An AU Naruto story written on Fanfiction.net by Saiyan Warrior 200 and is currently completed and can be read here.
A Father's Wrath has a surprising change to it as instead of Minato, Orochimaru is Naruto's father instead, and is forced to witness Kyuubi being sealed inside him. This causes Orochimaru, (who is at best, an Anti-Hero type IV, and at worst, an Anti-Villain in this) to swear revenge against Konoha for doing so. Sarutobi casts an Genjutsu on the newborn Naruto to hide his true appearance. Orochimaru joins Akatsuki and leaves after failing to defeat Itachi and creates the Hidden Sound Village in order to continue his plans to try and get his son. This is a more humane Orochimaru-centric story as he shows qualities that he could've had, had he not gone down the path he went.
A sequel Son of The Serpent can be found here.
Tropes in A Father's Wrath include:
- A Fate Worse Than Death: Hidan's downfall After being defeated and his hands cut off, He is tossed into an empty void by Orochimaru who opened up the Rashomon Gate and he can do nothing but float off into the distance and curse him.
- And Then What?: Pein asks this to Muta as he is near death at Sekigahara what he would've done afterwards if he had somehow managed to kill Naruto. Muta responds by saying he doesn't care what he does after that, so long as he can kill him.
- Ascended Extra: In Canon Jashin and The Jashinists were given a mention as a religion that worshipped pain and destruction and we only saw Hidan as a member. Here, they are The Big Bad.
- Armor Is Useless: Averted, when The war with the Jashinists start Naruto and the others start wearing armor to protect themselves in battle and The Snow Forces cover their bodies with a layer of Ice to deflect attacks and so their archers don't have to worry about hitting them.
- Bad Boss: Keiji Sosano is one of these as during the Chunin Exams he threatens to kill the other Akatsuki agents if they fail. When he becomes the Tsuchikage he gets even worse as its revealed he willingly sent thousands of his own men and followers to their deaths so Naruto and the others wouldn't be able to figure out what he was really planning. He even kills the one person who had feelings for him and uses her heart to power up his ultimate weapon
- Blood Knight: Lu Xiaong of the Jashinists and Iwagakure is one as he doesn't care about serving Jashin or the difference between good and evil, he only cares about fighting and prove his strength.
- Deconstructed however, in that for his desire for battle and opponents, when he and his army is sent as part of a pincer attack for a battle and apparently Orochimaru has died he turns back and leaves seeing no reason to fight as there's no one worth fighting. It's implied if he had been there, The Jashinists would've won the battle.
- Berserk Button: Whatever you do to Orochimaru is fine, but threaten his kid and he WILL END YOU.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: When Naruto's opponent in The Chunin Exams uses a Jutsu that transforms him into an humanoid scorpion, he gains one of these.
- Big Brother Instinct: Many learn not to hurt Naruto when his sister Anko's around. When she confronts Orochimaru in the Forest of Death instead of being in fear she threatens to kill him if he doesn't tell her where Naruto is.
- Big Damn Heroes: Hidan has attacked Konoha with other followers of Jashin while Leaf and Sound are trying to put a stop to The Main Jashin force in Iwagakure. The group manages to return and fight them to a standstill it's when Suna and The New Kazekage Gaara appear and announce themselves as their allies that the Jashinists flee
- Bittersweet Ending: Hurray! The Jashinists are defeated and peace is held once again throughout the land, many have died but are never forgotten and Konoha, Suna, and Oto are allies. Naruto goes on a training trip with Jiraiya, but Naruto's nemesis Muta Daidouji still lives and takes Hidan's spot in Akatsuki who now plans their move for the sequel.
- Breaking Speech: Keiji Sosano gives one to Naruto telling him that he is doomed to a life of isolation and hatred as a Jinchuurki, he nearly believes him until he realizes You Are Not Alone.
