Before I get to the notes for 'Interlude 7' (if I can think of any), I wanted to address a running trend in last chapter's reviews. Namely that some of you were very confused by the 'Anko's cousin' thing.
I try not to just spell everything out in my fics. I like leaving people guessing a bit.
...Apparently I did that way too well this time.
I tried over the past chapters to make people wonder just why Anko was involved. I had Kakashi and Sasuke question it, one of them directly to her.
I made multiple notes of similarities between Naruto and Anko.
I had her talk to him more than anyone else about her family...namely her Aunt.
I had her teach him a family style of taijutsu.
Obviously I didn't spell out that Naruto was Anko's cousin until this past interlude, but I'm kind of surprised that no one at least guessed that it was a possibility.
I don't know if this is because Naruto's heritage has been officially revealed in canon, or if I'm just bad at getting readers to consider possibilities.
It could be either. And I apologize to those who were very confused by it.
As for the interlude...not much to say right now. Maybe I'll come up with something later.
Oh one last thing, unless I get another sudden burst of motivation, there will only be 3 more interludes. Unfortunately, unless I get another sudden burst of motivation, there may be a gap before the main chapter is posted because I'm still not making a lot of headway on it. I'll keep you posted on progress but let's just say that right now I've mostly managed to throw out the majority of what I had planned previously and rewrite the summary for the chapter. That's a good start, but obviously isn't much.
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What I can say in the defense of the readers: I personally couldn't guess it because I can't remember the whole fic. I have read it twice, I think, in the past, but not long ago, your updates were a little bit rare... And I forgot so many details that I just couldn't put the puzzle together.
ReplyDeleteI didn't mean to criticize up there, I understand that this isn't making you any money, and you have RL and everything... Just so that you had an idea why we asked. (Goes reads chapter)
If the next chapter is still giving you trouble
ReplyDeleteyou could do some interludes set after it. Or
just skip to the preliminaries and tell the
chapter in flashbacks, that would work with them
giving a report to the council.
Don't feel too bad, *I* got it! (Of course, I love those fics that have Naru-chan connecting with Ninja!relatives who hadn't realized they needed to look for him, so....)
ReplyDeletePersonaly, I think it's really cool, better-done then I've seen in most cases, and while I might go back for a re-read, that's because college has made me crazy and a lot of the middle events in this fic have become something like jelly in between all of that Chemistry.
Evil Genus here - havign trouble pposting, hope it goes through this way...
ReplyDeleteUh, yeah it might have been a touch to subtle. I saw a connection between them, the fact she knew him as a child, that she was so close to him, and the family resemblance. I did not see the cousin thing, but it wasn’t a drastic shock. I do want to know the whole story now, but I know it is going to have to wait. Like was Anko’s aunt still an Uzumaki? Or a Mitarashi? Or was it Anko’s mom was his aunt by blood? Sorry, I can wait. I am curious is it because the Kyuubi is more active in Naruto that Gaara sensed it this time? I am assuming he could sense one tail versus nine tails and had a moment of rationality (or at least Shukaku did) and had the ‘oh hell no’ thought about fighting him. If I can offer any help or you need a peanut galley to toss ideas with to help over come the writers block let me know. That is how I get passed moments where I can’t seem to move on. Sometimes having someone to bounce ideas off of helps big time…
Evil Genus here - havign trouble pposting, hope it goes through this way...
ReplyDeleteUh, yeah it might have been a touch to subtle. I saw a connection between them, the fact she knew him as a child, that she was so close to him, and the family resemblance. I did not see the cousin thing, but it wasn’t a drastic shock. I do want to know the whole story now, but I know it is going to have to wait. Like was Anko’s aunt still an Uzumaki? Or a Mitarashi? Or was it Anko’s mom was his aunt by blood? Sorry, I can wait. I am curious is it because the Kyuubi is more active in Naruto that Gaara sensed it this time? I am assuming he could sense one tail versus nine tails and had a moment of rationality (or at least Shukaku did) and had the ‘oh hell no’ thought about fighting him. If I can offer any help or you need a peanut galley to toss ideas with to help over come the writers block let me know. That is how I get passed moments where I can’t seem to move on. Sometimes having someone to bounce ideas off of helps big time…
Ops, like I said having problems, sorry I double posted. for some reason I was getting error messages when i tried to post///
ReplyDeleteOkay, I think I need to clear something up here. I was not complaining about people not picking up on it. I know my updates are few and far between so it isn't odd that people don't remember stuff. I was just pointing out that it had been hinted at in the story already so that I could claim that I hadn't just pulled that announcement out of my ass.
ReplyDeleteWell I got it, also with Ibiki being the fourth's teammate and Yugao Iruka's, with his team having been the other one to have gotten the autopass.
ReplyDeleteWhich apparently is also a fast-track for Anbu, I am greatly enjoying the interludes and I hope that Sasuke can hide his Sharingan from Orochimaru.
Are you writing and interlude from Iruka's pov? with him being in the tower awaiting his team to get there and then he finds out what is going on, or maybe from the sound Team who is supposed to hunt them?
Or about the cloud Team maybe even from Shino's about the protection role assigned to team 7.
They make chunnin when they get to the tower right? regardless if they fight?
I so wish that after the tongue lashing they'll get from iruka they try to give up the 3rd part but some gennin insults either Anko or Iruka (maybe even Kakashi) and they decide to fight just to be able to humiliate the insulting person by employing basic techniques in creative ways and not show their skills to others