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Chapter 106/107 - Arc 7 - We're Ready Kakashi, The Chunin Exams Start Now! - Revealing Insights, Iruka's a bad teacher?/Making a scene in front of everyone

Double feature today, thank you for your patience.
Technically these chapters where I'm using canon as a structure are easier, but they're still a lot of work because Sakura's so different from canon at this point. They all are to some extent but it's huge with her. Gaara's cute as always.

Have fun!

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Finding Kakashi in front of room three oh one, she’s struck with an odd ...

Chapter 105 - Arc 7 - We're Ready Kakashi, The Chunin Exams Start Now! - Sasuke Cares?

We have a lot of small events to go over from the new perspective of Sakura and this team before we get to the actual forest, which is when all the massive changes will start.

Still, I think this is a very different experience than watching canon directly, and I hope you enjoy.

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Arriving at the location they were given by Kakashi, they’re quick to enter and make their way up. Stepping up to the second floor, the...

Chapter 104 - Arc 7 - We're Ready Kakashi, The Chunin Exams Start Now! - The Prelim Test is at 10PM on Tuesday!

Here you go, only a few hours late technically. Well okay I kinda wanna get it closer to like 10 hours ago but like, it's still Monday in parts of the world and not even that obscure ones so I'm pretty happy.

Turns out they actually did do preliminary tests in canon and I'm an idiot, so I decided to play on that instead of making up something new. Of course I did totally still make something new.

Enjoy!

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"These...

Chapter 103 - Arc 7 - We're Ready Kakashi, The Chunin Exams Start Now! - Iruka Checks In

Working on 104 as you read this. The side-story is on the way too. Schedule's fucky and it's causing problems but I'm in a good place for this so no worries.

Iruka checks in with Sakura, which is cool. Next chapter that pre-test the Hokage promised last chapter. I actually plan to do a real pretest unlike in canon, I think that'll be fun. You know me, I'm always looking for fun.

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“Sakura.” She hears him spe...

Chapter 102 - Arc 7 - We're Ready Kakashi, The Chunin Exams Start Now! - Getting the cute genin registered

Long AN is long.

So last chapter I sorta stole a pretty big moment from Sasuke, I always feel a little bad when that happens because Sasuke doesn't get a lot of those. He's sorta just there for a lot of canon, and that issue is even more prevalent in this story. Unfortunately, a lot of Sasuke's really cool moments came at Sakura's expense. In the scene I took, Sasuke can only be really cool, because Sakura is completely useless. She stands there while Konohamaru is being manhandled, and...

Chapter 100/101 - Arc 6/7 - Onward, To Suna!/We're Ready Kakashi, The Chunin Exams Start Now! - Clearing up Misunderstandings/Blowing Up with Children

So here are the chapters I owe. I only lost one Patron for this past week and honestly, I doubt it was even connected. It's nice to be able to have a mental health crisis and everyone's just relatively okay with it.

CH 101 is a little odd, it's almost all from Episode 20 of the anime. You'll recognize the events, but they're taken from such an incredibly different perspective because this Sakura isn't a fucking psycho that beats the absolute shit out of six year olds on a whim.

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Canon Side-Story: Ino's Charm, Tenten's Expertise

And here we go. I ended up playing with my brother for like six hours, that was pretty cool.
Played Palworld, I love Palworld. Such a good game...

Anyway, this was a lot of fun. I love Sakura/Tenten shenanigans, and Sakura/Ino shenanigans are even more fun so this was just all around great..

From now on I'm going to do like a cool roulette kinda thing with the $10 votes. I figure this way every vote will always matter, at least until there's a ton of them and then I'll probab...

Chapter 99 - Arc 6 - Onward, To Suna! - Coming Home from Suna

Heya, sorry about the late chapter and the side story. Depression hit me with the stick. I always prioritize quality over promptness, and while I understand that decision has probably cost me supporters over the months, uh, that's okay.

This was a fun chapter. I struggled a bit since the outline is over but, I got it.
I think Arc 7 will start on Monday. I shouldn't have to do a pause but there might be a point where I post a chapter a day or two late because I needed to research pro...

Chapter 98 - Arc 6 - Onward, To Suna! - Worms in the Sand!

There are motherfuckin worms, in the motherfuckin Sand!

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Not getting any of her expected adventuring is truly disappointing. She was expecting Suna to be a great means of fun for her, and after so long sitting around doing nothing but training with Lee and Gai, taking classes, and practicing Necromancy, Sakura was ready for a grand adventure.

The reality of walking back to Konoha makes her pout. She really expected so much...

Chapter 97 - Arc 6 - Onward, To Suna! - Shouting Jacks!

Lost like 4 patrons in the last day, always sad.
Mostly about that $300 goal. It seemed so close a few months ago but now I'm never sure I'll get to it.
It's not the biggest deal, I'm happy with where we are, but I would love to devote more of my time to this story.

