To Sasuke, Itachi was both Mother and Father as well as older brother. Oneshots of a world where Fugaku and Mikoto died fighting against the Kyuubi during the Kyuubi attack. Not all will be in Chronological Order.
Young Hashirama and Madara - whose first friendship has not yet broken up - end up in the future thanks to Konohamaru. Rather than having been brought somewhere sensible, some time where they could run into people who actually knew them in life, they're skipped past all that and land in the reign of the Nanadaime; which may as well be an alien world as far as they're concerned.
Sasuke and Naruto discover that they're distant cousins after they both activate the Sharingan on the bridge in Wave. Family is family, and they won't let anything happen to the only family they have left, even if they want to strangle each-other.
The marriage contract made with the Uzumaki at Konoha's Founding was supposed to have been a symbolic gesture on the Uchiha's part. Then Itachi got desperate to stop the Massacre, and the Hokage decided to take advantage of the situation in order to get Naruto an Unpaid caretaker who can't quit. The very straight Uchiha Itachi is now stuck as "Mrs. Uzumaki" for the next five years.
Rather than finding himself in the afterlife when he'd sacrificed his life to help defeat Kaguya, Obito woke up to find himself in the past. Needing a new purpose in life, the not-entirely-reformed Obito decides to make it up to Naruto for having destroyed the boy's life the day he was born and give him the happiest childhood ever. If it costs a few lives along the way, too bad.
A pair of shinobi come up with a rather novel way of shirking Naruto watching duty when one of them learns the minimum requirements for enrollment in Konoha's Ninja Academy.
Fugaku gets one of the things he's wanted for the longest time, and realizes he's come out the worse in the bargain ("Damn you Sarutobi!"). Not only does he have to deal with his clan and a suspicious village that isn't ready to let bygones be bygones after only five years, but there's also some time travelers whose carefully laid plans have just been shot to hell running around...
Naruto thinks it's a birthday surprise gone badly wrong which will only end when he finds where his birthday present has been hidden. Boruto and Himawari are desperate to get back to their own time. And, thanks to a misunderstanding, Hyuuga Hiashi is torn between arranging a shotgun wedding between Naruto and his twelve year-old daughter Hinata, or just using the shotgun on Naruto.
Despite certain abilities, the Original Non-Duplicate Nanadaime Hokage Uzumaki Naruto is seen in his office alone with all his paperwork with nary a clone in sight when one would expect him to have spammed the place with the things and gotten his paperwork done in five minutes. This is why that was the case.
Senju Hashirama, Konoha's first Hokage, has a village to run. If people would just get out of his way and let him that is. And, who the heck is this Uzumaki Naruto character they keep mentioning anyway?
Obito finds that he's not above a bit of petty revenge when he steals something from Kakashi that he knows that the man will dearly miss out of spite. Three somethings actually. Three somethings whose names happen to be Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura who are now the unwilling students of "Tobi" and unwilling Genin of Amegakure after having been taken while returning home from Wave.
Thanks to a bit of Grand Theft Automobile, Dumbledore's meddling, and some wards that were working a little too well, Little Whinging has a new Police Constable who is all of ten years old.
Done for Rorschach's Blot's Things I'd Like to See in a Fic list #692. Thanks alot man. Why did that have to stick in my head and give me Ideas? Now I need an obliviate and so will any readers. Either that, or several gallons of Brain Bleach. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Despite the fact that the job was practically a sinecure, the Uchiha officers of the Konoha Military Police Force didn't just hang around drinking coffee and snacking on doughnuts. Even though they didn't particularly care for Konoha's other residents, they had a job to do. And, as a matter of pride, they did it well. Even when it took them to the darkest places...
When Naruto left the village for the first time on the mission to guard the bridge builder Tazuna, he ended up finding something unexpected across the battlefield...a living relative.
Kakashi was a bit late to fill out a bit of paperwork, and Tetsuo manages to keep Naruto as his student and gain that year's Rookie of the Year and Top Kunoichi. With what he sees as a potential dream team, or at least one that won't drag Naruto down, he decides to prepare them for the Winter Chunin Exams that are coming up in two months. Diverges from First Try Chapter 11.
Harry rather complicates his life and unwittingly gets revenge on his relatives when he sends out a letter addressed to "A Blood Relative Who Isn't Petunia or Dudley" and a former follower of Grindelwald who'd just gotten out of prison and was looking for a place to stay receives it.
Un traduzione del mio racconto "Underwear the Cat" che ho fatto. Summario: Naruto ha incontrato il Kyuubi del suo compleanno quarto e ha presumato che era un regalo dal Hokage.
Dumbledore wasn't the only one with plots within plots running during the fight against Voldemort. Though young, another Gryffindor had his own plans for improving the world running, his own ideas how that would come to be, his own unwitting weapon to hone, and his own sacrifices to make for a Greater Good. (Oneshot).
Faced with a choice between employing Umbridge and employing a man who technically didn't even apply for the position and wasn't even a wizard in the first place, Dumbledore chooses the option of Not Umbridge. During his Fifth year, Harry is confronted with a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor who doesn't want to hurt or kill him, but might anyways when he destroys the school.
When a young Auror recruit badmouths a certain Potions Professor, he learns exactly why the Aurors thought that the man was practically the greatest thing since sliced bread despite his character flaws which were too numerous to count. To them, Snape's "Winning" personality was a gift that kept on giving (and not in the venereal disease sense of the phrase).
When Naruto decides to skip past the Kage Bunshin and picks another jutsu to learn from the Forbidden Scroll, Madara - who'd dearly love to kill the brat - is left scrambling to salvage his plans.
Obi-Wan ends up with a different group as an Initiate, which leaves Qui-Gon with a problem he has little success in correcting after he takes him on as his Padawan. A problem that Anakin is stuck dealing with the entire time he knows the man, and Luke deals with like his father before him. Drabbles and oneshots which are not in chronological order.
Little Harry Potter encounters the Winter Soldier under what were quite possibly the most ludicrous circumstances possible during the Winter Soldier's Summer from Hell. A Summer from Hell that Harry might've been indirectly responsible for...
Ever since that day in 1973 when all eyes were on Magneto, a certain law pretty much became completely unnecessary. Unfortunately, the wizards didn't get the memo...
A fact about Magneto that shouldn't really be so shocking when one really stops to think about it comes to light. Charles takes the opportunity to twist the knife a bit, and to once again try to persuade his old friend turned enemy that he is on the wrong path. Unintended consequences naturally ensued.
