Fanfic / Obito-Sensei

During the fateful mission to the Kannabi Bridge, Obito is too slow, and Kakashi ends up paying the price with his life. Years later, Elite Jonin Mangekyou no Obito is placed in charge of a very familiar genin team, determined to keep them safe in a world at peace.

But this is not the world you know; Kakashi's death and Obito's return to Konoha have created ripples upon ripples, resulting in a vastly different setting, with new challenges. Or: Obito surviving wrecks everything, in twenty steps or less.

Described by the writer as taking considerable inspiration in themes, character arcs and plot devices from Attack on Titan and Vinland Saga the project explores the social and cultural underpinnings of the Naruto setting the the violence based state of affairs that drive the Shinobi World and how one world's heroes can be another world's villains and vice versa.

Written by Ser Serendipity the author known for producing well regarded Naruto Re-Write/fanfic Not Sick and the crossover story Myrmidon, Obito-Sensei can be read here at Fanfiction.net, here at Spacebattles.com and here at SufficientVelocity.com

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Obito-Sensei contains examples of:

• Adaptation Personality Change: Team 7 underwent this due to different circumstances surrounding their childhood than canon. Naruto is still a knucklehead, but having his parents alive means he isn't the Attention Whore he was in his earlier days as well as being more book-smart than what he initially started out and lacks the desire to be Hokage. Sasuke is still planning his revenge on Itachi, but not having the entire Uchiha massacred and his mother and Obito being alive allows him to be more well-adjusted and be willing to make friends. Sakura also lacks the vitriolic relationship she has with Naruto and her obsession with Sasuke due to feeling out of place since she doesn't come from a distinguished heritage like her teammates but she nevertheless still strives to become stronger and viewing Naruto and Sasuke as True Companions.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Obito being alive not only results in the story changing, but how the relationships are affected, both positive and negative.
  • Positive:
    • Sasuke is able to befriend Naruto in a healthier manner because with the Uchiha Clan not being fully massacred, he isn't as revenge-driven in canon.
    • While Sakura still cares for Sasuke as teammates, there's no romance between them as she's more focused on getting stronger due to the pressure of having the Hokage's son and an Uchiha prodigy on her team.
    • Having a more stable childhood also gives Sasuke a better chance at forming relationships outside of his team, such as Ship Tease and eventually a first date with Hinata.
  • Negative:
    • Thanks to Naruto having a happier childhood with his parents both living, he can't empathize with Gaara's pain and thus treats him with fear and resentment as opposed to attempting to befriending him in canon.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Katasuke Touno, a character from Naruto's Sequel Series Boruto, is introduced in this story set well before Boruto's time period.
• Adaptational Upbringing Change:
  • Sasuke's mother Mikoto, along with other Uchihas, survived the massacre by Itachi. Though Sasuke still wants to avenge his clan, he's a lot more mentally adjusted and more willing to socialize.
  • While in canon Naruto was an orphan, here his parents survived and he was raised in a happy household, giving Naruto greater social and shinobi skills and never became a prankster desiring attention from village that shun him or wanting to become Hokage and earn the people respect. However, his lack of status as either an orphan or a Jinchuriki means he isn't able to connect to enemies like Gaara.
• Adaptational Villainy: Gaara doesn't get Heel–Face Turn like in canon as a result of Naruto not having the emotional context to try get through to him, Sakura who he ends up facing just plain hating him and his father who pushed himinto being the Tyke Bomb he was in canon not dying to Orochimaru. This comes to an awful head when during the Land of Waves Arc Gaara, whipped into a berserk rage by his Arch-Enemy Sakura's presence, goes on rampage through a major city. This results in him killing thousands of innocent people in the crossfire in addition to killing his own sensei Baki and threatening to do the same to his teammates/siblings if they get in the way.
