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teamwork babble! :O
Someone sent me Teamwork-related questions, and I babbled a bit, and now i'm in a teamworky moodso hey. Here they are if you're interested, and if you guys have any questions of your own that won't spoil the next fic then I'll answer them.
>what is Sakura and Sasuke's relationship like when Naruto happens to just not be around for a while, like if he is on a solo mission or is out training with Jiraiya or anything really?
So far it hasn't happened much yet since they got together! They haven't been separated for more than a few hours to maybe a weekend, and even when they're not living together they still train or have missions. For the shorter breaks Naruto often wanders out to go see Iruka or Shikamaru and Kiba and the rest of the group and those evenings Sasuke and Sakura apparently take the chance to have a quiet day in. XD Often they'll be reading scrolls or books in the same room and not talking much. Sasuke likes it, he finds it restful and he does consider it something he does with Sakura, not just him pretending she's not here at all (he'd go in another room, and sometimes he does go into another room and lock himself in, that's different for him). Sasuke likes it some days because she knows what Sasuke means by it, and some days she'd like to chat but she doesn't want to disturb him too much and she wonders if maybe she isn't reading too much into it and he is, in fact, not even really noticing she's here.
So yeah, it's a bit awkward, mostly from her side. Sasuke assumes she understands him and his motives and thoughts, but he isn't fully taking into account her own needs about communication and closeness, and the thing is Sakura usually *does* get him really well, but sometimes she doubts herself and her understanding, since it's mostly wordless and she has a tendency not to trust her instincts, or to be down on herself in general. So Sasuke would be more awkward as well if he stopped assuming it's all fine. XD
Mind, that doesn't happen every time they're alone together. Sometimes Sakura feels daring or Sasuke feels... I don't know, cuddly? husbandly? XD and they'll be kind of leaning shoulder to shoulder and end up kind of cuddling. But first they have to test the waters for like a half hour or something. XDDD They're too used to Naruto dragging them in and getting things started.
>My next question is about Jin. He is a Kunoichi and straight, does that help or hinder is ability to detach himself from the job.
This is kinda complicated. The issue isn't really that he's straight, the training does help not taking people's advances personally whether they're men or women -- he does sometimes get a bit aroused when getting close to very pretty women but he sees that as a distraction and "damn it why do I have so many hormones stupid teenagerhood", it doesn't happen with men -- it's that he's kinda macho, he wants to be a protector, only with his build and his face it's just not happening and he has to keep pretending to be frail and sensitive and while he can hide his true reactions for the good of the mission, that chafes. He'd be just as irritated if he was gay, only he'd be annoyed that sometimes his hormones get a foothold into his control and react inappropriately to targets (especially if he was passing as a girl at the time, sudden!erection isn't a surprise a lot of men would be happy about. XD) He does find men more dangerous to get close to, but they're also more predictable in some ways, and it's not related to his sexuality.
Anyway, he's not supposed to enjoy macking on people he's going to steal from or even kill later on, so long story short it's not that much of a bother and he has long since learned to see kissing and caressing people he's not attracted to as a performance art rather than anything personal. It's just when people learn that he's a guy and they immediately assume he's gay and naturally effeminate to boot, it pisses him off.
>Also, does he target the closet lesbians as well?
Hahaha, likely so. It'd be hilarious, wouldn't it. His target is pretty much anyone his mission persona pings as their type, he can adapt.
>(also I was wondering if I could write some fanfiction for you about Jin. I like the character and I would not post it unless I have express permission, I would credit you, and link back to you if I did. I am not much of a artist but I would love to give some fan stuff in your direction and my only real talent is writing, I do really love your universe)
Oooh, that would be awesome! Please feel free to write, post, whatever you want.
>Then there is Kyuubi and his giving chakra to the kid no matter who is the actual father would Shukaku have that happen to him as well if he was in heat and if the threesome happened to be GaaSakuNaru instead... would both of their chakra be sent into the kid or just one? Or would depend on who is in heat?
