History Fanfic / Blind

* AllThereInTheManual: the "extras" chapter includes in-depth explanations for the symbolism.

* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Itachi's use of Amaterasu turns his confrontation with Sasuke into this.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Justified in the case of Sasuke, as his ([[EyeScream horr]][[ColdBloodedTorture ific]]) injuries were healed so as to not leave scars.
** simultaneously justified and partially averted with [[spoiler:Itachi]]; the HealingFactor makes it not scar, although it doesn't restore [[spoiler:his vision or his fingers]], and years later the person is noted to be quite attractive regardless
* BetaCouple: Naruto and Hinata.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Kanaye, Sakura's older brother.

* BlindfoldedVision: Sasuke can pull this off with [[spoiler:his chakra senses]].

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Sasuke and Sakura, at first.
* CareerEndingInjury:
** Denied by Sasuke, who works to function as a ninja despite losing his sight.
** Invoked for [[spoiler:Itachi]].

* CharacterDevelopment: Oh so, so very much for Sasuke; Sakura too, to a lesser extent.
* ChekhovsGun: Partial genjutsu; Sasuke's father's kunai.

* DeathSeeker: Itachi, subconsciously.

* EyeScream: only two instances, but they are both plot-vital and ''seriously'' cringe-inducing
* FinalBossPreview: the mid-story encounter with Itachi could be seen as this
* {{Fingore}}: can't form seals if you don't have any fingers on one hand, after all
* FirstSnow: almost kills Nariko
* FlashbackNightmare: Sasuke suffers regularly from these

* FriendOrIdolDecision: invoked in [[spoiler:the [[LotusEaterMachine "interview"]] for the Chuunin Exam]]
* FriendsWithBenefits: Konan and Deidara; she and Itachi are just "benefits"

* GirlsLoveChocolate: Ino brings chocolate bars to cheer Sakura up

%%* GoodAllAlong ((near the end))
* GratuitousJapanese: it gets better after a few chapters though
* GroinAttack: Sakura to a Sound ninja
--> "You forgot that girls fight dirty."

* HandicappedBadass: Sasuke, full stop. [[spoiler:Itachi]] in the sequel.

* HealingFactor: the jinchuuriki, as in canon; this gets invoked to save a character's life
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Nariko]] saves [[spoiler:Itachi]] by [[spoiler: giving him her bijuu, knowing that it will kill her]]
* HidingTheHandicap: very rarely done by Sasuke, when he [[spoiler: encounters a bartender who knew him when he was still with Orochimaru]]
* HollywoodHealing: averted; [[HealingHands medical jutsu]] is not a simple cure-all
* HopeIsScary: why Sasuke doesn't want to think about his sight coming back, and Sakura doesn't want to imagine that he might love her
* HowManyFingers: Kanaye does this after Sasuke explains [[spoiler:how his chakra sense works]]; of course, the last corrrect answer is "[[FlippingTheBird one]]"
* IAmNotLeftHanded: [[spoiler:sorry Itachi, Sasuke isn't actually blind any more]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Sasuke and Sakura both experience this, even if not in so many words
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Sasuke gets this from both Naruto and Kanaye
* ImprobableAge: downplayed; at 17, Sakura is the youngest medic to graduate since the program started

* IronicEcho: "Then go ahead and hate me, go ahead and despise me."
* {{Irony}}: lots of it, most explained in the "extras" chapter
* JustToyingWithThem: Sasuke vs Konohamaru in [[spoiler:the chuunin exam tournament]], because he wanted to show everyone what he was capable of
%% TheKlutz: (starts 54)
* LapPillow: the position they're in for Sasuke's healing sessions
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Sasuke's mind was wiped of any "important" details about Sound before being left for dead
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
--> '''Sakura''': Naruto, please. If this was a novel, I can see almost everything that comes out of your mouth ending in a question mark followed by an exclamation mark.
* LeftForDead: a variant, as Orochimaru wasn't actually ''trying'' to kill Sasuke, he just didn't care whether he lived or died
* LifeOrLimbDecision: if you count "eyes" as a limb and GrandTheftMe as "death"
* LoveEpiphany: it takes a ''long'' time for Sasuke to realize he loves Sakura, but it finally happens [[spoiler:at her birthday party]]
%% * LoveInformant ((early, about Hinata))

