Damn, that was good. SpecOps Naruto for the win!

Enjoyed the base storming (and the base rounding beforehand), and really loved Naruto going for "something PTSD inducing". PTSD, the gift that keeps on giving.

Googled my name (first & last), and one of the people that came up was the 9th Marquess of Queensberry; the one who popularized the "Queensbury Rules" and absolutely ended Oscar Wilde's whole career! (What career?)

I doubt Kumo could refuse Naruto Kakuzu's corpse, he's got friends there in high place, plus it WAS he that killed him... Would make the new alliance shaky, especially since he risked his life to save Yugito. Also the raikage has always felt like a fair, straightup dude...

How come you keep using explosive tags on clones? Explosive clones are similar to Kage bunshin, so Naruto ought to know the jutsu... Daibakufu or something similar lol.

Using sacrifices work with normal ninja like Itachi and Kisame, but how the fuck do you explain them actually having Hidan's immortality and Kakuzu's thread kinjutsu? Those are actual physical attributes and a gods blessing, nothing simple chakra can replicate...

Since you can't kill Kimimaro direcrly, manipulated the surroundings, kill him passive-aggressive like drowning, gas etc... Bloodloss should work as well...

I'm dropping this garbage. You had Naruto spend all that time after the invasion doing absolutely nothing? He knows he is supposed to be fixing his mindscape for the Kyuubi and to help him adjust his techniques! Also, he only had the asshole remove ONE F**KING SEAL out of all the seals they put on him? ARE YOU F**KING STUPID?!
You really are a moron to ignore your own character setup for a stupid plot point. Your idiotic reasons for him being screwed up could have still applied after unsealing him. What a disappointment!

And again, you wasted so much potential and let canon happen. What was the point of having Naruto powerful again? Right, there wasn't one. It made no difference. Why didn't you have him cut off Gaara's arms to stop him from using jujitsu and only cut off a useless piece of sand from a construct that can endlessly regrow? It's because you're being stupid, that's why.

Why would you ruin a great premise by sealing Naruto's memories? When he woke up, he should have gotten them all back, not be confused about everything. His new memories did not overlap the old ones, so there should be no confusion at all.
If you have him not know what's going on, then he shouldn't remember anything about the last few years, not about what happened before. You also didn't show how he broke the seal of a master sealer, since being attacked would have broken it years ago.
Your prologue is severely lacking.

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Tsunade is pulling a Hiruzen on Naruto with not promoting him. With Hiruzen it led him to Danzo... Wonder where this will lead.

The pein arc and fight is recognized as the best naruto ever got by basically everyone. Good taste, cool ending.

So happy to have read this. Fantastic work Kenchi

I know this is probably late, but I'll just leave this here: not all Uchiha can get the Rinnegan, only like 1 every lifetime or so. And the reason why the Sharingan can evolve to the Rinnegan in the first place is because they both originate from a singular eye.

I mean, he did fight Killer B, and whose to say he didn't see other Jinchuuriki during the war?