[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5490372/1/Little-Uzumaki Little Uzumaki]] is a ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fanfic by Creator/{{Lucillia}}. It is an AU set after the Wave Arc where Kakashi takes Team 7 to a rest stop after running out of water through a shortcut, realizing too late it was the spring he was told to never go to. It's Konoha's infamous [[FountainOfYouth Fountain]] [[BlessedWithSuck of Youth]], which turns Team 7 into two year olds. Team 7 are now toddlers and have to grow up all over again! HilarityEnsues as Team 7 has to be taken in by their respective guardians and still have to take the Chunin Exam.

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!!General Tropes:

* AbhorrentAdmirer: While not ugly, Kushina was a very aggressive one to Orochimaru. He still has nightmares and tries to repress all his memories of her.
* AbusiveParents: Most of the Hyuuga do ''not'' make good caretakers for Sasuke. Hiashi in particular takes the attitude of letting the boy 'cry himself out', noting that if he refuses to eat, he'll either give in once he's too hungry to ignore his body's needs any longer or have to be taken to the hospital and fed intravenously.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Inverted by [[spoiler:Obito - he's not evil at all, just an amnesiac and stupid]].
* AllLovingHero: Even as a toddler, Naruto still has it.
* AmnesiacsAreInnocent: Other!Tobi[[spoiler:/Obito]] hasn't recovered his memory, so is currently a harmless, but destructive, idiot.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Gaara wanted to spare Iruka, Naruto and Teuchi from the invasion because they were the only people to treat him as a person.
** Sasuke decides to ''humiliate'' Neji to defend Hinata's honor. Hinata was the only one nice to him without expecting anything from him in return.
* BecomingTheMask: Sasuke sometimes acts like the two-year old he currently is, much to his horror.
* BerserkButton:
** Iruka's is putting Naruto in danger.
** Hurting Hinata for Sasuke.
** Do NOT mess with Naruto's cute little froggy backpack.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Iruka was thought to be too gentle for the shinobi lifestyle. The thought quickly died when [[PapaWolf Naruto's in danger]].
* BlessedWithSuck: The Fountain of Youth will make you young, but it will also regress you mentally to that very age. While all your memories and progress before that age disappears and kills you in a sense. Noted to be why Konoha doesn't bother to keep it a secret from foreign-nin.
** [[spoiler:The Sharingan allows the Uchiha to keep their memories and personality, and are able to perform jutsu but they're physically children.]]
* BoringButPractical: The reason for [[spoiler:Iruka]] becoming Hokage. While he is not the most impressive ninja in the village, he is very good at paperwork and dealing with people. He became extremely feared by Konoha shinobi after he curb stomped Kakashi, Ibuki and Anko and [[GotVolunteered he was the closest]].
* BreakTheHaughty: Danzo - after he gives Naruto to Kisame, [[spoiler:Godaime [[PapaWolf Iruka]] beats him up and arrests him, uncovering and disbanding ROOT in the process]].
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Sakura and Naruto are this. Sasuke is not. [[spoiler:Neither is Itachi, but he successfully pretends to be innocent, unlike his brother.]]
* CoolClearWater: Subverted as the water from the Fountain of Youth is cool, clear and drinkable, but cursed and bad to drink for obvious reasons.
* CollectiveIdentity: Madara and Tobi are seperate people who have the same persona. Madara is ObfuscatingStupidity, while Tobi is genuinely stupid.
* CosmicPlaything: Given Sakura's been deaged four times already (consistently ignoring the sign that says to ''not'' drink from the FountainOfYouth), Danzo has begun to seriously wonder whether she's under some kind of curse.
* CreepyChild: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Sasuke to the Hyuuga Clan to leave him alone with [[ParentalSubstitute Hinata]].
** Also Invoked by Team 10 - they use Naruto to have other teams give up their scrolls to get away from him.
*** Then Sasuke turns it up a notch after Neji beats up Hinata, to the point that the other Hyuuga thinks he's demonically possessed.
* CruelToBeKind: Downplayed, as Ino had to flick Sakura on the head until she cried and said she quit.
* CutenessProximity: Naruto is ''adorable'' as a toddler. Women at the market surrounded him and Iruka, cooing about how cute he was until they found out he's Naruto. Itachi mentally notes that this explains why he was nearly adopted fifteen different times the first time round, with the prospective parents only backing out after realizing he was the jinchuuriki. Kunoichi at the Chunin Exam swarm him as well.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Orochimaru dies with the help of four Hokages.]]
* DeathIsCheap: Lampshaded by Gai when [[spoiler:Tobi goes to Konoha to save Kisame and accidently outs himself as Obito to Kakashi]]:
--->Gai: [[spoiler:What is it with Kakashi's teammates coming back from the dead?]]
