History FanFic / BlackkatsReverse

* HurtingHero[=/=]HeartbrokenBadass: Kurama has a ton of baggage: formerly a demon SealedInAPersonShapedCan for centuries, unable to prevent his world from being annihilated, or his siblings from dying one-by-one, and watches his OnlyFriend Naruto die while he is sent to the past. Sometimes, he can be overwhelmed by his grief. But will that stop him from saving the world and from being the hero Naruto thought he can be? No.

* DarkSkinnedRedhead: Kurama has skin so dark that he’s mistaken to have Kumo ancestry, and blood-red hair. He is very hotblooded and impulsive on occasion, and is going on a massive adventure trying to run from the various bounty hunters after him around the Elemental Nations.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** When Shisui suggests that the mission to apprehend Kurama would give to Kakashi an opportunity to make friends with his former teacher's son, Kakashi tartly retorts that chasing and potentially harming the only person to show love and affection to the kid (and who may also be his only living blood relative) will NOT endear him to Naruto.
** When given the choice between a neglectful and hateful village and a loving blood relative, Naruto quickly chooses the loving blood relative.

* AdultFear:
** Kurama watched his brothers and sisters go one by one and his only friend sacrifice himself for Kurama's safety while the world died around him.
** While Kurama has good intentions, the Elemental Nations are terrified of him kidnapping the jinchuuriki, most of whom are children.
** Kakashi invited Kurama to Konoha because he thought Kurama was a person of interest. It goes horribly wrong when Kurama ends up kidnapping Naruto.
** [[spoiler: When Kushina is resurrected, she desperately hoped that any of her many friends took care of Naruto after she died, and that he was treated well by the village. Only for Orochimaru to dash her hopes when he tells her straight to her face that Naruto was an outcast orphan hated by the village and recently taken in by her "brother."]]

* EveryoneIsGay: The amount of characters in this story that explicitly mention heterosexual feelings is extremely limited compared to those that express heterosexual attraction.

* BecomingTheMask: Originally, Kurama was trying to find the other jinchuuriki to find a place to hide Naruto, the only one he cared about. He eventually grows to care about Gaara, Fuu, and Yugito in their own right when he sees that they, like Naruto, are lost children with nowhere.

* BecomingTheMask: Originally, Kurama was trying to find the other jinchuuriki to find a place to hide Naruto, the only one he cared about. But he eventually grew to care about Gaara, Fuu, and Yugito in their own right when he sees that they are lost children with nowhere to go like Naruto.

* StatingtheSimpleSolution: Destroying the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path is the easiest way to stop Akatsuki's plans in its tracks since capturing the jinchuuriki to seal the bijuu is pointless without the statue to seal them into.

* WhamEpisode: Chapter 8 has Kurama coming to blows with Kakashi and ends up kidnapping Naruto. Kurama ends up with Konoha after him.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* ScrewDestiny: Kurama is hoping to invoke this.

* SharedFamilyQuirks: Naruto, Kurama, and Kushina are all hotheaded and impulsive ninja. Both Kurama and Kushina hate to be pitied.

* SoleSurvivor: Kurama was the only living bijuu left in the original timeline.
** Kurama and Naruto are only known descendants of the slaughtered Uzumaki clan. [[spoiler: Which now includes Kushina.]]
* StatingtheSimpleSolution: Destroying the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path is this.

** [[spoiler: Looks like Naruto is about to try this to save Kurama from mind-controlled!Kushina.]]

* RealityEnsues: When Shisui suggests that the mission to apprehend Kurama would give to Kakashi an opportunity to make friends with his former teacher's son, Kakashi tartly retorts that chasing and potentially harming the only person to show love and affection to the kid (and who may also be his only living blood relative) will NOT endear him to Naruto.
** When given the choice between a neglectful and hateful village and a loving blood relative, Naruto quickly chooses the loving blood relative.

