#naruto fic recs

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Naruto Fic Recs

Since so many people liked my svsss rec list I thought I might do one for Naruto, warning all of these are either sasuke-kakashi centric so if you don't like that I recommend you don't read this! Anywho!

heroes come back Summary: Sasuke Uchiha is reborn as Timothy Drake

With Friends Like These Summary:

“I’m from the future—seven years in the future.” There’s a long, drawn-out silence. Itachi’s face is unreadable as he stares at Sasuke. “You’re what?” he finally says.

Sasuke travels back in time to stop the war. He infiltrates the Akatsuki in order to kill them - he doesn't expect to take a page out of Naruto's book and befriend them instead.

CCG Public Enemy No 1 Summary: Kakashi had a single red-and-black eye for more than half his life. Now, he has two.

twist 'verse Summary: Team Seven, in all its iterations, gets fucked over by whatever cosmic powers yet again and time travels/reincarnates/possesses bodies of the Founders. (Note: This is a series not a fic, but I thoroughly enjoyed it so it's making the list anyway.)

Frayed Truths 'verse Summary:

"What are you saying?" Kakashi demands, distress turning his tone harsh. "That you don't know when he'll wake up?" "I'm saying I don't know if he will."

When Itachi uses the Tsukuyomi on his brother that day in the hallway, he miscalculates. In the aftermath, Sakura and Naruto struggle with what it means to be a team and Kakashi sits by the bedside of a boy that might never wake.

A single misstep, and everything changes.

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(Note: This is also a series and not a fic, I'm sorry about that, but once again it's very good. The series itself has no summary so I went with the summary for the first fic in the series.)

How a Young Heart Really Feels Summary: It was absolutely the most devastating thing to ever happen to him in his six years of life. He knew Uchiha were supposed to love too deeply, but this was ridiculous! He was just a kid, for god's sake! He didn't want to be in love!

Or: Sasuke gets a crush and it messes with best laid plans.

Misrecognition Summary: During the fight on top of the hospital after Itachi's tsukuyomi Sasuke sees Naruto's rasengan and decides that was the final nail to hammer home his weakness, how he would never be able to become stronger than his brother. He was a loser, destined to fail, destined to die. So he might as well die now.

Sasuke tries to use Naruto's rasengan as a means to an end. Friend-killer Kakashi watches this.

Restore My Faith Summary: Sasuke was consumed with hatred because his family was killed. His entire family, not a single person left alive except him and their killer. It was enough to drive someone insane, or into the arms of the first maniac promising him enough power for revenge.

Instead Sasuke finds a little baby Uchiha on a meaningless mission and leaves Konoha for a vastly different reason. (Note: Very literally my favorite fic in the world, of you were to read any fic on this list I beg that it is this one.)

Never Trust Your Rinnegan (Tales of Sasuke's Travels) Summary: "Sasuke isn't in the Elemental Nations.

None of the Elemental Nations have buildings quite like this, people quite like this. Sure, Ame is weird, but this is really pushing it. These people don't have Chakra signatures, they shouldn’t be alive.

The Rinnegan has never teleported him somewhere he hasn’t already gone."

OR: Sasuke is transported to the world of BNHA and has a very hard time trying to get out.

Road to Nowhere Summary: Hitoshi knows there's something wrong with himself before he's even old enough to have a sense of self. He looks at his reflection and knows that the infant looking back at him isn't what he should be seeing.

His dreams are a maelstrom of grief and fear, his mind overwhelmed with a lifetime of emotions his brain isn't developed enough to comprehend. There's an ingrained instinct blaring that everything is wrong wrong wrong.

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In which Hatake Kakashi is reincarnated as Shinsou Hitoshi, and he wants nothing to do with this world's so-called "heroes."

A step to the left (and right off the cliff) Summary: Team Seven starts off on a different foot and Sasuke's canonical journey to get stronger goes off the rails a bit. It all works out though. Probably.

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ultimate favorites ★ work-in-progress (wip)

ONE-SHOTS

SNEAK PEEK by Raendown

FOR AS LONG AS YOU’LL HAVE ME by HazelBeka ★

A SHORTCUT TO MARRIAGE by Fifthnameattempt

A KIND OF UNDRESSING by Mitrai

MULTICHAPTERS

FIREFLIES by KobutoriRisu

THE BINGO BOOK by Flailinginlove ★

GUESS YOUR TRAJECTORY by Ohwickedsoul

KEEP CALM (& SUBMIT A HELP TICKET) by Etacorvi (wip)

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Three fanfictions who asked “what if Konoha could be saved since its founding (and Izuna lived)? ”

The Compass Points North series by Umei_no_Mai - 356k words

Kita is reborn as an Uchiha civilian at the height of the Clan Wars, she uses her wits and her knowledge to steer things in favor of peace.

