Week 1: Getting to Know The Characters
Title: Forever and a Day
Author: Rot-chan / Shelby
Characters/Pairings: Shisui & Naruto; Implied NaruSasuNaru + Shisui/Itachi
Exercise: [Week 1] “Getting To Know The Characters”
Warnings: Boy/boy though nothing PG-13. (And some crack.)
Reflection: I totally went AU with this. It’s more fun making AU ‘facts’ about characters. Also, did I mention how much I adore Ita/Shi? Had to include Itachi, because I love him to death :D I dislike Naruto for some reasons. Writing him is challenging; and I got to experiment with NaruSasu, which I rarely write. By the way, the title is a phrase from Shakespeare, meaning indefinitely.
Part 1: 10 Facts on my Favorite Character: Shisui
[[Notes: Although he's not a MAIN favorite, I love writing about him, using him in my fiction, and trying to create a backstory for him. He’s very interesting. Hooray for Ita/Shi, the non-tragic kind!]]
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Fact 1: Shisui is possibly, maybe in love with Itachi, who is possibly, maybe in love with him too. All right, maybe he’s in a cheap, chintzy dream world, but it never hurts to be idealistic (or to have a few too many unhealthily realistic fantasies about how this elaborate little relationship would play out, including going to restaurants and having petty fights outside of them).
Fact 2: Shisui hates going to the beach. Because unbeknownst to anyone besides Itachi and Mikoto - who, when he was 13, applied the aloe lotion while Itachi peeked in each time Shisui yelped in pain - he gets as red as a lobster when exposed to the sun.
Fact 3: Shisui avidly enjoys reading. Just the kind of stuff that would make his English teacher roll her eyes, or make his mother die of shock. Depending on which kind of material we’re talking about.
Fact 4: All throughout grade school, Shisui was known as ‘one of those gifted kids’. He was forced into the program by both of his parents and his teachers; but at least it wasn’t so bad, seeing as he got to make an indestructible bridge of toothpicks with Itachi at his side.
Fact 5: While Shisui is practicing his final speech for English class in the 9th grade, the words all disappear from his mind when he makes the mistake of glancing at his audience, Itachi - he’s listening intently, too intently, his face all soft, eyebrows knit together urging him to continue - and Shisui scrambles to keep going, ears red.
Fact 6: As Shisui has always been a risk taker, he thought it would be a fabulous idea to dangle upside-down from the jungle gym at the park when he was eleven and Itachi was nine; and it was Itachi, the ever sensible one, who had enough compassion not to point out his stupidity or say an ‘I told you so’ when Shisui ended up getting his first broken bone that day and he rode with him to the hospital.
Fact 7: When Shisui is seven years old, he stares at Mikoto Uchiha’s stomach and brazenly asks if she’s going to explode; just nine days later, Itachi is forced to stay over with him for the night while Sasuke is being born. All Shisui can remember of this is sneaking into the fridge after midnight and Itachi asking, ‘Where do babies come from really?’ and then replying over a popsicle, ‘Airplanes in the sky. They’re delivered.’ Like it was the most obvious thing in the world. (His kid brain was mystifying, mystifying indeed.)
Fact 8: Shisui really, really can’t help but hate that wimpy albino kid that’s been hanging around Itachi lately - this ‘Hidan’ from Itachi’s class, who is apparently very interested in advanced mathematics too, and who apparently doesn’t mind coming over to Itachi’s to do some ‘studying’. But seriously, if he doesn’t stop that giggling and that smirking - someone is going to end up with a bloody nose. Or a protractor in the eye.
Fact 9: When Shisui’s mother is on her deathbed, and the football game is playing on the miniature bedroom TV, he walks outside, climbs up the treehouse, and doesn’t come down for an entire day. And Itachi is the only one who doesn’t beg him to come down, but crawls up the ladder and goes inside with him.
Fact 10: Shisui is a bit self-conscious about his ‘image’. In fact, this self-consciousness requires a good stock of Short Sexy Hair gel, a special medicated bar of soap, and other things. Itachi always reassures him when Shisui asks half-jokingly if he looks ‘pretty’ today. But If not Itachi, then who would he ask? And at least Shisui can say back with confidence, ‘I might be pretty, but you’re just simply gorgeous’. And it’s worth the punch he receives.
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Part 2: 10 Facts on my Least Favorite Character: Naruto
[[Notes: I don't 'hate' him. sometimes I like him, but ugh. Some of the things he has done have annoyed the heck out of me. And for fact 8, I pictured them to be like, 12 going on 13; for fact 10 they're much older, so Naruto isn't afraid of gore anymore by then, hehe ID]]
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Fact 1: Naruto has learned many important life lessons. One of the most important being, of course, to never microwave a cream and jelly donut on the automatic heat setting and eat it afterwards.