- Can't Catch Up: Sasuke fears he is becoming this after Naruto has become more powerful and stronger than him. In the last chapter He asks Orochimaru to train him so he can become stronger after The Fourth Shinobi War and manage to finally be able to defeat Itachi. Orochimaru agrees to it but reminds him that he desires his Sharingan eyes and who's to say he won't try to take his body. Sasuke responds that he's willing to take that risk
- Cat Fight: Happens between Tayuya and Temari
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Tayuya veers into this, becoming furious when she spots Temari flirting with Naruto.
- Combat by Champion: Done a number of times during the war against the Jashinists
- Cool Big Sis: Anko is like this towards Naruto.
- A Day In The Lime Light: The Sound Village is this as they get more characterization and development in the story than they do in the Series showing how many of them got recruited by Orochimaru and are so loyal to him. Dosu Kinuta we see is saving money for a surgery to restore his face and becomes a Strategist in his own right and friends with Shikamaru.
- Defector from Decadence: The Snow ruler changes sides in one of the final battles as he was more of a Well-Intentioned Extremist who sought to end the squabbling of the land by unifying it and joined with the Jashinists. Upon seeing what they have planned after they destroy a defenseless village. He switches sides, and helps win the battle that turned the war in their favor.
- Demoted to Extra: This happens in a way to Akatsuki as Pein refuses to get involved in the war despite Hidan's betrayal and uses the organization to spy on what is going on with the War. This however, enables them to capture Yugito and extract the Two Tailed Cat. And during the final battle he himself appears and wipes out an entire army numbering over five thousand.
- Disney Death: Happens to a number of people at times in the story Keiji, Haku, and Muta. All survive and at the end of the story Muta reappears at Akatsuki wearing their cloak and having taken Hidan's place in the organization.
- Door Stopper: It's got nearly 90 chapters to it, The Author claimed he stopped and went to work on a sequel was cause it had gotten too long and he hadn't reached Shippuden.
- Empathic Weapon: Muta Daidouji's Nodachi is an enchanted weapon designed to fight Demons that glows blue whenever it senses the presence of a Jinchuurki and Bijuu. The closer it is to one the stronger it glows taking the form of fire on it. After being stabbed once by it Kyuubi can be heard growling remembering the wound that had been given to him.
- Enemy Mine: Orochimaru is reluctant to agree to an alliance with Tsunade and Konoha during the Fourth Shinobi War but is forced to do so as it'd be the only shot they'd have defeating The Jashinists. Gradually at the end, He, Her, and Jiraiya are at respectable terms.
- Laps into We ARE Struggling Together as many of the Leaf such as Anko, Ibiki, and others don't trust him and the Sound Ninjas.
- Evil-Detecting Dog: Akamaru realizes that a group of merchants who've entered Konoha are up to no good and barks and growls angrily at them. Unfornuately he's ignored as they are really Jashinists.
- Faking the Dead: Orochimaru does this making the reader believed he has died due to poison to lure a Jashin force into attacking while he uses that opportunity to ambush the main camp.
- Fed to the Beast: Pein attempts this on Orochimaru when he first joins Akatsuki, sending him down a trap door into a pit where a Dragon is waiting. Naturally since it happened in the Third chapter it doesn't work.
- Forced to Watch: Orochimaru attempts to stop Minato from using newborn Naruto as a vessel but is held back by Tsunade and Jiraiya and he can only look on as it happens.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Keiji Sosano was a powerful person in his own right during the Chunin Exams around the Upper Chunin level, but after reclaiming his rings and given a powerup from a ritual, he becomes much more powerful and in the final battle is able to go toe to toe with Orochimaru and have the advantage.
- Fog of Doom: Keiji's final plan is this to Charge up a Crystal that produces a mist that brainwashes people into becoming followers of Jashin.