I think if Shuukaku had been anywhere near Kyuubi when he was half-freed and running on instinct things would have ended rather badly. Kyuubi wouldn't have let a male he didn't consider his at Sakura, especially one who might possibly (i don't think anyone's ever tried it so possibly not even the demons know?) erase/dominate the chakra bond he was tying into the potential baby. Sasuke wasn't a challenge in that way and Naruto's possessiveness leaked through to Kyuubi, but he doesn't see Gaara like that.
That or they'd have forgotten Sakura to tear each other to shreds and hatefuck until the village was a hole in the ground. XD
I admit I haven't thought much about how Shuukaku works and how his seal is set up.
>I am also unclear on when exactly the universe goes AU from the series. It probably says it somewhere, but I may have missed it and can't for the life of me find it.
During the Naruto/Sasuke fight at Valley of the End, but I haven't yet managed to write that flashback. Every time I get close to mentioning it the story swerves on me and argh. Long story short Kyuubi being more active he was gaining more influence during the fight, and so during the last pass instead of scratching Sasuke's headband Naruto put his hand through his lung. Sasuke was in the hospital for a while, it's mentioned in the prequel Progression but not really explained wtf happened to land him there. After that Itachi killed Orochimaru, because he was fine with Sasuke going to him if it was his decision but Oro was getting annoyed with his lateness and planned to kidnap him and that just was not on, so Sasuke didn't have anywhere to go so he stayed in Konoha. He kinda hated everyone and treated them like shit for the next two years. XD
>My last question for now is how far does your universe match with the cannon besides the obvious. Do you pick and choose what you like from cannon and leave the rest, do you try to keep some cannon on purpose, or do you just not care one way or the other?
If something neat is unveiled that doesn't mess up my plans, I tend to grab it. Even if it doesn't make it to the screen, for example Kushina being Naruto's mom, it's just that in my 'verse she wasn't a jinchuuriki since I'd said before Naruto was the first, but Kushina being awesome I am totally grabbing the hell out of her if I ever have a reason to mention her at all. I also grabbed Sai and Tenzou because I like them as characters and Konoha is a big village and it means two OCs I don't have to make up! If it doesn't match, I go with my previous ideas, unless the new canon is really awesome and works better with the plot than what I had planned instead. So far that hasn't happened yet, though. I had the Kyuubi as a summon idea two years before Kishi put it in his manga, damn it!!!! *pout pout pout* XDD;
Feel free to send more questions as you remember them, and I hope you won't mind if I post the answers on my journal for other fans, I haven't written or talked about Teamwork in so long I think they're feeling neglected. XD; They're good questions, at any rate!
>what is Sakura and Sasuke's relationship like when Naruto happens to just not be around for a while, like if he is on a solo mission or is out training with Jiraiya or anything really?
So far it hasn't happened much yet since they got together! They haven't been separated for more than a few hours to maybe a weekend, and even when they're not living together they still train or have missions. For the shorter breaks Naruto often wanders out to go see Iruka or Shikamaru and Kiba and the rest of the group and those evenings Sasuke and Sakura apparently take the chance to have a quiet day in. XD Often they'll be reading scrolls or books in the same room and not talking much. Sasuke likes it, he finds it restful and he does consider it something he does with Sakura, not just him pretending she's not here at all (he'd go in another room, and sometimes he does go into another room and lock himself in, that's different for him). Sasuke likes it some days because she knows what Sasuke means by it, and some days she'd like to chat but she doesn't want to disturb him too much and she wonders if maybe she isn't reading too much into it and he is, in fact, not even really noticing she's here.
So yeah, it's a bit awkward, mostly from her side. Sasuke assumes she understands him and his motives and thoughts, but he isn't fully taking into account her own needs about communication and closeness, and the thing is Sakura usually *does* get him really well, but sometimes she doubts herself and her understanding, since it's mostly wordless and she has a tendency not to trust her instincts, or to be down on herself in general. So Sasuke would be more awkward as well if he stopped assuming it's all fine. XD
Mind, that doesn't happen every time they're alone together. Sometimes Sakura feels daring or Sasuke feels... I don't know, cuddly? husbandly? XD and they'll be kind of leaning shoulder to shoulder and end up kind of cuddling. But first they have to test the waters for like a half hour or something. XDDD They're too used to Naruto dragging them in and getting things started.
>My next question is about Jin. He is a Kunoichi and straight, does that help or hinder is ability to detach himself from the job.
