History Fanfic / DreamingOfSunshine

* LaserBlade: The Sword of the Thunder God. It's similarity to a [[StarWars lightsaber]] is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Shikako.

* HighlyVisibleNinja: Played with. Shikako notes in Chapter 9 that wearing clothes that are good for stealth is less important than blending in with a civilian population.

** Chapter 8: The Chakra Pathway System is expanded upon a bit.
---> Channelling chakra through your feet was supposedly one of the most difficult ways of channelling chakra. That was because most people moulded chakra in the Hara, the centre of energies located near the stomach, and then transported it through the body to the point they wanted to emit it. This required them to keep tight control over the moulded energy or risk losing or wasting energy as it travelled.

* GeometricMagic: Fuinjutsu are jutsus that use writings and symbols, known as seals, to create an effect. There are various kinds of these, and few are able to master them. Skilled users of fuinjutsu are able to [[InstantRunes create and modify seals with just their hands]].

* WalkOnWater: This is a basic ability that can be done by any ninja through training with chakra control.

* TrueCompanions: Team 7 - the bond here is stronger than in canon thanks to Shikako establishing the traditions of post-fight discussions to critique on another on each others abilities, and post-mission dinner celebrations at the Nara Residence. To a lesser extent, the Rookie Nine are all fairly close friends and acquaintances.

* NoodleIncident: Shikamaru threatens Sasuke [[spoiler:after he hurt Shikako while under the effect of the curse seal.]] We don't get to find out what he said, but it made Sasuke nervous around him.
** Also, we never find out exactly what earned Shikako her reputation as a MadBomber.

** Chapter 115: [[spoiler:Shikamaru loses his arm, on a mission Shikako commanded]].

Now that I thought about it… it wasn't something that had been covered in the Academy ''explicitly''. It was just… there. Implicit in everything; ninja work in teams. Something you just knew from family, from stories. It wasn't something that you got told.

** Chapter 4: The general divisions of Konoha's ninja are given.
---> Ninja in Konoha were divided into three basic sections. ANBU, Medic Corp, and General Operations. ANBU recruited members from the other two sectors and answered only to the Hokage, I didn't know much about their internal structure, nobody did, but it was assumed they were run in small teams led by a Captain. The Medic Corps were divided into two 'sections', the field medics, and the hospital medics, or rather, those that went on missions, and those that didn't. The former were usually recruited from the General Operations, as they had to have some field abilities, while the later could be anyone with the ability to use healing chakra, civilians, academy students, and there were even several clans that focused solely on their healing skills and never produced a field ready shinobi. General Operations was the largest of the three sections, and contained all active duty shinobi. Of course, shinobi never really retired, but there were those that stopped requesting missions, like my mother. Entry into General Operations happened in two ways, the Jounin Squads, which we would be tested for after graduation, and the Genin Corps. If you failed the Jounin test, you went to the Genin Corps and your chances of rising above genin were very low indeed. The Jounin Squads took the budding geniuses, the politically sensitive, the important and those students with the extra ''something'' that made people think they might succeed.

* TheBeastmaster: Besides the canon summoners, [[spoiler:Ino becomes the new Chameleon Summoner and Shikako the new Deer Summoner]].

* SummonMagic: Anyone with a Summoning Contract. Includes: all of Team 7, Gai, Jiraiya, Tsunade, Orochimaru, Anko, and [[spoiler:Ino]].

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Team 7 has been involved with arguably 6 separate regime changes at this point; [[spoiler: prevented leadership over throw in the lands of Birds and Moon, helped it in Water and Snow, as for Leaf and Sand, helping to find Tsunade, and helped Gaara put on a show for an international crowd and reform him as canon.]]

* ShoutOut

* RunningGag: Every C-rank or above mission they go on quickly goes to hell and becomes a higher rank mission.
** Shikako and explosives.

--> ''This was something I could never have done with ninjutsu. I didn't have the chakra, I didn't have the control, and I didn't have the concentration. The cost was too high. But fuinjutsu was different – you paid in time and knowledge instead. That made it less useful in battle where you so rarely had '''time''', but sometimes. Sometimes it was perfect.''

--> At the academy we were all taught an adaptation of the basic Konoha-ryu style, called the Shorin-ryu, the 'small forest style'. It was a version of the Konoha based taijutsu style that had been adapted specifically for children and teenagers. It emphasised dodging and deflection with the understanding that any opponents we encountered were likely to be taller, stronger and faster than us. On the surface, it appeared to be a rather simplistic style, with limited numbers of strikes, block and kicks. Of course, given that it was being taught to children, this straightforwardness was probably more an advantage than a disadvantage. There were no flashy moves or complicated locks; things that could easily fall apart in actual combat. It was the basics of the basics, something that we could build on with our family styles, or simply once we left the academy and started gaining personal experience.

* GeometricMagic: Seals, or fuinjutsu, are jutsus that use writings and symbols to create an effect. There are various kinds of these, and few master them.