Tome of the Orange Sky (Naruto/MGLN)

And is there really a 'tradition' of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio?
yes, it is, and Chouji, Ino, and Shikamaru are the 16th Generation of that combination
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Formation Ino–Shika–Chō

Formation Ino–Shika–Chō are formations used by the members of the Yamanaka, Nara, and Akimichi clan members designed as a result of their long history of working together. These formations are designed to use each member's abilities in the best way possible that complements the others'. This...
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Ino–Shika–Chō (15th)

The fifteenth generation of Ino-Shika-Chō consisted of Shikaku Nara, Inoichi Yamanaka and Chōza Akimichi, the fathers of Team Asuma. They teamed up in their younger days and continued working together even after passing the torch to their children. During the events of the Fourth Shinobi World...
 
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If the village has only existed for around 80 or so years at the time of Naruto's start, and before that ninja clans were constantly warring with each other so every clan had to stand on their own... How could there possibly have been 16 generations of the ino-shika-cho team?!
 
This remains great and greatly hilarious. And also, while you seem to be doing the Wave Mission, you are at least doing a very nice spinoff version of it. I like. More would be greatly aprecated please.
 
If the village has only existed for around 80 or so years at the time of Naruto's start, and before that ninja clans were constantly warring with each other so every clan had to stand on their own... How could there possibly have been 16 generations of the ino-shika-cho team?!
Sounds like iteration might be a better word - it doesn't have to have been passed down to clan heirs only, and the time between generations does have to be standard human generations.
 
If the village has only existed for around 80 or so years at the time of Naruto's start, and before that ninja clans were constantly warring with each other so every clan had to stand on their own... How could there possibly have been 16 generations of the ino-shika-cho team?!
Possible they had an existing alliance prior to the village founding. I mean sure ninja clans were competing but I imagine there were at least some that worked together or allied. Probably not particularly common but its plausible. it still is rather questionable that this alliance lasted so long considering the competition of the era.
 
No matter how things change they stay the same. No matter how many rails are torn up and re-laid Naruto WILL go on The Wave Mission. I'm not even sure if being dead would stop it at this point.

Thanks for the chapter CmptrWz.
I do believe that he's believed to be dead to most people in Invisible Fox and gets the mission there too...
The konoha uniform isn't gendered though?
Konoha doesn't really have a uniform outside of "we're in a war and you will be wearing something properly protective, dammit!" :V

Which is what most chunin wear, but it seemingly isn't a requirement until war breaks out, and even then not everyone wears the thing.

Sasuke got decidedly female clothing that was designed to hold up to the rigors of combat. :p
Looking forward to Gato getting wrecked, however... you broke up the Ino-Shika-Cho. In case you aren't aware, that's a tradition as old as Konoha itself. You still have time to fix it since all you did was a team listing, but you'd better have a damn good reason if you leave it as it is now
There are multiple traditions clashing in this story, and the one that's a village tradition (in this story at a minimum, but there are hints that it happens repeatedly in canon) won out over the tradition of some of the clans.

Nothing says that the three can't team up as chunin, and learning tactics that aren't passed down through fifteen iterations of cookie-cutter team can only help them in the long run anyway.
I am seriously amused by the fact Orochimaru thinks the zombie 'attacks' were caused by one of his old experiments. Also that he thinks that those attacks mean the village will be easy to invade. When the reality is it'll be harder to invade due to the zombie attacks revealing just how unprepared the village was for an invasion.
Look, Hiruzen is so bogged down in paperwork that he hasn't had time in the past decade to improve anything. He can barely keep the status quo going! Please ignore him using the paperwork jutsu to no longer be bogged down in paperwork...
If you're referring to Naruto's skirt, apparantly Uzu did have gendered uniforms, at least when it applied to being on ships with merchants. I guess to help the civilian merchants be able to identify them more easily at a glance?

Or maybe the Uzu jounin just couldn't resist dressing up their genin in "little ninja sailor outfits". They do seem to be being characterized as generally mischievous by nature.
The Uzu jounin got sick and tired of fancy-but-impractical outfits causing genin and chunin to be caught in a ship's rigging and successfully petitioned for fixed uniforms that had none of the stupid shit included when you knew you were being deployed onto a ship.