* ItsPersonal: Naruto is the son of Kakashi’s late sensei and Kakashi is responsible for letting Kurama in Konoha.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Even with Kurama’s powers, traveling with half-trained children and facing one against four of Konoha’s best trackers make for very bad odds. So when things go bad, he’s not afraid to get on his [[HorseOfADifferentColor fox summons, Fuji]] and run for it.
** Kurama has 8 of the 9 jinchuuriki on his side. The Three-Tailed Jinchuuriki is the Mizukage was been mind-controlled by a rogue Uchiha and rescued by Kurama, who now has sanctuary in Kiri. Akatsuki, the organization that Konoha has tracking for years, is powerful enough that Kurama would rather deal with villages than them. With all these revelations, all the Kage collectively decide just to drop the chase against Kurama, stop the trackers hunting him down, and give him a pardon with permission to live wherever he wants.
* LastOfHisKind: In Kurama’s original timeline, he was the last of the Tailed Beasts.
** Kurama and Naruto are the only known Uzumaki survivors.

* LivingMacGuffin: Kurama is searching and gathering all the jinchuuriki he can find so they protect themselves from the Akatsuki, who need to capture them to take their bijuu so Akatsuki can topple the Elemental Nations.

* LuckySeven: Chapter 7 is where Kurama gets to Konoha and finally meets the child Naruto. Only for it to go downhill immediately.
*** Chomei, the Seven-Tails, calls herself the Lucky Seven Beetle.

* MeaningfulEcho
* MissionFromGod: Fuji helps out because Kurama is a essentially a god to the fox summons, since he granted them sentience and power.

* HorseOfADifferentColor: Fuji and her brother Momiji can be ridden as steeds.

* HurtingHero[=/=]HeartbrokenBadass: Kurama has a ton of baggage: formerly a demon SealedInAPersonShapedCan for centuries, unable to prevent his world from being annihilated, or his siblings from dying one-by-one, and watches his OnlyFriend Naruto die while he is sent to the past. Sometimes,, he can be overwhelmed by his grief. But will that stop him from saving the world and from being the hero Naruto thought he can be? No.

* InUniverseNickname: Kurama uses "Freak Squad" to refer to the ANBU team made up of Kakashi, Shisui, Tenzo, and Itachi.

* {{Irony}}: The Bloody Mist, notorious for their bloodthirsty ninja, ended up peacefully resolving their rebellion with little bloodshed.

* FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent: Around his friends/adoptive family, young Gaara is a shy and affectionate child. When around his biological father, Gaara reverts back to the bloodthristy CreepyChild to protect himself.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kurama lets Kakashi have it.

* HeadInTheSandManagement: The Hidden Waterfall Village, Takigakure, is in denial that their jinchuuriki Fuu successfully ran away with Kurama, and refuses Konoha’s help in finding her, believing that she’ll turn up on her own.
** By the time of the Kage Summit, Fuu's grandfather, Hisen, the headman of Taki, still refuses to believe that Fuu ran away, and insists that Fuu will come back.

* HeroicSecondWind: Kurama's fight with [[spoiler: the Mizukage.]]

** Explictly averted as unlike past!Naruto, Kurama makes it clear that he is not forgiving the man just like that when [[spoiler: Obito pulls a HeelFaceTurn]].

* FeeFiFauxPas: Yagura is extremely insulted when Konoha sends the Freak Squad to rendezvous with them, as Yagura was a victim of a rogue Uchiha, and the Freak Squad has three Sharingan-users.

* FemmeFatalons: Kurama has claws sharp enough to cut. They are sharp that he doesn’t need weapons.
** Yugito is also capable of growing these.

** In Kakashi’s internal monologue, he swears that if Kurama is using him to get close to the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki, he will gut him.
** Kurama is relieved that he didn’t have to grab Sakura and Sasuke along with Naruto, because it’s hard enough to carry one child, let alone three…
** When Kurama first contacts Matatabi, she asks him to be quiet because her host has had a long day. When Kurama asks if he can leave the younger jinchuuriki with her, Matatabi tells that she’ll direct her host Yugito to him. Kurama notes Matabi didn’t agree to anything, and didn’t actually tell him anything about her host.
* {{Forgiveness}}: Averted. Fuu admits to hating everyone in her village and wonders if she should forgive them. Kurama tells her that if he was in her place, he would never forgive them. Her abusive village isn't remorseful for they done to Fuu and it's entirely up to her to decide if she wants to and tells her that she shouldn't force herself to forgive.
* ForWantOfANail: Kurama notes that people are shaped by their experiences and acknowledges that any changes could lead to Naruto growing into a different person.
** The timing of Kurama's arrival means that Yugito hasn't yet won the respect and approval of the Kumo people which in canon cemented her loyalty. The twelve Yugito is still a child treated as a weapon than a person even in the liberal Kumo. So when her mother figure, the Matabi tells Yugito to go to Kurama for protection and freedom, Yugito takes her chances to find him.

