History Fanfic / KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox

** Dr. Haruno gets on the receiving end of scathing criticism from his daughter Sakura after she finds out he was heavily involved in [[spoiler:the Kyuushingai training program]] prior to the 365 days. To be fair, [[spoiler:said info had almost gotten Sakura killed less than an hour prior]].

* FreakOut: Sakura suffers a particularly traumatic one of these in Chapter 109 [[spoiler:after her family's house and her father's car are vandalized while they're sleeping]]. To her credit, she manages to hold it together until her mother inadvertently voices how much worse the situation could have been.

** Moments after Naruto knocks out three of Sumaru's Star-Boys goons, Hana goes up to one of them and kicks him in the crotch with brutality, [[ShareTheMalePain causing Naruto to flinch and protest that the guy's already out cold]]. [[spoiler:It was revenge for that particular goon's near-molestation of Hana moments before Naruto's arrival]].

** Minato threatens to use a blowtorch [[spoiler:on Temari's vagina]] this way if he doesn't get certain information he's seeking. The information is coughed up fast.

** Naruto gets another, shorter one in Chapter 46 [[spoiler:after Roshi's death at Akatsuki's hands]].

* HeyYou: Happens to Yagura in Chapter 136 when he's infiltrating a prison [[spoiler:to kill Aoi on Matsuri's orders]]. He [[MuggedForDisguise snaps a guards neck to steal his uniform]], enters the holding area...and suddenly gets called by another guard manning the area. Yagura naturally thinks he got found out--but it turns out the guy just wants to give extra criticism for his "coworker's" persistent smoking habit (the dead guard had gone for a smoke break and then to take a leak when Yagura killed him). Yagura manages to maintain his cover by mimicking the dead guard's voice and keeping his face low with his collar turned up to better hide his features.

* InstantHumiliationJustAddYoutube: Naruto subjects [[spoiler:[[AssholeVictim Yagura]]]] to this, with some help from several household servants, after catching the unfortunate target in a painful GroinAttack that the servants promptly take cell-phone footage of.

* LockedOutOfTheFight: Happens in the Endgame Arc when Naruto and his allies go to Kira's island on invitation to participate in the businessman's tournament. During the first round, Han and Yugito are both seriously injured by their respective opponents [[spoiler:and Fuu is killed by hers]], leaving Naruto to take on the remaining opposition by himself in the subsequent rounds.

** The 365 days' rampage itself was this for a good chunk of the story. It was known initially that a lot of people died (the official body count is around 247, but urban legends insist [[spoiler:and Yugito confirms]] that it's much higher than that), that it was a region-wide event, and that the Kyuushingai were at the center of it all...but there was no mention of what started it in the first place, or what exactly happened during that time period [[spoiler:aside from Tenten's parents' deaths]]. Yugito eventually tells Hinata what she knows about how the chaos initially started, in Chapter 43, and it's revealed that it started because of a fight between Naruto and Gaara that spilled over into a nearby New Year's Eve celebration.

* OnlyBadGuysCallTheirLawyers: Discussed in Chapter 119, when [[spoiler:Kira Ay]] is presented with a body of evidence to suggest involvement with Akatsuki and then expresses the desire to secure legal advice; he points out that he didn't study law, so naturally he'll need legal representation to address the charges he'd be faced with coming out of such accusations, whether or not he's actually guilty of said accusations.

* SWATTeam: [[spoiler:Yahiko]] is revealed to have been a member of Ame Town's local SWAT unit prior to the 365 days, before losing [[spoiler:his wife and children]] in a Kyuushingai-caused stampede resulted in the former cop becoming a LawmanGoneBad.

** In Chapter 30, Sasuke reveals that he underwent this as part of the Uchiha Zaibatsu's thrust to protect itself and its members from any future Kyuushingai attacks, in the wake of the 365 days. [[spoiler:[[CoveredInScars He's got the scars to show for it, too]]]].

