luna lovegood/harry potter

It’s just … he’d thought, given his fight against Neji and then his confrontation with Gaara, that someone would finally really acknowledge what he’d done. That beyond Iruka-sensei’s crushing hug and Kakashi-sensei’s absent pat, someone would actually notice that he’d won against both of them. That he’d beaten a genius on his own and then had battled another jinchūriki to a stand still. So while he hadn’t really expected to be promoted too he’d still ...

Pre-ShippuudenA lonesome ten-year-old Naruto is left on his own, not even having the comfort of his apartment when out in the rain and alone. Inuzuka Hana and Tsume find him, offering to provide the poor boy shelter and a warm home, but then after a 'Large' discovery, their canine instincts compelled them to seek out a new 'Alpha Male' in the form of this wayward boy. Thus, they seek to groom and teach him the pleasures of making both 'Mommy' figures feel good and encourage him, leading to him embracing his innate feral nature to tame them both by making them his breeding bitches.

‘Protect him,’ Kushina prays in the quiet of her own mind as she leaves; pleading silently to the old spirits from her childhood, to the things that the Uzumaki Elders used to whisper about in hushed tones. ‘Love him,’ Kushina begs of the things she only knows from instinct and half remembered stories, those things filled with the power of salt and sun and deep deep waters. Those things that live and thrive in the heart and soul of every Uzumaki who has ever breathed and battled and bled. 'Guide him, keep him safe for always. But love him most of all. My little prince of eddies and leaves.’ Left behind, left alone and cold where before there was only a soft sort of warmth and a steady kind of safety, Naruto wails.

Sasuke supposed his assigned team could have been worse...he just doesn't know how. Naruto and Sakura, inseparable best friends with a penchant for pranking and an insatiable curiosity, seem to have a death wish (or at least end up in a lot of dangerous situations and don't seem to care) and are determined to drag him down with them. Or, where Sasuke spends so much energy trying to keep his teammates alive he accidentally forgets about revenge.