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AKA The GaaNaru Letters. After the Chuunin Exams, Naruto reaches out to Gaara to let him know he is not alone. Gaara reaches back. Their relationship evolves through letters.
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Naruto has been in a state of chakra imbalance since the Nine Tails was sealed within him. After Orochimaru sealed the Nine Tails away his body and soul realigned allowing him to awaken his bloodline: The Six Eyes.
Slight X-Over with Jutjutsu Kaisen. Naruto with Gojo's Powers.
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Madara looked down at the tea set. "The Daimyo's determination just arrived. He's not going to allow us to keep the village if we don't fix things immediately."
"How soon is immediate?" the Nara asked.
"Six months," Madara whispered. "We have six months to correct all deficiencies, or he's taking control of the village's administration."
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Rebuilding is a hard thing to do. Especially when you have to do it from the ground up. Almost impossible to do when you don’t have the right people.
Konoha is realizing that.
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- Part 2 of Rebuilding
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Neji ends up with temporary blindness after overusing his Byakugan, but he has nothing to worry about. His team is there to watch his back.
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Neji airea los trapos sucios de su familia durante los Exámenes Chuunin frente a cientos de espectadores, Naruto no tiene filtro cerebro-boca y Hinata se convierte accidentalmente en una celebridad mundial. Pobre, pobre Hinata.
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Begins after the Sound and Sand Invasion.
Recently orphaned Sakura realizes the bridge between her teammates and captain is too strong to bear. With nothing keeping her in Konoha, she leaves them behind without looking back.
In other words, Sakura is the one to leave the village instead of Sasuke, and the rest of the world gets to deal with the aftermath.
Earlier chapters updated and edited as of 4/2025.
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Shadows and Heirs by BamboozledJay
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga), Boruto (Anime & Manga)
22 Sep 2025
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Fifteen years after the Fourth Shinobi War, peace has become the new normal — but shadows never stay quiet for long.
In Konoha, Hatake Kakashi balances his role as Sixth Hokage with something even more difficult: raising two sons who carry the weight of his legacy in very different ways. Takeshi, the sharp-tongued Chūnin with a nose too keen for his own good, and Hiroshi, the youngest of his class with a knack for slipping past expectations, both fight to prove themselves — to the village, to their father, and to each other.
As the anniversary of the war approaches, the Chūnin Exams bring shinobi from every hidden village to Konoha. But beneath the celebration of unity lurks something else: spies on the border, whispers of a target among the Kage’s children, and an attack that could shatter the fragile trust between nations.
And yet — not every battle happens on the field. Some take place at the breakfast table, in the quiet reprimands of a father, or in the laughter of brothers competing over pancakes. Between dangerous missions and everyday family chaos, the Hatake household learns that sometimes the hardest fight of all is learning how to grow together.
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Chumming Exam! Or, really, just a month of Ramen and Cactus by WolflessStark
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
16 Sep 2025
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“Boys, boys, let's cool down, why don't we?” Kakashi intervenes, easily getting the attention of his three students with his murderously cheerful smile.
They shut it quite fast. Even poor Sakura, who was gearing to ask for another bowl while the blond’s attention was elsewhere.
“But still,” Naruto murmured under his breath.
Kakashi took a deep breath, asking the gods for patience. There's plenty of other things he'd better wish for, but at that moment that's the only thing in his mind.
“What was that?”
Naruto crossed his arms, turning his head away like a petulant kid holding on to their secret desire after being denied, "Nothing.”
“Share with the class, Naruto.”
"No."
"I will buy you another bowl of ram-"
“I said I was going to talk with the pot weirdo tomorrow” Naruto blurted out, empty bowl high in the air as he asked for another. Sasuke, on Sakura’s other side, petulantly parroted for both hers and his.
Well. With this team Kakashi has to farm teamwork from the unlikeliest places. On most days he’s just glad all three are still breathing.
Or: Naruto just wants to befriend Gaara, why was everyone acting like was about to die?
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Fireweed: a hardy, pink pyrogenic flower that, while is vital for stabilizing post-fire states, is incredibly invasive and toxic to agriculture. Thus, rendering the land resistant to human interference.
Or, Sakura’s world needed to burn before she can truly bloom.
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Since before he could even remember, Gaara had heard the sound of the howling wind in the back of his mind. He always wished he could find the person on the other end of that sound, that elusive being who might love him for who he was.
All his life, Naruto had heard the sound of drifting sand in his head. A sound the Third warned him might indicate a ninja from another village. Naruto didn't care. No matter where his soulmate was, or who, he would find them. He was certain they would be the closest soulmates ever. Definitely.
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Iruka tries to stop Sasuke from leaving. It doesn't go well.
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You're All I Have Left (I Must Keep You Safe) by Bright Eyes (LovelyTaffyJaeger)
Fandoms: Naruto (Anime & Manga)
02 Sep 2025
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Sasuke is sent to go collect Naruto when he’s an hour late for training.
What he doesn’t expect to find is a disheveled, teary eyed Naruto struggling to fix his broken front door back onto its hinges, surrounded by broken glass and splintered wood. -
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He's not mad. Okay, that was a lie, he's fucking furious. But, he's calm enough to think about it, about why Kakashi's apathy makes him so angry.
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The chuunin exams are always a busy time for everyone in the village, and Iruka is no exception. Unfortunately for him, this year’s chuunin exams bring the added strain of Naruto putting himself in danger and forcing Iruka to accept that he is no longer a child. It also doesn’t help that Kakashi seems to be everywhere Iruka looks, making him feel constantly on edge. Their relationship didn’t work out, but by the end of the exams that won’t be the only opportunity that Iruka misses out on.
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- Part 10 of Brushes with Legend
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Neji and Lee are going home after finishing a mission on the Land of Earth, when Neji is struck with an unexpected Genjutsu. Lee takes care of him.
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Emiko is a street rat. She has nobody but herself and nothing but the clothes on her back. That's how it's always been and always will be.
Except... that doesn't seem right. Something about that seems... off.
Why are all her memories so disjointed? How does she know so much about the people and world around her without reason? Who is that silver-haired girl and why does she make Emiko sick to her stomach? And why the heck does Gaara – Subaku no Gaara, the village's demonic bloodthirsty killer – seem so... comforting?
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Starts off very canon compliant but will deviate as Emi "rewrites" parts of the "author's" story.
Think of it as a toxic twist on the usual "two friends travel to another world/universe" 🥰💕 -
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Hitomi Hyuga is angry. Not just because her eyes forced her team out of the Chunin Exams, but of all the other things she deemed unfair in the world. But her anger does not extend to Gaara which confuses many people around her. Instead she pities him and what the world made him be. In the middle of a training session, his brother, Kankuro, asks her why.
This is the first of many meetings between Kankuro and Hitomi.
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Les Haruno trouvent asile à Kiri suite à l’attaque de Kyûbi. Enrôlée à l’Académie pour devenir ninja, Sakura fait face à un monde sans pitié qui lui rappelle sans cesse qu'elle lui est étrangère et qu’elle n’y trouvera jamais tout à fait sa place.
A-t-elle ce qu’il faut pour devenir une kunoichi du village caché par la brume ?
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He had always intended to speak with Iruka again. After the chuunin exams, maybe, or whenever he could figure out what to say – that was the hard part, of course.
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Naruto gives Neji a piece of his mind during their one-on-one fights.
He may have found a new hate for fate!