Title: Throwing Shadows
Author: Feral Smile
Rating: M
Genre: Angst/Adventure
Status: WIP
Fandom: Naruto
Pairings: None As Of Yet
Summary: Heroes are beacons of hope and justice. They burn with intense light, illuminating the way for the next generation. However, the brightest lights throw the darkest shadows. This is the journal of one such shadow.
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9030224/1/Throwing-Shadows

Seems like this story is being reposted.

Another take from the AnBu!Naruto cathegory but, in my opinion, not comparable to any fiction I've read before.

It's a very violent interpretation of AnBu, which pleased me as they are fabricating soldiers and not knights or other justice heroes.
The entire story is from Naruto's perspective and written in the form of several short journal entries.
Naruto, in contrast to canon, is being trained into a powerful, heartless and arrogant killer - the complete opposite of the usual stories.

I thought it was quite interesting and executed pretty well, even if some parts were a bit exaggerated.
Worth a read in my book.

 

It gets very different.
Well, If you're bothered by the way the trainees are handled, then you might not want to read the rest as it gets quite violent and (in my opinion) also a bit over the top.

But there is a lot of character development - as you would expect in a military training facility.
Naruto is being desensitized, and it's visible.

If It's Naruto's careless personality that you don't like, you should read a bit more.

 

Hearing the words FAGGOT and FUCKWIT in a Naruto story might be one of the most distracting and immersion breaking thing I've seen in a long while.

Fact is, I don't want to read passed the first chapter. It's laughably hardcore and the completely fake training exercise that doesn't mesh with Naruto at all. Anyone that thinks this should be in Naruto, I feel like the author will only produce junk.

 

While I will keep reading this story, it isn't good enough to be in the Library. This fic is better suited for the Almost Recommended thread. If you have some time to kill, and don't mind the sloppy writing, give it a whirl. Otherwise, don't bother.

 

This story is grimm as fuck. It is a Naruto in ANBU story but in this story ANBU is very grimm place where every recruit is broken until very little remains behind. Those who likes Naruto as happy idiot shouldn't even touch this one but if you want to read a Itachi esque Naruto give it a go But be warned there is mentions of rape during the counter-torture training. And yes torture plays an important role in the story.


I give it 4/5 but it is more like a YMMV type of the story. Journal like format actually hurts the story. And writing itself isn't greatest but story is interesting. Especially last chapters was very interesthing. didn't like how Karin is shoehorned to be love interest though.