemaShikaIno tangle
okay, going to bed, but i'll keep going tomorrow, feel free to post requests.
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You mentioned a while ago that eventually all of T7 were going to be married to one another (or something to that effect), with Sasuke having Naru!concubine, Naruto being gleefully pimp, etc.
What I would like to see is Tsunade's POV when her student carts her newly offical two hubby's home. (I think you were batting around an idea for a matriarchal Snow but I'm not entirely sure). If not then Sakura herself/the boy's as the tables are finally turned (if, that is Sakura is the last to bag the other two).
Hope that's got enough room to breathe. Make it as long or short, vanilla or smutty as you want. =^_^=
OH MY GOD THIS IS NOT A FICLET. part 1 of...3? 4?
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Under the Rokudaime's rule Konoha extended its peaceful influence far afield, to countries she had never even heard of in her childhood, who most civilians her age had never heard of, too concerned with threats closer to home.
Tsunade might have been pushing seventy, but she was still strong and their country had so many allies, nothing much stopped her successor, her student, and that man they both called "husband" from wandering off -- Naruto to sign treaties, Sasuke to guard him, and Sakura... ah, an advisor, she called herself, but every time she came back Tsunade was waiting with tea heating up and a chuckle already building in her throat.
"Master!" Sakura said brightly when she walked in that afternoon, hair a bleached shade of rose, skin tanned dark and faint white lines at the corner of her eyes like she'd spent all that time in the sun glaring at something. She sat when Tsunade waved her toward her chair, grinning like she wanted to bite.
"So how did it go?"
"Do you remember how sad it was that I couldn't marry Naruto in Konoha without being Sasuke's widow first? Well, it turns out I had a lot of free time during this trip..."
In other words, her line of inquiry had been a big bust.
"So on the way back I got thinking about Konoha laws! It says something like 'until their first spouse has died,' doesn't it? But I bet it doesn't say anything about it being invalidated if said spouse was revived afterwards."
Tsunade smothered her laughter in her cup of tea. "I think Uchiha might object."
Sakura let out a long, fake sigh. "I think he might, too. Selfish of him, huhn. I knew I should have waited a little longer to fix him last time. Oh well, I'm sure there'll be other assassins."
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The first time had been almost fifteen years ago, as Tsunade sent her chosen successor on his first solo diplomatic mission. Some lost valley in the mountains, well past the farthest reaches of Wind Country. Sakura had heard of their polyandrous habits and immediately -- blushing, but determined -- started campaigning to be allowed to go with. Their first and second children had been old enough to stay at their grandparents' for a couple of months then; Tsunade had given her permission and Team Seven had jauntily marched off.
When they came back Naruto was frowning, Sasuke so blank-faced it was a wonder he still bothered to breathe, and Sakura trailing her own metaphorical little raincloud.
It turned out their habit of marrying one woman to several men had been born from damaged reproductive abilities, due to being locked away in their same little valley for the last couple of centuries. The men allied in bands of three or four -- good -- and bartered, schemed, and fought others for possession of their women. And then, once "married", they locked them up so they wouldn't get knocked up by some other brotherhood. Which was so far past not good, Sakura had no words for it. She'd been livid all the way home.
"So... No marriage then?" Shizune had ventured.
Sakura had let loose a torrent of recriminations that boiled down to 'I would rather become a nun than support that mindset by getting married there', which was the end of it -- the end of mentioning that particular little trip, at least.
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The next couple of countries had laws similar to those home, so there was no extra-curricular eloping. But the one after that was over the ocean, an ancient country, hot and lazily powerful, and while most of the leaders over there were kings, there were some queens and princesses who did more with the title than simply being the spouse of. And in deference to them, a woman could have more than one recognized, legally sanctioned lover.
There was this one last hurdle, though...
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"So the blond hunk is snipped, huh? A shame. He'd have made you strapping children."
A woman of high rank could have several legal, bonded lovers -- if all but one were eunuchs.
