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[[File:Team_8_Commission_Art_by_bibliophile20_4393.jpg|frame|[http://fav.me/drn7rv The new team].<ref>A scene from Chapter 5, 'Difficult Preparations'.</ref>]]
''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2731239/1/Team_8 Team 8]'' is a ''[[Naruto]]'' fanfic written by ace author S'TarKan (known in some places as Viridian or Evil Author Lord) which has risen to near-legendary status in the Naruto fanfiction community, especially among Naruto/Hinata shippers.
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The story is noted for being an exceptionally organic take on the source material, with all major characters being fleshed out and well developed. With Naruto and Hinata now being on the same team, naturally the story is a Naruto/Hinata pairing, but Shino and Kurenai also receive their fair share of attention, with Kurenai in particular receiving a fleshed-out background that has so far only been hinted at in places.
The story is currently in the "Search for Tsunade" arc, although events have naturally progressed quite differently. The author maintains [http://www.viridiandreams.net/ a blog] and [http://www.viridiandreams.net/forum/index.php an active forum] where he posts occasional word count updates and is also involved in several other projects, such as the equally well-written ''[[Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past]]''.
Of related interest is ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3079936/1/Snapped Snapped]'', a Team 8 AU also written by S'TarKan, which is a one-shot scenario detailing what it would take for Hinata to... well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|snap]].
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* [[An Aesop]]: Kurenai likes to turn various mishaps into inpromptu lessons for her genin, asking them what they can take away from the experience.
** [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]: Some of her lessons are quite harsh, such as teaching Naruto that some people will simply ''never'' accept him, regardless of what he does.
* [[A Father to His Men|A Mother To Her Genins]]: Kurenai.▼
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: The effects of this on Naruto's everyday life are explored in more detail. Vendors who don't outright refuse him service instead overcharge him. He isn't allowed to open a bank account, and it's heavily implied he gained a reputation as a thief as well as a vandal from unscrupulous businessmen exploiting and exaggerating his prankster antics to dip into a fund set up by the Sandaime to pay for any damages done by him. Then there's the academy therapist that intentionally gave him ''horrible'' advice, and the med-nins who don't want to treat him...
* [[Aloof Big Brother|Aloof Big Cousin]]: Neji, as always.▼
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Sakura initially shows some traits of this, which are actually in line with her canon personality at the beginning of the original series. Some of her actions in the initial chapters are so mean, that Naruto ends up [[Love Hurts|heartbroken]] and decides to stop pursuing his crush with her. {{spoiler|Later, during the Chunnin exams, she overhears a conversation between Naruto and Lee, where the former dissuades the latter of trying to win her affections, telling him she only has eyes for Sasuke and is not a very nice person to begin with. Sakura reflects on this and realizes that [[Heel Realization|he is right]]. From then on she tries to become more amiable towards other people. She also starts criticizing some of Sasuke's more [[What the Hell, Hero?|unsavory actions]] and even begins to question her crush on him.}}
* [[Alternate History]]: Kurenai is known to have a different history than in canon, Team 8 results from this.
▲* [[Aloof Big Brother|Aloof Big Cousin]]: Neji, as always.
* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents|Amazingly Embarrassing Parent]]: Amusingly, Shino's mom invokes this trope when Naruto and Hinata visit the Aburame household for the first time. It's even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]].