Fact 2: So maybe Naruto was the one responsible for the oven explosion incident in the seventh grade. You know, that time where someone mistakingly threw nutmeg and cinnamon onto a bundt cake in Cooking when it was already inside the oven, without knowing that such spices would cause a very large and very expensive fire - but seriously, it could have been Kiba too!
Fact 3: But at least when Naruto ended up seeing how absolutely terrible Sasuke’s personally embroidered, pin-striped pillow was in sewing class, he didn’t feel as bad.
Fact 4: Maybe Naruto always knew he would be sort-of-gay, since he chose the Fashion Plate over the hot wheels set as a kid, the pink and white play-doh over the primary colors; or maybe it was when Sasuke stepped out for the first time ever in a swimsuit in their 6th grade swimming class, and he nearly fell off the diving board.
Fact 5: Until going to a carnival with Sasuke, Naruto never knew that some dumb little kiddie ride like the Teacups could make someone so violently ill.
Fact 6: Naruto has been known to drunk dial Sasuke in the past quite a few times; once there was a call asking him to be Naruto’s Valentine in July; and then there was a memorable invitation to get pizza with cookies for a date night at 4:30 in the morning. Needless to say, Sasuke changed his cellphone number.
Fact 7: Naruto occasionally tries to construct a ‘soundtrack of his life’ regardless of how cliche it is; and more often than not, it ends up with him picking ridiculous songs about rejected feelings and lost love by those melodramatic B-list rock bands, all about the same person, whose ridiculous hair and constipated facial expressions will not get out of his brain (stupid brain).
Fact 8: Naruto is not prone to being embarrassed; but at 13, he can admit that he is thoroughly humiliated when, at a gory movie that he convinced them to see, that he insisted that Sasuke would like, he accidentally screams and throws the box of Raisinettes at the man in front of them, whereas Sasuke doesn’t flinch, not once.
Fact 9: Despite being a total killjoy at times, Naruto is glad Sasuke is around to be the sensible one - to break him out of his internet game coma, or end his all-night TV marathons. And especially when he replies ‘get back to work, moron’ at the dirty, silly messages Naruto was sending via fax machine, just as their boss is coming around to check on their work.
Fact 10: Naruto knows that it’s only going to be Sasuke when, at a Halloween drive-in movie they go to together (to Sasuke’s contempt, going by how critical he was of the acting and fake blood) he leans over and kisses him - and afterwards, when Naruto pulls back, Sasuke deadpans: ‘You taste like jujubes.’
Author: Rot-chan / Shelby
Characters/Pairings: Shisui & Naruto; Implied NaruSasuNaru + Shisui/Itachi
Exercise: [Week 1] “Getting To Know The Characters”
Warnings: Boy/boy though nothing PG-13. (And some crack.)
Reflection: I totally went AU with this. It’s more fun making AU ‘facts’ about characters. Also, did I mention how much I adore Ita/Shi? Had to include Itachi, because I love him to death :D I dislike Naruto for some reasons. Writing him is challenging; and I got to experiment with NaruSasu, which I rarely write. By the way, the title is a phrase from Shakespeare, meaning indefinitely.
Part 1: 10 Facts on my Favorite Character: Shisui
[[Notes: Although he's not a MAIN favorite, I love writing about him, using him in my fiction, and trying to create a backstory for him. He’s very interesting. Hooray for Ita/Shi, the non-tragic kind!]]
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Fact 1: Shisui is possibly, maybe in love with Itachi, who is possibly, maybe in love with him too. All right, maybe he’s in a cheap, chintzy dream world, but it never hurts to be idealistic (or to have a few too many unhealthily realistic fantasies about how this elaborate little relationship would play out, including going to restaurants and having petty fights outside of them).
Fact 2: Shisui hates going to the beach. Because unbeknownst to anyone besides Itachi and Mikoto - who, when he was 13, applied the aloe lotion while Itachi peeked in each time Shisui yelped in pain - he gets as red as a lobster when exposed to the sun.
Fact 3: Shisui avidly enjoys reading. Just the kind of stuff that would make his English teacher roll her eyes, or make his mother die of shock. Depending on which kind of material we’re talking about.
Fact 4: All throughout grade school, Shisui was known as ‘one of those gifted kids’. He was forced into the program by both of his parents and his teachers; but at least it wasn’t so bad, seeing as he got to make an indestructible bridge of toothpicks with Itachi at his side.
Fact 5: While Shisui is practicing his final speech for English class in the 9th grade, the words all disappear from his mind when he makes the mistake of glancing at his audience, Itachi - he’s listening intently, too intently, his face all soft, eyebrows knit together urging him to continue - and Shisui scrambles to keep going, ears red.
