Fic recs!
part 2
Fics where Sasuke isn’t a bootlicker for Konoha
A Theory of Justice by onepieceofharry
Summary:
Sasuke was already six years old, two years older than Itachi had been when Fugaku had taken him out to see the realities of war. It was past due he had this moment with his second son.
Unfortunately for Fugaku Sasuke does not let the reality of violence and death settle in his mind, steering him towards becoming an honourable shinobi. No, Sasuke sort of thinks it's bullshit and he's going to work to prove it.
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Justice by bojackandcrying (one-shot)
Summary:
All he needs, all he’s ever wanted. It was never to kill Itachi; no, it was for something else entirely. He was only foolish enough to believe that killing his brother would help him achieve what he had been yearning for – a word he hadn’t named, so fixated on a notion of retaliation.
But all he needs; all he’s ever wanted – never revenge or vengeance.
Justice.
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Beloved by ismellitblue
Summary:
The members of Sasuke’s team make their way to his little hideout(It turns out a lot of shinobi need funeral services).
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Dead Man's Tale by ismellitblue (one-shot)
Summary:
Shinobi leave hidden villages in two ways. Through death or by defecting. Sasuke has already done the latter, so he chooses the former as a last resort.
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Justice ≠ Peace by Aaonnah (one-shot)
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Sasuke sees two options. The first is to take it upon himself to be the final villain in this moronic, ill-thought-out war. The second is to run as far as he can, as fast as he can.
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My truth by Taariesu (one-shot)
Summary:
Those who seek justice are bound to lose themselves in the merciless world of ninja. Sasuke is far beyond caring though.
This is about Sasuke's motives:
What's going through his mind after killing Danzou and laughing in Kakashi's face? Brooding in the dark, Sasuke waits for his new eyes to heal, thinking about his vengeance and the people that upset him most, each in their own way: Naruto, Kakashi, Konoha, and his own brother.
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Kunai, ( Treason ), and Plot by CutToTheEndOfTheShow (one-shot)
Summary:
In which it isn't Naruto who meets Sasuke at the Valley at the End, but Neji.
Or Rather:
What if Sasuke convinced his fellow Doujutsu user to run away from the village that slighted them?
Also Known As:
In which Sasuke and Neji recruit followers, change the world, and destroy the system
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A garden at the end of the world by swiperlupi (series)
Summary:
In which it isn't Naruto who meets Sasuke at the Valley at the End, but Neji.
Or Rather:
What if Sasuke convinced his fellow Doujutsu user to run away from the village that slighted them?
Also Known As:
In which Sasuke and Neji recruit followers, change the world, and destroy the system
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Assonance by Ovoriel
Summary:
There had been no word of Sasuke since the death of Uchiha Itachi. He hasn't come back to Konoha, hadn't made contact with anyone, and there hadn't been even the flimsiest rumor about the last descendant of the Uchiha clan after the day his vengeance finally found fulfillment.
It has been three years.
At first, when it became clear he wasn't just going to show up at his old village's gates like a lost stray, it was believed he had gone to Akatsuki. After all, one of their members had interfered in his retrieval, reaching him first. When Konoha's hunters arrived, both victor and casualty were already gone. It came as quite the shock to learn he hadn't. Even more that he had, in fact, refused. Just like everyone else, Akatsuki had no news of him. At all.
Now, everyone believed him dead.
Everyone but Naruto.
Or: The one where, when faced with two choices, Sasuke picks the third.
(this one can be put in the Taka tag too)
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Oaks May Fall by Cleothare
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A look into Sasuke's mind about leaving the village. Sasuke contemplates what drove him to leave Konoha, what set him on his path.
Set during time skip. Essentially a monologue.
(Can be put in the feelings tag)
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looking for forgiveness (i ran into your madness) by lesbiansasuke
Summary:
Nothing is ever what it seems. Sasuke Uchiha learns this the moment his small feet stumble into the Uchiha compound and he finds the bloody corpse of his parents. As his eyes lock with his brother’s, he’s trapped in a brutal genjutsu where he watches his clan die thousands and thousands of times. The scar sits heavy on his chest, throbs and aches as the years pass.
Stuck in a village rife with conspiracies and sinister plotting, he’ll soon realise that untangling himself from the thorns isn’t that hard—but doesn’t make it hurt any less. His goal of restoring justice to his clan becomes infinitely more complicated. Beyond the obscured horizon lies enemies far more dangerous than Itachi Uchiha and right in the midst of it all, a broken, irreparable system he’s forced to eventually question.