When James and Lily visit a fertility clinic in 1979 in order to help nature take its course, they end up bringing a certain eleven year-old boy home with them for the Summer. As a result, Harry ends up with a "Big Brother" who - despite being a muggle - could potentially make Voldemort look like an abject failure.
Uzumaki Naruto. Loud, determined to never quit, dreams of becoming Hokage someday and Sasuke's bestest friend in the whole wide world. Oh, and did I mention that he's also furry, nine-tailed, and the unwitting jailor of his father the Kyuubi no Yoko?
They've got blonde hair and blue eyes and, thanks to a client who'd wanted to hedge his bets when it came to the protection of his daughter, they're posing as sisters at an all girl boarding school that isn't exactly what it seems on it's placid surface. Oh, and did I mention that they're both male and one's in the Akatsuki and the other's a certain Jinchuriki we all know and love?
When's an affair not an affair? When it starts out as a Tenza of course. After a surprisingly young looking Harry Potter deals with Voldemort, events lead him to the Doctor's side and a certain Time Lord finds out that he has a preternaturally intelligent child that has about another fifty years before he hits puberty to deal with.
Everything's over but the babies, and a couple of the dead who've been returned to the afterlife have decided to alleviate their boredom by seeing who was who before they were them.
In which Naruto has a different father or several. And, also in which Orochimaru often runs semi-legitimate fertility experiments in order to cover up his genetic experiments. (unconnected Oneshots with a different father for Naruto in each)
Sequel to Time Mixup. Jiraiya, Tenzo, Kakashi and Gaara have to teach a mentally twelve year-old Godaime Hokage Uzumaki Naruto how to be a Kage in order to preserve a fragile peace that could shatter at any sign of weakness while a forcibly time-shifted older Naruto, his prankster proteges Sasuke and Neji, and some buddies from Iwa get to wreak havoc on yet another timeline.
In which the Chancellery Guard Andred falls in love over the course of a single planetary invasion, rashly marries, and discovers that his beautiful savage Leela comes with a bit of black-haired, green-eyed baggage named Harry that she and the Doctor had picked up from a doorstep on Privet Drive during a cold November night in 1981. Baggage that he's now partially responsible for.
After he and his team have an accident with the Fountain of Youth, the now two year-old Naruto somehow manages to save the day. Melting Gaara's heart with his cuteness and inspiring others to do good and to defeat Orochimaru and the Akatsuki along the way
The Attack on Hogwarts in January 1941 should've been prevented. It wasn't however. After the students are sent home for their safety, the Doctor finds himself dealing with a certain boy with the initials T.M.R. who'd been living on the streets with Nancy's gang after he sneaks aboard the TARDIS through a door Rose left open. Set after The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances.
Clara learns the hard way that it isn't always advisable to snag a free sample that's on offer, and Danny Pink learns that he's willing to put up with weird - very, very, weird with a side of alien - for Clara.
A year after Oopa's father is wished back to life, 13 year old Goku wishes for his own father to return to him. As they say, be careful what you wish for...
Clark Kent and Clark Kent trade places for a week. It would seem like an interesting vacation for the both of them, seeing as their lives are rather different at that point. There's just one small problem however. A problem named Lana Lang. Either that, or Martha Kent...
When the Eleventh Doctor has a little adventure in "the rainbow guy's" territory, he runs into Harry Sullivan who decides to solve one of the Doctor's problems the way many doctors do nowadays.
Bright, brilliant, eye-searing, and serving a purpose that far too many had ignored much to their detriment could be some ways to describe the 6th Doctor's outfit.
It had to be fate that the U.S.S. Troutbridge's crew included an avid angler named Stanton, a Navigator named Phillips who caused more destruction to Starfleet property than every war they'd been involved in to that point combined, and one of the rather extensive Pertwee clan who was naturally there to follow family tradition and make a profit at Starfleet's expense amongst others.
There had to be a rational explanation for how and why a dart had ended up in Jamie's backside despite the fact that he hadn't been anywhere near the dartboard.
Growing tired of his old apprentice and becoming a bit too impatient to wait for Luke to come to him since he isn't getting any younger, the Emperor decides to go looking elsewhere for an apprentice. Unfortunately for him, things don't quite go to plan.
The three-hundred years the Doctor spent running from his death at Lake Silencio wasn't all fun and games. For one, there was that time loop his Seventh self had stumbled upon which needed closing...
There was a reason that Lethbridge-Stewart didn't shoot the Doctor when he met him in the London Underground despite his somewhat shady behavior. A reason he was willing to believe him about the TARDIS, and to go along with several men in order to retrieve it during The Web of Fear. That reason was the Party Wagon. (Series of related oneshots not in Chronological Order)
Nobody in SG-1 is who they seem to be, or are they?...Just kidding. Colonel O'Neill came up with a game after reading some Wormhole X-Treme! fan fiction, and the rest of SG-1 decided to play along.
Harry and Hermione try to introduce muggle paper and ballpoint pens to Hogwarts only to end up running headfirst into the reason behind the tradition of using parchment and quills.
When the Longbottoms were killed taking out Voldemort on a certain Halloween night, Harry Potter became the Child of Prophesy by default. There was just one little hitch however...Dumbledore should've learned not to mess with Ron's friends.
Adopted with permission from RuneWitchSakura. When a pair of lunatics who've dragged their minder across the country turn up on Harry Potter's doorstep babbling about magic, Harry finds himself on a new career path. Despite the fact that he'd rather be an Astronaut, Harry will be spending the next seven years training to be a Minder at the asylum known as Hogwarts. Random Oneshots.
A Harry Potter who's a full-blooded member of a certain two-hearted, cold-blooded species of Crocodillian descent from a certain planet whose name starts with a G and rhymes with Mallifrey ends up on the Dursley's doorstep. He ends up having a much happier life there than he normally would've due to the fact that he "Isn't people".
When the surviving members of the Konoha 12 plus Sai wake up to find themselves in the past, and that their future would be there waiting for them when they got home, they decide to have some fun. If Past Konoha gets trashed in the process, well...
Auror Harry Potter runs into the Tenth Doctor during School Reunion, however, matters are slightly complicated by the fact that a future incarnation of the Doctor is Harry's mother. During a couple adventures together, Harry gets to know one of the parents he lost.