• Ambiguously Evil: Amegakure. On the one hand, they seem to still be dedicated to bringing world peace, without Yahiko's death to drive Nagato to despair, took in and raised several young shinobi who canonically were orphans like Haku, Kabuto, and Suigetsu, and during the Chunnin Exam seem to be the most open to working with shinobi of other villages. On the other hand, a lot of their beliefs, coming from Haku, have a noticeable Knight Templar sound to them, and they also imprisoned their country's daimyo, setting up the Akatsuki as the de-facto leaders of the entire nation. On the other other hand, most of the people opposing them in the elemental nations are politically motivated, advocating the utter destruction of the village to preserve the current power balance, and said daimyo was both corrupt and inefficient, partially responsible for the country's neverending civil war. On yet another hand, Jiraiya has some less than flattering things to say about how they are going about their goals.
• Almost Kiss: In chapter 61, Haku congratulates Sakura on her induction to the Akatsuki and receiving her new uniform, while Sakura confirmed that she was sent by the Hidden Leaf and Haku admitting that he already suspected. The two grow and are just about to kiss when a disaster strikes the Hidden Rain.
• And I Must Scream: Madara is revealed to have been resurrected as an Edo Tensei Zombie by Orochimaru, he's kept trapped unable to die as he was moments before his death by old age ie in pain, confused and disconnected from reality. Sasuke is horrified to see this and openly describes it as profoundly cruel.
• Arch-Enemy:Gaara considers Sakura to be this as a result of loosing to her during the Chunin Exams, abandoning his standing mission to try and kill her when they cross paths again, he admits that he has obesessed over their prior fight and is hell bent on having a rematch ending in her death now to the point he sincerely threatens to kill everyone in a major city and if that fails entire country to get the fight he is looking for. After Gaara's rampage results in thousands of innocent people being killed in the crossfire Sakura-Naruto-Sasuke return the sentiment and very much want to see him dead.
• Armor-Piercing Question: During their second fight Gaara asks one of these to Sakura when after a grueling fight she lands a fatal blow on clone-construct that she genuinely thought was him.

"Come on, Sakura," he said patiently, and his tone froze her. "Don't you understand now? Didn't it feel good?" Naruto was wriggling, trying to form another hand-sign to produce more clones: he might be able to manage it in a second, if Sakura kept Gaara busy. Her hands were shaking, blood dripping from her torn palm as she placed both hands on her knife. It felt pathetic in the face of her opponent.
"I don't know what you're talking about," she said. Gaara laughed.
"You're not stupid," he said with a genuine smile. "You killed me, or you thought you did. Didn't it feel good?" His eyes were yellow, his body still vibrating with the chakra of his Tailed Beast. "Didn't it make everything feel worth it?"
Sakura wished she could lie. Gaara saw the truth in her lack of response.

• Ax-Crazy:
  • Hidan and the Jashin Cult feature as starter villain's who Team 7 run into on a mission early in the story and they are absolutely mad: killing indiscriminately, literally bathing in blood and extoling violence as the highest calling.
  • Gaara as per canon is this, killing for the sake of it, maiming his supposed allies when they try to stop him and violently fixating on people he thinks are worth killing, unlike canon though he never changes for the better due to Naruto not having the understanding or motivation to get through to him. The humiliation of loosing to a 'weakling' like Sakura and his father still being alive to continue pressuring him into being a living weapon actually result in his behaviour becoming worse over time.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Downplayed. The events of the story cause Sakura to forget her own birthday and would have left it past if Ino and Naruto didn't convince her to have a party. All in all, it managed to be an enjoyable day minus the turmoil she's facing about choosing to be a Fake Defector for Konoha.
• Broken Pedestal: Sasuke is heartbroken when he finds out that his mother, the only family he had left, was one of the masterminds for the Uchiha Clan's coup against the Hokage and the Damiyo.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Orochimaru attempts to invoke this by telling Sasuke and Rin that he has knowledge too valuable for Konoha, including immortality and how to create the Rinnegan. The two think it over before deciding such power is too dangerous for anyone, and decide their enemy is not worth sparing, albeit with Orochimaru turned into a tree rather than killed given that his body is immortal.
• Cliffhanger:
  • Chapter 61 ends with a bright burst of red light crashing into the Hidden Rain and releasing a devastating havok.