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Anyone who closely inspects the 365 days, the training of the Kyuushingai prior to that, and Naruto's attitude in the years following that year of chaos, will see his current efforts to downplay what he had to do during that time as this. For reference, Naruto is 15 years old in the current day; the 365 days happened when he was approximately ''12 years old''. Even more troubling is the fact that, by his own testimony, he was quite eager to undergo training to become a government operative despite being told very clearly by the doctor supervising their health during the training period that said training would involve learning to kill people as part of possible assassination missions. This portion of dialogue between Naruto and national security minister Byakuren outlines the issue quite well:

** The first three times all have to do with the same incident at Burger Castle in Chapter 41 [[spoiler:where he goes berserk enough to almost cut Zabuza's throat while practically ignoring Hinata's pleas not to kill the gangster]].
*** The first time, which happens during the very incident, has Ino attempt to talk Naruto down. He shoots her a DeathGlare. Ino's response is to frown at him and give him a stern admonition:

*** The very next day, while Naruto's in the midst of a HeroicBSOD over what almost happened, he accosts and physically assaults Neji, even after the other boy tells him he needs to cool it. Neji keeps very calm while asking one question of Naruto, in the midst of Naruto's ongoing angry rant which has attracted a crowd of onlookers.
--> '''Neji:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion How do you think you look right now, Naruto-kun]]?
*** The third calling-out comes from Shikamaru a couple of days later, in Chapter 44, after he observes Naruto has been making a point of avoiding contact with his friends following the Burger Castle incident. Shikamaru, who knows what happened from Ino, tells Naruto his behavior is not going to cut it.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Following the attack by the Blood Mist Gang and his subsequent HeroicBSOD over his past coming back to bite him, Naruto gets this from Kushina [[spoiler:[[StrangeMindsThinkAlike and Guy later on]]]].

* AbandonedWarehouse: [[spoiler:Utakata]] is brought to one of these for execution, but narrowly manages to survive (albeit grievously wounded). Another warehouse serves as the venue where Naruto's group of friends confronts Mizuki's gang [[spoiler:after Naruto is brought there to be tortured by the gang and Akatsuki]].

* TheBadGuyWins: Discussed in the fourteenth Gaiden between Naruto and Gaara [[spoiler:concerning the latter's actions at Parliament in the main story's final arc. While the ostensible plot to hold the senators hostage was stopped, Naruto points out that Gaara still succeeded in broadcasting the truth about [[DeceasedFallGuyGambit his parents' deaths]], which in turn led to public trust in the government taking a battering both locally and internationally; and even though he's in solitary confinement in prison, [[MightAsWellNotBeInPrisonAtAll Gaara still has access to several luxuries in his cell, including books, fine furniture, a flat-screen TV, and air-conditioning]]. Gaara, for his part, sees it as a consolation prize, since he still didn't get to be the country's new ruler even with all that]].

** When Sai comes on the scene [[spoiler:just in time to stop Aoi's AttemptedRape of Ino]], Aoi argues that Sai (along with Suigetsu and Jugo) were force-fed Gold Sand pills sometime earlier and should therefore be dead. Sai's response:

* BattleInTheRain: Sai's fight with Aoi (or rather, his [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown extremely one-sided beating]] of Aoi), as revenge for previously force-feeding Sai an overdose of Gold Sand pills [[spoiler:and almost raping Ino]], takes place on a rainy night. Much later, part of the final confrontation between Naruto and Gaara takes place during a steadily-increasing drizzle.

* BigDamnHeroes: Sasuke and Kushina lead a group of Naruto's schoolmates to rescue Naruto [[spoiler:when he's taken captive by Mizuki's gang and Akatsuki]]. In a later arc, Sai comes just in time to rescue Ino [[spoiler:from being raped by Aoi]].

** Hotaru mutters one of these in Chapter 206 [[spoiler:after blowing up Menma's chopper with a rocket launcher]].

* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler:Fuu dies of a broken heart after learning that Kira is not ''Ay'', but rather ''Bee'' [[DeadPersonImpersonation pretending to be Ay]]. It's exacerbated by the injuries she sustained when Bee, who she'd always loved and looked up to prior to his supposed death in the 365 days, [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown brutalized her]] and then threw her off a rooftop hours earlier. Then eventually subverted when the Gaiden chapters revealthat she was actually resuscitated by her medical overseers, albeit barely, having been technically dead on the operating table]].
* DeathByIrony: [[spoiler:Aoi attempts to rape Ino, while Sumaru makes some comments tacitly supporting the idea of his goons sexually assaulting Hana. Both of them (and Sumaru's goons) are killed on orders from or directly by Matsuri, herself a past rape victim]].

* AbandonedWarehouse: [[spoiler:Utakata]] is brought to one of these for execution, but narrowly managed to survive (albeit grievously wounded). Another warehouse serves as the venue where Naruto's group of friends confronts Mizuki's gang [[spoiler:after Naruto is brought there to be tortured by the gang and Akatsuki]].

