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* RealityEnsues: Danzo attempts to use a mostly theoretical technique he gleaned from stolen notes that requires a bloodline he implanted. It’s a miracle that it works at all, and working incompletely still gets him [[spoiler: drugged, arrested, captured, and killed]].
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* RealityEnsues: Sakura injures her wrist form accidentally firing all the senbon in her Quick Needle Launcher at once.
** Danzo attempts to use a mostly theoretical technique he gleaned from stolen notes that requires a bloodline he implanted. It’s a miracle that it works at all, and working incompletely still gets him [[spoiler: drugged, arrested, captured, and killed]].
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* IdealizedSex: Averted and lampshaded. Anko sets Team 7 straight on the realities of sex (such as telling Sasuke that no, it's pretty much impossible to go ten times in a row). Tamaki however is very suspicious that Sasuke couldn't fill a dozen test tubes the night before the Chunin Exam finals (in case he was killed) and thinks he might have "disappeared" with Sakura earlier that day.
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** Sasuke silently laughs when Naruto responds to the news that the Mangekyo requires killing your best friend by telling Sasuke that he always secretly hated him.
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** [[BrilliantButLazy Shikamaru]] trains himself into the ground to both potentially survive against Gaara and prevent Choji form facing him.
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* AllIssuesArePoliticalIssues: A frequent factor in various decisions, including "random" selection of fighters in the preliminaries, is the political fallout.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Orochimaru wonders to himself after the fact why he ordered a team of genin to kill Sasuke since even if they succeeded, they might damage his eyes.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anko ends up a weeping, emotional wreck when she discovers [[spoiler: the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]].
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Kyuubi shivers and hides in fear when the Cursed Seal starts corrupting Naruto, claiming that "It's eating you, then it'll eat me. And then it'll put a collar and leash on me and make me do horrible tricks."
** Anko ends up a weeping, emotional wreck when she discovers [[spoiler: the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]].
** Anko ends up a weeping, emotional wreck when she discovers [[spoiler: the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]].
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* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The first time Sasuke ever feels attracted to a girl is when he’s watching Sakura dissect a tiger to harvest the organs for a mission.
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* BrokenAce: Itachi's diary makes it very clear just how broken he is. In particular, he apparently accepted Tobi's help during the Uchiha Massacre because he simply couldn't bring himself to keep killing children.
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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6940744/1/A-Teacher-s-Glory A Teacher’s Glory]] by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2062884/Larry-Huss Larry Huss]] is a fanfic work of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' that manages to be both DarkerAndEdgier and LighterAndSofter than canon by showing the grit and dirt of the ninja world while giving the characters the strength to understand and move on, and showing that while ninjas may be killers, they are also humans to. The development of Team 7 into mature young adults and family is wonderful for everyone who wishes canon had gone another way.
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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6940744/1/A-Teacher-s-Glory A Teacher’s Glory]] by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2062884/Larry-Huss Larry Huss]] is a fanfic work of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' that manages to be both DarkerAndEdgier and LighterAndSofter than canon by showing the grit and dirt of the ninja world while giving the characters the strength to understand and move on, and showing that while ninjas may be killers, they are also humans to.too. The development of Team 7 into mature young adults and family is wonderful for everyone who wishes canon had gone another way.
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** Zabuza notes that Haku has to learn a ninja can't get by with a bloodline and one or two high level skills, which is precisely what Naruto and Sasuke do in canon.
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* HeroicSafeMode: During her second combat situation (and first time killing), Ino enters a state of basically killing any enemies that cause trouble. Afterwards, Sakura talks her down when Ino nearly kills a prisoner that was trying to break free.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Team 7 seeks medical attention for Naruto after he's crippled in the Forest of Death rather than trying to continue the exam.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After seeing that they're (seemingly) surrounded by powerful enemies and have traitors in their ranks, Gato's thugs surrender to Naruto and Shikamaru queitly.
** Team 7 seeks medical attention for Naruto after he's crippled in the Forest of Death rather than trying to continue the exam.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Naruto takes to wrapping explosive notes around rocks to create fragmentation grenades.
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* PragmaticHeroism: Generally, Sakura only hates killing and/or drawn-out deaths when it wastes ammo (i.e. launching senbon at enemies) or reveals more of her abilities than she wants.
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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6940744/1/A-Teacher-s-Glory A Teacher’s Glory]] by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2062884/Larry-Huss Larry Huss]] is a fanfic work of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' that manages to be both DarkerAndEdgier and LighterAndSofter than canon by showing the grit and dirt of the ninja world while giving the characters the strength to understand and move on, and showing that while ninjas may be killers, they are also humans to. The development of Team 7 into mature young adults and family is wonderful for everyone who wishes canon had gone another way.
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* AscendedExtra: Anko gets a whole lot more development here, as Team 7’s sensei. Also [[spoiler: Tamaki, the girl who lives with the cats at the Uchiha warehouse, comes to Konoha as Sasuke’s personal retainer.]]
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* AscendedExtra: Anko gets a whole lot more development here, as Team 7’s sensei. Also [[spoiler: Tamaki, the girl who lives with the cats at the Uchiha warehouse, comes to Konoha as Sasuke’s personal retainer.]]retainer]].
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* DeadpanSnarker: Sasuke tells his team about the Mangekyo Sharingan, obtained by killing your best friend, and Naurtoimmediately deadpans a confession that he secretly loathes Sasuke.
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** Sasuke decides that this applies to [[spoiler: The Third Hokage]] and forgives him for what he did. Averted with [[spoiler: the other councilors.]]
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* DudeNotFunny: In-Universe.Sasuke has Naruto exploring a family shrine he knows Itachi may have booby-trapped, and when they come to a part that needs Sharingan he makes a joke about going to meet his ancestors and gets this response from Sakura.
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* DudeNotFunny: In-Universe. Sasuke has Naruto exploring a family shrine he knows Itachi may have booby-trapped, and when they come to a part that needs Sharingan he makes a joke about going to meet his ancestors and gets this response from Sakura.
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* KindHeartedCatLover: Sasuke, after he takes in [[spoiler: Tamaki and the ninja-cats]].
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* MundaneSolution: Orochimaru has fled, but the resurrected Hokages have been left behind with orders to kill Sarutobi. How do a few genin and ANBU get rid of them? Not with high-level kinjutsu or demonic chakra, but by [[spoiler: using henge to make it look like the Third Hokage is already dead, which allows them to return to the afterlife.]]
