I Am Not Going Through Puberty Again
I Am Not Going Through Puberty Again! (AO3 Link) is a Naruto Peggy Sue epilogue-compliant Crack Fic by EvilFuzzy9.
Unlike the vast majority (read: most all) of Peggy sue fan-fiction, this work does not endeavor to make any sort of unnecessary dramatization in the plot - it, in its essence, is a Fissure Fic with a loose plot framework. In it, the title character of Naruto is accompanied past Sakura, Sasuke, a (unusually enough, for a peggy sue) slightly mentally unbalanced Hinata, and Kurama. Unlike other pieces of fanfiction the five are not exactly happy about coming back to the by, having left a perfectly good and non-in-imminent-danger-of-devastation world behind, substantially undoing their case of Earn Your Happy Ending.
It was concluded on December xx, 2015 later on 39 chapters and an epilogue. Information technology exceeded 233,000 words every bit the finished product.
Notation: Spoilers for the ending of Naruto. Every bit this fic assumes you are familiar with the epilogue of the manga, along with The Concluding: Naruto the Movie and Boruto: Naruto the Movie, all potential spoilers are unmarked.
Tropes:
- Adult Fearfulness: The reason Sasuke and Sakura only accept one child. Sasuke is terrified of potentially recreating the circumstances of his own traumatic babyhood.
- All Girls Desire Bad Boys: In Chapter 29, 12-twelvemonth old Sasuke muses a Wall of Text on how he not but finds this stupid but insulting.
Sasuke didn't see himself equally a charming person. He had no idea what all those girls saw in him, to be frank. He was bitter, asocial, wrapped in darkness and scarred by grief. The phrase "damaged goods" surely existed solely to describe people like himself.
He was not the kind of person that he thought a smart or cocky-respecting girl should pursue. Couldn't they encounter how messed up he was? How unsafe a path he would have to walk?
It galled Sasuke that and then many girls should be so smitten with him. It felt insulting, somehow, like their infatuation devalued the tragedy of his clan'southward destruction, romanticizing his pain and frustration into an unrecognizable caricature of the person he actually was.
Their smiling, giggling, blushing, and cooing all angered him. Similar they saw it all every bit one big game, like they didn't have anything seriously. They didn't get it. They refused to understand. - All Men Are Perverts: Subverted. While Naruto and Sasuke are perverted in their own rights (as much as Sasuke would similar to deny it), Sakura outdoes them both in that regard, ironically enough. She is an avid reader of the Icha Icha series (which both Naruto and Konohamaru have ghostwritten since Jiraiya's death), shamelessly checks out other men in front end of her husband and draws naughty doodles on the back of her exam sheet to impale time after completing information technology. Hinata is also shockingly bold when information technology comes to Naruto, outright teasing him in public.
- Almighty Janitor: Technically. While this is a outcome of a Peggy Sue, that doesn't change the fact that the four strongest ninja in the village are currently genin. Naruto and Sasuke are particularly egregious cases, as they became by far the two strongest ninja alive, period before making it to chunin in the chief timeline.
- Amazon Chaser: Naruto is definitely hot for powerful women. Exhibit A is, of course, his lovely and graceful wife, who is a main of her clan's fighting fashion. Still, she is non alone. When sensing Konan taking care of Obito, he has this to say, "That woman is equally terrifying equally she is gorgeous... and permit me tell you, if I weren't happily married, and besides physically only xiii? I would tap that so hard."
- Ambiguously Bi: Everyone has shades of this.
- Sakura claims she's straight, only the fact that she gushes a lot most other bonny women raises a few eyebrows.
- Naruto and Sasuke have no compunctions checking out Haku's ass fifty-fifty though they know total well that despite his feminine appearance, he's a man.
- Obito's inner monologue subsequently enkindling the Rinnegan mentions that he once fantasized about Kakashi.
- Sakura conditions Ino to be the same, starting with naughty drawing on the back of her examination sheet and culminating in a very erotic genjutsu during the finals of the test. By the fourth dimension she'south done, Ino is addressing her as "mistress" and the epilogue mentions that the collaborative pornographic manga that she and beau Sai brand has female protagonists that resembles Sakura.
- An Arm and a Leg: As in canon, both Naruto and Sasuke lost an arm during their final fight. Sasuke objected to replacing his, and when he wakes up in his twelve-year-old body, he assumes he's been unknowingly fitted with a prosthetic and casually rips off his very real left arm at the elbow.
- Appeal to Tradition: Played for Laughs. After watching Hinata's ballsy lucifer with Sakura during the finals, shattering his entire worldview, Hiashi is firmly under the opinion that his entire clan's system is "bullshit", leading to this hilarious commutation.
Hanabi: What is bullshit, father?
Hiashi: Tradition. (a response Hiashi would regret for many years) - As You Know: Played with. Naruto asks Guy how Lee's training weights work just so everyone else can hear. Naruto already knows, but Guy doesn't know that Naruto knows.
- Author Entreatment: The author is a shameless pervert. Coincidentally, 3 of the four main characters are also shameless perverts (two of whom happen to be writing the Icha Icha series under an umbrella pseudonym, while the third is a huge fan); the 4th and everyone else accept, at the very least, perverted tendencies. While there's nothing especially explicit, there's more than plenty for the story to exist rated "K" on FanFiction.Internet.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: The Third Hokage knows of the time travelers, and that Naruto was Hokage in the future (even if he got the number wrong). He deduced it by observing how they acted and the extent of their abilities .
- Boxing Butler: Orochimaru's butler, named Jeeves, is fully capable of sneaking upwardly on and getting rid of Obito.
Obito: Note to cocky. Watch the HELL out for butlers in the future.
- Because Destiny Says And so:
- Sort of. Upon finding that she'due south married to Sasuke in the future, 12-year old Sakura uses this equally to make 12-year quondam Sasuke end rejecting her advances, since they're DESTINED to be together.
- Naruto has similar thoughts as well. Upon finding that Sakura is married to Sasuke, and he's married to Hinata, he concludes that he should stop pursuing Sakura and get to know Hinata better (which also made him realize that his crush on Sakura might not exist that potent if he can surrender on information technology so hands).
- Bedmate Reveal:
- In chapter 17, Shizune woke up in bed with Iruka. This led to a very bad-mannered breakfast (full of Adventitious Innuendo) for both of them.