I don't think I will ever find another fic as fullfilling to read and at the same time as informative as this. Kita (and the author) is an inexhaustible well of knowledge on traditions, both real and made up for the sake of the Naruto Universe.

World building is stretched over details that one wouldn't even think to look at and the story thrives on it.

Plus the perspective of a civilian in this time period is incredibly fascinating.

Count Your Blessing by MadMothMadame - 325k words

Tobirama has killed Izuna, and the peace has been achieved as in canon… Except… Izuna is not dead? And Tobirama is secretly trying to wake him up? While building the entire village?

Aka the Tobirama is Overworked™ and the Plot™ won't let him rest fic.

I loved this fics politics and all the OCs and semi/OCs it introduces, especially the Nara and Yamanaka ones =D

There's also a very fresh point of view in the technology factor, Konoha is a mishmash of modern and traditional, so rather than having the Founding happen in an Edo style village that evolved in less than 50 years the basis for that evolution has already been laid out from the start.

A symbol of subjugation by evocates - 324k words

Tobirama manages to reach a peace agreement between the two clans by making himself a symbol of subjugation to the Uchiha, becoming Madara’s concubine.

Aka: Senju Butsuma should die a thousand times more, he created entire generations of traumatized Senjus, he's over half the reason canon was Like That and Kurama minding his own business accidentally performs a timeline fix-it.

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Crossovers

Code Geass

Drop of Blood by TenchiSaWaDa I Chapters: 8/? I Naruto & Lelouch

Teen Titans

Slade's True power by GamesRMine I Chapters: 6/? I Slade is Naruto in this fic

Lest you fade here all alone by @syluk-sky | Chapters: 16/? | Time Travel Fix-It, AU- Canon Divergence, Uchiha Shisui Lives, BAMF Naruto, Rebuilt Uzushiogakure, future naruto adopts lil naruto & gaara Twisted Morality by AllyMander | Chapters: 50/51 | Time Travel Fix-It, Madara wins, Naruto leaves the village, Smart Naruto, Akatsuki Naruto, BAMF Naruto The wayward fox by HiHopeYouAreWell I Chapters 39/43 I Naruto Leaves Konoha, Orochimaru & Naruto, Orochimaru is still Orochimaru, Sensei Orochimaru, Bamf Naruto, Slow Burn Naruto/Hinata, Fuuinjutsu Master Naruto Whispers on the Wind by penname_pending I Chapters 3/? I Sasuke/Naruto, Depressed Naruto, rebuilding Uzushio, BAMF Naruto, Naruto Leaves Konoha, Soul-Searching

Bookmark Series

Sunshine by @redninjalass19 I Part 1-2 I Naruto has a Brother, Naruto doesn't have kyuubi, naruto's brother Norio is a jinchuriki, Older Naruto, Naruto is a Chakra Sensor. Sick Naruto.

Naruto Fics with Fanart

All To Save Them by CaffeineAddicted | Chapters: 8/? |Time Travel Fix-It, Naruto is Ashura, Alternate Universe, Kakashi/future! Naruto, Hinata/Naruto, past trauma, future naruto & naruto Problematic Soldier by @maelstrom-prince | Chapters: 21/? | Sasuke/Naruto, AU- Canon Divergence, Fox Demon Naruto, Animalistic Naruto, BAMF Naruto, Team as Family Medicinal Lullaby by @avannak | Chapters: 32/? | FFN Naruto gives up on Sasuke, single dad naruto, bamf naruto, later naruto/sakura, maturing naruto backslide by @blackkatmagic I Chapters 32/32 I Completed Kakashi/future!Naruto, Sasuke/Naruto, AU - Canon Divergence, Time Travel, kurama is future naruto, Team as family, sasuke&naruto&sakura The Color of Summer by @spideywhites I Chapters 51/? I Self-Insert, SI-OC, Uzumaki Twins, things get far worse before they get better

Bookmark Series

Flip the Coin by @inraindrawz | Part 1 - 2 | Sasuke/Naruto, Role Reversal, Canon Rewrite Windmill by @blaizekit | Part 1 - 3 | Timeline Shenanigans, Dimension Travel, Time Travel

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Naruto fic recs pt 1

Yesterday, I found a document file containing a partial fic rec list that I made to share on Tumblr. That was back in 2022—lmao, I forgot about it. So, here are some fics that I liked (the rest will follow when I get time to write down the next list). Hopefully, this will help others find good reads and give authors more love.

