On October 10th when the Kyuubi no Kitsune ravages Konoha, Namikaze Minato unwittingly makes a bargain with Death. Years earlier, his life is rewritten when the overpowered, bizarre, and possibly alien Eleanor Lily Potter arrives at Konoha's orphanage and quickly becomes his best friend.

"A new overlady, you say? She's a little short and flat-chested, although her temper is impressively vile. Oh well. Needs must when needs must. Too long have the lands of Halkeginia gone without true Evil. There are fluffy bunnies and happy ponies all over the place, frolicking! It makes me quite sick! No, it doesn't matter if she wants to or not. Because Evil always finds a way."

Dirty deeds are the path to a fulfilling life; it's better to watch the world burn at your feet than to burn with it. Sometimes the wish for (another) death gets to be a bit too strong. {Reincarnation/OC-centric} {cover image by tumblr user "skune"}

It is not paradox to rewrite history, in the breath of a single moment a universe blooms into existence as another path fades from view, Tom Riddle meets an aberration on the train to Hogwarts and the rest is in flux. AU, time travel, Death!Harry, Tom/Lily and Tom/Harry, not threesome

A girl reborn into the world of ninja wants to escape the cycle of violence. Power is the only thing that brings freedom in the ninja world and she will have freedom... at any cost. However breaking the bonds she forms won't be as simple as she imagines. AU SI.

AU reboot of the entire SAO storyline, beginning from the premise that Kayaba Akihiko was obsessed with magic and Norse Mythology rather than swords and pure melee. As a result, he created the Death Game of Alfheim Online rather than the floating castle of Aincrad—a world in which PvP is not a crime, and the nine player races are in competition to escape. **SPOILERS IN REVIEWS**

What do you get when you cross several interdimensional god like beings, raw boredom, a world of Naruto that went wrong, several years worth of off screen training, common sense, insanity, humor, sarcasm, the Log, explosions, plot, and overall chaos? Apparently a lot of headache medicine for Tsunade. May the Games Begin. Sequel to Yet Again With A Little Extra Help.

Kyubey promised that humanity would reach the stars one day. The Incubator tactfully refrained from saying too much about what they would find there.

As the unwitting personification of Death, reality exists to Lily through the veil of a backstage curtain, a transient stage show performed by actors who take their roles only too seriously. But as the Girl-Who-Lived, Lily's role to play is the most important of all, and come hell or high water play it she will, regardless of how awful Wizard Lenin seems to think she is at her job.

Inspired by Silver Queen's "Dreaming of Sunshine." Ripples turn into waves and crash upon the shores of what is and what could be, and I was just someone else who got pulled under. I didn't realize that even a drowning person makes waves of their own. A SI OC story.

Rin had hoped finding Shirou's family would give him something fragile to live for, a reason to think about himself. She never expected it to lead to a year of fighting in a complex bounded field contained within TV's of all things... or of a group of nosy teens being exposed to magecraft and gaining a power she had never even heard of before. DISCONTINUED and Rewritten.

Femininity is not weakness. Courage does not exist without fear. Hope is lost the moment you stop fighting. A grittier take on the 'girl falls into another world' trope.

Life as a ninja. It starts with confusion and terror and doesn't get any better from there. OC Self-insert. No pairings.

He promised to be a Hero capable of saving everyone. But before that he made other promises he can't remember under a different name. How will Shirou react when he finds his lost past? - Shirou/Multi Mature Contents.

The Master of Death is a dangerous title; many would claim to hold a position greater than Death. Harry is pulled to Middle-earth by the Witch King of Angmar in an attempt to bring Morgoth back to Arda. A year later Angmar falls and Harry is freed. What will he do with the eternity granted to him? Story begins 1000 years before LotR. Eventual major canon divergence.

I cannot move a single muscle as I stare at the piece of cloth hanging on the wall right across from my crib. A sheet with an all too familiar symbol stitched smack in the middle of it, its red and white coloring in a stark contrast against the dark blue surrounding it. I'm an Uchiha now. How is this even my life? Rated M for violence.

Sans has watched as everything repeated over and over again. So has Frisk. Sans gave up a long time ago. Frisk, she still has plenty of determination. They couldn't end the loop on their own. But maybe, they could end it if they worked together? Female Frisk. Possible future Frisk/Sans.

