I have become worse and worse about respecting the time limits on 15_minute_fic. In other words, tonight I wrote a 45 minute fic, because I wasn't at anything remotely like a conclusion after only 15 minutes. *sigh ( Read more... )

This is a slight revision of a cut scene from ch. 11 of The Guardian in Spite of Herself. I like the scene, but it was dragging out the plot too much even for me, so I skimmed over Naruto's and Sasuke's introduction to the trade caravan and jumped straight to their arrival in Nagarehiya. Nonetheless, this is what happened the first morning after ( Read more... )

Found via askerian:

Pick one of my stories and I will tell you the first line (ETA: okay, the first few paragraphs, on the theory that context is more interesting than concision) of its sequel. Even if I was never actually planning to write a sequel. Even if it already has a sequel -- I'll give you the first line of another version of its sequel!Do not ( Read more... )

Comment!fic for aishuu: I wonder, though, how much [Yukiko] has fixated on her apartment complex as another "precious person?" I'd wager she treats it like a pet. (375 words)

Resistentialism: (comment version) /// (ff.net versionIn completely unrelated news, we had another mouse at the smoke shop. This is the third mouse we have had since I've worked ( Read more... )

I am sort of attempting to feel my way back into writing Naruto fanfiction, in preparation for (hopefully) getting back to work on "The Guardian in Spite of Herself." In that spirit, here is an absurdly self-indulgent story about Ayakawa Yukiko's childhood, which contains no canon characters whatsoever. (900 words ( Read more... )

This is a request ficlet for socchan. The prompt was one of Yukiko's genin missions. I think this is "Apartment Manager" and "Guardian" canon, though it has very little bearing on those stories, and has nothing to do with Naruto canon except the setting and the specific interpretation of ninja.

(The edited and improved version is here on ff.net.)

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