Disclaimer: fics below aren't listed in any particular order + I didn't check grammar, I just wrote why I like something XD

Change Fills My Time by 100demons  https://archiveofourown.org/works/687192/chapters/1261512 

M; 73k; Gen; completed

Summary: Thirty year old Kakashi was supposed to have been killed by Pein during the Invasion. Instead, he wakes up in the body of his twenty year old self.

(It gets a lot more complicated.) 

Okay, so this is one of the most brilliant fics with time-traveling Kakashi I’ve ever read and this was probably my third time doing so, if not fourth. 

This fic is completed, has a clear plot, the writing is extremely well-executed in both style and tone, and has lots of twists. Although taking a darker turn than most fics of this kind (think of ao3 tags canon typical violence with a dash of character death), it’s the origin of the sort of famous Watanabe Textiles, and considering all I mentioned above, I wholeheartedly recommend it!

Of The Leaf by Temeritous https://archiveofourown.org/works/4795649/chapters/10975265

T; 41k; Gen; Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence; Complete, part of the series

Summary: [The king is dead; long live the king.]

A month before the Chuunin Exams are set to begin, the Hokage dies of a stroke. Danzo steps up as interim Hokage until the Council can vote in the Fifth, and then Kakashi has to start thinking about more drastic measures. Because what he knows, and what everyone else seems to have forgotten, is that natural causes have nothing to do with shinobi. 

Uff, I did read some fics with Danzo taking over Leaf after Sandaime dies (or he actively kills him himself) but I’ve never read this one. It’s very interestingly written and I wouldn’t have recommended it if I didn’t think so. This fic is part one of the series The Tale of Naruto Uzumaki https://archiveofourown.org/series/493657.

has the second installment: The Water Truce and I’ll just tell you: chef’s kiss!!

Nobody Expects The Shinobi Inquisition by Azremodehar https://archiveofourown.org/works/29282646/chapters/71908998

T; >200k; Gen; ongoing; Dragon age crossover

Summary: In an act of classic Uchiha Melodrama, Uchiha Shisui leaps to his death... only to be thwarted when he wakes up, chained up and in a dungeon, with a splitting pain in his left hand.

I’ve been playing Dragon Age longer than being a fan of Naruto, so color me impressed when I found this fic. The summary itself made me so freakin intrigued.

I love Shisui. He is a very fun character, a sort of blank slate to characterize in their own way for purposes of the plot, though I love that most of the authors use the most popular fanon characterization, putting their own spin on it, and this fic isn't exempt from that. 

In Nobody Expects The Shinobi Inquisition Shisui is kinda op but considering how hyped he was in the canon I can stand behind that. He’s also smart. A lot. I love when the MC is smart and Shisui doesn’t disappoint. He’s also a bit manipulative, but which shinobi isn’t? 

Having Shisui immersed into the main cast of the DA:Inquisition is definitely fun so following him sweeping through the game’s plot—sometimes silently just like true shinobi and sometimes in all the grace of a bull in a china shop just because he finds it fun—is something I wholeheartedly recommend. 

I can’t lie, I love this one so much.

Dance of the Dog God by Tartarun https://archiveofourown.org/works/28989696/chapters/71144721 

G (says that but it’s pretty dark and I would rate it M at least); 234k; Gen; incomplete - actively being published (more chapters on ff.net, but from what I understand the author had been publishing an edited version on ao3 up until mid 2022)

Summary: Kakashi loved Konoha a little less and his father a bit more. What happens next changes the face of history. However, Team 7's destiny years later is still wrapped with the silver-haired man's and an intricate dance begins. 

Dance of the Dog God could easily be considered an excellent psychological thriller. The author may have tagged it for general audiences, however, it’s the use of the Alternate Universe - Dark AO3 tag that should tell you a lot. It’s very, very dark while basically being AU where Kakashi defected, Rin lives, and Obito becomes Team 7's sensei and yet nothing is as it seems to be.

The author is a master at manipulating the reader with crumbs of information while building a greatly detailed world and keeping tensions and suspense high while having a very fast pace. 

It’s honestly one of the best-written fics out there. If you like a sort-of-like-grimdark atmosphere and are not afraid of some psychological horror, give it a shot. 

Time Flies Like An Arrow by Katlou303 https://archiveofourown.org/works/12668358/chapters/28877022 

Not rated (but imo T at the highest); 240k; Gen; complete (has sequel(s))

Summary: Sakura traveled back in time with the intent of changing everything, but something went wrong, and now she's four years old having nightmares about impossible monsters and losing friends she has yet to meet.

Time Flies Like An Arrow is an excellent time-travel fic with Sakura as an MC. Shisui becomes her friend and sort-of mentor, which made me really happy to read. But unlike most of the time-travel fics where the character travels to the past and immerses themselves with their younger counterpart, here the younger Sakura is mainly in charge while the time traveler shows herself through sharing memories. 