Character study. An accidental meeting brings Zetsu into Naruto's life as his tutor. With Zetsu trying to sway Naruto to his own philosophy of "the only one you can rely on is yourself", Naruto discovers that the world isn't as black and white as his tutor is, that there are at least two sides to every story, and that he has a lot to learn. Hinted NaruIno and NaruTen; grey!Naruto

The Do-Over Fic - a chance to do things again, but this time-To Get it Right. But is it really such a blessing as it appears? A jaded, darker, bitter, and tired wizard who just wants to die; but can't. A chance to learn how to live, from the most unexpected source. slytherin!harry, dark!harry, eventual slash, lv/hp

...and very surely I do not dream"- Poe. Uchiha Itachi died. Then he woke up chained in a cell, in a Sound stronghold. Having fought his way free, he encounters some people he knew were dead, and some who when previously met have tried to kill him on sight, but now show concern. Is this an elaborate genjutsu? Or something else?

Elizabeth Riddle knows too much about things that prove to be both out of time and mostly useless as her twin brother searches for the castle where eternity dwells and the revolution which must open its doors. AU SI insert.

Sequel to The Arithmancer. Years 5-7. Armed with a N.E.W.T. in Arithmancy after Voldemort's return, Hermione takes spellcrafting to new heights and must push the bounds of magic itself to help Harry defeat his enemy once and for all.

Harry was never the only person with a penchant for tripping into the most absurd of situations. Reincarnated!Hermione. Somewhat darker than the usual take on Naruto. Political machinations. Character progression. Strong friendship, no romance.

After facing the Homunculi, saving Amestris, and sacrificing his alchemy to save his brother, Edward would have never dreamed that the Truth would ask him to save another universe where magic reigns. Translation from French of mel72000's awesome fic, Par delà la Porte : E Elric et l'Ordre du Phénix.

Upon entering the world of Death Note Anna Jones considers her survival and the prices she is willing to pay.

Some things are too terrible to grasp at once, and other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to ever really grasp at all. "I am not disappearing," she realizes after a story-long moment. Semi-SI OC.

Ilya likes to play video games, and in the time she has remaining, Shirou is more than willing to play the new VR game with her. But when they are trapped inside the game, [Sword Art Online], they determine something even more distressing: Kayaba Akihiko is definitely a Magus.

In his fifth year Tom Riddle discovers his destiny and meets the cold, alarming, and bizarre transfer student Harry Evans. But sometimes things unravel in ways we do not expect. Time Travel.

And just like that, she watched the pieces fall. [OC Insert; Being Edited]

... How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cruciatus. Albus Dumbledore always worried about the parallels between Harry Potter and Tom Riddle. But let's be honest, Harry never really had the drive to be the next dark lord. Of course, things may have turned out quite differently if one of the other muggle-raised Gryffindors wound up in Slytherin instead.

Despite his impoverished circumstances, Tom Riddle always knew he was destined for great things. The ability to travel back and forth through time was a bit of a surprise, though. Also a surprise: the bushy-haired little girl he meets in the future who possesses powers to match his own. Eventual Tomione; starts pre-Hogwarts.

Being reborn into the Uchiha clan in the same generation as Itachi promises nothing but a short-lived second life. But, hey—if I'm going to die with certainty, I might as well go out with a bang, right? SI Rebirth. Complete; all extras posted.

Shirou is forced back in time to save Arturia from her downfall, though he doesn't know how or what to do about it. He's not a fighter, but an idealist. Is he supposed to use his ideals to oppose, or supplement Arturia's? Saber/Shirou

One of Rin's experiments goes wrong, throwing her and Shirou's souls into another world to be reborn. Finding themselves in a world with a new form of mystic energy and where the influence of Gaia is less than a tenth of its old strength, Rin has found herself in paradise. Shirou however sees a world of conflict, deceit, and monsters wearing human skin... same old, same old.

24-year-old computer programmer is reincarnated as a background character. Her first life was nothing special, but she's determined her second one will be. OC Self-insert.

Konoha and Iwa sign a truce and agree to an Exchange Program between recently promoted genin to "bolster village relations." Fortunately, if anything were to go wrong, Haruno Sakura was just average enough to risk losing.

In which Ed goes off to teach alchemy at Hogwarts. Set after FMA Brotherhood. Ed still have his automail arm and alchemy.

Shirou sacrificed himself to take Gilgamesh with him, dropping both of them into the Holy Grail. So he should be dead, right? Then why does he have so many questions? Questions such as why is he still alive? Why is the moon shattered? What is a faunus?

