Time and Time Again Time and Time Again Naruto

Claret.
He could smell it everywhere. On him, on the burning buildings around him, leaking out of the body of the final of his childhood friends not far from him, it was even in the mud that he was lying in. Something cold and wet hit his face, causing him to stir and first to bring him back to his senses. Was information technology raining too? He couldn't remember when it had started.

— Prologue

Fourth dimension and Again, and its sequel, is a masterful re-telling of Naruto, with a twist.

The future has gone bad, very bad. Konoha has been destroyed and Orochimaru-as-Sasuke stands on the threshold of complete and terminal victory. Then, in the final moments, his life leaking away, Naruto lands a decisive blow before losing consciousness.

Then he wakes up—twenty years in the past.

At beginning Naruto suspects a really awful hangover, and then genjutsu, of beingness the crusade of the strangeness surrounding him. Then the possibilities hit him...

With powerful, poignant label, excellent pacing, humor, drama, and suspense, Fourth dimension and Again is the prototype of Peggy Sue fanfic; with a tendency towards nail-bitter tension. An examination of the Peggy Sue and God-Mode Sue plot devices that plays directly, deconstructs, inverts, averts, and turns 'em every mode but loose!

The recipe is heavily Original Flavour, amazingly and so: the writer has repeatedly guessed upcoming catechism plot twists, sometimes months before they happened (...well, with a few notable exceptions, but nobody's all-seeing)!

In addition, unlike most Peggy Sue stories, as time passes the plot leans towards Darker and Edgier.

Now it has a fan vid

Besides worth reading is Tsuki no Kage, a one-shot Tear Jerker past a unlike author retelling the flashback between Future Naruto and Future Hinata from her perspective instead.

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This story provides examples of:

• Malaise:
  • Naruto falls into a cursory funk later on he fails to stop Haku'southward suicide, and thinks he may have inadvertently gotten Akamaru killed.
  • After, he falls into a more serious one later he is captured and tortured by Orochimaru for 2 years!
  • He besides most breaks down later Hinata rejects him to make her own decisions and he realises he's been manipulating his friends even though they're trying to alive their own lives.
• Adaptation Distillation: Debatable - Some aspects/arcs are glossed over, others are profoundly expanded.
• Armor-Piercing Question: One that Naruto asks himself: "The real question was: what actions did dearest alibi?"
• Arranged Marriage: Hinata was forced into one in the Bad Future.
• Bad Hereafter: The future seen in the prologue is ane.
• The Bad Guy Wins: The prologue is gear up right when Orochimaru is about to accomplish complete victory.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: Some interpretations of the Sasuke/Sakura romance and Ship Tease. Which is which is open to debate.
• Big Bad: Orochimaru is the master villain. Akatsuki start to act in Hither And Now, only they play a very small-scale role earlier the fic dies.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • Kabuto's team take the identify of the Sand Siblings saving the heroes from the Sound Five in catechism. Unlike in canon, they pay for information technology badly, with Tsurugi and Yoroi dying hideous deaths.
  • Gaara (and his siblings, but by and large Gaara) salvage the Hidden Sand hamlet (Suna) from existence conquered.
• Brainwashed / Heed Rape: The listen-control jutsu from the future turns people into sleeper agents who tin exist activated with a passphrase to assail their comrades. May really exist People Puppets. The mind-controlled victim is entirely aware of what'southward happening to them.
• Brick Joke:
  • Cutting people's pilus while they slumber, almost a Bookend since Naruto mentions how twisted it would be in the showtime, and Temari wonders what would happen if she does information technology at the end of the Time And Once more.
  • Non-humorous example: when Naruto tells Jiraiya the truth about him existence the "temporary Hokage" in the Bad Hereafter, Jiraiya objects that there's no such thing, you lot either are or you lot aren't. After Danzo is elected Hokage by the quango in Here and At present, Homura expresses doubts virtually his suitability to Koharu, who reassures him that Danzo is only "temporary", causing Homura to respond "There'due south no such thing every bit a 'temporary' Hokage."
• Cats Are Mean: The Ii-Tailed Monster Cat in Here and At present.
• Articulate My Name: This is a major plot betoken resulting from both Orochimaru and Danzo'due south machinations. Gaara gets fix to look like he planned a coup confronting his begetter for the position of Kazekage.
• Chekhov's Gag: Naruto's Sarcastic Confession to Kakashi virtually having run to the Land of Waves and back becomes instrumental in convincing Kakashi and Sarutobi he's from the futurity because he couldn't have known virtually the mission otherwise.
• Completed Fic: Time and Again has been completed equally of February viii, 2009. The same can't be said for it's sequel.
• Contrived Coincidence: Orochimaru convinces Rin that Naruto is actually the Kyuubi rather than being the person it's sealed inside of by taking her to witness Naruto using the Kyuubi'due south ability. Fridge Logic would normally be the case, but he took her apparently right before Naruto decided to change a B-rank mission to a C-rank mission to put the team in some trouble so they could bond, simply which should accept been an A-rank mission in the first place, during which he is required for the starting time time in the story to use the Kyuubi'due south power visibly.
• Crapsack Earth: The Bad Future that Naruto comes from is i in the prologue.
• Beautiful Mute: Afterward Ino barely survives having her pharynx slashed, Kabuto grimly thinks that her voice may non be able to be saved.
• Darker and Edgier: The serial increasingly leans towards this. Almost notable are the graphic torture scenes orchestrated by Orochimaru.
  • Bloodier and Gorier: Past the time the war confronting Kumo is in total swing in Here and Now the story has more in common with Ninja Curl than with Naruto.
• Girl Of A Whore: Karin, whose mother had the aforementioned healing powers as her. Sometimes clients forced her to stay in the room and sentry them ravish her mother in forepart of her.
• Expressionless Fic: Here and Now hasn't updated since April 2010.
• Delaying Action: Naruto creates most a thousand shadow clones only to kee Kamui occupied until Kakashi gets back.
• Domestic Corruption: Hinata's arranged husband in the future, Hyuuga Hiroshi, abused her, something Naruto will never forgive him for.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Kakashi confronts Naruto later on he thinks he's deduced the reason for the latter's suspicious behavior: he can somehow meet the future. Naruto finds the idea hilarious, probably because Kakashi's guess is and so near and nevertheless and then far.
• Erotic Dream: Naruto is manifestly bothered by 1 later he's rescued from Orochimaru. He can excuse the presence of Sakura in it since they did have sexual practice once in the future, but Hinata's presence bothers him considerably, although not nearly equally much as the appearance of Karin which he just finds plain disturbing.
• Fighting from the Inside: Some people attempt this one time captured by Orochimaru's listen Jutsu.
• First Buss: Sakura gives hers to Sasuke at the same time she takes his earlier sending him subsequently Tayuya while she stays to hold off Sakon/Ukon...
  • Now or Never Kiss: ...because she's quite certain she's almost to die.
• Foreshadowing: The author disguises some blatant foreshadowing every bit a joke in one of his affiliate end notes in Time and Again:

  Hopefully you're all paying attention, at that place'south going to be a test towards the end of the story and if plenty people fail to become it right, I'm leaving you all with a horrible cliffhanger—something like Naruto existence captured past Orochimaru and facing torture and execution—and never updating once again…no, no, I wouldn't practice that! Non for failing a exam… failing to review on the other hand… ;)

• For Want of a Nail: The original timeline diverges from canon as a directly effect of Sasuke'due south fight with Itachi having a dissimilar outcome: namely, Orochimaru successfully took over Sasuke's body during the fight and killed Itachi, afterward which he proceeded to take over the ninja world.
• Frame-Up: Gaara is framed for a supposed attempted coup to usurp his male parent as Kazekage.
• Go a Agree of Yourself, Human!: After Naruto confesses to Sasuke that he'south scared he tin never defeat Orochimaru no matter how hard he tries Sasuke gives him an ballsy ane of these.

  Sasuke: You aren't Naruto, that much is obvious, and even if you and every other enemy out in that location is from the future, I don't care. You must accept died during the final two years, because the Naruto I know would have laughed at yous and so kicked your ass with both of his arms tied behind his back and all of his tenketsu sealed upward by Hyuuga Hinata. If y'all don't take whatever resolve to keep fighting, why don't you lot but lie downwardly and die!?