  • Chapter 65 ends Sasuke, Obito, and Mikoto ending the Naka Shrine to find what they about world history to deal with the current crisis, and inside they find Edo Tensei Madara Uchiha.
• Comically Small Demand: Kurama's demand for telling Kushina about the Jūbi is only to able to see out of Kushina's eyes to aliviate his boredom. Kurama justifies this by pointing out that Kushina barely trusts him as it is, so he is content to just seeing the outside world and not even hearing it, as any more would be met with refusal.
• Commonality Connection: Tenten brings this up to Sakura as why the two have grown so close, even outside of the former training the latter in kenjutsu. Both of them were placed on teams with exceptional teammates (Sakura with Naruto and Sasuke and Tenten with Lee and Neji), which pushed both of them to get stronger and not fall behind.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: What the Shinobi system does to people. Naruto is particularly horrified to hear that his mother doesn't really feel betrayed when she learns that Mikoto Uchiha had conspired to turn her into a brainwashed puppet for the Uchiha clan - Jinchuriki have always been treated as weapons and commodities, after all, so why should her own best friend be any different?
• Crazy Enough to Work: In chapter 77, Sakura tells Minato, Jiraiya, Obito, and Naruto about her plan to go to the Land of Frost and help Rain defeat Cloud in hopes of ending the coming war. When Naruto offers to join her and suggests Sasuke would tag along, he realizes they can meet with Konan and tell her how Yagiko went behind her and Nagato's back to invade Konoha. While it is pointed out the Rain nin in Frost may kill Team 7, it's also pointed out that Naruto and Sakura had fought for Rain against Cloud before, as did Sasuke who was recognized as a Jonin. The plan might have risks, but it can be a possible solution to end the conflict between Konoha and Rain once Yagiko is taken down.
• Darker and Edgier: Played with. On one hand, Obito not becoming Tobi means many people that should've died in canon still live with Naruto and Sasuke having happier childhoods due to lacking the issues that have plagued them thanks to Obito/Tobi attacking the Hidden Leaf. On the other hand, the story doesn't shy away the horrors of the Ninja System with even the Hidden Leaf having a few skeletons in the closet.
• Death Glare: Sasuke is unsettled at the normal easy going and friendly Obito shooting him a “inhuman” murderous look during the interrogation of Mikoto Uchiha. When Sasuke tried to get a very angry Obito to calm down-stop borderline throttling his mother this look on Obito’s face made Sasuke be quiet.
• Deconstruction:
  • As the story goes it becomes one to Fix Fic - Everybody Lives stories. Obito not becoming a Tobi means Minato and Kushina are alive, ripple effected into Akatsuki not being pushed to the extremes of canon and got Naruto a much happier childhood along with creating a timeline where some Uchiha are still alive. The negatives are that Minato and Kushina are not the Ninja System-rejecting All-Loving Hero their Canon son was. Minato is very much the man who killed hundreds of enemies to earn the Hokage title and was willing to make Naruto a Jinchruki for the sake of the village's prosperity even knowing the pain it would cause his son. Within the story, he promotes Konoha's power above all concerns and is perfectly willing to sacrifice his subordinates no matter their age if he thinks it's for a good cause. Meanwhile, Kushina is a Jinchruki raised in wartime who has internalized the idea that she is a weapon who exists to be used for the good of the village to the point of not seeing anything truly wrong with a friend planning to brainwash her into servitude because A) said person is one of her oldest friends and B) said friend honestly thought this action would aide Konoha.
  • On the wider stage, while several of the more extreme threats that threatened the Ninja World have not developed, the underlying status quo of the Crapsack World Ninja System with Conditioned to Accept Horror and Child Soldiers prevalent is very much still in place and indeed without the unifying common enemy of Tobi the villages are instead gearing up to fight each other in a yet another World War.
  • This timeline's Naruto has a happier childhood compared his ostracized orphan status in canon. This means he lacks the fundamental understanding of loneliness and misery that let Canon!Naruto get through to Gaara and other villains.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation:
  • Years before the story, Danzo was killed by Jiraiya after he discovered the former's alliance with Hanzo and his plans to kill the Akatsuki.