* MillionToOneChance: four percent, actually. [[spoiler:It happens.]]
* MiseryPoker: Sakura does this to herself, trying to put things into "perspective", after hearing that [[spoiler:her father is mission in action]]

* MoodWhiplash: on the journey back from [[spoiler:Kumogakure]], nice light team bonding; then all of a sudden Itachi
* MoralityPet: Nariko eventually becomes this to Itachi
* MovingTheGoalposts: when Sakura will move out of Sasuke's house
* NeverSayDie: played with: after a certain point, Sasuke resolves to "eliminate" Itachi; [[spoiler:he has a [[EyeScream different fate]] in mind for his brother, although we don't find out until later.]]
* TheNicknamer: Konan, and Kanaye
* NightmareSequence: in a departure from the [[FlashbackNightmare standard fare]], in chapter 35 we get to see what happens when Sasuke's growing care for Sakura combines with his... other issues
%% * NoMedicationForMe: averted; ((does she stay on it?))
* NoNameGiven: Sakura's mother
* NoPeriodsPeriod: averted; aside from [[NoSocialSkills Sai]] making a comment about somebody's menstrual cycle, Sasuke knows what brand of feminine hygiene products Sakura prefers
%%* ObfuscatingDisability ((near end))
* ObliviousToLove: Sasuke doesn't even register his ''own'' attraction to Sakura
* OfficialCouple: Sasuke and Sakura

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: it's a bad sign any time Naruto starts thinking about what he's saying
* OriginalCharacter: Sakura's family; Nariko the six-tails jinchuuriki.
* OutdoorBathPeeping: Sasuke accidentally walks in on Sakura bathing in a river; thankfully they're both reasonable about it, and he couldn't see her anyways
* TheParalyzer: lightning chakra is useful for this, and [[spoiler:immobilizes Itachi while he's being "dealt with"]]
* PersonalEffectsReveal: a variation in that Itachi isn't dead, but still won't be coming back to his former home; nothing in any of his belongings suggests the person who killed his entire clan
* PowerCopying: Subverted; when copying fighting styles, Sasuke had also copied the users' mistakes, and has to unlearn them to improve
* PowerStrainBlackout: if Sakura overexerts herself from healing when she's already tired
* RealMenHateSugar: Sasuke only hates sweet things because they remind him of relatives who died in the massacre
* RestrainedRevenge: [[spoiler:Sasuke [[CruelMercy doesn't kill]] Itachi]]

* RuleOfSymbolism: oh so much! To say that the last chapter is wholly dedicated to explaining the symbolism used throughout the story.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: only to be expected with [[spoiler:the Chuunin Exam]]

* SensorCharacter: Sasuke develops into this
* SharingABody: how the author writes Tobi; Uchiha Madara's soul was attached to that brain-damaged body but can't always control it because of the damage

* ShoutOut: the Raikage's introduction, to that of King Bradley from Manga/FullmetalAlchemist
* SingleTargetSexuality: Sakura for Sasuke

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Everybody who died in canon after the divergence point of the story, [[spoiler:including Itachi]].
* StepfordSmiler: Sakura when depressed
* SurvivalMantra: "kai" for Sasuke, while trying to escape genjutsu
* TakeOffYourClothes: Sakura to Sasuke, when they're both soaked and cold after a battle
* TapOnTheHead: literally; works well if it's used to apply genjutsu directly to the brain

* ThrowingOffTheDisability: averted. [[spoiler:Sasuke's sight recovers gradually, and only after intense effort on Sakura's part]]
* TitleDrop: common with chapter titles
* TokenGoodTeammate: Nariko really does not belong with the Akatsuki

