Many fanfiction writers have made
Deconstruction Fic that deconstructed both the original show and its characters in various ways.
- Jeconais' The banishment of Uzumaki Naruto
skewers the concept of the town council being a powerful force grinding Naruto down, and Danzō's pet project gets rather nicely sporked as well. Notable in showing even an admitted Crack Fic can be a Deconstruction Fic. - A Case Study in the Sturdiness of the Rookie 9 starts out as a light-hearted take on three shuffled versions of Team 7, 8 and 10. However, several of the elements that are initially presented as humorous or amusing are eventually revealed to have long-reaching consequences.
- Kakashi's approach to teaching Team 7 can be summarized as "Sure, Let's Go with That", as he exploits their independence and lets them draw their own conclusions about the goals of his 'lessons'. As a result, however, he has no control over what they take away from his actions, leading them to wrongly conclude that betraying the trust of your allies is okay so long as you achieve your goals.
- Asuma encourages Ino to use her Mind-Body switch to beat the hell out of her teammates. This makes them both understandably terrified of her, to the point that just hearing her voice becomes a Trauma Button for Kiba.
- It's revealed that the reason Sasuke lives alone in the Uchiha Compound is due to various legalities that would cause him to lose control of his family's land if he didn't stay there. Investigating how to fix this makes Shikamaru increasingly aware of just how tangled and screwed-up Konoha's legal codes are, particularly when it comes to adoption.
- Androgyninja's A Drop of Poison:
- Sakura's parents are civilians here, allowing the fic to explore the various advantages those born into clans hold over people without access to the same resources, as well as classism and biases built into the system.
- Kakashi's tendency to be a Trickster Mentor who relies heavily upon sink-or-swim methods and Secret Tests of Character becomes a major wedge between him and his students. In particular, Sakura quickly decides that she can't rely on him to help her when he leaves her to deal with the boys quarreling, then berates her for losing her temper, but sits by silently as Sasuke insults and belittles her.
- Kakashi's Psychological Projection also cripples his ability to teach the group. Part of the reason he expects Sakura to play peacemaker is because Rin served that role in his old team, while Sasuke's casual cruelty reminds him of how he used to behave... without considering just how deeply those words can cut. He fails to see Sakura as her own person, and when he does recognize where she differs from Rin, offers no real guidance and makes no real effort to correct his own shortcomings.
- Naruto's Determinator attitude is picked apart; while Naruto can inspire others through his sheer force of will, his stubbornness is also shown to be a major issue. Not only does he fail to recognize when it's better to give up, he refuses to let others make that call for themselves, either. This gets highlighted especially well during the Chuunin Exams, as he forcibly overrides Sakura's chance to drop out before the preliminary matches, and yells at Hinata to keep going while they're getting curb-stomped by their opponent.
- The Echo Remains, But The Song Is Not The Same has Shikamaru assigned to Team Seven. When he sees how the ungrateful citizens of Konoha treat Naruto, he rises to his defense... but instead of shaming them into stopping, Shikamaru is regarded as the problem. Addressing one snarky genin is much easier for Hiruzen than dealing with the villagers' biases, and even Shikaku berates Shikamaru for mouthing off to unruly clients.
- Echoes (Kagaseo) deconstructs pretty much every Naruto fanfiction cliché.
- The primary premise of the series is that one Naruto gains the power to traverse the multiverse; as a result, he ends up meeting other versions of himself who turned out badly.
- Rather than the Council being out to get Naruto, he's simply a convenient political scapegoat for an unknown antagonist who doesn't really care that he exists; Naruto's suffering is just collateral damage for this antagonist's unknown goal.
- It also points out how implausible it is for a bunch of kids to win fights against hardened killers with years of experience just because they're the new generation. The old generation completely dominates the new generation simply because they've been in the business longer; the bad guys only lose when outnumbered five to one, and they tend to bring a main character down with them even then.
- Escape From The Hokage's Hat deconstructs the "evil council out to get Naruto" by showing that they actually don't hate him, they're more indifferent of him (although they have done some Jerkass things concerning Naruto). They hate Sasuke (they cite him as a liability) and outright state how it would be better to execute him but can't for fear of Itachi's wrath.
- The First Try Series questions why no one seems to know that the Uzumaki were prestigious as the clans and took part in much of Konoha's history and why the newest generation didn't have any impressive skill.
- The Gentry deconstructs the stereotypical "evil badass takes-no-shit harem master Naruto" and tears it apart utterly by showing that there is no way any characters would act the way most authors depict them in these types of stories. The Gentry, used somewhat as analogues of the authors of these kinds of stories, pretty much manipulated Naruto's entire life to suit their own needs and shift his life to their vision, corrupting his "pure" self. They manipulated Naruto's hearing so that he heard nothing but hate from his comrades, they manipulated the minds of all the adults so that they could have "hated Naruto all along" or as the "stereotypical evil council", and the harem? Manipulated their minds so they would "love" Naruto and not even mean it to drown in physical pleasure without any true emotional meaning. And even worse, it's not going to end with Naruto. They are manipulating other worlds described as the parodies of other fandom cliches.
