History Fanfic / TruePotential

* GetARoom: Following a mission in Suna, [[spoiler:Naruto is reunited with Hinata, where they end up hugging and kissing each other. Hanabi tells them to get a room, making the two lovebirds blush.]]

** Kiba and the rest of the Inuzuka-Clan blame Iwa for the large casualties among them during the Third Shinobi World War.

** The Iwa-arc shows a lot of distrust and 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.]]

** Shikamaru comments how often C-Rank missions end up becoming more dangerous than they should be due to somehow ending up involving fighting against a high-level missin-nin (as it happened to Team 3, Team 7 and Team 10), to the point that he thinks that the "C" of the C-Rank stands for "Curse".
** A similar conversation happens when they find out about [[spoiler:Akatsuki's plan to invade Kumo during their Chūnin Exams]].

** The Root arc ends with [[spoiler:Danzō's death but at the cost of Hiruzen sacrificing his own life]].

** [[spoiler:Sai]] as well, who is killed by Sakura during the Root Arc.

** Due to [[spoiler:Jiraiya]] being the one who becomes Hokage here, Tsunade's role is simply that of mentor to [[spoiler:Shikamaru]], but even then, she doesn't appear much, with her only notable role being part of the pursuit team in the Root arc.

** [[spoiler:Instead of pulling a HeroicSacrifice during the Sand-Sound Invasion, Hiruzen pulls one during the Root Arc, which takes place three years after the event. Unlike in canon, his death didn't involve him using the [[SuicideAttack Reaper Seal]]]].

** It's subtle, but chapter 95 gives one to the [[{{Fanon}} idea of Naruto actively being physically abused by Konoha's citizens during his academy days]], with the Root agent Kido saying that only a fool would willingly assault Konoha's only jinchūriki.

** Invoked by Naruto and Anko during their fight against [[spoiler:Kabuto, as while he's rambling about his past of being a Root agent, the two are gathering Natural Energy to enter Sage Mode]].

* CurseCutShort: Kanji makes a really sarcastic comment in Chapter 62. After hearing this, Katsumi crosses her arms and says "Sarcastic ass-" before being interrupted by the arrival of Lee and Tenten.

** Kido Tsumiki, from ''Literature/SakuraHidenThoughtsOfLoveRidingUponASpringBreeze'', Tanuki Shigaraki, the Nue, and Tagitsuhime from the '' Manga/{{Boruto}} '' anime, Metoro and Etoro from ''Literature/GaaraHidenASandstormMirage'' and En Oyashiro, Chino, Nowaki, Amuda, Karyu, and Futsu from ''Sasuke Shinden: Book of Sunrise'' make their debuts in the Shippūden story.

* IDoNotOwn: Every chapter starts out with one in some form, with [=DryBoneKing=] sometimes jokingly trying to buy out the rights from Creator/MasashiKishimoto.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Suzumebachi manages to galvanize plenty of support in Iwa towards challenging Onoki to a formal duel for the position of Tsuchikage in her plot to erase all the progress he's made and go to war against Konoha (especially after [[spoiler:Danzo's operatives manage to kill her brothers but fail to kill her]]); traditionally, when the duel is won, the loser and all of Iwa will follow the winner's lead without question. [[spoiler:But after her victory, Suzumebachi then coldly executes the unconscious and helpless Onoki. This blatant breaking of tradition and cold-blooded act of murder ''immediately'' turns the entire crowd against her, guaranteeing they'd never follow her as Tsuchikage and leaving the alliance with Konoha intact]].

* FaceYourFears: Why Hinata accepted to act as the Hokage's bodyguard during his meeting with the Raikage: to show everybody that she isn't afraid of him or Kumo from what happened during the Hyuga Affair.