* VitriolicBestBuds: Sakura and Ino

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: preemptively denied by Sasuke
--> It was then that he swore that even when he was the legal age to be drinking, he would never do so, because [[LaserGuidedAmnesia losing your memory]] ''against'' your will was bad enough.
* WhatDoesSheSeeInHim: why would a talented medic care for someone who betrayed the village?
* WildChild: Nariko; she had essentially no human interaction from the time the bijuu was put in her as a little girl, to when Itachi "rescued" her

* YourDaysAreNumbered: Nariko doesn't know it yet, but she's going to die once her body is strong enough

** DisabledLoveInterest: Of course Sasuke.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Nariko.

* OverprotectiveDad: Sakura's father

* InnocentCohabitation: Sakura moves in with Sasuke to help his rehabilitation

* OriginalCharacter: Sakura's family; Nariko the [[{{Jossed}} six-tails jinchuuriki]]

* OutdatedByCanon: given the date of writing, it was inevitable; the most notable (and spoiler-free) include the gender and identity of the six- and seven-tails jinchuuriki

* SparedByTheAdaptation: pretty much everybody who died in canon after the divergence point of the story, [[spoiler:including Itachi]]

* IllGirl: Nariko's body is weak due to earlier neglect; ironically enough this saves her life, as the bijuu can't be safely extracted (killing her) until she's healthy

* [[ManChild Womanchild]]: Nariko is 16 or 17, but acts like she's 8 because of no human interaction since then

* RealityEnsues: when copying fighting styles, Sasuke had also copied the users' mistakes, and has to unlearn them to improve

* OutdatedByCanon: given the date of writing, it was inevitable; the most notable (and spoiler-free) include the gender and identity of the six- and seven-tails jinchuuriki

* OriginalCharacter: Sakura's family; Nariko the six-tails jinchuuriki.

* OriginalCharacter: Sakura's family; Nariko the [[{{Jossed}} six-tails jinchuuriki]]

* {{Jossed}}: given the date of writing, it was inevitable; the most notable (and spoiler-free) include the gender and identity of the six- and seven-tails jinchuuriki

* UnfamiliarCeiling: Aside from that Sasuke can't see the ceiling (because he's blind), played straight with his awakening in Konoha

%%* ReverseMole ((near the end))

* BadDreams: Triggered by being back in the Uchiha manor.

Set up in an alternate continuity; Sasuke decides to take matters into his own hands before Orochimaru takes his body completely. Left to dead close to the Country of Fire he´s returned to Konoha and the people he tried to cut out of his life in his search for power. During this time he has to learn once more how to manage himself in the world, and also the importance of bonds.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3371184/1/Blind Blind]] is a [[FanficRecs/{{Naruto}} recommended]] Manga/{{Naruto}} fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/563067/ObsidianSickle ObsidianSickle]].

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!! List of tropes appearing in Blind

* UnfamiliarCeiling: aside from that Sasuke can't see the ceiling ([[CaptainObvious because he's blind]]), played straight with his awakening in Konoha

A sequel, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6433132/1/Fidelis Fidelis]], has been posted, last updated 2011 with only two chapters; a good authority says that the third chapter had been written but ended on a cliffhanger, and the author was unable to write the next chapter, so decided to be merciful.

* AGlitchInTheMatrix: Why is [[spoiler:Itachi]] lacking a chakra signature?

* AlmightyJanitor: Sasuke: last of the Uchiha, former S-ranked criminal; still technically a genin [[spoiler:until the Chuunin Exam]]
* AmnesiaDanger: Sasuke still has the skills, but because of the mind wipe he doesn't know that [[spoiler: the village the team rested at is one of Oto's strongholds, and the townspeople recognize him from back then]]

* AttackReflector: the Chakra Oscillation Project reverses someone's chakra, so their own attacks are used against them
* BadDreams: triggered by being back in the Uchiha manor
* BattleAmongstTheFlames: Itachi's use of Amaterasu turns his confrontation with Sasuke into this
* BearerOfBadNews: Kakashi tells Sakura that [[spoiler:her father is MIA]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: justified in the case of Sasuke, as his ([[EyeScream horr]][[ColdBloodedTorture ific]]) injuries were healed so as to not leave scars