After Kakashi inadvertently slips up, Sasuke and Sakura discover who Naruto's parents were. Sasuke refuses to believe that Naruto is the son of the Fourth Hokage despite all of the evidence he gathers that points to that fact.
For those who wanted the Chicken Chapter from The Consequences of Drunken Experiments to become its own story. Things go off into left field and the Uchiha Massacre gets derailed when the giant chicken that an intoxicated Orochimaru created escapes and a young Naruto finds it.
Agents from departments that are forced to pinch pennies express their displeasure over the fact that the BAU gets their own airplane in a most creative fashion.
The funny thing about flitting through time is that your adventures tend to be connected in ways you don't and possibly will never realize. This time, the connection is Osgood, though which one could be up for debate.
There is something that the Doctor is saving up for when his twelfth (technically thirteenth) self comes into being, since he knows that he'll use them up practically all in one go.
Back when the First Doctor was getting used to wearing trousers after a lifetime of wearing robes on Gallifrey, a chance encounter outside of a pub causes a major change to the Doctor's wardrobe. Jamie would probably be proud...
Following the excitement in the London Underground, the Doctor and his companions turn up on an Australian beach in a more familiar 21st century and have a near encounter with the Enemy of Monsanto.
If Leader Clent had been a little less stupid and remembered a certain McGuffin, he could've saved himself a bit of trouble towards the end of a certain pointless conflict that had had everyone running around stupidly for about a week, and some lives might've been saved on both sides.
Even if Lily's parents had survived the war, Dumbledore wouldn't have given Harry to them for the very same reason that the Evanses had been proud to have a witch in the family.
Sergeant Benton and the Doctor are out testing Bessie's new Anti-theft equipment. As with everything the Doctor does, the Master just has to interfere...
The Author has found herself magically transported to Middle-Earth this time. Naturally, since she's now an elfling, life should be happy, happy, joy, joy. Or not...
The Fellowship encounter a young maiden who is wandering alone. This maiden then promptly latches onto Legolas, much to the amusement of his companions.
When the Sandaime makes the mistake of telling a young Naruto about his mother, the boy jumps to certain conclusions. Matters aren't helped when Asuma realizes that this is the perfect opportunity to prank his father. Now, Naruto wants to be like his father the Hokage...The Sandaime Hokage.
Side Story to The Demon and the Dead Man, set during Chapter 22. After Kakashi causes an incident that results in Naruto releasing some of the Kyuubi's Chakra, adventures abound when Naruto and team are sent on a mission that has them running back and forth across the continent.
Four different people from four different time-lines travel to the past for various reasons, and end up in the same time-line upon which they wreak havoc. Follow the adventures of the "time traveling" Naruto, Kakashi, Jiraiya, and Tenzo.
When Sasuke's innocence in a certain matter is compromised prior to the Massacre, he has a decision to make. As everyone knows, Sasuke had always been closer to Itachi than to anyone else, up to and including his parents...
The painting of the fall of Arcadia obviously couldn't have been the actual fall of Arcadia, otherwise all hell would've broken loose in the Black Archive when the Doctors exited the painting, which begs the question of where the heck did the Doctors get the Dalek they used to break out of the painting in the first place?
It is only after one comes down from the high of having done a good deed that the potential consequences begin to hit. Spoiler for the 50th Anniversary Special.
Tag to Silver Nemesis. There are several reasons to follow someone. Fear is one, a very powerful one, but there is another that is much more powerful, and one doesn't necessarily preclude the other. After all, he did save her when he didn't have to...
As it has been pointed out before, the Fourth Doctor had regenerated after falling from a much shorter height than the Tenth Doctor had fallen during The End of Time, and he hadn't fallen through a glass ceiling during the process either...
The actual Police Officers who have to deal with him however, not so much...Then again, things going wonky makes for good television, but isn't so good when you have to stand in front of your superior and explain exactly what happened to the car and how the cameraman who'd been riding along with you got so banged up. Random Oneshots Not in Chronological Order.
The Doctor had only stopped to let Barbra and Ian out for some fresh air. He most definitely hadn't expected or wanted three naked strangers to break into his TARDIS the minute he did so.
The Brigadier narrowed his choice of U.N.I.T. Scientific Advisor down to two candidates, both of whom worked at Cambridge. He picks one, and then the Doctor arrives, destroying Ian Chesterton's hopes for a reasonably quiet assignment when he finds himself stuck in the role of the Doctor's assistant instead.
Holmes visits Lestrade upon his return from his three-year sabbatical and learns that the Inspector is a bit miffed by and has been busy during his departure.
Sometimes life imitates art. Sometimes art imitates life. Sometimes both have identical names for similar things, but...Well, let's just say that the Doctor can't appreciate some Monty Python sketches because they remind him of incidents he'd rather forget.
The afterlife wasn't quite what Boba Fett expected, nor was the second chance at happiness he'd been given. He now has a new life to live with a new family, Harry Potter and the Weasleys. Can he be a parent to Harry when he himself is physically a child?
Due to a moment of inattentiveness on his first C-Rank, Uchiha Itachi aged 7 loses the very individual he should be watching. Hopefully he can get his pint-sized diaper-clad charge back before anyone realizes that he's missing...Meanwhile, Uzumaki Naruto aged 2 is having the time of his life as he explores the world around him and makes friends with the Konoha wildlife.
It is up to the B.A.U. to determine if a pair of teenagers who were apprehended at the scene of a recent murder are just a pair of kids who'd stumbled into the wrong place at the wrong time or a pair of LARPing thrill killers. The young Doctor and young Master who haven't yet taken those names just want to retrieve their stolen TARDIS and get the hell out of there.
With all the soldiers that the War Chief was having scooped up from random eras, odds were that he managed to snag a few non-standard enlistees. Enlistees who might just happen to be resistant to mind-control and have the ability to disappear and re-appear elsewhere at will.
The tale of what might have happened if Goku had been slightly less injured on the day of his battle with the Demon King Piccolo and decided to follow a certain flying egg.
At Wave, it is discovered that Naruto has the Sharingan, and everything goes off into left field from there. Especially after Sasuke and Naruto discover that the Uchiha clan has been cursed to be continually reborn as rats. One of two stories about Naruto with the Sharingan which diverge at Chapter 9. If you want the story without the Uchiha rats, see Uzumaki and Uchiha.
