History Fanfic / TruePotential

* SayingTooMuch: During his confrontation with Kabuto, Tobi unwittingly hinted that it's him, not Pain, the true leader of Akatsuki.

* OneSteveLimit: Chapter 77 lampshades that there are two characters named Fu. The first Omake of chapter 85 has Naruto and his friends trying to find a way to avoid confusing one with the other.

* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Fu (Yamanaka) and Torune mentally tell this to each other after [[spoiler:failing Danzo's plan to assassinate the Raikage, knowing that they will be executed]].

* HateSink: [[FantasticRacism Karitokiri]], after losing his family and friends in the destruction of his home village by a bloodline clan, entered Kiri's ranks to become a shinobi, and eventually became the "Bloodline Hunter", gleefully joining Yagura in his FinalSolution plans [[DisproportionateRetribution against every single bloodline wielder]]. A merciless executioner, he loves to torture his subjects. Introduced taking advantage of a civilian village's toxic hatred of people with Bloodline Limits, he plans to execute 5 bloodline wielders, one of them being a child, whom [[KickTheDog he taunts about her parents' death and the destruction of her clan]]. When Shikamaru, Honoka, Kiri (a character, not the village) and Haku attempts to crash the execution and rescue the 5 persons, Karitoriki (after being freed from Honoka's chains by Guren), having placed explosives inside the 5 bloodline wielders' hearts just in case, spitefully blow them up, killing them all and only regretting that he was unable to torture them. [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse Despite his tragic past, no one is sympathetic]], with Suigetsu pointing out Karitoriki made him go through a similar tragedy when executing his brother.

** Fu (the Seven Tails jinchūriki) also has one after she fails to control her Tailed Beast power in a spar against Killer B and Yugito.
** Kanji Yamanaka and his brother Fu (the Root agent) share one upopn reuniting with each other, to the point that Fu allows Kanji to scan his mind, so he can know what happened after Fu was inducted into Root.

* AlternateUniverse: Downplayed. While most of the changes are the result of the [[ForWantOfANail initial divergence]], a few others are not, such as [[spoiler:Tayuya being an Uzumaki or Roshi still living in Iwa instead of WalkingTheEarth]].

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8396246/1/True-Potential True Potential]]'' is a ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' {{Fanfic}} by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1335522/DryBonesKing DryBonesKing]]. It's a ForWantOfANail fic, with the PointOfDivergence being that Naruto becomes friends with Hinata and Shikamaru during the Academy. Shikamaru's father Shikaku notices this and suggests to the Sandaime Hokage to place the three together as a genin team, to which the Hokage eventually accepts. Their sensei is the rather unusual choice of Anko. The story slowly spirals outward from there, with many marked changes from the original canon.

** Upon seeing how well Fu and Shino are clicking, Ino leaves and drags Choji with her, claiming that she and her teammate have to help her clan with something without further elaborating about it.

* IOweYouMyLife: During the Third War, Kakuzu saved the life of a Takigakure ninja who would become its Jōnin Commander. Of course, Kakuzu exploits this debt in order to gain access to the village and capture Fū.

* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Upon seeing how well Fu and Shino clicked, Ino left and dragged Choji with her, claiming that Choji had to help her with some "clan stuff".

** In Chapter 84, [[spoiler:Tayuya]] sings through a flute a song called "Haruka Kanata", which is the second opening theme to the first ''Naruto'' anime series.

* HandicappedBadass: Misora, a Kiri kunoichi who's actually blind, but learned to sense chakra to such a point that she doesn't appear to be blind.

* TheHerosBirthday: Naruto's fourteenth birthday is an {{inverted|Trope}} example. Said birthday happens during Chapter 56, which is the ''end'' of a story arc rather than the beginning of it.

** The fact that Naruto neutralizes Tenten's weapons via [[BlowYouAway Wind Release]] during the Preliminaries is similar how Temari does it in the anime.

* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast:
** Koharu is the "Grim Reaper of Konoha". Chapter 57 shows that she more than lives up to the name.
** [[FantasticRacism Karitoriki]] is Kirigakure's [[FinalSolution "Bloodline Hunter/Executioner"]]. In his first appearance, in Chapter 45, he executes five people who happened to have bloodlines.

** During [[TheHerosBirthday Naruto's fourteenth birthday]], [[spoiler:Hinata kisses her boyfriend on the cheek after giving him a kimono as a gift, making him blush and stutter out his thanks]].

** This happens twice during [[TheHerosBirthday Naruto's fourteenth birthday]]:

** Risho and the other Kurogane hate Konoha for the same reason, [[spoiler:albeit Risho [[TookALevelInKindness learns to overcome his hatred.]]

