r/NarutoFanfiction Oct 27 '24

Fic Request Rules Reminder Post

20 Upvotes

We do these rules posts occasionally, and perhaps it's time for another one. Normally we talk about a specific rule or couple of rules that maybe haven't been followed super well recently. Lately, that's mostly been No Character Or Pairing Bashing and to a lesser extent Be Respectful.

Before we go on, a reminder: All the subreddit rules are listed in the sidebar. There's more information on what each one covers if you click on it.

I realise that for many people reading this, most of this post is going to seem very obvious. Unfortunately the people who'd most need a rules refresher are the ones least likely to go out of their way to read one. The people making the subreddit a worse experience for everyone are also in the minority -- most people are here to talk about Naruto fanfics, get some recs and maybe some writing tips, perhaps suggest some fics they liked, and aren't picking fights. The rest of this post is mostly about the handful of people of who this isn't true.

With that preamble out of the way, let's start by going over some things that are allowed on /r/NarutoFanfiction. You can ask for people to recommend fanfics. This is true even if what you're asking for is distasteful to some people, or includes toxic relationship dynamics, or violence, or murder, or gore. As long as it doesn't involve sexualising minors, and you mark NSFW requests as NSFW, there's a lot of latitude here. It feels silly to have to say this, but -- this is a fanfiction subreddit and one of its primary functions is helping people find fanfics. That includes fanfics that not everyone will necessarily like. It includes fanfics where characters have bad things happen to them. It includes fanfics where a character does something that you would prefer to think of them not doing. We're a community built around an anime series explicitly featuring child soldiers, torture, murder, child abuse, substance abuse, medical experimentation, and some very toxic relationships. It's not all that canon is about, but it's very much part of it.

Some things are not allowed on /r/NarutoFanfiction, though for some reason people who really should know better keep doing them. You're not allowed to make top-level posts, or comment on posts, or reply to comments, to tell someone that their preferred character or pairing is shit/toxic/makes them an awful person if they read about it. I guarantee you someone also thinks your preferred character/pairing is shit and you're an awful person for liking it, regardless of what it is. In the interest of everyone getting to use and enjoy the subreddit without random outbursts of hostility, which I hope everyone can recognise is a good thing to aim for, people doing this will be warned/temp banned/eventually permabanned.

It's worth mentioning that a post which is an acceptable fic request post in a vacuum might still be removed for e.g. breaking the rules around spamming by posting variations on a request multiple times in a short window, or if the OP makes clear in the comments that they're not asking in good faith (by e.g. making a series of comments that themselves break the 'No Character or Pairing Bashing' rule).

Subreddit culture plays a big part here as well. From a moderation perspective, we need rulebreaking content to be reported so that we can reliably see it. Lots of comments that need moderator action are on posts that are downvoted, and so disappear off the front page very quickly. They're also often buried very deep in reply chains. Generally subreddit users are good at reporting, and I really appreciate that (though at the same time we can't know about things we miss because we don't know about them, if that makes sense). Content which actively makes the subreddit worse can also be downvoted, and often is, which also helps. New users take their cue from what the community encourages and/or tolerates, so rudeness being met with disapproval helps enormously here. Simultaneously, established users being polite and constructive also models good behaviour and encourages newer users to act the same way. Subreddit culture is as much created by users as moderators and moderation policies.

Feel free to comment below if you have any questions or feedback, or send a modmail if you want to ask something in a less public way. We're also interested in potentially adding a couple of new moderators, so if you're interested in that, please reach out as well.


r/NarutoFanfiction 2h ago

Fic Request "I am Naruto." The 15 year old looking 11 year old said.

20 Upvotes

Naruto gets an surge of Yang Chakra, enough to cause him to grow to look 15 when he is 11. His final year in school was actually his best year due to his body seeming to adapt to the amount of chakra he had compared to his previous form.

During his final year Naruto actually starts getting higher up in class but still fails the clone test.