- Also happens to the 12 year old version of Squad 7 and Hinata when they wake up in their adult bodies, in bed with their respective spouses. Naruto and Sasuke completely freak out, Sakura thinks a pedophile is trying to rape her, and Hinata concludes she MUST be dreaming.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Many experience that Hinata "snapping" was a result of all the pressure level put on her, despite her usually kind demeanor. As Ko points out in his head, everyone thought Itachi was a nice kid too, and look at how he turned out. Granted, Itachi actually is yet a genuinely nice person when not undercover, but information technology'due south not like anyone else other than the four time travelers, Obito, the Sandaime Hokage, and the Konoha Elders know that — at to the lowest degree until he is pardoned and returns to Konoha right before the chunin test finals.
- Big Sister Worship: Bearing witness to "The Hinata Massacre" has caused Hanabi to go outright starry-eyed when seeing her sis, with the slightest hint of shame for e'er doubting her ability.
- Blatant Lies: When inquired by Kakashi on how he lost his arm, Sasuke bluntly states that he fell down some stairs.
- Blessed with Suck: Obito ends up developing a Rinnegan post-obit Konan and Nagato's betrayal (pregnant that Kakashi gets one as well due to them sharing eyes). This ways that Obito sees everything that Kakashi sees, mainly him reading porn and having sexual practice with Anko. It'due south made worse since he develops it while dismembered and about expiry, buried in a crater and unable to motility or spare the chakra to try and control it.
- Volume Dumb: Fifty-fifty after becoming Hokage, Naruto is however this. When he looks at his Chunin Exam exam sheet, he's pleased to find that he'due south unable to understand only half the problems this time.
- Butt-Monkey: Neji. Every bit noted by the author at the finish of Chapter 15. First, he is oft scared out of his wits by the very much tickled Hinata. And so, he has a hostile Tenten on his hands after a misunderstanding in which she believed that his warnings and well-wishes before her prelim friction match with Hinata were him boasting about the superiority of the Hyuuga Clan and its Jyuuken, only made worse afterward Hinata won their friction match. And so, he loses his prelim friction match confronting his eternal rival/teammate Rock Lee in a very humiliating Curb-Stomp Battle because he can't keep up with Lee'due south superior speed or force.
- Merely for Me, It Was Tuesday: Apparently, for Konoha ninja information technology's virtually normal that a shy and boozer kunoichi in the hot springs may react explosively to an insufficiently stealthy peeping tom (as long as they are non, respectively, Tsunade and Jiraiya).
- Butterfly of Doom:
- The starting time major deviation occurs the second portion of the Chunin Exam, where, thanks to Sasuke ripping off his arm at the beginning of the fic, Orochimaru goes after Hinata equally his next vessel.
- Averted in regard to their seating arrangements in the first portion where, reverse to what Sakura expected, they are given the same spots as the first fourth dimension.
- Played straight with the Prelims, where the matches are randomized and ane actress squad (Karin's squad) managed to pass the second phase of the exam.
- Buxom Is Amend:
- While Naruto loves Hinata no matter how she looks, he really misses her very large boobs.
- Sakura also misses having boobs. When she gets back to her own fourth dimension, her commencement activity is to grab her own breast and tell her boobs how much she missed them.
- Cassandra Truth:
- Ino is hands able to tell that Naruto and Hinata, and Sasuke and Sakura are together. Neither of her teammates believe her (in office due to being oblivious preteen boys who accept barely hit puberty).
- During the Finals, nobody believes Kakashi when he tells them that his students were already this monstrously strong before he started training them.
- Cerebus Syndrome: For all the author'southward claims nigh the fic being nothing but crack and laughs, the story gets progressively more than serious every bit information technology goes on, with more and more dramatic or tense moments devoid of any sense of humour. Yet, the parodic and comedic tones are always present to some degree, becoming a Cerebus Rollercoaster afterwards on.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Kurama remains out of focus much of the fic despite as well traveling back in time. Until the end, where it'due south realized that the Bijuu'south ability to commune transcends space and fourth dimension, assuasive the travellers a way dorsum domicile.
- Crack Fic
- Crack Pairing: Just to name a few: Mei and Haku, Itachi and Karenbana, Kin and Tayuya, Shino and Hana. Although the terminal 1 didn't turn out and so well.
- Creepy Children Singing: Neji cowers terrified in a broom closet while listening to Hinata hum what appears to be a tuneless and heavily truncated version of Naruto Shippuden's second opening in Affiliate viii.
- Crossdresser: Haku wore the apparel during his and Mei'due south wedding. And during their "solitary" time. This is ostensibly because Mei believes Haku wears feminine clothing better than she does (and make no mistake, Mei is not manly or bad looking in the least).
- Adjourn-Stomp Boxing
- Any fight against any member of Team seven or Hinata, due to retaining their skills and abilities despite being in barely adolescent bodies.
- The battles betwixt the Kage and the Akatsuki finish very rapidly in favor of the onetime. Special mention must go to Onoki and Hidan's "fight", which amounts to the latter pulling a Leeroy Jenkins and getting vaporized for his troubles.
- Curb Stomp Cushion: Surprisingly, the Sasuke vs Karin fight in the Chunin Exam Finals was this for the latter. Sasuke was confident enough that he could beat her without not even needing to utilise the Sharingan; by but using the abilities she had in canon, Karin put up such an impressive fight that she forced Sasuke to use the Rinnegan to defeat her.
- Cure for Cancer: Parodied in the epilogue. Orochimaru discovered one, except it only worked on sharks and mutated them into "flying, amphibious hellbeasts" as a side upshot. He was promptly barred from practicing medicine.
- Expiry by Adaptation: Unlike the main serial where he was only decapitated and cached (but still alive), Hidan was apartment out vaporized by the tertiary Tsuchikage.
- Decease Glare:
- This was all that information technology took for Hashirama to defeat Kakuzu. Non any flashy jutsu, non even a Badass Boast. Merely staring at him made Kakuzu to moisture his pants and run away on the verge of crying.
- Hinata mentions that her years of motherhood, she had perfected the art of intimidating or make somebody feel guilty by just staring at them.
- Deconstruction Fic: Of the Peggy Sue diversity.
- Kickoff, none of the time travelers knew time travel was fifty-fifty possible. Naruto had sealed away all scrolls pertaining to jutsu involving time travel, as they were experimental at best and thus potentially unsafe.
