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Line 1: {{work}} ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5193644/1/Time_Braid Time Braid]'' is a ''[[Naruto]]'' fanfic that uses a [[Groundhog Day Loop]] device similar to that in [[Chunin Exam Day]]. The [[~~Author~~Writer Onon Board\|similarities]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome\|end there]]. It begins with a loop. Specifically, Sakura is looping. There are the usual [[Despair Event Horizon\|time-loop issues]] before she decides to buckle down and get strong enough to actually pass the exam and (she thinks) end the loop. Things are going along fine until she runs into a looping version of Naruto, who apparently has his own loop in a parallel universe and crosses over with hers at long intervals. Then things go off the rails. ~~----~~ {{tropelist}} * [[And I Must Scream]]: Hidan in the final battle. ▼ * [[A God Am I]]: Pein, of course, as in canon. Notable for Sakura immediately laughing in his face that he's nowhere near as powerful as the looping Naruto. Then, {{spoiler\|Sakura herself}}, when she uses the [[Heroic Sacrifice\|Shiki]] [[Cast From Lifespan\|Fuuin]] to bind the Kyuubi; due to her small portion of kami ancestry, she sacrifices only her human life, leaving her as a full kami living on borrowed time. {{spoiler\|Of course, that's enough time to get to the Throne of the Gods.}}▼ ▲* [[And I Must Scream]]: Hidan in the final battle. * [[Ax Crazy]]: Hinata (both the original looping version and Sakura's), the looping version after going insane living in the loops for years on end alone, Sakura's due to her semi-brainwashing by demon!Sakura. * [[Badass Boast]] and [[World of Cardboard Speech]]: Sakura gets one to Hidan. {{quote\|'''Hidan:''' You'll run out of chakra soon, but Jashin won't. He's a god, but you're just a fancy medic-nin. '''Sakura:''' You know, I've been telling myself that for years. But as long as my Heaven Seal is active I can't fool myself. I see too much, and I can't miss the implications. I'm not just a medic-nin, Hidan. I'm the last native kami of this demon-haunted world, and my domains are insight and mystery. Not to mention that I just [[Lampshade Hanging\|took about]] [[Took a Level Inin Badass\|six levels of badass]]. Don't make me fight you, or you'll lose. }} * [[Bad Future]]: {{spoiler\|loop!Sasuke shows Sakura one}}, in which the Eye of the Moon Plan was successfully enacted and drove everyone insane; all the ''righteous'' people were killed, allowing the demons to take control of the world forever. Averting this is the reason why {{spoiler\|he wants to kill loop!Naruto}}. Of course, he's under the {{spoiler\|Curse of Despair}} just like everyone else, so it's going badly wrong. * [[Brainwashed]]: This is loop!Sasuke's ''modus operandi''. Leading to (kind of)... Line 27 ⟶ 26: * [[Foreshadowing]]: During Sakura's first apprenticeships with Anko, at one point she asks about brainwashing (in context, because of its superficial familiarity to the manipulation used with Anko's seduction techniques). Anko replies that the only reliable method of actual brainwashing that doesn't damage the victim into uselessness is pleasure-pain conditioning, but that's not much used because it requires a couple of days isolated with the victim. The astute will remember the duration of the Tsukuyomi genjutsu of the Mangekyo Sharingan. [[Oh Crap\|Guess who shows up a few loops later?]] * [[Future Me Scares Me]]: A variation occurs when during a loop at a Chunin exam, a normal not-yet-crazy Sasuke has everything explained to him and expresses horror when he hears what his looping self [[Mind Rape\|did to Sakura]]. * [[Genre Savvy]]:Played straight in the scene where Looping!Sakura wtfpwns Kabuto: {{quote\|'''Kabuto:''' How? '''Sakura:''' I don't make villain speeches, Kabuto. You'll just have to die not knowing.}} ▲* [[A God Am I]]: Pein, of course, as in canon. Notable for Sakura immediately laughing in his face that he's nowhere near as powerful as the looping Naruto. Then, {{spoiler\|Sakura herself}}, when she uses the [[Heroic Sacrifice\|Shiki]] [[Cast From Lifespan\|Fuuin]] to bind the Kyuubi; due to her small portion of kami ancestry, she sacrifices only her human life, leaving her as a full kami living on borrowed time. {{spoiler\|Of course, that's enough time to get to the Throne of the Gods.}} * [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Sakura binds the Kyuubi with Shiki Fuuin. It's noted specifically that she was quite capable of escaping to a parallel universe, but loop!Naruto and Hinata were prisoners in the Kyuubi's mind, and she would not leave them. {{quote\|'''Kyuubi:''' Sakura, you can't mean this! You're a goddess! All you have to do is say the right words and you'll be immortal! Let me go, and I'll tell you what they are. '''Sakura:''' We're not afraid to die, dumbass.