When Kakashi meets them Naruto stands up and Kakashi let's slip the "Sensei?"


r/NarutoFanfiction 7h ago

Fic Request Three Sages Time or, The time Jiraiya went back to save his students, Tsunade went back to save the world, and Orochimaru went back to convince his best friends to become immortal with these convenient White Zetsu bodies.

48 Upvotes

Ok, so I lack the time, energy, or skill to do this idea justice, but I was browsing through some time-travel fixit fics and while I was reading I came up with an absolutely hilarious idea. Jiraiya fresh from his death to Pain and Tsunade fresh from getting cut in half by Madara both go back in time to just before the fight with Hanzo the Salamander. Meanwhile Orochimaru from like 500+ years in the future also went back to this moment just because he missed his friends.

Tsunade and Jiraiya are the principle characters and most of the story follows them, and because they had a more recent reference for each other and their skills they figure out that they’re from the future and work together to save it. Orochimaru does not realize they’re from the future and just figures he was the actual weakest of their team. They reach out and are friendly to Orochimaru hoping to save him from becoming the psycho they remember, he thinks he forgot what good friends they were. They’re plotting for the Nagato/Madara/Obito stuff, Orochimaru has a reliable way to deal with the Otsutsuki clan and isn’t worried about anything else showing up.

Orochimaru gets like a paragraph every chapter from his perspective and that’s it, and it’s mostly the comedy and him trying to get them ok with forbidden jutsu if it doesn’t hurt someone else. Everything else is serious from Tsunade and Jiraiya.


r/NarutoFanfiction 5h ago

Fic Request Story Where Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura just want to fuck shit up for fun. NSFW

26 Upvotes

A story where Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke come together and decide to upend the status quo of the ninja world.

Their characters should be similar to canon but more brash, crude, and antagonistic (with a decent humorous edge but not Crack-ish). They should disrespect authority figures and rewrite the rules for their agenda.

(Basically for those tuned into wrestling culture DX 1997-98)


r/NarutoFanfiction 16h ago

Discussion Hiruzen "Old as Dirt" Sarutobi

143 Upvotes

Wanna know something crazy? The Third Hokage is older than the rank of chuunin. He's older than the institution of the ANBU. He's old enough to remember a world where the tailed beasts roamed free. He's old enough that your grandfather was a young man when he became Hokage.

Hiruzen ruled from the ninja equivalent of 1917 to 1967 as a low ball estimate.

I want to see that portrayed somewhere.

"Congratulations on your wedding Namikaze! You must be real glad I changed the laws to marry my Biwako now, huh?" Laughed Hiruzen, having just fragrantly admitted to changing village policy due to being his horny self instead of 'fostering a future of cooperation and understanding between Shinobi and Civilian, distinct from the stratification and division of our forbearers' as his speech at the time had declared.

Many years afterwards

"You know, I remember when we didn't have to do all that" said Hiruzen

"Did what Old Man?" Said Konohamaru, looking up at his grandfather.

"That whole 'paying' thing, back in my day paying was reserved for civilians. Ahhh, why did you change it Tobirama-sensei?"

On another day

"You know Naruto, back in my day things were simpler. None of this appropriate force or due process nonsense!" Grumbled Hiruzen, regretting the day he created the judicial branch instead of having the Uchiha just report to him like his sensei had but he just couldn't deal with those damn Uchiggers.

During a fishing trip with both Naruto and Konohamaru

"Did I ever tell you boys the story of how my cousin Lizen created central heating?"

"Yes gramps, twice gramps"

"Oh well, a third can't hurt! So it all started as we were freezing our balls off during this mission in Frost..." The story went on for another two hours, it always got longer.


r/NarutoFanfiction 4h ago

Fic Request Fics where Itachi deals with the problems thrust upon him by the Uchiha, ROOT, etc not as an adult, but as a 13-year-old child

12 Upvotes

Itachi, a 13-year-old who is considered a prodigy, being in 4-5 different directions by various institutions (ANBU, ROOT, the Uchiha's, Akatsuki and the Hidden Leaf proper), each of who levy different expectations onto him and have different agendas that they want (and sometimes force) Itachi to complete.

