Trust Your Nose
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A bit of fix-it, a little cuteness and some puppy-piles. A four-year-old Naruto makes canine friends and grows up with them.
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- Part 1 of Trust Your Nose
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Bits and pieces from early canon, re-imagined. Naruto grew up as an adopted member of a Pack of ninken. He has a different perspective on the world – and he has learnt to trust his nose.
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- Part 2 of Trust Your Nose
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Every Hokage (even an Acting one) casts a Shadow. Iruka learns hard truths about administrating a village even as he hopes that Kakashi’s tenure will end soon.
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- Part 3 of Trust Your Nose
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Iruka is sent on a mission no one before him has accomplished. He does not have great hopes for success. He does, however, have an accomplice who doesn’t believe in failure – Naruto himself.
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- Part 4 of Trust Your Nose
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In the wake of the Kyuubi’s rampage, everyone in Konoha has a story. This one will never be told, but there are other ways of sharing such things.
Or: How Iruka met Itachi and they both walked away from the encounter unscathed.
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- Part 5 of Trust Your Nose
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For most nukenin friendship is a laughable memory from their past. For these two it is something so natural that they didn’t even notice it was there until it was rooted too deeply.
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- Part 6 of Trust Your Nose
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Iruka tries to become a jounin. Kakashi investigates why the latest Icha Icha contains private details from his life. Jiraiya is caught between a rock and a hard place. Hiruzen teaches hard lessons as gently as he can.
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- Part 7 of Trust Your Nose
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Kakashi and Iruka are Kakashi-and-Iruka.
Tenzou is traumatised. Genma is sleep-deprived and gleeful.
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- Part 8 of Trust Your Nose
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Members of the former Team Seven are reassigned. Kakashi and Iruka do their jobs to the best of their abilities. Sasuke leaves Konoha and enters the service industry (not voluntarily, mind you). Itachi protects his foolish little brother. Gaara makes a friend.
And neither Haku is ever far from Naruto’s mind.
Also, puppies!
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- Part 9 of Trust Your Nose
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What it means to have a dog’s devotion: four defining meetings at the Memorial Stone over the course of Kakashi’s and Pakkun’s acquaintance.
Or, three times Kakashi felt that he wasn’t a child even though he was, and one time he was an adult but wished he didn’t have to be.
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- Part 10 of Trust Your Nose
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Rikku joins a hunt.
Sakumo’s pup is born. Too early. Too weak.
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- Part 11 of Trust Your Nose
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The sweetest thing in a nukenin’s life is blood.
The softest is a fellow mass-murderer’s compassion.
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- Part 12 of Trust Your Nose
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Naruto knows more than Iruka expected, Iruka brings up something he shouldn’t, and shocked reactions result in hurt feelings.
Kakashi fails at something.
In this Pack, sometimes the ninken have to teach the humans how to talk.
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- Part 13 of Trust Your Nose
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Genma thought getting drunk would numb the pain, but it doesn’t. It doesn’t.
His ANBU comrades bear the brunt.
“The bad days are the ones when the mass murder isn’t the bad part.”
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- Part 14 of Trust Your Nose