There were those who were born great, and there were those who were born. Empirically speaking, though, weren't we all made of star stuff?

Kuma offers Zoro a slightly different deal.

Naruto Uzumaki was a mass of conflicting fronts and ideas. He was loud and stupid, but shy and intelligent. He was sunny and always smiling but wept in the silence of his room. What will happen when he catches the attention of T&I's Ibiki, and his two new teammates? Will they be able to unravel the complex web of disguises that Naruto has woven? Watch and see.

Taken from her world, thrust into the world of One Piece, and bestowed powers from neither... Why is this happening? And why does everyone always mistake her for a guy? Sanji X OC (Revision-In Progress, Ch 10/19 Revised)

(Comet Wish Rewrite). For years, people doubted her about other worlds being real. They shunned her and even called her and her dead parents crazy. Well, the joke is on them for after seeing the inter-dimensional comet, the Timore comet, and making a wish to leave her world, Rose Catone finds her life turned upside down when she wakes up on the deck of the Going Merry. LuffyxOC

Simple and sweet Zoro&Luffy nakamaship moments. Standard disclaimers apply.

After Shanks saved his life, Luffy swore that he would become a Marine Admiral in order to protect everything dear to him. After training in the Marines, Luffy sets off to prove that he is the greatest Marine since his Grandfather. No devil fruit Luffy in the beginning. Slight OOC Marine!Luffy. A Luffy who wants to be the Hero and share the meat.

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Lilac eyes and wistful sighs. It all leads back to you. Hero Class 2-A student becomes a teacher assistant for Hero Class 1-A. "I'm sorry, but can you choose someone else? A-ahah;;;" Cover art by me; character sheets in profile.

"They say the only thing to fear is fear itself. That, and a motivated Nara." Shikamaru is born with his father's intelligence and his mother's work ethic. The world is turned sideways.

Luffy and Zoro awaken in two different parts of East Blue, both with the same thing on their mind. Protect the crew. There would be no failures this time around, Captain's orders. As bits and pieces of the unknown past that the two comrades share are gradually revealed, the rest of the crew can only speculate. For all their absolute resolve, they're hiding something. Time Travel AU

Sea Kings, sea-sickness, sunburns, a 95% genocidal Navy and more than a million and one other assorted ways to die. It's official: Being inserted into an anime sucks ass... Buuut I guess it could be worse. I mean, look on the bright side: At least I'm sailing with the future king of the pirates. (Self-Insert)

"A lot of people would probably be thrilled to get a second chance. I wasn't one of them. I didn't want an entire second go at f**king up. I had died and that was supposed to be that." With a girl and a man barely convinced to give the new Hatake family a try in the wake of their painful pasts, they could be each others' final nail, or salvation. (OCish SI) (Not Kashi/SI)

"She's the runt of the class. A stiff breeze would blow her over." He sighed. "But she doesn't think like a child, not even like an adult. She thinks like a kunoichi." Hiruzen frowned. The problem was usually the other way around: Genin with unbridled potential held back by childish thoughts. Now that the problem was reversed, he knew which was worse. Slow burn Kakashi/OC

Due to a paperwork mistake in God's waiting room, I was reincarnated with my memories intact. No pain, no gain, or so they say. But with a bit of luck, this might just turn out alright.

Neon never considered herself a hero. No one ever really did except one person and that person is the only thing that matters...And if that means Neon has to become a hero to help that person, then so be it. Sounds like a plan... OC x Todoroki

It begins in a shady North Blue town, with a tattoo artist and a polar bear on her doorstep. In all her years spent stabbing pirates with needles, Saki had never met one so shameless about having tattoos that badly done, and if it was necessary, she was going to nag him all the way across the Grand Line until he let her fix them. Slowest of burns Law/OC.

Because sometimes a tale is too tall not to tell. Even if no one will ever believe her, this isn't Riskua's first shot at life. It is her first time as the 'big sister' of the nuisance that is Monkey D. Luffy however. Self Insert. (slow burn on the pairing)

For each of the Straw Hats, they all had the same reoccurring dream every time they fell asleep: Sailing an Endless Sea on the Thousand Sunny with the others. They all had this dream from the day they were born and they grew up with each other in it. I wonder how things will change because of the Dream.

Aurora Sinistra spends most of her time watching the stars. In the summer of 1991, she has a plan redeem the reputation of Slytherin House, and some of the people inside it. Recruiting Severus Snape to help her, the two teachers undertake a gambit of their own that leads the Boy-Who-Lived and the Brightest Witch of Her Age into Slytherin House and friendships with Draco Malfoy.