For those that are here and continuing to support me, I see you. Thanks for the smile, and your support, this chapter's for you... Well they all are, technically.

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Chapter 96 - Arc 6 - Onward, To Suna! - Sibling Bonding, Trapped in a Hotel edition

I'm actually several chapters ahead, so this is nice.
I'm currently watching through the Chunin exams and making notes so that I can at least have a frame of proper reference for what I'm writing instead of going off pure memory and my own ideas.

Still plan to mostly do my own thing with it, but, the core events should still happen, at least in their theoretical sense. Nothing in story should have made there not be a test at the beginning, for instance.

Have fun ya'll! ...

Canon Side-Story: Hinata's Observations

I was actually pretty excited to write this one, which is why it's chapter length.
Enjoy!

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Watching the house of another person without their permission is a crime. Well, there’s about a hundred fifty caveats that make it okay, and technically as a Hyuuga there’s even more for her, but she still shouldn’t be doing it. She could get in a lot of trouble with her clan if the Anbu watching the house decided to report her, ...

Chapter 95 - Arc 6 - Onward, To Suna! - Murderbunny

The fun thing about an outline is that I'm actually ahead for once.
Unfortunately, Friday's chapter is the end of the outline, turns out I had less than I thought and a good portion of what's left is 2AM rambles that don't make a whole lot of sense.

I think I have a few more chapters of ideas, but uh, Arc 6 might actually be so fast I don't pause before Arc 7 at all. Might even be in poor taste to call it an arc, hehe. Oh well.
As long as we all enjoy it, who really cares. I don'...

Chapter 94 - Arc 6 - Onward, To Suna! - Aftermath of the Fun Ruining

Suna's fun, I'm having fun.
I like Suna.

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The atmosphere and grim mood she’s met with when she walks into their hotel room is one for the books. “So I found this note.” She announces, carrying in the only thing she managed to recover from the assassin’s body. Kakashi’s got a knife on two boys with spiky dark hair and is interrogating them while Naruto and Sa...

Chapter 93 - Arc 6 - Onward, To Suna! - Outing with Gaara

I had fun writing this.
Gaara's so cute... Dangerous though, so dangerous.

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Sakura hasn’t gotten a lot of chances to explore in her life. By the time she realized she might like to explore Konoha, she’d already been everywhere a small girl would ever want to go, mainly, her room and kitchen and school. Then, she was taken around by Ino, but she didn’t even want to do that so it can’t count as yo...

Canon Side-Story: Necromancy, Due Diligence

Disclaimer: I think I've been misled by fanfiction about who Tsume and Kiba and Hana are, I've always thought they were very important to the clan, if not at the top, but I actually can't find anything official stating that at all. So, because I'm on a deadline, I'm writing this scene as if that's true. But uh, do understand I'm definitely working on fanon here. Since I'm already working on fanon, I'm not gonna bother doing two hours of research to figure out Tsume's personality, just gonna w...

Canon Side-Story: Making Friends Pt 2

Here was the second poll from last week. Gonna host this week's poll here in a minute, feel free to join it if you have a spare few bucks. The upgrade from $5 to $10 is in fact, only $5, it doesn't charge you twice.

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Watching the clouds, phasing out, feeling the world move around him, or maybe feeling himself move with the world. Shikamaru can’t help but feel at one with the universe at times like these. The unde...

Chapter 92 - Arc 6 - Onward, To Suna! - Meeting the Client

Uh... This chapter was fun. I actually went a little off outline here, which is okay, that's the beauty of an outline.
I still have 6 pages of outline for this arc, I'm so happy.

Catch me doin a Haruno Wiggle.

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Kakashi decided to spend some of his time teaching her some new sword moves, which was awesome. She’s always felt a bit like she was just flailing around, and any sort of refined practice and technique helps...

Chapter 91 - Arc 6 - Onward, To Suna! - Excited to Move

Here we are, Chapter 2 of Arc 6.
I'm having fun. It's really nice to have a freaking outline for once. Woo!

Hope you're all having fun. I am.

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It’s nice to be on the road with her team again. Two whole months of having to sit out missions has left her craving the open path and the constant sound of their footsteps on the dirt. They’re antsy to get out on the road too. They had one C rank without her, but ...

Canon Side-Story: Shooting Training with Tenten, Traps with Naruto

“Like this, and here…” When she invited Ino to come practice marksmanship with Tenten, she had expected the three of them to spend most of their time throwing weapons and shooting off Tenten’s prototypes. The special guns from the dungeon are too limited in ammunition for practice, though they do have hundreds if not thousands of rounds for missions. What she hadn’t expected was for Tenten to get very hands on about her form and positions, and for Ino to spend most of her time mopin...