* BetaCouple: Naruto and Hinata
* BigBrotherInstinct: Kanaye, Sakura's older brother
%% BigDamnKiss ((67, just when he's about to leave)) ((71, rejoin))
* BlindfoldedVision: Sasuke can pull this off with [[spoiler:his chakra senses]]
* BookEnds:
** Itachi's first and last on-screen appearances are both [[spoiler:in Nariko's hometown]]
** A character being blinded with a kunai both begins and ends the plot

* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Sasuke and Sakura, at first

** denied by Sasuke, who works to function as a ninja despite losing his sight
** invoked for [[spoiler:Itachi]]
* CatsAreMagic: the two-tailed cat Nekomata has power over the dead, which even for the setting is rather supernatural
* CelibateHero: Sasuke; despite his goal to restore his clan, he felt he couldn't while Itachi was still around to threaten any family he started
* CharacterDevelopment: oh so, so very much for Sasuke; Sakura too, to a lesser extent
* ChekhovsGun: partial genjutsu; Sasuke's father's kunai

** the abnormally-large chakra signature. [[spoiler:She's Sasuke's teammate for the Chuunin Exam.]]
** the drunk Itachi killed when he went to retrieve the six-tails jinchuuriki. [[spoiler:He's Nariko's biological father.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: Sasuke training to break out of genjutsu; of course, that was the whole point of it

* TheCoatsAreOff: before their fight, Sasuke takes off his raincoat and Itachi takes off his Akatsuki cloak

* CruelMercy: the aptly-given title of chapter [[spoiler:sixty-nine]]

* DeadPersonConversation: Sasuke with [[spoiler:his mother]], courtesy of [[spoiler:Nekomata]]

* DeathSeeker: Itachi, subconsciously
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Nariko keeps getting into "accidents", to keep her body weak, after finding out what will happen to her once she's stronger
* DisabilitySuperpower: downplayed and justified with [[spoiler:Sasuke's chakra sense]]
* DisabilityImmunity: being blinded will protect you from:
** Orochimaru wanting to steal your body; invoked by Sasuke in the first chapter
** the effects of most genjutsu, including the [[HypnoticEyes Mangekyo Sharingan]]
** [[spoiler: it also removes the control of Madara's Sharingan]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Nariko
* {{Doorstopper}}: at over 500,000 words and 72 chapters (plus extras)

* EyeColorChange: [[spoiler:after being blinded, Itachi's turn pale brown, the colour of Nariko's eyes]]

* GroupHug: Sakura's family ([[AndZoidberg and Naruto]]) when [[spoiler:her father returns]]

* WomanChild: Nariko is 16 or 17, but acts like she's 8 because of no human interaction since then

Set up in an alternate continuity. Sasuke decides to take matters into his own hands before Orochimaru takes his body completely. Left to dead close to the Country of Fire he´s returned to Konoha and the people he tried to cut out of his life in his search of power. Blind hilarity ensues.

%%* AfterActionPatchUp:

* AmnesiaDanger: Sasuke still has the skills, but because of the mind wipe he doesn't know that [[spoiler: The village the team rested at is one of Oto's strongholds, and the townspeople recognize him from back then]]

%%? DisabledLoveInterest

* RuleOfSymbolism: oh so much!

* AGlitchInTheMatrix: why is [[spoiler:Itachi]] lacking a chakra signature?
* AdaptationalVillainy: Pain is kind of a dick in this story

* AllThereInTheManual: the "extras" chapter includes in-depth explanations for the symbolism

* AmnesiaDanger: Sasuke still has the skills, but because of the mind wipe he doesn't know that [[spoiler: the village the team rested at is one of Oto's strongholds, and the townspeople recognize him from back then]]

* ChekhovsGunman: the abnormally-large chakra signature. [[spoiler:She's Sasuke's teammate for the Chuunin Exam.]]

%%* SheIsAllGrownUp: ((ch 25, 33))

%%DeathSeeker

%%** (at end)

%%* EyeColorChange ((near the end))

%%* IronicEcho ((near the end))
%%* {{Irony}}: lots of it, most explained in the "extras" chapter