[SI-OC] I had hoped I wouldn't die so early in life. And honestly, I wasn't good ninja material. The most I knew was how to twirl a stick and ram a backpack filled with school supplies on someone's head — and yet some entity decided to plop me down into a world where you're either a ninja or a civilian — and the mortality rate wasn't good either way. My choice was kinda obvious.

Being reborn into a Japanese story was bad enough. Being reborn as the twin sister to a certain notorious mass murderer, was another thing entirely. Told in a series of drabbles. (Warning: Mild incest themes) LightxOC

It always ends the same. Oyaji dies. His crew falls apart. Ace himself dies too. During Marineford, before, or after. It doesn't matter what he does. If he joins they die for him. This time he will make it different. When they ask him to join them he'll say no and leave. Simple right? As if. Guess he'll have to convince them he's not worth their lives. Time travelling/looping Ace

Life was going well, if you asked Naruto. So why did he listen to Kakashi of all people? Now, they've time-traveled to the past, smack dab in Minato's era when the soon-to-be Hokage was sporting a team seven of his own. Let history run its course? Never! Kakashi-centric

Grey was the first colour she saw. Green was the colour of love and warmth. Red was the colour of envy and passion. Yellow belonged to a man she would never meet. Blue and grey… were a mixture of bliss. Main: Todoroki Shōto x Self-insert OC. Side: Other characters x OCs. Rating may go up.

Luffy disappeared a day after Sabo died. Four years later he came back with a slave brand, burned into his flesh. Whatever happened to him, made Luffy view the world differently. Follow him on his journey to become the Pirate King, the freest person in the world, as snippets of his past slowly reveal itself to his crew. (AU, stronger/more mature/darker/jaded Luffy, no romance)

In which a sick little girl changes absolutely nothing and everything. [Reborn OC]

Thirty year old Kakashi was supposed to have been killed by Pein during the Invasion. Instead, he wakes up in the body of his twenty year old self. (It gets a lot more complicated.) Time travel.

After the mission to Waves, Sakura realized she needed to get stronger; she would never survive long in the shinobi world. Through her will to become stronger, Sakura learns as much as she can from as many people as she can, while finally understanding what it means to be a part of a team, and consequently, a family.

Alejandro made a deal with a dimension witch, to get rid of his older sister. Then Angelina found herself in a strange world with pirates, marines, and an evil world government. She does everything in her power to survive and get back home. Yet, maybe it is better here instead.

I died a stupid death. But I was reborn into a world with no boundaries, where Garp the Hero is my grandfather and my future can be amazing. Until I find that whatever reincarnated me had second guessed that choice, and I now have to battle for every second of my life against a terminal illness. I will not die pitifully again. I will live. Rated M to be safe. Eventual Zoro/OC.

With Konoha on the verge of destruction, Sakura is sent on a last-resort mission to save her world by travelling to the past. Join her in coping with her old body's shortcomings, testing the natural laws of time, falling in love all over again, and rediscovering who she is. Time-travel. SasuSaku. REAL publication date: Jan 2015

She's just a woman who's gone through her entire life with a plan to guide her, but when she suddenly finds herself as the main character of a series where unpredictability is the norm, she gladly rips apart the one thing that has suffocated her for years and thinks, "To hell with it." SI!OC-as-Fem!Luffy and Different!DF. Ratings may change over time.

Five and a half years after the Kyuubi attacked Konoha, in a clearing with only nature as his witness, Nara Shikamaru vowed to destroy his enemies. To hunt them unceasingly. To stop for nothing. To never rest until he had purged every trace of them from the world. AU, time travel, Shikamaru-centric

a store at a secluded area lit up with numerous neon lights that lingered with spicy ramen smell and the smoke of crisp cigarette whiff was the perfect hideaway for two troubled teenagers. — t rated for strong language and other themes. katsuki/oc.

Orphaned as a child, Ember has spent her life searching for answers. But then Roronoa Zoro shows up, and she finds herself swept away with the Straw Hat Pirates. Aching to discover more of her past, she dives into the unknown where the answers aren't exactly what she bargained for.

'Twas in a moment of sudden irregularity, that I found my own self thrust into a life not of my choice, by an accident almost entirely of my own volition (Truck-kun was not involved in my death). Now, how to live with this new mask, when I'm used to not wearing any? OC-Insert as Sasuke.

