Ro7 - When You're Sleeping

New Chapter again for Role of Seven, 'When You're Sleeping Pt 3'.
I mentioned this in a post earlier this week but I miscalculated a bit. I had hoped to keep this chapter to just 2 segments but it's going to be 5 instead. The next two will be up sometime over the next 2 or 3 weeks but there might be a few delays since I'm working on Juniper for a bit.

Here's the notes for the chapter:
Hifukidake is my name for the capitol so that I don't have to keep calling it the capitol. For a ninja going fast they could probably make it from Konoha to Hifukidake in six or seven hours (like the run Rin and Kakashi made before chapter 1); average pace for civilians, especially a large group would be two or three days.

I used the name Kokushi for AtD. She's one of Hana's personal dogs; if I remember correctly, the name means 'beauty mark'.

And Takara's back from AtD, sort of. I hope you weren't too attached to her original form because I wasn't. I changed her a bit so that I could get rid of two other characters and decided to change her name as well since I was sick of typing 'Takara'. Meet Kushoku (Koushoku means yellow/amber, but her mother dropped the first o); it's an awkward name and she hates it.
Kato, Daiki, and Suzu are back as well; there won't be any really noticeable changes for any of them but they will be in a bit more to pick up the slack of said missing characters.

Anraku is made up place. For those of you new to this, it's the home city of the Nami family and it will be in this story more than it was in AtD.

Rishito's parentage wasn't always popular in AtD so I'll say pretty much the same thing here. Kakashi and Rin can hardly be called more than friends, even with a kid. This'll be explained later (though some of you might remember the joke). I normally only ship Kakashi as a joke anyways - and that's normally just to piss off homophobes - so there you go.

I'm trying to keep Rin's sarcasm to a minimum. Anko and Kakashi are probably the only ones who will bring it out much since she strikes me as being more long suffering. Especially around Tsunade and people like that I'm going to really try and keep it in check - it got out of hand in AtD and made no sense.

And the Akatsuki. They've shown up more here than in AtD as well. I kind of floundered with them for a while and then just stopped talking about them in AtD so I'm trying to do better with them this time. It still won't mesh with canon Akatsuki but hopefully it'll be better this time.

I'm also working to get more into the characters with more than just conversation. I think I've mentioned this before, but the conversations were getting out of hand and I keep feeling like I'm either leaving stuff out or just repeating it too much. It doesn't show in this segment but hopefully in the next two segments and then the next few chapters we'll be spending more time on individual characters - like inner monologues and stuff. I just don't want to get as angsty as I did when writing AtD; I thought it was funny at the time but I just don't think I could handle trying to write like that again.

I think that's all for now. See you in a week or so. Less time if I get anything done with Juniper.