Redsnowball

If anybody checks this and wonders why new chapter isnt out, my keyboard broke so it will be delayed

Snow movie for sure since it plays a part in my eventual canon divergence. I am not too familiar with the other movies, so will probably need to watch em, but maybe the Gelel stones? Not sure about that yet.

Aye, originally I wanted to include Zabuza/Haku development, but that'll have to be in a later chapter. I did make a hint at the end from Haku, and it ties into the next two chapters or so. Will make sure that Naruto revisits Wave later on, since the reason I added the arc was because it had some relevance to my canon divergence! Glad ya enjoyed!

What did you guys think overall? (This chapter, or the Wave arc in general) I sorta had a vision of something like this happening when I decided to add the Wave arc. Obviously, it's a little different from what I intended, and I don't know if it fully captured what I wanted, but it's probably my favourite chapter so far.

Glad ya liked it. I got them confused with Gozu and Meizu, thinking they were B-ranked threats, and since they specialised in Kenjutsu I thought it would show Naruto's progress. Do you think this version is better? Its a bit more focused on humour, even if the result is the same

Once again, sorry for deleting and reuploading the chapter. I definitely wouldn't have received any mercy on what the Naruto vs Waraji and Zori fight was previously.

Yup, it was actually why I decided to use the word ^^

Yup, sorry about that! There was a little problem with one of the scenes in the chapter and I had a big misunderstanding about the samurai (Waraji and Zori) and their strengths. Just fixed the chapter now, so will republish it. Sorry about that

I answered it in another comment, but the name was a play on Naruto often being associated with foxes, and Inari being the name of the God of foxes. Tbh the first half of the chapter (specifically the parts where Naruto was struggling to forgive) should have been included in the previous chapter since it was a continuation of Kakashi's apology. Had quite a few comments on the ending of last chapter (with Naruto just accepting the apology) and comments on this chapter (with Naruto's sudden perspective) and it overall being a bit choppy. So next time this issue hopefully won't occur.

That's understandable, but my goal was for him to come across as struggling to teach Genin-level ninja. ANBU IIRC usually involves Chunin/Jonin level ninja which means they would have a much more solid understanding of techniques and the basics. It would be like a university professor teaching GCSE students, they might know how to do it, but the knowledge and methods wouldn't be the same. Could change it to make it clearer if need be, so more like he is adapting the methods he learnt in ANBU to Genin-level?