Rei might be a brilliant tactician but she's clueless when it comes to being a nakama, let alone a Straw Hat. She has a lot to learn when it comes to friendship and that angry swordsman is not helping anything! [ZoroxOC] Follows the canon arcs in the New World starting from Punk Hazard. Current Arc: Zou. (Read Zoro & The Mask for Rei's backstory)

The end of the 4th war had Naruto and Shikamaru as the only survivors, Kurama feeling the two fading acted fast, sent them back to their Genin days to make sure the war never came to pass. Time Travel AU! 2018 A/N: I am VERY aware that I changed the R and K up in Charka but as this was posted in 2015. I will NOT be going back to change it around as I do have a life outside of this.

After dying I didn't expect anything. Maybe even hell, but not a new life. I hoped to enjoy that life to the fullest and not to leave too many regrets behind. Well, I guess killing my own teacher, who planned to destroy the earth in one year, with my best friend was kind of nice too. SI!OC

By pure chance and unluckiness Miyako finds herself at the Sabaody auction house as a slave. And of all the people, the one interested just had to be the most smug, egoistical and sadistic pirate she has ever met. So at least she can give him as much trouble as possible, right? LawXOC

When Zoro is still on Kuraigana Island, a mysterious lady swordsman shows up bringing along Smoker and Tashigi, claiming that she has taken Tashigi on as an apprentice and she brought Tashigi to train against Zoro. Will Zoro get over her similar appearance to Kuina? And will Tashigi realize he's not that sexist? Possible Zoro/Tashigi and Mihawk/OC pairings.

You made a mistake, shishō. If it was Naruto, he might have made peace with it. It's people like me, who keeps wanting more, doesn't know when to make peace, can't make peace. Can't live with being the only one alive. Can't handle being left behind even in death. This is no last stand. This is selfishness. Sakura-centric Time Travel where for once, Team 7 chases Sakura.

Wings!AU. In a world where people born with wings are considered inferior to humans, Sabo is a runaway noble who does his best to fight for equality. His whole world changes when he meets Ace and Luffy, two Fae living on the wrong side of the law. ASL Centric.

They never spoke, but he felt uncomfortable laying down on the grass without her next to him for once. A fluffy oneshot between Shikamaru and SI / OC Ayano as they grow old watching the clouds pass by. ShikaxOC

Words can give you a lot of power. It can cause you to have friends, to lose friends, to gain enemies. It can help you to win through a battle, cause you to lose in a battle. Words can make someone feel like trash, but words can also make someone feel like they're important. Words, can make someone fall in love. (OC Reincarnation fic)

The ASL pirates are used to being accused of crimes they didn't commit. But when they're accused of destroying a small village in the New World, it sends them hurtling toward a deadly confrontation with the strongest man in the world, Whitebeard. The results are not what they were expecting.

In the sealed scroll he finds a Bingo Book – his own page marking him as an S-class nukenin with flee-on-sight orders. "Ok. That is definitely different." Dimensional/Time Travel.

"At least the other clan kids of the series had something to protect themselves with practically from birth. Sakura was blessed with the oh so helpful gift of a larger than average forehead." The remedy is often worse than the disease it cures. I refused to be that remedy. OC-insert as Sakura Semi-AU

Recondite – dealing with very profound, difficult or abstruse subject matter. In the mind of a 24 year old professional chess player, apparent death and reincarnation into a world of ninja certainly falls under the category of "recondite". Semi SI / OC insert

A psychiatrist is reborn—and promptly diagnoses the Naruto world as clinically insane. [OC-Insert]

She never thought her life would turn out this way, she had hopes, dreams, just like everybody else. So why was she different? Why was she taken from her home, thrown into a cage, locked away forever. All her hopes were shattered, then she met three boys thrown into the same hell as her. Together they escaped hell only to end up aboard the fiercest ship in the world, the Moby Dick.

Dumbledore asks Hermione to carry out a secret mission before the start of her fourth year. "Keep the Time Turner, Miss Granger. I want you to use it to help Mr. Malfoy reevaluate his beliefs. He is now depending on you." HG/DM

One year after fulfilling their dreams, the Straw Hat Pirates are given the chance to save something they lost by being sent back in time. Who are they going to save? How will the past Straw Hats react to the future ones, and how insanely will the past be changed? No pairings. Rated T for swearing. Adopted from Blueh with his consent.

Leading a double life is never easy. With friends in the slums and a family of nobility, Luffy hides his lineage to keep up the guise that he's a resident of Low Town, hoping to one day find a boy from his past and repay him for what he did all those years ago. But Whitebeard, the largest underground power around, is searching for him. And Sabo, his brother, wants to know why.