That it counted as dressing the genin and chunin up in "little ninja sailor outfits" was a side benefit. :V
 
If the village has only existed for around 80 or so years at the time of Naruto's start, and before that ninja clans were constantly warring with each other so every clan had to stand on their own... How could there possibly have been 16 generations of the ino-shika-cho team?!
I'm not sure if it's explicitly said at some point but is heavenly implied that they had an alliance before the formation of the hidden village.
 
I never got why Ino-Shika-Cho was considered so strong. Sure there's significant synergy with the shadow hold + mind jutsu, but it's not like that's the only way to hold someone in place. And that's only two of the three.

It feels more like the kind of overly complex combo move that shounen anime loves, even if it's not actually all that practical outside of very specific cases.

I think it runs into the also old tradition of the 'Rookie of the Year', Strongest opposite gender, and dead last team. Which I think kind of is fanon, but for the purposes of this story is a tradition. And is there really a 'tradition' of the Ino-Shika-Cho trio? I don't recall it existing besides their parents having that formation as a team as well, no matter how prevalent it is in fanon of being a tradition. I'm genuinely not sure
Those 3 clans are incredibly close-knit
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Yamanaka, Nara, and Akimichi Clan Memorial

This is the memorial of the Yamanaka, Nara and Akimichi clan that stands in Konohagakure as a testament of the close-knit relationship between the three clans. Engraved on it are the symbols of the respective clans which commemorates the pact that the three clans made to work together, protect...
There are multiple traditions clashing in this story, and the one that's a village tradition (in this story at a minimum, but there are hints that it happens repeatedly in canon) won out over the tradition of some of the clans.

Nothing says that the three can't team up as chunin, and learning tactics that aren't passed down through fifteen iterations of cookie-cutter team can only help them in the long run anyway
It's your story, I just ask that you don't brush it off
 
there's also the fact that the Byakugan negates Zabuza's favorite tactic(Hiding in the Mist doesn't work against eh Byakuganlike it does against the Sharingan)
Does it though? I'd think not as if it's a bunch of chakra made mist it would deaden them as the Byakugan can't see through all the dense chakra. Mist was on the opposite side as Leaf in at least one of the four great wars, they probably fixed their elite jutsu so some random Hyuga can't mess everything up for them.
 
With Hiruzen clearing out the backlog, it also lets him analyze the paperwork. Rather than drowning in it and having to just get it done. Which might help him figure out the paperwork that he doesn't need to do himself. And subsequently make it easier to figure out the more important stuff. It really just depends on just what the paperwork actually consists of. (And you know, detach it from the gag of the most powerful shinobi of the village being completely unable to do much ninja work, even if it's only training/maintaining skills.)

The Hokage does have underlings, after all. And sure, he needs to be able to access all relevant reports. But some of it he can just deal with summaries, and the paperwork that is unusual. Along with possible random audits to avoid enemies taking advantage of anything he doesn't personally check over. (And even then, with how much paperwork there is, that just means it could be easy to miss something if it appears boring/normal enough. Like, say for instance, the Root funding stuff.)

I think there was a one-shot somewhere that kind of exmplifies that; it was a Namikaze just straight up reworking how the paperwork gets sent to him. So stuff like 'Genin Academy orders new paper' kind of thing, that isn't even the annual budget report, just a single budget request for restock doesn't end up on his desk. Or each individual D-Rank mission report. Because he has people to let him know if something is out of the ordinary. That would actually take his attention to solve.

And it actually seems like a valid tactic to use against an opposing village; figure out what generates a lot of paperwork, and cause events to happen that creates that ton of paperwork. Slide in more paperwork as well. Either copies of ones already in the stack, or just whole cloth created ones. Fake up a team, and submit mission reports possibly without even putting in the right paperwork so that they have a record of said team. Throw in some forms that they don't have, but look like real ones. Such as a 'inanimate object has joined the ninja force'. Unless that is one, which just makes me wonder what caused it to be created. Blank forms, improperly filled out ones either incomplete or just plain wrong information (like the form is filled out, but the answers are shifted three lines down), whether or not they're 'real' forms or not.