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* MundaneSolution: Orochimaru has fled, but the resurrected Hokages have been left behind with orders to kill Sarutobi. How do a few genin and ANBU get rid of them? Not with high-level kinjutsu or demonic chakra, but by [[spoiler: using henge to make it look like the Third Hokage is already dead, which allows them to return to the afterlife.]]afterlife]].
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* NoKillLikeOverkill: After killing [[spoiler: Kabuto]] with a kunai in the brain, Team 7 dismember him, bury the pieces separatedly, and would have burned the whole lot had they been sure the parts could be wanted later. [[{{Justified}} Given that, by Sakura's count, he should have been dead four times over before Sasuke nailed him, it's clear why they felt it necessary]] ([[LampshadeHanging Anko herself admits she would have done the same]]).
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: After killing [[spoiler: Kabuto]] with a kunai in the brain, Team 7 dismember him, bury the pieces separately, and would have burned the whole lot had they been sure the parts could be wanted later. [[JustifiedTrope Given that, by Sakura's count, he should have been dead four times over before Sasuke nailed him, it's clear why they felt it necessary]] ([[LampshadeHanging Anko herself admits she would have done the same]]).
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* VillainousValor: Zabuza, anko, and Asuma have a polite picnic before they enter a battle, and all agree to keep Haku out of it before-hand.
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* WhenHeSmiles: Sakura sees Sasuke like this when they go visit the Uchiha retainers at Sora-ku.
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* CombatTentacles: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Giant Freshwater Squid]] of the Forest of Death. Team 7 and Orochimaru both believe it either something cooked up by Anko or an urban legend... Until the latter has to fight it.
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* NoKillLikeOverkill: After killing [[spoiler: Kabuto]] with a kunai in the brain, Sasuke decapitates him, and possibly he or Sakura do more to make sure he's dead. Given that, by Sakura's count, he should have been dead four times over before Sasuke nailed him, [[{{Justified}} it's clear why they felt it necessary]].
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* PragmaticVillainy: Gato thinks he’s this, but the audience sees that he’s a CompleteMonster. Also, Naruto and Sasuke discuss how stupid [[spoiler: the Uchiha Massacre]] was based on this.
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* CompleteMonster: Gato, Kabuto, and Danzo all have their tendencies elaborated on. Especially Kabuto.
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* CryForTheDevil: When Kin is captured in the Forest of Death, she’s terrified that she’s going to be raped, which is in some villages a standard prelude to a kunoichi’s interrogation.
** Gaara may be an unstable murderer, but he’s still an abused twelve-year-old kid, and Temari’s little brother.
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* DudeNotFunny: Sasuke has Naruto exploring a family shrine he knows Itachi may have booby-trapped, and when they come to a part that needs Sharingan he makes a joke about going to meet his ancestors and gets this response from Sakura.
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* HoYay: It’s suggested that there once was this between Orochimaru and Jiraiya, when the latter gets drunk.
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* CryForVillain: When Kin is captured in the Forest of Death, she’s terrified that she’s going to be raped, which is in some villages a standard prelude to a kunoichi’s interrogation.
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* HeroicBSOD: Team 7’s discovery of [[the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]] causes this in them.
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* ScewThisImOuttaHere: Team 7’s reaction to Orochimaru, and the second part of the chunin exams in general.
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* ConvectionSchmonvection: Averted. Sasuke extinguishes the fire on his sword after a fight, sheathes it, and promptly sets the sheathe on fire. He also later learns that weeks of using chakra to ignite his sword in battle has completely ruined its temper, forcing him to replace it.
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* DungeonBypass: Team Inferno take out several underground Oto bases by shooting fire and wind techniques down the air vents to turn the bases into ovens that take weeks to cool.
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* {{Troll}}: When sakura gets upset, she goes WWND? (What Would Naruto Do?) This leads, when Ino mistakes her threat assessment of [[DudeLooksLikeALady Haku]] for checking him/her out, to her trolling Ino with blatant come-ons for a few chapters.
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* {{Troll}}: When sakura Sakura gets upset, she goes WWND? (What Would Naruto Do?) This leads, when Ino mistakes her threat assessment of [[DudeLooksLikeALady Haku]] for checking him/her out, to her trolling Ino with blatant come-ons for a few chapters.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Kabuto in spades. He seems a perfectly mild-mannered medical specialist genin, when he’s an infiltrator skilled enough to kill an ANBU in seconds and amoral enough to consider [[spoiler: raping Tamaki when she onjects to being made to sleep with Sasuke]].
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Kabuto in spades. He seems a perfectly mild-mannered medical specialist genin, when he’s an infiltrator skilled enough to kill an ANBU in seconds and amoral enough to consider [[spoiler: raping Tamaki when she onjects objects to being made to sleep with Sasuke]].
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!!'''This fic contains examples of the following tropes, in addition to those already present in the source material:'''
!!'''This fic contains examples of the following tropes, in addition to those already present in the source material:'''
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"Zest to over-achieve" marks Team 7's entry into the Ninja world. Kakashi teaches lessons better than he imagines.
Kakashi discovers that one shouldn’t tell a team of assassins-in-training to attack with intent to kill and then not take them seriously. Sakura’s brains, Naruto’s prank planning, and Sasuke’s willingness to do anything to pass, even co-operate, allows them to pull together and make up a plan that successfully kills Kakashi during the genin test. Naturally, this has consequences.
The biggest effect is not what Kakashi’s death does to Team 7 (they don’t see this as crossing the MoralEventHorizon, just an unfortunate accident) but that the team now needs a new leader, having killed their old one. With no volunteers, they get given Anko Mitarashi (who is not an AxCrazy BloodKnight), who views this as MyGreatestSecondChance and resolves to turn them into exceptional shinobi.
[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6940744/1/A-Teacher-s-Glory A Teacher’s Glory]] by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2062884/Larry-Huss Larry Huss]] is a that manages to be both DarkerAndEdgier and LighterAndSofter than canon by showing the grit and dirt of the ninja world while giving the characters the strength to understand and move on, and showing that while ninjas may be killers, they are also humans to. The development of Team 7 into mature young adults and family is wonderful for everyone who wishes canon had gone another way.