"... Oh, yes, I can see that you aren't. Haha, it would have been strange if the nominal leader was ... my apologies, I meant no insult. The pretty one then? I must have misunderstood, I thought you said he was your husband. Haha, how silly of me. I should have know, he does look a bit..."
They were pretty lucky to come back home without a new war on their hands, Sakura had to admit.
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After that for ten years or so Naruto had duties closer to home, and then Sakura had Aoru-chan, and she stopped entertaining Tsunade with the tales of her grand quest to get hitched. She mostly busied herself with taking over the hospital and becoming Naruto's first in-village political advisor -- two full-time jobs on their own, even without "mother of three" on top.
There was that matrilineal clan over in Cloud Country, though, which rekindled that little flame in her eyes -- the tradition born of a female-carried bloodline. It required genetic diversity, and the women were the bottlenecks, hence several husbands each.
Alas, Sakura had no bloodline, so she was disqualified from the get-go.
"But if your husband can use that jutsu," the old woman leader conceded, grittiness briefly turning into something akin to religious awe, "then as a gesture of good faith and friendship between our people, and of thanks to Hokage Naruto-sama (may he have thirty daughters) we will allow Sasuke of the Uchiha to marry you both."
They went home with a new treaty, and they'd only asked to be taught the Sexy no Jutsu for it. Alas, Sasuke was a selfish bastard, and so Sakura still went home with only one husband.
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When the travelers crossed the Elemental Countries, Naruto went to meet them, came back delighted -- if a little weirded out -- by their adherence to principles of peace, love, freedom, and tolerance.
Men could marry other men, women could marry other women, their cousins, their religious ministers, and their best friends' boyfriends. Oh, and outsiders not of their own ethnicity or country, too. There was no such thing as an outsider in their point of view, only a neighbor you hadn't yet met.
Naruto was made a honorary citizen of the City That Never Stops Drifting Because The World Is So Vast And We Ought To Know It All. Sakura was grinning from the second the garland of flowers was passed around his neck.
Problem being the High Priestess and the President In Chief also wanted the ability to marry Sakura's husbands.
There was such a thing as being too generous and selfless.
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In all the upheavals that the Hokage and his teammates had introduced into the country in the last twenty years of rule, the abolishment of gendered language into Konoha's own laws passed almost unnoticed.
Three days later a petition to the Hokage for the right of the Haruno clan to an heir of their own landed on the Hokage's desk.
"I don't get it," said Naruto.
"It means my marriage contract to Sasuke meant any children born under its umbrella would be Uchihas, no matter who actually fathered them, but that's only if there's no other contract -- if the Harunos are recognized as a clan then as the Haruno heir I could have official concubines of my own."
"... Oooh. It'll work?"
Sakura beamed at him. "Unless you've pissed off the Kotaka recently..."
Later she barged in Tsunade's office, brandishing the stamp-covered paperwork, green eyes gleaming behind their little round glasses.
"FINALLY! Oh god, finally."
Tsunade squinted as she read, and then nodded, amused and a little proud that Sakura would have engineered a whole social revolution rather than let go of her goal. "I take it this is the end of our little tea sessions?"
"Oh, I'm sure I'll find more reasons to come visit you. Like, say..."
"Alright, what have you done now."
Sakura sat, trying badly to pretend to be annoyed. Her eyes were still bright, still so fierce and so young. "Oh, it's Naruto, you know how he is..."
"Don't stall."
"Well, he asked me if that meant our next children would be named Haruno. And, well, yes, that's exactly what it means, except for a small, niggling detail -- menopause."
"Which would be grounds for refusal of your request by the Council," Tsunade pointed out, only because she could see Sakura coming from a mile away.
Sakura grimaced at her. "They've got enough grounds for that anyway -- It's mostly just silly legalese and twisty loopholes, but I'm pretty sure the Council will approve it just so their Hokage stops flaunting the fact that he's someone's side dish. They're going to give this shiny bit of polite fiction the go-ahead because it's the most respectable they'll ever make Naruto look. BUT ANYWAY," she said, forging ahead.
