The Konoha Performance Incentive series

Konoha with a much darker underbelly.

Jounin get their pick of any chuunin as long as both end up mission-ready the next day.

Old enough to Kill, old enough to pay.

Notes:
This damn series has gotten huge enough that I think we need to organise it in terms of reading order.

Chronologically, it takes place

Key Performance Indicators: an Itachi centric story setting up how this AU works for Clans.

Imposter Syndrome: a Shisui centric short-story with hints to his background. Serves as a companion piece to Key Performance Indicators

Benefits and Perks are just a bonus: direct continuation of Key Performance Indicators, with Itachi/Iruka coming into play. Most of this serves as still as a background and backstory to a shining knight, but diverges from ASK from Chapter 3/4 onwards.

a shining knight: the first to be written in this series, actually, KakaIru centric. Was meant to be the main timeline of this AU, but now co-exists as a darker timeline of the Key Performance Indicators and Benefits & Perks timeline.

Changes in Regulations: A Shisui centric ALTERNATE ending of Benefits & Perks

UPCOMING:

Year End Bonus: the aftermath of Changes in Regulations. Shisui-centric.

Internal Audit: Itachi-centric short-fic post Benefits & Perks.

An as yet unnamed Kakashi-centric short-fic background to Kakashi from a shining knight, detailing his own background and what led up to a shining knight.

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What Fish Can Tell Us (4491 words) by drelfina
Chapters: 2/4
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Uchiha Itachi/Umino Iruka
Characters: Sarutobi Asuma, Sarutobi Hiruzen, Uchiha Itachi, Umino Iruka, Yuuhi Kurenai
Additional Tags: future Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka - Freeform, future Hatake Kakashi/Uchiha Itachi, minor Sarutobi Asuma/Yuuhi Kurenai, Alternate Universe - Arranged Marriage, Arranged Marriage, Oiroke no Jutsu | Sexy no Jutsu, serious taken so cracky it gone cracky and cute, Worldbuilding, Timeline What Timeline
Series: Part 1 of Konoha is the Clownfish AU of the shinobi world
Summary:

Asuma got Yuuhi Kurenai pregnant and then married her, which had the clans in a complete uproar.

The Yuuhi family was a small and barely signifcant shinobi family, not even related or affiliated to any of the main families and clans, and for Sarutobi to allow Asuma to ally with her family was a huge leap in status for the Yuuhi, and absolute insult to every other damn clan.

And as much as Iruka knew how much the two of them loved each other, it meant that Iruka was now set to marry a stranger to appease the clans.

Godddamit, Asuma.

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In a world where an unknown ninja had discovered a certain sex-change jutsu, and every damn shinobi thereby can learn it, Iruka finds himself in a Situation. Taken in by the Sarutobi Clan by the Sandaime himself after his parents had died in the Kyuubi attack, Iruka now has to marry after the disaster of his older foster-brother's marriage.