- Go-Go Enslavement: Tayuya is forced to be a captive during one mission and much to her irritation she is forced to wear Leia's Slave costume
- Heel–Face Turn: Orochimaru,
Word of God stated that he did this because there was so many with Sasuke, Itachi, and others that he wanted to do something that few would do or think about doing. - Heroic BSoD: Orochimaru goes into one when it appears that Naruto is put into a coma like state during the attack on Konoha. Naruto also goes into one when Haku is believed to have been killed accidentally by Sasuke in the war.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Keiji is defeated and killed by Naruto and Orochimaru when Naruto shatters the crystal that he has formed that released a mist that brainwashed anyone it touched and releases all the chakra stored inside some of it Naruto's own he had drained of and it consumes and destroys him and The Jashinists ending the war.
- I Call It "Vera": Muta Daidouji, an Akatsuki agent who becomes Naruto's main rival and enemy in the Story, is given a Nodachi that is enchanted and created to fight Jinchuurki and nullify their powers. He calls it Satsugaisha Kitsune, which translates to Slayer of Foxes.note
- Make Wrong What Once Went Right: Hidan tries this, attempting to go back in time and kill Infant Naruto and see to it that Kyuubi destroys Konoha. Thankfully, Orochimaru manages to stop him.
- Mercy Kill: Tayuya does this to Oboro in The Forest of Death.
- Mind Rape: Itachi does this to Orochimaru making him witness Kyuubi being sealed into Naruto hundreds of times using the Mangekyo Sharingan when they fight early in the story. Hidan tries this as well but it leads into a Shut Up, Hannibal!.
- Must Make Amends: Sakura has shades of this during the story.
- Mythology Gag: If you know your history of Japan you'll recognize the final battle at Sekigahara and The Jashinists blatantly take up positions in the East which Tokugawa won from. Averted however as unlike in history their key allies this time defect to the Western side of the field and help The Shinobi Alliance defeat them.
- Papa Wolf: Orochimaru, threaten his son is one quick way to ensure your demise.
- Pulling Themselves Together: Orochimaru during the fight with Hidan is sliced in two luckily he's able to reattach himself
- Rain of Arrows: Snow has a contingent of a thousand men called The Oshu Archers, who let loose and fill the sky with arrows. And with their soldiers protecting themselves with a layer of ice, don't have to worry about friendly fire.
- Related in the Adaptation: Because of the fic’s premise, Orochimaru is Naruto’s father.
- Ring of Power: Keiji Sosano wields eight rings that Jashin poured his chakra into when he was alive and grant him multiple powers. Many readers have noted the similarities between them and the rings worn by Iron Man nemesis The Mandarin.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Naruto at times is referred to as Prince of Otogakure. He still leads from the front and often the first in the fight. His father is no slouch either.
- The Kages all of them are shown taking part in The Fourth Shinobi War. Either devising plans or taking part in battles.
- Self-Immolation: Shinjiro, an Akatsuki agent sent to capture Naruto who specializes in fire Jutsu sets himself on fire after losing to Naruto in the Chunin Exams to avoid telling him why they are after him. And he does this while laughing all the while until nothing is left.
- Shout-Out: Yujo Shouhei, an Akatsuki agent who inflitrates the chunin exams and uses mainly Taijutsu uses five jutsus that transform him into a humanoid mixture of a centipede, lizard, scorpion, toad, or snake. The special powers he gets from them are a clear reference to the Five Deadly Venoms.
- The song used in the Chapter when Naruto and Haku become Sworn Brothers is based off the one used in the first episode of the Original Romance of the Three Kingdoms Series that plays when Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei swear their oath.
- The Someone's Touching My Butt bit below is based off of Grandia.
- Someone's Touching My Butt: This happens between Naruto and Tayuya during their first mission.
- Super Power Lottery: Muta Daidouji hates Naruto cause of this, part of him cause he believes that without Kyuubi he is nothing and its only cause of it that he is strong and attracts people to him whilst he had to fight his whole life to get where he was. When he is told that Naruto possesses the power to change the world he vows to kill him and show everyone that he can change the world as well.
