PrinceOfUchiha

Half baked au thats been floating around my head for months:

Hatake!Tobirama AU where different packs have different wolf-isms / abilities. And the pack Tobirama's mother was from had the ability to shapeshift.

Only. Tobirama lost his mom at a young age, leaving him without anyone to guide him or you know. Warn him at all.

So when he is badly injured in a fight and his adrenaline takes over, pushing him into his wolf form in one last ditch effort to survive, he has no idea how to handle it.

What he double doesn't know how to handle is Izuna, who finds him half dead and goes "Oh my god, it's a wolf puppy. I bet if I heal it it'll love me and I can have my own summoning contract way before everyone else my age!! That silver haired freak will never see it coming."

Que Izuna dragging a half dead Tobirama back home, tending to his injuries and hiding him from his parents and brothers because he knows they'll never let him keep him. Splitting his rations going I'm A Genius. I Get A Pet And A Weapon. Dad's Going To Be So Proud. Eventually.

Meanwhile Tobirama is trying with everything in him not to bite the one thing keeping him alive (his bastard rival) while trying to figure out how to escape / listening for intel.

Him spending time in the house waiting for the other shoe to drop. And being absolutely bewildered when Tajima is. Not the best parent by any means but like. Certainly better to his kids up front vs the shit he's used to dealing with with Batsuma. And Izuna and Madara. Honestly aren't as evil incarnate as he's been raised to believe.

He's watching Izuna run into the room and all but throw himself on the bed absolutely livid that the adults won't let him join them on their upcoming hunt. And opting to do the most reasonable and mature thing - rant to the wolf puppy with a leg too broken to run away and ignore him.

He's watching Madara sneak in and out of the house each night, horrified and outraged to smell Hashirama's scent on him every damn time he comes home. Usually with a stupid giddy grin he's shoving down.

He's watching Tajima walk circles around the compound when he can't sleep, sharingan whirling with protectiveness of all things as he watches over his sleeping clansmen.

He's watching day by day with the horrible realization that the Uchiha truly are Human. Growing attached to the warmth they radiate while also. Not able to go a full 24 hours without considering biting someone.

Baseless headcanon that developed years ago in a Tobiizu RP and has refused to leave me since:

Something about Izuna just. Screams hunter to me. Like. I can't imagine a world in which he isn't the head of the Uchiha clan's hunting party. In which he doesn't clear his head by wandering into the forest and finding meat to bring back to him clan. Something about him just really gives me that impression.

Fix it fic where pre-massacre Itachi ends up in the past post-Izuna death. Itachi realizes Madara super was not as cold towards his brother as the history of their clan makes it out to be and is like. Pooling all the information he'd gathered in trying to understand the village vs clan feud, he decides. If he can't make it back home to help the tensions. He will simply try to cut it off at its base. Que 12 year old Itachi making the best of the single photo he keeps in his wallet of Sasuke. Itachi, appearing mysteriously during the founding of the village (Though either the timeline for when Izuna dies would need pushed back a bit for this or Itachi would need to adjust the hell out of his appearance to make himself look as young as he could possibly get away with. Possibly a really strong hinge or him somehow getting his hands on a beta version of one of Tobirama's questionable experiment scrolls - deaging etc etc), dropping to his knees in front of Madara. Claiming to be the illegitimate son of Izuna, hidden out of fear that he would lose his life in the war. Him explaining that Izuna had him hidden away with his mother and brother until recently - deep in the mountain. But that they had both perished and Itachi didn't know where to go but to his uncle that his dad spoke so highly of 🥺 and to the village his dad wished would work but just didn't believe would 🥺 but look at it now, so amazingly built 🥺 his uncle is so amazing to have been able to pull it off 🥺look at this photo of a mini Izuna in his wallet that was once his own little brother 🥺 feel a connection to him and keep your ass right here 🥺

Madara + Izuna's mom for the fic I've been slowly working on in my head has art now, but no name. Bc that's the appropriate order those things should go in.

Not my art - a commision drawn by @/7angeltrumpets

I love fandom Izuna but every time I watch a scene where he's in it I'm like. Who is this. Who de-pazzazzed the boy. Who stole his sarcasm and attitude problems. Where's my prissy son.

Izunas design is so funny to me bc like. Kishimoto really said "Yeah let's make a Sasuke look alike for the warring states era. Though he has to be recongizable...I know! Give em a ponytail and plump ass lips"

A little half-baked thought that pops in my head routinely and I find interesting to consider: Izuna reincarnating as Itachi.

Bc yknow. He died first so he's older + the strong affection they both have for their siblings + generally being Doomed By The Narrative. Izuna dying and his soul feeling just lost in it's second life, trying to take in the world around him and understand the point of it all. Then his brother reincarnating and it just clicking / filling a hole in his chest even though he has no idea why. And just. Izuna's soul's love for his brother surpassing the ties of hatered he had for the senju / would have had for the village in his past life.

But also just. How pissed he'd be if he saw his own second incarnation. And probably ready to yell to the heavens that he was right that pairing with the Senju would be a mistake for their clan. Maybe I'll bother actually thinking about the concept for more than 5 minutes at some point and write a fic but for now. I just need to put it out there bc I think it's neat to think about.

I love how Izuna was on-screen for a total of like fifteen-twenty minutes but the fandom was like “No, no. That’s enough. We know all there is to know. He’s a brat. A lovable brat with a bad attitude.” even with so little context.

I know Madara loved Izuna SO MUCH but they’re still brothers...can you imagine having fucking MADARA as an elder sibling? That shit sounds rough. He does the older-sibling lean and just snaps Izuna’s tiny little spine on accident. 

Same vise versa too! Having Izuna as a younger brother? He has ‘Youre not my boss’ written all over him. I can HEAR him going ‘Dad said you have to give me a turn with the good practice dummy’. 

It just occurred to me how ironic it is that Izuna is so often included in the ‘village founders’ group. Like. He straight up told Hashirama: Fuck your healing, fuck you Senju, and fuck peace.

He would not be okay with being included in the least- I can hear him seething from beyond the grave-

So, I had a thought a while back when I was watching Naruto. Specifically, the Tobirama vs. Izuna fight.

They all seem to have their special thing. Hashirama has his wood-style, Tobirama has his jutsu inventions/reduced handsigns, and Madara has his whole prodigy thing going for him. Then Izuna, as far as I can tell- is fast and prideful, but that's not really something out of the ordinary, considering his clan.

Watching him fight Tobirama made it occur to me how basic his style seems to be in comparison to the other three despite him being one of the four strongest on the battlefield. It felt like it was missing something- like he needed his own spice so to speak. He did train with Madara for years and was his partner in command.

I thought blue flames would be cool. They fit his character design, plus it seems appropriate considering his rivalry with Tobirama. Tobirama makes jutsu, he brings existing ones to a new level.

As such, I drew the image below. It was supposed to be a more serious and combative style, but I got distracted half was through. So this is how it ended up being 🙃.

Then I started fucking around and did this