- Secondly, none of them wanted to become back in time. Some other reason why those scrolls were sealed away is because the world was as shut to peace as it was e'er going to be. If any of those experimental jutsu had succeeded, the user could potentially undo all the progress made towards what was every bit close to an ideal future every bit the ninja earth could get.
- Finally, the time travelers don't carp keeping all the details, because they don't call back them. The events of Function I, to them, happened decades ago. There'southward no way they'd be able to proceed track of all the details and maintain a path towards an idealized hereafter, then they don't even bother. Hence, they instead spiral around with everything in order to enjoy themselves and let the chips autumn where they may.
- Did You Die?: At one point the protagonists talk over trying to follow the original timeline and conclude that they don't remember everything conspicuously enough (it was twenty years ago from their point of view, afterward all) to get information technology perfectly correct anyway. Naruto isn't sure if Sasuke was even with them during the Wave mission, so decides that Sasuke was in fact killed that time. Sasuke points out that he would have remembered getting killed, just Naruto insists it happened. He admits that Haku might simply have nearly killed Sasuke, which the latter argues is a whole different affair.
- Did You Just Have Sexual activity?: Temari stumbles beyond Sasuke and Sakura sitting together in an unused room of the tower at the center of the Woods of Death after they had just completed a three day sexual marathon via Tsukiyomi. Even though they aren't mussed at all, she can clearly tell that something just happened between them based on their flushed and satisfied appearances.
- Dirty Sometime Man: Jiraya, of course. Hiruzen and Rasa too count, given how they spend half of the Chunin Test Finals discussing the genin, and the other half starting at the Subconscious Grass representative'due south "tracts of land".
- Asymmetric Retribution:
- Tobi/Obito violently dismembers the commitment ninja who delivers his invitation to the Uchiha family reunion later only mentioning his real name. He and then immolates the remains and empties his float on the ashes for practiced mensurate.
- Co-ordinate to Temari, who was a witness, Tsunade's reaction to Jiraya peeping on her was this. Given said reaction was to demolish the barrier separating the male person and female sections of the hot springs with enough force to function the waters and endeavor to murder Jiraya, we tin can understand her point of view... And why she doesn't even want to imagine what Tsunade would practise to someone trying to invade Konoha.
- Distracted by My Own Sexy: Upon waking upward in an adult trunk, 12-twelvemonth old Hinata spends quite some time gaping and feeling her new, huge breasts (which she describes as having watermelons protruding from her chest). Though dissimilar other examples this is less narcissism and more daze at of a sudden having an developed body.
- Distracted past the Sexy: During the finals, it'southward mentioned that the Kusa representative was completely unremarkable except for her rather large... "optics". Thus, Sarutobi and Rasa, both perverted men who have been widowers for over a decade, couldn't care less about anything she has to say and are focused more than on her "eyes", and being unsubtle about it too, much to her badgerer.
- Double Entendre: Whether they're intentional or non, Sakura has fabricated a addiction of mercilessly lampshading any possible instance of this for her ain personal amusement.
- Dramatic Irony: Karin mentions in an internal monologue that someone just saving her life wouldn't be plenty to brand her accept a crush for whatsoever longer than a few months. Kakashi also claims that he would never favor whatever of his students (which actually causes a Sneeze Cutting to his master timeline analogue).
- The Dreaded:
- Hinata, to the Hyuuga Association (barring Hanabi). When she kickoff woke up in the past, Hinata immediately noticed that she wasn't in her house, and that her married man wasn't in bed with her. She immediately rampaged her mode through the Hyuuga Clan chemical compound to Naruto's location, putting a tenth of a very big clan in the infirmary in the procedure. The event is now dubbed "The Hinata Massacre", and every member of the clan now walks on eggshells around her. The epilogue mentions that Hiashi did nothing of note other than actively avoiding trying to practise annihilation that would anger his girl.
- Tsunade, to Temari, subsequently seeing how she reacted to a peeping tom and trying to imagine what she would do to someone trying a more serious crime similar invading Konoha.
- Fifty-fifty while dead, The 4th Hokage to Iwa. Seeing a letter from his son warning them off working with those who want to hunt him down causes a Mass "Oh, Crap!".
- Itachi. One character's internal monologue refers to him as "the boogieman's boogieman."
- Onoki is pretty certain that Minato can't murder him from beyond the grave simply he considers it enough of a legitimate possibility that he personally removes whatever and all evidence that he e'er worked with a missing ninja group that is currently targeting Minato'south son.
- Ear Worm: Exploited past Naruto In-Universe after his talk with Gaara to prevent Shukaku from brainwashing him dorsum. The song he telepathically hums is Haruka Kanata , another opening from the anime. Even Gaara finds it catchy when Shukaku hums information technology in turn.
- Easy Evangelism: Naruto, as the Seventh Hokage, has the power to speedily persuade people to exist amend. Zabusa, himself a "convert" of Naruto'south, says that he is capable of redeeming the scum of the earth with a a punch and a stern lecture. He pulled it on Gato this time, which outright confounds the people of Wave.
- Easily Forgiven: Justified. When Itachi officially returns to Konoha after documents roofing the Uchiha Clan's attempted coup are released to the public, his penalization for "subverting the chain of command" is to exist kicked out of ANBU and demoted to chunin. It's a slap on the wrist and everyone knows it, but they all continue with it since it gets the village leadership out of admitting that they ordered a 13 twelvemonth old to slaughter his entire association. It doesn't fifty-fifty stick, anyway — the epilogue mentions that Itachi was named Godaime Hokage non long after the protagonists switched back to their bodies in Timeline Gamma.
- Entertainingly Wrong:
- The Hyuuga Association believes that Hinata went on her rampage due to finally snapping under the stress of all the expectations she had to live upwardly to as heiress of the clan. Thus, everyone who had put Hinata down and/or had been hostile her in the past (particularly Hiashi and Neji) are downright terrified of being subjected to her wrath, especially since the consequence marked a remarkable increment in Hinata's skill. In reality, Hinata had woken upwards in the past, noticed that her husband wasn't in bed with her, and, being horny and having pined after Naruto for years before he finally noticed her feelings, fabricated her way to his location without ever realizing where she was.