* ActionPet: All of the ninja animals, notably Sasuke’s ninja cats.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The first sign of Naruto and Sasuke becoming better friends is when Naruto admits that what Sasuke stuck around to see (Naruto getting sluiced down with freezing water) was actually pretty funny. He just has to make sure it happens to someone else next time.
** Gaara laughs out loud at Temari’s loss to Sasuke.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Tazuna is a bit slimier than he was shown in canon.
** Very downplayed and in the end averted with the Third Hokage, explained as a combination of stress, age, and Danzo’s [[MoreThanMindControl sharingan illusion]].
** [[spoiler: Koharu Utatane]] plays it more straight, as a corrupted politician who is skimming off the top and using [[spoiler: mind-altering perfume to get her way]].
* AntiMagic: Naruto’s Chakra Flood Technique explosively does this to opposing chakra.
* AscendedExtra: Anko gets a whole lot more development here, as Team 7’s sensei. Also [[spoiler: Tamaki, the girl who lives with the cats at the Uchiha warehouse, comes to Konoha as Sasuke’s personal retainer.]]
* AssholeVictim: Danzo and [[spoiler: all the others his age]].
* ArcWords: The phrase “strong enough to show mercy” pops up several times.
* AxCrazy: Refreshingly, this is completely averted with Anko. She’s portrayed very realistically and as well-rounded but broken person. One running theme with her team is being strong enough to show mercy.
* BaitAndSwitchComment:
--> Naruto: “Ah Sakura, how can you say that when you hang around every day with the hottest guy in town and the future Hokage? And Sasuke too, of course.”
* BatmanGambit: the reason why the bridge in Wave could be built. If it was left incomplete, then Gato would keep his stranglehold, but if it was finished he could just kill Tazuna and commandeer the bridge to increase his own profits. Similarly, he hired Zabuza, arranged for his mercenaries to try to kill Zabuza should he succeed, and arranged for Mist nin to come and drive off Zabuza should the mercs fail, or pick up the bounty if they succeeded.
* BearsAreBadNews: The Forest of Death’s Drop Bears are actually large, carnivorous sloths, but they are still animals that even jonin would rather avoid than attack.
* TheBeastmaster: The inhabitants of Sora-ku with their ninja-cats.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Anko has this in spades towards the Third Hokage, as he chose to trust her after Orochimaru’s betrayal. [[spoiler: Her discovery of the Third Hokage’s past actions nearly breaks her.]]
** His first meeting with the Kyubi has Naruto agree that as a prisoner of war, the fox is entitled to better living conditions, and agree to look into it. The two aren’t immediately friends, but it’s a start.
** Ino has considerably more respect for Anko after the older kunoichi takes her aside, gives her a rundown of her abilities and performance, and advice on how to improve.
* BeingWatched: The group quickly realizes they are being spied on by Kabuto and Hinata, though not why.
* BerserkButton: As the Uchiha Head, Sasuke is very protective of his retainers. He was content to allow [[spoiler: Kabuto to keep reporting to Orochimaru]] while the village spied on him until he threatened [[spoiler: Tamaki]].
** Choji slaps Ino when she starts harassing an exhausted Shikamaru.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Kabuto in spades. He seems a perfectly mild-mannered medical specialist genin, when he’s an infiltrator skilled enough to kill an ANBU in seconds and amoral enough to consider [[spoiler: raping Tamaki when she onjects to being made to sleep with Sasuke]].
* BondOneLiner: Played with. Before collapsing after her fight with Neji, Hinata quips, “Are we having fun yet, cousin?”, but she's the ones who lost, even if Neji went down seconds later
* BreakTheHaughty: Anko does this to Ino when the latter protests Anko’s choice of disguise for her.
** Sarutobi breaks [[spoiler: Koharu]] before executing her.
** All of Sunagakure suffers this after the invasion. It’s known in-universe as the Breaking of Suna.
** During the invasion, Hiashi and Hanabi feel deficient due to certain circumstances, like CripplingOverspecialization.
** Orochimaru suffers this when Leaf and Sand’s counter-attack hits.
* BreakingTheFellowship: The story ends with Team Anko going their separate ways for the time-skip.
* BroughtDownToNormal: When Haku is captured he temporarily loses the ability to use chakra, although Zabuza breaks him free. Unfortunately, Haku mistakenly thinks he’s only been BroughtDownToBadass and makes several embarrassing mistakes.
* BrutalHonesty: Anko deals with some of her team’s problem and misconceptions like this. It’s treated as a good thing by not sugar-coating it and respecting their maturity, while not making things seem hopeless either.
* CompletedFic: And a sequel promised, but not yet arrived.
* CompleteMonster: Gato, Kabuto, and Danzo all have their tendencies elaborated on. Especially Kabuto.
* CoolBigSis: Anko is like this on their days off.
* CoolTeacher: Anko, whenever it isn’t a day off.
* CovertPervert: Sakura, when she sees Naruto and Sasuke in the mixed baths.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Asuma knows his father’s biggest weakness is his lack of political skills and reliance on his councilors.
* CruelToBeKind: Downplayed, but this is Anko’s approach to TrainingFromHell. If she doesn’t push the kids to their limits (but only to, not far beyond) she’s worried they’ll get killed because she held them back.
* CryForVillain: When Kin is captured in the Forest of Death, she’s terrified that she’s going to be raped, which is in some villages a standard prelude to a kunoichi’s interrogation.
** Gaara may be an unstable murderer, but he’s still an abused twelve-year-old kid, and Temari’s little brother.
* CurbStompBattle: The fights that avert this are often as awesome as the ones that don’t. For instance:
** [[WeakButSkilled Sakura]] humiliating beats [[LightningBruiser Lee]] with a variation on the Sexy technique and pressure points.
** Hinata being beaten by Neji in thirty seconds instead of ten minutes wouldn’t usually be awesome, except that Neji collapsed two seconds after he was declared the victor.
** The counter-attack against The Sound Village is this. Orochimaru ends up, “now master of as much land as his feet covered at each instant” while fleeing.
** The original encounter with Orochimaru in the Exams is this for [[UpToEleven both sides]]. The sannin takes down Naruto instantly, and barely consideres the other two a warm-up. Then Sakura and Sasuke use their superior knowledge of the local wildlife to sic the [[Literature/HarryPotter giant freshwater squid]] on him, and outrun him during the distraction, resulting in the sannin losing his prey and being…inconvenienced by a wild animal and a bunch of gennin.