WIP An unconscious Iruka forces Naruto to return to the academy for another year. It also marks the beginnings of a prank whose far-reaching consequences will shake Konoha to its foundations.

Naruto botches his first attempt to summon and ends up in a land without Ninja. Now a bunch of monks called Jedi think he's up to no good, the only way home may require the Darkside aka the Fox, and home may no longer be there.

What if the mentioned super intelligence of Yagami Light and his antagonists wasn't just informed, but was actually true?

...Oh wait, it did. Semi-SI.

Sequel to Fantastic Elves and Where to Find Them! Harry is captured by wizards and brought to a castle. The wizards are obnoxious, but there's a lovely wood nearby which is quaintly named the "Forbidden" Forest. Harry thinks that's adorable.

It has been five years since the horrors of the Fifth Holy Grail War, and Shirou Kotomine, Executor of the Church, is being sent to Shin Tokyo to oversee the area. When a series of happenstances cause him to find his birth family and a secret battle royale between alien babes, he decides to do what he does best. Let's just hope there's a city after he's done. An In Flight spin off.

They called her lazy, apathetic, and amoral. They also said she was, by turns, too smart and too dumb. She liked to think she was funny. None of them were wrong. OC/Self Insert

Now discontinued. Please make your way over to its rewrite, "Hearts Stand Still."

Metempsychosis: transmigration of the soul, esp. its reincarnation after death. A person dies in one world. In another, Sayu Yagami is born with memories of another life, and is haunted by knowledge of things she shouldn't know. It's just a matter of time before it drives her mad. OC self-insert. Dark.

Stuck between what she sees and what they say, Amelia Potter is a little smarter and a lot stranger than the Girl Who Lived you expected. (AU, magical synesthesia.)

Life's tough and it's just dumped Ryou back into a life he once thought was left far behind him. With Bakura to complicate matters, they now have to figure out what they want from this new life and how they're going to go about getting it. Between friends, family, love, and power, it's the toughest decision they'll ever face and may alter the fate of the world. Slow Tendership

POLL RESULT; PROFILE Harry thought he would die; had anticipated it, even. So now what will he do in this new world, one without magic? Not to say that there isn't power lurking here... With snakes calling him 'Lord', and everyone else saying 'Abomination', is it any surprise that he's not going to have an easy time settling down? HP AU. Eventual Naruto AU. Slow paced. Dark Themes.

"Mint is extremely invasive. Mint grows and survives, even when starved and poisoned. Better not to plant it at all." Second SI/OC quick fic, inspired by "Catch Your Breath" and "Forethought."

Three years after the Holy Grail War, Emiya Shirou finds himself stranded in a foreign land. This land is where monsters roam, where man is prey, and where the silver-eyed witches reside. [Warning: An alternate F/SN continuity is used!]

"You should think of this as an opportunity to learn about a completely different method of applied thaumaturgy," Zelretch explained. He then sighed and lamented, "For shame, to be cursed with such an ungrateful apprentice..."

"England?" Roy replies, disbelief clear in his tone. "England" doesn't exist outside of storybooks, a magical land where Equivalent Exchange doesn't need to be abided by. It appears that Dr. Marcoh's experimental transportation array was faultier than he'd anticipated. (Post-FMA:B/manga, set during Order of the Phoenix. Blind!Roy.)

Ten years have passed since Voldemort attacked the Potters, and Harry became the Boy-Who-Lived. One year has passed since the Elric brothers were trapped on this side of the Gate. Now, they are living in London, and soon these two worlds will collide. And in this collision, the Elrics find a new opportunity, a New Lead, to get back home: magic. (Post CoS, 2003 anime)

(AU) [Rationality, meet Naruto] - Anko never wanted to lead a genin team. Sadly, the Hokage isn't okay with that; he hands her Naruto, Hinata, and Shino and orders her to "make them the best ninja and, more importantly, the best *people* possible." She's got her work cut out for her. M for combat and occasional cursing.

Edward Elric can't get back to his own world, so he tries to make a life for himself in the closest one he can find. Yep a nice quiet life, no military breathing down his neck or monsters trying to live forever, but then a kid in an orange jumpsuit...

Orochimaru is on the edge of breaking when someone unexpected pulls him back to solid ground. When the time comes, he returns the favor. Slash.

