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1"Zest to over-achieve" marks Team 7's entry into the Ninja world. Kakashi teaches lessons better than he imagines.
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3Kakashi 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.
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5The 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.
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7[[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 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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9The fanfic [[CompletedFic has since been completed]]. However, the planned sequel is very unlikely to happen due to Larry Huss's death from cancer in 2016.
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12!!'''This fic contains examples of the following tropes, in addition to those already present in the source material:'''
13* ActionPet: All of the ninja animals, notably Sasuke's ninja cats.
14* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
15** 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.
16** Gaara laughs out loud at Temari's loss to Sasuke.
17** 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.
18* AdaptationalVillainy:
19** Tazuna is a bit slimier than he was shown in canon.
20** Very downplayed and in the end averted with the Third Hokage, explained as a combination of stress, age, and Danzo's [[MoreThanMindControl sharingan illusion]].
21** [[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]].
22* AllIssuesArePoliticalIssues:
23** A frequent factor in various decisions, including "random" selection of fighters in the preliminaries, is the political fallout.
24** Also shown to backfire several times when decisions are made with incomplete information, or manipulations are attempted without a sufficient understanding of those on the receiving end.
25* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: It's mentioned in Chapter 2 that no matter what Sasuke does, or no matter how hard he trains and overworks himself, Itachi would always surpass him because he is that good at being a genius and a ninja, leaving prospects of getting revenge by himself next to nil. The revelation [[HeroicBSOD nearly breaks him]], but fortunately, Anko brings him out of his despair by showing him a more pragmatic and successful way to bring down Itachi: Hiring and establishing a network of agents willing to serve as his hands, eyes, and ears, as well as relying on his teammates' skills to weaken Itachi enough to be killed.
26* AntiMagic: Naruto's Chakra Flood Technique explosively does this to opposing chakra.
27* 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]].
28%%* AssholeVictim: Danzo and [[spoiler:all the others his age]].
29%%* ArcWords: The phrase "strong enough to show mercy" pops up several times.
30* 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.
31* BaitAndSwitchComment:
32--> '''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.
33* 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.
34* 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. And not just for the main reasons- not only are their hides tough, and they're extremely strong, but the things are ''useless'' when they're dead. Their meat tastes terrible, ''no'' part of them is useful for any medicine, and they smell so bad that while you ''could'' use their hide for tough leather, it would smell so bad you wouldn't want to.
35%%* TheBeastmaster: The inhabitants of Sora-ku with their ninja-cats.
36* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe:
37** 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]].
38** 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. When he meets the fox again in Wave, the prison-slash-sewer is much drier and slightly better lit.
39** 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.
40* BeingWatched: The group quickly realizes they are being spied on by Kabuto and Hinata, though not why.
41* BerserkButton:
42** 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]].
43** Choji slaps Ino when she starts harassing an exhausted Shikamaru.
44* 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 objects to being made to sleep with Sasuke]].
45* 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
46* BreakTheHaughty:
47** Anko does this to Ino when the latter protests Anko's choice of disguise for her.
48** Sarutobi breaks [[spoiler:Koharu]] before executing her.
49** All of Sunagakure suffers this after the invasion. It's known in-universe as the Breaking of Suna.
50** During the invasion, Hiashi and Hanabi feel deficient due to certain circumstances, like CripplingOverspecialization.
51** Orochimaru suffers this when Leaf and Sand's counter-attack hits.
52* BreakingTheFellowship: The story ends with Team Anko going their separate ways for the time-skip.
53* 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.
54* 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.
55* 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.
56* TheChessmaster: Deconstructed with Sarutobi. Ordering Shikamaru to not kill or seriously injure Gaara in their match but also not forfeit doesn't result in Shikamaru deciding to forfeit anyway, keeping the Ino-Shika-Cho trio together, but breakdown in despair that he's being ordered to die.
57* 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.
58* CompletedFic: And a sequel promised, but not yet arrived. Unfortunately with the death of the author there is little chance of a sequel.
59* 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.
60* CoolBigSis: Anko is like this on their days off.
61* CoolTeacher: Anko, whenever it isn't a day off.
62* CovertPervert: Sakura, when she sees Naruto and Sasuke in the mixed baths.