* DefrostingTheIceQueen: Naruto and Iruka's kindness mellows out Gaara, to the point that Temari is willing to help Gaara save them.
* DeProgram: Iruka's program for former ROOT subjects/agents to bring them back to society.
* TheDiaperChange: Minato thought it would be funny to delegate diaper duty to ''Danzo.'' Then Danzo handed Naruto to Kisame.
-->Kisame: "You're not going to believe this but, a one-eyed cripple handed him to me and demanded I change his diaper."
* DidntThinkThisThrough: Orochimaru failed to consider the existence of [[spoiler:Minato's Hiraishin technique]], or the impact that could have upon his plans.
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Kushina Uzumaki was a zealous admirer of Orochimaru, and she once dragged him in a bush and nearly forced herself on him. Everyone else thought Orochimaru was taking advantage of her.
* TheDreaded: Iruka is feared by Konoha, and [[PapaWolf for good reason]] after he [[CurbStompBattle curb stomps]] Kakashi, Anko and Ibuki in a fit of drunken rage. Solidified when he [[spoiler:fights against Minato and Kisame and wins. Proving that he became Hokage for a reason]].
* DrowningMySorrows: Kakashi takes to drinking after Team 7 is deaged.
* EldritchLocation: {{Downplayed}} with the Fountain; it can't be contained or fenced off, constantly shifting locations around Konoha. It retains a warning sign that reads '''CAUTION!: PUBERTY!''', but that does little good when others [[FailedASpotCheck fail to notice it in time]] or dismiss its warning.
* EnfantTerrible: Naruto activates the Kyuubi when somebody takes something that belongs to him.
** Also Sasuke, as well as [[spoiler:de-aged Itachi & Madara]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Kisame draws the line at killing defenseless, untrained children; this creates a huge problem for him when he [[spoiler:kidnaps Naruto and has to deliver him to the Akatsuki]].
* ExactWords: Team 7 passed the First Exam because they followed the rules: they weren't caught cheating because they can't read or write, and they didn't quit because they didn't know what was going on.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Kakashi tells Gai and Asuma that Team 7 is participating in the Chunin Exams, despite being toddlers since they probably wouldn't get far. Gai points out they could pass anyway because Team 7 still technically followed the rules.
* [[FearlessInfant Fearless Toddler]]:
** Naruto happily approaches Gaara and his siblings, unintentionally charming him in the process.
** He also wasn't scared when he was in the Forest of Death or kidnapped by Kisame and Itachi. The latter is justified by them treating Naruto really well, and Naruto only becomes upset when he's away from Iruka too long.
* FlayingAlive: [[spoiler:Once Iruka finds about ROOT after he arrests Danzo for Naruto's kidnapping, he uses his Hokage powers to order Danzo flayed. He then clears his schedule so he could do it himself.]]
* ForWantOfANail: Surprisingly enough, ''yes''.
** Sakura was actually a contemporary of the Sannin and had run into the Fountain of Youth ''three times''.
** Just the fact that a FountainOfYouth exists.
** Orochimaru's summoning of the three prior Hokages goes off without a hitch because Naruto pees on Sarutobi's leg, distracting him at a crucial moment. This turns out to go poorly for Orochimaru because Minato immediately breaks free thanks to his Hiraishin and then turns the other two Hokages against him.
** Oh, and [[spoiler:Obito isn't evil.]]
* FountainOfYouth
* FourIsDeath: It's mentioned that one Hidden Village always has rotten luck with Team 4.
* FridgeHorror: [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] when [[spoiler: Godaime]] Iruka met the ROOT [[spoiler: after disposing of Danzo]]. He realized that several had been his classmates or students and that if he didn't bring so much attention to himself, he might have also been abducted into ROOT.
* HappilyAdopted: Naruto by Iruka.
* HanlonsRazor: Other!Tobi to Pein. Pein thought Other!Tobi was actively destructive and malicious, but Other!Tobi really ''is'' that stupid and clumsy. [[PlayedForLaughs It gets worse]] when he tries to be evil.
* HasAType: Sakura has a platonic variant: Sakura's best friend has always been a blonde: Tsunade, two other people, Ino, and now Naruto.
* HeirClubForMen: Deconstructed - Hiashi doesn't mind Hinata succeeding, but the Clan Elders are another matter entirely.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Orochimaru resurrects the three late Hokage, [[spoiler:only for Minato to turn the tides and turn all three against him, teaming up with Hiruzen to take him down]].
* ImTakingHerHomeWithMe: Gaara hoped to take Naruto home with him to Suna if the invasion succeeded.
