Line #6 Fanfic/WolfAndCub


1	[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/6814000/ Wolf And Cub]] is a fanfic by Dissenter
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3	''Synopsis'': Konoha is nastier than canon in a number of ways because the Sandaime got hit on the head during the Kyuubi attack and Danzo is therefore responsible for much of the village's actual functioning. The effects are subtle but significant and include a worsening of Anbu missions which acts as a contributory factor in driving Kakashi over the edge.
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5	A slightly unhinged Kakashi finds two-year-old Naruto being beaten up and decides the best course of action is to kidnap him and go on the run. Hilarity ensues. Other ninjas follow Kakashi's example. Zabuza has no idea how he ended up giving all these Konoha ninja parenting classes.
6	The story has several overlapping arcs.
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8	The Ninja Pirates, which include Kakashi, Naruto, Zabuza, Haku, Kisame, Itachi, Sasuke, Yamato, Shin, Sai, Yashamaru, Gaara, Gai, Lee, Tsunade, Shizune with the late addition of Jiraya and Sakura.
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10	The Superspy Arc which involves Jiraya, Sakura, Orochimaru and Kabuto.
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12	The Mad Scientist Arc with Orochimaru, Kabuto, Tobirama and Karin.
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14	The Nindiana Jones with Genma, Raido, Ino, Shikamaru and Chouji. Several Akatsuki crash in as well.
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16	Ninja Noir with Asuma, Neji, Kurenai and the baby Root agents.
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18	The Ninja Phantom Thieves with Anko, Kiba, Ebisu and Shino.
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20	!!This fic contains examples of the following tropes:
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22	* AbusiveParents: As always Rasa, thankfully Yashamaru chooses to grab Gaara and run.
23	* AccidentalTruth: Kurenai goes to the capital in order to amuse herself and toy with Asuma. To get him to cooperate with her she tells him that she has heard of a plot to murder the Fire Daimyo that he is sworn to protect. While she lied to him, some investigation reveals that there actually is a plot to murder the Daimyo.
24	* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Tsunade of all people is on the receiving end of this from Kakashi and the rest of his Ninja Pirate Crew.
25	* AppealToTradition: Prior to the establishment of the Hidden Villages, clans like the Hatake and Inuzuka regularly practiced child stealing from their enemies, preferring them under the age of four. While appalling, it is a lot better than the Uchiha and Senju tradition of killing all the children of their enemies.
26	* AristocratsAreEvil: The Noble Ninja Clans of Konoha are full of self serving individuals.
27	** These types are galore in the capital. Neji, who still has not hit two digits in age knows better than to take any noble at face value. When a dead body is found in a fancy party, Neji is not shocked that a noble killed someone but that they did it in such a public setting.
28	** In the same party, a noblewoman sexually propositions Neji, who is all of eight years old. Asuma deals with her after receiving Neji's report.
29	* AwesomeButImpractical: The act of summoning krakens while on land.
30	* BadassAdorable: All the kids, having a PersonOfMassDestruction aka a skilled jounin as your ParentalSubstitute really turns small children into serious threats.
31	* BackFromTheDead: Kabuto and Orochimaru resurrect Senju Tobirama ForScience . The Second Hokage is very glad to get a second chance to follow his true calling, Science. He adapts well to the modern era by stealing Karin Uzumaki from Grass village.
32	* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Any poor soul that has to babysit Sasuke when either Itachi or Kisame are absent, ends up a NervousWreck .
33	* BestServedCold: Anko and Kiba annoyed the heck out of Ebisu and Shino back in Konoha. Once the quiet duo go missing nin they chose to specifically target the pranksters and ruin their fun.
34	* BigBrotherInstinct: What causes the plot. Kakashi's brotherly instincts go into overdrive and he goes missing-nin, with toddler Naruto on hand.
35	** Itachi is such an extreme case that he crosses into KnightTemplarBigBrother. Shin is cut from the same cloth.
36	* BirdsOfAFeather: Haku and Shizune. They are quiet, smart kids that tend to be WeakButSkilled and belieave themselves to be the OnlySaneMan.
37	* ButtMonkey: Haku and Shizune, due to being somewhat sane, end up dealing with Naruto's pranks and mayhem, Sasuke's obsessive and vengeful tendencies, and Shin and Sai's special brand of creepy.
38	* CheerfulChild: Naruto, anyone that is not a Konoha civilian cooes at him.
39	* CrackPairing: TechnicalPacifist and PrettyBoy Itachi is on his way of ending up with BloodKnight and {{Gonk}} Kisame.
40	* CutenessOverload: Naruto is so adorable that he gets away with pretty much everything and is able to convince complete strangers to feed him copious amounts of ramen.
41	* DecadentCourt: The Capital, home to the Fire Daimyo and his court. Hizashi refuses to set foot there due to the corruption.
42	** When Neji stumbles on a murdered corpse during a fancy banquet he is not surprised that a noble murdered someone, but they did it so sloppily.
43	* DidntThinkThisThrough: In order to prevent more children being kidnapped by jounin, the Council decides to post a jounin guard on the Academy. Guess what happens.
44	* DotingParent: After abducting/adopting Kabuto, Orochimaru of all people turns into Maes Hughes much creepier cousin. He shows slides thousands of pages long to any intruder that he captures, to the point where Jiraya would actually prefer traditional torture.
45	* EldritchAbomination: Haku and Naruto are mistaken for girls and taken into an all-girls school where the headmistress is an eldritch being from beyond the stars.
46	** The Adventurer Archeologist quintet made up of Genma, Raido, Shikamaru, Ino, and Chouji end up dealing with far too many of them.
47	** Naruto ends up gaining Cthulu and Yogg Sogoth as summons.
