(English Translation!)

English Translation!

BY THE WIND IN A SPRING FIELD

(One day, when the weather was nice, flowers started blooming from Naruto’s ears.)

Sasuke, staring at Naruto: Hey loser, there are flowers blooming out of your ears. Naruto: So, what? You yourself should try taking a good look at your eyes. Sasuke: Eyes? Naruto: Yeah. There are flowers sprouting out of your eyes too… We’re blooming together.

(Sasuke and Naruto suddenly appear in a different, less mystical and more mundane setting, neither of them with any flowers on them, nor as close to each other.)

Sasuke, blandly, with flat eyes: Ahh… I just remembered our duties. Naruto, looking the same: Yeah. It’s time for us to do our jobs.

(But then suddenly, Naruto grabs Sasuke’s hand.)

Sasuke: H-Hey! Don’t pull me!

(He looks up and sees Naruto with flowers again, smiling brightly.)

Naruto: Hey! Let’s just get out of here.

(The two of them float away on a poppy flower)

Naruto: Let’s go and bring forth spring.

END

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you look great, naruto!

(English Translation)

Sasuke: Hey, don't you look like someone?

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(English Translation)

Until night falls...

(English Translation!)

Left Crow, flying in to land on Itachi’s arm: I’m home! Sasuke-kun was only eating tomatoes today too! Itachi: Hmm… Just as always then. Right Crow: Itachi! You are way too overprotective!

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(English Translation)

Hijikata and Gintoki talking at the side while Okita and Kagura are playing around; but then they kiss and Hijikata f r e a k s.

Hijikata: Hey... There's something I want to ask you... Till where do you think their relationship has progressed?

Gintoki: Probably to hand-holding or something like that.

Hijikata pales.

Gintoki, paling too: You know something, don't you...?

Gintoki: OI. SAY IT!!!

Kagura&Okita: Aren't we leaving yet?

(Fin!)

Random thought but I really liked how in the Original Naruto, all of the characters' forehead protectors were tied on - and by that I mean that they were each a single piece of cloth knotted, not a circle of fabric slipped over the body.

I liked the symbolism that Kishimoto was able to invoke when he had characters tying their head bands, or when their head bands slipped off in the heat of battle. It was all quite evocative in my opinion. It made for a lot of heated dialogue between Naruto and Sasuke, and even Sakura and Ino to a lesser extent. The scene where Sakura cuts her hair and her forehead protector flies off is a great one, plus the one where she and Ino both punch their protectors off. And of course the scene where Naruto looks at Sasuke's flung off forehead protector from when he tried to scratch his forehead after Sasuke said that there's no way Naruto would be able to land even a scratch on him, is iconic. And at the very end, the last battle, when Naruto's forehead protectors comes off too, it feels like they aren't shinobi anymore, they're just Naruto and Sasuke.

Aside from the asethetics of how without the ties, the forehead protectors look more like athletic headbands, I think it is sad that we won't get moments like that in Boruto where the characters have to contend with what it means to tie the protector around themselves and be Konoha shinobi. If you ask me, it speaks to how it's no longer important to consider how each character defines themselves in and out of the Konoha ninja framework, wearing or not wearing their forehead protector, in the Boruto universe.

Of course the tension in those scenes was also developed through much stronger character backgrounds which few (if any) Boruto new gen character has, but it seems strange to think the symbolic option is precluded entirely.

#But what if Junpei-kun likes the art style of Naruto, but wants actually good stories

Gintama without context ⚡️x 🍥 ep179

we as a community don’t appreciate this move enough. remember how everyone was telling ino she’d be making a mistake using the shintenshin no jutsu on her own, that it was only supposed to be used in the inoshikacho formation?? and what did she do? she faked an outburst, chopped off her ponytail (basically a yamanaka clan sign) tricked sakura and everyone else into thinking she missed her target and then seized the right opportunity to get into sakura’s head

like that was one of the smartest moves from the preliminaries; ino figured out a way to keep sakura at a distance (chouji’s role) AND immobilize her (shikamaru’s) and you know what not even he saw that coming and he’s supposed to be a genius