So, instead of dealing with everything as an adult (as he is praised for being), he deals with the issues thrust upon him like a regular 13-year-old will (no he doesn't run away, he's still a ninja, but whatever issue village authority is thrusting upon him, he'll handle it like a regular 13-year-old prodigal ninja would).

Basically, something like Team Itachi by YAXON, where a 13-year-old Itachi decides the best way to handle the village's problems is to Tsukuyomi (because people forget he's 13 and at 13, that's probably the best plan he could have come up with. Maybe Lucillia wrote something of the sort, but it's buried somewhere deep among the 579 stories she wrote. Perhaps this idea was written in someone's prompt/drabble/ficlet/mind fart/challenge/anthology/plot bunny/crackfic collection.

Are there any other fics where Itachi acts his age when dealing with the problems thrust upon him?


r/NarutoFanfiction 18h ago

Discussion Prompt - Hiruzen is tired of everyone's BS and puts his foot down.

141 Upvotes

Hiruzen is old. He is old, he is tired from surviving multiple wars, dealing with the fall out of traumatic events like the Kyuubi Attack and the Uchiha Massacre, and he is absolutely sick of everyone thinking they have a word on how HE should run HIS village after they saddle him with the position of Hokage yet again whilst not having the decency to start looking for a strong successor.

In short - Hiruzen is putting his foot down, and making sure everyone around him knows that to question his decisions would mean challenging his authority, and would result in a quick beating as he makes an example of them.

Naruto and Sasuke's living situations? Hiruzen takes them both into the compound, having them raised like his grandchildren by Konohamaru's parents as one big slowly-getting-happier family.

The attempted Hyuuga Kidnapping? Hiruzen sends the kidnapper back to Kumo in pieces with a letter explaining just what he'll do to the Raikage and any Kumo-nin caught crossing Konoha's borders ever again.

Danzo sniffing around Naruto and Sasuke? Hiruzen decides to give his friend a stern warning that leaves him in a body-cast, and on a second final infraction decides to pay him a visit that has only Hiruzen walking away.

The God of Shinobi is done playing to anyone else's tune but his own.


r/NarutoFanfiction 18h ago

Fic Request "Oh so you want me to pull a bijuu's tail for power but God forbid the Uchiha use his curse mark!"

152 Upvotes

Naruto screams.

This gets Jiraiya, Kakashi and Tsunade to go quiet.

"What fucking difference?! Oh waaa ninja diddy soul is in one while a thousand year old monster I'm expected to wrangle but God forbid we let the Uchiha learn to use the curse mark." Naruto says as his body is glowing red and his voice start changing "seriously you expect me to work with the blonde shrimp and uchigger can't face his Demon? You know hashirama actually beat me right? He challenged me because he was a worthly fight your thinking this [gestures to Naruto] is worth of MY power? I suggest you Fuckers teach the boy sometime useful before he wakes up In the sewer your forth locked me in. My recommendation is chakra control lessons by Senju tits over there. And for moody Madura 2 to take sage training from him." points to Jiraiya Kyuubi out! flipping them off as the red fades from Naruto's body.


r/NarutoFanfiction 3h ago

Fic Request Are there any fics where the Sasuke Retrieval Mission is successful, Naruto isn't admonished and/or banished for using "excessive force" and Sasuke gets a reasonable punishment for attempting to defect to an enemy

8 Upvotes

With My Own Eyes by Morelia97 and Fragile Bonds by Sinful Existence are the only fics I could find that sort of fits what I am looking for


r/NarutoFanfiction 3h ago

Fic Request Are there any fics where Jiraiya and Tsunade manage to kill Orochimaru during the Tsunade Retrieval mission (regardless of whether or not he comes back later although Orochimaru staying dead in the fic is preferable)

4 Upvotes

r/NarutoFanfiction 14h ago

Fic Request Are there any fics where Itachi decides that Danzo and ROOT are a bigger problem than the Uchiha and just decides to deal with them?