(tbh idk where to put this one but it’s a combination of both feelings and this)
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Team Taka!
uproot by Anonymous
Summary:
Orochimaru had always called him mercurial. Sasuke grimaces in mild disgust at the thought of the snake sannin. He shakes off the memory of cold hands on his skin to focus on the human floating in the tank before him.
Well, he could screw off with his thinly veiled insults. He wasn't alive, he didn't count.
OR: From four disjointed teenagers to the hunter team Hebi to the famous - or infamous - Taka, they've always had their ups and downs. But no one can say they regret it, in the end.
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dandelions in the wind by Anonymous
Summary:
If you're aligned with Taka, you wear dandelions.
Uchiha Sasuke wears them threaded into his hair, splotches of yellow among black. Uzumaki Karin has them around her hands like bracelets.
Hoozuki Suigetsu wraps them around the hilt of his sword.
Sakaguchi Juugo keeps them woven into the neck of his cloak, distinctive flashes of gold.
To Taka, it's just flowers. It's just something cute they decided to do one day and stuck with out of habit. To everyone else it's a sign of resilience, of the hope they bring like rays of sunlight.
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backburn by Anonymous
Summary:
"You have someone in mind?" Nagato asks, voice raspy, over the incessant droning of the radio. Konan nods.
"Sasori found this."
It's a feather emblem, clearly meant to be pinned somewhere, painted black and stitched from leather. Nagato doesn't speak but wheels forwards, eyes lighting up in interest. The feather can only mean one thing.
"Taka."
(Years after the death of Yahiko, former leader of the Akatsuki, daybreak arrives once more. This time, they won't be failing.)
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where the lines blur by ncfan (one-shot)
Summary:
Suigetsu decides he cares too much.
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exactly none of the usual spiteful joy by suitablyskippy
Summary:
“I think it’s real,” Juugo says, once Sasuke shuts the door behind them. “I mean, if it isn’t, they must be… playing a joke on us, or something. And they’d have had to… talk to each other, for that. And agree with each other. And—”
Inside Karin and Suigetsu’s room, there’s the sound of something very heavy colliding with the wall. A moment later, there’s an explosion of screaming so loud that Juugo can’t imagine either of them actually understands a word the other’s saying.
“So I don’t think it’s a joke,” Juugo concludes, once the racket has died down a little.
(Karin's teeth didn't used to be this sharp. Her body didn't used to be this watery. This probably isn’t going to be resolved by the power of friendship.)
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Team Taka Fucks It Up by selenophenol (one-shot)
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Team Taka gets lost, tries to find their leader, causes an international diplomatic incident, and joins Akatsuki. You know, the usual.
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Hold Up Your Head and Run by TakaGang
Summary:
Sasuke didn't think he'd survive his battle with Itachi, but he did. He didn't think he would survive his final battle with Naruto, but he did. Now he has to live---but not in Konoha.
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Fics that discuss feelings
Crows flying from empty trees by RiotStyle
Underneath it all, Sasuke is just a boy. He wants to be strong but it is hard to cut out your own heart.
Even when it’s gone, love leaves a scar.
AKA canon gave us all these beautiful complex characters and then forgot about their traumatic pasts as soon as they became powerful. Canon divergence with a focus on giving each individual the emotions and depth they deserve.
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So that each March I may gleam into the leaf by Xarybde (series)
Summary:
In which Sasuke breaks a little sideways, and the world shifts accordingly.
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Oh, Father Tell Me, Do We Get What We Deserve? by Vinauer
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Naruto only allowed himself a moment to take in the destruction and instead focused on the six figures a few dozen yards away. The dude with the mask and the freaky aloe guy were standing next to two people he didn’t know. They were in black cloaks but they didn’t have red clouds on them, so they weren’t Akatsuki. A little further away was another one of the black cloak guys and the man he recognized as Itachi’s partner.
He let out a breath of relief at seeing them. If they were still here, then maybe he wasn’t too late. For once, maybe he could get to Sasuke in time.
Or, team Hebi reacts faster when Sasuke and Itachi finish their fight. The Akatsuki don't get to take Sasuke right away; instead the leaf ninja get there and take him back to the village with Hebi in tow. This doesn't magically fix everything, but it does change a lot.
(this one can also be put in the Hebi/Taka category but as of now, we’re dealing with feelings)
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Can nobody hear me? (I’ve got a lot that’s on my mind) by mutemelody (one-shot)
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It isn’t like any of them actually care about him. If they did maybe they would have asked him once since that night if he was okay, rather than cleaned up the bodies and wiped away the blood and pretend like they didn’t leave him alone with the ghosts of the Uchiha and the memories of never being enough.