* CutenessOverload: Sakura weaponizes this with a variant on the Sexy jutsu.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Sasuke’s mangekyo is this, so he never uses it. The only time he does, he holds off the reincarnated Second Hokage for several seconds and sets up the trick that takes them out, but he passes out.
* DatePeepers: Sakura and Naruto run interference against these while Sasuke takes Ino out…by pretending to respectively be Sasuke and Sakura on a date.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sasuke tells his teama bout the Mangekyo Sharingan, obtained by killing your best friend, and Naruot immediately deadpans a confession that he secretly loathes Sasuke.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: Averted with [[spoiler: Gaara]]. He dies alone and afraid, and only one or two people miss him afterwards.
** Sasuke decides that this applies to [[spoiler: The Third Hokage]] and forgives him for what he did. Averted with [[spoiler: the other councilors.]]
* DefeatByModesty: Inverted and Averted. Anko trains her kids not to suffer this, and also to strip naked any dangerous prisoners they capture.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: None of Sasuke’s fangirls (notably Ino) are pleased by the possibility that he may be [[spoiler: sleeping with Tamaki]] but none of them consider it a deal-breaker, either, since he’s a clan head who needs to repopulate his family. Similarly, prior to the chunin exams, his retainer insists that he take precautions [[spoiler: by filling several test tubes with samples, just in case he is killed]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Temari attempts ‘suicide by ANBU’ after being captured. Barely able to use chakra or stand, she grabs a kunai and attempts to force an ANBU to kill her by attacking.
** Officially, when the Third Hokage passes away, his councilors opt to join him out of respect. In truth, only one of them did so willingly.
* DudeNotFunny: Sasuke has Naruto exploring a family shrine he knows Itachi may have booby-trapped, and when they come to a part that needs Sharingan he makes a joke about going to meet his ancestors and gets this response from Sakura.
* EntertaininglyWrong: When Team 7 shows up to by a flower arrangement for expectant mothers, Ino assumes Sasuke knocked up a girl, followed by guessing he knocked up three girls. Actually, three of the ninja-cats are expecting kittens.
** Later, Ino thinks that Team 7 is intimidated at the possibility of a survival exercise in the Forest of Death, when actually they’ve been in there repeatedly and are just slack-jawed in shock.
* EvilOldFolks: Several, notably Danzo.
* EyeScream: Invoked on Danzo when he’s captured.
* FatalFlaw:
** The Third Hokage is better with jutsu than policy, and relies too much on his advisors.
** Sasuke is torn whether his team bonds make him stronger or weaker, and his natural suspicion.
** Temari is too dismissive of Konoha, and gets beaten by Sasuke in the preliminaries. Then she gets tricked by the Yamanaka, who search her mind to find out about the invasion, and she still refuses to acknowledge their strengths for a while.
* FlechetteStorm: Sakura gets a way to fire senbon needles at high speeds en masse.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A lot of the groups more dangerous techniques are foreshadowed in developmental stages early on.
* ForWantOfANail: Anko being more approachable to her students means they learn certain things (deception, teamwork, responsibility) faster than in canon. What they do with this knowledge has big effects.
** The biggest is Sasuke taking up his responsibilities not just as the last Uchiha, but as the Uchiha Clan Head
* FriendlyEnemy: Zabuza to the Leaf nin. They stop being enemies when mist ninja show up.
* FragileSpeedster: Haku combines this with his AnIcePerson BarrierWarrior abilities, but he’s still vulnerable to direct combat.
* GoodFeelsGood: Anko starts bettering herself (see NailedToTheWagon) after she realizes that it feels good to be responsible and have people look up to you.
* GreenEyedMonster: Sakura’s reaction to Tamaki at Sora-ku is this played for laughs.
* HeelRealization: Hiashi later describes the invasion as a day of disappointments: disappointment in Neji’s petty arrogance, in himself for allowing his pride to threaten himself and his youngest, and that Hinata ''failed'' to ''live down to'' his expectations (see RedBaron).
* HeroAntagonist: Foreshadowed with the Third Hokage, [[spoiler: but ultimately averted]].
* HeroicBSOD: Team 7’s discovery of [[the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]] causes this in them.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Sasuke is well aware of how close he may come to this line.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Gato and his would-be BatmanGambit.
* HonorBeforeReason: Kin refuses to wear her dead teammates’ clothes despite having been stripped naked and left alone in the Forest of Death.
** Played for humor: Sasuke promised Ino a date if she did an interrogation, and feels obliged to follow through with it.
** Then averted in the Forest of Death. Sakura and Sasuke know that the exams aren’t a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and agree getting Naruto medical attention is a priority over finding a scroll and passing.
* HoYay: It’s suggested that there once was this between Orochimaru and Jiraiya, when the latter gets drunk.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Team bonding happens when they kill a tiger they’re hunting this way.
* InsistentTerminology: After taking offense at Anko’s choice of disguises, Ino begins privately thinking of Anko as ‘Slut-sensei’. She is certain that she will always refer to Anko as this until Anko gives Ino a rundown on her skills and actions, assures her that Ino has fulfilled the requirements of the mission and that she (Anko) respects that, and advises her on how to get better training, and in what areas. Ino immediately starts thinking of her as Anko-sensei.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The first time Sasuke ever feels attracted to a girl is when he’s watching Sakura dissect a tiger to harvest the organs for a mission.
* JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope: Ino sees herself as having shades of this in the Wave arc, when she uses her family jutsu to mind-read a man and report his plan to betray them.
--> “I must be a big girl now,” Ino thought, “I’ve just sentenced a man to death.”
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Kakshi, Kabuto, Gaara, and the elder council.]]
* KindHeartedCatLover: Sasuke, after he takes in [[spoiler: Tamaki and the ninja-cats]].
* MasterOfIllusion: Sasuke pulls this on Temari in the Chunin preliminaries. It is a wonderful MindScrew.
* MasterPoisoner: Sakura is well on her way, though she still has a ways to go too.
* MindRape: Inoichi Yamanaka has to do this to [[spoiler: elder Danzo]] in an interrogation. He needs Ino and Naruto’s help, and it traumatizes all of them.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Inverted. The Invasion reveals internal corruption in the Leaf’s upper echelons, but the Invasion was a bigger problem at the time. also played with that the corruption allowed someone to steal a diary, which revealed the corruption.
