by Reina Takamori
Those Who Come Back is a Naruto fanfiction about found family, loyalty, and sacrifice. Akari is twelve, a recent graduate of the Academy, and not very good at controlling her wind release. She is placed on a team with Kazuki Arakawa, who has a talent for making bad ideas worse, Renji Mori, a ten-year-old prodigy who is still very much ten, and Reina Takamori, a jōnin sensei who slowly becomes more than their instructor. The story follows them as they grow into a team, then into a family.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 4 Oct 2026, 15:48 UTC
Entry forecast updated 4 Oct 2026, 15:48 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
7%
Two or more lists
4%
Likely threshold order: Action → Adventure → Comedy → Fantasy → Main.
Leading bundle: Comedy + Adventure + Action + Fantasy (2%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#6191 of 12,378 · 6141 below RS #50
By genre
beats 68% of similar stories
not enough data yet
beats 82% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 2–4 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views lifetime.