* {{Irony}}: After they're de-aged, Sakura ''hates'' Sasuke because he's mean to her (not that he cares). Meanwhile, she adores Naruto because he's a sweetheart towards her.
* IWantGrandkids: Sort of. Sakura's father is starting to despair of EVER seeing grandchildren after the ''fourth'' time she gets de-aged. After the third time he told her then-boyfriend Hyuuga Akira that he should have told him to knock Sakura up rather than [[PapaWolf warning him away]].
* InnocentInaccurate: Sakura and Naruto mistaken the First Phase of the Chunin Exam for being "Quiet Drawing Time".
* KeepAway: Jiraiya recalls Sakura and Tsunade playing this game with him as the ball with Orochimaru when she was her original age
* KickTheDog:
** The first time Naruto received a birthday present at the orphanage, Ibuki was called in to confiscate it, as nobody could believe that he'd legitimately been given something nice. Naruto fought in vain to be allowed to keep the toy, leaving [[ScarsAreForever scars on Ibuki's forearms]]; he pettily got his revenge over the following years by ensuring that Naruto didn't get any more presents aside from those few that were handed directly to him.
** Literal with Other!Tobi as kicking puppies is the safest evil thing he could do, but ''that'' has a 50/50 chance of [[GoneHorriblyWrong going horribly wrong]].
** Ino unfortunately had to do this to Sakura to force her to quit the Chunnin Exam
* KickTheSonOfABitch: Iruka endorses this trope when he goes after Kakashi, Ibuki and Anko for not watching Team 7, which resulted in Sasuke bullying his toddler teammates into going to the Forest of Death.
** [[spoiler:After finding out about ROOT, Iruka literally skins Danzo alive.]]
** Sasuke to Neji in the Chunin Exam.
* KickedUpstairs: [[spoiler:Hiruzen tries to give the position to the revived Hokages, but they all refused. Iruka get promoted to Hokage because no else wanted it, he is feared by every one, he can tolerate paperwork... and he was nearby.]]
* TheKlutz: Other!Tobi to destructive levels.
* LectureAsExposition: Shikamaru gives one about why Konoha doesn't make a big deal of the Fountain of Youth.
* LikeFatherLikeSon:
** Sasuke's TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior reminds Orochimaru of Fugaku, whom he used to babysit and recalls acting like a 'mini-adult'.
** While Naruto physically takes after his father, his vibrant and troublemaking personality reminds all who knew her of his mother, Kushina.
* LossOfIdentity: Being deaged by the Fountain causes the victim to lose all of their memories, resetting them back to whatever state they were in the first time round.
* LooseLips: Iruka accidentally reveals the identity of Naruto's mother to GossipyHens that pissed him off. They start rumors about who Naruto's father is.
* LuckySeven: Inverted, Team 7 is cursed and has always ended in bizarre ways. One was electocued in a game of ding-dong-ditch, one drowned a vat of beer, one has crushed to death in a brothel and so on...
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: While he was spared a full LossOfIdentity, Sasuke still fears that his mind has been influenced by the Fountain enough to alter his behavior, as he finds himself reacting to things in childish ways that he didn't ''intend'' to act.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Other!Tobi. Of course, he ''is'' [[spoiler:an amnesiac [[IdiotHero Obito]]]].
* MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot: When diaper duty is passed off to Danzo, he gets out of it by giving Naruto to [[spoiler:Kisame, who takes the opportunity to kidnap him]]. While investigating this, Iruka discovers [[spoiler:the existence of ROOT]].
* MostWritersAreAdults: With the exception of Sasuke, when the narrative switches to Naruto or Sakura, they have a two-year old perspective.
* MundaneLuxury: Konoha as a whole to Gaara, flowers to Temari, tomatoes to Sasuke.
* MyBiologicalClockIsTicking: A woman asked Gai to sire her children, citing this as her main reason. While he initially turned her down, Gai reconsiders while watching Sakura play. Neji, for his part, is just horrified by the idea that somebody wants his teacher to reproduce.
* NotHyperbole: Iruka says he's going to flay Danzo alive after he hears about [[spoiler:the countless abuses done by ROOT]]. He then clears his schedule to allow him that.
* OhCrap:
** Madara, when he's [[spoiler:de-aged to a seven-year-old by the Fountain]].
** Kakashi, Ibiki and Anko when they invoke [[PapaWolf Iruka's]] wrath... scratch that, ''everyone'' who knows Iruka's reputation knows that when he's pissed, the best thing to do is to bury your head in the sand and hope he doesn't notice you or think you hurt/upset Naruto.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Sakura is technically 50 years old, but keeps deaging due to having four accidents with the Fountain of Youth.
* PapaWolf: Iruka to Naruto. Although it's PlayedForLaughs, to the point that people run in terror avoid Iruka's wrath for putting Naruto in danger.