63* CripplingOverspecialization: Asuma knows his father's biggest weakness is his lack of political skills and reliance on his councilors.
64* 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.
65* CrypticConversation: Team 7 in general but Naruto and Sasuke in particular do this at times. Sakura notes that it's not so much attempting to be sneaky as they simply don't ''need'' syntax beyond a few random words like "iaijutsu" and "seven inches".
66* CurbStompBattle: The fights that avert this are often as awesome as the ones that don't. For instance:
67** [[WeakButSkilled Sakura]] humiliating beats [[LightningBruiser Lee]] with a variation on the Sexy technique and pressure points.
68** 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.
69** 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.
70** The original encounter with Orochimaru in the Exams is this for both sides. The sannin takes down Naruto instantly, and barely considers 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.
71* CutenessOverload: Sakura weaponizes this with a variant on the Sexy jutsu.
72* 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.
73* DatePeepers: Sakura and Naruto run interference against these while Sasuke takes Ino out…by pretending to respectively be Sasuke and Sakura on a date.
74* DeadpanSnarker: Sasuke tells his team about the Mangekyo Sharingan, obtained by killing your best friend, and Naurto immediately deadpans a confession that he secretly loathes Sasuke. [[ActuallyPrettyFunny Sasuke genuinely finds this hilarious]].
75* DeathEqualsRedemption:
76** Averted with [[spoiler:Gaara]]. He dies alone and afraid, and only one or two people miss him afterwards.
77** Sasuke decides that this applies to [[spoiler:The Third Hokage]] and forgives him for what he did. Averted with [[spoiler: the other councilors]].
78* DefeatByModesty: Inverted and Averted. Anko trains her kids not to suffer this, and also to strip naked any dangerous prisoners they capture. This isn't just to humiliate them, many Ninjas will hide weapons on their person and stripping them will remove that.
79* 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]].
80* DidntThinkThisThrough:
81** 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.
82** Telling people who have been taught to kill to come at you with the intent to kill is not a smart move.
83* 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.
84** 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.
85* 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 [[DeadlyEuphemism going to meet his ancestors]] and gets this response from Sakura.
86* 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.
87* EntertaininglyWrong:
88** When Team 7 shows up to buy 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.
89** 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.
90* EvilOldFolks: Several, notably Danzo.
91* EyeScream: Invoked on Danzo when he's captured.
92* FatalFlaw:
93** The Third Hokage is better with jutsu than policy, and relies too much on his advisers.
94** Sasuke is torn whether his team bonds make him stronger or weaker, and his natural suspicion.
95** 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.
96** Technically, Kakashi has Arrogance as his, but see GoneHorriblyRight for details.
97* FlechetteStorm: Sakura gets a way to fire senbon needles at high speeds en masse.
98* {{Foreshadowing}}: A lot of the groups more dangerous techniques are foreshadowed in developmental stages early on.
99* 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.
100** The biggest is Sasuke taking up his responsibilities not just as the last Uchiha, but as the Uchiha Clan Head
101* FriendlyEnemy: Zabuza to the Leaf nin. They stop being enemies when mist ninja show up.
102* FragileSpeedster: Haku combines this with his AnIcePerson BarrierWarrior abilities, but he's still vulnerable to direct combat.
103* GoneHorriblyRight: The story ''starts'' with Kakashi telling his team to come at him with the intent to kill. Unfortunately for him, they do.
104* GoodFeelsGood: Anko starts bettering herself (see NailedToTheWagon) after she realizes that it feels good to be responsible and have people look up to you.
105* GreenEyedMonster: Sakura's reaction to Tamaki at Sora-ku is this played for laughs.
106* HandicappedBadass: Kiba manages to kill an attacker despite having a broken spine by launching himself with his arms and beating the man's skull into the pavement.
107* 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).
108* HeroAntagonist: Foreshadowed with the Third Hokage, [[spoiler:but ultimately averted]].
109* HeroicBSOD: Team 7's discovery of [[spoiler: the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]] causes this in them.
110* 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.
111* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Sasuke is well aware of how close he may come to this line.
112* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
113** Gato and his would-be BatmanGambit.
