History Fanfic / SonOfTheSannin

* PoorPredictableRock: After learning Sage Mode, Naruto's entire fighting style begins to revolve around it, which becomes a serious problem when his enemies take out his clones before they can gather the nesscesary nature energy and leave him with nothing sustantial to fall back on. His situational awareness in battle also atrophied because he relied on Sage Mode's sensory abiliti

** Hinata has one in Chapter 72, pondering about how [[spoiler: the Truth Seeking Balls can neutralize ninjutsu techniques, and thinks there might be a way to also neutralize fuinjutsu.]] She then realizes this could be the answer to find the way to [[spoiler: erase the Caged Bird Seal from the former Branch House Hyugas' foreheads.]]

* IfWeGetThroughThis:
** Jiraiya promises to Fukasaku and Shima to complete his Sage training if they make it out of the invasion alive.
** In Chapter 102, Natsu Hyuga ponders that, should the Hyuga Clan make it through the Fourth Ninja War, they should be more open to learn other techniques like elemental ninjutsu, instead of just relying on the Gentle Fist.

* IdTellYouButThenIdHaveToKillYou: When [[spoiler:Karin]] asks Naruto about his birth parents during a talk about their families, he says that it's an S-Rank secret and he'd have to kill her if he divulged anything beyond his mother's last name and the fact that they died during the Kyubi attack. This causes Karin to ask "[[JokeAndReceive Geez, was your father Hokage, or what?]]"
* IllKillYou:
** Naruto yells "You're dead!" at [[spoiler:Toneri]] in Chapter 57, as soon as he finds out he was the one behind [[spoiler:Hinata's kidnapping when she was a child]].
** [[spoiler:To get Genjutsu World!Hinata to attack Dark!Naruto (she's reluctant to do so because he looks like the real one), Naruto tells her to picture him like "a version of me who cheated on you with Sakura". She immediately goes "YOU'RE SO [[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]] DEAD!"]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** [[spoiler:Sasuke]] ends up doing this to [[spoiler:a brainwashed Naruto with a lightning-infused blade to try and shock him out of it from the inside out.]]
** During the Akatsuki Invasion arc, [[spoiler:Shima]] gets dragged by Pain's Bansho Ten'in, and impaled into one of his chakra rods.
* InappropriatelyCloseComrades: People within a single chain of command are allowed to be in relationship, though it has to be approved from the higher ups beforehand to avoid abuse of power. The only time it really comes up is during [[spoiler:Haku and Tenten's]] RelationshipUpgrade (which happened right after the latter had received a promotion), [[spoiler:and they instantly get the okay due to Jiraiya wanting Haku to start a family and [[SuperBreedingProgram add the Yuki clan's Bloodline Limit to the village's forces]].]]

* PursuingParentalPerils: Since Naruto is informed of who his biological parents were and how they died while he's still a young child, his dream of becoming Hokage is partially motivaded by a desire to follow in Minato's footsteps.

* AlienHair: [[spoiler:Mei's incomplete Sage Mode replaces her hair with tentacles.]]

* HonhumanLoverReveal: Downplayed. Shino doesn't find out about Fu being the jinchuriki for the Seven-tailed beast until the day before they start dating, though since Naruto's status as a jinchuriki was never made a secret in this story, [[FantasticallyIndifferent his only reaction is that it's "interesting"]].

** Naruto will do anything to protect [[spoiler:his adoptive siblings]].

* HonoraryUncle: The Yamanaka, Nara, and Akimichi clans have been close for generations, so Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji all see each other's parents as aunts and uncles. [[spoiler:When Ino's father ends up being killed in the Uchiha coup, Shikamaru and Choji are both mentioned to be crying just as hard as Ino during the funeral.]]

* TheTease: Mei Terumi certainly loves being this.

* BeatTheCurseOutOfHim: The only known method to remove the mind control effects of Kotoamatsukami is to inflict potentially life threatening injuries on the victim. [[spoiler:Sasuke ends up having to do this to Naruto in the climax of the Senju Twins Retrival arc by stabbing him through the gut and shocking him from the inside out. It ends up being deconstructed when Obito briefly tricks him into thinking that the wounds were fatal so that [[TramaticSuperpowerAwakening he'd awaken his Mangekyo Sharingan]] and the guilt of nearly killing one of his friends is still haunting him after the TimeSkip.]]

* FantasticallyIndifferent: Naruto's status as a jinchuriki is never made a secret, so none of the members of the Konoha 15 treat it or the existance of other jinchuriki as a big deal. This is best seen when Fu loses control and outs herself during the Chunin Exam finals and Shino's only reaction is that it is "interesting". Kakashi even mentions during the Hidan and Kakazu arc that it's most likely the reason why Fu had a much easier time making friends in Konoha rather than her home village.

* FantasticallyIndifferent: Naruto's status as a jinchuriki is never made a secret, so none of the members of the Konoha 15 treat it or the existance of other jinchuriki as a big deal. This is best seen when Fu loses control and outs herself during the Chunin Exam finals and Shino's only reaction is that it is "interesting". Kakashi even mentions during the Hidan and Kakazu ar that it's most likely the reason why Fu had a much easier time making friends in Konoha rather than her home village.

** [[spoiler:Since Naruto's graduating class had an additional three students (Haku, Karin, and Tamaki) and Sasuke never defects, the Konoha 11 are instead known as the Konoha 15]].

* FastTunnelling: To escape an imminent attack from Edo Tensei!Kakuzu, Kiba and Tamaki dive underground

* AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: Fu ends up losing control of her Tailed Beast during her fight against Gaara in the Chunin Exams [[spoiler:after drinking the Hero Water her village leader gave her]]. While Gaara managed to take her out before she could hurt anyone, the fact that things could have gone horribly wrong scares her off using any of her Tailed Beasts powers beyond basic flight for the next three years, even when she finds herself in a life or death fight against Akatsuki.

-->''Little did she know that her wishes were going to come true, and the price she had to pay for them.''

** PlayedForLaughs. Since Zabuza wants to become Mizukage after Mei, she's letting him handle the job in her absence so he gets used to it... along with the meetings and paperwork he has to handle.
** PlayedForDrama. Kurenai in Chapter 81 confides to Shizune that after [[spoiler:Rin came BackFromTheDead]], part of her wished that the same happened to [[spoiler:her former student, Yakumo Kurama.]] And she did come back, as one of [[spoiler:Danzo's minions]].

* AGodAmI: Pain declares himself as God when he confronts Naruto and his friends. Later when he faces his former teacher, who tells him he's way over his head in trying to take Naruto, he has this response:
-->"It's you who's over your head, sensei. You're the one willing to fight a god, after all."
* AGodIAmNot: As in canon, Hagoromo and Hamura Otsutsuki chose not to use their powers to rule over humanity, knowing that power can change and even corrupt people.
* AffectionateNickname:
** Jiraiya often calls Tsunade "Hime" (Japanese for "Princess"). Naruto later adopts it for Hinata.
** [[NoSocialSkills Sai]] attempts this on Sakura when they first meet, by calling her "ugly". [[MegatonPunch It goes as well as you'd expect.]] Later, [[TheSocialExpert Ino]] tries to explain to Sai that you should only use nicknames with people you're close to, not with strangers. He later calls Sakura "Pinky", and Ino mentions that he's improving but still needs to work on the nicknames.