- Kakashi theorizes that his team's closeness is a event of whatsoever consequence resulted in Sasuke losing his left arm. In a mode it is, because what led to the loss of his arm in this timeline was their time travel, but Kakashi isn't thinking of that event nor is he even aware of it.
- Kin thinks that Naruto'southward bulwark motility is a weaker version of the ane that the Sound 4 perform. In reality it's the exact reverse but Tayuya didn't say annihilation to avoid embarrassing herself in forepart of her engagement.
- Evasive Fight-Thread Episode: Naruto and Sasuke decided to become all out for the last match of the Chunin exams (with their wives faking a double knock-out to esure that they were at full power and Naruto setting up a barrier to avoid flattening the entire village). Naruto won by virtue of Sasuke forfeiting subsequently a few minutes.
- Even the Guys Want Him: Sasuke adamantly denies that Haku has this result on him. Sakura, Naruto and Hinata tease him relentlessly well-nigh it in Affiliate half dozen. At that place was besides mention of a couple of guys swooning over Naruto and Sasuke following their match in the Chunin exam finals.
- Eye Scream: Apparently, Sasuke once traumatized a holy man and a bunch of children past trying to rip out his own eyes afterward taking the "if your optics sin, cut them out" office of scripture literally. He does it later to requite them to Itachi, although Sakura grows his own eyes back non long afterwards.
- Failed a Spot Check: Tsunade took 3 whole chapters to realize she was dorsum in Konoha. To be fair, she came in town drunk, and was nursing an hangover during those chapters.
- Family Theme Naming/Musical Theme Naming: The "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue mentions that Timeline Beta Rock Lee named his son Metal, who would then have a son named Blues.
- Flat "What":
- The guess reaction of the citizens of Wave upon coming to the scene of the Span Boxing in Chapter 6. note Inari, and the several score of concerned Wave citizens backing him upwardly, blinked in unison. The effect was somewhere nearly comical and creepy. Yous could actually HEAR their eyelids sorta wetly clapping shut, before sliding dorsum apart in perfect synchronization. "...the hell did nosotros miss?" Inari gaped.
- Sasuke's reaction to Sakura telling him that they had inadvertently time traveled.
- Ko Hyuuga's reaction to finding Hinata coming out of Naruto's flat with her bedclothes in disarray.
- Kankuro and Temari'southward reaction to the idea of Naruto and Kurama holding down Gaara and Shukaku and giving them a friendship speech.
- Yugao'southward reaction to finding out Tsunade is back in Konoha.
- For Science!: After his Adjourn Stomp at the easily of Hinata, Orochimaru decides to retire from existence a ninja and dedicate himself to scientific inquiry.
- For Want of a Nail: Since Team seven finished the second phase early on, Sasuke didn't relieve Karin from the bear — Lee did. End result? Karin develops a beat on Lee instead and her team makes it to the preliminaries. Thus, since an extra squad passed and the preliminary matches are randomized (unlike the seating for the first examination), people who made it to the third phase last time don't (such as Kankuro and Neji), and people who didn't make it the first time around practise (Sakura, Hinata, Ino, and Lee). Karin herself ends upwardly in the finals alongside one of her teammates.
- Geeky Turn-On: Sarada finds Boruto'south Techno Babble incredibly hot.
- Daughter-on-Girl Is Hot: Hiruzen and Rasa sport matching nosebleeds when the Subconscious Grass representative shows appreciation non only for Naruto'southward male person-version Oiroke jutsu but also the female version.
- Handicapped Badass: Sasuke. Though, to be honest, he's lived and then long without one arm that having information technology dorsum probably would have handicapped him more than he already is. And he can freely grow a new arm whenever he wants.
- Home Porn Picture: In the epilogue, Akatsuchi becomes Tsuchikage. Kurotsuchi partners up with Kankuro running his porn company, both professionally and personally, culminating in a sex record that lands on the fledgling internet.
- Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Itachi (v'7'') ends up with Karenbana (who's short enough to be mistaken for a child).
- Humiliation Conga: Obito of the chief timeline was a serious threat who well-nigh succeeded in his plans and found some measure of redemption in death; Obito of the past winds upward getting his donkey kicked by Konan and Nagato offscreen and is left for dead, he'south stuck watching Kakashi's sex life and perverted hobbies through the Rinnegan he develops immediately after that battle, and the members of Akatsuki are all killed, captured, or plough on him. He goes to Orochimaru for assistance out of desperation and has his Secret Identity casually dismissed every bit Orochimaru rejects his offer of alliance and is thrown out on his ass by Jeeves. Years later, he's notwithstanding stuck watching Kakashi's sexual activity life through his Rinnegan, launched an unsuccessful endeavour at world conquest, and was eventually defeated by a cooking pot and a wooden spoon.
- I Have No Son!: Well, more like "I Take No Godson". Jiraiya jokingly(?) disowned Naruto later he started his fight against Temari with Reverse Harem Jutsu: Shikamaru Style!
- In Spite of a Blast: Choji all the same ends upwardly with Karui and Kiba still ends upwardly with Tamaki despite Naruto and Sakura not setting any of them up. In fact, the couples hook upward several years earlier. And the seating arrangements for the first phase of the Chunin Exams were exactly the aforementioned.
- It's a Long Story: Sasuke's explanation to Itachi every bit to how he has an Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan. Crosses over into Leaning on the Fourth Wall:
Information technology's a long story. Very, very long. Enough to fill seven hundred capacity of a weekly shounen manga, over 4 hundred episodes of a half-hr anime, several characteristic length movies, and a dozen or and then OVAs of varying quality.
- Karma Houdini: Danzo, if y'all don't include the heart attack he had towards the end of the story after learning about Naruto existence a fourth dimension traveler.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Orochimaru gets his ass handed to him by Hinata, and promptly retires from supervillainy to get a researcher.
- Law of Disproportionate Response:
- Naruto's response to unexpected time travel? Pinch the bridge of his nose in frustration and worry virtually his kids. His response to his now 12 year former torso being impotent? Releasing enough killing intent towards his crotch to cause everyone occupying the floors below his apartment to feel a sudden loosening in their bowels every bit well equally giving a particularly elderly tenant a middle attack.
- Sasuke'due south response to having a left arm again is to rip it make clean off at the elbow.