** The Iwa-arc shows a lot distrust of open hostility against Konoha among Iwa's general population, although many of them reconsider after [[spoiler:witnessing Shikamaru's fight in the "Yama No Osu" against Suzumebachi.]]

* TheHerosBirthday: A good chunk of Chapter 56 focuses on Naruto celebrating his fourteenth birthday alongside his loved ones.

** [[spoiler:Shikamaru and Kurotsuchi]] have theirs while having a private conversation with each other during [[TheHerosBirthday Naruto's fourteenth birthday]].

** [[spoiler:Shikamaru and Kurotsuchi]] become a couple during [[TheHerosBirthday Naruto's fourteenth birthday]].

** During [[TheHerosBirthday his fourteenth birthday]], [[spoiler:Naruto has a conversation with Han, who decides to draw and tells his fellow jinchūriki to find better companionship in one of his friends, such as Hinata. He then winks at Naruto, who blushes and nervously says he doesn't think about that kind of stuff. This is followed by Han replying that he merely implied that the Konoha ninja might enjoy her company more given that they are in a relationship and that anything Naruto thought the Iwa shinobi was implying was something that the young Uzumaki thought to himself. He then says "There's actually a psychology student about such thought-", causing Naruto to stand up and say "Okay, I'm leaving!"]]

* ShutUpKiss: During [[TheHerosBirthday Naruto's fourteenth birthday]], [[spoiler:Shikamaru and Kurotsuchi]] do this to each other during a private conversation that results in their RelationshipUpgrade.

*** In the omake from Chapter 7, she does this to Naruto, Shikamaru, and their client Yen [[AllMenArePerverts due to all of them doing stuff that makes them perverts in her eyes]] (and also after Shikamaru talks back to her when she smacks him on the head for the first time).

* ThatCameOutWrong: In Chapter 70, Anko meets Jiraiya [[spoiler:at the Hokage's office]]. He's a bit grumpy, but he explains that he was just wanting some alone time and was expecting to be bothered by someone like Hiruzen's old teammates, but he will gladly talk to her. Anko repeats "alone time" in disgust and thinks he does you-know-what in his office. He's horrified by what she just said and scowls before saying:

* IOweYouMyLife: During the Third War, Kakuzu saved the life of a Takigakure ninja who would become its Jōnin Commander. Of course, Kakuzu exploits this debt in order to gain access to the village and capture Fu.

* NotMeThisTime: When Kakuzu shows up to the Akatsuki meeting alone, everybody assumes he just killed his partner again. While Kakuzu ''was'' planning on kill him anyway, he quickly points out that his partner was actually killed by [[spoiler:a feral Naruto]].

* OurZombiesAreDifferent: On top of the canonical Edo Tensei reanimations, there are also the Revenants, zombies made out of Hidan's sacrifices to Jashin, modified for combat purposes. Hidan summons three of them in his fight against Fu.

* ShutUpKiss: During [[TheHerosBirthday Naruto's fourteenth birthday]], [[spoiler:Shikamaru and Kurotsuchi]] do this to each other during a private talk that results in their RelationshipUpgrade.

* WorthIt: After Kanji asks why the word 'kunoichi' is a thing, Tenten makes a passionate speech about why that word is a thing and how proud she is to wear that title. However, Kanji asks why not using the other word, which is ''she''-nobi, making Tenten be in disbelief that he asked that question just to make that {{pun}}. She then [[KnuckleCracking cracks her knuckles]] and [[TranquilFury asks in a soft voice if he thinks everything she just said was a joke]]. The next paragraph indicates that Kanji now has [[CranialEruption a comically-large bump on his head that causes him pain]]. Even with that bump, he still thinks it was worth it.

** Masakado has this reacion when he learns that [[spoiler:Kabuto has Mito Uzumaki's corpse]].

** While having a discussion about Naruto being Hokage, Shikamaru notes with a teasing smirk that he and Hinata will probably be by Naruto's side during his time as Hokage so he doesn't "fuck up things." In other words, Naruto will work on the peace while his two friends will do everything else for him. This comments makes Naruto tell Shikamaru to shut up while rolling his eyes.

** During [[TheHerosBirthday Naruto's fourteenth birthday]], [[spoiler:Hinata kisses her boyfriend after giving him a kimono as a gift, making him blush and stutter out his thanks]].

* AnywhereButTheirLips: In Chapter 29, [[spoiler:when Naruto is hesitant to let Hinata fight Kankuro by herself, the Hyuga girl uses her adrenaline to come closer to the Uzumaki boy and kiss him on his cheek. The blond ninja's eyes widen exponentially, which is followed by Hinata smiling and telling him she'll be fine. That kiss serves as the first step in making him realize he has feelings for her later on.]]

** During the Chūnin Exams, Neji believes Shikamaru is this to Naruto and Hinata.