Interesting take, I kinda liked the realistic Black Ops portrayal. A bit too modern American military for some of it, at least to me, like the hair cut…

Thank you for writing as much of this story that you have already. I am so sorry that an ignorant nobody forced you to loose your drive to write. I do hope you find it in yourself eventually to write again and share your creativity with the world. The courage alone to post and share that creativity in the first place is huge and i hope you find it again despite the negativity out there. Good luck ~

couldn't he have just used a shadow clone to subdue both of them cause naruto just doesn't give up in canon and he would do it his own way, i know he is changing but if you change his main thing then well that just sucks and is a character assasination cause he just forgets all about that. he always looks for another way. i mean come on man

yeah that is not fuinjutsu but it is jutusi-shiki.

good story

Its sad how people insult really well written stories just because of slower updates. I really liked fic, and I hope someday you might find interest in writing again.

it really sucks that people can be so mean. i for one love this story and truly regret that it will never be finished

Yes, everyone cannot be taishou (大将 (たいしょう, だいしょう), General), but quite a few can be taichou (隊長 (たいちょう), Kommandant, Truppenführer, in the sense of team captain).

Also… why is Naruto so different? I was under the impression the story would be following canon-Naruto’s development after joining ANBU, learning to utilise his natural talents and becoming more mature. But this is not canon-Naruto. Even without the divergent factor (joining ANBU) he is bowing to people, using respectful suffixes, shutting off his emotion and being extremely analytical.

Why did you decide to force that change, taking away the appeal your story had based on it’s summary?

Already made a huge mistake that seemingly every author makes. You claim he has so much chakra that he can NEVER manage techniques that use a miniscule amount of chakra (clones, illusions, medical techniques etc), but that same logic is forgotten on every other chakra monster. Tsunade has more chakra than kid-Naruto, but she’s still considered the best when it comes to chakra control. Hashirama, Madara, Hiruzen, Kakashi and so on all have more chakra than him currently and all have phenomenal chakra control.

You could very easily just make it HARDER for Naruto to get it down, rather than impossible, and have the inability to figure out why come down to ignorance… Naruto, in simply not being aware that some techniques take less chakra (which is canon, because he used more chakra thinking it would make the technique work) and Iruka, in not realising that was Naruto’s problem because it is so fundamental and basic he probably never considered that Naruto just didn’t know.

But instead, you’ve cut off whole avenues (plural) of training and advancement that would be extremely practical for him. Why?

This is a brilliant story. Depicting very well what the world of Narutp could very well consist of. Especially the darker part, without embellishments and romanticizing. And it's truly sad to see the story with this much potential abandoned because of some dumb people who think that cursing the author is a good idea.

Maaaaan I was really loving this story. People complain about pacing but I honestly could care less about pacing/length when the words on the page are good. if you can tell the same exact story at the same quality with twice the amount of words- I will ALWAYS want the longer version. it'd be different if this story was slow with zero payoff or lacked interesting plot points and concepts. Fleshing things out so you can get a better understanding of the characters and world makes it so much better when process is made and goals are achieved. I mean you don't see people saying Lord of The Rings is garbage because there's too much character interaction and world building lmao.
It blows my mind that miserable trolls and ghouls will be so overtly negative to something that they don't even pay for nor are forced to look at but that's the internet. People suck.
Out of the 100ish Naruto fanfics I've read/listened to... this could be top 10 if it wasn't abandoned. It has so much potential, I love a good story about non-overpowered EOS level characters that feel like they may actually die in the chapter.

I just hope the author can return because this ended on a tremendous cliff hanger :(

Bullshit. Anbu have their hair showing. It absolutely astounded me that EVERYONE didn’t know who kakashi was as Anbu since he had a very distinctive hair style. Not to mention all the other distinct hair styles that definitely give the identity of the Anbu away. This is getting more and more stupid. And naruto is STILL being an overly loud emotional whiney bitch who needs to control himself better. Thought he was getting that beat out of him? Guess not

Boring chapter after boring chapter about vertical walking. Do people actually find this dry semi-scientific explanation of a fake energy entertaining or stimulating? If so I pity those people not having any entertaining things in their life. Is this really what you wanted to waste several chapters on? Is it relevant to the overall plot? If it’s not relevant to the plot, then it’s a pointless waste and shouldn’t be here at all.

So much for the teachers being fair. What a lie!