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Naruto is not the only Academy graduate without clan heritage, but he is the only ninja in years to graduate without any talent. His generation is filled with geniuses and everyone is convinced Naruto does not stand a chance keeping up with them. If he wants to be Hokage, and he does, he will just have to train a dozen times harder than everyone else.
This story got inspired by an observation that, for a story supposedly about born-a-genius Sasuke versus hard-work Naruto, Sasuke sure trains hard and Naruto is born with a lot of advantages. So, here’s a rewrite of canon where Naruto is born with only disadvantages and he becomes the best ninja that has ever lived through stubborn hard work. Most ninja are blessed with ‘talent’ from spirit animals who will eventually become their summons, and greatly decrease the amount of effort it takes for them to learn new skills. Naruto is cursed instead.
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- Part 1 of Sundial in the Shade
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Konoha's Celestial Forge by WriterBen01
Fandoms: Naruto, Celestial Forge CYOA - Lord Roustabout
02 Mar 2026
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Kinzoku Ginyoku was the heir of a great clan. But, unable to use chakra, he was rejected and cast out. It was only after that rejection and as a late-bloomer that his bloodline limit activated. It was not the gift of a single technology like his clanmates but the slowly expanding Celestial Forge: a collection of crafting skills/powers/knowledge that has unlimited potential. Of course, that only helps him if he can survive the dangers in Konoha while his powers build slowly into something that can protect him.
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To Pokémon Trainers Who don't Fear Death by WriterBen01
Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
22 Apr 2024
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Who wouldn't want to go on an interdimensional trip through all or their favourite fictional universes, gaining impressive powers with each jump? Well, it does involve leaving your husband frozen in time while you gradually change into a different person. And living for ten years with the drawbacks you chose in the spur of the moment.
And it involves the one person you NEVER wanted to see again, let alone would want to be trapped travelling with.
Gifts that come with conditions can feel like punishment.
Fair warning: currently not being worked on.
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- Part 1 of To Those Who don't Fear Death
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A companion piece to Sundial in the Shade.
1. The origin of the tailed beasts (as told by the spirit animals)
2. The story of three wolves (as told by Konoha’s history books)
3. The problem we call the Piano Man (An Uchiha rebel)
4. So your child has Talent, what next? (A Konoha educational pamphlet)Series
- Part 2 of Sundial in the Shade
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Collection of Tumblr prompt responses with various themes. Each chapter is a stand-alone.
1. The body snatcher makes a better husband
2. The lawyer that mediates between the fae whose food was eaten without permission and the vampire that drank the fae’s blood
3. Humans solve space pandemics
4. Perhaps we shouldn’t put micro-universe AU Prediction technology up as a museum attraction for people to test their romantic compatibility.
5. Social experiment. Each day a different person is ‘king’. Everyone else must obey or die. How the deaf man wins from nazis.
6. Fantasy villain treats his minions nicely.
7. The reasons why a dragon respects a farmer as the strongest
8. Magical girl returns to real world with PTSD and goddess skills, once again a toddler
9. Doctor AI wants to help people beyond what capitalistic bosses allowSeries
- Part 2 of Tumblr prompts
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To Those Who don't Fear Death by WriterBen01
Fandom Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types
22 Apr 2024
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All the World's a Stage by NullenVoid
Fandoms: The Muppets - All Media Types, Naruto (Anime & Manga)
29 Apr 2024
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A puppeteer from Suna is injured on an ill-advised mission and is forced into medical leave. During his downtime, he develops an unusual hobby that grows into something bigger than anyone would have expected.
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14 Mar 2026
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When Yusami finds out she's been dropped into the Naruto universe, she doesn't know if she should feel relieved or cheated to have missed out on all of the cool ninja stuff.
"Both" she decides as she looks down at her favorite customer and wonders how she can sneak extra veggies into his bag without him noticing, "Definitely both."
Or: a self-insert becomes a simple grocer in Konohagakure and decides that if no one else is going to adopt the baby protagonist, then it's free real estate.
Featuring: a civilian woman beating Danzou at his own game, Naruto finding the love he's always deserved, and a hefty amount of ANBU operatives wondering if the Uchiha are accepting volunteers for that little coup/revolution.
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- Part 1 of Take This Hearth and Make a Home
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An Everdistant Horizon by AlSmash
Fandoms: Parahumans Series - Wildbow, Horizon (Video Games)
12 Jan 2026
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Taylor may be blind, but she sees far more than everyone else.
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12 Feb 2025
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After the events of War Crimes, Sokka and Zuko have escaped Zhao’s warship and are fleeing across the Earth Kingdom. As well as unfamiliar terrain, they have to navigate their shared trauma, work out where they fit into the war, and their place in each others lives.
Sokka is aware that being friends with the enemy is going to bring complications, but he probably should have guessed that being friends with Zuko in particular, was going to be a bit like dunking your head repeatedly into a bucket of angry Fire Ferrets.
Katara is also grappling with the confusion of befriending an enemy, something that doesn’t prove as difficult as she had expected with the bond of shared, furious grief bridging old wounds. (Learning a new way to look at her bending doesn't hurt either)
Azula, struggling with the Fire Lord’s mistrust, encounters a few nasty surprises and has to make some difficult decisions. Luckily, she is a great deal better at making sensible choices than her brother.
Her father may have made a slight tactical error.
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- Part 2 of All's Fair
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24 Jan 2025
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Harry dies. And then he wakes back up- only, he's eleven again, and waiting to be sorted.
Except, it's not his sorting. He's found himself in 1971, and he has absolutely no idea what to do. He's friendless and wandless and the constant sight of his eleven-year-old parents and his parents' eleven-year-old friends walking around and laughing and being alive is not helping him feel any less alone.
But he's not alone. Because as it turns out, he's not the only one that's come back.
Far from it.
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17 Jan 2025