- Lighter and Softer: In that location's far more emphasis on humor than your boilerplate Peggy Sue fic. In fact, there'south an author's notation at the cease of the first affiliate noting that while other fics with a similar premise take drama, angst, and overpowered main characters plowing through their enemies, this fic has laughs, snark...and overpowered main characters plowing through their enemies.
- Similar an Erstwhile Married Couple: Sasuke and Sakura's interactions, as Kakashi notes. Unbeknownst to him, they are a married couple, just not an "sometime" one.
- Literal Metaphor: During his travels as an adult, Sasuke listens to the sermon of some priest from a faraway state proverb it is meliorate to rip off an eye or an arm if information technology causes you to sin rather than be condemned with all your parts intact. Said priest immediately stops when he sees Sasuke most to actually tear off his left arm.
- The Loins Sleep Tonight: Both Sasuke and Naruto suffer this due to their twelve year one-time bodies not having gone through puberty yet. Sakura'due south and Hinata'south reactions range from mild badgerer to amusement.
- The Matchmaker: Naruto and Sakura took a hobby of hooking up their friends, beingness responsible for Choji/Karui and Kiba/Tamaki. It'due south mentioned that they don't have a very practiced success rate (1 happy couple for every twelve disasters), Shino/Hana being one such failure that resulted in millions of ryo in holding damage on the first engagement.
- May–December Romance: Mei (28) and Haku (16). They're getting married in June.
- Meanwhile, in the Future…: Subsequently chapter 26, the story starts jumping between timeline beta (the past) and timeline gamma (the present).
- Meet the In-Laws: It's mentioned in passing that it was a lot less bad-mannered and confusing the second time that Sakura introduced her teammate-turned-enemy-turned-teammate-turned-boyfriend-turned-husband-turned-teammate-turned-boyfriend Sasuke to her parents.
- Mood Whiplash: Driveling in Chapter xiv. They become from the empty-headed end of Affiliate 13, to a rather serious conversation by Naruto to Gaara, to... keeping Shukaku from letting the oral communication sink in by way of getting a song stuck in Shukaku's head.
- Ms. Fanservice: Naruto's Sexy Jutsu, as in canon. It knocks out Jiraiya the showtime fourth dimension he sees it, and is accompanied past 5 paragraphs of description. Weaponized, in fact, during the bell test, where he brings all of the female characters from Icha Icha to life with some help from shadow clones and sets them on Kakashi.
- Mundane Utility: Sasuke'southward Mangekyo Sharingan grants him all of the most feared powers of the Uchiha clan. It also allows him to have sexual activity with Sakura anywhere, at any time, and lets him set upwardly a heart-to-heart chat with Itachi which nobody can disturb.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: Sasuke volition occasionally become this from everyone and the narration since his defecting from Konoha and taking over the globe is a In one case Washed, Never Forgotten moment.
- Narrative Grid: Very present in the fic, often going on long tangents about political and economic history or character motivations. Since information technology's a Scissure Fic, virtually of them are used as the ready up for jokes.
- Nausea Fuel: Practical In-Universe when Hinata nearly loses the contents of her tummy upon imagining Orochimaru having sex activity.
- Nice to the Waiter: Strangely, the delivery ninja sent to deliver the invitations to Uzumaki and Uchiha Clan reunions were all brutally eviscerated/eaten/tortured/browbeaten unconscious, except for those sent to Kakashi...and Itachi. Itachi even tipped the guy.
- No Kill Like Overkill: Naruto defeats Haido by powering upwards to Super Mode, and so drawing all of Gelel into his Rasengan, creating a Cosmic Rasenshuriken that takes the hapless Big Bad Wannabe into orbit. Naruto only hopes information technology won't striking the moon, since that would exist really hard to explicate.
- No Periods, Menstruum: Averted; when Tsunade and Shizune are start introduced, the latter is miserable from it being her fourth dimension of the calendar month, and they only had plenty coin for either food or medication.
- Not So Stoic: Itachi is left amiss at Sasuke'due south caption about the future and how much his little brother outclasses him.
- Noodle Implements: The Kite Wars ended after Obito was defeated by a cooking pot and a wooden spoon.
- Noodle Incident: A few:
- In that location'southward one mentioned involving Tora the cat, a Kumo delegation, Yugito Nii and feline chakra in Chapter 7.
Sakura: It was a D-rank mission, Naruto. How you managed to get the details of the report classified equally an Southward-ranked secret is beyond me.
- There's another i alluded to accept happened pre-time travel, involving Naruto'south and Sasuke'southward 2nd run at the Chunin Exams at some point after the Fourth Shinobi Globe War.
- Sasuke gets incredibly flustered when Hinata brings up a sure ceremony dinner.
- When talking virtually Naruto beingness a slob as a kid, Sasuke and Sakura mention such events as the Boxer Brusque Rebellion, the Moldy Toast Bump-off Plot, the Stocking Strike, and a mutant cockroach insurgence. Given the screams coming from the moving sock that Naruto had merely impaled with a kunai, it'southward likely they actually happened.
- The Kite Wars, a serial of conflicts instigated by Obito in Timeline Beta that is mentioned in the epilogue.
- In that location'southward one mentioned involving Tora the cat, a Kumo delegation, Yugito Nii and feline chakra in Chapter 7.
- Non Enough to Bury:
- There is no official tape of anyone trying to electrocute the 7th Hokage's wife. This is because there is never a trunk left after the 7th Hokage finished with the assassin, so it was easy for the ANBU to cover information technology upward.
- Naruto mentions that Sakura's students probably learned a lot about high velocity impacts from studying the remains of an assassin who attempted to poison Sasuke in his slumber.
- The Tertiary Tsuchikage finds a fashion around Hidan's immortality. It is vaporization.
- Not in the Face!: Invoked by Orochimaru during his fight with Hinata in Affiliate 11
Orochimaru: OH GOD NOT THE Face up.
- Official Couple: As the fic is established to exist epilogue-compliant, Naruto is with Hinata and Sasuke is with Sakura.
- Oh, Crap!:
- Kakashi, during the bong exam, when Sakura starts rearranging the landscape. He's more bellyaching than scared past Sasuke's genjutsu and thrilled by Naruto'southward unconventional ninjutsu simply Sakura'due south strength has him running.
- Kankuro, after Naruto offhandedly mentions that Konohamaru is the Sandaime's grandson, while said grandson is upward in the air and was almost to be punched by Kankuro.
- Neji, when Hinata finally catches up to him.