• Hopeless War: Against Orochimaru in the original timeline, and seemingly against Kumogakure in Here And Now.
• Idiot Hero: I of the few Naruto fanfics that remembers that Naruto is somewhat Book Dumb and frequently makes really dumb mistakes and oversights (like declining to observe that Sasuke hasn't nevertheless awakened his Sharingan going into the Chunin Exams) because that's just how he is.
• Internal Reveal: Naruto tells Kakashi and the 3rd Hokage about the future he'due south from after Kakashi finally confronts him about his odd behavior. He tells Jiraiya right off the bat, and in the sequel he tells Sasuke (who doesn't believe him earlier the fic'due south death indicate) when Sasuke confronts him well-nigh him knowing Uchiha family secrets and accuses him of not existence his friend.
• Kissing Under the Influence: Future Naruto and Time to come Sakura (who otherwise had a close but platonic relationship) had a one-night stand exactly one time, fuelled past alcohol, grief, and the need for comfort. Although it's a treasured memory for Naruto (quite likely the but time he ever had sex activity in his entire thirty+ years of life), they both realised it was a mistake they promised not to repeat.
• Manipulative Bounder: Naruto somewhen realises he'southward become this to his friends. His question then becomes whether this is acceptable or not. Orochimaru is also this in SPADES, inciting 2 countries to get to war on two others and framing Gaara to prevent him from eventually becoming Kazekage.
• Mercy Impale: Apparently the only way to stop those affected by the mind control jutsu. Naruto was forced to kill Kakashi in the future while Kakashi was literally begging for death.
• Messianic Classic: Naruto has shades of this. Unable to remember how he saved Gaara from himself the first time around, he'south willing to let Gaara to kill him to show him there tin can be more to life than killing.
• Mistaken for Gay: Later on Naruto fumbles his explanation to Sakura nigh why it'd exist "incorrect" for him to pursue Hinata romantically (because from his perspective it'd brand him a paedophile) she assumes that he's gay instead, noting that "it does explain some things".
• More Than Heed Command: Apparently, this was Orochimaru/Sasuke's relationship with Rin before the rewind. Now, Orochimaru is up for a echo performance.
• "Non So Unlike" Remark: Naruto briefly wonders if his Manipulative Bastard tendancies take made him no different from Orochimaru, but he quickly shrugs that off with the reasonable justification that he's trying to help his friends, non hurt them. Even so, a more serious 1 arises between him and Hiroshi: he believes that, even if Hiroshi has inverse from the bounder he was in the Bad Future, if information technology took him a year of imprisonment and torture to practice so then he's still not a human who is worthy of Hinata. Then he realises that his own obliviousness to Hinata's feelings combined with his doubt about what exactly she is to him means that he's not worthy of her either.
• Oblivious to Honey: Naruto lived an unabridged lifetime without noticing that Hinata was in love with him all along. He would take gone another except Sakura and Sasuke spell information technology out for him.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: The Konoha Council in the futurity refused to permit Naruto accept the ttle of Hokage, but also refused to appoint anyone else since Naruto was already doing the work. The Hyuuga Elders in the future refused to permit Hinata exist the Clan Caput and forced her to marry someone so he could be Clan Head.
• 1 Dialogue, 2 Conversations: Sakura is trying to ostend that Naruto is trying to become out with Hinata. Naruto thinks she realized he has the Kyuubi in him. Hilarity Ensues.
• Opponent Switch: Naruto switches with Kakashi when he realizes Kakashi's lightning jutsu are needed to trounce Naruto's opponent's earth-elemental armor.
• Red Herring Mole: Sort of. At the end of chapter 12 of Hither and Now, Hinata and one of Naruto's shadow clones crash into a burning room at the Hyuuga chemical compound to discover Hyuuga Hiroshi and Hyuuga Ko continuing over Hanabi and the stabbed torso of Hiashi. The text implies that Hiroshi is under the mind command jutsu and stabbed Hiashi when someone takes out Naruto'due south shadow clone, trapping them in the burning edifice- merely the side by side chapter reveals (eventually) that information technology was Ko who was nether the jutsu instead.
• Sadist Teacher: Anko is one to Sakura.
• Sarcastic Confession: Naruto does this twice: in one case to Kakashi (near running to the Land of Waves to save Team 8 from Zabuza and Haku) and once to Shikamaru (nearly beingness from the future).
• Secret-Keeper: Naruto tells the truth almost him being from the futurity to Kakashi, the Third Hokage, and Jiraiya in Time and Again and to Sasuke in Here and Now. He also tells Shikamaru, but it's and then random he thinks Naruto is joking.
• Shout-Out: Repeatedly, of events pertaining to the 'canon'. Others deal with the contradistinct timeline and the changes wrought past both Naruto and Orochimaru. Happens more frequently in the sequel.
• Ship Tease:
  • The Author is unnecessarily cruel to Hinata...considering the irony.
  • Also Kabuto and Ino and to an extent Naruto and Karin.
• Something But They Would Say: Hinata'due south suggestion for Naruto on how to prove he's not in a genjutsu is to find someone he knows actually well and ask them questions a genjutsu caster wouldn't know the answers to.
  • When she and Sasuke salve Naruto from Orochimaru's lair she's able to convince him she'southward real and not some other genjutsu by tapping him on the forehead and maxim "None of that", their personal Catchphrase whenever she tried to apologise to him for something that wasn't her fault.
• The Stations of the Canon: Played with. A lot of the major events from the series occur in the new timeline (the Wave State mission, Hinata fighting Neji in the Chuunin exams, the Sasuke retrieval mission) but in a totally different way (Team 8 is sent on the Moving ridge State mission instead, Hinata fights Neji in the Chuunin exam finals and really beats him earlier yielding, the Remember Sasuke mission is really to rescue a kidnapped Naruto). After Haku dies despite Naruto's best efforts to save him Naruto begins to wonder if at that place isn't some kind of "fate" steering things towards a preordained determination.
• Stockholm Syndrome: Orochimaru attempts to use Karin to invoke this in a captive Naruto by making her get close to him while healing his injuries. It very almost works.
  • Lima Syndrome: Karin actually finds herself developing a tiny fleck of genuine feelings for Naruto.
• Accept That!: To the copious Ass Pulls and instances of New Powers every bit the Plot Demands that show up in the manga:

  Kidomaru: What the hell was that? A lightning clone? Random abilities popping upwards all over the identify… seems kind of cheap if you ask me…

• That Came Out Wrong: When Sakura is talking to Hinata about Naruto'southward condition after two years of imprisonment and torture:

  Sakura: He seems to have a bit of sleep apnea… I don't think him doing that before, but it's been a long time since I slept with Naru— [Crush] Uh… No, not similar that, that was… I mean, I'd never… with him, y'all know… well, non that in that location's anything incorrect with him. I just… uh… [Beat] Can I stop now?

  Hinata: Please.

• Fourth dimension Skip: Betwixt Time and Once again and Here and Now.
• Time Travel: Comes with several toppings-
  • Ready Right What Once Went Wrong: Almost of Naruto'due south efforts are along this vein. He is moderately successful. And then again, sometimes he makes things worse. Several times his by/future/current mentors discourage this.
  • Future Badass: Naruto has mastered current of air chakra nature manipulation and tin use loads of jutsu from at least three elemental natures, and was Hokage in all merely official title in the future.
  • Bad Future: A major motive for Naruto's attempts to change the timeline.
  • Older Than They Look: When he first comes dorsum, Naruto is physically twelve years old but is mentally over thirty.
  • Peggy Sue: Naruto, subsequently nosotros find out Orochimaru is also i.
• Unknowingly in Love: Naruto rationalizes his love for Hinata every bit him trying to make up for not stopping her from entering a (very unhappy) Arranged Marriage and getting Neji and Hanabi killed fifty-fifty.
• "Well Done, Son!" Guy: Hiashi tried to invoke this in Hinata, beingness strict on her in the hopes that the desire to earn his praise would motivate her enough to make upward for her lack of natural talent and become strong. Notwithstanding, he did it with her best interests in mind and was heartbroken when it manifestly didn't work.
• Wham Episode:
  • Chapter 24. Naruto finally confronts the disguised Orochimaru in the Forest of Death during the 2d stage of the Chuunin Exams. He kills him—way likewise easily. Information technology's non Orochimaru. Things take gone completely Off the Rails.
  • Finish of Chapter 36. Naruto is finally convinced he was wrong in suspecting Rin of working with Orochimaru—and so she drugs him unconscious and delivers him to the Sound 4.
• What Were You Thinking?: A shocked Naruto quotes the trope verbatim when he realises that future!Hinata loved him her entire life and never permit him know, even when he could have saved her from a loveless and abusive Bundled Marriage by marrying her himself, which he would take washed without a second thought.
• Zerg Rush: Taken to farthermost lengths with Naruto's shadow clones against Kamui.

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