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Lessons on an Incomplete Relationship, by Suzukiblu [NC-17]
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rushthatspeaks and I'll be your driver for one of this month's Featured Small Fandoms, the ongoing Japanese anime Naruto. Your overview will be up later in the week, but since this series has a large and varied cast and complicated set of plotlines, I figured I'd get started with the recs as soon as possible so that I can try to squeeze in a little something for everybody. We'll have slash and angst and hurt/comfort and comedy and a variety of really good smut, some of it even (gasp) het, but the first story that I'd like to point out to you showcases two of the things that the Naruto fandom does very, very well simply because of innate plot elements: threesomes and serious genderfuck.
Naruto is about ninjas, and it's about ninjas who are fairly young and still in training, so many of the characters have been placed in instructional teams of three people apiece, under the guidance of a teacher. These teams are a natural breeding ground for tension, angst, and romance, since the integrity of the team is a life-and-death matter: hence, a lot of threesome fic.
In addition, the protagonist, Naruto, has a ninja technique called Sexy no Jutsu that can cause him to appear to be a buxom, super-model-type woman; he uses this as a distraction, and it's a good one. It's generally assumed in fandom that the change is more than skin-deep, and that the technique is teachable-- so that basically any character in the series can be either gender at any time, with only a little bit of canon-stretching. Total freedom to play with this is one of the things that makes this fandom so interesting-- later on this month I'm going to rec you some hot lesbian sex between male characters, and some hot gay sex between female ones.
For now, let's go with some triosmut.
Fandom: NARUTO
Pairing: Ino/Shikamaru/Chouji (Team 10)
Author on LJ:suzukiblu
Author Website: fanfiction.net profile
Useful Japanese Vocabulary: a genin is a first-level ninja, and a kunai is a throwing dagger; the honorific suffix -kun is used to male friends and acquaintances at about one's social level or lower, but not usually to women
Why this must be read:
A sweet little romance, perfectly in character, between three people who might not be expected to care for one that deeply, or at any rate not like this. The emotion is around the edges, but the sex is both funny and tender. In addition, the author is one of the pillars of the fandom, always literate, sometimes poetic, and inevitably worth reading.
"Team 10 is not one of the shyer groups of genin. As a general rule, it is bossy, bored, and doesn't give a flying fuck about what other people think (except maybe about what Sasuke thinks, but only because he's fricking hot, dammit)."
But they more or less grew up together. They grew up together and learned a lot of things together. Like how to throw a kunai and how to help each other's special skills and how to kiss.
Lessons on an Incomplete Relationship
rushthatspeaks and I'll be your driver for one of this month's Featured Small Fandoms, the ongoing Japanese anime Naruto. Your overview will be up later in the week, but since this series has a large and varied cast and complicated set of plotlines, I figured I'd get started with the recs as soon as possible so that I can try to squeeze in a little something for everybody. We'll have slash and angst and hurt/comfort and comedy and a variety of really good smut, some of it even (gasp) het, but the first story that I'd like to point out to you showcases two of the things that the Naruto fandom does very, very well simply because of innate plot elements: threesomes and serious genderfuck.Naruto is about ninjas, and it's about ninjas who are fairly young and still in training, so many of the characters have been placed in instructional teams of three people apiece, under the guidance of a teacher. These teams are a natural breeding ground for tension, angst, and romance, since the integrity of the team is a life-and-death matter: hence, a lot of threesome fic.
In addition, the protagonist, Naruto, has a ninja technique called Sexy no Jutsu that can cause him to appear to be a buxom, super-model-type woman; he uses this as a distraction, and it's a good one. It's generally assumed in fandom that the change is more than skin-deep, and that the technique is teachable-- so that basically any character in the series can be either gender at any time, with only a little bit of canon-stretching. Total freedom to play with this is one of the things that makes this fandom so interesting-- later on this month I'm going to rec you some hot lesbian sex between male characters, and some hot gay sex between female ones.
For now, let's go with some triosmut.
Fandom: NARUTO
Pairing: Ino/Shikamaru/Chouji (Team 10)
Author on LJ:
suzukibluAuthor Website: fanfiction.net profile
Useful Japanese Vocabulary: a genin is a first-level ninja, and a kunai is a throwing dagger; the honorific suffix -kun is used to male friends and acquaintances at about one's social level or lower, but not usually to women
Why this must be read:
A sweet little romance, perfectly in character, between three people who might not be expected to care for one that deeply, or at any rate not like this. The emotion is around the edges, but the sex is both funny and tender. In addition, the author is one of the pillars of the fandom, always literate, sometimes poetic, and inevitably worth reading.
"Team 10 is not one of the shyer groups of genin. As a general rule, it is bossy, bored, and doesn't give a flying fuck about what other people think (except maybe about what Sasuke thinks, but only because he's fricking hot, dammit)."
But they more or less grew up together. They grew up together and learned a lot of things together. Like how to throw a kunai and how to help each other's special skills and how to kiss.
Lessons on an Incomplete Relationship
I'm happy to see Naruto as a featured small fandom...
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