Fact 6: As Shisui has always been a risk taker, he thought it would be a fabulous idea to dangle upside-down from the jungle gym at the park when he was eleven and Itachi was nine; and it was Itachi, the ever sensible one, who had enough compassion not to point out his stupidity or say an ‘I told you so’ when Shisui ended up getting his first broken bone that day and he rode with him to the hospital.
Fact 7: When Shisui is seven years old, he stares at Mikoto Uchiha’s stomach and brazenly asks if she’s going to explode; just nine days later, Itachi is forced to stay over with him for the night while Sasuke is being born. All Shisui can remember of this is sneaking into the fridge after midnight and Itachi asking, ‘Where do babies come from really?’ and then replying over a popsicle, ‘Airplanes in the sky. They’re delivered.’ Like it was the most obvious thing in the world. (His kid brain was mystifying, mystifying indeed.)
Fact 8: Shisui really, really can’t help but hate that wimpy albino kid that’s been hanging around Itachi lately - this ‘Hidan’ from Itachi’s class, who is apparently very interested in advanced mathematics too, and who apparently doesn’t mind coming over to Itachi’s to do some ‘studying’. But seriously, if he doesn’t stop that giggling and that smirking - someone is going to end up with a bloody nose. Or a protractor in the eye.
Fact 9: When Shisui’s mother is on her deathbed, and the football game is playing on the miniature bedroom TV, he walks outside, climbs up the treehouse, and doesn’t come down for an entire day. And Itachi is the only one who doesn’t beg him to come down, but crawls up the ladder and goes inside with him.
Fact 10: Shisui is a bit self-conscious about his ‘image’. In fact, this self-consciousness requires a good stock of Short Sexy Hair gel, a special medicated bar of soap, and other things. Itachi always reassures him when Shisui asks half-jokingly if he looks ‘pretty’ today. But If not Itachi, then who would he ask? And at least Shisui can say back with confidence, ‘I might be pretty, but you’re just simply gorgeous’. And it’s worth the punch he receives.
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Part 2: 10 Facts on my Least Favorite Character: Naruto
[[Notes: I don't 'hate' him. sometimes I like him, but ugh. Some of the things he has done have annoyed the heck out of me. And for fact 8, I pictured them to be like, 12 going on 13; for fact 10 they're much older, so Naruto isn't afraid of gore anymore by then, hehe ID]]
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Fact 1: Naruto has learned many important life lessons. One of the most important being, of course, to never microwave a cream and jelly donut on the automatic heat setting and eat it afterwards.
Fact 2: So maybe Naruto was the one responsible for the oven explosion incident in the seventh grade. You know, that time where someone mistakingly threw nutmeg and cinnamon onto a bundt cake in Cooking when it was already inside the oven, without knowing that such spices would cause a very large and very expensive fire - but seriously, it could have been Kiba too!
Fact 3: But at least when Naruto ended up seeing how absolutely terrible Sasuke’s personally embroidered, pin-striped pillow was in sewing class, he didn’t feel as bad.
Fact 4: Maybe Naruto always knew he would be sort-of-gay, since he chose the Fashion Plate over the hot wheels set as a kid, the pink and white play-doh over the primary colors; or maybe it was when Sasuke stepped out for the first time ever in a swimsuit in their 6th grade swimming class, and he nearly fell off the diving board.
Fact 5: Until going to a carnival with Sasuke, Naruto never knew that some dumb little kiddie ride like the Teacups could make someone so violently ill.
Fact 6: Naruto has been known to drunk dial Sasuke in the past quite a few times; once there was a call asking him to be Naruto’s Valentine in July; and then there was a memorable invitation to get pizza with cookies for a date night at 4:30 in the morning. Needless to say, Sasuke changed his cellphone number.
Fact 7: Naruto occasionally tries to construct a ‘soundtrack of his life’ regardless of how cliche it is; and more often than not, it ends up with him picking ridiculous songs about rejected feelings and lost love by those melodramatic B-list rock bands, all about the same person, whose ridiculous hair and constipated facial expressions will not get out of his brain (stupid brain).
Fact 8: Naruto is not prone to being embarrassed; but at 13, he can admit that he is thoroughly humiliated when, at a gory movie that he convinced them to see, that he insisted that Sasuke would like, he accidentally screams and throws the box of Raisinettes at the man in front of them, whereas Sasuke doesn’t flinch, not once.
Fact 9: Despite being a total killjoy at times, Naruto is glad Sasuke is around to be the sensible one - to break him out of his internet game coma, or end his all-night TV marathons. And especially when he replies ‘get back to work, moron’ at the dirty, silly messages Naruto was sending via fax machine, just as their boss is coming around to check on their work.
Fact 10: Naruto knows that it’s only going to be Sasuke when, at a Halloween drive-in movie they go to together (to Sasuke’s contempt, going by how critical he was of the acting and fake blood) he leans over and kisses him - and afterwards, when Naruto pulls back, Sasuke deadpans: ‘You taste like jujubes.’