Green Leaves
is a crossover fanfic between Naruto and My Hero Academia, written on Archive of Our Own by dEBB987.
In which Team Guy accidentally stumbles into another dimension filled with literally Quirky people and proceeds to freak them out with their ninja ethics and (lack of) fashion style. But that's fine, it's only until they manage to go back to Konoha... right?
The thing is, having a way back and wanting to get back might not coincide, and that's the point when it gets complicated.
Contains the following tropes
- Artistic License – Child Labor Laws: Team Guy is thoroughly baffled by the Quirkverse people refusing to give underaged kids a job, since genins are legally allowed to pay taxes and Guy remembers helping his dad with a construction job at barely four years old.
- Defrosting Ice King: Neji flat-out rejects every attempt by his sensei and teammates to include him in the team, since he doesn't feel he can trust them. After Guy validates the Hyuga teen's wish to stay in the modern era, Neji starts calling him sensei instead of using his given name and makes a genuine effort to apologize to Tenten and Lee for being a jerk to them.
- Entertainingly Wrong:
- Mandalay's conclusion when the Wild Wild Pussycats have to rescue Team Guy in the woods is that a trio of teen scouts wanted to trek through the countryside and thought it would be alright to ask for one of their dads to serve as guide instead of enlisting someone actually qualified.
- Eraserhead hears about Lee fighting criminals in the streets and Guy being a participant for cage-fighting, and concludes Lee has a Quirk allowing him to pass as an older man — seriously, what are the odds for two people inflicting their questionable fashion sense and unreasonably big eyebrows on people?
- Everyone Has Standards:
- Tenten is cold and mistrusting of Neji's attempt to apologize for his previous jerkass behaviour, but when she gets a look at his Caged Bird Seal she's aghast and declares it cruel.
- Tensei Iida is quite the Reasonable Authority Figure and a staunch Nice Guy, but even his good manners falter in front of Guy and Lee sharing a "youthful" embrace. With a sparkling rainbow.
- Family Versus Career: Might Dai willingly sacrificed any possibility for him to be promoted beyond genin, as he was very aware he would be sent in the war's first lines for his Eight Gates mastery and he wanted to be there to raise Guy instead, no matter the lack of financial safety.
- Hates Being Touched: Neji really doesn't like Guy being a Cuddle Bug, and it worsens after seeing the jonin's advanced mastery of the Eight Gates, as the teen is now aware of how effortlessly Guy could manhandle him and feels helpless.
- I Choose to Stay: Guy reassuring Neji it's okay for the teen to want to keep living in a world in which nobody will use the Caged Bird Seal to degrade or enslave him is enough to reduce Neji to tears.
- I Just Want to Be Free: Neji desperately wants to escape somewhere he won't have to fear being abused for belonging to the Branch family or having his eyes stolen. He becomes even more uneasy around Guy after becoming aware of how easily the jonin could enforce authority upon him, and is reduced to tears when Guy decides to give him the choice to stay in the modern era.
- Just a Kid: The teens are quite disgruntled by the Quirkverse seeing them first and foremost as middle-schoolers, to the point that Lee gets annoyed with Tensei for calling attention to him only being thirteen years old.
- Mistaken for Related: What do you mean, these two weirdos with the bowl cut and the green spandex are not father and son? Just look at these eyebrows!
- Narnia Time: Three days in the human world is six hours for the Summoning dimension, so when Gai's Summoned tortoise laments he will need a week to arrange a way back to Konoha, it still lets the team stranded in the Quirkverse for three months.
- Nice Guy: Guy constantly smiles, offers to adopt Tenten if she needs a surname on her documentation, is nothing but supportive and understanding of Twice and his mental illness, and cannot bring himself to drag Neji back to a place making him unhappy.
- Nothing Is Scarier: There's a criminal ring responsible for middle schoolers disappearing. Whatever they do with these kids, trained jonin Might Guy was disgusted and Tensei Iida was ready to wave Tenten and Neji's extreme retaliation against the ring as justified self-defense.
- Papa Wolf: Guy is ready to betray Konoha, the village he genuinely loves, despite the heavy punishment looming over his head, because he refuses to force Neji to come back when he's so obviously desperate to stay in the modern era in spite of being considered an asset to the Hyuga Clan.
- Properly Paranoid: Both Hiruzen and Danzo were extremely wary of finally granting Guy a genin team of his own, as they suspected he would rather protect the kids' happiness and well-being than focusing on the village's needs. Sure enough, Guy would allow Neji to remain in the modern era since he cannot bring himself to force the teen to endure a life of slavery at his relatives' hands.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Tensei Iida offers Guy to work at his pro-hero agence in spite of the other man lacking documentation, and deems Neji assaulting criminals with almost lethal force justified self-defense since they were abducting middle-schoolers.
- Spared by the Adaptation: With Guy kicking the piss out of Stain before the man can assault Ingenium, Tensei retains the use of his legs.
- Struggling Single Father: As the one adult responsible for three teens, Guy has to provide income and enlists in a legally dubious fighting club since it pays reasonably well for less time and won't ask for documentation he doesn't have.
- To Be Lawful or Good: A good jonin would force Neji back to Konoha, since allowing a Byakugan-holder to run away would be a potential opening in the village's defenses. The thing is, Guy might be a good jonin but he's first and foremost a good man.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Guy and Lee genuinely trust in Konoha not being such a bad place after all, and forgiving a jonin allowing a military asset to run away. Neji and Tenten don't share the optimism.
- Would Hurt a Child:
- Tobi apparently tried to pluck Neji's eyes out and was only foiled by Guy jumping in front of his student.
- This criminal ring responsible for several middle-schoolers disappearing.
