Recently finished the manga and got into this fandom.

I so far read Shezza's Life in Konoha's ANBU and Twenty Times Uzumaki Naruto Didn't Die. I think I really screwed myself with Shezza's fic. Cause that's now my subconscious standard for the fandom. I read the first few chapters of a bunch of other fics, some five star ones from this forum, but just couldn't get into any of them.

So DLP members, what's the #1 fic/oneshot that's you've read in this fandom. Aside from the two I listed here?

 

Go through the other 25 pages, yeah?

 

Spying no Jutsu, One Small Kindness, Daybreak: Part 1, The Howling Wind and Patriot's Dawn are the ones that spring to mind.

 

Anything by this guy really. I specifically like Reload which I wish wasn't pseudo-abandoned.

 

Dreaming of Sunshine is another must read.

 

I read a chapter and a half of Patriot's Dawn and found the prose to be awful and the plot boring.

Howling Wind seemed like Canon with a harder working Naruto with a different chakra.

Do both get much much better?

 

Neither is anywhere close to canon, for one.

 

The Howling Wind more so than Patriot's Dawn. By a fair bit.

On whether Patrior's Dawn improves...well, I don't even like it that much tbh (though most do) but it does get better after the early chapters.

 

There is also a personal favorite of mine, Hurricane Suite, which is by the same author who penned Patriot's Dawn. It hasn't updated in a while, though.

 

Naruto: Altered History and its sequel Naruto: Shinobi Wars by Geor-sama. They don't follow canon at all really and they're well written and both over 300k so there's a lot there to sink your teeth into.

 

Wild World, Houses of Holy and oneshot The Unforgiven.
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1633755/HowdyU

 

Earlier post of mine.

https://forums.darklordpotter.net/showpost.php?p=661334&postcount=473

 

Steal My Thunder God by Nauro is pretty good, as well as Roarian's The Leaf's Naruto. I'm also obligated to mention Lungs' Light My Way.

Some non-DLP fics: Worth Dying For <-- kind of a post-apocalyotic setting, with future technology (For us, but old/ancient in universe)

Legacy of Uzushiogakure <--- Has some quasi Crossovered characters from Fairy tail, but just abilites/personalities and some appearances, that's it.

Naruto: Myoushuu no Fuuin. <--- Hasn't updates in awhile, so may be abandoned.

 

I have been looking everywhere for this, thank you.

 

You're going to burn through this fandom within a month.

 

Do any of you happen to remember a fic where Naruto joins Anbu (not at 3 or anything ridiculous like that) - goes through some pretty intense training/hazing - at some point Naruto kills Lee as an example (last to reach a certain point)...

 

Fuck, that sounds awful. Why exactly does he kill a comrade ?

 

To be edgy.

 

The only acceptable reason.

 

Throwing Shadows by Feral Smile

It certainly took quite a bleak approach on how such an organisation as ANBU would train their recruits in a more realistic setting. I remember the ending being terrible though.