Looking back years, I can't even count how many NH (or Naruto in general) fanfics I had read with one or more of these...
- Naruto just suddenly finds out he has some hidden kekkei genkai.
- Naruto is treated like crap by literally everyone, except Hinatatas; even Hiruzen's kindness is just an act to control him and he's no different than Danzo.
- Kurama one day just decides to see Naruto like a son and trains him, or is female and confesses to Naruto who instantly reciprocates after a sob story.
- Hinatatas one day just decides to come out and confess to Naruto (with otherwise no change to her character, who would never do so under normal circumstances), and Naruto just instantly reciprocates her feelings.
- Minato and Kushina are still alive, but treat Naruto like crap for some reason, usually having a sibling who is given all the favoritism.
- Naruto is just abandoned at the Valley of the End after his fight with Sasuke and ends up trained by Itachi or some other super-powerful individual who just so happened to be passing through.
- Naruto is somehow sent back in time to before the main story and magically falls for Hinatatas after seeing her crush on him.
- Naruto just one day decides he's had enough and starts acting like an angry douchebag to people and suddenly starts owning everyone.
- Naruto reveals that he was always just acting, but was actually stronger than almost everyone; usually Hinatatas is in on it and they had a hidden relationship the whole time.
....and so on.
You forgot that they will constantly go on and on about how awful Sakura is, how Naruto for some reason can't remember how he could ever even stand her much less have feeling for her, justify that he never had feeling for Sakura to begin with, something about abuse being bad, and will ultimately culminate in Naruto killing her in a horrifically brutal manner, or rape her, or something else equally monstrous given in gruesome detail (clearly this act is seen as a good thing by the writer.) After that the story tends to peter out very quickly as you quickly realize that; that act was the true climax with the writer had been building towards in their fanfic, and once they did it they don't know what to do after that. So it just meanders on for a bit till they just drop it.
Edited by Bail o' Lies, 22 July 2019 - 04:05 AM.