- The Hopeless Wanderer series deconstructs Naruto's All of the Other Reindeer status and the lack of attentive adult figures in his life. Namely that in realistic situations isolated people are popular targets for abusive or toxic relationships. Sasuke targets and traps Naruto into a codependent relationship with him by undermining Naruto's faith in others by pointing out Iruka and Sarutobi's lack of involvement, Kakashi's neglect, and Sakura's abrasiveness and making himself seem like he cares for Naruto's well-being. Since early series Naruto is known to latch on to people who give him affection, this leads him to downward spiral to the point of becoming a Missing-Nin with Sasuke. Everyone involved knows that they have no one but themselves to blame for not catching the warning signs of a toxic relationship between the two until it was too late.
- I Am NOT Going Through Puberty Again! does this with Peggy Sue plots:
- First, none of the time travelers knew time travel was even possible. Naruto had sealed away all scrolls pertaining to jutsu involving time travel, as they were experimental at best and thus potentially dangerous.
- Secondly, none of them wanted to go back in time. Another reason why those scrolls were sealed away is because the world was as close to peace as it was ever going to be. If any of those experimental jutsu had succeeded, the user could potentially undo all the progress made towards what was as close to an ideal future as the ninja world could get.
- Finally, the time travelers don't bother keeping all the details, because they don't remember them. The events of Part I, to them, happened decades ago. There's no way they'd be able to keep track of all the details and maintain a path towards an idealized future, so they don't even bother. Hence, they instead screw around with everything in order to enjoy themselves and let the chips fall where they may.
- Lucillia's Naruto fanfics deconstructs the Continuity Drift of the series or how certain reveals don't make sense with past actions. For example, in Uzumaki and Uchiha, the villagers stop admiring Sasuke when they start to believe that Naruto might have been bred as the Jinchuuriki in order for Sasuke to control him. As a result, they start treating him with the same distrust and suspicion that had fallen upon the rest of the Uchiha in the wake of the Nine-Tailed Beast's rampage.
- Obito-Sensei initially starts out as a usual Fix Fic with Obito and Rin surviving. But as it goes on, it starts to deconstruct itself and the fix fic genre.
- Obito not becoming Tobi means Minato and Kushina are alive, ripple effected into Akatsuki not being pushed to the extremes of canon and got Naruto a much happier childhood along with creating a timeline where some Uchiha are still alive. The negatives are that they are not All-Loving Heroes like their son canonically became. Minato is very much the same man who earned his station by killing hundreds of enemies during the Third Shinobi War, and who was willing to seal the Kyuubi into his son despite knowing the burden that would place upon him. This translates to him being perfectly willing to sacrifice his subordinates if he believes it's For the Greater Good, regardless of how old they might be. Kushina, meanwhile, internalized the idea that being a Jinchuuriki makes her a Living Weapon. As a result, she doesn't see anything wrong with one of her trusted friends planning to brainwash her into servitude, reasoning that her friend honestly believed this would help Konoha.
- On the wider stage, while several of the more extreme threats that threatened the Ninja World have not developed, the underlying status quo of the Crapsack World Ninja System with Conditioned to Accept Horror and Child Soldiers prevalent is very much still in place. Indeed without the unifying common enemy of Tobi the villages are instead gearing up to fight each other in yet another World War.
- Instead of being an ostracized orphan, this timeline's Naruto was raised by a loving family. As a result, he lacks the Commonality Connection that let his canonical counterpart get through to Gaara and other villains. One consequence of this is that Gaara doesn't have a Heel–Face Turn, instead slipping further into his Ax-Crazy persona.
- Nightingale deconstructs a trope most commonly found in bad and/or over-powered Naruto fanfic that has one character become extremely powerful by learning that he/she was born with two different strains of Superpowerful Genetics. Neji is physically unstable for this very reason, and it's never made clear how much of his madness and clinical instability is because this power is building up inside of him and how much is because of outbreeding depression. In addition, there's the "powerful political force deliberately sabotages badass main character because they fear the main character's power" trend mentioned above in Echoes, deconstructed by showing the long-lasting and potentially permanent physical and psychological scars left by the attempts to restrain said power. Nightingale also deconstructs a few things from canon, like the Hyūga clan's branch system and the Ninja Brat trope, the latter of which is demonstrated both through fully-grown former Ninja Brat characters and a young genin team of ten-year-olds.