- Kabuto, sometime between having Sakura snatch his ninja info cards out of his hands before he tin can react and her making Naruto's card prove a film Kabuto hadn't used in creating any of his cards.
- Hinata, upon realizing that Orochimaru had come for her rather than Sasuke. It doesn't concluding, as their fight makes it very clear that in spite of the limits of her younger body, she is nonetheless capable of outmatching him.
- Orochimaru, upon realizing merely how potent Hinata is by via of having his arms neutralized past her Gentle Fist.
- Karin, upon meeting the bear.
- Dosu, during his round-1 match against Gaara in the Chunin Test Preliminaries; although he spends a fleck of time beating Gaara around with his sound-based attacks, once Gaara catches him in a Sand Coffin he very apace goes from taunting and calm to "OH GOD I SURRENDER, PLEASE DON'T KILL ME!"
- Jiraya, upon learning that Tsunade is on the other side of the female public bath he's peeping on.
- Temari, upon witnessing Tsunade'south rage at Jiraya peeping on her. And again upon realizing that if she was willing to murder a friend for peeping she would practise unspeakable things to someone who tried to invade Konoha.
- Yugao, upon realizing she'south supposed to arrest Tsunade for the to a higher place, as she knows well she no ANBU has any chance against her (thankfully, Tsunade did not resist).
- Kakuzu, when realizing the Third Tsuchikage may exist about to fight him. Kakuzu considers Pain and the Third Hokage every bit Worthy Opponents, just is terrified of the Third Tsuchikage for his Dust Manner and the fact he, as a lowly genin, survived Madara (the one human who could match the First Hokage, who had foiled Kakuzu'due south assassination try by looking him in the eyes). Now you can stop wondering why Kakuzu was and so terrified, and offset wondering on how he managed to hide it even when Onoki told him in no uncertain terms he was about to kill him.
- Many, many spies after watching Naruto and Sasuke's god-level lucifer during the finals. 1 Kumo spy's report is but a succinct message stating that they were "fucked".
- Older and Wiser: The fourth dimension travelers have matured remarkably over the years; which is why they had no intention of going back in time even if they knew information technology was possible. Naruto sealed away those scrolls for a reason.
- 1 Dialogue, Two Conversations: Later on seeing his girl come dwelling worried, Hiashi decided to have an incredibly bad-mannered heart-to-heart with Naruto. Hiashi thought they were talking virtually Naruto and Hinata'south more anarchistic romantic practices, while Naruto (more specifically the Naruto from the beginning of the series inside his adult body) thought they were talking near the fact that he woke up in bed naked next to Hinata.
- Merely Sane Man: Sasuke, especially when compared to his wife, Sakura. Which is ironic, considering that when the protagonists were really this historic period, Sasuke was the most mentally unbalanced out of all of them, while Sakura was the most well-adjusted.
- OOC Is Serious Business: Kiba and Shino are seriously weirded out by Hinata'due south uncontrollable fit of laughter in Affiliate 5.
- Out of Focus: Kurama went back in time besides, or at to the lowest degree is heavily suggested to accept gone back in time. He is, however, rarely mentioned, every bit thus far nothing has come up that would require Naruto to really employ his power.
- He finally begins to do things in in Affiliate fourteen, where it is also confirmed that he did in fact as well go dorsum in time.
- Outlived Its Creator: In-Universe example. New books in the Icha Icha serial are still being written over two decades after Jiraya's decease, ghostwritten past Naruto, Konahamaru, and Hinata.
- Overly Long Tongue: Orochimaru nevertheless has his. Not a proficient idea to utilize information technology against a Gentle Fist practitioner.
- Overshadowed by Awesome: Tobirama. The narration mentions that he did far more for the infrastructure of the Leaf Village than whatsoever other Kage, but most of his achievements were overlooked because he lacked his brother's charisma and Sarutobi's skill at affairs.
- Paper-thin Disguise: Itachi'southward endeavour to infiltrate the Uchiha Clan reunion is a bust, not because of Naruto's astonishing sensing abilities, but because of his terrible disguise.
- Peggy Sue: The Crevice Fic diversity.
- It'southward also an inversion, since later in the story nosotros meet the 12-yr old versions of Team 7 and Hinata waking up in their adult bodies.
- Pen Pals: Shino is pen pals with Fu. The epilogue mentions that they started a Long-Altitude Relationship.
- Played for Laughs: Everything. The only reason why a Peggy Sue fic where the fourth dimension travelers' retain all their previous abilities, which makes ii of them the virtually powerful ninja in the globe right now, doesn't play like a Canon Sue fic is because cipher is being taken seriously.
- Polyamory: There is strongly implied to exist some sort of "understanding" between the two Uchiha and Uzumaki couples.
- Power Perversion Potential:
- Sasuke and Sakura use the former's Tsukuyomi to have 72 consecutive hours of sex in a few seconds.
- Naruto can use the Sexy no Jutsu to peep on his own transformed clones.
- Defied by Hinata, who claims to never take used the Byakugan for perverted purposes (much to Sakura's disbelief).
- Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Rasa, the Quaternary Kazekage, gets an excellent one before he crushes Sasori and the puppet of the Third Kazekage in his gold dust.
Rasa: But feel honored, Akasuna... for few men indeed are floated across the Styx in coffins of pure aureate.
- Primal Scene: Sarada walks in on her parents naked in bed together in chapter 27. In something of a variation, she's unfazed, merely they freak out because the time travel jutsu that sent them back in fourth dimension really swapped their minds with that of their 12 year old selves.
- Psychic Radar: Taken Up to Eleven by Naruto. Even half asleep and possibly hungover, Naruto's sensory abilities are strong enough that his range is roughly one hundred kilometers. Add together in Kurama's chakra and his ability's range increases to encompass most all of the Elemental Nations likewise as condign astute enough to pick upwardly microscopic organisms.
- Punny Proper noun: "The Hinata Massacre"; according to the narrative, for all their stoicism and airs, elderberry Hyuuga are (apparently) incredibly fond of puns.
- "The Reason Y'all Suck" Speech: Naruto gives 1 to Haido, pointing out but how irredeemable he is, saying that Orochimaru and Danzo were better considering they had goals other than power for power's sake.
- Red Shirt: Invoked by Ko Hyuuga word for give-and-take in describing himself after he's sent to retrieve Hinata shortly afterwards "The Hinata Massacre".