Hellbent by LuckySevenhttps://archiveofourown.org/works/25797892/chapters/62662261 

M; 200k; Multi pairing; Archive Warning: Graphic Depictions Of Violence; ongoing

Summary: Orochimaru makes an adjustment in his sales pitch to Sasuke in the Forest of Death and everything changes as a result.

The Leaf is corrupt, Team Seven is disillusioned and Kakashi suddenly has to figure out how to keep three overpowered Genin safe on the run when the whole world wants to take a bite out of them.

A couple of steps to the side may take the path an entirely new direction, a few words chosen differently and the story may have an entirely new ending, and a small band of underestimated and untethered ninja who choose each other above anything else may shift the whole world on its axis.

Hellbent shoves the nail into the cogs of canon and executes it so beautifully; from well-written characterization to just plain old good writing, this fic has it all.

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so what’s the fanfic

the 600k sasuke fic? it’s redemption in a worthy world by lightbringer34 🫡

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weekly fic recs | 47

prompt: self-insert/OC-insert

fandoms: bnha, knb, mdzs, naruto, svsss

bnha

Causality of Temporal Paradox by MirrorDaltokki

"A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." - Washington Irving

In which you are very clearly not having a good time slipping through time and space.

Lucky for you, there's at least one constant. Hawks seems to not mind you showing up in his bed over and over again throughout his life.

But hey, look at the upside. There's pro-heroes, so that's kind of cool.

Cleaning Crew; Teaching Kids to Value their Safety, for Fun and Profit by Reavv

Takenaka Hideo is a thirty-two year old, in mild desperation for money, who has just been hired as a new janitor for UA's support staff. He has a quirk that lets him find lost objects, a liaison with the police because of it, and desperate desire for competent co-workers.

Oh, and he's already lived a previous life, in a world where quirks and heroes didn't even exist.

Not a big deal, though. It's not like you ever see the janitor playing a big part in action movies. He's here to get paid, and that's it.

On the opposite side of the equation, class 1-A has to wonder at the new UA cryptid that always seems to show up when things are on fire, and who keeps trying to convince them to let the adults handle the fire extinguisher.

knb

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades by Vroomian

You don't care about sports, and you didn't ask for this nonsense.

so miracles happen after all. by リリス - riris (arurun)

Paralyzed from the neck down, a former basketball star wished only for one thing.

And like a miracle, he wakes up in a new world, in a new body-- and there's only one thing he wants to do now, so he starts running.

"Wait, is this that basketball anime?"

Ball Is Life, But You Still Need To Pay Rent by vermillion_crown 

Here's the thing. Taiga has a little breakdown (politely, in the cabin restroom at 3:37 AM PST while the other passengers are dead asleep) and gets over it in the span of the eleven hour flight into Tokyo. The leftover memories in his head really help with perspective, let's just say.

He likes basketball. Loves it, even. Sure, maybe another team sport might do the trick in a pinch, but his body and reflexes are optimized for basketball. It'd be a waste of time to change tracks

Ball is life, but you still need to pay rent. Okay, well officially, his dad's paying the rent. But the sentiment still stands, right? There are other things to worry about.

Who the hell peaks in high school?

(SI/OC as Kagami Taiga, who just wants to ball—all the chūnibyō shit be damned.)

mdzs

by foot it's a slow climb by Vroomian

(graphic depictions of violence) (major character death)

So. Let's get this straight - I didn't set out to derail any plot. My plan was to lay low and stay away from canon. It's just...

My plans tend to fail.

Spectacularly.

i told you when i came i was a stranger by Caramelized

(mature)

A modern OC arrives in Yiling before the start of the Sunshot Campaign. She has no friends, no money, and no cultivation. She knows what's coming, but what could she possibly do about it? *** “Well…” I looked down at my fingernails and tried not to squirm. “If there were a way to separate Wei Wuxian from Madam Yu without ruining his relationship with his siblings, I’d encourage it. Like, as an example, marriage.”

Xichen blinked. “To you?”

“No. Absolutely not. What even—?” The thought was so abhorrent I couldn’t hold it in my head. My brain spat it right back out. “To your brother.”

Xichen blinked. Again. “To Wangji?”

“Obviously?”

“This is a concern of yours?”

“I realize it’s not my business at all,” I admitted. “But you asked.”

naruto

Doing the Work by MarbleGlove

There’s more to peace than the absence of war. The work is as hard and uncertain as any Shinobi mission.

AKA: A highly self-indulgent fic in which a civilian woman helps an orphaned Sasuke and winds up saving the world.

