Hi! Is kurenai as good at genjutsu as Itachi? I’ve heard this on this site before but this site also tends to be wrong about a lot of things. Is this true?

[[ The short of it is: It’s not true. Kurenai’s genjutsu is vastly inferior to Itachi’s. Itachi is a natural Dojutsu user, and Itachi has also been extensively training his Genjutsu since he awakened his Sharingan. Kurenai lost the genjutsu battle badly to Itachi. This is canon, it literally happens on the pages.

The slightly longer version with the hot take is: Trying to argue that the fight wasn’t fair because Itachi is an Uchiha is pointless. So we have to dumb Itachi down and baby Kurenai so she feels good about herself? She was fighting an S-rank criminal and she knows he’s an Uchiha. She put out her very best and it wasn’t enough. Don’t baby Kurenai, they’re just on two different levels. Fights with good guys V bad guys aren’t supposed to be fair, realistic fights aren’t always fair anyways. Kakashi lost to Itachi too, are we going to argue that Kakashi is written badly/written unfairly/got shafted, etc?

The part of it that’s me going on a tangent is: We honestly need to stop acting as if a female character is “written badly” or “poorly” when she doesn’t have canon-shattering strength and abilities. All this does is create a ridiculous expectation that women characters are only defined by their strength and abilities. She’s a well respected and powerful Jonin on her own, she trained a team of skilled trackers, and she raised Mirai with the help of her team and stayed a single mother, and she overcame a Father who was misogynistic. 

Kurenai is a great character, and the people who try to argue her genjutsu is or “should be” just as powerful as Itachi’s are insanely jealous of Itachi and are overlooking the rest of her character. ]]

RP – Bigger

uchihacollector:

Teenage Orochimaru’s solution to being questioned by Itachi, some member of the local police, was to pull down his own sleeves and hide the blood under his nails. He put on his most adult expression. It was ten in the evening. No teenager should not be this close to the adult entertainment district.
“It’s unfortunate that that Nara boy needs his eye replaced,” he said. “But I have nothing to do with it, I swear, officer. I was not even nearby. I am the Hokage’s best student and I am in a hurry.”

He wondered, sometimes, what it was that made people deny involvement in crimes exactly like this. 

This is so sad. I’m not guilty, I absolutely have an alibi. Here is a list of my skills and accomplishments as if those alone are the merit of my morals.

It was a formula. And sharp eyes like his didn’t miss the tucking down of the sleeve.

“I can smell blood.” That is what he will go for, first, lips drawing up in a very brief, ‘please don’t lie to me, I know what’s going in’ smile. There’s no need for this to get violent, he’d rather not. 

“I’m sure the Hokage will understand,” if he’s his brightest student, “that we’ll have to question you to be sure.”  

noharas:

Naruto Shippuden + Characters Quotes (01/?)
Sasuke Uchiha (うちはサスケ, Uchiha Sasuke) is one of the main characters and the deuteragonist of the Naruto series. He was a genin-level shinobi of Konohagakure’s Team 7, but later defected from the village becoming a missing-nin, an affiliate of Akatsuki and is now considered an international criminal. He is also one of the three remaining Uchiha directly following the Uchiha clan massacre.