  • Zabuza dies fighting the out-of-control Gaara when he is buried under the wreckage of The Great Channel Bridge.
  • Haku dies years after his canon death after Tenten cuts him down from throat to hip.
  • Hiruzen Sarutobi in canon died sacrificing his soul to the Shinigami to seal the souls of the First and Second Hokage and greatly injure Orochimaru, while in the story he dies in the process of defeating Sasori.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Sakura is incredulous and disgusted that Gaara's reason for threatening to kill a entire city and if that fails amp up to wiping out a whole country as part of effort to kill her is retaliation for her winning against him during the Chunin exams.

"You're really that pathetic?!" Sakura was starting to scream now. She didn't want to be at the center of this. Gaara stiffened.
"Sakura…" Ino said, trying and failing to caution her. It was way too late. She was getting carried away by her anger once more.
"You lose one fight and that's your reaction? You're like a fucking baby!" Sakura shouted. She stepped forward, not caring she was drawing closer to his range. "What, do you have nothing better to do than sit around and fantasize about killing someone you barely know?! Do you think I'm the same way? I've barely given you a single thought since the Exam! You're not special, and your philosophy is a bunch of bullshit! Get a life, shithead!"

• Distinction Without a Difference: Mikoto is offended by Itachi's description/interpretation of role the Uchiha Clan intended for Kushina, ie that they would fatally extract the Nine Tails from her and use it to kill Minato. She insists they intended to not hurt Kushina by putting her under genjutsu control and using her to pressure Minato into step down-granting the Hokage rank to Fugaku, but as Obito point's out Minato would have never stepped down under those circumstances. So they would have had to use Kushina/The Fox as a weapon to kill the Hokage, with a side order of leaving Kushina Mind Rape'd into submission for the rest of her life, which is not better.
• Double Knockout: Sasuke and Naruto's fight in the Chunin exam ends this way with a mutual Rasengan attack, much to everyone's amusement.
• Don't Create a Martyr: Nagato warns Minato that killing Yahiko will only create a figurehead for his followers. If alive, Nagato can keep control over what his friend says and try to quell the anger in Rain.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Less the moment of his Death so much as the battle before it, but Zabuza’s last battle sees him near fatally maim a Jinchruki who had near fully unleashed his Bjuu, cause said Jinchruki (still controlling a giant monster construct) to *run for his life* with Zabuza chasing after him and fighting the berserk Gaara directly. If Temari hadn’t interfered to strip away Zabuza’s mist and Gaara hadn’t collapsed the Great Channel Bridge on top of him Sakura muses Zabuza would probably have killed Gaara outright.
• Elemental Weapon: During the Chunin Exam, Sakura combines her chakra control, her water affinity, and her sword (modified by Asuma to channel chakra) to create a water blade capable of cutting through wood and steel. It's able to break through Gaara's attack and his sand coating.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: After Obito learns about the Hidden Cloud's Tailed Beast Cannon, he rushes back to the Leaf with Katasuke Touno to warn Minato to prepare for the attack, who takes Katasuke for further information about the weapon. Afterwards, Kushina brings up to Obito that the Cloud is too cautious about Minato's strength to confront him immediently, and that they would want to demonstrate and test their newest weapon first. To do that they'll need to target a nation with few allies and no one would be bother about... like the Nation of Rain where Team 7 is stationed.
• Fake Defector: Sakura is tasked by Minato with being this to Amegakure, on the basis that they'd already reached out to her during the Chunin Exams, and she is legitimately sympathetic to their cause (to an extent). Much to everyone's surprise, however, Sasuke and Naruto join her, because they're unwilling to let her brave that danger all by herself
• For Want Of A Nail: The nail is that Kakashi died in Obito's place during the Third Shinobi War, which lead to a staggering about of divergence.
  • Obviously, Obito never undergoes his Face–Heel Turn, meaning that the attack by the Nine Tails never takes place; Kushina and Minato are both very much alive, and Kushina remains the Nine-Tails’ Jinchuriki instead of Naruto. Rin is alive as well, since Obito saved her with the Kamui, rather than the incomplete-Chidori.