** Kira Ay is hostile toward Naruto for being a Kyuushingai, due to the death of his brother [[spoiler:and is also Akatsuki's backer]], whereas in canon his original counterpart (the Raikage) was well-intentioned, if still slightly antagonistic to Naruto and company at first. [[spoiler:Taken a step further once it's revealed that he's actually Killer Bee using the deceased Ay's identity; in canon, Bee was a definite good guy and mentor to Naruto]].
** Jiraiya in this fic is considerably more dickish toward Naruto, wanting to see him put before a tribunal for his actions as a Kyuushingai, and being relentless in ensuring that that got done. [[spoiler:This is even before the revelation that he was complicit in framing Gaara's parents for treason to cover up his own (admittedly accidental) act of blowing them up with a missile]].

* AllAbusersAreMale: Averted, as abusers in this story are shown to be both male and female. Karui's and Yukata's mothers are both shown to be emotional abusers, Matsuri's aunt proved to be both physically and emotionally abusive [[spoiler:when Matsuri tried to report her rape by the aunt's husband]], and one unnamed man in the fourth Gaiden is claimed by his lawyer to have been physically battered by his wife.

** Itachi pulls one of these after putting four rounds into [[{{MasterSwordsman}} Kyusuke's]] torso during their fight in Chapter 86. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Kyusuke is simply PlayingPossum]].

** Many a chapter later, Tenten herself bears witness to Fuu suffering this after the latter's past finally catches up with her and she confesses to [[spoiler:being unwittingly responsible for the deaths of Tenten's parents]].

** Dr. Haruno gets on the receiving end of scathing criticism from his daughter Sakura after she finds out he was heavily involved in [[spoiler:the Kyuushingai training programme]] prior to the 365 days. To be fair, [[spoiler:said info had almost gotten Sakura killed less than an hour prior]].

* AbandonedWarehouse: [[spoiler:Where Akatsuki takes Utakata to kill him]].

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: [[spoiler:The reason Gaara stops Temari and Kurotsuchi from using the latter's forces to ambush and kill Yahiko; Gaara thinks it would be better to use Yahiko to kill Kira instead, by furnishing him with information that Kira's been withholding from Yahiko, which had it been known would have resulted in Yahiko turning on him--namely, that Kira's been doing a DeadPersonImpersonation all along]].

* InvisibleParents: Some of the main and supporting characters do have parents who are at least present, but just don't make any appearances. Just for a few examples, Jugo once mentions that his mother is going to be late coming home as she's working the graveyard shift at her job, and Haku's parents show up to meet him at the police station shortly after his bail's been paid. Shikamaru's and Choji's mothers are likewise around and have been mentioned, but haven't made any appearances, unlike the fathers. This even applies on the villains' side--at one point it's mentioned that Aoi's father is often on the road and his mother works late-shifts.

* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Said word-for-word in the twenty-seventh Gaiden [[spoiler:by Utakata, who'd been thought to have been killed by Akatsuki in the main story]].

* LegionOfDoom: Two examples show up in the Gaiden chapters.
** In the twenty-ninth Gaiden, [[EvilOldFolks Mitokado Homura]] gathers together a group of villains who've all got grudges against Naruto, to include [[CopKiller Mizuki]], [[DarkActionGirl Tsuchinoe]], [[GangOfBullies Yoshida Sanjiro and the Hall Monitors' Guild]], [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Kaguya Kimimaro]], and [[GunNut Kakuzu of the Akatsuki group]], and together they make preparations to attack Naruto [[spoiler:during his and Hinata's wedding]]. Unfortunately for them, [[PapaWolf Minato]] isn't having any of ''that.''
** In the forty-sixth Gaiden, which heralds the start of the Kira-Killers Arc and which chronologically takes place earlier than the above-mentioned Gaiden, five of Naruto's enemies band together for a common cause: [[spoiler:the NotQuiteDead Fuu enlists Utakata as TheDragon, then they break Mizuki and Akatsuki's Konan out of their respective prisons, and finally they enlist Mitokado Homura at his home]]. The set-up is played with, however, as their primary goal ''isn't'' to kill Naruto (though it's acknowledged that the group can always target him later); as the arc's name suggests, they've been brought together to target Kira, who they all have a mutual grudge against. The dynamics of the group itself are played with, too, as while some of the members get along well enough, at least one of them makes it clear that it's a case of TeethClenchedTeamwork. The group does successfully ambush and beat down Naruto, but only as a warning to him not to interfere with their mission; Naruto has to enlist help from Sasuke, Kushina, Han, and Minato's black-ops crew to stand a chance of stopping their plot.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9897575/1/Kitsune-no-Ken-Fist-of-the-Fox Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox]]'' is a ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' fan-fiction written by Neon Majestic (Tropers/JusticeReaper on this site), the author of ''FanFic/YuGiOhForever''. The story is an AlternateUniverseFic, specifically of the HighSchoolAU variety, and as such there [[TransplantedCharacterFic aren't any ninja elements that are so prevalent in the series canon]]. The story instead goes for a more realistic feel in a modern setting.