(Why does Naruto pretend to care so much?)
A look inside Sasuke's mind from before the Uchiha Massacre to the final fight at the Valley of the End.
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beyond grating bones by sieges (sns)
Summary:
Sasuke doesn't emerge from his fight with Itachi unscathed, or even alive. Revived as an Edo Tensei, he finds the second chance he never wanted, the answers he never got, and the peace he didn't know he needed.
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aphelion by uchiwan
Summary:
you are a traumatized boy with a vague recollection of life before the annihilation, of a time when you could step out of your bedroom without seeing the ghosts of your family, their sightless faces turned towards you, accusing you, cursing you. You are : a boy stalked by death and hatred; hatred is the flame that burns in your veins, a hatred for your brother that threatens to consume you ( hate me, detest me, curse me and survive in an unsightly way. Run, run and cling to your pitiful life ).
You are Uchiha Sasuke and all you can see is a yawning abyss.
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Just One More Time by Whitespringswrites (one-shot)
Summary:
The day that broke Sasuke's entire life comes back to haunt him once again. As the grief threatens to swallow him whole once more, he wonders whether he ever has a chance to love once more.
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discendo docemus by llamallamaduck
Summary:
There are some things a seven-year-old psyche is not ready to endure. An S-ranked torture technique preformed by a traumatized thirteen-year-old is one of those things. Sasuke doesn’t enjoy hallucinating memories of his murdered family day in and day out, but he’s learned to be philosophical about such things. It’s everything else that’s the problem, really.
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In The Name Of by QuoteMyFoot (one-shot)
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Sasuke's whole world shatters when he is eight and a half years old, and he does not know how to fix it again.
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An Ode to the Boy who Lives Among the Stars by starchilding (one-shot)
Summary:
Contrary to popular belief, Sasuke never held a grudge against Itachi.
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SI fics
A Lack of Wisdom by Aethelar
Summary:
It's a self insert fic. You know the drill.
Featuring a grumpy protagonist who wants mochi, clean socks, and to maintain possession of their life and eyeballs in that order, a troll-dad sensei who's genuinely trying to understand the pint sized weirdos he's been saddled with but isn't sure where to start, and two team mates who are honest to god twelve year olds who canonically didn't mature until after the handy dandy time skip.
Where, please, is the unsubscribe button, because I'd like to request a different afterlife.
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A Surplass of Wisdom by Aethelar
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A variety of ficlets, alternate futures, and what-if stories for my self insert, A Lack of Wisdom. Summaries are given per chapter.
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I Dreamed a Crue l Dream (it was Reality) by ThisRealityAside_73
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I… died, rolled metaphorical existential dice, and somehow managed to wind up reincarnating as Uchiha Sasuke of all people.This is why we don’t gamble, Tsunade.OrIf someone like me reincarnated as Uchiha Sasuke.
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Evil Eyes by FriendLurcher
Summary:
Ever wake up surrounded by dead people and no idea where you are? Pretty sure I didn't even drink or get hit by a truck last night, either. [A madhouse Self-Insert Sasuke story]
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With the eyes of God by cloud9stories
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Canon-Divergent, SI-Sasuke Uchiha. Itachi was a true prodigy, but an adult in the body of Sasuke can pull off a lot of things, especially given the cheat code known as the Sharingan. Follow the MC as he tries to find his place in the world, or a way out of it, while he fends off the endless stream of people after his eyes.
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Time Travel fics
me wa kokoro no kagami; the eyes are the window to the soul by BoyGirlBothNoneImTheUniverse
Summary:
“We're going to send someone back,” Naruto said with confidence, his voice holding strong at their incredulous looks. “Far enough back that we can change things.”
“Send someone back?” Kakashi asked, bewildered.
“Time travel?” Sasuke asked, just as shocked. Surely that hadn't been what Naruto meant?
Naruto nodded enthusiastically, a blinding grin gracing his face, making it into a once more familiar sight. “Time travel!”
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The Jikan Phenomenon by BoyGirlBothNoneImTheUniverse
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The Jikan Phenomenon is something that the Uchiha rarely talk about. The sharingan and it's capabilities when it comes to space and time are largely unexplored. The sharingan has many techniques that, with enough training, the wielder can control. The Jikan Phenomenon is not one of them. Sasuke-centric Time Travel AU
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Focus, then Refocus by jimmythemystic (It’s leaning towards SS bc of the recent chapter, 44)
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Sasuke gets sent back in time to stop Danzo. He intends to save his clan, and his brother. But he made one major mistake: He left the number one unpredictable ninja in charge of the jutsu. He's about 10 years too early. Thanks, Naruto...