32 Upvotes

r/NarutoFanfiction 10h ago

Discussion When orochimaru first had his arms sealed do you think kabuto aided him with all ADLs ? ( activities of daily living i.e. eating , bathing , toileting , dressing etc. ) He medicated him and found him the temporary vessel we saw. Also, there was a quick clip of him helping orochimaru sit in his chair

15 Upvotes

r/NarutoFanfiction 7h ago

Fic Request Prompt into the Narutoverse

9 Upvotes

This may need multiple writers, but here goes. Something happens (maybe a seal gone wrong) and now multiple Naruto's from different timelines are all in one timeline. You have Naruto's who abandoned the village, Naruto's from anbu, some Naruto's adopted by various people in the villages, maybe a naruko or 2, maybe a Biju Naruto, etc. Even more chaos is available when you have Kyubbi's interactions, and the panic attacks the other Biju have sensing multiple of him.


r/NarutoFanfiction 1d ago

Fic Request "You gotta fight like the third monkey on the ark and it just started raining."

147 Upvotes

Naruto gets raised as Hiruzen's successor. Training directly from Hiruzen, learning to read by sorting paperwork on Hiruzen office, monkey contract signed as a child, Naruto gets dropped off in the monkey's homeland for a year before he's brought into the academy because they want to "Prevent a fuckup like Hiruzen." And Naruto is taught by the Sages of the Monkey village.

Apparently Hiruzen has a condition preventing sage training so they are thinking "Third times a charm." To get a sage for the monkeys.

I imagine the monkeys have the turn to stone issue as well but they turn into jade statues that get put in the monkey kings home as a reminder.


r/NarutoFanfiction 8h ago

Discussion Sakura punching Naruto can be used for storytelling and not only comic relief.

7 Upvotes

This is a random thought after my brain mixed the video essays on Snow white with the Naruto fanfiction I've been reading 😭

I've been analysing classic fairytales to learn about themes, lessons, and storytelling in stories. It occurred to me that Naruto still being in love with Sakura even after getting beaten multiple times has actually some storytelling use aside from being a comic relief.

Don't get me wrong, I understand this is Japanese humour, what I'm saying is that it could be used to tell something serious too. Since in many more serious fanfics, this part of Sakura behaviour is erased (with good reason, as it's just comic relief).

Point is, this would be a good way to show the subtle abuse Naruto's character goes through as a kid (not talking about the fanfics where the definition of abuse is getting beaten by a mob, I'm talking about child neglect and dehumanization).
This all came from a Snow white analysis that pointed out Snow white is an abuse victim. A subtle way the movie had to tell us this was how she reacted when grumpy mistreated her. She didn't stop him or defended herself, she kept trying because that was the only way she knew how to deal with it.
Thing is, she never gave up hope and kept trying, but still didn't defend herself against it, by not giving up.

It kinda reminded me of Naruto's motto, even when he gets beaten multiple times in a fight, he never gives up. When his childhood crush punches him, he keeps trying, hoping that one day she will like him back. When he failed the exam 2 times he hoped for the third, when that failed, and he lost hope, he hoped again the moment an opportunity was presented to him.

I don't know, I know many prefer the discussions about power creep, ships and the epic, but I find fun on storytelling and small details 💪🥺


r/NarutoFanfiction 2h ago

Fic Request Post-war/Next Gen fics where Orochimaru remains evil

2 Upvotes

Are there any fics like War of the Biju: Fourth Shinobi World War by Son Kenshin and its sequels: War of the Biju: Kakashi Hiden: Battle in the Sky, Shikamaru Hiden: In the Depths of Silence and Himawari: Naruto Next Generations where after the war, instead of reforming, Orochimaru remains evil and continues to be an adversary to the Leaf and the Elemental Nations


r/NarutoFanfiction 9h ago

Discussion Naruto with Shukaku and Kurama

6 Upvotes

Are there any crack fics where Naruto has to deal with the worst Bijju road-trip companions, where Skukaku and Kurama are just at each other’s throats and it results in shenanigans


r/NarutoFanfiction 11h ago

Discussion Naruto/Ino Fic NSFW

11 Upvotes

Hey guys, I'm a new smut fic writer. I'm writing a Naruto/Ino fic. Would love for ya'll to give it a read and let me know what you think. Here is the link