"Yes?" Tsunade asked, as if she didn't know where her student of twenty years was going.
"Well. Naruto and Sasuke miss having kids. Young ones, I mean. They're all grown and out of the house now..."
Tsunade took a sip of tea, noncommittal. "I'm sure."
"... Masteeeeeer."
Tsunade relented, eyes laughing, though her face kept looking stern. "I might have some ideas of how to get around that little menopause problem, if you can find the funds for the necessary research at the hospital..."
Sakura beamed at her. "Great! I have a lot of those, too."
She looked down at the official decree, caressed the red stamps. Tsunade could see it on her face -- the silly 'official' approval that shouldn't have meant half as much as it ended up meaning for the balance of her relationship.
Naruto and Sasuke's concubine/husband bond wasn't even legal in Fire Country, yet how it had galled at her to leave things undone -- done only twice. How much she had needed to correct that last imbalance, to bridge that last divide.
Then she looked up, and she smiled that bright, harsh smile that meant there were still heights to be conquered.
"While we're pioneering new medical jutsu, what do you say about making a child with two fathers? I was thinking, if we emptied an ovum and then merged two sperm cells..."
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I loved that you didn't just wrap it all up on the first go- that it dragged on for years of T7 trying to find others that suited their life style before they realised they just needed to REWRITE THE RULES TO SUIT THEMSELVES. >:)
And Tsunade, sitting chortling on the sidelines was done very well- they say work and intrigue is what keeps old biddies on their toes. *twirls*
And rewriting medical history to have some more kids and does this mean a 3-way DNA child is canon now COS ITS MAH HEAD CANON NAOW~! :DDD
*FLyingtakleglomps you and doesn't let go* <3
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Alas, emptying the ovum means it doesn't have any DNA left to transmit, mostly just using the structure. That kid is going to be pure Naruto/Sasuke. Though I think if anyone can, ninjas could manage to merge two sperm cells together, but then the kid would be half Sakura and one fourth each Naruto and Sasuke... hmm.
I'm already totally planning the kid's name and looks and personality. XD;; ... I think Yukito, because by then his grandfather Yukihiro would have died so they'd name him after Yukihiro, and perhaps after Minato too... hee.
... should I make him a twin sister? >__> pros: it'd be deliberate, because two kids are better than one. Cons, it's a little cliche and i have no personality ideas for her. Hmmmm.
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Eeeeeee, biology goes completely out the window but I hated that subject anyway *blows raspberry at impossible human genetics* Hmm, one half Sakura, a quarter Sasuke and Naruto a piece... Probably get blue/green eyes, Naruto being dominant there from both his parents and green eyes have a similar strain... strawberry blonde/ash blonde hair? Wow, Sasuke's genes get a slap there, even though black's dominant, probably not if there's TWO other parents DNA butting in. Baby might not even get the sharingan. The only thing left would be the duck butt legacy and the monosylabble grunting... >_>
*Tries to map DNA tree and fails*
As for the cliche twin thing- DO IT~ If anyone can pull it off it's you (OBVIOUS COMPLIMENT IS OBVIOUS) besides it makes sense that Sakura would make the most of it while she could if she was going through menopause. Lots of mothers do it in China to get round the one child clause and none of those mothers are ninjaaaa... Not sue of the exact science of it but if we cn do it then shinobi certainly can.
As for names? Yukiko and Yukito? Oh gawd, can you imagine the comfusion? *bounces in fic induced happy hyper*
Wow, I've spraffed a lot, sorry about that. It's just shows how happy this ficlet made me. <33
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"While we're pioneering new medical jutsu, what do you say about making a child with two fathers? I was thinking, if we emptied an ovum and then merged two sperm cells..."
I have only three words for you. MAKE THIS WORK!!!
This little ficlet series was awesome and I loved the ending. Seriously the sheer determination of Sakura to MAKE THINGS RIGHT is totally awesome and fits with her character.
Much love. And cookies. I have cookies.
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