The real reason the clans didn't help a young Naruto

Set after DH and will completely ignore the Epilogue. Hermione keeps running into Draco Malfoy. Will anything other than disaster come from these chance encounters?

Kakashi didn't want a genin team. He definitely didn't want to have an apprentice. But he unfortunately can't always get his way. Shikamaru agrees that maybe this isn't the greatest idea ever. AU story with Shikamaru graduating early as the genius he really is.

Akabane Karma. The sadistic and yet caring boy. The one who defended the weak from shadows. No matter what, he was their friend. The part of their class, a family. And while no one thought so, he was also someone they knew nothing about. It wasn't until he collapsed that they realized that there was something wrong. /Lots of fluff and angst/

Blood does not necessarily make family. This is about people making their own family and finding friendships that strengthen them when logic says that they should just fall down. Unlikely people will come together to create a family of choice, blood be damned, and adventures and trials ensue. No pairings (at least as of now)

…or how Naruto got platonic-married to one of his friends and in the end didn't regret it at all.

Built like an assassin. That's how most would stereotype her. Unfortunately for her superiors, with the qualities of a killer come the qualities of someone who doesn't like to follow orders, and she was never one to conform with the darkness of Konoha anyways. Not even if the prodigy with the Sharingan tries to stop her. Of course, she never anticipated him taking her side. AU.

Runaway Lucy Heartfilia finally gets to join Fairy Tail, house and school for homeless kids. What she didn't expect was to be brought there by a pink-haired, pyrotechnic black belt with a blue cat, that she might start falling for him, or that this boy could help her solve the mystery behind the golden keys left by her mother that hold a deadly secret. High school ninja AU. Nalu.

Traveling into the past, Draco Malfoy finds himself in his eleven year old body with all his memories from the past seventeen years. Using this knowledge, he sets out change time. His first mission: befriend Harry Potter. *Book One of the Rewritten in Time Series*

Shikaku can remember the exact day he knew his son would never be attracted to the opposite gender. A drabble from Shikaku's point-of-view of his son growing up and eventually ending up with the village's former Pariah turned Hokage. (Shikanaru)

This is the story of three kitsunes (a mother and her twin daughters) who changed the life of three pirate crews, their kind, and the world. I am writing the stories, and my friend is my editor. I do not own One Piece or "Hoist the Colors" lyrics. Shanks X OC, Zoro X OC, Law X OC and possibly more. This is my first fanfic, so please leave good reviews :D

When she's reborn as that girl, in that city, with that brother, with that history, and with that ending… well, nothing really changes. No pairings. Self Insert as Lami. Complete.

Rin gets rescued, not by her teammates, but by two mysterious, strangely familiar men. Written for yangires. Warnings for unexplained time travel and a possible time paradox.

There is something going on with Kakashi, but Minato can't figure out what. All he has are distressing deductions, each one progressively worse than the last. It's no wonder Minato can't help but fear and fear and fear. (To be fair though, it really wasn't his fault he never considered the possibility of time-travel)

The second she realized she was in the world of Naruto, Rae swore she wouldn't interfere. Even so, looking at the shivering 8-year-old before her, she couldn't help but hold him close. It's not like one friend will change anything, right? T for violence and some language.

"What would you give to save them...?" Her voice was cold. "Everything." His voice was a whisper. "Then I will take everything. I will give you a chance to save your nakama." ...You get a second chance. Luffyko Fem!Luffy Zolu "Time Travel" Fic

The war is over, and Naruto has found the way to peace, but no one is left to enjoy it. Including himself. Dying and unable to give up, Naruto does the only thing he can: give the last living member of Team 7 a second chance. Whether Kakashi wants it or not. [Time Travel Fic ]

The story of Kakashi Hatake — the son of the White Fang, the prodigy, the ANBU, the famed Copy-nin — had all unfolded around the one person he did not know whether he hated or loved and yet he ultimately ended up alone anyway. KakashiOC. Follows canon. Dark-ish themes.

It was just a role, just a role. She faked it, faked everything. It was just a role, until... It wasn't. SI OC

Promise: To commit oneself by a promise to do or give; pledge. Kakashi x OC Slow burner. I don't own Naruto (only the OCs)

Sequel to Inari. A collection of one-shots following Kakashi and Inari after the events of Inari. DISCOUNTINUED.

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. The Third decided to craft a genin team designed specifically for intel gathering to prevent the civil war rising in Konoha. Will Team Tsume be able to stop the rising storm?