Making Lemonade by Meeceisme

(mature) (graphic depictions of violence)

Waking up after dying to a whole new life in a brand new body is a little outside his frame of reference. But he'll do his best to make the best of this weird as hell situation. Worse comes to worst he'll grab all his favourite people and run the hell away from this mad place.

Featuring: Konoha's atrocious orphanage system, cynical child soldiers and Kakashi's guilt complex.

wataru, wataru by unolvrs

(mature)

“Kirigakure didn’t need help. They needed salvation.”

No one knows anything about the Mizukage. Only that she’s kind. She likes to smile. She likes seafood like every other Mizu-born. And that there’s something inexplicably wrong with her. There’s something wrong with the Mizukage whom the Kiri-nin call a ‘god’.

—or, Wataru Wataru was never really a powerhouse, in this life or the last, but she’s resourceful. She knows cults, pyramid schemes, and corrupt politicians like the back of her hand, so of course, she becomes the Mizukage and becomes a god along the way.

svsss

exec_ep=diviega/. by MirrorDaltokki, MULmul

(mature) (major character death)

AKA: Female Protagonist Fights the System Because She Doesn't Want to Live on the Lesbian Peak Just Because She Won't Sleep With Luo Binghe and She Can Write This Piece of Trash Novel Better than The Stupid Author

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Fic Rec Sunday #3

This week's collection includes Boku no Hero Academia, Batman, Young Justice, Marvel and Naruto fics. Please make sure to look through each fanfic's respective tags before reading.

Batman

Into the Brighter Night by shoalsea (162k, G)

When an unknown enemy threatens Robin, Gotham's vigilantes come together to keep him safe.

Unfortunately, they're protecting the wrong Robin.

Or: Tim Drake plans his own rescue. Things get complicated.

something just broke by BeatriceEagle (10k, M) cw: referenced sexual assault

With teams run by a small handful of big names, recruitment based almost entirely on who you know, and unchecked interteam dating, the superhero community is practically designed to encourage interpersonal abuse. When a former sidekick comes forward to say that she was abused by her mentor, the entire community has to reckon with the part they may have played—and with the abuses that may still be going unnoticed.

(A story of systems, told through chats, texts, and transcripts.)

hand in unlovable hand (a chokehold) by britishparty (54k, M)

Tim Drake is eleven years old when he’s grabbed off the streets of Bristol while he’s on his way home. It will be okay, he tells himself: they’ll call his parents, and they’ll pay the ransom, and he’ll get to go home.

There are pictures of Batman and Robin on the camera he was carrying. A lot of pictures.

They don’t call his parents. They call Black Mask.

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or: the one where Black Mask kidnaps Tim and tries to groom him into a ruthless heir, and Tim tries to figure out how to destroy him from the inside out.

General warnings tagged, anything not covered by those is in end-of-chapter notes to avoid spoilers.

Deadfall by vellaphoria (125k, WIP, M)

Bruce’s death fractured Gotham's vigilantes, even as it brought some of them together. Despite Dick’s progress with Jason and Damian, Tim is still in the wind, somewhere overseas getting involved with who knows what in a desperate attempt to prove Bruce is alive. An attempt that goes horribly, catastrophically wrong, destroying most of the League of Assassins’ global infrastructure and taking Tim with it.

But something feels off. Dick knows Tim’s apparent death can’t be as simple as a botched mission.

When Ra’s al Ghul gets involved, it never is.

yours for the weekend by fanfictiongreenirises (19k, T) cw: referenced sexual assault

"Been meaning to ask," Jason said. "You and Kory… are you guys still… y’know. Going strong?”

Dick almost choked on his mouthful right then and there. No, he wanted to tell him. We broke up months after you died.

But a million memories swept through his head. Jason being utterly starstruck by Kory the first time he had met her, the million and one questions Jason had to ask Kory, taking photos of the two of them as Kory gave Jay a piggyback ride… the way that Jason, at one point, had rather memorably said, man, you guys are so perfect together. If you ever break up, that’ll be it, I’ll just stop believing in true love.

“Yeah, no, we’re going good,” Dick said, lying through his teeth. “Long distance, y’know?”

Charmed, I'm Sure by M00n_Slippers (29k, WIP, T)

Jason thought he was done with magic when he left the All-Caste, but it turns out magic wasn't done with him. Walking into a back-alley dive, the Red Hood expects stale beer and an old fashioned bar brawl to lift his spirits, not a shortcut to The Oblivion Bar.

But a bar is a bar, beer is beer and a fight is a fight, whether it's in the Bowery or in a pocket dimension to the left of reality.

