Introvertedπ Image
is a Naruto fanfiction by Shadenight123π Image
. Naruto has become introverted due a mistake that ended up with Teuchi being killed.
He, Sakura, and Sai end up as members of Team 13, under the guidance of Aoba. Unique in that it takes a realistic look at what the shinobi world is like and how death is sudden and quick, with Naruto forced to deal being the Jinchuuriki as well as the live of a shinobi. It's a Dark Fic, fair warning.
This fic is now completed.
Tropes found in this fanfiction:
- Aborted Declaration of Love: Hinata, during the first part of the Chuunin Exam.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Naruto dyes his hair black in order to stand out less
- Anyone Can Die: To an extreme degree. By the end of the fic, nearly every named character from canon outside of Naruto, Sakura, Orochimaru, and a few others are still left standing.
- Attack Pattern Alpha: Aoba's Contingency book.
- Babies Ever After: The ending reveals that Naruto had children with Karin, Kurotsuchi, and Sakura.
- Back-to-Back Badasses: Team Thirteen's general group tactic involves much back-to-back.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Orochimaru used Naruto in order to do it, but he got what he wanted in the end.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: From the moment the Kyuubi starts talking, he begins trying to mold Naruto his way. Especially visible in chapters 17 and 29.
- Beneath the Mask: Who doesn't have one in the shinobi world?
- Bittersweet Ending: Peace has been brought about, but in the process almost every named character has died.
- Blatant Item Placement: Naruto learned his mother was Orochimaru's student and was killed when Kyuubi broke free by a scroll far way from the section it was supposed to be and open...then Danzo, who wasn't there, conveniently asked him the right questions. Averted, since Chapter Three and Thirteen foreshadow Danzo's purposefully placing the scroll in the archives for Naruto to find.
- Body Horror: What Orochimaru does to his experiments.
- Break the Cutie: The author must hate the kids for the sheer amount of angst.
- Break Them by Talking: The Kyuubi does this. A lot.
- Breather Episode: The author refers to Chapters 18-20 as the "fluff" chapters.
- Child Soldiers: Yeah, this series doesn't try to glorify it either.
- Doorstopper: The fic is 442,070 words long in total.
- Duel to the Death: Naruto Versus Gaara. Naruto wins.
- Even Evil Has Standards:
- Downplayed in regards to Orochimaru sparing Hebi, an orphan girl, from combat by taking her on as an appearance. While he spares an untrained child from senselessly dying, he proceeds to give her the same Training from Hell he did with Anko years prior.
- Later on, Orochimaru does show genuine remorse for Sarutobi's death, lamenting how their relationship deteriorated, with his sadness even leading to a brief Pet the Dog moment with Hebi.
- Every Man Has His Price: Naruto managed to buy off Kakuzu for Fuu by giving him the Rasengan, outright betraying the village, which bit him in the ass.
- Eye Scream:
- When tricked into torturing them under the guise of a test, among other things, Sakura stabs Naruto and rips out his eye with a kunai.
- In Chapter 31, Kabuto rips out Sasuke's eyes.
- In Chapter 32, Hiruzen rips out Danzo's Sharingan and crushes it; Anko removes one in his arm a few chapters later, though with the intention of transplanting it later.
- Faking the Dead:
- Several genin are "killed" during the written exam in order to impress to seriousness of being a ninja onto any remaining examinees who have yet to experience the harsher parts of the position.
- Danzo fakes his own in the front lines to infiltrate the Land of the Sky.
- Naruto fakes his own and became a missing-nin.
- False Crucible: The Chuunin First Exam for some Genin.
- Fate Worse than Death: Kushina did survive childbirth, but was turned into little more than a blob of flesh hidden away in the hospital and kept on "life support".
- From Bad to Worse: Regularly lampshaded in the end of chapter author's notes, where they regularly remind the reader that any moments of fluff or levity are only meant as a brief respite before making the characters suffer even more.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Sakura gets this bad after Chapter 23, which arguably gets worse after her Training from Hell. Any woman, no matter their age, who acts even remotely friendly with Naruto is automatically labeled a bitch and a whore who is out to steal him from her.
- Harmful Healing : While this is already presented in canon, the drawback Naruto's healing factor does greater damage because he has been using more of Kyuubi's chakra than in canon. According to the Kyuubi, he's already lost about 90 years of his life. But that was a lie.
- I'm a Humanitarian: When ever the Kyuubi takes over, he has a tendency to turn Naruto into a cannibal. Also, as part of his contract with the Carrion Crows he must feast with them.