Now what?
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Kick The Habit by refectory
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Yes, Itachi's emotional and physical well-being is his first and only priority. No, Sasuke does not have anything remotely resembling a plan to ensure this.It's fine, honestly.
(crack fic? I think?)
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lie in reverse by MoonlitNightin
Summary:
Twelve-year old Sasuke summons his future self to the past and asks him to train him. He doesn’t expect his older self to refuse, or all the truths that end up coming from his lies.
Meanwhile, seventeen-year old Sasuke realizes his younger self is very easy to manipulate, and a few lies of omission might just be what he needs to fix some past mistakes.
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half a league (until the valley of death) by SpectersShadow117
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Kakashi can think of no reason for Sasuke's inexplicable and drastic change in behavior. He doesn't like the desperate, haunted gleam in his student's eyes, and he also doesn't like the nagging feeling that he's missing something very important.
Aka: Future Sasuke goes to Past Sasuke and gives him a reality check with Specific Intentions, but as with most Uchiha, his methods leave much to be desired.
(Featuring: Childhood trauma FTW, Konoha's shitty care of orphans, and absolutely no one having a fun time.)
(kind of time travel? idrk T-T)
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Fem!Sasuke
of pinwheels and paper daffodils by KatRoma (series)
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The wonderful adventures of Sasuke, only daughter of Konohagakure's Uchiha clan, and honorary youngest member of the shinobi's world's most notorious criminal organization.
(I take requests, but it isn't a guarantee that I'll write all of them)
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that kind of voyage by SunflowerSales
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Itachi hadn't thought things through when he left his younger sister alone to fend for herself. Being an orphan is hard enough; being an orphaned little girl with no social skills makes for an easy target.
(please be read the tags, this one contains content that may affect others)
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Shiragiku by HyperHazerdious (one-shot)
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Shiori had always been intelligent, but she saw what being smart forced upon her brother so she hid it. When she finds him above their dead parents she only truly blames herself, the illness that slowly kills her therefore only what she deserves for failing him.
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In which Sasuke is born as Shiori and is more like her brother than anyone else thought.
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Clan Legacy by tasalmalin
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Life is very different for a Sasuke who is born a girl. Well, the Massacre still happens, and she still ends up on Team Seven, but not before a few sharp left turns along the way. But what's life without a little dimensional misplacement to spice things up?
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Fics that I think are pretty neat
Celestial Bodies and Anomalies by Oceanbreeze27
Summary:
His mother told him the old stories.
That Amaterasu breathed them fire and his flames bled black into their hair.
Sister Tsukuyomi watched their journeys in the night, and her white eye painted them pale.
And Susanoo, the last of the three kin, threw aside his armour and sword and granted Uchiha the right to call upon his shield.and
-Sasuke faced the beast of black flame and ire and asked: "did you never think of the future?"
I never had the opportunity.
“Is this your opportunity then?” Sasuke asked it, bleeding from his eyes and wounds as his body tore itself apart forever. “Is this your punishment or mine?”
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may you always be satisfied by Hiemes (kind of sns?)
Summary:
What could Uchiha Sasuke possibly do in his life, except protect the ones he loves?
Sasuke has hundreds of faces, different versions of himself to add to the image of the Last Uchiha. Everyone he's ever met would decribe a totally different Sasuke they've known all their life. Does anyone even know the actual version of himself?
It seems like anyone who does dies along the way.
or: In which Sasuke has an ambition, but it's not the one you think it is.
or: Sasuke will do anything to make Naruto stronger, even if he loses himself along the way.
[complete]
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Counting Crows by Anxiety_Pickle (one-shot)
Summary:
A man that Sasuke has never seen before stares down at him, one half of his face wrapped in bandages, his right arm obscured by his sleeve. Sasuke shrinks back, skin on fire.
“Child, are you alright?”
“Who are you?” He hates how his voice shakes. He blames it on the cold.
The man offers him a hand, a kind glint to his eyes.
“My name is Danzo.”
Or, Danzo takes a more active role in Sasuke's life.
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The Boy and the DeadMan by mangacrack (one-shot)
Summary:
It might wreck his plans completely, but he had been a Clan leader before his heirs turned their back on him.
