History FanFic / ATeachersGlory

* AssholeVictim: Danzo and [[spoiler:all the others his age]].
* ArcWords: The phrase "strong enough to show mercy" pops up several times.

* TheBeastmaster: The inhabitants of Sora-ku with their ninja-cats.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Kakashi is an inept, apathetic, perverted, and lazy teacher who purposely failed his students so he could shove his responsibilities onto someone else, and not deal with their potential blood and the guilt on his hands. In the Prologue, what kicked off the story is that he explicitly instructed Team 7 to finish their mission with the willingness to kill, hoping they would inevitably fail and go back to the Academy. He ''severely'' underestimated Team 7's potential and drive to succeed no matter what, which led to him getting killed in the end.
** Continuing on from the above point, chapter 1 has Anko lecturing Team 7 on their deed of murdering their own sensei - while she praises the kids' skills, she informs them that killing is a sign of weakness and experiences, as they could have gained much more by going a much cleaner route in simply weakening Kakashi and taking him prisoner instead. Anko then declares that she's going to teach them the virtue of mercy by training them to become smarter and better ninjas.
** Chapter 3 takes Sasuke's canon motivations and methods in hunting down Itachi, and shows why they wouldn't work - pursuing someone alone while overworking his body without rest for the sake of getting stronger is considered "childish" and would instead erode his sanity. After Sasuke nearly [[HeroicBSOD despairs]] over learning that he'll [[CantCatchUp never be able to surpass Itachi's genius skills and intelligence]], Anko shows him a more pragmatic way in establishing a network of agents to track Itachi down and working with Team 7 to wear him down without unecessary bloodshed. Anko's suggestions prove that this way, Sasuke will finally have his desired revenge for the Uchiha massacre, gaining closure by [[DueToTheDead presenting his parent's graves the head of their traitorous older son and killer]].
** Sarutobi tries to cleverly maneuver Shikamaru into forfeiting his match against Gaara by ordering him not to kill or seriously injure the foreign genin and insisting he's not allowed to forfeit. Rather than disobey orders and forfeit anyway, Shikamaru despairs over being sent to his death and later trains himself into the ground in the hopes of surviving against Gaara.
** 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]].
** Naruto's Sexy Jutsu is great... if you don't look at it too close. In reality, it's an illusion where any naughty bits are covered by bits of steam, and the *ahem* covered bits are not accurate, since it was created by a ten year old boy who had never had The Talk or an opportunity to study female anatomy, and he gets lots of things wrong.
** Even though it was understandable how it happened, Gai still avoids Team Seven because they killed his best friend.

** The original encounter with Orochimaru in the Exams is this for [[UpToEleven 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.

** Played for humor: Sasuke promised Ino a date if she did an interrogation, and feels obligated to follow through with it.

* CompletedFic: And a sequel promised, but not yet arrived. Unfortunately [[AuthorExistenceFailure with the death of the author]] there is little chance of a sequel.

The fanfic [[CompletedFic has since been completed]]. However, the planned sequel is very unlikely to happen due to [[AuthorExistenceFailure Larry Huss's death from cancer in 2016]].

