Author/Artist: samej / fatalesam on ao3
Title: it shouldn't be like this
Pairing: Naruto/Sasuke
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~1100
Warnings: Can be seen in ao3.
Disclaimer: Nothing owned.
Summary: Love shouldn’t be like this. Love is supposed to be tender and soft and not this thing they have, all hard edges and blood and desperation.

hard edges on ao3.

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.

All fics are tagged, please check the fic tags!

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.

***

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.

Key Performance Indicators: A Konoha Story (4637 words) by drelfina
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con, Underage
Relationships: Ebisu/Uchiha Itachi/Yamashiro Aoba
Characters: Uchiha Shisui, Uchiha Itachi, Ebisu (Naruto), Yamashiro Aoba, Shimura Danzou, Uchiha Fugaku
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Dark, Rape/Non-con Elements, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Alternate timeline of Alternate Universe, Timeline What Timeline, Porn With Plot, Whump, Uchiha Clan-centric, Konoha politics, life sucks for the Uchiha and any chuunin really, Spitroasting, terrible jounin, predatory behaviour
Series: Part 1 of The Konoha Performance Incentive
Summary:

Alternative title: Incentives and Benefits for Greater Employee Engagement

If Itachi had had a choice, he would have chosen to be anything but shinobi.

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In an insanely dark and fucked up universe, Konoha has a unique way of encouraging ambition and skill cultivation by offering up their chuunin to jounin as perks of their position. Itachi is an Uchiha. He should have been protected by the Clan's name.

Author: Marley Station/Prism0467
Title: Chosen
Pairing: Aburame Shino/Inuzuka Kiba
Word Count: 383
Rating: T
Warning(s): AU; M/M
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. I make no money from the writing of this story.
Summary: Kiba Inuzuka knew how lucky he was. For Shino's birthday 2019.
A/N: Although this is written from Kiba's POV, it is Shino-centric.

Hell, even their professors could tell.


Cross-posted to Naruto Yaoi

Author: Marley Station/Prism0467
Title: Fox Hunt
Pairing: Gaara/Uzumaki Naruto
Word Count: 2422
Rating: M
Warning(s): AU; M/M; Swearing; Mention of past stalking/harassment
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. I make no money from the writing of this story.
Summary: Not everyone is on-board with Gaara's budding relationship with a cop who pulled him over. They all have their reasons. For Gaara's birthday 2019.
A/N: I expect this to be the multi-chapter tie-up that began with my fics Along Came a Fox and What Does the Fox Say?. I do hope you enjoy.

"Wait, he followed you here?" Temari asked. "He waited for you yesterday for seven hours?"

Cross-posted to Naruto-Yaoi

Author: Marley Station/Prism0467
Title: The Shark
Pairing: Hoshigaki Kisame/Uchiha Itachi
Word Count: 2885
Rating: M
Warning(s): AU; M/M; Swearing
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters. I make no money from the writing of this story.
Summary: Kisame “The Shark” uses a connection of his own to make his move on a sexy, well-bred lawyer from an old-money family. Giftfic for Yazz for the Akatsuki Gift Exchange 2018.
A/N: This fic represents the first one I've written and published in more than two years, and my first for this pairing. I do hope you enjoy.

“What else could this possibly be? You failed to catch my cousin in your web, which is just embarrassing. Targeting me now is considerably ambitious. What do they do there at Akatsuki -- does everyone write ideas on little slips of paper and then toss them into a hat?”


Cross-posted to Naruto Yaoi

Title: one for sorrow
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Teen
Pairings/Characters: Hatake Kakashi; Namikaze Minato/Uzumaki Kushina; Kakashi's ninken
Word count: 2k
Warnings: Angst; blood; implied/referenced suicide
Notes: AU - wings;
Summary: Post Sakumo's suicide. Minato worries. Kushina is quiet. Also a wingfic because why tf not.

On AO3

Some hours after finding his father lying dead, Kakashi tucks himself into a chair at the hospital. It’s a cold, bright red thing made of plastic, and it’s attached to a whole line of equally cold and red chairs by a bar of metal under the seat. The back of the chair is low enough for an average man to sit comfortably with his wings, but Kakashi is a little small for that. He doesn’t try. Instead, he lets them drape where they will, weighed down by the never-ending hours of the night.
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Title: bloodhound
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Teen+
Pairings/Characters: Kakashi; Yamato; Kakashi's Ninken
Word count: 2.5k
Warnings: Contamination type OCD
Notes: Hurt/comfort; character study; drabble
Summary: Kakashi wonders what sort of post-mission routine Tenzō has and if it's anything like this. He hopes not. Tenzō’s a decent guy and he’s got enough on his plate as it is. Kakashi wouldn’t wish these crazy routines on anyone.