Star Wars in a universe where Anakin and Padme had a few more children than were expected. Features a Good A'Sharad Hett and a Closet Rebel Vader. Owen and Beru live.
Rather than trying to break out of Azkaban like any sane person would do, Harry and Ron are trying to break in. The reason for this is because their friend Hermione was convicted by a kangaroo court and sentenced to more than two hundred years. The two of them are willing to do anything to get her out, and time is running out because Voldemort will be coming for his minions soon.
Recently discovered to be Grandson to Jareth King of the Goblins, young Harry who had been named Jareth at birth reclaims his heritage and goes to Hogwarts where he is forced to deal with the machinations of one Albus Dumbledore and a general lack of acceptance by a world that's mostly prejudiced against "Half-breeds".
After Izuna's adventure ends, he and Madara go to another world to search for the Sage of the Six Paths' hidden legacy. What they find is a cursed job, another branch of the family, and that they're stuck there for a year.
Thanks to a seal gone wrong, Senju Hashirama and company - including a still living Uchiha Izuna - have ended up in the age of Rokudaime Hokage Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto, and Naruto has ended up at the beginning of the Shodai Hokage's reign. AU
Having been raised by his Uncle Genesis in a world where Philosopher's Stones are something between rather common and an annoyance that can seriously back up the plumbing, Harry can't understand why someone would want to guard one, much less steal it.
In one world: Obito died saving his teammates. Konoha's Original Hyperactive Knuckle-headed Unpredictable Ninja Uchiha Tobi is Naruto's caretaker, and Uchiha Madara is the driving force behind the Akatsuki, still alive and running around doing his own dirty work despite his advanced age. Both men share the same body, and both try to live their lives despite this fact.
He knew that smile which he'd kill to see again, that laugh he'd kill to hear again, that attitude he'd once considered disgraceful. Though he didn't know it when he'd brought the child who had them now home with him, it would be through that child that his son would be returned to him.
In which Karin was still a Genin of Kusagakure when she ran into Naruto during the Exams and accidentally derails Orochimaru's plans. Also in which Naruto is forced to fend off Karin's attempts at restoring the Uzumaki Clan. Naturally, all of this is complicated by the events and people surrounding them.
Despite the fact that Hyuuga Hiashi and Hyuuga Hizashi were probably on one of the most renown teams in Konoha history, learning under Jiraiya of the Sannin alongside Namikaze Minato himself, they were never going to say a single word about it. As far as they were concerned, they'd never been Genin, and anyone who said otherwise was lying.
Getting expelled from Smeltings was probably the best thing to happen to Vernon. Finishing her Nursing degree was probably the best thing to happen to Petunia. In this universe, Harry Potter is left on the doorstep of a very different Dursley family.
A rewrite of the scene in The Five Doctors in which the Castellan is killed that takes a Time Lord's ability to regenerate into account. After all, the dude went Bang Thump, not Bang Thump, Bang Thump, Bang Thump, Bang Thump, Bang Thump...
There was a reason you could pretty much tell which House a kid belonged to just by looking at them by the time Harry Potter arrived at Hogwarts. Fortunately, The Doctor arrived and corrected the problem.
There has to be a good reason for why just about every hostile force in the universe has come gunning for a certain small blue planet in the middle of nowhere and its inhabitants, right?
Resistance is futile. It'll eventually get you, even if it takes centuries to do so. So, you may as well grab some Jelly Babies and dance along because it's the Hamster Dance!
It was just like The Doctor to take advantage of little things like a paved road that mysteriously ran through the Death Zone on Gallifrey without once bothering to wonder what the hell it was doing there, or how many men had died to put it there... Various drabbles and oneshots on the lives of the brave Time Lords who put that road there just so one car could drive down it.
In which the Tenth Doctor gets parts to a Time Rotor that were just sitting there, the Third Doctor gets his ass handed to him by himself, and the First Doctor is too clever by half.
Once again he'd run leaving the words unspoken, and once again he'd lost someone dear to him because he just couldn't say them to her face. Three simple words, and he just couldn't get them past his lips, couldn't use them to take what he wanted for himself. Once again, she was claimed by someone else, and there was just the long trip back to the TARDIS.
A few hours can be the difference between the funny story about how your mother went into labor while shopping for biscuits and "Cleanup on aisle 7". A few hours can also lead to a different name and a different life as a result. Unfortunately for Tesco James Potter, there's a prophesy he has to fulfill before he can live as he wants to: Well away from any lunatic wizards.
It was only after the adventure was over that the Doctor had gotten a chance to stop and think about the strangeness that was Paradise Towers. When he did, he realized that there was something, that he quite frankly should've and would've spotted earlier if he hadn't picked up a habit of occasionally looking without seeing. Tag to Paradise Towers, Season 24 eps. 5-8.
There was a reason the Doctor tended to be disappointed when he discovered that he wasn't a ginger after he regenerated. The Doctor didn't just want to be a ginger, he was waiting for something special that would happen when he was one.
The TARDIS went one way, and the TARDIS went the other way, passing itself coming and going through the border of an alternate universe. While his alternate Second self screwed around at Amy and Rory's during the Slow Invasion, the Doctor got to stroll down memory lane and relive one of his early adventures with Amy and Rory at his side.
A missile hits 10 Downing Street, and about the only part of the building to survive is a cupboard that remains miraculously intact, shielding the people within. Strange and miraculous. But, with the Doctor around, there's a simple answer for why. One wonders why UNIT puts up with him when he does these things though...
The Doctor is at a carnival. He's on a date, having fun with companions after a harrowing adventure, on a date, on an outing with his granddaughter, and on a date. Things are sure to be interesting.
After receiving anxiously awaited instructions from a later incarnation of the Doctor, UNIT dutifully attempts to follow them to the best of their abilities.
The Doctor finds one of his near-forgotten toys, and decides to go for a short trip in it despite the fact that it isn't the sort of thing that people picture his current incarnation driving.
There was a reason the Hogwarts students knew nothing of the actual Hogwarts graduation ceremony, much as they knew nothing of the Sorting, despite the fact that just about every adult witch or wizard has gone though it. If they knew, nobody would turn up.
When people talk about Kakashi's greatness as a ninja, they mention how he graduated Konoha's Ninja Academy at the age of 5 and made Chunin at the age of 6, carefully leaving out what came afterward...
The war is over. Seeing as the Godaime has once again suffered a crippling injury, it is once again time to pick the next Hokage. Sasuke has put his name in as has Naruto...