* ChallengingTheChief: Iwa has the tradition of the "Yama no Osu", where a shinobi with enough public support can challange the Tsuchikage to a non-lethal duel for the position. It is how Mū became Tsuchikage. It may also be team-fight. [[spoiler:Suzumebachi challenges and beats Onoki by using a resurrected Mū as her partner, before going against tradition and killing him. Kurotsuchi uses the appalled crowd to challenge her in return right on the spot, beating her and becoming Tsuchikage herself.]]

* ChallengingTheChief: Iwa has the tradition of the "Yama no Osu", where a Shinobi with enough public support can challange the Tsuchikage to a non-leathal duel for the position. It is how Mū became Tsuchikage. It may also be be team-fight.[[spoiler:Suzumebachi challenges and beats Onoki by using a resurrected Mū as her partner, before going against tradition and killing him. Kurotsuchi uses the appaled crowd to challange her in-rturn right on the spot, beating her and becoming Tsuchikage herself.]]

** Kido Tsumiki, from ''Literature/SakuraHidenThoughtsOfLoveRidingUponASpringBreeze'', Tanuki Shigaraki and the Nue, from the '' Manga/{{Boruto}} '' anime, Metoro and Etoro from ''Literature/GaaraHidenASandstormMirage'' and En Oyashiro, Chino, Nowaki, Amuda, Karyu, and Futsu from ''Sasuke Shinden: Book of Sunrise'' make their debuts in the Shippūden story.

* BigOMG: Ino, who has been trying to find the perfect girlfriend for Shino, mentally screams "OH MY GOD!" when she sees [[NotSoStoic the Aburame blushing]] while talking to Fū and realizes the latter is perfect for him.

** Risho, from Iwa [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomped]] Kiba and almost killed him in the preliminary exams. Why? Risho is from the Kurogane clan. During the Third Great Ninja War, over a third of Iwa's casualties came from said clan alone. Sasuke and Sakura aren't sympathetic and the former clearly hopes to avenge Kiba. Naruto, while slightly sympathetic and pointing out that Kiba was also a jerk, also adds that Kiba had nothing to do with the Kurogane clan's casualties.

** Later {{Subverted}}: when meeting Risho's cousin, who's even more of a {{Jerkass}}, verbally abuses Risho and threatened to have him thrown out of the clan, Naruto quickly sympathizes with Risho.
** An old woman explains to Shikamaru and Suigetsu in Chapter 45 that she is excited about the execution of five bloodline wielders because her husband and children were killed by the Kaguya clan (who happens to have bloodlines). While they hide it, Suigetsu (who has a bloodline himself) later tells Shikamaru that he's not sympathetic at all and that he's sure that the people about to be executed have nothing to do with the woman's family's death. Shikamaru agrees.
--->"" I know about the fucking mission, okay? I'm doing what I can! But it's kinda hard hearing these bastards talk about how they're excited to watch people like me die." Suigetsu hissed at him. "I don't care who or what killed their families. It wasn't me and I sure as hell know it wasn't any of the people they're going to execute. So sorry if it pisses me off listening to them talk for too long!""
** When Hiruzen orders Tsunade to come back to Konoha, he tells her that the loss of Dan and Nawaki is not an excuse to become bitter towards Konoha, as it would dishonor the very thing Dan and Nawaki fought for.
--->'''Hiruzen:''' I know what happened to Nawaki and Dan, Tsunade. I know you are still affected by the events, but we have all experienced loss. I gave you all of the time in the world to mourn; I did not give you time to allow your grief to consume you. And I did not give you time to place any form of bitterness against Konoha, the very village that both Nawaki and Dan loved above all else! They would both be honored to see you as the Hokage and you know that. Don't reject the title [of Hokage] out of bitterness; the very action is a direct insult against everything they stood for!"
** And again, when Naruto finds out that Kabuto used to be a Root agent at the tender age of ten, and that his childhood was probably many times worse than Naruto's, Naruto still makes clear that this doesn't excuse all the evil things he's done since then.