Young Justice

Reflexive Carphology by Briarwitched (24k)

Lex is not a sentimental man. Despite whatever his stupid sister thinks, his motives for kidnapping Superboy are purely practical: if Kon-El isn't growing on the Light's schedule, he will be useless to their long term plans-- and the Light doesn't tolerate things that aren't useful. Just a quick snatch and grab, one hastily improvised mind control device, and a few tests in the lab should be all that's required to get this all sorted out so Lex can go back to reclaiming his UN Secretary General position. The entire operation is far too essential to have anything to do with feelings.

It's simple. Practical. There's no way this could go wrong, in any way, ever.

Shut up, Lena.

Filial Pedantics by Briarwitched (61k, T)

After failing to swallow kryptonite in an attempt to beat his terminal illness to the punchline, Conner is confronted by the least super of his two genetic donors as he wanders the desert states solo. Meanwhile, Lex is suffering from both a relapse of kryptonite cancer and the delusion that he's Conner's father-- a condition that leads him to insist that he take over Conner's end of life care while he attempts to cure him himself.

It's not exactly like Conner had better plans. Now they can both be dying assholes... together.

Yay.

one day this will all be yours by suzukiblu (32k, T)

“You know, I used to think if I had different parents my life would be different,” Artemis says neutrally as she lines up a shot, and Superboy looks away from the punching bag, a little surprised to hear her speak.

Boku no Hero Academia

song on a policeman's radio by ohwickedsoul (6k, M)

TOKYO, JAPAN: The outside of the courthouse is packed with protestors, onlookers, and community safety officers who are attempting to keep the peace before what is shaping out to be the trial of the century. Former pro-hero Ground Zero, real name Bakugo Katsuki, is currently facing charges of 1st degree murder, aggravated assault, assault on officers, and several other charges. Among the hundreds who have turned out to the courthouse to view the public trial are many members of Yuuei Academy’s infamous class 1A, including several former professors. Back in the early years of the decade, the class, taught by retired pro-hero Eraserhead, was subject to many attacks by the so-called League of Villains…

Silhouette by Frostglitch (43k, WIP, G)

Midoriya Izuku remembers a life that is not his own.

Yoichi Shigaraki: The Sociopathic Hero by Gfan97 (3k, G)

"When he was eight, Yoichi started to suspect he wasn’t a good person."

Basically, what if All for One wasn't the only sociopath in the family. What if Yoichi was also a sociopath, but unlike his brother wanted to be good?

imprint by wonhaebunny (4k, T)

Katsuki handles Eri with far more ease than an only child has any business possessing. Shouta observes.

Or: Bakugou Katsuki may not have grown up with any younger siblings, but he did grow up with a Deku. It amounts to about the same.

A Walk Remembered by SimplyKaren (10k, G)

Since Jakku, Izuku's been feeling... off. Nothing he could put his finger on, but things reach a tipping point one day while he's in Heroics class. Things go downhill rapidly from there, and none of the doctors can figure out what's wrong.

Meanwhile, in Tartarus, All for One is feeling antsy as he watches from afar with Search. Izuku's symptoms are hauntingly familiar and not in a good way...

Bakugou Bewitched by Feltcutemightdeletelater (155k)

On a random day when Bakugou was a child, a helpful woman gave him a gift that would change his life forever.

“Little Katsuki,” the woman chided, leaning in close. “Behave.”

Marvel

Pound the Table by An_October_Daye (152k, WIP, M)

[A 90's Era X-Men Self-Insert]

"There is an old adage among lawyers that says: If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table." – Martin A. Davis, Jr.

Mutant law is an emergent field, more or less the wild west of the legal profession, and on a good day, you're lucky if the law and facts aren't all dead-set against you. And when your list of recurring clients includes the Wielder of Cerebro and the Master of Magnetism?

Well... suffice to say, there is plenty of pounding the table to be done.

Naruto

Waiting on a Wire by mirrorless (15k, T)

Shisui, both of the young shinobi's wide dark eyes still thankfully residing in their proper places, stares at him in shocked-silent awe, as though Kagami's sudden appearance is the divinely bestowed answer to fervent prayer.

The weight of that gaze is far too heavy for comfort.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead by Xarybde (4k, T)

Dying is easy. Sasuke knows this better than anyone else.

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[sagetsukimura]

Tried dipping my toes back into old fandoms, and now my insides hurt a little, lowkey feel like soke much has changed, but also nothing at all?

Anyway, any good Itadei soulmate fics? Somehow AO3 feels lacking in regards to that ship, (this is why you shouldn't blow yourself up halfway through the series *nods wisely*)

[rose-lalondde]

Naruto Fic Recs Friday

Learn to Lean On The People Who Love You

Chapters: 8 /?