A particularly mean idea would be some sort of paperwork seal, that solely does that kind of thing. Or maybe casts a genjutsu like effect to make a paperwork stack look taller than it is.
 
Honestly if anything negates the hidden mist jutsu it would be Naruto throwing a kunai in each direction and multiplying them to make everywhere become stabby, or just using the spell bullets to immitate a Touhou character's danmaku(something I expect to eventually become his standard evasion training until he gets to the "dodging the rain" level of dodging skills).
 
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Does it though? I'd think not as if it's a bunch of chakra made mist it would deaden them as the Byakugan can't see through all the dense chakra. Mist was on the opposite side as Leaf in at least one of the four great wars, they probably fixed their elite jutsu so some random Hyuga can't mess everything up for them.
it does, as seen in the anime, alsochakra sensor abilities still work in the Mist.
the reason that hiding in the mist blocks the Sharingan is that the sharingan needs line of sight to work with.

also hiding in the mist isn't an "elite" jutsu, it's a freaking D-Rank(Genin level technique), Zabuza is just exceptional at Silent Killing and Blind fighting which synergizes with Hiding in the Mist
 
Uniform, lol. All ninja above a certain power level have so much job security their village is happy if they're wearing pants. Heck, maybe not even then; nudism is far from the worst quirk a jonin could have. Just look at akatsuki. better socially insane than murderously insane
 
I do believe that he's believed to be dead to most people in Invisible Fox and gets the mission there too...
One, I'm going to start reading this now so thanks for that and Two I mean actually being dead not just thought to be dead, not having been replaced with the fox (as in The Empty Cage) or anything else. I mean his body straight up being dead and buried.

Kisuke showed us that "ghosts" are canon and there's at least one Resurrection Justu to say nothing of anything out-of-context that could be thrown in so through some sort of shenanigans Naruto would wind up going on the mission to Wave with Tazuna. While being actually dead.

Nothing will stop Naruto from doing that missing. Short of Konoha being destroyed so there can't be a mission to Wave in the first place... . And Naruto would probably still wind up in Wave helping with that damn bridge.
 
One, I'm going to start reading this now so thanks for that and Two I mean actually being dead not just thought to be dead, not having been replaced with the fox (as in The Empty Cage) or anything else. I mean his body straight up being dead and buried.

Kisuke showed us that "ghosts" are canon and there's at least one Resurrection Justu to say nothing of anything out-of-context that could be thrown in so through some sort of shenanigans Naruto would wind up going on the mission to Wave with Tazuna. While being actually dead.

Nothing will stop Naruto from doing that missing. Short of Konoha being destroyed so there can't be a mission to Wave in the first place... . And Naruto would probably still wind up in Wave helping with that damn bridge.

I can't think of the names, but I read a few Naruto/Bleach crossovers where Naruto is dead, has become a Soul Reaper while running a tea shop with a few others (such as Rin). and still ends up as part of the Wave mission for various reasons. Heck, in a few stories where he's not even a ninja... he still ended up going on the Wave mission for one reason or another.
 
...I'm kinda hoping for when Naruto and Haku meet for neither to realize what the other's gender actually is for a bit. Though thinking on Haku's whole Kiri hunter nin, wonder how that'd turn out if a Uzu squad showed up?


Wonder if Orichimaru has heard about any rumors involving Uzu and/or Uzumakies? Granted if there was any it's probably lost in his paper work and I really want to consider some of the paperwork doesn't reach his backlog due to someone somehow destroying some and just not mentioning it. Which leads to more problems.

Granted since Naruto is going out dressed in a Uzu uniform and both Uzu and Konoha symbols that's probably gonna get knowledge spread, let alone a Uzu squad showing up. I think Karin finding out about this might be interesting.


Then there's the continuation of the things involving Yoko. Such as fan girls of Sasuke showing up combined with the thoughts. But I'm wondering if anyone noticed the moments where there ended up being two Yokos?




