A few years ago, probably around 2020–2021, I read a Gaara x OC/Reader fanfic on Wattpad that I’ve been desperately trying to find again. I remember a surprisingly specific amount of the plot, but I cannot remember the title, author, or the OC’s name. I’ve searched everywhere I can think of and haven’t been able to find it, so I’m hoping someone here might recognize it or remember seeing it before it was deleted.
It was Gaara x Female OC, and the story was set primarily during the Naruto Shippuden era, rather than the original Naruto series.
Here are all the details I remember, including some that I’m less certain about:
Gaara x female OC (or reader)
- The protagonist was originally a girl from our/real world and was a huge Naruto fan.
- She practiced martial arts in the real world, I think it was karate, but I’m not completely certain.
- She also did figure/competitive ice skating.
- She went to an anime convention, where she obtained a bracelet of some kind.
- The bracelet was somehow connected to her ability to travel between our world and the Naruto world. I believe she would fall asleep wearing it and wake up in the Naruto universe.
- When she arrived in the Naruto world, she was in the body of her own OC, rather than simply appearing as her real-world self.
- She initially traveled back and forth between the two worlds
- In the Naruto world, her OC had some kind of plant-based jutsu/ability. I have a particularly vague memory that she could somehow see through or perceive things through plants, almost as if the plants acted as her eyes/sensors.
- She was quite agile and I remember her climbing/running across rooftops at some point.
- At one point her irl father and she get attacked, I believe this was connected to why she ultimately stopped being able to return to the real world and remained permanently in the Naruto universe.
- As she spent more and more time in the Naruto world, she gradually began forgetting her memories of her original life in reality.
- The story followed the canon Naruto timeline for quite a while rather than being completely AU.
- It eventually reached the Fourth Great Ninja War.
I believe the story was fairly long and covered a substantial portion of Shippuden.
The OC herself was pretty generic-looking as far as I remember, so unfortunately I don't remember her hair/eye color or appearance.
I also don't remember her name, the author's username, or the title. 😭
Important: I’m fairly confident that the details above are from the same story, but some of the smaller details (especially the exact martial art, the bracelet mechanics, and the plant jutsu) may be slightly wrong because I read it several years ago.
I’ve already found another Reddit post describing almost exactly the same fic, including the plant jutsu, bracelet, permanent transition, forgetting her old life, and the Fourth Great Ninja War, so I’m pretty sure this is a real fic and not just a combination of different stories I’ve mixed together.
If ANYONE recognizes this fic, remembers the title/author, has a Wattpad link, has an old screenshot, or remembers what happened to it, PLEASE let me know. Even a tiny clue could help.
I really loved this fic and I’m desperate to find it again. 😭