** Inverted with Sasuke, as Hinata became his mother figure. So when Neji maimed her, Sasuke humiliates him to defend her honor.
* ParanoiaGambit: Sasuke goes to Neji's room while Neji is sleeping and stares at him in order to make Neji paranoid. Sasuke planned to stop creeping out Neji in order to put him in a false sense of security in order to kill Neji in his sleep for maiming Hinata in the Chunnin Exam. Sasuke fails [[spoiler:as Itachi intervenes and the Hyuuga become convinced that Sasuke's possessed]].
* PlotAllergy: Nearly half of the Hyuuga Clan are allergic to tomatoes; this poses a problem for Sasuke, who can't enjoy his favorite food at the Hyuuga Compound as a result.
* PokeThePoodle: Other!Tobi's attempts at being evil.
* PottyEmergency: "Naruto! Stop peeing in the corner!"
** When Orochimaru makes the barrier to trap himself and Hiruzen inside, Naruto is still attached to his leg and repiles:
--->Naruto: Hafta potty.
* ProtectedByAChild: Kisame is protected from Iruka's wrath by Naruto... who mistakes him for a fish.
* PyrrhicVictory: Neji won in the fight against Hinata, but none of the Branch House wants to associate with him because he ruthlessly beat up the [[WhiteSheep the nice Main House heir]].
* RaiseHimRightThisTime:
** Played straight by Iruka, who bittersweetly reflects that the Naruto he knew is gone, but he could now raise him to avoid the problems he's faced before.
** Subverted with Sakura, since it's the ''fourth'' time she has been deaged. Her parents are genuinely stressed out by the repeated scenario and wondering whether they'll even ''survive'' long enough to see grandkids.
** Averted with Sasuke, because he is still the same person despite the situation.
* RetiredBadass: Hiruzen, who actually gets to ''enjoy'' his retirement.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Iruka goes on an alcohol-fueled spree, attacking Kakashi, Ibiki and Anko for letting Naruto go to the Forest of Death.
* ScyllaAndCharybdis:
** Neji's fight with Sasuke is this because he can't showcase his skills without beating a toddler and looking like a jerk. If he loses, he looks pathetic.
** [[spoiler:Kisame either becomes Naruto's babysitter or faces execution.]]
* ShortCutsMakeLongDelays: the founding of the story, if Kakashi didn't try to take a shortcut to get back to Konoha faster, the plot wouldn't have happened.
* ShoutOut: To ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'':
--->Ino: Are you pondering what I'm pondering?\\
Chouji: We use Naruto to try take over the world?\\
Ino: What?!
** To her other work, ''FanFic/FirstTrySeries'', as Iruka mentions Hibachi, a bully who nearly got Naruto killed and a Shimura who lead a Team 7 who died in a game of ding-dong-ditch.
* SpannerInTheWorks: Naruto completely screws over Orochimaru's invasion and ROOT by being deaged and present to the events.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Madara]], which was initially due to the fic being written ''before'' [[spoiler:we learned who Tobi is]], but still fits because of [[spoiler:the Fountain of Youth.]]
* SpoiledBrat: Sasuke invokes this around the Hyuuga because he hates them and doesn't want to seem older than he should be.
* StalkerShrine: Kushina had one dedicated to Orochimaru. It creeped out Minato when he moved in with her.
* StarCrossedLovers: Before Sakura drank from the fountain for the third time, she was dating Hyuuga Akira. Her parents had tried to [[LoveObstructingParents warn him away]]; after learning what happened, her father remarks that he would've suggested he get her pregant instead.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Sasuke fears that if people learned his mind wasn't completely erased by the fountain, he would be stolen away and experimented upon to try and learn ''how''.
* [[UncannyValleyGirl Uncanny Valley Child]]: While [[CreepyChild not unusual]] considering what [[spoiler:Itachi was like a child]], Neji notes that something seems off about him.
* UndeadTaxExemption: Justified as with [[spoiler:Obito as it is common with many presumed dead ninja to later be discovered alive. Especially in times of war or conflict]].
* VillainousBreakdown: Gaara when he learns that Naruto is in danger during the Invasion.
* WimpFight: Ino's fight with a two-year Sakura in the chunnin exam was this. As Ino flicked Sakura's head until she quitted.
* WouldntHurtAChild: Most ninja are this and look down on Neji on having to fight Sasuke.
** [[spoiler:Kisame]] hestitates at turning in Naruto to Madara since he was expecting to capture and kill a trained Genin, not a defenseless two-year old.
* YouAreGrounded: Instead of punishing Neji with the Caged Bird Seal for maiming Hinata, Hiashi grounds him and spanked him like a spoiled child.

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