- Playing Games deconstructs the Fandom-Specific Plot of Naruto growing up in ANBU. As a child, Naruto was a member of ANBU, they used the cover of night to keep a young Naruto in the dark of the truth of the "games" that he used to play with ANBU.
- Son of the Sannin deconstructs the use of One-Winged Angel among the villains, showing two extremes of this trope with Kimimaro and Mizuki, who are given Cursed Seals by Orochimaru. The former only uses the seal sparingly, so he's still rather inexperienced with its drawbacks, like loss of speed or increased chakra consumption, and he loses to an opponent who has more experience and is able to drag on the battle to use them to his advantage. The latter, on the other hand, uses it as much as possible to the point it becomes a crutch for him. He finds himself facing an opponent he can't overpower by brute strength alone, so when the Cursed Seal fails him, he has nothing else to rely on.
- Team 8: The entire story deconstructs many aspects, plot points, and characterizations of Naruto as a whole. Naruto's status as a pariah is the result of something more serious than a case of All of the Other Reindeer. The teaching methods of a Sink or Swim Mentor like Kakashi are shown to be vastly inferior when compared to the more involved methods of Kurenai and Gai. The abuse Hinata has to deal with at home (albeit much more severe than in canon) has horribly warped her sense of self-worth to the point where she would rather die in a pointless duel than lose and be considered a failure again. Even Naruto's canon style of dress is critiqued.
- Three's A Crowd:
- The Sandaime's decision to hide Naruto's heritage and status as the Kyuubi's jinchuuriki comes back to haunt him here. While he did have ANBU agents keeping a "discreet" eye on Naruto, the overall lack of security results in the Akatsuki successfully murdering him when he's just ten years old, with a passing mention of how the ANBU agents assigned to watch him were killed as well.
- Thanks to being completely Locked Out of the Loop regarding the Kyuubi's existence as well as his own past, Naruto has no earthly idea why he was murdered. He's also so Conditioned to Accept Horror that he fears Sakura might be treated with the same callous disregard and contempt that he received if anyone figures out that his consciousness is stuck inside her body.
- While Sakura isn't aware of the existence of ROOT per se, she is aware that civilian-born children like herself have a tendency to disappear in Konoha if they draw too much attention to themselves, influencing her efforts to hide how much her skills as a shinobi are improving along with the matter of the whole situation with Naruto.
- Kakashi's teaching methods are heavily picked apart and criticized: his attempts to play a Trickster Mentor just cause him to come off as an Apathetic Teacher, with Sasuke and Uo swiftly deciding that the Copy-nin isn't worth their time or respect. His Psychological Projection also becomes a major issue; he expects the new Team Seven to follow in the footsteps of the original without recognizing that they simply aren't the same people, attempting to shoehorn Sakura into becoming The Heart while blaming her for Sasuke and Uo's flagrant lack of regard. His reluctance to step up and directly address any of the boys' issues results in utter disaster, with Sakura repeatedly entreating him to take matters more seriously before somebody is hurt or killed by his negligence.
- Time Mix Up lampshades Naruto's status as a Highly-Visible Ninja. Instead of denouncing it like many fics, Naruto points out the skill needed to be able to outrun and out-hide many skilled and experienced ninja while wearing such an eye-catching color. It also deconstructs Peggy Sue fics by placing four (later five) time travelers, each from a different Bad Future, trying to avoid their different bad endings and inadvertently interfering with each other in the process. The fifth time traveler only came to the past accidentally and was from a future where they Earn Their Happy Ending, so they has no reason to change anything and instead decided to Troll everyone For the Lulz.
- Uprooted takes the idea of Danzō getting his hands on our favourite Highly-Visible Ninja... and instead of going the Break the Cutie route, has Naruto's own nature start a tumbling row of dominos that Break the Haughty Danzō and destroy ROOT. Also serves as an example of deconstructions not necessarily being Darker and Edgier.
- We Are deconstructs the Fandom-Specific Plot of a "clan reconstruction" law allowing the last member of a clan to have multiple wives (generally used to invoke the One True Threesome) by carrying out the idea of a "clan reconstruction" plan to its logical conclusion. The person invoking it is placed under house arrest until they produce at least two grandchildren (to ensure that the clan doesn't end with them), and are forbidden to get in fights to avoid risking death. Spouses are chosen for them based not on their own romantic or sexual desires, but on genetic compatibility to ensure maximization of offspring production.
- Yet again, with a little extra help uses its cracky, silly premise to mock too many aspects of fandom in general and of Naruto in particular to list here. The central Original Characters, for example, are essentially god-like beings playing Self-Insert Fic. This gets lampshaded, mocked, and diced so many ways. Chapters of its sequel hint that it is even deconstructing itself on the theme of Mary Sue OCs helping out the main character.
