Given a theme of vengeance, weapons, and blood it's not hard to see what I ended up doing a Naruto wallpaper. For such a serious theme I decided to eschew the first season and focus on the second, more mature, chapter of the show. I've only seen a few episodes of this show, but already the more serious and less goof-ball tone has really struck a cord. I think it fit perfectly well in this contest... though we ended up losing anyway...

Anyway, I decided for this show to go for a grunge-scenery route, a dark a bloody forest (akin to the one from the Chunin exams). I also played up the motion of action, with the kunai and Sakura jumping in the background. Overall this was a pretty hard wall, I got stuck a lot of times, so I want to thank everyone in the Crimson Orchestra for their advice and support!

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