- Sworn Brothers: Naruto and Haku become this, swearing an oath in a Peach Garden similar to Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
- Take That!: Done by Orochimaru who created a move called the Kurai (Dark) Rasengan to mock Minato and his own Rasengan as they had been rivals. It's done and formed exactly the same way and Naruto winds up learning both Minato's and his version of it.
- Take Up My Sword: Zabuza in Spirit Form passes over his BFS Zanbato to Haku at his grave when Haku visits it when he returns to Wave. In a way, Sasuke takes The Kiba Blades from Raiga Kurosuki but he was already dead.
- Taking You with Me: The Jashinists are fond of doing this, about to be beaten? They reveal explosive tags on their person and light them off taking their enemy with them. One had a C4 strapped across his body which he activated killing Sakon and Ukon.
- The Millstone: Danzo becomes this during the Fourth Shinobi War, being a burden on them and telling Konoha they should drop out of The War due to his hatred of Orochimaru. He even decides to not send supplies to Kabuto and others thus leading to their defeat and several deaths.
- Too Fast to Stop: Hanzo, (not that Hanzo, this one's an OC Akatsuki Agent) wears special bracelets that grant him super speed, however due to it he is unable to change his attacks in mid motion like other fighters and it leads to his downfall.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Unlike his Canon counterpart, Orochimaru is portrayed in a more positive light, caring deeply for his son and having loved Kushina. The Entire Sound Village is also portrayed better as well as Naruto becomes friends with many including Tayuya who he is Ship Tease with and others and when not on missions are seen as pretty laid back characters who are loyal to the man who took them off the streets and gave them a home.
- Unrelated in the Adaptation: Minato is not Naruto’s father here.
- Villain Protagonist: Orochimaru starts out as this.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: The Snow Ruler allies with The Jashinists siding with them because he believes they have the best chance at uniting the land and stopping the feuding ninja wars. It isn't until later that he realizes he's wrong about them.
- Wham Episode: Chapter 39, Orochimaru defeats Sarutobi but finds his victory hallow as He reveals as he dies after using the Shingami to disrupt Edo Tensei that he was the one who told Minato to seal Kyuubi into Naruto and regretted doing so to him as everytime he looked into his eyes he saw his father staring back at him and his fear that he would use Naruto as a weapon made him banish him. Konoha is nearly destroyed in the attack and Naruto and Gaara are forced to work together to defeat Keiji. Then Muta appears and stabs Naruto with his blade nearly killing him and Sound pulls out and retreats and Kakashi, Anko, Jiraiya, and the others of The Leaf Village can only watch on at the end.
- Chapter 61, The Alliance of Sound and Konoha manage to get to Iwagakure and are at their gates and look to bring an end to the war before it begins. However they receive reports that Konoha is under attack and then it switches to Akatsuki and Pein discovers that Hidan has betrayed them and joined The Jashinists.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Orochimaru snaps at Jiraiya and Tsunade when they have their reunion and Naruto needs to be healed by her. Asking them why didn't they look after him when he was growing up and needed somebody, criticizing them over going off on their pursuits and going off gambling.
- Mitsunari Chono the ruler of Snow calls out the Kages and Sannins claiming that its because of them and the frequent rivalries and feuds between clans and countries that the Elemental Nations are at constant war and the people are suffering.
- The Worf Barrage: Sasuke's Chidori is deflected in fights.
- Xanatos Gambit: Keiji convinces and tempts Kumogakure to attack Suna in exchange for getting them The Byakugan. If they succeed, Suna is destroyed and that's one less enemy. If they fail, Which they do he still manages to have his men get A Dragon's Claw that was hidden in The Tombs Of The Kazekages which was what he was really after.
- You Are Not Alone: When Naruto is at his lowest point due to the above Breaking Speech and lashing out at everyone and everything, all the people he's met and befriended including Kushina appear before him reminding him that he is never alone and gives him the strength and courage to confront Keiji.