On AO3

Title: Introductions
Summary: Their contract was made with the Hatake clan generations ago; it's inevitable that Hatake Kakashi will have a pack.
Notes: Based on this comic about Gai meeting Pakkun by shittilydrawing
Crossposted on wafflelate

 

All of Hatake Sakumo’s dogs had been white, most of them big and fluffy. Sakumo — who’d died before Pakkun was even old enough to speak — had had one specialized tracker, three combat-specialized dogs, and one dog that could do either but was also suited for carrying messages over long distances.

The humans had called him White Fang, and when Pakkun was a pup those white dogs had lolled in the grasses of home and talked about how strong their human was, how fierce, how loyal. Thrilling stories, like myth and legend, and none of them had ever, ever wanted to talk about how Hatake Sakumo died.

“Kakashi’s my summoner now, so I have to know,” Pakkun had eventually argued, hardly realizing at the time that he was even more of a child than Kakashi, unblooded and idealistic. He had not been deterred by offers to play, by friendly roughhousing, by the oft-stated promise that knowledge would come with time. “Some things can’t wait,” he’d told Sakumo’s pack.

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Title: Steady Against the Tide
Pairing: Shikamaru/Temari
Rating: PG-13 to be safe, for themes of war and canon death
Genre: Tragedy, Hurt/Comfort, Subtle Romance
Status: 490 words, complete
Warnings: Spoilers for manga ch.616

Summary: In the aftermath of war, Temari stands beside him, steady. And Shikamaru finally understands.

Read at: Fanfiction.net | AO3

Thanks for reading! :)

Title: When All the World's a Stage
Fandom: Naruto
Characters: Yamanaka Ino, Haruno Sakura
Pairing: Could be read as gen or InoSaku
Word Count: 1650
Rating: PG
Summary: Sakura doesn't know the specifics of Ino's mission and she doesn't ask.
Notes: Written for kalliel for this meme. It's still 2013 somewhere, so I say it counts. It's still 2013 somewhere, so I say it counts. Curse my forgetfulness. Glanced over but not beta-read.

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On Dreamwidth
On Fanfiction.net

Title: Exhale
Author: naeryse
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Itachi x Naruto
Category: Romance, Humour
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Yaoi
Summary: In the forest, Itachi and Naruto reunite. What is Naruto eager to see first?


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The Naruto Fic Festival is a new fic exchange open to all characters and all ships, running on the Archive of Our Own. The schedule and sign-up instructions are available on our LJ community naruto_ficfest; sign-ups will open on February 10th and run till March 7th, so there's plenty of time to think it over.

If you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, please feel free to contact the mods, either through the mod account naruto_ficmod or their personal LJs at hokuton_punch and weisquared!

Title: Let The Silence Be Broken
Author: naeryse
Fandom: Naruto
Pairing: Itachi x Naruto
Category: Romance, Drama
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Yaoi, Lemon, Alternate Universe

Summary: You do not always get what you want, but sometimes you get exactly what you need. When Itachi meets a struggling student with a deadline, it marks the beginning of a new struggle for them both.


Read at A03 // Read at my journal

Fandom: Naruto
Title: A Tale Rewritten
Characters: Hyuuga Neji, Hyuuga Hiashi, Hyuuga Hinata
Genre: Tragedy, Family
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 724
Warnings: SPOILERS for the most recent manga chapter, 614.

Summary: The old are supposed to protect the young. An alternate "rewrite" version of ch.614, for the Hyuuga.

Read at: DW | AO3 | FF.NET

Fandom: Naruto
Title: Once Upon a Time
Characters: Tenten, Neji/Tenten
Genre: Drama, Tragedy
Rating: PG
Word Count: 136
Warnings: Spoilers for the most recent manga chapter, 614.

Summary: Tenten had always thought relationships could come later.

Read at: DW | AO3 | FF.NET

Title: Unraveling a Circle
Characters: Uzumaki Naruto, Uchiha Sasuke
Rating/Genre: PG-13 / gen, drama, character study
Word Count: 387 words, complete
Spoilers: Up until the five kage summit
Summary: There are four times Naruto thinks he may have understood Sasuke, but when all is said and done, there is perhaps just once when he finally does.

Posted at: DW writing journal | AO3 | ff.net

Comments always appreciated and thanks for reading!