  • Minato is unwilling to tolerate Danzo’s clandestine operations, leading to Danzo’s death at the hands of Jiraiya and the formal disbandment of ROOT, with the remaining members going rogue.
  • Without Danzo, Yahiko’s death and Nagato’s Start of Darkness are both prevented; Akatsuki as it was in canon never forms, and instead Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan are the joint rulers of the Nation Of Rain. They now work to recruit rogue ninja from the other villages to help establish their goal of “peace.” Many of the would-be members of Akatsuki, like Kisame and Hidan, lead their own lives in other parts of the world.
  • The Nation Of Rain’s growing power leads both to increased political tensions among the elemental nations and Jiraiya being effectively a pariah in Konoha for his role in its foundation.
  • The Uchiha still plot a coup, leading to Itachi still undertaking the same actions as in canon, but without “Madara” to help he can only kill about half the clan before fleeing, including Fugaku. While Sasuke is still intent on defeating his brother, the support of his mother and surviving relative leaves him much more stable and less emotionally stunted. He and Naruto are now best friends.
  • Naruto, while very similar to his canon self, never underwent the same harsh circumstances and is less interested in becoming Hokage.
  • Thanks to Naruto and Sasuke lacking the issues that have plagued them in canon and Sakura not being obsessed with Sasuke along with constantly berating Naruto, Team 7 is more united earlier on than canon and isn't as dysfunctional.
  • As an indirect result of having never been ostracized, he unfortunately doesn't have the emotional context necessary to act as a Warrior Therapist to Gaara, which means that Gaara never undergoes a Heel–Face Turn. In fact, his loss (at the hands of Sakura in this continuity) causes him to become even more Ax-Crazy.
  • Finally, Sakura, not as starstruck with Sasuke and feeling pressured by being on a team with the Uchiha heir and the Hokage’s son, pushes herself to catch up to them as quickly as possible, leading her to become much more combat-focused in her Jutsu, rather than being the support-member, essentially taking Naruto’s place as The Hero.
• Healing Hands: Naruto leans medical jutsu while undercover as a Rain Shinobi. He becomes good enough with it in time that his work earn's sincere praise from Tsunade of all people.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Kabuto and Suigetsu both gave their lives to save Naruto and Sasuke respectively during the Tailed Beast Cannon strike on the Hidden Rain.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Obito's major flaw is his lack of confidence, often doubting his ability to teach and guide his students. This stems from his inability to save Kakashi all those years ago, and is one of the reasons he no longer aspires to become Hokage.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Following the Tail Beast Cannon attack on the Amegakure, the Akatsuki founders start to fall to the same evil that plagued the Land of Rain in their childhood. Konan takes some of the Akatsuki to fight the Hidden Cloud within the Land of Frost, just as their own country was used as a theater of war. Meanwhile, Yahiko goes behind her and Nagato's backs to preemptively destroy the Hidden Leaf through a surprise invasion.
• History Repeats: In chapter 40, Rin worries that Sakumo Hatake's story might be repeating with Obito following Team 7 fake their defection to join Amegakure. Sakumo's decision to rescue his teammates over completing the mission led to the Third Ninja War, and the hatred and insults from his fellow ninjas led him to take his own life. As far as the rest of Konoha is aware, Obito failed to prevent three prominate ninjas from defecting the Hidden Leaf and joining a dangerous rival, and now he faces dirty looks and whispers from his own comrades, including Asuma punching in the face during a drunken rage and calling him sick. Rin fears that if it gets too much, Obito might end up the same path as Kakashi's father.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Boy, was Madara Uchiha especially hit with this here. The ninja who was capable of fighting Hashirama to a standstill along with being able to fight off an entire army, the Five Kage and the whole known world by himself and becoming the Ten Tails Jinchuriki in canon...was reduced to an Edo Tensei zombie to be used for Orochimaru's experiments, trapped in his old age unaware of the world around him and in immense pain.