* MundaneSolution: Orochimaru has fled, but the resurrected hokages have been left behind with orders to kill Sarutobi. How do a few genin and ANBU get rid of them? Not with high-level kinjutsu or demonic chakra, but by [[spoiler: using henge to make it look like the Third Hokage is already dead, which allows them to return to the afterlife.]]
* NailedToTheWagon: Downplayed, but Anko’s had to cut down her alcohol intake a lot since she took up the team.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Asuma and Anko have a civil and non-poisoned picnic business meeting with Zabuza to discuss possible options before they decide to settle it in combat.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Anko trains her students in this by taking them to the mixed baths, stealing their towels, and having them walk around while transformed into the other gender.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Many of the thugs that work for Gato do so because they are blackmailed or deeply in his debt, and jump ship when given the option.
* NotSoStoic: Another effect of the discovery of [[spoiler: the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]] by Team 7.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sakura and Naruto develop a technique that invokes this using a change to the Sexy Jutsu.
* OhMyGods: Sakura swears “Gods and Demons” at a few points.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anko ends up a weeping, emotional wreck when she discovers [[spoiler: the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]].
* PetTheDog: Anko treats the nervous Ino much more kindly than she usually does. She later tells Asuma that she sees her team as her kids.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Inverted with the Sexy Jutsu. It’s designed to be perverse, and gets refined into less perverse versions with different effects.
* PragmaticVillainy: Gato thinks he’s this, but the audience sees that he’s a CompleteMonster. Also, Naruto and Sasuke discuss how stupid [[spoiler: the Uchiha Massacre]] was based on this.
* {{Pride}}: Haku suffers from this, and makes several mistakes when dealing with the Leaf ninja because of it. He gets better.
* ProperlyParanoid: It’s not paranoid if people really are out to get you, as Naruto’s use of transformed clones shows.
* RealityEnsues: Danzo attempts to use a mostly theoretical technique he gleaned from stolen notes that requires a bloodline he implanted. It’s a miracle that it works at all, and working incompletely still gets him [[spoiler: drugged, arrested, captured, and killed]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Anko is one to her team, and trains them to do this to their underlings and prisoners as well. Also, Zabuza to Haku.
* RedBaron: From the beginning, Team 7 is nicknamed Team Killer.
** After [[spoiler: killing Gaara]] Hinata becomes known as The Slayer. Naruto is similarly known as the sorcerer, after using several transformed clones to make it look like he summoned oni warriors.
* ScewThisImOuttaHere: Team 7’s reaction to Orochimaru, and the second part of the chunin exams in general.
* ShipTease: Anko and [[spoiler: Zabuza]].
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Done seriously with the Aburame: they’ve been accused of feeding their own clans members to the insects as fodder before, so deny when Naruto (who hadn’t even heard that rumor) brings up a related subject.
* TakeThat: When Anko wonders how Kakashi would have dealt with her team, Asuma lists off exactly what the audience knows he did in canon, why, and why this would be bad.
* TakingYouWithMe: The Third Hokage does this [[spoiler: to Danzo]].
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Justified with Ino’s assessment of Tamaki. She decides Sasuke isn’t sleeping with his retainer due to the lack of gifts/jewelry that romance novels would have the female protagonist wearing, which is correct.
* TookALevelInBadass: All of Team 7, and Anko also did to set a good example.
** In the preliminaries, Hinata is five seconds short of fighting Neji to a draw. By the time of the final rounds, she’s almost effortlessly dancing through the battle and [[spoiler: she kills Gaara with a strike to the chest]]. Then she ends up a chunin and squad-leader in the counter-attack.
* TrainingFromHell: Anko is careful to intersperse it with breaks though. Sakura gets social days and shopping sprees every ten days, Naruto gets her coming to his apartment to check up and help him keep on top of daily chores, and Sasuke she tells what she remembers of when she and Itachi were in ANBU, and helps him brainstorm embarrassing ways of killing Itachi. It pays dividends, and Ino resolves to badger her teacher to start training them more seriously.
* {{Troll}}: When sakura gets upset, she goes WWND? (What Would Naruto Do?) This leads, when Ino mistakes her threat assessment of [[DudeLooksLikeALady Haku]] for checking him/her out, to her trolling Ino with blatant come-ons for a few chapters.
* UndyingLoyalty: The inhabitants of Sora-ku to the Uchiha.
** Anko has this to the Third Hokage, and the possibility of breaking it drives her to the DespairEventHorizon. Team Seven also has this to each other.
* VillainousValor: Zabuza, anko, and Asuma have a polite picnic before they enter a battle, and all agree to keep Haku out of it before-hand.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Naruto makes great use of this through his clones, such as having them transform into animals for stealth or muscle-bound thugs for intimidation.
** Zabuza send a water clone off to distract the hunter-nin while he transforms himself into a snake to escape.
* WaxOnWaxOff: Anko takes Sakura on shopping sprees to both motivate her, and train her in kunoichi infiltration/impersonation skills.
* WhamEpisode: It’s not a violent wham, but the first place where things go irrevocably OffTheRails aside from the nail in the first chapter is in chapter 6, when Sasuke takes on a retainer. This leads to the next big change, when they [[spoiler: kill Kabuto]].
** Chapter 13 sees Naruto scouted out by the Monkeys for a summoning contract, the revelation of Danzo’s interference in things, and Temari tricked into a mind-search by the Yamanaka.
* WhenHeSmiles: Sakura sees Sasuke like this when they go visit the Uchiha retainers at Sora-ku.
"Zest to over-achieve" marks Team 7's entry into the Ninja world. Kakashi teaches lessons better than he imagines.
Kakashi discovers that one shouldn’t tell a team of assassins-in-training to attack with intent to kill and then not take them seriously. Sakura’s brains, Naruto’s prank planning, and Sasuke’s willingness to do anything to pass, even co-operate, allows them to pull together and make up a plan that successfully kills Kakashi during the genin test. Naturally, this has consequences.
The biggest effect is not what Kakashi’s death does to Team 7 (they don’t see this as crossing the MoralEventHorizon, just an unfortunate accident) but that the team now needs a new leader, having killed their old one. With no volunteers, they get given Anko Mitarashi (who is not an AxCrazy BloodKnight), who views this as MyGreatestSecondChance and resolves to turn them into exceptional shinobi.