** Kurama makes it clear that this is not happening when [[spoiler: Obito pulls a HeelFaceTurn]].

* EveryoneIsGay: The amount of characters in this story that explicitly mention heterosexual feelings is extremely limited.

* FakeMixedRace: Kurama looks like he has Kumo ancestry due to his dark skin and Uzumaki ancestry due to his facial feature and red hair. Konoha nearly went to war with Kumo, assuming him to a Kumo nin and Kumo almost did the same with Konoha.

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Kurama is right that the villages treat their jinchuuriki horribly and don’t know how to train them to their full potential. Hiruzen even admits that their treatment can be considered child abuse on anyone else. But Kakashi is right that Kurama is a kidnapper, as he’s taking young and malleable jinchuuriki from their villages and is igniting tensions between the Great Ninja Villages. Konoha barely managed to prevent another Shinobi War from breaking out.
* BreakTheBadass: Kakashi is put through the wringer: his beloved sensei's son, Naruto, is kidnapped due to him letting an unstable man (Kurama) in the village; he has run cross-country without breaks in order to have a chance of tracking the kidnapper down. Kakashi becomes increasingly fearful of the possibility that Naruto will despise him and Konoha if anything happens to Kurama, and that his actions might set off a war. He is forced to work with Kurama when the latter is pardoned and his reasons for running come to light. He finds out his late best friend is alive and a villain. He got flayed alive. He then finds out the monster that ruined his life is the kidnapper. To add insult to injury, Kurama is a far better person than Kakashi ever was.
** Then said late best friend, ''explicitly'' to psychologically torture him, [[spoiler: resurrects, mindcontrols, and sends his father and quasi-mother figure to kill him.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Kurama only owns one kunai which was given to him by Han when Kurama needed to cut his hair.

** Kushina. Kurama's "family" connection to Naruto is through her, and he tells Naruto stories of her past and even teaches Naruto her SignatureMove. Everyone that knew Kushina makes a big deal how Kurama looks like a dark-skinned male version of her. [[spoiler: Guess who Orochimaru is ordered to resurrect in order to emotionally hurt Kurama.]]

** Young Naruto's Kyuubi is constantly mentioned to not have woken up yet.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Kurama inherited this trait from Naruto, as he will not leave people to suffer if he can do anything about it. Kurama refuses to give Naruto and the other young jinchuuriki back to suffer abuse and isolation in their villages, even if it means having Akatsuki and the Elemental Nations hunt him down.
* CombatPragmatist: Kurama fights dirty.
** To quote the author's note for chapter 53: ''In defense of this chapter, Naruto is ridiculous shounen and no one ever uses logic. I tried to divorce my brain from reality to that degree and couldn’t manage it. Therefore, you will notice people fighting dirty, ganging up on other people, and using logic to fight. I’d be sorry, but…yeah. I'm really not.''

* ConvenientlyUnverifiableCoverStory: Kurama claim he is Kushina's brother to explain why he wants to get close to Naruto. Everybody else could not outright dismiss that claim as the circumstantial evidence of him sharing a lot of Kushina's personality traits and his StrongFamilyResemblance to her is overwhelming and there was no evidence to the contrary since Kushina's home village, Uzushiogakure, was destroyed, and Kushina was tight-lipped about her family when alive. [[spoiler: Kushina eventually discovers the truth...and chooses to help Kurama keep his cover story going [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe since he was so kind to Naruto]].]]

* DeathSeeker: Kakashi after Minato and Kushina died. At the start of the fic, he's...''mostly'' recovered.