{{quote|'''Shino:''' *Embarrassed sighs*
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** Back in Chapter 4, Kurenai's explanation of how to realize you're in a Genjutsu involves searching out discrepencies. This is how {{spoiler|she managed to break Itachi's Tsukuyomi.}}
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: {{spoiler|Haku.}} In chapter 9, Team 7 (which includes Kiba in place of Naruto) explains the result of their mission {{spoiler|in Wave Country. It's mentioned that Haku survived the fight with Zabuza and was brought back to Konoha with them.}} In chapter 12, Sakura is surprised to see {{spoiler|Naruto escorted by a Chuunin proctor to the bathroom.}} Finally, in chapter 18, {{spoiler|that same proctor is revealed to be Haku, who helps the Sandaime in the battle against Orochimaru, heavily affecting the outcome of the fight.}}
* [[Chekhov's Skill]]: In chapters 4 and 6, Kurenai is shown teaching some simple jutsu to her students. Given his [[Power Incontinence|enormous chakra reserves and poor chakra control]], Naruto ends up supercharging the jutsu leading to hilarious effects. It turns out the supercharged versions become very useful later, {{spoiler|particularly during the Chuunin exam and Orochimaru's invasion.}} The most relevant include:
** A condensation jutsu used to gather little amounts of water from the surrounding atmosphere [[Mundane Utility|in order to accomplish menial tasks]] (like refilling a canteen). {{spoiler|By supercharging it, Naruto creates a [[Making a Splash|giant torrent of water]] that he uses to decimate Gaara's sand shield during their fight in chapter 17.}}
** A brief chakra pulse used to cancel genjutsu; generally a short-range tactic, it's limited by the amount of chakra put into it. {{spoiler|By supercharging it, Naruto creates the equivalent of a chakra [[Electro Magnetic Pulse|EMP]] capable of covering the entire village and disrupting all kind of techniques beside genjutsu. In chapter 17, Naruto uses it to cancel the genjutsu that Kabuto puts on the stadium during the invasion to the village, but the pulse is so big it ends messing up other jutsu in the area, particularly ''those neccesary for Orochimaru's plans.''}}
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** [[Jack of All Stats]]: Shino. He has no trouble at all keeping up with the rest of his team but lacks Naruto's stamina. He's physically stronger than Hinata, has a longer reach than both of them and recovers faster but he doesn't react as fast as she or Naruto do. Kurenai combines this and her [[Squishy Wizard|genjutsu moveset]] as the team's [[Kung Fu Wizard]].
** [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Thanks to the supplemental training in taijutsu he is taking with Gai and Rock Lee, Naruto has gradually turned into an example. This is especially evident during his fight with Gaara in the Chunin Exams. {{spoiler|He not only manages to outrun the other jinchuuriki's sand defenses, but hits him so hard that Gaara ends up with a concussion}}. And that's not taking into account the [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Kyuubi chakra]], which not only increases his speed even more, but also gives him enough strength [[Oh Crap|to punch through metal]].
* [[Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like]]: Hanabi does. Loudly. Obnoxiously. Ungratefully.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Naruto strangely enough. During the Forest of Death chunnin exam the characters kept mentioning how they had no idea why Naruto brought X item but it sure came in handy: e.g. he brought multiple collapsible tents by himself and other things.
** This is Hinata's influence. One way her poor self-esteem manifests is that she always makes sure she has any item that she might foreseeably need, within reason. (In canon, Sasuke is too self-confident to carry just-in-case items and Sakura's priorities are too warped for her to prepare for every-day or life-and-death situations.) Naruto notices this tendency in chapter nine (after Naruto throws up during a training session, Hinata offers him a clean cloth and cup of tea from her thermos) and decides he should emulate it. Being Naruto, of course, he doesn't worry about the 'within reason' part.
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** [[Know When to Fold'Em]]: Kurenai actually brings this up earlier when the team is just formed: don't keep fighting a losing battle that is, in the grand scheme of things, unimportant, especially if the only reason you're still fighting at all is [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken|pride]].
* [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]]: Naruto, did you just break {{spoiler|Orochimaru}}'s nose?
* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Iruka. During the border patrol mission in chapter 7, Naruto and his team confront a trio of missing ninjas that kidnapped Konohamaru and Hanabi. Konohamaru tries to prevent Naruto from fighting them, telling him that they killed Iruka, which only contributes to Naruto's moment of [[Unstoppable Rage]]. Turns out later that Iruka was alive, just badly injured, and Naruto visits him in the hospital. This instance only makes it more poignant when another character [[Killed Off for Real|really dies]] later in the story.}}
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: How Kakashi coped with his own sensei dying.
* [[Dying Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|Kurenai forces [[Mind Rape|Tsukuyomi]] to its logical conclusion, ''[[Badass|breaks it,]]'' and gets head-shotted for her trouble. [[Tear Jerker|We'll miss you, Kurenai.]] [[Manly Tears|*Sniff*]]}}
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** Part of the fun of this fanfic comes from seeing all the divergences in the plotlines from canon that have resulted from this event. For example, {{spoiler|it's mentioned that the events of the Wave arc happened with a team 7 including Kiba in place of Naruto. As a direct result of that, Tazuna died but Haku survived. And as a direct result of ''that'' Sarutobi survived his fight with Orochimaru because Haku was there to back him up}}
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Naruto is sanguine, Kurenai is choleric, Hinata is melancholic and Shino is phlegmatic.