• Irony:
  • In canon Sakura was the member of Team 7 Obito/Tobi cared about the least: he had complicated history with Kakashi, was responsible for a lot of misery in Naruto’s life and deliberately singled Naruto out as being similar to his past self, he acted The Corrupter to Sasuke plus used him as a weapon but he never showed any interest in Sakura. In this timeline Obito identifies with Sakura the most out his students seeing her as being akin to himself at that age, someone not starting with a lot of raw power-skill and being overshadowed by her teammates. So he connects with her and encourages her development as a Shinobi.
  • In life-canon Danzo acted for what he saw as the good of the Leaf, said actions were often self serving and overly ruthless but he honestly believed the Leaf would prosper as a result of what he did. Danzo also looked down on ninja who acted out of emotion or revenge condemning Sasuke for ignoring Itachi service to the Leaf by attacking it. Here after his death to Jiraiya the remnants of Root have become consumed with Revenge to the point of actively wanting to destroy the Leaf.
  • Naruto upon encountering Fuu is uncharacteristically upset-angered upon being exposed to her view that as a Jinchruki she is not a person but a tool for her villages prosperity-safety with Naruto claiming such a perspective is wholly wrong and wishing she would come to the Hidden Leaf because such a viewpoint would not be tolerated there. As the very next arc shows Naruto’s own mother Kushina, wife of the Hokage and Jinchruki of the Nine Tails, has more or less the exact same view of herself that Fuu does.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: In chapter 75, Jiraiya sends a toad to call for Minato for permission to interrogate Madara for information about the Rinnegan that he inserted into Nagato. Obito points out that Minato is probably busy cleaning up the fallout from Rain's invasion, and immediately Minato teleports right in front of them. Obito Facepalm out of the absurdity of the timing.
• Making a Splash: Sakura has the affinity for Water Release here, and her natural gift for Chakra control makes her very good at shaping it.
• Mirror Character:
  • Despite opposing each other Minato and the founder three leaders of Akatsuki both inherited Jiraiya's ideal of working to break the Vicious Cycle of hatred and war that binds the Shinobi System. Sadly, they are opposed in how to go about bringing about this and as the story both parties illustrates have taken on different shades of moral ambiguity.
  • As the story goes it's highlighted that while Obito is outwardly a better person than his Big Bad canon self, his Kakashi dying influenced life choices are eerily similar to how Tobi took Rin dying in canon: reinventing himself as One-Man Army with no compunctions about murder, latching very hard onto another man's vision-role for him (Madara/Minato), self destructively taking all possible burdens onto himself, not emotionally engaging with important people in his life and coming to dismiss his pre-tragedy ideals/dreams as foolish because he thinks Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!. He comes to realize his mistake when Naruto and Sasuke declare their intentions to join Sakura as Fake Defectors, recalling they were what he was in the past during the Kanabi Bridge mission and how much he had changed since then.
• My Country, Right or Wrong: Or "village" in this case. Minato very much thinks about the prosperity of Konoha above all else, even the lives of himself and his subordinates. He actually seriously considers turning Naruto into a Jinchruki for the sake of protecting the village despite knowing the pain it will cause his son.
• Mythology Gag: Chapter 77 has Kushina staying in the old spiral house from her younger years in The Whorl Within The Spiral after the Rain invasion damages the seal holding back Kurama.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Years ago, Jiraiya taught Yahiko, Nagato, and Konan so they could not only protect themselves in Rain but also use their powers for good through Ninshu. The three of them became the Akatsuki, then took over the Nation of Rain to create a political power that threatened the other Hidden Villages. Due to this, Jiraiya became a pariah in Konoha, focusing on his spy network outside.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Mikoto Uchiha describes Madara as a fool who let his hatred of the Senju Clan blind him to the good he could have done for the Village as Hashirama's right hand,yet as both Itachi and Obito point out the motivation behind the Uchiha Coup plan had some definite elements of the Uchiha being unable to accept not being the highest power in the Hidden Leaf Village and risked causing a war and or destroying the clan just like Madara's actions did.