114** This whole story occurs because Kakashi ''seriously'' overestimated his capacity to take on his assigned rookies in mortal combat. He has nobody else to blame but himself because he ''did'' insisted on them coming at him "[[ExactWords with full intent to kill]]".
115* HonorBeforeReason:
116** Kin refuses to wear her dead teammates' clothes despite having been stripped naked and left alone in the Forest of Death.
117** Played for humor: Sasuke promised Ino a date if she did an interrogation, and feels obligated to follow through with it. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since Sasuke knew full well that as the Uchiha Clan Head, his agreements were binding and should not be made lightly, lest he instigate some serious political fallout.
118** 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.
119* 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.
120* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Team bonding happens when they kill a tiger they're hunting this way.
121* ImprovisedWeapon: Naruto takes to wrapping explosive notes around rocks to create fragmentation grenades.
122* InHarmsWay: [[spoiler: Hinata]] finds warzones, hasty meals, and long bouts of sentry duty far more comfortable than luxurious baths, feasts, and soft mattresses. [[spoiler: Not having to deal with her family in the former certainly helps]].
123* 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.
124* 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.
125* ItsPersonal: Team Killer was willing to let the ANBU investigate Kabuto until he harmed Tamaki. Then they gave ANBU a week before they killed him themselves.
126* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Discussed. In a conversation with Asuma, that Kakashi was a very smart and talented ninja in his time, [[BrokenAce but it left him with extremely poor social skills in regards to how normal kids develop]].
127* 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.
128-->"I must be a big girl now," Ino thought, "I've just sentenced a man to death."
129* KilledOffForReal: Kakashi, [[spoiler:Kabuto, Gaara, and the elder council]].
130* KindheartedCatLover: Sasuke, after he takes in [[spoiler:Tamaki and the ninja-cats]].
131* 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 quietly.
132** Team 7 seeks medical attention for Naruto after he's crippled in the Forest of Death rather than trying to continue the exam.
133* MasterOfIllusion: Sasuke pulls this on Temari in the Chunin preliminaries. It is a wonderful MindScrew.
134* MasterPoisoner: Sakura is well on her way, though she still has a ways to go too.
135* 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.
136* 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.
137* 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]].
138* NailedToTheWagon: Downplayed, but Anko's had to cut down her alcohol intake a lot since she took up the team.
139* 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.
140* 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.
141* 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.
142* NotSoStoic: Another effect of the discovery of [[spoiler:the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]] by Team 7.
143** In a more minor case, Sasuke starts insulting Naruto in the Forest of Death at Naruto's state (covered in slime from a dead Drop Bear), until he gets close enough and it shifts from the usual "Dismissive Sasuke," to actual "Oh sweet mercy, that stench is unbearable."
144* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sakura and Naruto develop a technique that invokes this using a change to the Sexy Jutsu.
145* OhMyGods: Sakura swears "Gods and Demons" at a few points.
146* OOCIsSeriousBusiness:
147** 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."
148** [[BrilliantButLazy Shikamaru]] trains himself into the ground to both potentially survive against Gaara and prevent Choji from facing him.
149*** In addition, Shikamaru gets ''really'' mad and snaps, paces, and ''pisses on the grave'' of one of the ninjas that poisoned Shoji.
150** Anko ends up a weeping, emotional wreck when she discovers [[spoiler: the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]].
151* 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.
152* PlotTriggeringDeath: Kakashi's death causes Anko to become Team 7's sensei [[ForWantOfANail which in turn causes (directly or indirectly) the rest of the plot]].
153* PowerPerversionPotential: Inverted with the Sexy Jutsu. It's designed to be perverse, and gets refined into less perverse versions with different effects.
154* PragmaticHero: 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.
155* PragmaticVillainy:
156** Gato thinks he's this.
157** Also, Naruto and Sasuke discuss how stupid [[spoiler: the Uchiha Massacre]] was based on this.
158** Kabuto's decision not to rape Tamaki is based entirely on the decision that the resulting trauma would make her useless for spying on Sasuke.
159* {{Pride}}: Haku suffers from this, and makes several mistakes when dealing with the Leaf ninja because of it. He gets better.