It was the saddest people who smiled the brightest, and Sasuke was going to find out how lonely and death-stained his fourth-teammate's life really was. Follows story line!

Summary inside first chapter : Zoro/Oc maybe.

"Wait," Rachel said backtracking. "Did you just call me a hooker?" Octavian looked confused as she leaned up against the statue of Jupiter and giggled." He hated her. He despised her. So why was he finding it so hard not to stare into those green eyes of hers? She hated him. She despised him. Yet for some reason, he amused her to no end.

Oneshot collection - Shikamaru meets a girl he can actually hold a civilized conversation with.

Zoro contemplates the things he does for his captain. Then he has a conversation with Rayleigh about what it means to be a first mate.

Lucy has left Magnolia and Fairy Tail behind and she had absolutely no intention of going back. - Eventual NaLu. Main story now complete; the five chapter epilogue is now complete.

Life hadn't been all that great for the nearly-forty-year-old Nara Shikamaru, not bad, but not great. Suddenly faced with the unwanted opportunity to do it over again though, well, he was a genius. Only an idiot would pass up such an opportunity, however unwanted it was. oneshot, complete, don't own.

It's the job of the captain to pick the crew, and the duty of the first mate to test them for worthiness. How Zoro came to accept each of the straw hats as nakama.

Whoever thought Hatake Kakashi would make a great Hokage needed to be killed. Slowly.

There is one notable difference between Chuunin and Jounin. Then there's the difference between Kakashi and everybody else.

The lowest level of Impel Down was held for the most dangerous of criminals and yet here she was. Ace/OC

After Naruto catches the attention of Ibiki, he and his teammates are thrust into the dangerous and confusing world of espionage. Where treachery lurks beneath the idyllic face of Konoha.

"Team Kakashi? Why are we always Team Kakashi?" Naruto's tired of having the team named after his sensei and wants a change! Kakashi really couldn't care less, and no one bothers to listen to Sasuke anymore. As for the enemy-nin caught up in all this... well, he always knew Konoha-nin were crazy.

Zoro's cursed blade affects him more than he lets on. Character study, maybe a bit AU.

"I know what it's like to think you'll never succeed." She said quietly. "You have no bloody idea," Draco snapped. "Why do you care? I'm horrible to you." It was a simple question, without a simple answer. Simplicity was no more. Had it ever existed?

It's not only beauty that can take your breath away. The Straw Hat crew members learn this when they find the injured Zoro-and watch Luffy approach his injured first mate. Zoro and Luffy nakamaship. Set during the Thriller Bark arc.

Hermione is the one who finds Draco weeping in the bathroom. He flees. She chases him into the Room of Requirement, and the room forces them to face their greatest fears together in order to find the door.

Naruto has been keeping dangerous secrets for years. A long-forgotten dream that just won’t die, an ally he shouldn’t know and a friend no one thought he had are what keep him going. Graduating is the least of his problems…

Zoro and Luffy each sacrifice what is most important to themselves for the other but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter. One shot, Zoro and Luffy nakamaship.

Zoro displays a rare show of affection for his captain who is drowning in guilt. AU but only because in the manga, Zoro never meets Luffy right after Ace dies. One shot, NOT slash just nakamaship.

They’re all a bit different, in so many different ways. Strawhats and their various quirks, as seen by each of them in turn-no pairings. I'm such a nerd. R&R, time and mind permitting!

AU. SasuSaku. 15 flavors. "Ino, I bet no guy can be like VitaminWater."

Correct file now! Zoro gives directions.

They've not been children since the day Asuma dies. But when they are with each other their minds cast back to those days, peeling back year after year until they stop at day zero of their memories. The day they are reborn as shinobi but die as a team.

Luffy and Zoro say many things to each other. It's just that they don't use words.

Can Draco be saved from his Deathly Hallows fate of being a sniveling coward?

Naruto never realized, but ever since they were academy students together he had been watching him out of the corner of his eye. [One shot, gen.]

It only took fifty nine moves for checkmate.

Ayakawa Yukiko retired from being a ninja, and she's come to terms with that. Then the Third Hokage summons her for an assignment that will change her life. AU story, set six years premanga. COMPLETE

There is an old saying in the Nara family: Don't walk with the shadows for too long, or you'll become one.

Artemis-Harry Potter Crossover. Artemis learns he is a wizard. Put one unethical child genius in Hogwarts and watch the schemes and rivalries unfold. COMPLETE