Also seeing the talk about Naruto and the Wave mission. I recall at least one fic where he didn't go on the Wave mission, still went on something that escalated and was one of those where he's in a different team but I think the team that did go on the mission either had at least one member either injured or dead. Or not. Don't remember.

...Maybe it was a SI-OC that rather early on killed off the SI and focused on the effects their presence had, but I don't think it was that.


Or maybe the Uzu jounin just couldn't resist dressing up their genin in "little ninja sailor outfits". They do seem to be being characterized as generally mischievous by nature.

The Uzu jounin got sick and tired of fancy-but-impractical outfits causing genin and chunin to be caught in a ship's rigging and successfully petitioned for fixed uniforms that had none of the stupid shit included when you knew you were being deployed onto a ship.

That it counted as dressing the genin and chunin up in "little ninja sailor outfits" was a side benefit. :V

I enjoy how Uzu gets portrayed, often of times it's rather fun. The fact that they basicly had actual genin uniforms with a benefit of dressing them up is even better. Granted with how Uzu is seems like it would be rather common to se the uniform... I recall one fic even had it where the daimyo themself just traveled their land and didn't actually look like they held that position. At the same time they were also basicly incharge of Uzu's/Uzumaki bank account and didn't touch it at all dispite the villiage destruction.

But anyways, I can't wait to see what's next that would be perfectly normal for Uzu-nin to do. Though why do I get a feeling that Konoha one time tried making a list of things Uzu-nin are no longer allowed to do, only to have it backfire and either cause encouragment to repeat or attempts to one-up things...


...Now I'm thinking of the Land of Snow and how things will go when that rolls around...
 
I think I remember that one. It was the one where Naruto was sent to infiltrate an all-female gathering of non-Konoha Kunoichi at a hot springs and he was chosen because between them, the other nations had ID'd almost all the other potential Konoha Kunoichi Infiltrator potentials.
While training to act as an actual female, Naruto almost got Iruka in trouble with Kurenai and during the mission, things went so sideways that when he returned, the mission report began with something along the lines of "The daimyo(?) of Stone says hi."
When it was revealed to Sasuke and Sakura just who the Kunoichi really was, Sakura had a brain-melt over the fact that Naruto had (accidentally) wooed Sasuke far better than she had been able to while Sasuke had no idea what to think.

I realize this is way too late, but here's the link: https://m.fanfiction.net/s/2859078/...fbZel97ONkz_JWnFomHY-1654310767-0-gaNycGzNCSU
 
Regarding Ino-Shika-Cho, I enjoyed one interpretation I read in a fic is that part of the reason the previous generation was so effective is because that combination is so well known, and they used that. After all, everyone know that Akimichi are big and the front-liners. So obviously the merchant who's cowering in the middle of town/base isn't an Akimichi spy. Everyone knows the Yamanaka is a squishy backliner, so obviously you get in close with them to take them out fast. What do you mean Inoichi is a master at several forms of close-combat?
And so on.

I want to say that's from The Mouse of Konoha, but I'm not sure.
 
It's too bad The Mouse of Konoha is so likely a dead fic. Fun story. And I think it might be the one you're thinking of. It was an interesting subversion for the kidnapping when Naruto is young that he thwarts to be of several ninken instead of Hinata. As well as how he goes about rescuing them.
 
Or maybe the Uzu jounin just couldn't resist dressing up their genin in "little ninja sailor outfits". They do seem to be being characterized as generally mischievous by nature.
And now I can't get the image of Uzu genin kunoichi going around in seifuku and indulging in occasionally elaborate windups for certain attacks. Some of which opposing forces really, really, really try to avoid being caught by for various reasons.

The gaslighting of Zabuza would also be an explanation for tracking down Gato to gaslight him before the looting takes place, while the gaslighting of Gato would let them learn about Gato's plan to backstab Zabuza and derail the fight on the bridge if Zabuza and Haku get away from the first fight to let Naruto track them down to be troll and both keep them from resting properly for the rematch as well as gaining information on them for said rematch.
Given the presumed reputation of Uzu's fighting forces, I'm not sure that Zabuza would stick around if more than a single Uzu-associated individual was noted coming into the area.
 
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