Ya. All it took was an hour or so at the
tektek Dream Avatar Creator (sometimes those little images load slo...ooo....oow).
I initially had Naruto wearing his trademark goofy grin, but then I remembered the whisker marks, and the closest I could get to for that was the gills, and
they covered up the corners of his grin. I was ticked, so I gave him the medium open smile instead, cause that fit between the gills, and was vaguely in theme. For his jumpsuit, I was scouring every orange anything for a while, until I came across the "Old Skewl" sweatpants, I used them, and eventually, after not finding a suitable top, I looked up the matching sweatshirt, and it looked really good (almost like it was made for this costume). The only exception being the blue shoulders and white collar, but on such a small representation, and especially considering how well the orange matches, (much less the actual copywrite skirting effect which was intentional on Gaia's part), it's allowable. The best I could do for Naruto's blue waist sash was the Ska Prism Belt, which not only was not quite the right color, but it also ends up mostly covered by the sweatshirt, so, I left it for the hint of color, and didn't worry about it too much.
I couldn't find anything for those weird white forearm bands that Sasuke wears, so I ended up settling for the bandages from the mummy costume. I also used the legs from the mummy costume, and luckily, they go under the shorts, and under the shoes, and still leave enough of the toes free that it doesn't look like the bandages go all the way down. His "shirt" is actually a sleeveless jacket (for the collar) over a short sleeved tee shirt. I tried a similar technique on my unworkable Sakura, but I couldn't find any short sleeve anythings that either went under my two dress choices, or matched the dress colors close enough to look like the same garment. None of the tee shirts had v-necks either, which also helped ruin the effect.
I'm amazed that the ninja band was designed for Naruto/Sasuke (forehead normal), Kakashi (angled), and some other late-manga character that I do not know the name of that wears it across their eyes, but it doesn't account for Sakura's headband position.
I decided to also include the tektek item list info too, in case anyone wanted to actually create the Avatars. I made it small print so it didn't take a lot of room up, but not too small that it was unreadable (though it's close).
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