[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6940744/1/A-Teacher-s-Glory A Teacher’s Glory]] by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2062884/Larry-Huss Larry Huss]] is a that manages to be both DarkerAndEdgier and LighterAndSofter than canon by showing the grit and dirt of the ninja world while giving the characters the strength to understand and move on, and showing that while ninjas may be killers, they are also humans to. The development of Team 7 into mature young adults and family is wonderful for everyone who wishes canon had gone another way.
* ActionPet: All of the ninja animals, notably Sasuke’s ninja cats.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The first sign of Naruto and Sasuke becoming better friends is when Naruto admits that what Sasuke stuck around to see (Naruto getting sluiced down with freezing water) was actually pretty funny. He just has to make sure it happens to someone else next time.
** Gaara laughs out loud at Temari’s loss to Sasuke.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Tazuna is a bit slimier than he was shown in canon.
** Very downplayed and in the end averted with the Third Hokage, explained as a combination of stress, age, and Danzo’s [[MoreThanMindControl sharingan illusion]].
** [[spoiler: Koharu Utatane]] plays it more straight, as a corrupted politician who is skimming off the top and using [[spoiler: mind-altering perfume to get her way]].
* AntiMagic: Naruto’s Chakra Flood Technique explosively does this to opposing chakra.
* AscendedExtra: Anko gets a whole lot more development here, as Team 7’s sensei. Also [[spoiler: Tamaki, the girl who lives with the cats at the Uchiha warehouse, comes to Konoha as Sasuke’s personal retainer.]]
* AssholeVictim: Danzo and [[spoiler: all the others his age]].
* ArcWords: The phrase “strong enough to show mercy” pops up several times.
* AxCrazy: Refreshingly, this is completely averted with Anko. She’s portrayed very realistically and as well-rounded but broken person. One running theme with her team is being strong enough to show mercy.
* BaitAndSwitchComment:
--> Naruto: “Ah Sakura, how can you say that when you hang around every day with the hottest guy in town and the future Hokage? And Sasuke too, of course.”
* BatmanGambit: the reason why the bridge in Wave could be built. If it was left incomplete, then Gato would keep his stranglehold, but if it was finished he could just kill Tazuna and commandeer the bridge to increase his own profits. Similarly, he hired Zabuza, arranged for his mercenaries to try to kill Zabuza should he succeed, and arranged for Mist nin to come and drive off Zabuza should the mercs fail, or pick up the bounty if they succeeded.
* BearsAreBadNews: The Forest of Death’s Drop Bears are actually large, carnivorous sloths, but they are still animals that even jonin would rather avoid than attack.
* TheBeastmaster: The inhabitants of Sora-ku with their ninja-cats.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Anko has this in spades towards the Third Hokage, as he chose to trust her after Orochimaru’s betrayal. [[spoiler: Her discovery of the Third Hokage’s past actions nearly breaks her.]]
** His first meeting with the Kyubi has Naruto agree that as a prisoner of war, the fox is entitled to better living conditions, and agree to look into it. The two aren’t immediately friends, but it’s a start.
** Ino has considerably more respect for Anko after the older kunoichi takes her aside, gives her a rundown of her abilities and performance, and advice on how to improve.
* BeingWatched: The group quickly realizes they are being spied on by Kabuto and Hinata, though not why.
* BerserkButton: As the Uchiha Head, Sasuke is very protective of his retainers. He was content to allow [[spoiler: Kabuto to keep reporting to Orochimaru]] while the village spied on him until he threatened [[spoiler: Tamaki]].
** Choji slaps Ino when she starts harassing an exhausted Shikamaru.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Kabuto in spades. He seems a perfectly mild-mannered medical specialist genin, when he’s an infiltrator skilled enough to kill an ANBU in seconds and amoral enough to consider [[spoiler: raping Tamaki when she onjects to being made to sleep with Sasuke]].
* BondOneLiner: Played with. Before collapsing after her fight with Neji, Hinata quips, “Are we having fun yet, cousin?”, but she's the ones who lost, even if Neji went down seconds later
* BreakTheHaughty: Anko does this to Ino when the latter protests Anko’s choice of disguise for her.
** Sarutobi breaks [[spoiler: Koharu]] before executing her.
** All of Sunagakure suffers this after the invasion. It’s known in-universe as the Breaking of Suna.
** During the invasion, Hiashi and Hanabi feel deficient due to certain circumstances, like CripplingOverspecialization.
** Orochimaru suffers this when Leaf and Sand’s counter-attack hits.
* BreakingTheFellowship: The story ends with Team Anko going their separate ways for the time-skip.
* BroughtDownToNormal: When Haku is captured he temporarily loses the ability to use chakra, although Zabuza breaks him free. Unfortunately, Haku mistakenly thinks he’s only been BroughtDownToBadass and makes several embarrassing mistakes.
* BrutalHonesty: Anko deals with some of her team’s problem and misconceptions like this. It’s treated as a good thing by not sugar-coating it and respecting their maturity, while not making things seem hopeless either.
* CompletedFic: And a sequel promised, but not yet arrived.
* CompleteMonster: Gato, Kabuto, and Danzo all have their tendencies elaborated on. Especially Kabuto.
* CoolBigSis: Anko is like this on their days off.
* CoolTeacher: Anko, whenever it isn’t a day off.
* CovertPervert: Sakura, when she sees Naruto and Sasuke in the mixed baths.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Asuma knows his father’s biggest weakness is his lack of political skills and reliance on his councilors.
* CruelToBeKind: Downplayed, but this is Anko’s approach to TrainingFromHell. If she doesn’t push the kids to their limits (but only to, not far beyond) she’s worried they’ll get killed because she held them back.
* CryForVillain: When Kin is captured in the Forest of Death, she’s terrified that she’s going to be raped, which is in some villages a standard prelude to a kunoichi’s interrogation.
** Gaara may be an unstable murderer, but he’s still an abused twelve-year-old kid, and Temari’s little brother.
* CurbStompBattle: The fights that avert this are often as awesome as the ones that don’t. For instance:
** [[WeakButSkilled Sakura]] humiliating beats [[LightningBruiser Lee]] with a variation on the Sexy technique and pressure points.