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* [[Fridge Logic]]: ''Invoked'' by Kurenai during her [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. {{spoiler|Itachi traps Kurenai in Tsukuyomi and tortures her with her worst nightmare, an image of she and her team being torn apart by an angry mob. Kurenai defeats the illusion ''by making it more realistic'' and imagining [[Unstoppable Rage|what Naruto]] [[Super-Powered Evil Side|would do]] [[One-Winged Angel|if Konoha]] [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|killed his teammates]]}}.
* [[Friendship Moment]]: Hinata calming Naruto down after his first kill, Shino verbally tearing into his family for their treatment of Naruto, Naruto visiting Hinata in the hospital and {{spoiler|Hinata and Shino comforting Naruto when he goes to pieces at Kurenai's funeral.}}
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* [[Happily Married]]: Appears to be the case for Shino's parents, despite or perhaps due to being [[Different As Night and Day]].
* [[Happiness in Slavery]]: {{spoiler|Hinata is more than willing to be Tsunade's personal assistant for six months if it means Tsunade will return to the village to help Naruto and so that Hinata won't have to go back to her [[Big Screwed-Up Family]].}}
* [[The Heart]]: Hinata has some traits of this. Despite her poor self esteem issues (or maybe [[Deconstruction|because]] of them), she is very gentle and kind, always willing to help other people. She tends to act as a conciliatory voice between the [[Red Oni, Blue Oni|rather disparate personalities]] of her teammates. More importantly, she helps Naruto to overcome the [[Heroic BSOD]] mentioned above, she is the first person to point out to Shino that Naruto is actually a valuable teammate when the Aburame had initial doubts about his competence, {{spoiler|and she even convinces Naruto of sparing Neji's life despite what [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|he did]] to her.}}
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Naruto starts to have one of these after he makes his first kill, but Hinata helps him snap out of it before he gets too angsty.
** After hearing from Itachi and Kisame that {{spoiler|Kurenai was [[Boom! Headshot!|killed]]}} Naruto [[Heroic BSOD|BSOD's]] so hard that {{spoiler|Kyuubi temporarily takes over ''completely''.}}
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** Eventually, both {{spoiler|Neji and Sakura}} realize that they could stand to [[Took a Level In Kindness|be better and nicer people]].
* [[I Hit You, You Hit the Ground]]: Chuunin Exam preliminary battles. {{spoiler|Naruto hits Sasuke out of the Chuunin Exam. Sasuke hits the ground with a broken jaw.}}
* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: When Shino {{spoiler|deconstructs Naruto's personality traits and deduces that he's the host of the nine-tailed fox demon}}, the thing that really gets under Naruto's Skin is that {{spoiler|Shino's bugs fed off his chakra until they were full and Naruto didn't even notice}}. Naruto even goes so far as to declare that he's cheating.▼
* [[I'm Standing Right Here]]: A dramatic example; Hiashi Hyuuga very plainly speaks of Hinata's weakness and uselessness to Kurenai when he entrusts her to train her as a ninja. Hinata is standing a few feet away when he does.
* [[In Spite of a Nail]]: While several of the Chuunin Exam matches are different, some match-ups are the same as in [[Canon]]. {{spoiler|Tenten vs. Temari}}, {{spoiler|Hinata vs. Neji}}, {{spoiler|Sakura vs. Ino}}, {{spoiler|Lee vs. Gaara}}, {{spoiler|Naruto vs. Neji}} and {{spoiler|Temari vs. Shikamaru}}. The ''actions'' in many of this match-ups change due to the altered circumstances, however...
* [[Iron Lady]]: As a jounin and team leader, Kurenai carries herself as one. She ''has'' to, given the chauvinistic mentality of some of the people around her (like a weapon shopkeeper in one of the first chapters).
▲* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: When Shino {{spoiler|deconstructs Naruto's personality traits and deduces that he's the host of the nine-tailed fox demon}}, the thing that really gets under Naruto's Skin is that {{spoiler|Shino's bugs fed off his chakra until they were full and Naruto didn't even notice}}. Naruto even goes so far as to declare that he's cheating.