This is kinda complicated. The issue isn't really that he's straight, the training does help not taking people's advances personally whether they're men or women -- he does sometimes get a bit aroused when getting close to very pretty women but he sees that as a distraction and "damn it why do I have so many hormones stupid teenagerhood", it doesn't happen with men -- it's that he's kinda macho, he wants to be a protector, only with his build and his face it's just not happening and he has to keep pretending to be frail and sensitive and while he can hide his true reactions for the good of the mission, that chafes. He'd be just as irritated if he was gay, only he'd be annoyed that sometimes his hormones get a foothold into his control and react inappropriately to targets (especially if he was passing as a girl at the time, sudden!erection isn't a surprise a lot of men would be happy about. XD) He does find men more dangerous to get close to, but they're also more predictable in some ways, and it's not related to his sexuality.
Anyway, he's not supposed to enjoy macking on people he's going to steal from or even kill later on, so long story short it's not that much of a bother and he has long since learned to see kissing and caressing people he's not attracted to as a performance art rather than anything personal. It's just when people learn that he's a guy and they immediately assume he's gay and naturally effeminate to boot, it pisses him off.
>Also, does he target the closet lesbians as well?
Hahaha, likely so. It'd be hilarious, wouldn't it. His target is pretty much anyone his mission persona pings as their type, he can adapt.
>(also I was wondering if I could write some fanfiction for you about Jin. I like the character and I would not post it unless I have express permission, I would credit you, and link back to you if I did. I am not much of a artist but I would love to give some fan stuff in your direction and my only real talent is writing, I do really love your universe)
Oooh, that would be awesome! Please feel free to write, post, whatever you want.
>Then there is Kyuubi and his giving chakra to the kid no matter who is the actual father would Shukaku have that happen to him as well if he was in heat and if the threesome happened to be GaaSakuNaru instead... would both of their chakra be sent into the kid or just one? Or would depend on who is in heat?
I think if Shuukaku had been anywhere near Kyuubi when he was half-freed and running on instinct things would have ended rather badly. Kyuubi wouldn't have let a male he didn't consider his at Sakura, especially one who might possibly (i don't think anyone's ever tried it so possibly not even the demons know?) erase/dominate the chakra bond he was tying into the potential baby. Sasuke wasn't a challenge in that way and Naruto's possessiveness leaked through to Kyuubi, but he doesn't see Gaara like that.
That or they'd have forgotten Sakura to tear each other to shreds and hatefuck until the village was a hole in the ground. XD
I admit I haven't thought much about how Shuukaku works and how his seal is set up.
>I am also unclear on when exactly the universe goes AU from the series. It probably says it somewhere, but I may have missed it and can't for the life of me find it.
During the Naruto/Sasuke fight at Valley of the End, but I haven't yet managed to write that flashback. Every time I get close to mentioning it the story swerves on me and argh. Long story short Kyuubi being more active he was gaining more influence during the fight, and so during the last pass instead of scratching Sasuke's headband Naruto put his hand through his lung. Sasuke was in the hospital for a while, it's mentioned in the prequel Progression but not really explained wtf happened to land him there. After that Itachi killed Orochimaru, because he was fine with Sasuke going to him if it was his decision but Oro was getting annoyed with his lateness and planned to kidnap him and that just was not on, so Sasuke didn't have anywhere to go so he stayed in Konoha. He kinda hated everyone and treated them like shit for the next two years. XD
>My last question for now is how far does your universe match with the cannon besides the obvious. Do you pick and choose what you like from cannon and leave the rest, do you try to keep some cannon on purpose, or do you just not care one way or the other?
If something neat is unveiled that doesn't mess up my plans, I tend to grab it. Even if it doesn't make it to the screen, for example Kushina being Naruto's mom, it's just that in my 'verse she wasn't a jinchuuriki since I'd said before Naruto was the first, but Kushina being awesome I am totally grabbing the hell out of her if I ever have a reason to mention her at all. I also grabbed Sai and Tenzou because I like them as characters and Konoha is a big village and it means two OCs I don't have to make up! If it doesn't match, I go with my previous ideas, unless the new canon is really awesome and works better with the plot than what I had planned instead. So far that hasn't happened yet, though. I had the Kyuubi as a summon idea two years before Kishi put it in his manga, damn it!!!! *pout pout pout* XDD;
Feel free to send more questions as you remember them, and I hope you won't mind if I post the answers on my journal for other fans, I haven't written or talked about Teamwork in so long I think they're feeling neglected. XD; They're good questions, at any rate!