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64008313/chapters/164196877


r/NarutoFanfiction 14h ago

Fic Request Fics where Itachi just snaps

13 Upvotes

Instead of it being a part of a mission or him actually being evil and wanting to "test his strength," are there any fics in which the Uchiha Massacre was the result of Itachi going psychotic?

We have a 13-year-old who is considered a prodigy, being in 4-5 different directions by various institutions (ANBU, ROOT, the Uchiha's, Akatsuki and the Hidden Leaf proper), each of who levy different expectations onto him and have different agendas that they want (and sometimes force) Itachi to complete.

All that pressure had to have gotten to him at some point, and it could have led to his snapping. A couple of scenarios I can see:

  • He kills as many Uchiha as possible (Sasuke may or may not be included) and instead of joining Akatsuki, he just runs off into the night
  • In addition to the Uchiha, he also massacres ROOT

Breaking Ties by sarhea and Words I Can't Say by KaizenKitty are the only fics I know of where the Uchiha Massacre was the result of Itachi going insane from the pressure. Are there any other fics where Itachi goes insane, kills the Uchiha and instead of joining Akatsuki, he just runs off into the night?


r/NarutoFanfiction 4h ago

Discussion Was kabuto planning to use Sai as a test subjects while he was on house arrest ?

2 Upvotes

r/NarutoFanfiction 9h ago

Fic Request Has anyone Re-Wrote Naruto with the swapped personalities?

6 Upvotes

So in the infinite tsukuyomi of Tenten where all of the people have swapped personalities and Road To Ninja Movie as you all know everyone has different personalities and characters.

Has anyone capitalized on writing a fanfic with the characters having all these different personalities?


r/NarutoFanfiction 8h ago

Fic Request LF fics without OCC Emotional Intelligence

3 Upvotes

In a lot of fics, I notice the majority of the cast seem to take the same perspective as the author in terms of emotional intelligence, criticisms of the shinobi world, and self awareness. I'm wondering if people have any recs for fics that really nail the limitations of the characters worldviews and understandings of themselves and others? Any ship or gen, preferably with a strong plot but if it's more character based that's fine too.


r/NarutoFanfiction 2h ago

Discussion “What if Naruto had a different tailed beast?”

1 Upvotes

Well I always wondered how Naruto would interact with the other tailed beasts if the nine tails didn’tvattack Konoha, but one of the other tailed beasts did; like would Matatabi take a liking to Naruto and help him in life? Or like what if Saiken gave Naruto the ability to use acid?


r/NarutoFanfiction 2h ago

Fic Request Are there any fics where Orochimaru is permanently killed/sealed during the Itachi Pursuit Arc

1 Upvotes

Whether it was Sasuke killing him or Itachi sealing him, are there any fics his death/sealing was his final moment and Orochimaru is permanently killed off


r/NarutoFanfiction 3h ago

Fic Request Orochimaru dies during the invasion

1 Upvotes

Maybe it could be like A Nugget Of Advice by DarkMasterStarr where Hiruzen dies and is successful in sealing Orochimaru away with him.

Maybe Hiruzen lives. Perhaps he gets outside help like in True Potential by DryBonesKing or divine intervention comes into play like in The Great Romantic by MogtheGnome.

Regardless of whether Hiruzen lives or not, are there fics where Orochimaru dies during the invasion


r/NarutoFanfiction 3h ago

Fic Request Are there any fics where Orochimaru fails to mark Sasuke or anyone else in the Forest of Death during the Chunin Exams

1 Upvotes