In Psi-Corps, there is a worse punishment than being transferred to the MetaPol station in Siberia. After an accident involving Bester and a can of paint, Sergei and his partner Ralph have pulled that particular punishment duty and are now stuck in an office that's roughly the size of a broom closet and forced to field all calls made to the fictional "Officer Williams".
After witnessing a visit from a future Hokage and an Academy graduating class, and learning how future history remembers him, Sasuke decides to change his life and model himself and his clan after the greatest person the Uchiha Clan ever produced...Obito. AU in which Obito had the temerity to go and die at thirteen before Madara dug his claws into him amongst other things...
Sasuke inadvertently imitates the First Hokage when he steals the Second Hokage's scroll of prank Jutsu from Naruto, and learns a jutsu that's "Guaranteed to stop any enemy in his tracks". Upon seeing it confuse the enemy, and not seeing how it does so, he uses it again and again... Short oneshots, not in chronological order.
It is an established fact that Valin "Hal" Horn was 10 when his father left to fight in the Clone Wars in 22 BBY. It is also an established fact that Horn was already a CorSec officer when his son Corran was born in 18 BBY. There's no way in hell that people didn't notice his age, even though he had Jedi powers. Which begged the question of exactly how he got away with it.
An infant Naruto was brought to Iwagakure where he was raised ignorant of his origins and heritage. Like his canon counterpart, he too wants to protect his village, gain acknowledgement, and become a Kage. Answer to Hecktols' Stolen Hero Challenge.
Humorous moments in the lives of Goku and his twin sister, including Chi-Chi's irrational suspicions and Raditz's reaction to Gohan before he gets the whole story. Various oneshots, not in Chronological order.
Following the official First Contact, Mestral and a survivor of a prior science vessel crash who have hitched a ride aboard the T'Plana-Hath trade stories on their way home.
An Obito who's grown tired of listening to the guards rehash their opinions of exactly what was wrong with him as he awaits his trial goes back over his reasons for having joined Madara in the first place.
A comment Harry makes to one of his friends knocks McGonagall for a loop because, once again, something that should be impossible has happened either to or around Harry.
When something completely unpredictable that could end up destroying any number of plans and land two of them into serious trouble happens, three shinobi end up faking one of the most significant events in Konoha's history.
It has been three years since Team 7 broke apart and each member went their own way. Now, the Akatsuki are on the move, as is Orochimaru, and things become more complicated as problems at home arise and threaten to distract everyone from their duties at a most critical time. Sequel to First Try: Team 7
In a world where everyone but Madara and Obito got their happily-ever-after, Sasuke decides he wants a bit of closure, and like an idiot, Naruto decides to help him. After-all, when are such things ever so simple with one whose main goal in life is to get revenge?
A simple game of Cops 'n Blips changes everything for one Alfie Bester when he gets to play a cop and the blips run for a different target. Decades later, he gets a chance to see exactly how much everything had changed for him. Sometimes the last person you ever want to meet is the you who took the road you didn't...
I wrote this as a reward for DireSquirrel who found something I'd been looking for for me. The combined Shinobi army was defeated and Madara had implemented his Moon's Eye Plan. What the world became afterward however was completely unexpected...
What if there was a good reason for why Molly had steered her brood over to Harry at the King's Cross station and started treating Harry as if he were her own child without consulting him first? What if there was a very good reason for why seeing Harry dead was a prospect she dreaded as much as the thought of seeing one of her own children dead?
Another idea borrowed from Rorschach's Blot's list of things he'd like to see in a fic. It just seemed such an Obito thing to do. And, a Naruto thing to do for that matter as well...
Instead of asking why Obito had joined Madara and was trying to destroy the world - Konoha included -, Kakashi is convinced he knows. Much to his mortification, Obito - who wants Kakashi to pay for what he did to Rin - has to convince his former teammate that his assumptions in the matter are badly mistaken before he can tell him the true reason.
In one timeline Robert April becomes the first captain of the Starship Enterprise. In another, he loses everything and spirals towards his destruction. All it takes to change everything is the destruction of a single starship.
Captain Kirk gets a chance to meet the father he never knew when a George Kirk from an alternate timeline is aboard a vessel that comes out of a certain anomaly.
After the first four Hokages are mysteriously returned to life, Konoha has to deal with the fact that they now have five Hokages, amongst other things. AU in which a perpetually drunk Madara lives long enough to do his own dirty work in the lead-up to the 4th Shinobi World War and Hashirama and Tobirama's personalities got swapped.
There are three facts that may or may not be related. 1. While seeking revenge, Nero focused on Spock almost to the exclusion of all else despite the fact that the Vulcan High Council could arguably be given some of the blame. 2. When Spock surrendered to Nero, he almost seemed to recognize him. 3. Sybok had wandered loose around the galaxy for decades before he died.
When the President of Earth put out a call for volunteers for a final stand at the end of the Earth-Mimbari war, not all of those who answered that call were as young as they appeared.
Alfred Bester had known for a long time that war between the telepaths and the mundanes would be coming. In one universe, he picks a rather creative and surprisingly logical manner in which to ensure that the telepaths came out on top, and dedicates his life to making sure it happens when the time finally came.
In which the author is given a lesson on why keeping in shape is a good idea, and why the Doctor's constantly choosing small skinny women as companions was more of a practicality than anything.
Who knew that bringing marijuana onto the station would create such chaos? Who knew that there were Hippie Shadows? Who knew what would happen when a Labor Law attorney was put in a Shadow vessel? Certainly not the Shadows. Certainly not Sheridan.
There was a time when Man wasn't the only sentient species on Earth. That time ended nearly a thousand years ago when a war in the stars came to the Sol system.
Ask any member of the Bane family how it got its start, and they'll tell you of how the matriarch of the family had stolen a great treasure. But, as we all know, there are two sides to every story...
Shortly after the station opens for business, Commander Sinclair and Security Chief Michael Garibaldi have a brief discussion about what has happened to a section of the station.
When little Bester misses out on a certain rite of passage, he becomes focused on something else and pursues it with the intensity that Bester pursues just about everything with. And, as with every universe in which Babylon 5 exists, when it comes to Bester, Garibaldi's the one who ends up taking it up the...
When Karin tries to call a certain someone out for using a certain family name shortly before the beginning of the first phase of the Chunin Exams, she gets a bit of a surprise, as we all know that he's the real thing.