Rating: T

Summary:

After the Boys(TM) leave Konoha, Sakura is left all alone. Luckily, Kakashi doesn't abandon his teammates and takes it upon himself to make Sakura his apprentice, much to Lady Tsunade's frustration. This is a position that comes with plenty of encounters with her sensei's weird rival, Might Guy, and Guy's own students: Tenten, Neji, and Rock Lee.

Comments: Love a good sakura fic, especially when they bring up the parallels between sakura and kakashi. It's very cute and funny, devoured it in one sitting.

Close the Distance

Chapters: 17/17 - Completed

Rating: T

Summary:

Rock Lee and his friends love playing Ninja, it’s the worlds most popular online fighting game. You can play alone or in a squad of three. When Tenten post a video of Rock Lee’s match against the famous player known as Quicksand it goes viral! It leads Lee and his friends to streaming and making deeper connections in Ninja’s professional gaming community at a weekend tournament.

Comments: This is such a sweet fic and I loved the integration of the naruto world to the modern world through streaming & gaming. Even though gaalee is the focus, we still get to see interactions with the rest of the konoha kids & gaara's relationship with his siblings.

Reflections

Chapters: 4/?

Rating: T

Summary:

Naruto has been gone from his home town for years, now hes coming back in the middle of high school, hoping nobody remembers him. ...Who could forget a kid like him?

Sasuke is just trying to make it through the year without being hassled. Turns out this year is about to get a lot more interesting.

Sakura spends all of her time working for her future, college in her sights already and her goals clenched tightly in her fists. She can't keep pushing herself like this, something is going to have to give.

Comments: I need y'all to invest in this fic right now, like pls give it a chance. Yes, I am saying this because I love Sakura SAT prep all AP classes ACT score 31 Haruno, and would like to see more of her. So far it's also a lighter modern au fic, which I love & im asking you all to read this with me.

[alchely]

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[findafanfic]

✿Weekly Best Reads✿

(sep. 21 2023) |:| includes genshin impact, naruto, star wars, & jjba fic

bad guys don't always do bad guy things || skunabf

Where Aether bumps into Enjou multiple times across Inazuma (and sometimes not just there) doing the most mundane things - but bad guys always have bad guy things to do right? Enjou can't possibly be just enjoying himself, right? No way.

--- enjou/aether, about 30,000 words. Very fluffy and chill. Complete. this is a major rare pair of mine so glad this exists!

orochimaru & tsunade's lesson on drinking moderately || MonsegnorSnek

Lost in the Warring Clan Period, somehow shrunk beyond belief, Orochimaru wondered how he found himself being kidnapped by the Shodai Hokage. Lost in the Warring Clan Period, wearing a body of her six-year-old self, Tsunade would cling to Uchiha Madara's leg and swore to herself that she would never let this man go. Or in which Orochimaru and Tsunade got batshit drunk and because of a Fuuinjutsu scroll, they suddenly found themselves in the past, in a body too small for comfort, lost from each other's company and had the unanimous and silent decision that they would do everything for Konoha to be built again even if both Senju and Uchiha would not like it.

-- Gen, about 10,000 words. crack/humor. Incomplete

no line on the horizon || blakkat

For the sake of his pride, Jiraiya's going to imagine that his double went out in the bed of some voracious and lusty twins—no, make that triplets, with everyone wildly satisfied and a smile on his face. The whole alternate universe thing is easier to swallow that way.

-- minor relationships, around 5000 words. Fluffy and funny. love my sannin content. Complete

learned men || Trixree

It becomes the Question—the one every vod is talking about from the bridge of the Negotiator to her dark bowels where the laundry rooms churn and chug along: who takes care of the General? -- In which Obi-Wan is touch starved and his men take notice.

-- codywan, about 8000 words. VERY SWEET. complete 💛

Interstitial || galateaGalvanized

“Alright, how do we fight it?” Cody asks, squaring his shoulders and adding steel to his spine. “You know as well as I do that the Vigilance’s armory is unmatched by any modern warship. If there’s anything that can carve through this, then we’ve probably got two.” In the scattered light reflecting off a thousand broken hulls, Obi-Wan’s eyes are as clear and inscrutable as well water. “Cody,” he says, “this isn’t something you try to fight. This is something you try to survive.”

