IM Tales Ch. 6 Legacy

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Art for Chapter 6 of In Memoriam Tales [link] Chapter 6: Legacy    Sakura is old.  Her hands are not as steady as they used to be, her face is wrinkled and her hair is now mostly white.  She thinks, perhaps, she shouldn’t look as old as she does, but she knows this is a side effect of the life she’s chosen.  Years of rigorous chakra usage has shortened her life and drained away her youth.  She is not alone in this – Naruto, too, wears the effects of age.  His hair is peppered with white and some days his joints lock up.  He looks even older than she does now, partly due to stress and the rigors of ninja

Panel 1: Sakura and toddler Hasuka - naptime!

Panel 2: Naruto with Ramen in one hand and his granddaughter, Tsubaki, in the other; Hasuka yawns and Sakura asks her son-in-law Rinji (off screen) why he's there when she told him to go buy something on the other side of town to get him to calm down.

Panel 3: Rinji holding baby Minoru on one side of the window and Naruto and Sakura holding up Tsubaki and Hasuka respectively.

ART NOTES:
Hasuka has a huge forehead.
I fail children, old people, backgrounds and windows forever.
Old Sakura is a wise badass.
NaruSaku - STILL GOOD, EVEN WHEN THEY'RE OLD AND GREY.

OTHER NOTES:
_{Meaningful fantardation naming ahoy!}

Hasuka's name is written as はすか or 蓮香, and refers to the perfume or incense of lotus. Karin, the one she inherits her ability to sense chakra from also has perfume/incense (香 ) in her name.

Minoru, on the other hand, has a really simple name - みのる or 實. His means "truth" or "reality," which suits him fine, since he's always pretty grounded in reality.

Naruto's necklace is a replica of the one he broke. A really expensive one.

DERRRRP. I'm a fantard.

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Chapter Images:
Chapter 1: Salad Days
Chapter 2: Change
Chapter 3: Oddity
Chapter 4: Middle
Chapter 5: Observer
Chapter 6: Legacy - YOU ARE HERE -
Chapter 7: Stratagem
Chapter 8: Old
Chapter 9: Family