160* ProperlyParanoid: It's not paranoid if people really are out to get you, as Naruto's use of transformed clones shows.
161* PosthumousCharacter: Kakashi after being killed during the bell exam.
162* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
163** Anko is one to Team 7, and trains them to do this to their underlings and prisoners as well.
164** Zabuza is also one to Haku.
165* RedBaron:
166** From the beginning, Team 7 is nicknamed "Team Killer", and is rightly feared by many of their peers because of their act of killing their own sensei (even though he ''explicitly'' instructed Team 7 to do so).
167** 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.
168* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Team 7's reaction to Orochimaru, and the second part of the chunin exams in general.
169* ShipTease: Anko and [[spoiler:Zabuza]].
170* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Zigzagged. Following Kakashi's death, Anko and Asuma sum up his character and it's neither good nor bad: The man was okay at parties, and extremely skilled, but he was a ''terrible'' teacher. There is some judgement, but it doesn't bash the man, and it doesn't praise him overly much. In short, they're two people giving an honest opinion on a flawed man.
171* 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.
172* TakeThat:
173** In Chapter 2, during a private conversation with Asuma, Anko wonders how Kakashi would have dealt with her team. Both she and Asuma promptly list off exactly what the audience knows he did in canon, and why his teaching methods would be bad both for Team 7's ninja skills and psychological development:
174---> '''Anko:''' ''(referring to Team 7)'' Imagine Kakashi trying to deal with this bunch!\
175'''Asuma:''' He'd have shown up late, given them minimal instruction, wandered off to read his porn, ignored the girl and Uzumaki, and tried to pretend Sasuke was Uchiha Obito as a young genin.\
176'''Anko:''' And ruined him, alternating indulgence, attention, ignoring cries for help, and applying misunderstood discipline. He'd been such a prodigy in his own time he had damn near no idea how more normal kids develop. His family situation didn't help any too much, either. How many potentially good teams did he fail? Five? Six?
177** 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.
178* TakingYouWithMe: The Third Hokage does this [[spoiler:to Danzo]].
179* 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]]).
180* ThinksLikeARomanceNovel:
181** 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.
182** Also shown with Naruto (who never had a family or The Talk), Sasuke (whose only sex experience was old romance novels and porn looted from the remains of the Uchiha compound), and Sakura (who is still inexperienced enough to believe romance novels). Anko sets all of them straight.
183* TookALevelInBadass:
184** All of Team 7, and Anko also did to set a good example.
185** 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.
186* 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.
187* {{Troll}}:
188** 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. Once she realizes that Ino is ''actually'' getting disturbed, she apologizes.
189** During the [[spoiler: Oto War]], when Team Inferno has to send their leader to meet Asuma, they send someone different each time just to screw with him.
190* TryingNotToCry: When Shikamaru is ordered to fight Gaara without killing or seriously injuring him and is forbidden from forfeiting, his first thought is how he wished he was still young enough to break down crying. Understandable give that he's only thirteen and has (from his point of view) just been ordered to his death.
191* UnderestimatingBadassery: As mentioned elsewhere, the story begins with Kakashi completely dismissing his students as a threat, to the point of not even paying attention to them.
192* UndyingLoyalty:
193** The inhabitants of Sora-ku to the Uchiha.
194** 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.
195* UnstoppableRage: Between Naruto possibly dying and a team of genin being ordered to assassinate Sasuke, Sakura leads the way to the tower radiating so much rage that everyone and everything in the forest avoids Team 7.
196* 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.
197* VitriolicBestBuds: Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura all regularly rag on each other but will destroy anyone who messes with one of their own. Notably, Naruto's reaction to learning that the Mangekyo Sharingan requires killing your best friend is to tell Sasuke just how much he secretly hates him.
198* VoluntaryShapeshifting:
199** Naruto makes great use of this through his clones, such as having them transform into animals for stealth or muscle-bound thugs for intimidation.
200** Zabuza send a water clone off to distract the hunter-nin while he transforms himself into a snake to escape.
201* WaxOnWaxOff: Anko takes Sakura on shopping sprees to both motivate her, and train her in kunoichi infiltration/impersonation skills.
202* 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]].
203** 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.

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