* [[It Is Dehumanizing]]: Shino [[Shut UP, Hannibal|does not take well]] to [[Nakama|Naruto]] being referred to as an "it" by his clansmen.
* [[It Never Gets Any Easier]]: On the eve of {{spoiler|Kurenai's funeral}}, Naruto asks Jiraiya if losing people close to you eventually becomes easier. His response: ''"No, and if it ever does, I don’t want to know you"''. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] as he states that, while some people propose that the perfect ninja is the one that kills his emotions, doing so in the long term becomes detrimental and the ones that subscribe to that philosophy end [[Empty Shell|with no personality of their own]], or worse, [[Ax Crazy|eventually snap]] {{spoiler|like Itachi did}}.
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* [[Moral Myopia]]: During their battle at the Chuunin Exam, Kiba and Akamaru use Gatsuuga on {{spoiler|Shino}}... and when Kiba sees his partner was wounded?
{{quote|'''Kiba:''' [[You Bastard]]! You hurt Akamaru!}}
▲* [[A Father to His Men|A Mother To Her Genins]]: Kurenai.
* [[Mundane Utility]]: Shadow clones. Good for supply gathering, gardening, and making take-out runs. Of course, this was sort of a given, as Naruto's first solution to any problem seems to be [[Zerg Rush|'throw a bunch of clones at it']].
* [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]]: Spoofed in chapter 14. Naruto and Kurenai have a very serious talk {{spoiler|regarding the Kyuubi.}} Given the seriousness of the matter involved, [[Hot-Blooded|Naruto]] decides for once in his life to be silent. Cut to a scene of Iruka suddenly getting shivers, reacting as if a major violation of the Universe laws was happening.
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** In payback for the above, although it's not a complete [[Curb Stomp Battle]], Naruto ''brutalises'' Neji when they meet in the finals, {{spoiler|finishing up by ''ripping Neji's face open'' when he's already virtually unconscious.}}
{{quote|'''Sakura:''' I never thought Naruto could be so... brutal.}}
** To a lesser extent, Naruto's first sparring sessions with Lee and Gai, with the latter having Naruto describe it as 'knowing what a pachinko ball feels like'.
* [[Not So Different]]: Shino invokes this in a positive way during his confrontation with his clan's elders:
{{quote|'''Elder''': "He's still a damn demon!"
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* [[Plot Armor]]: {{spoiler|Oh, ''so'' averted.}}
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Kurenai works very hard to [[Averted Trope|avert]] this with her team. For instance, she tries to steer Naruto towards opening up more to his teammates, and works hard to get Shino to understand she's not favoring Naruto over the others by having him train with Gai's team.
▲* [[Power Trio]]: [[The McCoy|Naruto]], [[The Kirk|Hinata]], and [[The Spock|Shino]]. {{spoiler|[[Mentor Occupational Hazard|Not that they have a choice in the matter.]]}}
* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: {{spoiler|Orochimaru}} refuses to attack the team in chapter 21 as fighting them {{spoiler|and two sannin with only one arm}} would be too difficult. He still laments being unable to {{spoiler|[[Deal with the Devil|corrupt Tsunade]]}} though.
* [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]:
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* [[You Are Better Than You Think You Are]]: Most of the interactions that Kurenai has with Hinata are aimed at Hinata realizing that, regardless of what [[Abusive Parents|her father]] or [[Big Screwed-Up Family|her family]] thinks of her, she does have worth.
* [[You Are Not Alone]]: Naruto has this revelation during {{spoiler|Kurenai's funeral}}. After bottling up his emotions for most of the day, he finally breaks down and starts crying. It doesn't pass much time before [[Nakama|Hinata and Shino]] appear at his side to comfort him.
* [[You Got Spunk]]: [[Eldritch Abomination|The Kyuubi]] says this to {{spoiler|Hinata}}. Really.
* [[Zerg Rush]]: In the final stretch in the Forest of Death, the team realizes that there are probably several traps and opponents between them and the castle and stealth may not get them far. But then Naruto realizes, "We don't have to conceal that we were here, we just have to make it impossible for anyone to pick us out before we reach the finish line." Cue [[When All You Have Is a Hammer|Kage Bunshin]].
** In the Sound and Sand invasion, Naruto spends 30 Kage Bunshin to disable {{spoiler|a Sound jonin}}.
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