An alternate Sarek meets Amanda story. Sarek - not knowing what he's getting himself into - decides to teach at a Pre-school attached to the Elementary School Amanda teaches at. Amanda helps him deal with the little monsters he has to teach.
AU, After several centuries, the Council finally closes a loophole in the code and decides to set an example to teach the Padawans that certain actions have consequences. Unfortunately for Obi-Wan, he's that example!
Idea from Rorschach's Blot's 101 things I'd like to see in fanfiction list. During the Invasion of Konoha, Sarutobi "goes ape". But, then again, part of his family name was "Monkey".
After he made his wish on a star, Hashirama got his best friend back, Team "Serious Issues" got a chance to rise in a new era, and Naruto found friendship and later love in an unusual, unexpected, and some may say wrong, place, when Naruto, Madara, Kakashi, Gai, and Obito end up in the past because of a Jutsu accident. Being written for and co-written with Flareose.
With two wars, the aftermath of the Kyuubi attack, the Uchiha Massacre and the invasion of Konoha, the Sandaime had had an exciting and eventful time in office. Throughout that term, he had to frequently remind those under his command that they were ninja not hooligans.
Prequel to Naruto's BFF. Madara tries to free the Kyuubi early. Things go south for him when he compliments Kushina's hair, and she decides that it is love at first sight. Madara is soon forced to defend his chastity from his would-be suitor.
"Have you never dipped little Suzy's curls in ink?" is a rather unusual question to ask three centuries after the invention of the ball-point pen, and more than two after just about everything went paperless but, James Kirk had asked it. The question that remains is how did something like that end up on the list of pranks that the Captain of the Enterprise had pulled in his youth?
Someone decides to give Sasuke a second chance. On the night after the Bell Test, Sasuke is visited by the Ghosts of Uchiha Past, Uchiha Present, and Uchiha Future.
What if Palpatine had been given much stronger precognitive abilities back when he was young, back in the days when all he cared about were racing and pissing off his father? If he'd known how much work becoming Supreme Ruler of the Galaxy would be back during his teenage years, would he have even bothered?
Honestly, Obi-Wan probably hadn't needed to change his name when he moved to Tatooine. It wasn't like he would've been caught or anything if he hadn't...
Team 5 Oneshot: In the early days when the team was starting to come together, Naruto finds a D-Rank he likes and Tetsuo finds a reason to teach other than making his wife happy.
An act of kindness from the wrong person at the wrong time has the potential to cause a disaster of unprecedented proportions. Being a martyr was in Naruto's blood, all he really needed was a cause.
Due to a quirk of fate, Naruto passes the Academy Graduation Exam on his first try. Because of this, his life takes an interesting turn before he joins Team 7 after Kakashi poaches him from his sensei.
Mizuki's path to salvation hadn't all been roses. The man's thirst for power and respect didn't magically vanish with his decision not to betray Konoha, and old habits die hard. Companion to and expansion of the oneshot Salvation.
When Anakin or Padme or both can't or don't reproduce for whatever reason, Luke and Leia have to arrive in the galaxy by some other means. Here are some of the more interesting ways they did so. Some may become their own stories.
There were times when Naruto used his reputation for being incredibly dense to avoid awkward conversations and/or situations. Thankfully, when it came to one issue, Sasuke believed he really was that stupid and didn't question any further.
Obito ends up meeting his future self when he falls out of a swirling vortex into the field where he and his team are training. Naturally, there is horror, angst, and teenage moodiness on Obito's part.
Considering the fact that both sides believed that they were right, they would naturally believe that what they were doing was the right thing, and may even have similar reasons for doing what they were doing, and a shared inspiration.
You were born in pain, darkness, and hatred, and you will likely die the same way, but along the way, you just might save the world. That at least is what you keep telling yourself as the number of sacrifices it takes for your plans to come to fruition continues to mount.
For some, it would seem that reading Jiraiya's works leads to undesirable behavior. When Sai finds Jiraiya's only non-pornographic work at the library, there are a couple of small misunderstandings.
During the two months she had watched her eight year-old nephews, Marge Dursley discovered that Petunia was a pathological liar, Vernon had somehow been brainwashed by that no good b***h, Dudley was the spawn of Satan, and Harry was actually a good kid.
A year after Dumbledore, Black, the Lupins, and Harry Potter's parents revealed themselves to still be alive after the end of the Second War, Harry decides to get his revenge on them by inviting them to Rita Skeeter's new talk show so they could reveal themselves to the world as they really were and bring themselves down. On the set, the Wizarding World gets an unexpected surprise.
During a festival to celebrate Konoha's surviving its first Winter, the founders bring in a group of people from another universe where it's the future already. Things don't go quite as planned.
Crowley was never one to waste an opportunity, especially when the end is nigh, and a golden one was dropped in his lap before he was returned to Hell. It always all comes down to Free Will, and the consequences thereof.
After getting a bit of a late start in the Hunting business, Sam and Dean aren't just being pursued by FBI Agent Victor Henricksen. Gibbs and team want to know why one of their own left to go "hunting ghosts" as well.
Besides the usual problems with her department, BAU Section Chief Erin Strauss has devilishly tricky ones that're more up her cousins' alley to deal with. Problems, such as the demon in the BAU.
Oneshot side story to Team WHAT? !. While Dean was in Kansas getting his Grace back, Satan, I mean Sam, encountered the BAU team while hunting in California.
Before the time loop, there had to be an original timeline to be changed. A timeline in which certain time travelers didn't go persuading certain people to change their minds about certain vehicles at the last minute.
Two brothers, one older, one younger, both fighting on the side of good to take down supernatural bad guys who prey on humans. Thanks to a wrong turn in the Nevernever, there's now two sets of them.
Between Madara's death and his revival in Naruto's BFF, Naruto moved on and lived eight years of his life, during which, he grew up and became a ninja. Not necessarily in that order. Oneshots and Drabbles, not in Chronological Order.
While Naruto was dense, he shouldn't have been so oblivious as to not notice that an entire clan with at least a hundred members had suddenly vanished...
Sometimes things happen. Things such as Luke being wrapped in his sister's blanket when Obi-Wan Kenobi is ambushed and killed on the way to the Lars family farm. Things like a thirteen year-old Boba Fett finding him and deciding to keep him.