Naruto shows up in Konoha Town one day, and stops at the Yamanaka family greengrocery to buy a few gifts for his mother Kushina, with whom he's going to be staying. While there, he runs afoul of members of a local gang, headed by the notorious Mizuki, who is a former member of an infamous group known collectively as the "Kyuushingai" ("Nine Terrors") that spent exactly one whole year, from January 1 to December 31 two years earlier, causing much destruction and panic across the continent. Furthermore, the Nine Terrors' exploits are steeped in myth and legend due to the unreliable and widely-varying rumors and testimonies about their 365-day rampage, but they remain highly feared even two years after their mysterious disappearance.

Only, as it turns out, Mizuki is a big fraud who's merely taking advantage of the fear generated by the stories about the Kyuushingai, in order to bully the locals and extort store-owners. Not only that, but Naruto himself is a ''genuine'' former member of the Kyuushingai, with the old code-name of "Kurama the Fox," and he proceeds to wipe out Mizuki and his entire gang just when they're on the verge of burning down the Yamanaka store, the only store that's resisted paying dues to them. Consequently, Mizuki and his people get arrested, while Naruto learns to adjust to life in Konoha Town with help from Ino, whose life he saved during said beat-down of said gang.

That's only the first three chapters.

Thereafter, Naruto settles into life as a student of the local Konoha High School, making new friends and a few rivals along the way, including Hinata, who's the daughter of the local Hyuga Corporation's CEO and who develops a crush on the blond whisker-marked boy, and Suigetsu, a local troublemaker who seeks to get under Naruto's skin from the first time they meet. He also gets to meet some of the other quirky residents of Konoha High School itself, including the perverted math teacher Kakashi and the sexy English teacher Mei.

** Chapter 122 is one long stab at ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'', with Naruto using the movies as a method of torture.

* KickTheSonOfABitch:
** Yahiko manages to pull this on Gaara and his siblings in Chapter 132. He traps them and their uncle Yashamaru inside their family mausoleum on top of trigger-switches for bombs that will go off if they step off the switches, and locks the airtight mausoleum for good measure, so they'll die of oxygen deprivation even if they don't get blown up. Bear in mind, Gaara was one of the Kyuushingai, was heavily involved in the 365 days, and is the leader of the criminal syndicate LOVE.
** Yagura does this in Chapter 136 when he infiltrates a prison to murder one of his [[FantasticDrug Gold Sand]] contacts. The victim's previous crimes up to that point include two instances of AttemptedRape, force-feeding Gold Sand to three characters to the extent that they're hospitalized, rampant bullying of other characters, and [[WouldHitAGirl assaulting women]]. Quoth the post-chapter commentary, "I don't think anyone will be shedding any tears over his demise."

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Utakata claims to be doing this [[spoiler:with his murders of the doctors who created the Kyuushingai]], but Naruto calls him on this, pointing out that Utakata was always a BloodKnight anyway (which Utakata doesn't deny).

* LegionOfDoom: In the twenty-ninth Gaiden, [[EvilOldFolks Mitokado Homura]] gathers together a group of villains who've all got grudges against Naruto, to include [[CopKiller Mizuki]], [[DarkActionGirl Tsuchinoe]], [[GangOfBullies Yoshida Sanjiro and the Hall Monitors' Guild]], [[WhiteHairBlackHeart Kaguya Kimimaro]], and [[GunNut Kakuzu of the Akatsuki group]], and together they make preparations to attack Naruto [[spoiler:during his and Hinata's wedding]]. Unfortunately for them, [[PapaWolf Minato]] isn't having any of ''that.''

** Done with a literal gun, in this case Hiashi's heirloom rifle. It's first mentioned (but not seen) when Hiashi gives Naruto a veiled threat to be on his Ps and Qs while associating with Hinata; then it's seen for the first time in a comical scene where Hiashi, learning about Hanabi's [[HeIsNotMyBoyfriend not-boyfriend Udon]], brings out the rifle and reveals himself to be a very OverprotectiveDad in the process. [[spoiler:Then the rifle comes up again in a much more serious context during the final arc, when Hiashi uses it to capture Matsuri after she and Kankuro have infiltrated the Hyuga mansion]].