* RealityEnsues:
** Kakashi is an inept, apathetic, perverted, and lazy teacher who purposely failed his students so he could shove his responsibilities onto someone else, and not deal with their potential blood and the guilt on his hands. In the Prologue, what kicked off the story is that he explicitly instructed Team 7 to finish their mission with the willingness to kill, hoping they would inevitably fail and go back to the Academy. He ''severely'' underestimated Team 7's potential and drive to succeed no matter what, which led to him getting killed in the end.
*** Anko and Asuma give their own opinion on the man, 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. Just two people giving an honest opinion on a flawed man.
** Continuing on from the above point, chapter 1 has Anko lecturing Team 7 on their deed of murdering their own sensei - while she praises the kids' skills, she informs them that killing is a sign of weakness and experiences, as they could have gained much more by going a much cleaner route in simply weakening Kakashi and taking him prisoner instead. Anko then declares that she's going to teach them the virtue of mercy by training them to become smarter and better ninjas.
** Chapter 3 takes Sasuke's canon motivations and methods in hunting down Itachi, and showing why they wouldn't work - simply working alone while overworking and abusing his body for the sake of getting stronger is considered "childish" and would instead prove detrimental to his own sanity one way or another. After Sasuke nearly despaired over learning that he'll never be able to surpass Itachi's genius skills and intelligence, Anko showed him a much more pragmatic way of earning revenge by hiring and establishing a network of agents specifically to track down Itachi, while working with Team 7 to weaken his hated older brother. Anko's suggestions proved that this way, Sasuke would finally have his revenge on Itachi for the Uchiha massacre without unnecessary bloodshed, and also gain closure by [[DueToTheDead presenting his parent's graves the head of their traitorous older son and killer]].
** Sarutobi tries to cleverly maneuver Shikamaru into forfeiting his match against Gaara by ordering him not to kill or seriously injure the foreign genin and insisting he's not allowed to forfeit. Rather than disobey orders and forfeit anyway, Shikamaru despairs over being sent to his death and later trains himself into the ground in the hopes of surviving against Gaara.
** 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]].
** Naruto's Sexy Jutsu is great... if you don't look at it too close. In reality, it's an illusion where any naughty bits are covered by bits of steam, and the *ahem* covered bits are not accurate, since it was created by a ten year old boy who had never had The Talk or an opportunity to study female anatomy, and he gets lots of things wrong.
** Even though it was understandable how it happened, Gai still avoids Team Seven because they killed his best friend.

** 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, why, and why this would be bad for Team 7's ninja skills, as well as their mental and emotional development:

* GoneHorriblyRight: The story ''starts'' with Kakashi telling his team to come at him with the intent to kill. Unfortunately for him, they do. In his defense, he had no reason to suspect that he, a legendary ninja with his own moniker, who studied under the Fourth Hokage himself, has access to over a thousand jutsu, created a technique that can cut lightning bolts in half, and the Sharingan, wouldn't be able to curb stomp a bunch of kids who just graduated from the academy. While it's arrogant of him to think that, it's a justified sort of arrogance- for example, imagine the Kyuubi escaping Naruto and the only one to challenge him being series-start Konohamaru. The Kyuubi would rightfully think that it would basically obliterate its foe.

* 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 in bringing 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.

* 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.

* AdaptationalVillainy: Tazuna is a bit slimier than he was shown in canon.

** [[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]].
* AllIssuesArePoliticalIssues: A frequent factor in various decisions, including "random" selection of fighters in the preliminaries, is the political fallout.

* 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]].

** 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.]]

* 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]].

* 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]].

* BreakTheHaughty: Anko does this to Ino when the latter protests Anko's choice of disguise for her.
** Sarutobi breaks [[spoiler: Koharu]] before executing her.

* 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]].

* HeroAntagonist: Foreshadowed with the Third Hokage, [[spoiler: but ultimately averted]].

* 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.

* KilledOffForReal: Kakashi, [[spoiler: Kabuto, Gaara, and the elder council.]]
* KindheartedCatLover: Sasuke, after he takes in [[spoiler: Tamaki and the ninja-cats]].

* 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.

* NotSoStoic: Another effect of the discovery of [[spoiler: the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]] by Team 7.

* 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."

* 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.

* {{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. Once she realizes that Ino is ''actually'' getting disturbed, she apologizes.

* UndyingLoyalty: The inhabitants of Sora-ku to the Uchiha.

* 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.

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 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.

** Gaara laughs out loud at Temari’s loss to Sasuke.

** Very downplayed and in the end averted with the Third Hokage, explained as a combination of stress, age, and Danzo’s [[MoreThanMindControl sharingan illusion]].

* 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]].

* 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.

* 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.