Izuna decides to experiment with his Mangekyo Sharingan and ends up in a world where his counterpart is a fratricidal ass who wanders around wearing an open shirt and a purple rope for a belt.
Nobody knew what Madara was up to in the time between being the Mizukage's puppet master and his first appearance as Tobi, until now that is. Unrelated Oneshots, multiple crossovers. AU.
The twins born to Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala were very much like their parents, even going so far as to follow similar career paths. The few people who knew them and their parents however sometimes wondered if something had been flipped.
Good, bad, and mediocre poems about all things Hogwarts. I tried to make most of them humorous. If there is anything related to Hogwarts you would like me to write about, ask and I will attempt it.
In one universe, Chancellor Palpatine boned up on the GAR Contingency Orders. In another, he wasn't nearly so studious despite the fact that they were - or rather one of them was - vital to his plans.
After an encounter with Luke six years after he witnessed the boy's birth, Fett takes Luke and Leia to raise as his own. Bail Organa eventually takes Leia back and erases her memories from when she was taken to when she was returned to him. Her lost memories return on the Death Star, leading up to a Star Wars with Luke and Leia as Bounty Hunters in the mold of their adoptive father
Harry had suspected that Vernon had a few skeletons in his closet, but hadn't thought they'd be anything like this. While Petunia did her best to hide the fact that she had a sister, Vernon did his best to hide the elder Mr. and Mrs. Dursley.
The Third Hokage muses on a four year-old Naruto's odd behavior as he watches the child run past the tower several times. His old friend Danzo - as always - has the answer.
Shortly after defeating Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter is summoned by Lily Evans Dursley to a universe in which the son of Petunia Evans and Peter Pettigrew became the Boy-Who-Lived.
Good old Shikon High where Kagome's pregnant, Kikyo is left wondering why people think she's Kagome's bitchy twin sister, Inuyasha can't decide what species he is, and Sesshomaru doesn't know whether he's a teacher or a student since he's apparently both.
A wiser and more experienced Naruto is forced onto a team he hadn't wanted to join in the first place. However, as they say, "Those who break the rules are trash. Those who abandon their teammates are worse than trash.". Sequel to First Try.
Thanks to a healing gone wrong in the Chamber of Secrets, Harry Potter is now a Basilisk. Able to turn into a "Human Harry shaped" Basilisk from sunrise to sunset, he tries to keep this a secret. How long until his secret gets out and the panic begins?
Sai meets Hikaru at a much earlier date. All he wants to do is play Go. However, he's going to have to earn his keep if he doesn't want the Shindo family to arrange for him to be exorcised. Features Babysitter!Sai.
If a situation can go both ways, it will. At every crossroads, a new universe is formed, and a person will always take the road not taken, even if they never see themselves do it. Tsunade makes a different choice, and there are consequences.
Orochimaru overhears a discussion about who his sensei's successor would be, and does what it takes to get ahead of Minato in the selection process. Unfortunately, he bites off a little more than he can chew.
A student tries to write a paper comparing and contrasting Romance Novels with the genre from which the Icha Icha series comes, but the characters and a novelist hijack the show.
Madara sometimes wondered why nobody got the joke when it came to his other name considering the fact that it was the sort of inside joke that the Akatsuki should be able to get.
A rather average Uzumaki Naruto from a world where the Kyuubi didn't attack is flung to a wide variety of universes where his life had gone very differently, and his father is left to deal with his counterparts who keep randomly appearing in his place.
After death, Gabriel finds himself in another universe where he finds a way to simultaneously get Castiel to take care of his vessel and light a fire under the Winchesters' asses to get them to work harder at stopping the Apocalypse. Nobody is amused.
There were several points along Bester's life where he could have run or stayed with the Corps. Here, he chose to run, for all the good it did him. Likely AU.
What if Chekov's brother Piotr from Day of the Dove hadn't entirely been a figment of the Original Pavel Chekov's imagination? It would solve a mystery surrounding the other Pavel after all.
Fate always found a way. Even if Kakarot died before leaving Planet Vegeta, there always would be a Son Goku grandson to Son Gohan to protect Earth. These are the stories of those who filled the role Kakarot would have had before Chance interfered.
Vernon can learn to be decent, all it takes is the death of the Boy-Who-Lived and several decades to see the consequences unfold. Vernon goes back to prevent 8 year-old Harry from dying in a fire that Petunia set intending to get the boy into trouble.
Fugaku and Mikoto return from their mini vacation in the capitol and learn exactly why the vast majority of the Uchiha clan survived the Kyuubi attack. Sequel to They Were Where?
Team 5 oneshot: After losing the traveling funds on their first C rank, Team 5 is forced to recoup their losses in a most creative manner. The things Naruto is willing to go through for his teammates...
Just a bunch of random Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z drabbles that I'll add to when I get the inspiration. Most should be humor like the Ken mixup and the "Boot thief".
Naruto confronts Kakashi about his blatant favoritism towards Sasuke, and the response Kakashi gives him was somewhat surprising. Kakashi was a ninja afterall.
Have you ever felt you were being squeezed to fit a role, crushed and boxed in to fit a life because the person who was meant to play the part and live that life wasn't there?
Harry Dresden is called to help out in a town he only remembers because Justin DuMorne had thrown him into the car and sped out of town at three times the posted speed limit after less than a day despite renting a room for a week. xover w/ Darkness Falls
This is what happens when I get a song stuck in my head. Pray it doesn't happen again, and that Bobby doesn't find out what Castiel had done with the rest of the Mustang GT. Based on the Jeff Foxworthy song.
After the French Mistake Dean discovers that he brought home Jensen's cell phone, and discovers a Youtube video that had somehow also come along for the ride.
After the French Mistake, Misha ends up somewhere unexpected, and the people back in his home universe get quite the surprise after the Supernatural Massacre.
A small excerpt from a tape made by young Dean and Sam Winchester in 1991 during a trip along the East Coast which included a short stop in a town called Darkness Falls.
There was a little something in Mestral's background that had left him more in touch with his emotions and more amenable towards interacting with the humans than his shipmates.
Sakura finds as scroll with a jutsu that allows you to see who you were in your last life in the library. The results for Naruto were interesting to say the least.
The Author wakes up in a world where she has roughly the same chances of survival as a snowball in Hell and isn't too happy about it. Especially now that she won't be able to use all that wonderful technology she doesn't quite know how to live without.