** Hinata being beaten by Neji in thirty seconds instead of ten minutes wouldn’t usually be awesome, except that Neji collapsed two seconds after he was declared the victor.
** The counter-attack against The Sound Village is this. Orochimaru ends up, “now master of as much land as his feet covered at each instant” while fleeing.
** The original encounter with Orochimaru in the Exams is this for [[UpToEleven both sides]]. The sannin takes down Naruto instantly, and barely consideres the other two a warm-up. Then Sakura and Sasuke use their superior knowledge of the local wildlife to sic the [[Literature/HarryPotter giant freshwater squid]] on him, and outrun him during the distraction, resulting in the sannin losing his prey and being…inconvenienced by a wild animal and a bunch of gennin.
* CutenessOverload: Sakura weaponizes this with a variant on the Sexy jutsu.
* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Sasuke’s mangekyo is this, so he never uses it. The only time he does, he holds off the reincarnated Second Hokage for several seconds and sets up the trick that takes them out, but he passes out.
* DatePeepers: Sakura and Naruto run interference against these while Sasuke takes Ino out…by pretending to respectively be Sasuke and Sakura on a date.
* DeadpanSnarker: Sasuke tells his teama bout the Mangekyo Sharingan, obtained by killing your best friend, and Naruot immediately deadpans a confession that he secretly loathes Sasuke.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: Averted with [[spoiler: Gaara]]. He dies alone and afraid, and only one or two people miss him afterwards.
** Sasuke decides that this applies to [[spoiler: The Third Hokage]] and forgives him for what he did. Averted with [[spoiler: the other councilors.]]
* DefeatByModesty: Inverted and Averted. Anko trains her kids not to suffer this, and also to strip naked any dangerous prisoners they capture.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: None of Sasuke’s fangirls (notably Ino) are pleased by the possibility that he may be [[spoiler: sleeping with Tamaki]] but none of them consider it a deal-breaker, either, since he’s a clan head who needs to repopulate his family. Similarly, prior to the chunin exams, his retainer insists that he take precautions [[spoiler: by filling several test tubes with samples, just in case he is killed]].
* DrivenToSuicide: Temari attempts ‘suicide by ANBU’ after being captured. Barely able to use chakra or stand, she grabs a kunai and attempts to force an ANBU to kill her by attacking.
** Officially, when the Third Hokage passes away, his councilors opt to join him out of respect. In truth, only one of them did so willingly.
* DudeNotFunny: Sasuke has Naruto exploring a family shrine he knows Itachi may have booby-trapped, and when they come to a part that needs Sharingan he makes a joke about going to meet his ancestors and gets this response from Sakura.
* EntertaininglyWrong: When Team 7 shows up to by a flower arrangement for expectant mothers, Ino assumes Sasuke knocked up a girl, followed by guessing he knocked up three girls. Actually, three of the ninja-cats are expecting kittens.
** Later, Ino thinks that Team 7 is intimidated at the possibility of a survival exercise in the Forest of Death, when actually they’ve been in there repeatedly and are just slack-jawed in shock.
* EvilOldFolks: Several, notably Danzo.
* EyeScream: Invoked on Danzo when he’s captured.
* FatalFlaw:
** The Third Hokage is better with jutsu than policy, and relies too much on his advisors.
** Sasuke is torn whether his team bonds make him stronger or weaker, and his natural suspicion.
** Temari is too dismissive of Konoha, and gets beaten by Sasuke in the preliminaries. Then she gets tricked by the Yamanaka, who search her mind to find out about the invasion, and she still refuses to acknowledge their strengths for a while.
* FlechetteStorm: Sakura gets a way to fire senbon needles at high speeds en masse.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A lot of the groups more dangerous techniques are foreshadowed in developmental stages early on.
* ForWantOfANail: Anko being more approachable to her students means they learn certain things (deception, teamwork, responsibility) faster than in canon. What they do with this knowledge has big effects.
** The biggest is Sasuke taking up his responsibilities not just as the last Uchiha, but as the Uchiha Clan Head
* FriendlyEnemy: Zabuza to the Leaf nin. They stop being enemies when mist ninja show up.
* FragileSpeedster: Haku combines this with his AnIcePerson BarrierWarrior abilities, but he’s still vulnerable to direct combat.
* GoodFeelsGood: Anko starts bettering herself (see NailedToTheWagon) after she realizes that it feels good to be responsible and have people look up to you.
* GreenEyedMonster: Sakura’s reaction to Tamaki at Sora-ku is this played for laughs.
* HeelRealization: Hiashi later describes the invasion as a day of disappointments: disappointment in Neji’s petty arrogance, in himself for allowing his pride to threaten himself and his youngest, and that Hinata ''failed'' to ''live down to'' his expectations (see RedBaron).
* HeroAntagonist: Foreshadowed with the Third Hokage, [[spoiler: but ultimately averted]].
* HeroicBSOD: Team 7’s discovery of [[the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]] causes this in them.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Sasuke is well aware of how close he may come to this line.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Gato and his would-be BatmanGambit.
* HonorBeforeReason: Kin refuses to wear her dead teammates’ clothes despite having been stripped naked and left alone in the Forest of Death.
** Played for humor: Sasuke promised Ino a date if she did an interrogation, and feels obliged to follow through with it.
** Then averted in the Forest of Death. Sakura and Sasuke know that the exams aren’t a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and agree getting Naruto medical attention is a priority over finding a scroll and passing.
* HoYay: It’s suggested that there once was this between Orochimaru and Jiraiya, when the latter gets drunk.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Team bonding happens when they kill a tiger they’re hunting this way.
* InsistentTerminology: After taking offense at Anko’s choice of disguises, Ino begins privately thinking of Anko as ‘Slut-sensei’. She is certain that she will always refer to Anko as this until Anko gives Ino a rundown on her skills and actions, assures her that Ino has fulfilled the requirements of the mission and that she (Anko) respects that, and advises her on how to get better training, and in what areas. Ino immediately starts thinking of her as Anko-sensei.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: The first time Sasuke ever feels attracted to a girl is when he’s watching Sakura dissect a tiger to harvest the organs for a mission.
* JumpedOffTheSlipperySlope: Ino sees herself as having shades of this in the Wave arc, when she uses her family jutsu to mind-read a man and report his plan to betray them.
--> “I must be a big girl now,” Ino thought, “I’ve just sentenced a man to death.”
