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In another life, Orochimaru never leaves Konoha, opting to remain within the village that equally reveres and reviles him. Fighting a bitter battle against forces within the village that are more influential and well-positioned, he finds himself gifted with one last shining opportunity: three children, a team of genin, handed to him because Konoha has no better choice. Orochimaru agrees to become a jounin-sensei for the first and the last time, taking on the next generation's Team Seven: Uchiha Sasuke, Nara Shikamaru, and Uzumaki Naruto. [ A gradual exploration of the author's very liberal Naruto headcanon, with a good!Orochimaru (well, sorta good) who eventually becomes the Godaime Hokage. Lots of chakra theory, cool jutsu, in-depth backstories, character development, political intrigue, and den mother Orochimaru feels! Also featuring: BAMF baby Team 7! Be prepared to suspend your disbelief; this will be another one of my long-running intense worldbuilding AUs. Let's go have fun! ]

Cursed spirits are usually born knowing what they were supposed to do, apparently. "Apparently" is pretty dubious because Obito was not exactly born but more like spat out of death's stomach with absolutely no idea of what to do next. On the upside (more like downside) there's a Kakashi-look alike with a god complex and Obito really wants to fist fight god. or: There's a new curse that Gojo Satoru has the perfect conspiracy theory for. (To be fair, no one takes interdimensional ninja into account.)

During their mission to Wave, Sakura realises how behind she is in her training and decides to do something about it. She vows to become a shinobi her Village and her teammates can respect and depend on. But Sakura has always been a paper-ninja, so her first stop for inspiration is the library where she finds unexpected help in the form of one very bored tokujo who quickly goes on to become an integral part of her life. Soon, despite the neglect of her sensei and all odds seemingly against her, Sakura's destiny begins to change.

Aikawa Toshiro is born anew on the heels of the third shinobi war. He's clanless, average in strength, and is alive on luck alone. But he's here. And he's about to make it everyone else's problem. Life beget change, and if Konoha is so frequently likened to a tree, shouldn't it be expected to grow?

Bruce's habit of collecting strays is not limited by dimension. Or When Young Justice Batman comes across an angsty, seemingly abandoned by his Batman Tim Drake, he decides to step up to the plate and parent the crap out of him. podfic available: https://archiveofourown.org/works/43438116

“Honey, maybe we shouldn’t?” Fugaku rasped between the kisses. “Well… it hasn’t been that long since Itachi… are you sure it’s okay?” “Oh please, Fugaku, my love, it’s fiiiiine. What’s the worst that could happen?” The famous last words. In this story, our OC is brought from the modern world into the world of shinobi as a daughter to Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha. Some will say she is an angel, but the clan quickly learned, that she was more like a spawn of Madara Uchiha himself. Meanwhile, our dear OC, faced with the life of a shinobi, would ask only one question: What would Madara do? This fic has a discord! ^^

“The HPSC is doing what?” Present Mic asked Nedzu incredulously. Nedzu’s smile was tense. “The HPSC is concerned about the recent attack at the USJ and are choosing to intervene. A student of theirs will be transferring into Class 1-A in order to watch for a potential traitor in the school.”...Or, Hatake Kakashi is reincarnated into bnha with a quirk that makes even All for One look like child’s play. And in his eyes, anyone in UA could be the traitor he’s looking for.

When she awoke to a new life in Westeros, Ursula Mires nearly did the smart thing. Only a year away from becoming sworn to the Faith as a septa and being free to live in relative comfort and safety in one of the more prestigious Reach cloisters, she was content with her lot in life. Her advice, slowly fed to her father over many years, had enabled her family to survive the Dance and rise in station. House Mires had its legacy secured, until tragedy struck early that winter. Now Ursula is heir to a floundering House she does not want, in a war-torn land that she must drag out of the mud. Many ladies are in her position in what maesters would later call ‘the winter of widows’. Only Ursula knows what is coming next, and she’s not sure if her house will survive it.

Totally self-indulgent Rhaenyra Self-Insert, written solely because I need to start writing again instead of planning a story to death. Cross posted on Space Battles - back to regular posting!