They were the clan everyone avoided, for a good reason. But Hashirama wasn't like other people and Karma ended up tangling in the ninja world revolution anyway. What he didn't know was that she knew the script of the story. OC Self-insert

For three years a rumor has permeated the Elemental Nations. A man dressed in black and red who would help anyone in need, no matter how small the task. He would defend any in his path with two blades, one black as night and the other white as snow. He calls himself an Ally of Justice; those he has saved call him Shinkoushoku no Kenshi, the Crimson Swordsman. Post-UBW True End.

Our heroes did not come from a future where everything has gone horribly wrong. They did not travel back in time to save the world from a bleak or miserable fate. As a matter of fact, all they want to do is find a way back home as soon as possible. [cracky, epilogue-compliant time travel fic] [Now has a TV Tropes page!]

Only weeks before the 4th Holy Grail War, a worldwide pulse of unidentifiable energy seems to have warped the summoning ritual, leaving seven Masters to deal with teenage heroes and demigods from an entirely different layer of reality, not to mention the War itself. (Homestuck characters (around the age 16-17 time period) end up as Servants. Hilarity and tragedy ensues.)

Being a ninja is hard enough when you work for the good guys, let alone when you get reincarnated into a family of psychopaths. SI

Six years later, the Investigation Team enters as Godou's high school teachers. Famous teachers. Again, very famous. Slight AU to both fandoms.

Wandering the world, Emiya Shirou comes across Sakura Kyoko, only a week after she lost everything and decides to take care of her.

A challenge response to Akun50's 'Unique Power-Ups' thread on The Fanfiction Forum. Kakashi is about to have a very bad day. Team 7 centric. No longer a one-shot.

What if Naruto had been selected for a different team? What if he'd had a different mentor? Who would guess the consequences would be so large?

Mutants are just an urban legend, or so most people think. Melanie, a mutant with a minor time-travelling ability, has spent years pretending to be normal. Then SHIELD happens. "I'm going to get carted off to some government facility, aren't I?" "As dramatic as you make it sound... Yes."

Petunia married a biochemist, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction. Then came the Hogwarts letter, and a world of intriguing new possibilities to exploit. And new friends, like Hermione Granger, and Professor McGonagall, and Professor Quirrell... COMPLETE.

One lesson Uzumaki Naruto taught the world was that glass ceilings are fragile, and limits are only for the fools who believe in them.

After several years of traveling the world's battlefields, Enforcer Shirou Emiya finds himself in Shin Tokyo. Leave it to him to go on vacation and end up trapped in yet another battle royal between magical beings. Inspired by Gabriel Blessing's In Flight.

Gen. "While on the run, Bruce meets a young man who speaks to the moon. He's probably not quite the sanest friend Bruce could have made, but, well...beggers can't be choosers."

Harry Potter loves, and is loved by, his parents, his godfather, and his brother. He isn’t mistreated, abused, or neglected. So why is he a Dark Wizard? NonBWL!Harry. Not your typical Harry’s brother is the Boy Who Lived story.

Having spent over fifty years as a notebook the fragment of soul who still refers to himself as Tom Riddle regains influence over the mortal plane and finds reality to be an ephemeral thing while Harry Potter, a young boy of eight, discovers that things both are and are not what they seem. AU

I never pretended to know what I was doing in my last life. Why should I pretend to know anything about this one? Well, the other option is a horrific and bloody death, so...I better start learning how to be a witch. OC Self-Insert/Draco's Younger Sister. [DEAD]

Ten years ago, Voldemort created his kingdom. Now a confused young wizard stumbles into it, and carves out a destiny. AU. Nondark Harry. MentorVoldemort. VII Ch.8 In which someone is dead, wounded, or kidnapped in every scene.

So, I died. But I guess that's okay, even if I'm now living in a world full of ninjas and the like. It's just too bad that the price for having a second life is taking a job as Death's Apprentice. Oh, woe is me. OC SI.

She wishes everyone would stop jumping around so much; it was damn unsettling. /She offers the ball to the little boy. His angst is suffocating./

There wasn't even a good reason to get involved in this Sekirei plan. He wasn't an Ashikabi, in fact he wasn't even certain he could love anymore. That future Archer had accused him of seemed closer than ever... but while people still suffered, what could he do? This bloody path I walk, without thanks or acknowledgement, though my heart may become iron, I must never fall to regret.