- Interrogated for Nothing: Naruto, by Sakura after both were tricked by someone posing as their teacher. Naruto was told it was a pain tolerance test and Sakura was told he gave the mission that got Ino killed away.
- In the Back: Karin launches senbon needles to Naruto in Chapter 39 to prevent him from running away.
- Leave No Witnesses:
- Naruto kills an entire village after being forced to use his Shadow Clones to save them in the first place.
- Sakura has to do this a lot. It has only made her sanity worse.
- Mind Rape: What Danzo did to Naruto using his sharingan, according to Kyuubi.
- Motivational Kiss: Karin gives on to Naruto in Chapter 23 on the cheek. Sakura promptly tops it by kissing him on the lips.
- Necessarily Evil: Naruto, in the end. Orochimaru as well.
- Never My Fault: Naruto has, sadly, developed a case of this.
- No-Holds-Barred Beatdown:
- In preparation of the Chuunin Exams or rather, so that they can't participate Kakashi delivers this to his own team, completely crushing Sasuke especially.
The Uchiha had its limbs twisted and broken; his eyes snapped shut because of sand and his breathing irregular.- Naruto versus everyone at the Peace Talks.
- Out-Gambitted: Orochimaru managed to get around all the precautions the Hokage and Danzo set into place by not attacking Konoha but its allies instead while Kabuto got Sasuke's eyes and samples. Kyuubi outsmarted the seal and Naruto outsmarted him. In the end Orochimaru sort of wins in that Naruto accomplished his plans.
- Secret Test of Character: The mining village mission of chapter 44. π This example contains a YMMV entry. It should be moved to the YMMV tab.
Moral Event Horizon for Naruto. - Self-Made Orphan: Sakura inadvertently becomes this, unknowingly biting and clawing her parents to death in a feral haze. Her memories of doing so were forcibly suppressed, and she is instead told that they had merely left the village shortly after Sakura's fight against, and later being giving the "news" several weeks later that they died on the way home. Eventually subverted, as it is revealed in the final chapters that this was a false memory that was implanted into their mind.
- Sympathy for the Hero: Kakuzu has a surprising amount of this for Naruto. Won't stop him from collecting him in a few years, but still.
- "Take That!" Kiss: Kurotsuchi to Naruto, after trapping him and his team and stealing their scrolls during the second part of the Chuunin Exams. He gets to give one back, albeit while under the control of the Kyuubi, during the tournament part of the exams.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: Mostly with Naruto, but Sakura in chapter 29 is disturbing. Even more so later on.
- Too Kinky to Torture: Karin finds pain synonymous with love.
- Tournament Arc: Chapters 29 through 31. Not Just a Tournament for Danzo as he mind-controlled Naruto to ensure the might of the Jinchuuriki could not be questioned...by having him show no mercy to his opponents, and Orochimaru, who used the heightened paranoia to attack somewhere completely different than expected.
- Training from Hell: Discussed and deconstructed with Sakura's training under Anko in order to fight Neji during the ChΕ«nin Exams. Yugao is against it given that Anko's own sanity has been deeply in question for years after she underwent this as a child under Orochimaru. Their fears are ultimately justified, as the trauma of the training shatters Sakura's psyche, as she was unceremoniously tossed into Forest of Death for a month with a broken limb, barely any chakra, and no means to defend herself. In the immediate aftermath, she's unable to recognize anyone other than her teammates as allies and ends up unknowingly slaughtering her own parents in the midst of her confused, disordered thoughts. Even when she's returned to "sanity", she's still something of a Feral Child, having internalized many animalistic behaviors
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Orochimaru and Naruto. Both wanted peace in the end and both got it.
- Wham Episode:
- Chapter 46 has Hidan killed and Naruto betraying the village by giving a member of Akatsuki the Rasengan after he killed Yamato in exchange for Fuu, marking the end of his innocence after everything. At the same time, Sakura quits Anbu and awaits him to answer if he loved her or not.
- Chapter 52 has Naruto a missing-nin after having been called out on betraying the village and had his death faked.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Hinata and Ayame and other minor characters who weren't featured in the final arc of the stories. The Author leaves it up to the readers to decide on their own.
- Will Not Tell a Lie: Kyuubi, at least, that's what he says. Turns out that itself was a lie which he tells others to benefit himself.
- Worthy Opponent: Kakuzu is expecting this of Naruto when he returns for him.
- Would Hurt a Child: Naruto kills every child, down to a newborn, personally in chapter 44.