}} * [[Hoist by His Own Petard\|Hoist by Her Own Petard]]: During the period of time Demon Sakura has control of their body, she spends several loops trying and failing to break her and her girlfriend Hinata out of the 'weakness' that is Konoha and forge kick-ass new lives for themselves. Her efforts result in Hinata's eternal (until Goddess!Sakura finally finds a loophole out of it at the end of the story) damnation, their deaths at the hand of the ANBU, and a failed loop. She tries several times and no matter what she does or how many of her earlier failures she compensates ~~you~~for, things just go even worse each time. Until Sakura is finally ~~regains~~ready to regain control of her soul and explains where ~~she~~her demon aspect went wrong. {{quote\|'''Sakura:''' What did you expect? You're a misery demon. Your purpose is to spread suffering wherever you go. Whatever made you think your own life would be immune?}} ** Played with shortly later on when Demon Sakura points out that allowing this would be a fundamental design error, and then Sakura pointing out she'd missed something: Line 44 ⟶ 47: * [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Sakura's ability to make herself into older and bustier is used like this as well as Naruto's Shadow Clone Jutsu (useful for when you have more that one woman to please). * [[Split Personality]]: Sakura can divide herself into aspects, which embody different sides of her personality. The original 'Inner Sakura' is one of these. * [[Split Personality Takeover]]: [[Read the Fine Print\|An ill-considered decision]] activates a curse that makes a 'dark' aspect of Sakura, then turns it into a literal demon. This demon imprisons the original in her [[Mental World]] and goes about several loops controlling her, before Sakura [[Took a Level Inin Badass\|takes a level]] (one of many) and forces a merge with her. * [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Sakura, kind of. Her {{spoiler\|demon aspect}} is actually quite a bit less powerful than she is, but being a demon and hence related to its creators, she has all the powers of the Sharingan without needing to have committed the requisite mortal sins. * [[Take That]]: A few to [[Chunin Exam Day]]. Sakura has a "don't act like a psycho" rule, and she notes that going through a long series of loops stealing Sasuke's eyes each time would most definitely violate it. * [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: The characters take advantage of the oodles of extra time at their disposal by training like mad. Sakura in particular goes to pretty much everyone she can think of (friend and foe) to learn new techniques, and even trades techniques with rival villages. * [[Unreliable Narrator]]: One of the most obvious ways in which Sakura matures is the way in which she views the people around her, and [[Character Development\|how that changes over time.]] [[Discussed Trope\|Discussed]] by her and loop!Naruto in the end with regards to [[Bunny Ears Lawyer\|Kakashi]]. * [[Verbal Backspace]]: During the final battle, Sakura has been fuming for some time over a comment by loop!Sasuke that she is "not a frontline combatant". (Which isn't her specialty, but she's S-rank for a ''reason''.) After a skirmish in which she {{spoiler\|takes out most of Akatsuki single-handedly}}, she is exulting to herself that "I am the ''champion'' of ass-kicking!" Then she looks over and notices Naruto's fight against three copies of himself with their will suppressed to release the Kyuubi entirely. Line 56 ⟶ 59: ** And earlier on, after Sakura had spent a great deal of time and effort trying to broker a peace with Looping!Hinata, and having come to warn her about Looping!Sasuke's intent to brainwash the other loopers. {{quote\|'''Hinata:''' It isn't a ploy, is it? You really do want me to be a part of this, even though something about it terrifies you. I'm sorry, Sakura. ''I wish you'd found me first.'' 64 Palms Trigram}} * [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: Hidan's immortality is of this variant--relying on it too much in a fight will leave him crippled with the secondary damage, but he can never actually die. Sakura ends up {{spoiler\|cutting off his head, encasing it in unbreakable stone and throwing it randomly into the middle of nowhere. After carving a warning label on the stone of 'Immortal Evil Contained Inside: Do Not Open'.}} * [[Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?]]: "I don't make villain speeches, Kabuto. You'll just have to die not knowing." {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Time Braid~~{{PAGENAME}}]] [[Category:Fanfic]] [[Category:Banned On TV Tropes]] [[Category:Naruto/Fan Works]]