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1) How many of their friends and how many people in the village know really what their relationship is?
2) do you think in that verse that if Naruto hadn't come into heat they would have gotten together differently or maybe only SasuNaru or SakuNaru?
3)at what point in the story have the feelings between those three balanced out, or do you think it still has to happen?
4) Why was Ankos reaction to their threesome so disgusted?
(also didn't you want to write the spin-off Neiji/Hinata/Naruto at some point ;P, oops that is not a real question I guess^^)
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I love the crack!
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(I SAW their ring on a store by the way. With three interwined parts in gold, silver and pink, kyaah :D)
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(Anonymous) 2012-06-12 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)Does sage mode exist in the Teamwork universe and will any member of Team 7 reach it? QueenSlug!Sakura and NekoSage!Sasuke would be good for a laugh.
And
Will any of the members of Team Taka meet Sasuke in this universe? If not, what happens to them?
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(Anonymous) - 2012-06-12 22:13 (UTC) - Expandno subject
Questions:
Did Jin remind Naruto of Haku at all?
How would Jin and Haku react if they ever met in some AU somewhere?
Would Anko ever consider teaching Sasuke some of Orochimaru's techniques?
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Hi!
You answering questions about Teamwork and getting into a Teamwork writing mood made me get into a Teamwork reading mood :)
So I went back and re-read Teamwork 1 and now I'm curious about something: Sasuke didn't seem surprised about his attraction to Naruto, didn't seem like he minded it and ddn't seem like he wanted to do anything about it; how did he feel about Naruto and what does he think about his attraction to Naruto?
More generally, what does he think about his sexuality?
And thinking that 'making out was never going to be better than training' and that 'High chakra levels always gave him something of a figurative hard-on' were his actual thoughts?
Sorry if that's too many questions or if you answered this somewhere else but the only thing I remember is you saying in a comment that Sasuke is attracted to anything powerful. If there's more about this in Teamwork 2 or 3 I really don't remember - it's been a while since I read them so I might not remember a lot of the details.
If it's ok I might come back with more questions in the following days.
A big thumbs-up to who sent you the first set of questions; and they were really interesting questions as well.
I love it when authors answer questions or give their opinion about their stories. I almost always like reading comments detailing their thought process or just giving extra information on the story and characters. That's one of the great things about fandom - how easily and naturally people interact and how close you can be to the creative process, from lurking to beta reading :)
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Just a silly one, then. Relating to the wedding sidefic where Neji thinks everyone is a little in love with Naruto. Who would you say you could argue (or twist slightly, or whatever) to fit the thought, other than Hinata and Neji? I don't know if I mean by the time of the wedding, or at the current stopping point, so whichever works best! I just think it's so weird/funny/fascinating/NARUTO to think that Naruto would just not notice people pining away after him (exaggeration) but that a lot of people might be.
(And with the answered question above, I love the thought of Sasuke's surprisingly intense feelings coming out and startling the pants off of Naruto.)
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I read your Isuka POV prequel-y scene, and it made me wonder about something. How did Kakashi react to getting the summons (from the Isuka prequel)? Was he surprised at the three-way relationship that developed?
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I was just rereading Locker Room Therapy and this stuck in my head: "Kiba tried to stay with him, offer some support as Naruto waited for the showers to be a little less crowded -- but when Naruto undressed there were finger-shaped bruises on his arms and hips, and then Kiba remembered he had to be elsewhere."
What was Kiba thinking here?
I read the 'ohhaiguys I'm-dating-Sasuke-k?' piece too, and I just really liked the friendshippery and stuff, and couldn't stop thinking about what the guys were thinking/talking to each other about regarding the whole situation, because I'm a sucker for angst and rawr!friendship. Ahem, sorry for teh randomness, it's late and I'm off to bed *sheepish*
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