• Off with His Head!: Kushina finishes off Kimimaro Kaguya by ripping off his head. Double Subverted as Kimimaro is still alive and starts to rebuild his body from the neck down, but Kushina crushes his skull between her hands.
• One-Man Army: In chapter 72, Minato Namikaze demonstrates why he has a "flee on sight" designation when he first kills all 42 enemy shinobi that had surrounded Sasuke and Hinata in a single minute, then slaughtered hundred of rain shinobi with ruthless precision and pin down the Sanbi with giant toad summons, ultimately ending the invasion in minutes.
• Power Nullifier: Mikoto's Mangekyo Sharingan technique, the Benzaiten, allows her to cancel all chakra techniques, whether ninjutsu, genjutsu, or fuinjutsu. Benzaiten cancels her own chakra when she uses it, but it rushes back when she stops the technique.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Chapter 74 describes Konoha stopping the Rain invasion as this. Even though Minato's arrival ended the war, along with Rain suffering from the death of three S-class Rain nin and over 800 nin overall plus the loss of the Sanbi, Konoha lost over two-thousand ninjas, with thrice as many ninjas injured and twice as many civilians killed.
• Related in the Adaptation: A detail not indicated in canon but present here is that Shisui Uchiha was Obito's brother prior to his death.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Haku, who was thought to have died from the Tailed Beast Cannon Cloud fired onto Rain, is revealed to be alive in chapter 68 when he comes to Konoha and asked Sakura to return to rain.
• Sins of the Father: Ninjas from the Hidden Stone revile Minato Namikaze due to his triumph against them in the Third Ninja War, and often targeted Naruto for being his son. During the Chunin Exam, a team of Stone ninjas tried to kill Naruto but were defeated by Team 7 then later killed by Gaara. Long afterward, Naruto runs into a Stone Kunoichi named Yui, who years ago was permanently marked by a Hirashin so he could teleport to any Stone base she goes to. She planned to kill Naruto to break Minato's spirit, and even knowing that Naruto had seemingly defected from the Hidden Leaf and joined the Hidden Rain won't deter her.
• Shadow Archetype: Kushina is revealed to be a quiet — and all the more unsettling for it — one of these to Canon!Naruto. Like her canon son she is a Jinckruki of the Nine-Tailed Fox who had a lonely childhood, befriended a member of the Uchiha Clan (to the point of forgiving them for questionable actions), rose through the ranks of Konoha and is fiercely protective of those close to her. Unlike her canon son she is shown to have accepted her role as tool of the village, her forgiveness of Mikoto is less canon!Naruto's desire to see Sasuke change and more an utter refusal to accept or even acknowledge that Mikoto did anything wrong much to Obito and Rin's discomfort. In addition unlike canon!Naruto who eventually befriended Kurama and saw the Fox as more than a monster - convenient source of power, Kushina regards Kurama as Made of Evil and so views utilizing Mind Rape to get techniques out of him perfectly acceptable along with having no desire to interact with Kurama beyond that.
• Shared Signature Move: After Naruto learns the Rasengan from his father, he teaches it to his teammates.
• Shout-Out:
  • The author has cited Attack on Titan as a major inspiration for this story and homages scenes-storylines from its narrative at times:
  • The end goal of the Uchiha Clan's plot is revealed to be the expansion of the Clan-run police force into a country-wide power that the author has confirmed is inspired by the powers and role of Military Police in Attack on Titan.
  • Gaara Sanity Slippage in the Land of Waves Arc whinvokes Annie Leonhart's Freak Out upon being cornered, complete with transforming into a giant monster and going on a destructive rampage through a populated city. They both end up running for their lives when confronted by a demon-like figure, Eren in Attack on Titan - Zabuza in this story.
  • Post-Heel Realization Obito’s stance on violence and efforts to avoid it at the cost of his pride is directly compared by the author to Thorfin of Vinland Saga‘s view on the topic post Character Development.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Minato and Kushina, since Obito never performed the attack on the night of Naruto's birth.
  • Rin, due to a noticeable lack of Chidori in this world.
  • Yahiko and the original Akatsuki are alive and well, which thankfully means Nagato and Konan never went Jumping Off the Slippery Slope.