** 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. When he meets the fox again in Wave, the prison-slash-sewer is much drier and slightly better lit.

* 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]].
* 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.

** All of Sunagakure suffers this after the invasion. It’s known in-universe as the Breaking of Suna.

** Orochimaru suffers this when Leaf and Sand’s counter-attack hits.

* 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.

* CoolTeacher: Anko, whenever it isn’t a day off.

* 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.

* CurbStompBattle: The fights that avert this are often as awesome as the ones that don’t. For instance:
** [[WeakButSkilled Sakura]] humiliating beats {{L|ightningBruiser}}ee 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.

* 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.

* 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.

** 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.

* EyeScream: Invoked on Danzo when he’s captured.

* FragileSpeedster: Haku combines this with his AnIcePerson BarrierWarrior abilities, but he’s still vulnerable to direct combat.

* 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).

* HeroicBSOD: Team 7’s discovery of [[spoiler: the truth of the Uchiha Massacre]] causes this in them.

* HonorBeforeReason: Kin refuses to wear her dead teammates’ clothes despite having been stripped naked and left alone in the Forest of Death.

** 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.

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Team bonding happens when they kill a tiger they’re hunting this way.

* 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.
* 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.

--> “I must be a big girl now,” Ino thought, “I’ve just sentenced a man to death.”

* 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.

* NailedToTheWagon: Downplayed, but Anko’s had to cut down her alcohol intake a lot since she took up the team.

* OhMyGods: Sakura swears “Gods and Demons” at a few points.

* PowerPerversionPotential: Inverted with the Sexy Jutsu. It’s designed to be perverse, and gets refined into less perverse versions with different effects.

** Gato thinks he’s this.

* ProperlyParanoid: It’s not paranoid if people really are out to get you, as Naruto’s use of transformed clones shows.

** 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]].

* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Team 7’s reaction to Orochimaru, and the second part of the chunin exams in general.

* 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.

** 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, why, and why this would be bad for Team 7's ninja skills, as well as their mental and emotional development

* 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.

** 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.

* 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.
* [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: Sakura sees Sasuke like this when they go visit the Uchiha retainers at Sora-ku.

* 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.

** 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.

* DefeatByModesty: Inverted and Averted. Anko trains her kids not to suffer this, and also to strip naked any dangerous prisoners they capture.

* {{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.

* 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.

** 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.

** Continuing on from the above point, chapter 1 has Anko lecturing Team 7 on their deed of murdering their own sense - while she praises the kids' skills, she informs them that killing is a sign of weakness and experiences, as they could have gained much more by going a much cleaner route in simply weakening Kakashi and taking him prisoner instead. Anko then declares that she's going to teach them the virtue of mercy by training them to become smarter and better ninjas.

* 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.

* 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.]]

* 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.
* DeathEqualsRedemption: Averted with [[spoiler: Gaara]]. He dies alone and afraid, and only one or two people miss him afterwards.

* 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.

* 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.

* PragmaticVillainy: Gato thinks he’s this. Also, Naruto and Sasuke discuss how stupid [[spoiler: the Uchiha Massacre]] was based on this.

* 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]].
* 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.

* ShipTease: Anko and [[spoiler: Zabuza]].

* 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.

--> 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.”

* ActionPet: All of the ninja animals, notably Sasuke’s ninja cats.

** 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.

* 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]].

* 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.

** [[BrilliantButLazy Shikamaru]] trains himself into the ground to both potentially survive against Gaara and prevent Choji form facing him.

** 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.

** This whole story occurs because Kakashi ''seriously'' underestimated 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]]".

* CompletedFic: And a sequel promised, but not yet arrived. Unfortunately with the death of the author their is little chance of a seqel.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Larry passed away in January of 2016, meaning that the planned sequel to this story will never see the light of day.

* CompletedFic: And a sequel promised, but not yet arrived.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Kakashi, Kabuto, Gaara, and the elder council.]]