- Refuge in Audacity:
- Naruto, Hinata, Sakura and Sasuke aren't even trying to hibernate the fact that they've inexplicably get exponentially more powerful overnight, and it (mostly) works too.
- The Hyuuga Clan simply think Hinata'southward snapped, and Kakashi assumes that whatever spy capable of replicating the Mangekyo and Naruto's Seal would have to exist drop dead stupid to showcase their strength so openly (Sakura is ruled out past association). Hiruzen seems to be the only one who'south remotely suspicious of it all, but he isn't openly taking activity on those suspicions as of Chapter viii. In chapter 21 he reveals he has guessed everything. Well, not everything, he got Naruto's number as Hokage wrong and he doesn't know how the time travellers became that potent, but he deduced that Naruto, Sasuke, Sakura and Hinata are freakishly potent time travellers by just observing their strength level and how they act.
- In chapter 15 it'due south revealed that Kakashi realizes that their sudden and inexplicable growth in skill is something that should be raising some alarm flags, but the fact that he that he genuinely likes them and his e'er growing belief that his squad will actually outlive him makes him too happy to care.
- Jiraiya is thrown so far off balance by Naruto'due south rapid fire revelations during their first meeting that he decides to not even question the applesauce of it all and happily offers to teach Naruto summoning.
- Required Secondary Powers: Toyed with. The four main characters have all the abilities they came back with, along with their chakra reserves, just their bodies are still twelve years erstwhile and lack the workout they're used to. Their past selves in their future bodies aren't as lucky, and Hinata knocks herself out by exhausting her relatively tiny chakra reserve with her Byakugan.
- Rescue Romance: Simply like in catechism, Karin falls in love with the boy who rescues her in the Forest of Death. Although it wasn't Sasuke this time around... information technology was Lee.
- Screw the Rules, I Take Connections!: Lampshaded. Shikamaru says that nether normal circumstances, using forbidden time travel kinjutsu could qualify as high treason, only since the perpetrators are the hokage's son and preferred successor respectively he can't actually give them a harsh penalty. And so he just makes them vesture signs proverb ''Nosotros Will Non MESS AROUND WITH FORBIDDEN JUTSU'' until the problem is fixed.
- Shared Family Quirks: Naruto implies the the Uchiha must all share a nurse fetish after learning that some magazines Sasuke had him hibernate were actually Itachi'southward.
- She Is Not My Girlfriend: Boruto and Sarada both have this mental attitude towards each other.
- Shipper on Deck: Sakura and Naruto are this towards their friends. Sakura is especially fervent in her shipping of Lee/Tenten, and it'due south stated that the 2 best friends were responsible for Chouji/Karui and Kiba/Tamaki.
- Shoot the Messenger: The unfortunate fate of roughly half of the delivery ninja sent to deliver invitations to the Uzumaki and Uchiha family unit reunions.
- Skewed Priorities: Afterwards finding out what happened to Squad Seven and Hinata, Shikamaru calls an emergency meeting. A 3rd of the people there are more than concerned with the fact that Hinata won't be able to finish the new Icha Icha book on fourth dimension than the fact that iv of the near powerful people in the village take been swapped with their twelve year sometime selves.
- Slave to PR: The simply reason Itachi is punished at all after having his proper noun cleared and returning to Konoha is so the Hokage and the elders don't have to admit they ordered a thirteen year sometime to kill his entire family unit. Even and so, they just demote him, which doesn't fifty-fifty stick since he becomes Hokage himself not long after.
- Smug Super: Squad 7 and Hinata, often to ridiculous degrees. How much they boast usually varies depending on their opponents.
- The Smurfette Principle: Lampshaded past Hinata in chapter 34 when she refers to Fubuki Kakuyoku equally the "obligatory kunoichi".
- Spared by the Adaptation: With the exception of a few Akatsuki members and movie villains, pretty much everybody that died during the events of the main series survives.
- Squick: In-Universe example. Role of the reason for why Sasuke refused to have his lost arm replaced with 1 comprised of Hashirama's cells is considering he establish the thought icky.
The idea of replacing his missing arm with a agglomeration of mutant adult stem cells of a man who had died around half a century agone was but gross. He couldn't fifty-fifty stand drinking from some other person's bottle, and they expected him to be fine and peachy with gluing some sort of tree-homo corpse-tumor onto the stump of his elbow?
Yeah, no. His fight with Kabuto had left Sasuke borderline paranoid about trunk modification. That naked chick crawling out of the homo'southward breast flashing him with her lifeless clone tits had been traumatizing enough. - The Stations of the Catechism: Subverted. The protagonists nevertheless follow the plot to an extent, but they don't fifty-fifty bother with the details because to them, this all happened two decades ago and there's no away they'd manage to call back something then minor in the k scheme of things, even with Sakura's memory rate. Thus, one of the first deviations happens early on on when Orochimaru, thanks to Sasuke ripping off his arm and making his body an unsuitable host, goes after Hinata as his next vessel. He doesn't succeed in marking her (mainly because he was on the losing end of the fight before retreating when the rest of her team arrived), ensuring that neither Sasuke nor her will end upward in Oto.
- Stepford Smiler: Hinata has the Hyuuga Clan convinced she's a Type C. She does nothing to dissuade them of it and in fact seems to accept gleeful pleasance in promoting said misconception.
- Story-Billow Ability: In the epilogue, information technology'south stated that all of Mei and Haku's children have three Bloodline Limits.
- Sufficiently Analyzed Magic: Chakra apparently works this way every bit discovered by Sarada and Boruto. Their solution to reversing the trunk-switch jutsu involves a Technobabble fourth dimension-space machine hooked to a supercomputer.
- Symbolic Mutilation: Sasuke'south reason for refusing a prosthetic for his left arm, also as why he incinerates the very real left arm that he'd ripped off mail time travel when Sakura offers to reattach it.
Sasuke : It's symbolic. The hand I used when I tried to kill you is gone. Discarding information technology signifies my resolve to plow aside from the nighttime path I walked in my younger years. It'south a sign of my penitence, and of my ultimate acceptance of your philosophy.
Naruto: You lot know... I'm pretty sure you've tried to kill me plenty of times with your right hand, too.
