On a roll!
So far, the story is up to 60 thousand words in less than a month. Oh, and I also managed to crochet a hat and half a baby blanket. >:D
I'm having so much fun with the fic - well, except for the graphic child prostitution scenes, because those things were damn hard to write!
But, other than that, this is going to be an awesome, epic story that is more epic than anything else I've ever written in fanfiction before, since it spans the life of Inuzuka Tsume for nigh thirty years. And Danzo's life in that same time frame, except he gets flashbacks to when he's younger, so, uh, probably sixty years for him. >:D
Well, I suppose I should elaborate a bit, since this is the world's First Shimura Danzo/Inuzuka Tsume pairing IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. It started out in a different story, in which I pitted Tsume (who was assigned as overseer of the we-totally-do-not-exist spooks from Black Ops) against Danzo (leader of ROOT, to make sure that ROOT didn't accidentally try to off the spooks) in their own power struggle against each other. The entire idea culminated from one stray paragraph:
Tsume never shared Tsunade’s suspicions that Danzo was a threat to Konoha's survival. Danzo was, in his own way, just as concerned with, and as loyal to, Konoha as Tsume - and she well understood and knew loyalty. For that, she respected him more than she did Tsunade, because Danzo's loyalty had never faltered or turned fickle or up and left without looking back because of personal trauma or phobias. After working together almost twenty years, she and Danzo had settled into a somewhat-comfortable working relationship in which they agreed to having a difference of, hmmm, method and philosophy. (Danzo was, Tsume was unable to brag to anyone, the hardest person she ever seduced, even if it only resulted in a quick, sloppy blowjob in a very dark room.)
From there, all these different ideas just bloomed.
Danzo isn't an easy character to understand/write for most people, I think. From what I can tell, he's often scapegoated by fanon as being this cruel, dispassionate, power-hungry Machiavellian dictator who seeks to take over Konoha for himself. In canon, he seeks to take over Konoha for, well, Konoha. He's a very flawed character who tries to do the right thing for all the right reasons, but will use any and all means to succeed. And Konoha, for Danzo, seems to be this faceless ideal that reality can never hope to match. Nonetheless, his loyalty exists truly for Konoha.
I bet Danzo woudd get a lot more screen time in fanfics if he were really good-looking, like that ass, Madara. But noooooo.
So, basically, knowing this about Danzo in canon, and my own personal fanon of Inuzuka Tsume (as shaped through and evidenced by Saving Grace), I was very curious as to how these two very different characters, each with a very strong sense of honor and absolute loyalty to Konoha, could interact.
So far, I've got the beginning chapters of a Litter of Misfits posted at adultfanfiction.net and AO3. This story is so sexually graphic that I don't think I could ever edit it enough to make it appropriate to post as fanfiction.net (sigh and alas, since that's where the bulk of my readership is at). However, there are bits and pieces that I could post as separate stories at ff.net.
Okay, I admit the point of this entire entry is just to say that I'm currently studying Youtube videos of aerial silk circus acrobats because Tsume's Genin team (under the tender, albeit deluded, guidance of Hatake Sakumo-sensei) have a C class mission in which they get hired out to a circus. All this planned for this one little scene:
“So beautiful!” the ringmaster gushed as he studied Uchiha Makoto’s exquisite face. “Magnificent!” he declared over Uzumaki Kushina’s brilliant red hair. Then he looked at Tsume. He gingerly pinched one of her tangled tufts of hair between two fingers. “Er. Well, I do need someone to clean out the tiger’s cage.”
I'm having so much fun with the fic - well, except for the graphic child prostitution scenes, because those things were damn hard to write!
But, other than that, this is going to be an awesome, epic story that is more epic than anything else I've ever written in fanfiction before, since it spans the life of Inuzuka Tsume for nigh thirty years. And Danzo's life in that same time frame, except he gets flashbacks to when he's younger, so, uh, probably sixty years for him. >:D
Well, I suppose I should elaborate a bit, since this is the world's First Shimura Danzo/Inuzuka Tsume pairing IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. It started out in a different story, in which I pitted Tsume (who was assigned as overseer of the we-totally-do-not-exist spooks from Black Ops) against Danzo (leader of ROOT, to make sure that ROOT didn't accidentally try to off the spooks) in their own power struggle against each other. The entire idea culminated from one stray paragraph:
Tsume never shared Tsunade’s suspicions that Danzo was a threat to Konoha's survival. Danzo was, in his own way, just as concerned with, and as loyal to, Konoha as Tsume - and she well understood and knew loyalty. For that, she respected him more than she did Tsunade, because Danzo's loyalty had never faltered or turned fickle or up and left without looking back because of personal trauma or phobias. After working together almost twenty years, she and Danzo had settled into a somewhat-comfortable working relationship in which they agreed to having a difference of, hmmm, method and philosophy. (Danzo was, Tsume was unable to brag to anyone, the hardest person she ever seduced, even if it only resulted in a quick, sloppy blowjob in a very dark room.)
From there, all these different ideas just bloomed.
Danzo isn't an easy character to understand/write for most people, I think. From what I can tell, he's often scapegoated by fanon as being this cruel, dispassionate, power-hungry Machiavellian dictator who seeks to take over Konoha for himself. In canon, he seeks to take over Konoha for, well, Konoha. He's a very flawed character who tries to do the right thing for all the right reasons, but will use any and all means to succeed. And Konoha, for Danzo, seems to be this faceless ideal that reality can never hope to match. Nonetheless, his loyalty exists truly for Konoha.
I bet Danzo woudd get a lot more screen time in fanfics if he were really good-looking, like that ass, Madara. But noooooo.
So, basically, knowing this about Danzo in canon, and my own personal fanon of Inuzuka Tsume (as shaped through and evidenced by Saving Grace), I was very curious as to how these two very different characters, each with a very strong sense of honor and absolute loyalty to Konoha, could interact.
So far, I've got the beginning chapters of a Litter of Misfits posted at adultfanfiction.net and AO3. This story is so sexually graphic that I don't think I could ever edit it enough to make it appropriate to post as fanfiction.net (sigh and alas, since that's where the bulk of my readership is at). However, there are bits and pieces that I could post as separate stories at ff.net.
Okay, I admit the point of this entire entry is just to say that I'm currently studying Youtube videos of aerial silk circus acrobats because Tsume's Genin team (under the tender, albeit deluded, guidance of Hatake Sakumo-sensei) have a C class mission in which they get hired out to a circus. All this planned for this one little scene:
“So beautiful!” the ringmaster gushed as he studied Uchiha Makoto’s exquisite face. “Magnificent!” he declared over Uzumaki Kushina’s brilliant red hair. Then he looked at Tsume. He gingerly pinched one of her tangled tufts of hair between two fingers. “Er. Well, I do need someone to clean out the tiger’s cage.”