Gohan wasn't the first "Great Saiyaman" in the family. Follow the adventures of the first "Superhero" on a world that needed one like a submarine needs a screen door.
The mission to Wave goes a little bit differently when Naruto encounters a relative from his mother's side of the family that nobody knew he had. Chapters will be roughly drabble length or maybe a little longer.
Harry Potter inherits a vault belonging to a certain someone, and learns that his parents' marriage had not been quite what it seemed. However, it wasn't quite what Harry thought it was either.
Funny that nobody stops to consider exactly what the werewolf cubs Hagrid had been caught raising under his bed during his school days were or what might have happened to them.
Lily and James Potter come out of hiding so their son Alexander could fulfill the prophesy and defeat Voldemort. Things don't go as planned though, as they returned to the Wizarding World in 1999.
What if Jiraiya's choice that made the difference between sending his student down a path that led to peace or one that led to destruction was something that was seemingly small and inconsequential?
Sequel to A Small Tale from the Grand Epic Called History. This is the story where Thomas James Black - usually called Tom - with the help of Alastor Moody tries change the future for the better.
Drabble. Madara and a Hyuuga witness Hashirama trying out a jutsu on a scroll he'd "swiped" from his brother. The results of the jutsu were somewhat...interesting.
The Second Hokage invents a certain variant of the Henge and has a rather interesting misadventure that nearly scars him for life. The next person to use it has far more luck with it than he did.
After Giles is kidnapped by a fan, Buffy and the gang discover one of the demons' favorite pastimes, watching the goings on in the teacher's breakroom at Sunnydale High. What the teachers do out of the view of the students proves to be very entertaining.
After being driven from the Auror Corps after 14 years of exemplary service and one embarrassing failure, Holmes decides to move to the Muggle world for a while and turn his hobby to a profession. The Muggle Doctor John Watson aids him in his endeavors.
The name Harry was James' second choice. His first choice was the last name of another famous Harry. Sometimes it seems as if Harry Potter lives up to that name, even if he can't get himself out of a straightjacket without a wand.
The "ignorance" regarding muggle dress was mostly a sham. There was another reason that wizards, especially those from the older generations went out in such unusual attire when they were amongst muggles.
Like many tourists world-wide Wizards tend to take things they shouldn't. Unlike their Muggle counterparts however, the things they generally take are much larger and it's the job of many a frustrated Auror to see to it that the stolen items are returned.
Albus Dumbledore comes up with a novel way of dealing with those who come barging into the Harry Potter universe with the intention of changing things. They really should have been careful what they wished for, especially the older ones.
It was as if the Muggle and Wizarding Worlds were playing Musical Doorsteps with the Boy-Who-Lived, abandoning him on the front porches of homes where he would not be wanted.
In another universe, Spock accidentally discovers a way to get the "Red Matter" in time to save the Romulan Empire, and saves the Romulan Empire, and saves the Romulan Empire, and saves the Romulan Empire...
Ambassador Spock wonders about how the differences between his Enterprise and the one that his young counterpart serves aboard came to be. The tale isn't a happy one.
This was inspired by the last line of the Epilogue of the movie novelization where a certain beagle transports in out of nowhere. There's a supreme being looking out for the new Enterprise, and it isn't God or Satan either for that matter.
Kirk and Spock go to rescue McCoy from his least favorite task, leading the weekly meetings of the Aspergers Support Group whose members would generally rather be and most frequently are elsewhere.
Goten and Trunks wish someone back from the dead, and decide to use him in a prank during Goku's birthday party. Said person learns the hard way why no-one ever touches Goku's Chi-Chi, ever.
Han is given a translation of the local place names during a diplomatic mission, and ends up getting a lesson from Chewbacca about the true meaning of the word Kashyyyk.
Interuniversal Tours runs several tours of different universes a day, completely invisible to the inhabitants, in order to preserve the timeline of the universe visited. Unfortunately, Captain Pellaeon and Grand Admiral Thrawn can see and hear them.
Jango would be spinning in his grave if he knew that Boba left his little sister to be raised by the Jedi. But the fact remains, that Lena's at the Temple, and would like nothing more than to get out. Sequel to Little Sister.
The nanovirus released in Mandalore's atmosphere made Boba Fett and his granddaughter exiles, but what about all of the others who shared Jango Fett's blood?
Spock stands alone watching an ancient Starfleet Academy tradition, and fails to gain the understanding he seeks about this particular facet of his mother's culture.
Auror Alastor Moody arrests and tries to interrogate a strange boy who came from the future with an incredible story to tell. A story about a dark future where a betrayed Harry Potter destroyed the world. A story he plans to change. Sequel is up.
During Fifth year, Harry finds Ron trying to open the Chamber of Secrets. This is a more plausible explanation as to how Ron was able to open the Chamber at the end of Deathly Hallows.
Thanks to a mysterious phenomenon that had likely been caused by a highly evolved being, Alfred Bester is stuck in twentieth century San Francisco trying to help steal a pair of whales to save an Earth that isn't his while Pavel Chekov is stuck on Babylon 5 dealing with the rogue telepaths Bester should have been catching.
More than a hundred years before the Marauders were born, a group of students led by Albus Dumbledore and Sherlock Holmes held the title of Official Hogwarts Pranksters. First in a series about Sherlock Holmes, the Wizard and the Consulting Detective.
The Graveyard scene at the end of Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire with a twist. Harry wishes Voldemort away and the consequences thereof. Rated T for swearing. Not related to my other H.P./Labyrinth crossover.
Jango stared at the small pink bundle that had just been abandoned. The childcare holos had all agreed that a child needed some sort of companion to grow up with. He'd start on the adoption papers in the morning. Now to introduce her to Boba. AU Obviously
Salazar isn't usually in the mood to put up with Godric's idiot ideas, and today is no exception. He just wished that Godric had come up with it at some time other than dinner.
All Sai has ever wanted to do in almost every life is play Go, nothing will stop him, not even death. Hikaru and Akira find him in his newest incarnation and it's not what you'd expect.
On the backs of the cards given with Chocolate Frogs, there are pieces of the History of Magic that are far more interesting than anything Professor Binns teaches. Learn of the Light, Dark, Stupid, and Insane Wizards and Witches that make history great.
In PsiCorps reeducation is often a last resort. Only used once and never again. On the second time the subject is brought forth the subject is usually terminated. However, for someone as useful and powerful as Alfred Bester...