Chapter 90 - Arc 6 - Onward, To Suna! - Class Is Out

I had a lot of fun planning this chapter. This arc has an actual plan to it, maybe not scene for scene but more than enough that I don't think it'll have a lot of the issues Arc 4 and 5 did. I mean, I did have plans that came to fruition in them, but they themselves weren't structured like this one.

I do owe 2 Side-stories, and I hope to at least get one done today, maybe one tomorrow. Been busy, sorry about that.

Woo, Arc 6. We made it to Arc 6 people, you have no idea how ex...

Canon Side-Story: Forest of Death, That Time Naruto Got Eaten

This is a day late but honestly, I'm happy it is. I've created this odd setup where because of work stresses, most things get made day of, and I have to force it. While I don't regret a lot of the decisions I've made with this story, strict deadlines are very harmful for the quality of individual pieces.

This got another day for me to think, and it's a lot better for it.
Wednesday's - Thursday morning really - Side-story also made me realize that I want side-stories to be a little l...

Canon Side-Story: Todolist, Sakura Learns to Cook

Notes: On Friday we’re doing

Canon Side-Story: Forest of Death, That Time Naruto Got Eaten. Next Monday we'll be voting on two side-stories again, for Wednesday and Friday.
Though on next Friday we'll be getting a chapter so like, that'll be a double feature. I didn't think this through very well. That's fine though, I'm not worried about it.

Today, we’re gonna watch Sakura learn to cook. Enjoy!

To be clear this does take place pre-chapter 89, not that that's an issu...

Chapter 89 - Arc 5.9 - Wrapping Up - Character Growth

This story has been a lot of fun, and honestly the coolest writing journey of my life. It's had ups, and downs, and I've grown as a person. I'm a better writer, a little more whimsical but better.
With this chapter Arc 5 comes to an end. I am over the moon at another milestone, and still full of energy for the next.

Next chapter will start the Pre-Chunin Exam arc, which is actually a pretty small arc I have planned directly before the Chunin exams which will go over the timeskip gai...

Chapter 88 - Arc 5.9 - Wrapping Up - Some Loose Ends

Hey'll ya'll, tomorrow's Chapter is the last one of this arc.
I hope you enjoy this, I tried to get the old comedic feel for a little. I'm not sure how well it worked, but sometimes trying is all you got, at least it's all I got.
If nothing else, stuff's cute, and I'm okay with cute.

Have fun!

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“It’s a rock.” All this build up, all this time spent wondering what could possibly be in the scroll sh...

Chapter 87 - Arc 5.8 - Back In, Exploring Hunger - The Red Room

The last chapter before we head into the wrap up of Arc 5. Next chapter will involve, mostly, wrapping up a few small plots, doing some cleaning, and then setting up Chapter 89 which'll be the last chapter of Arc 5.

Then I'll take my week off to finish planning Arc 6, and we'll start into Arc 6 on the 4th. (There will be a side-story on the 25th and 2nd) I skipped it the last time because I did Arc 4 without a break and I figured I could do the much smaller Arc 5 without one as well. I...

What-If: Ino had Gotten Gaming Powers Instead

Another week above $70, another side story.
This one was a tie among the $10 tiers so I flipped and came up Heads. If you want to be the tie breaker, you totally can, just join that sweet tier.

I'll admit What-Ifs are odd with just how many canon stuff needs to be approached inside-story at this point, but I'll also admit I fucking adore What-Ifs. They're so quirky I'm allowed to do whatever I want without potentially damaging the story or going in a weird way with precedent.

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Member Loss Surge

I understand that my work here isn't going to maintain interest with everyone forever, I wouldn't expect it to. I also understand that people might want to take breaks, and that interest in the story isn't permanent. Some may not like where the story is going, and some may just want to step away.

Supporting me is something I greatly appreciate, but I also understand that it is not forever.

That being said, I've lost almost 2 months of gradual patron gain in like, less than a we...

Chapter 86 - Arc 5.8 - Back In, Exploring Hunger - A Direction Obtained, Forward

Here we go moving forward again.
Nothing much to say here, just hope you're all having a good day and please enjoy the chapter.

Friday and Sunday's chapters will probably be wrapping up some loose ends and stuff and then we're onto Arc 6, the pre-game before the Chunin Exams. We're finally approaching ya'll.

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When she woke up this morning she really wasn’t expecting to be sitting in a circle, right around eter...

Chapter 85 - Arc 5.8 - Back In, Exploring Hunger - "Mom?"

Sakura needs an adult!

Thank you all for your continued support.
CH 64 saw like 50 words of small wording edits to make it flow better.

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“Why did I have to bring my sword?” Sakura asks, her palms down on her black sword, the red sigils glowing brighter at her touch as if it's responding to her. It’s been doing that for a while, she kinda just figured it was the same thing as her eyes, cosmetic but not ...