-- codywan, about 20,000 words. cosmic horror. it very much spooked me. you dont see much fic like this. complete 💛

you know i'm good on my own (do you know, i could break beneath the wieght) || abstract_psychopomp

«Wolffe had commed him, one night. From Coruscant Fox had smiled at him tiredly, and Wolffe had felt his heart sank at the sight of the ugly eye bags that seemed to scar his face, the dark bruise on his cheekbone and the exhaustion in his eyes. In the eyes of the only brother he thought as safe. Fox said it was nothing, that everything was okay, and Wolffe cried. He cried, and told his twin how he knew that his anger would have been his demise, how he knew that his General wouldn't have waited long before requesting a new CC, maybe a CC that didn't hate him so strongly. He cried in the way he was able only to with Fox, ugly and freeing, wet and rare.» or Wolffe and Fox, their life together, their life a galaxy from each other

-- Gen, about 25,000 words. Wolffe centric. LOTSA family feels. incomplete

last man standing || lilyconrad

A ghost story the clone troopers might pass around late at night in the dark.

-- Gen, about 1000 words. lowkey spooked me. complete.

living, rising, unifying || Skylarium_Rose

Returning to Coruscant after a campaign siege in month-long rain Obi-Wan is actually looking forward to relaxing during the break he and his troopers have been given. In taking time for himself and involving himself more in his new role on the Council, Obi-Wan finds himself in a situation that he knows vividly. And it is one he would take on, even if the Force was not already brilliantly dancing at the decision he had come to.

-- Gen, about 60,000 words. obiwan gets a padawan!! complete 💛

only bend when it breaks || roktavor

“Just take me home,” Buccellati had insisted, dripping with rainwater and blood – and Abbacchio was panicked and torn enough not to argue. (Buccellati gets shot and refuses proper medical care, so Abbacchio tends to him as best he can.)

-- bruabba, about 10,000 words. hurt comfort. ROKTAVOR STRIKES AGAIN. complete

hell is for children || Speedwagons_Glorious_Mane

While out to lunch, the gang are attacked by three would-be assasins, one of whom has a very peculiar stand ability: Hell is For Children. Now Giorno is stuck babysitting his younger self. One thing is certain: Giorno can't let his fellow gang members know this child, Haruno Shiobana, scared of his own shadow, is him.

-- Gen, about 25,000 words. heavy exploration of Giornos childhood trauma. its very good. complete 💛

[fancyfrogg]

*takes a deep breath*

combat catastrophe by silentwalrus. Batshit crazy Sakura <3 One-shot

oh, but the revelation of stardust by PandaFlower. An MCU crossover. What slice of life shenanigans ensue when Tobirama accidentally dimension-travels. One-shot.

All That Binds Us by CADEL. Naruto wakes up in a parallel world without ninja. One-shot

Paper Moon by Anjelle. Sakumo wakes up in the future and encounters Kakashi. My go-to comfort fic. 17k words.

It Happened Once in a Dream by SunshineAndRainbows. Child Kakashi gets vague knowledge of the future. Hilarious interactions between Team Minato ensue. 35k words.

Scarecrow At Dawn by dreamweaver11, Shyaway95, and teslatempest. What I like to call, “Naruto if it was good.” Team 7 bands together in the face of their shitty hand in life. 40k words.

Road to Nowhere by Aerugonian. A My Hero Academia crossover. Kakashi navigates a second chance at life and family. 70k words.

Five (or a lot can change in a year) by Ahkaraii. Comic that delves into the character drama leading up to Sakumo’s death and the Third Shinobi War. Great worldbuilding and also Hiruzen/Danzo pspspsp.

Unbreakable Company by Shyaway95 and teslatempest. After the boys leave, Kakashi takes Sakura on as his apprentice. 100k words.

history has its eyes on you by Tasalmalin. Kakashi is voluntold for the time-travel fixit, but he keeps fucking it up. Long series.

To Save The Things We Love by Shyaway95 and teslatempest. ABO M-preg. Kakashi having a child throws a wrench in Obito’s “Everything is bad forever” belief. You might especially be interested in “Heart of Darkness” bc it gets into Danzo’s head. Long Series.

Shadows, Blinding by Pesto. Dredging up Kakashi’s trauma by throwing him into family drama. Watch him suffer and be badass simultaneously! 200k words.

turn in such inhumanity by simkjrs. Izuna makes a chakra bond with Tobirama. Rivals with secret identities. “what are feelings” Tobirama is hilarious. 240k words.

do you guys have any nart fic recs? they dont have to be rin-centric im branching out

[zentriii]

Is there any chance I can get a link-drop to the minato fic you're hooked into? 👀

yes ofc!!

the girl from whirlpool by silvershine [ao3] [ffnet]

chapter 27/? | T | 240k/248k words

When Naruto's father met his mother, his only impression was that a village out there must have been missing its idiot. Minato/Kushina.

idk why there's 8k less on the ao3 orphaned reupload since i'm only at chapter 21 right now but it's a really good [slightly au] fic which follows minato from when he meets kushina until adulthood :3