History Fanfic / Retrouvailles

Retrouvailles is an ''Anime/AssassinationClassroom'' fanfiction in which Nagisa Shiota’s twenty-six year old self is [[PeggySue transported back through time]] to before his first year of junior high. Now assuming the alias Yamaha Naho, he becomes Class E’s new teacher and mentors the younger versions of himself and his classmates.

!!Retrouvailles contains examples of:

** In canon, the students aside from [[spoiler: Kayano]] barely knew Aguri Yukimura before she [[spoiler: died two weeks into the school year]], although they regard her memory with respect. In ''Retrouvailles'', her being SparedByTheAdaptation means that they have a closer relationship with her.
** Canon!Kayano had a crush on Canon!Nagisa that was implied to be unreciprocated. Here, their relationship is more like a pair of siblings, possibly due to her [[spoiler: acting more like herself instead of playing a character.]]
** Canon!Karma and Canon!Nagisa are an interesting case in that they were always friends, but there was an awkward distance between them before they [[ItMakesSenseInContext eventually patched things up with a high stakes paintball game.]] Here, there’s a degree of resentment from Karma’s side, but Naho pushes him to patch it up earlier than in canon.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: A justified one. [[spoiler: Kayano initially was only acting like the sweet and friendly girl she was before eventually BecomingTheMask after bonding with the class under this guise.]] Here, there’s no need for her to continue with her act, so she behaves in her more blunt, grumpy, and self assured manner that is more in line with her actual self.
* AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler: Nagisa ("Naho") and Karma ("Kaito") are married, and Naho in particular makes a point that he is strictly into men.]] In canon, their orientations are more unclear.
* BecomingTheMask: Naho views his new name as his new identity rather than his old one of "Nagisa", which helps us as the audience to differentiate between the older and younger versions of him. Reality itself is affected by this when his DNA starts changing itself completely. [[spoiler: The same can be said for Kaito, née Karma.]]
* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Naho initially [[spoiler: didn’t recognize Kaito, or ''refused'' to recognize him, because he feared that it was too good to be true, and didn’t want to bear the pain of getting him back and risking losing him again when he was just starting to move on.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: Aguri gets [[BewareTheNiceOnes downright murderous]] when her sister is threatened, such as when she hears that [[spoiler: Kayano is messing with tentacles]], or when she shows signs of being HotForTeacher.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Takaoka injects himself with tentacles and is subsequently killed by Naho, who uses the stun gun to overload them.]]

* FamilyOfChoice: Aguri, Kayano, and Naho become this for Nagisa when his mother ups the ante of her [[AbusiveParents godawful treatment of him.]] He winds up spending more time at Naho and Aguri’s place than his mother’s, and refers to their apartment as his home.

* GuiltComplex: Naho has a massive one. He blames himself for abandoning his kids for several days after promising he wouldn’t… except the reason he "abandoned" them was because he was ''hospitalized''.
* HotForTeacher: Aguri mentions that Kayano has a thing for Naho, much to his chagrin. Irina claims that a lot of the students feel this way— again, much to Naho’s chagrin.
* IdenticalStranger: [[spoiler: Kaito, who initially had no memories or identity, was taken in by an old man who insisted that Kaito looked exactly like his dead grandson. Whether this was anything more than a coincidence, we’ll never know.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Aguri Yukimura, thanks to Naho’s interference.
* TraumaButton: For Naho, it’s trains, especially their sound.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Trains, in the case of Naho. [[spoiler: He and his husband were killed in a train accident.]]

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Naho initially [[didn’t recognize Kaito, or ''refused'' to recognize him, because he feared that it was too good to be true, and didn’t want to bear the pain of getting him back and risking losing him again when he was just starting to move on.]]

* PapaWolf: Naho ''''will not stand'''' for anyone harming his kids, and would sooner kill, go to prison, or lay down his life than let anything hurt them.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: A justified one. [[spoiler: Kayano initially was only acting like the sweet and friendly girl she was before eventually BecomingTheMask after bonding with the class under this guise.]] Here, there’s no need for her to continue with her act, so she behaves in her more blunt, grumpy, and self assured manner that is more in line with her actual self.

** In canon, the students aside from [[spoiler: Kayano]] barely knew Aguri Yukimura before she [[spoiler: died two weeks into the school year]], although they regard her memory with respect. In ''Retrouvailles'', her being SparedByTheAdaptation means that they have a closer relationship with her.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: A justified one. [[Kayano initially was only acting like the sweet and friendly girl she was before eventually BecomingTheMask after bonding with the class under this guise.]] Here, there’s no need for her to continue with her act, so she behaves in her more blunt, grumpy, and self assured manner that is more in line with her actual self.

Can be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/22034155 here.]]

Retrouvailles is an ''AssassinationClassroom'' fanfiction in which Nagisa Shiota’s twenty-six year old self is [[PeggySue transported back through time]] to before his first year of junior high. Now assuming the alias Yamaha Naho, he becomes Class E’s new teacher and mentors the younger versions of himself and his classmates.