Aizawa Shouta knew, fundamentally, that his quirk could be useful when it came to helping others; however, after his parents died and a few, unsuccessful jaunts around the foster-care system later, he comes to realise that the world of heroes isn’t for him. Because heroes only showed up some of the time; then, if you were lucky, they’d rush onto the scene, seek their glory in defeating villains and then vanish behind a screen of adoring-fans, TV cameras and fame… leaving the ordinary people behind to sift through the fragments of their broken lives themselves. No one had saved him from the ruthless reality of being an orphan too old and too damaged to be adopted and no one gave a damn about the shady area ensconcing the care-centre he was raised in either, and so, he decides to give a damn. What follows are the tales of Café Owner Aizawa who hasn’t adopted several kids, intimidated the local gangs, scared off the pimps and caused multiple villains and heroes to catch feels for him, no sir; he just serves drinks, provides decent food and helps struggling students with their homework. It’d be irrational to think otherwise…

You're a baker with few dreams and no intentions of ever knowing that vampires exist. Klaus Mikaelson has other ideas.

Wei Ying remembers falling and a voice. “The price of seeing the future Is the ability to see the present” ...Or, another time travel-fix it where Wei Ying is given another chance to change destinies; but nothing comes free.

As a final stand in a war they never stood a chance of winning, Uzumaki Naruto chooses to use a forbidden blood seal to rip through the fabric of space and time itself rather than admit defeat. He has never been good at accepting his fate, and if bending reality with his own two hands is what it takes, then that’s just what Naruto will do. The rest of the world is just going to have to suck it up and deal with it. [OR] “A time travel seal,” Sakura says numbly, staring at him with wide eyes and a slack jaw once she finally comprehends the excited tirade he has just finished throwing at her. “A time travel seal,” Naruto confirms, grinning with a mouth full of teeth, eyes manic. Sasuke sighs, immediately giving up on trying to make sense of anything that comes out of Naruto’s mouth. “Of-fucking-course.”

TommyInnit is a vigilante. This is a known fact. The sky is blue. The grass is green. TommyInnit is a vigilante. TommyInnit also needs a job. A proper one, one that pays him well so he doesn’t need to work three jobs at a time. It’s a good thing that the Three Lives Agency is looking for interns, right?

There it is – the symbol of royalty, the King of the forest – and he picked her. Not Aegon, the King’s son, but Rhaenyra, his daughter. There’s something magical in the hart’s steady gaze, and Rhaenyra almost collapses under the weight of what the stag symbolises. Or Rhaenyra’s encounter with the white stag inspires her to step up in the game for the Iron Throne.

Indra and Asura, the two sons of the Sage, whose feud brought on the war of Uchiha and Senju. The brothers, who could not let go of their ideals, even after death. Fighting, reincarnation and bloodshed - a vicious cycle, which continoues trough the ages.But, amongst the bloodiest of circumstances, the most recent incarnates gain the memories of their past lives. Unwilling to fight and seeking repentance, they swear to break the cycle forever and bring peace.But nothing is ever easy, in the world of shinobi... AKA, Naruto and Sasuke remember their past lives, and the current generations are unsure how to deal with this new and unexpected twist Hiatus due to writer block, but I´m NOT abandoning this Spanish transpation available HERE

Three years after he escaped from the nightmare forced upon him by the Gaunt wretch, Tom Riddle meets another witch.

Post Civil War, 46-year-old Tony Stark wakes up in his 21-year-old body. Armed with memories of the future, he saves his parents, kidnaps the Winter Soldier, and kickstarts a series of unexpected events.

When Arthur wakes up from surgery, completely loopy from the anesthetics, he doesn’t recognise Merlin, but thinks he's really quite lovely.

Dr. Strange looks at the world after Thanos and, faced with its seemingly irreparable brokenness, breaks his own oath. Tony, Stephen, and Loki go back in time for one more chance - an intentional choice, because they are each other's insurance against repeating the same mistakes. Tony wakes up shortly before the Stark Expo with the reactor's palladium core still poisoning him. Stephen wakes up with undamaged hands and a flourishing medical career. Loki wakes up in Asgard one day before Thor's coronation. "Do I dare disturb the universe? / In a minute there is time / for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse." [ Yet another take on that time travel fic with lots of worldbuilding, hand-wavey comic book science, political intrigue, inventing, nerding out, and a broken Tony trying to fix a broken world - but this time he's not alone. ]

Dream didn't know what came over him, he wanted some time to think. Some time turned to days and thinking turned to building a nice home. Days turned to weeks and the home is bigger and cozier now. Weeks turned to years and it's been a while since Dream has seen his friends. Still, they're definitely living a more peaceful life now that he's gone, right? (Or, Dream left and started a cottagecore after the L'manberg Revolution and a Dreamon took his spot and the plot continues as it does in canon. Except, we have a Dream who likes to stay in his cottage and help his injured friends without telling them who he is, exactly)