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at touch of death by AngstyChaosMagicUser
Summary:
Sasuke sees ghosts, and always has.
This changes things.
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grind me down to dust by AngstyChaosMagicUser
Summary:
There's a lot broken in Konoha, and the dead aren't the only ones restless.
It's going to take all Sasuke and his ghosts have to fix this mess.
(Diverges after chapter one of "at touch of death")
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dear forgiveness by RecklessWriter
Summary:
Sasuke shakes his head. "What I want doesn't matter. The safety of Konoha comes before everything."
Itachi stares at him. Something disgusting and tar-like sticks in his throat as the horrifying realization creeps in. Gods, what have I done?
Itachi lives through his battle with Sasuke. To save the village and his brother's life, he uses Kotoamatsukami to halt Sasuke's desire for vengeance.
It's the one crime Sasuke may never be able to forgive him for.
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Crossfire by DejaVu22
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Following the events of Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke never makes it to Orochimaru's hideout. Instead, he is waylaid by a one-eyed man named Tobi, a man possessing a Sharingan, a terrifying dual personality, a penchant for always being late, and a single-minded mission to stop the Akatsuki in their tracks.
When Sasuke runs into Naruto again years later, he must ally with his old teammate in order to protect him from the Akatsuki, while keeping him out of the two man war Tobi and Sasuke have started against the dangerous organization.
Good!Sasuke but eh it’s pretty neat.
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Hiding in the Leaves by aventria, iluxia (slowburn sns)
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In another life, Orochimaru never leaves Konoha, opting to remain within the village that equally reveres and reviles him. Fighting a bitter battle against forces within the village that are more influential and well-positioned, he finds himself gifted with one last shining opportunity: three children, a team of genin, handed to him because Konoha has no better choice. Orochimaru agrees to become a jounin-sensei for the first and the last time, taking on the next generation's Team Seven: Uchiha Sasuke, Nara Shikamaru, and Uzumaki Naruto.
[ A gradual exploration of the author's very liberal Naruto headcanon, with a good!Orochimaru (well, sorta good) who eventually becomes the Godaime Hokage. Lots of chakra theory, cool jutsu, in-depth backstories, character development, political intrigue, and den mother Orochimaru feels! Also featuring: BAMF baby Team 7! Be prepared to suspend your disbelief; this will be another one of my long-running intense worldbuilding AUs. Let's go have fun! ]
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The Drifter by gallifreycallsnow
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Orochimaru kidnaps Sasuke when he is eight for the purposes of raising him to be the perfect host. Regardless, Sasuke is not one to be used, so he kills Orochimaru at age seventeen. From then, it's up to Sasuke to make his own life. Things are more difficult, though, when you can hardly remember who you were before your nine year capture.This story is more telling than showing. Important moments in Sasuke's life ever since leaving Orochimaru.
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Blind by Ourliazo (one-shot)
Summary:
Fugaku Uchiha survives the massacre of his clan and does what an Uchiha does best.
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They Will Burn In Time by TakaGang
Summary:
“Never forget, Sasuke. Just as you know your enemies’ names by heart, remember the names of our clan as well. I want you to know that I will not forgive. I have no forgiveness within me. It's still up to you if you chose to follow my path.”
AU. Uchiha Mikoto Lives.
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don't trust them, brother (oh, but look at me now) by SilverUtahraptor (Izuna-centric with baby Sasuke)
Summary:
Izuna opens his eyes to find himself in an abandoned street littered with bodies bearing the uchiwa on their back.
He shouldn't have eyes at all. He should be dying.
[Uchiha Izuna time-travels to the canon era... to land right at the tail end of the Uchiha Massacre.]
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The new chapter of our life by Rey_Bee
Summary:
When Fugaku gets the message about his wife giving birth to their first child, he doesn't waste a second. FugaMiko and little Itachi! Update: I decided to turn it into a series of one-shots about the development of father/son relatinship, with quite a big role of Mikoto in the story. Fugaku's POV.
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Always Fly Back to You by Daringdonut
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When Fugaku gets the message about his wife giving birth to their first child, he doesn't waste a second. FugaMiko and little Itachi! Update: I decided to turn it into a series of one-shots about the development of father/son relatinship, with quite a big role of Mikoto in the story. Fugaku's POV.
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I’ll probably be adding more in the near future.
6/30/22 : WIEEE I added more fics :D
11/3/22: WOW it's been a long time since I've updated this list. I'm too lazy to add the fics I've read here BUT! I've bookmarked some in my ao3 acc! You can just check it out:D
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