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100 days of enemy recs: 84. Naruto
Naruto is a shonen manga and anime that is perhaps most succinctly described as what Harry Potter would be if everyone was unashamed and open about the fact that their real purpose was training up child soldiers to fight in a forever war.
Naruto is the baby who miraculously survived last generation's great evil, and ended up with that power sealed inside him, and was raised as a pariah and kept in ignorance of that fact.
There are a lot of enemy pairings in this fandom! Perhaps the most obvious is Naruto/Sasuke; Sasuke is the kid who was raised in apparent privilege but actually tragedy who has hate on first site with Naruto, but they come to grudgingly respect each other over their training, until Sasuke defects to the enemy for complicated reasons that we don't find out until much, much later.
There is also a lot of Naruto fic about characters who are part of the enemy Sasuke defects to, but I will admit to not having read much of that, because I stopped following canon before they really showed up. (With long shonen I tend to really like the first, oh, twenty installments or so, but at some point either it has been too long with nothing happening, or too much happening all at once, and I give up.)
Then there's Kakashi/Iruka. Iruka and Kakashi are the Remus and Sirius in the Harry Potter metaphor, if they'd actually had real instutional support and backup in their attempts to train the children. Iruka is Naruto's primary school teacher, who is the closest thing he has to a parental figure for most of his life. Kakashi is the eccentric, traumatize master who is assigned to teach him after he graduates. Their enemyship dynamis is not as dramatic as most of the others in this fandom, but their ship has kind of an odd history - in the beginning of canon, they'd actually had very little interaction, other than getting in a loud fight in an official meeting over the moral issues around the training up of child soldiers. But I guess Japanese fandom latched on to that interaction and started shipping them, and then the marketing picked up on that, so for awhile there was more Kakashi/Iruka merch than there was canon!
So have a Kakashi/Iruka recs set, because their fic tends to be lighter on complicated plot stuff than most of the others.
Naruto is the baby who miraculously survived last generation's great evil, and ended up with that power sealed inside him, and was raised as a pariah and kept in ignorance of that fact.
There are a lot of enemy pairings in this fandom! Perhaps the most obvious is Naruto/Sasuke; Sasuke is the kid who was raised in apparent privilege but actually tragedy who has hate on first site with Naruto, but they come to grudgingly respect each other over their training, until Sasuke defects to the enemy for complicated reasons that we don't find out until much, much later.
There is also a lot of Naruto fic about characters who are part of the enemy Sasuke defects to, but I will admit to not having read much of that, because I stopped following canon before they really showed up. (With long shonen I tend to really like the first, oh, twenty installments or so, but at some point either it has been too long with nothing happening, or too much happening all at once, and I give up.)
Then there's Kakashi/Iruka. Iruka and Kakashi are the Remus and Sirius in the Harry Potter metaphor, if they'd actually had real instutional support and backup in their attempts to train the children. Iruka is Naruto's primary school teacher, who is the closest thing he has to a parental figure for most of his life. Kakashi is the eccentric, traumatize master who is assigned to teach him after he graduates. Their enemyship dynamis is not as dramatic as most of the others in this fandom, but their ship has kind of an odd history - in the beginning of canon, they'd actually had very little interaction, other than getting in a loud fight in an official meeting over the moral issues around the training up of child soldiers. But I guess Japanese fandom latched on to that interaction and started shipping them, and then the marketing picked up on that, so for awhile there was more Kakashi/Iruka merch than there was canon!
So have a Kakashi/Iruka recs set, because their fic tends to be lighter on complicated plot stuff than most of the others.
- Hunter's Moon (10635 words) by Maldoror_Chant
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka
Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Mild Hurt/Comfort, ninjas follow orders
Summary:Ninja live and die for their village. Ninja follow orders. Ninja hurt and kill those they are ordered to hurt and kill, including other ninja. Ninja will hunt friends and loved ones if ordered to. Everything else is secondary.
'Secondary' does not mean 'unimportant'. - Animal Crackers (29471 words) by pentapus, torch
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka
Additional Tags: mild violence really, mild slash really, Animal Harm, human harm, Treehouse Reversebang, art-based
Summary:Iruka's quiet summer is suddenly full of children, animals, undead animals, summoned animals, traps, missions, dango, and really annoying jounin.
- Opening the Roads (8679 words) by thehoyden
Fandom: Naruto
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka
Summary:He was a chuunin academy teacher, not a courtier trained in statecraft and diplomacy.
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My favorite one is probably The Hunt by Caeseria, which iirc goes colleagues to lovers to enemies to lovers.
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(I also often end up a little bit wistful about the ones where Iruka is secretly a badass superhero. Partly because I have trouble suspending belief that it's possible to be a badass superhero *and* a good teacher. Bruce Wayne and Batman? Sure. Getting your grading and lesson plans in for your six year olds, and also never taking a sick day because teachers can't? Less likely. I really like The Bingo Book partly because the Iruka there is secretly badass *because* it turns out dealing with two dozen six-year-old ninja *and* their crazy jonin parents every day of your life is actually harder than taking on an entire Anbu squad once in awhile.)