[Meme] Dysfunctional shipping.

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So, so bored. So writer blocked. So sleepy.

Give me a pairing and I'll give you a way it could be spectacularly dysfunctional.

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Really, that's the only way it would happen.
It's my setting by default when I want to get people together and make them hurt. >_>

NaruSasuSaku:
But-but I like when they are happy ;_; When Itachi's death does in fact let Sasuke look beyond and his teammates can beat/sex him up back to happiness and sure they beat one another up and they all have a truckload of Issues and all, but they work!

Gah, of all people, to have Itachi-niisan as the center of his emotional life!

Just... word.

NaruSasu was so much easier to turn inside out. Lack of Sakura being involved to the same extent, I think.

KakaSaku: in a way I think it's the only Kakashi/Team Seven ship I could potentially see working, in a verse where Kakashi is prepared to deal with change, because Sakura, in many ways, strikes me as the most ready for change. She's stubborn and as devoted to bringing Sasuke back as Naruto, but if Sasuke was happy out of Konoha I don't think she'd cling to that.

In some ways, she really isn't cut out to be a ninja, not on that team anyway.
I see what you mean, but Naruto and Sasuke and Kakashi on their own without Sakura to counterbalance wouldn't be pretty. If there's a reason why Sakura asked Tsunade to take as her apprentice beside the factor that Tsunade = Hokage = most powerful shinobi around, it's probably that she thinks they need to heal, and she's going to help. Which, er, isn't that stupid an idea.

I think what I need to think about for my fic is how she learns to deal with her losses ... but she can't do whatever it is that Tsunade does ...

I think of Sakura as the one of Team Seven who can grow up most easily. She's much, much more willing to deal with what she did wrong and change her way of doing things than either Naruto or Sasuke have proven to be so far.

So I'd say that after a period of denial/angst/whatever, she'd probably suck it up and think about it, really. Would she be ready to change her way of doing things? Does she think the cost is too high? I don't think she'd necessarily be willing to pay any price.

It'd probably depend on what she's trying to achieve; for instance, in the case of getting-Sasuke-back, the choice was easy to make because she only needed to change the means of proving her love for him, and she'd already started to grow unhappy with who she was in the team. If it was something that was more essential to how she perceives her identity - say, if, five years down the line, Bad Things Happened and she has to admit there's really no saving Sasuke - it'd probably take a great deal more heartache.

KibaHina: yeah so when I don't see/like a ship I go the unrequited route, how stunningly original of me. No-strings-attached sex is a yes, but only where Hinata can never hear about it, because he doesn't need to her to get the wrong idea on top of everything.

I distrust fluffy fanfic, even as I enjoy it. I mean, they're *ninjas*.

I like drama with a happy ending. Cuz yeah. Gimme my angst, but gimme my happy ending.

people who already have what they want
That can make for interesting angst, too. >:)