- Team Mom: Hinata treats Shino and Kiba more than similar her sons rather than her teammates. Given that Hinata is twenty-five years their senior, and she has a son currently older than them, it wasn't hard for her to get into the role.
- Teen Genius: Boruto and Sarada are apparently scientific prodigies in the field of chakra theory and physics. (Boruto in particular discovered uzumachyons)
- There Are No Therapists: Averted; many of the high-ranking Leaf nin are outright ordered to undergo therapy.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: The epilogue mentions that Neji finally defenseless a break after he married Tenten.
- Title Drop: Naruto does this in Affiliate i after realizing that as a side effect of being put back in his twelve year old body, he can no longer become it on with his wife, Hinata.
Naruto: ...I'm gonna kill whoever got usa thrown back in fourth dimension. Fuck causality, fuck the laws of nature. I don't even care most that garbage anymore...multiverse theory or some shit, I don't know...BUT I AM Not GOING THROUGH PUBERTY AGAIN!
- Timey-Wimey Brawl: Every bit the author cheekily points out in Affiliate 26. The residuum of the chapter shows that whatever jutsu left the time travelers stuck in the past with their past bodies, actually switched them with their past selves. Significant that a bunch of preteens are stuck in the bodies of the four about powerful people in the village, if non the world.
- Too Impaired to Alive:
- Temari and Kankuro'south opinion of Naruto after he asks Gaara to join him for ramen during their showtime coming together. Of course, he actually isn't. If Naruto honestly wanted to, he could probably wipe the floor with all three of them in ten seconds apartment, but they don't know that.
- Kakuzu's opinion of Hidan was that the only reason his partner was nonetheless alive was that he hadn't pissed off those who could simply disintegrate him and kill him in spite of his immortality. And then Hidan went and charged at the Third Tsuchikage and confirmed his stance past getting disintegrated.
- Took a Level in Badass:
- While Squad vii'south meteoric rise in skill is very much documented in canon, Hinata'south wasn't. Apparently, during the duration of the eighteen years between the stop of the manga and the quartet's unintended journeying through time, Hinata became a kunoichi whose skill is comparable to the likes of Kakashi and Itachi (putting her on par with the Sandaime Hokage in his quondam age). Something that Ko Hyuuga can very much adjure to after feeling a sliver of Hinata's KI. Chapter xi showcases her growth, where despite having been a fleck out of shape for several years, her current body lacking the physical conditioning to handle her fighting style, and facing Orochimaru, who, in spite of her real age, has a significant experience advantage over her, Hinata is even so able to match and even overwhelm him.
- Sakura hasn't been slouching around either and according to Hinata, she is now theoretically good plenty to stand up toe to toe with Madara or Hashirama at the tiptop of their game.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Motherhood actually mellowed Karin out. By the fourth dimension the group went back in time, she had become a "dumpy mothering housewife".
- Bear upon Telepathy: Before the time traveling incident, Naruto reverse-engineered the principles of the Sage of the Vi Paths' ninshu, allowing him to share memories and communicate telepathically while in physical contact with another person. Squad Seven and Hinata use this ability to communicate inconspicuously.
- Trapped in the Past: Squad Seven and Hinata have no idea how specifically they got sent to the past and, to their great dismay, none of them know how to go almost reversing the process.
- Troll: Sakura. During the first portion of the Chunin Test, she finished the starting time 9 questions in 5 minutes and spent the rest of the time doodling a very sexual picture of Adult!Sakura making out with Adult!Ino. Thus, when Ino transferred her heed into Sakura'southward body like in canon, she was... surprised at what she saw.
- To be honest, this applies to all of the time travelers, to varying degrees. They accept dandy amusement in their foreknowledge and superior skills and abilities, and have no consequence in mocking their peers and/or superiors. "The Hinata Massacre" is one such instance, and 1 Hinata is no rush to rectify.
- Naruto's "commencement" meeting with Jiraiya, where he takes gleeful joy in overwhelming his (future) main with numerous revelations, including (merely non limited to) Sasuke having the Rinnegan and him having full mastery over Kurama's chakra. Jiraiya is so confounded that he decides not to question any of it and offers to teach Naruto summoning instead.
- How does Naruto dispense Onoki into getting rid of the Akatsuki? By sending him a letter admonishing his deportment, then signing it as "The Son of the Xanthous Flash", all with a pic of him with a rasengan in one mitt and a hiraishin kunai in the other.
- Tsundere: Itachi at one point calls Sasuke a Tsundere causing him to Confront Plant
- Wham Episode: Affiliate 27 tells us how the foursome ended upwardly in the by. Boruto and Sarada tried to get back in fourth dimension using a jutsu that Naruto had sealed. Unfortunately, it didn't work the manner they intended...
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Much similar everything else, lampshaded and Played for Laughs. The epilogue straight upward has a line that states "Nobody remembered Baki".
- "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: It details the fate of those in Timeline Beta later on the quartet from Timeline Gamma switch back to their original bodies back abode.
- World's Strongest Man: Time travel is weird. For some reason, Team seven and Hinata retained their original forcefulness (chakra levels, reflexes, skills, knowledge, etc.). The but affair that would be holding them back is a change in body type (fully grown adults to twelve year olds), but any outcome information technology would have seems to be negligible. Thus, that technically makes Naruto and Sasuke the strongest ninja in the earth (despite beingness, y'all know, genin), and all four by far the strongest ninja in the hamlet. Even Hinata, the weakest of them, who was slightly out of shape and hadn't been in an life-or-death battle for years past the fourth dimension of their trip to the by, is even so easily able to match and overwhelm a all the same-technically-in-his-prime number Orochimaru.
- Would Hit a Girl: Jiraiya. Yes, Jiraiya. Granted, in that location were specific circumstances: When he saw Konan at the Uzumaki reunion (equally Nagato'due south plus-one), and she slapped him for abandoning them, he slaps her right back for the Besides Impaired to Alive action of going upward against the unbeatable Hanzo and throwing their lives away. Tsunade and Konan are both speechless.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: Hinata was referred to every bit Konoha's very own yamato nadeshiko incarnate before the time traveling incident that started off the events of the fic, her fame a result of her marriage to Naruto and her own considerable skills.
- In Chapter ix, though he never direct refers to the term itself, Shino muses on how easily Hinata slipped into the leadership function, manipulating both him and Kiba with terrifying efficiency in such a warm and kind manner that neither of them can really find any fault with it.
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