  • Most of the Uchiha Clan, as a matter of fact, Mikoto included. Without "Madara's" help, Itachi could only kill Fugaku, and a little under half the Uchiha's fighters on his own.
• Take a Third Option: During the first two tests of the Chunin Exam, Team 7 is able to complete their tests with some difficulties only to learn from Tenten that there was another (and sometimes easier) option.
  • The first test was to solve a cipher and escape a room in under 30 minutes. Team 7 is able to pass it with seconds to spare, but they learn from Tenten that the test was about observation and that her team got most of the answers by peaking in the other room.
  • The second test was the Forest of Death, with the rules that teams must arrive with both the Heaven and Earth scrolls, but can't come with 2 scrolls or they'll be disqualified. Team 7 takes it to mean they'll have to team up with another team that has the opposite scroll, and does so with the team from Rain, who came to the same conclusion. While they pass, they learned that Team Gai and Team Baki both pass by bringing three scrolls each.
• That Man Is Dead: Mikoto encourages Sasuke to think of Itachi like this; his brother was killed the night of the massacre, and the man running around with his face is nothing but an imposter. It's averted hard when he actually encounters Itachi who with a little prompting explains *why* he started killing Uchiha clan members leaving Sasuke horrified that this is very much the same brother he adored as a child.
• True Companions: Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura are very much this to the point of willing to go with Sakura to Ame so she doesn't have to handle the danger by herself.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Jiraiya sees himself as this after Rain's invasion of Konoha. He taught Yahiko and the other Akatsuki founders about Ninjutsu as well as the idealism of Ninjutsu, which they now seek to enforce after getting devasted by Cloud's Tail Beast Canon. Obito argues that everyone who committed atrocities always justifies it with their ideology and that Jiraiya shouldn't blame himself for Rain's actions, but Jiraiya points out that every action, whether benevolent or cruel, will always have a source.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Subverted hard by Gaara, when he turns up again looking for a rematch with Sakura in the Land of Waves he's become a lot stronger, having worked out counters to Sakura's primary technique, improved his fine control and the scale of his attacks on top of reworking his strategy to include creating a golem body that contains blood his sand absorbs from enemies to fool foes into thinking they are fighting and hurting the real him. This ends badly for pretty much everyone who ends up trying to stop him.
• Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Hidden Cloud had forced Katasuke Touno to use his Chakra Projector technology into making a Tailed Beast Cannon, which would channel the power of a Tailed Beast into a concentrated attack. Katasuke estimates that its range is enough to fire across the world and hit itself. And to demonstrate such power, they picked the Hidden Rain as their first target.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Played for Drama. Kushina believes in the standard Ninja viewpoint that the Bjuu are Made of Evil monsters and sees nothing wrong with employing Mind Rape to get techniques-powers out of Kurama, readers will note it that in canon it was exactly this attitude that caused the Bjuu and Kurama in particular to start hating humanity and is a viewpoint canon!Naruto came to aggressively reject.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In chapter 72, Jiraiya is furious at his former student Yahiko when he finds out the latter used the negotiation meeting between him and Minato as a distraction while some of his forces invade Konoha.
• X Meets Y: Attack on Titan meets Vinland Saga as told using the characters and storylines of Naruto.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Mikoto Uchiha, the matriarch of the Uchiha Clan, always remains calm and poised, such as advising Sasuke on how to deal with his treacherous brother. This is Played for Drama when she doesn't lose her composure or display any real remorse even when Obito and Sasuke confront her about her role in the failed Uchiha Coup.
• You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!:
  • Mikoto tells Obito that for all of his skills and fame, his own lack of confidence kept him from taking the Hokage position from his teacher and using it to expand the Uchiha's influence.
  • Rin at one point muses that Sakura's very high level of Chakra control meant she could have become a medic of the highest caliber (as seen in canon) who would have saved a great many lives. Instead, Sakura channeled that control into pure fighting ability in this timeline, transforming her "scalpel into a sword", Rin admits this realization makes her uncomfortable in a way she can't fully process.

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