48	* EveryoneHasStandards: Ninjas are far from morally upstanding but quite a lot of them object to the mistreatment of children, which inspires a lot of them to just take the abused or endangered child and go missing nin.
49	* FemmeFatale: Kurenai reinvents herself as one after going missing in, with Asuma as her hardboiled detective.
50	* ForScience: The reason why Kabuto, Orochimaru, and Tobirama do anything. Kabuto and Orochimaru resurrect Tobirama just to see if it could be done. After catching up with the modern age Tobirama decides to make man-eating chakra using dinosaurs smarter for the same reason.
51	* GoingForTheBigScoop: Neji writes anonymously for a gossip rag in the capital. His counterpart in a rival paper is the rebellious teenage son of a crime lord.
52	* InsistentTerminology: Asuma would like everyone to know that he did not do a Hatake. He applied through legal channels to become a permanent bodyguard to the Fire Daimyo in the Capital. And Neji is not is a kidnapee but his lawful apprentice. He got all the necessary forms from the kid's uncle and legal guardian.
53	* IntrepidReporter: Neji in the capital, aged eight, writes a gossip column thanks to the insider info he has from being a member of the Daimyo's court.
54	* {{Irony}}: Hizashi misses Neji quite a bit as he gets near the capital, but refuses to go there since it is a den of corruption and he does not want to expose Hinata to it. Unknown to him, Neji is in the capital as Asuma's Hatake style adoptee, ahem, as his lawful, entirely regular apprentice.
55	* TheKindnapper: Many of the 'abducted' kids are much better off with their new adoptive parent than their biological family. Exhibit A: Gaara.
56	* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Itachi and Shin are more than willing and very able to commit mass murder to protect their younger brothers. And their little brothers very much return the sentiment.
57	* LaserGuidedKarma: Tsume insults the parents that got their kids kidnapped as not having guarded them well enough. Sure enough Anko takes Kiba with her when she goes missing nin.
58	* LikeParentLikeChild: Guy turns Lee into his carbon copy.
59	* MissKitty: Lady Butterfly who runs the most prestigious and expensive brothel in the capital.
60	* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Gaara's mother Karura. It is telling that her brother Yashamaru fears her wrath than Shukaku's, an actual chakra monster.
61	* NamesToRunFromReallyFast: The ship of the Ninja Pirates is called The Calamity.
62	* NastyParty: Neji attends a party thrown by a relative of the Fire Daimyo. He is very shocked when he stumbles on a dead body, because Capital nobles don't kill people at parties. Parties are where they decide who to kill and hire assassins at a later date.
63	* NoSocialSkills: Kakashi, Tenzo, Sai, Shin, Itachi, Sasuke.
64	* NoSympathy: Tsume berates all the parents who have had their kids abducted by missing-nin by pointing out that they have not guarded them well enough.
65	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Most of the stuff that the children get up to when unsupervised qualifies.
66	* OnlySaneMan: Some people think they are such, but they are wrong.
67	--> You'll notice that people who may have previously seemed comparatively reasonable just took a jump off the deep end. That's because in this fic there is no sane man. Just people that seem saner than others in specific contexts.
68	* OppositesAttract: See CrackPairing for Itachi and Kisame.
69	* ParentalSubstitute: Pretty much all the kidnapping jounin. Gaara insists on having Shukaku as this. Yashamaru refuses to let him replace his sister, thus Shukaku is now Gaara's father.
70	* PersonAsVerb: Doing a Hatake, meaning going missing-nin and taking a small child with you, having legal rights to the child in question being optional.
71	* {{Pirates}}: Naruto gets the idea of starting a Ninja Pirate Crew. Zabuza calls First Mate and Kakashi Captain. Kisame, Itachi, Tenzou, Yashamaru join shortly after. Tsunade is pressganged into joining.
72	* PolarOppositeTwins: Hiashi is a Slytherin and Hizashi a Gryffindor.
73	* ThePrankster: As typical Naruto, but also Anko and Kiba.
74	* PromotedToParent: Itachi actively promotes himself. Having lost faith that his family and Konoha will be able to keep Sasuke safe.
75	* RightHandCat: Danzo somehow acquires one.
76	* SitcomArchnemesis: For the Nindiana Jones squad, the Akatsuki who try to divest them of the artifact of dooms that they neutralize and collect for safekeeping.
77	* ShipperOnDeck: Literally on deck, Kisame subtly ships Sakura/Sasuke. Since Sasuke is basically his adopted son/brother in law and Sakura is the daughter in law that he has always wanted.
78	* StockholmSyndrome: Sasuke purposely invokes it on Kisame. It mostly works because Kisame is more than willing to go along with it.
79	* TakeTheThirdOption: After the Kumo debacle, Hiashi has two choices. Either hand over his beloved twin to be killed by Kumo nin or cause a war that Konoha can't afford. He instead has his brother Hizashi pretend to have a psychotic breakdown, kidnap Hinata and kill the Kumo ambassador on his way out.
80	** Again, with Neji he can either let the elders mistreat the boy or go against the elders to protect him and cause discord in the clan. He opts to force Asuma to take Neji to the Capital as an apprentice.
81	* VitriolicBestBuds: What Kakashi and Itachi assume that Naruto and Sasuke are, but the boys actually loathe having to spend time together when their respective big bros have a mission to run.
82	* WomanScorned: Kakashi warns Naruto of this trope, telling him to avoid making women angry because they will find a way to make him miserable. Case to point, Shizune dyes Naruto's precious orange clothes, neon pink.
83	** Yashamaru is far more scared of his dead sister than of the tailed beast sealed inside his nephew. When Gaara really insists on having a literal chakra monster as a parent, Yashamaru tells him that Shukaku can be his father but not his mother. Otherwise, Karura will make his afterlife very unpleasant.

Context Fanfic / WolfAndCub