* {{Anticlimax}}: [[spoiler:[[TheJuggernaut Kimimaro]]]] is unceremoniously killed off by Kabuto while in a coma, having never even encountered the heroes. Somewhat Justified post-TimeSkip: Kabuto [[spoiler:gives Kimimaro's body to Sasori for use as a puppet and as a peace offering]].

** Upon seeing how well Fū 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.

* EvilCounterpart: Tatsuma Aburame is this to Shino. While the latter (and presumably, the rest of his clan) shows a lot of care of his kikaichu, Tatsuma only sees them as tools and submits them to harsh conditions in order to make them stronger, not caring that most of them die as a result.

* ThisIsUnforgivable: Shino and Fu's reaction when they learn that Tatsuma (an Aburame Root agent), in order to create fire-resistant kikaichu, had to submit dozens of generations of kikaichu to a fiery death until they developed fire resistance. On top of that, he also developed a special breed of kikaichu that attack by blowing themselves up.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Like in canon, Kabuto grafts onto himself the DNA of many ninja to acquire their abilities. Unlike canon, though, he extends this to far more people than just Orochimaru, the Sound Five, and Taka. He has revealed to possess so far Kimimaro's [[BadWithTheBone Dead Bone Pulse]], Guren's [[GemstoneAssault Crystal Release]] and Pakura's [[PlayingWithFire Scorch Release]]. And he plans to raid more cemeteries in order to acquire even more Bloodline Limits.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Like in canon, Kabuto grafted onto himself the DNA of many ninja to acquire their abilities. Unlike canon, though, he extends this to far more people than just Orochimaru, the Sound Five and Taka. He has revealed to possess so far Kimimaro's [[BadWithTheBone Dead Bone Pulse]], Guren's [[GemstoneAssault Crystal Release]] and Pakura's [[PlayingWithFire Scorch Release]]. And he plans to raid more cemeteries in order to acquire even more Bloodline Limits.

** In the Omake from Chapter 17, Kurotsuchi tells Shikamaru that she told his teammates her plan to keep him awake that night (as a revenge for when Shikamaru refused to play at least one card game with her because he was too tired) and, as a result, said teammates are sleeping in other rooms. His response is to say this trope word for word.

*** Later, when Anko is confronting Naruto about having to blow a week's worth of pay on ramen, Naruto says that he tried to eat ''less'' than usual, since he didn't want Anko to spend too much money on him. A rather shocked Anko tries to ponder how Naruto can eat so much ramen and, more importantly, pay for it with his Genin earning.

*** Later, when Anko is confronting Naruto about having to blow a week worth of pay on ramen, Naruto says that he tried to eat ''less'' than usual, since he didn't want Anko to spend too much money on him. A rather shocked Anko tries to ponder how Naruto can eat so much ramen and, more importantly, pay for it with his Genin earning.

** Anko has this reaction upon seeing the bill after treating Naruto to ramen. Teuchi mentioned that Iruka and the Third Hokage had similar reactions.
*** Later, when Anko is confronting Naruto about having to blow a week worth of pay on ramen, Naruto said that he tried to eat ''less'' than usual, since he didn't want Anko to spend too much money on him. A rather shocked Anko tries to ponder how Naruto can eat so much ramen and, more importantly, pay for it with his Genin earning.

** In Chapter 84, [[spoiler:Tayuya]] plays through a flute a song called "Haruka Kanata", which is the second opening theme to the first ''Naruto'' anime series. Two chapters later, she plays "Blue Bird", the third opening theme to ''Shippuden''.

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

* RightForTheWrongReasons: An invoked trope. [[spoiler:After the Kiri invasion, Yagura's survival is kept as an S-class secret. However, gossip is already spreading that Naruto helped to kill him, and Hiruzen is well aware that Naruto won't be able to entirely keep in his discomfort at maintaining the lie. Instead, he suggests that Naruto admit discomfort due to "killing" a fellow jinchūriki. This seems to work so far]].