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Kakshi, Kabuto, Gaara, and the elder council.]]
* KindHeartedCatLover: Sasuke, after he takes in [[spoiler: Tamaki and the ninja-cats]].
* MasterOfIllusion: Sasuke pulls this on Temari in the Chunin preliminaries. It is a wonderful MindScrew.
* MasterPoisoner: Sakura is well on her way, though she still has a ways to go too.
* MindRape: Inoichi Yamanaka has to do this to [[spoiler: elder Danzo]] in an interrogation. He needs Ino and Naruto’s help, and it traumatizes all of them.
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: Inverted. The Invasion reveals internal corruption in the Leaf’s upper echelons, but the Invasion was a bigger problem at the time. also played with that the corruption allowed someone to steal a diary, which revealed the corruption.
* MundaneSolution: Orochimaru has fled, but the resurrected hokages have been left behind with orders to kill Sarutobi. How do a few genin and ANBU get rid of them? Not with high-level kinjutsu or demonic chakra, but by [[spoiler: using henge to make it look like the Third Hokage is already dead, which allows them to return to the afterlife.]]
* NailedToTheWagon: Downplayed, but Anko’s had to cut down her alcohol intake a lot since she took up the team.
* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Asuma and Anko have a civil and non-poisoned picnic business meeting with Zabuza to discuss possible options before they decide to settle it in combat.
* NotDistractedByTheSexy: Anko trains her students in this by taking them to the mixed baths, stealing their towels, and having them walk around while transformed into the other gender.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Many of the thugs that work for Gato do so because they are blackmailed or deeply in his debt, and jump ship when given the option.
* NotSoStoic: Another effect of the discovery of [[spoiler: the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]] by Team 7.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sakura and Naruto develop a technique that invokes this using a change to the Sexy Jutsu.
* OhMyGods: Sakura swears “Gods and Demons” at a few points.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anko ends up a weeping, emotional wreck when she discovers [[spoiler: the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]].
* PetTheDog: Anko treats the nervous Ino much more kindly than she usually does. She later tells Asuma that she sees her team as her kids.
* PowerPerversionPotential: Inverted with the Sexy Jutsu. It’s designed to be perverse, and gets refined into less perverse versions with different effects.
* PragmaticVillainy: Gato thinks he’s this, but the audience sees that he’s a CompleteMonster. Also, Naruto and Sasuke discuss how stupid [[spoiler: the Uchiha Massacre]] was based on this.
* {{Pride}}: Haku suffers from this, and makes several mistakes when dealing with the Leaf ninja because of it. He gets better.
* ProperlyParanoid: It’s not paranoid if people really are out to get you, as Naruto’s use of transformed clones shows.
* RealityEnsues: Danzo attempts to use a mostly theoretical technique he gleaned from stolen notes that requires a bloodline he implanted. It’s a miracle that it works at all, and working incompletely still gets him [[spoiler: drugged, arrested, captured, and killed]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Anko is one to her team, and trains them to do this to their underlings and prisoners as well. Also, Zabuza to Haku.
* RedBaron: From the beginning, Team 7 is nicknamed Team Killer.
** After [[spoiler: killing Gaara]] Hinata becomes known as The Slayer. Naruto is similarly known as the sorcerer, after using several transformed clones to make it look like he summoned oni warriors.
* ScewThisImOuttaHere: Team 7’s reaction to Orochimaru, and the second part of the chunin exams in general.
* ShipTease: Anko and [[spoiler: Zabuza]].
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Done seriously with the Aburame: they’ve been accused of feeding their own clans members to the insects as fodder before, so deny when Naruto (who hadn’t even heard that rumor) brings up a related subject.
* TakeThat: When Anko wonders how Kakashi would have dealt with her team, Asuma lists off exactly what the audience knows he did in canon, why, and why this would be bad.
* TakingYouWithMe: The Third Hokage does this [[spoiler: to Danzo]].
* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel: Justified with Ino’s assessment of Tamaki. She decides Sasuke isn’t sleeping with his retainer due to the lack of gifts/jewelry that romance novels would have the female protagonist wearing, which is correct.
* TookALevelInBadass: All of Team 7, and Anko also did to set a good example.
** In the preliminaries, Hinata is five seconds short of fighting Neji to a draw. By the time of the final rounds, she’s almost effortlessly dancing through the battle and [[spoiler: she kills Gaara with a strike to the chest]]. Then she ends up a chunin and squad-leader in the counter-attack.
* TrainingFromHell: Anko is careful to intersperse it with breaks though. Sakura gets social days and shopping sprees every ten days, Naruto gets her coming to his apartment to check up and help him keep on top of daily chores, and Sasuke she tells what she remembers of when she and Itachi were in ANBU, and helps him brainstorm embarrassing ways of killing Itachi. It pays dividends, and Ino resolves to badger her teacher to start training them more seriously.
* {{Troll}}: When sakura gets upset, she goes WWND? (What Would Naruto Do?) This leads, when Ino mistakes her threat assessment of [[DudeLooksLikeALady Haku]] for checking him/her out, to her trolling Ino with blatant come-ons for a few chapters.
* UndyingLoyalty: The inhabitants of Sora-ku to the Uchiha.
** Anko has this to the Third Hokage, and the possibility of breaking it drives her to the DespairEventHorizon. Team Seven also has this to each other.
* VillainousValor: Zabuza, anko, and Asuma have a polite picnic before they enter a battle, and all agree to keep Haku out of it before-hand.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Naruto makes great use of this through his clones, such as having them transform into animals for stealth or muscle-bound thugs for intimidation.
** Zabuza send a water clone off to distract the hunter-nin while he transforms himself into a snake to escape.
* WaxOnWaxOff: Anko takes Sakura on shopping sprees to both motivate her, and train her in kunoichi infiltration/impersonation skills.
* WhamEpisode: It’s not a violent wham, but the first place where things go irrevocably OffTheRails aside from the nail in the first chapter is in chapter 6, when Sasuke takes on a retainer. This leads to the next big change, when they [[spoiler: kill Kabuto]].
** Chapter 13 sees Naruto scouted out by the Monkeys for a summoning contract, the revelation of Danzo’s interference in things, and Temari tricked into a mind-search by the Yamanaka.
* WhenHeSmiles: Sakura sees Sasuke like this when they go visit the Uchiha retainers at Sora-ku.
