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Notice of Vacation (June 1st to June 15th)

I've noticed in recent times that most of my work on this story has become obligation. It's about finishing it, not writing it, and not abandoning something so many people love.
There was a time...

Chapter 152 - Arc 10 - Living For Others

Yet another chapter that was hard. I've found it's hard to write for this story recently, which is causing the side stories to fall further behind.

I'm feeling more motivated than ever but n...

Interest Poll

So I'd like to start doing a little more with the Patreon. I know "patron numbers are going down" is an odd time to start caring more but I think emotional capacity wise, I'm in a much better place...

Chapter 151 - Arc 10 - Why Are You Still Here?

This chapter fought the shit out of me, which is a shame because it was pretty important.
A part of it was not knowing exactly what was going into it, which is something I can actually fix. I've...

Chapter delay

Was gonna post this morning and just not bother with the notice but here we are, my beta needs to sleep and I'm still editing it myself.

I can physically force the words on the page but I can...

Jiraiya and the Hokage: Pre-Chunin Exam meeting

I chose not to post this right away to avoid an issue and actually completely forgot about it.

Whoops.

This takes place pre-chunin exams, and sheds a little light on the Hokage's positi...

Chapter 150 - Arc 10 - Pre-ordered Hugs

Things are moving along and I am happy. While not the biggest chapter, I no less enjoyed this one a lot. Next week we can get into some more action, and the week after that I think Naruto's back? S...

Chapter 149 - Arc 10 - The Game: Different Perspective

There's a specific line in here I'm not sure anyone will see the significance of until it comes up later. I'm okay with that.

Sorry this is so late. I actually had it done a while ago but my...

Chapter 148 - Arc 10 - The Game: Live a Little

I liked this one, I think this came out pretty okay.
Beta's mad they have to wait till next week.

Thank you for your support.

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Being desensitized to some...

Doing Right By Her Parents Pt 2, The Spar

So, I've kinda wanted to do something like this for a long time. Sakura's parents have a very unique place in this story but because of how technically early in the train of events we've been I hav...

Changelog 127-131 (Clocktower)

The Patreon chapters have been edited up to 131, even if 129 is currently what the public has access to, because CH 131 is extremely important and needed very urgent fixing. I always strive to do m...

Chapter 147 - Arc 10 - The Game: This Is In Fact, a Death Game

We're finally at 201 guys, sometime in the next week we'll drop below 200, and I'll- do absolutely nothing about it. A big part of figuring out the new schedule was understanding that this story ca...

Mebuki: Bonding with Haku and Neji

I have wanted to write this one for so freaking long. Holy crap.

Thank you for your support, and please enjoy Sakura sharing the braincell.

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City Planning with a "Random Dude"

This one takes place waaaaay back, it's been on the poll for like 6 months.
Remember when Sakura was constantly doing city planning research during Arc 3 and to a lesser extent Arc 5? That.

Sakura Dress Up Game: Hinata

This one was really fun. Aliya recommended it after a comment Hinata made in a recent chapter, and I was just like "yes, I do want to write that, let's put it in the poll."
Then I forgot to put ...

Chapter 146 - Arc 10 - The Game: Plans Always Seem To Burn

This was a good one. I like this.
That's about it, great time, good start, good mid twist, good ending with Kiba.
Yeah I'm happy. Enjoy.
Thanks for the support.

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Village Arrest: Doing Right by Her Parents

I've wanted to do this one for a while, it just hasn't been interesting enough to get all those votes. Either way, I really like this one.

It actually has a part 2 setup at the end, not sure...

Chapter 145 - Arc 10 - The Game: The Mountain Notification

4400 words or so, big ol chappie.
I am so glad I had this one outlined already. Getting sick really screwed me up, I guess that's the problem with tight schedules.

Really giving the side c...

One day delay again

So last week I posted the chapter for sure I wasn't gonna need to delay. I was sure of it.
I was so sure I went out and boasted.

I then proceeded to get very sick. There was this one day ...

Side Story Ideas

So currently I'm pretty behind on side stories, and in part that's because I'm struggling to come up with ideas. When I initially made side stories, especially weekly side stories, it was intended ...

Chapter 144 - Arc 10 - The Game: The Item Shop!

Thank you for being patient with me.
As I said in the discord, I do tentatively think this might be the last late chapter for quite some time. I'm mostly caught up on things, and my stress level...

Gonna be a day late

I want to get back to warning you all since it's one real update a week now.
Due to being behind on other things and work I sort of forgot. Like I know that sounds crazy but that's what happened...

The Second Festival Date

This one's been done a few days, the Beta had some personal issues to take care of.
This was requested by one of the $10 patrons directly, and did get voted on recently.
I think I did a good ...

Inoichi's Perspective: Confronting Mizuki

So this one's a little odd. I put this on the vote literally like 8 months ago. It was intended to hint at a lot of stuff while giving a little bit of context. Except it's been so long that a lot o...

Changelog (122-126)

Significant changes this time. Now that 143 just released here and 126 released publically, it's time to do our 5 chapter review.

Ch 122 - Mostly flavor text, but I did add in a reference to...

Chapter 143 - Arc 10 - The Game: "They're dumb!", Feeding the Dog

This is actually another example of why the once per week, super chapters are good.
I had a bad week. I've argued with my fiance, I've been way too obsessively drawn into Noita, I've had a lot o...

Chapter 142 - Arc 10 - The Game: Waking up To The Sun's Warm Grace

This is a little later than I wanted but it was for good reason. I used some of the free time gained by not doing two chapters to give this an extra long look over. Except while I was doing that su...

Figured it out/Focus shift announcement

So I was writing CH 142 and 143 for Arc 10 and almost immediately realized they felt different. Snappy, cute, fun. I was genuinely blown away by how much better they felt, which of course made me r...

Chapter 141 - Arc 10 - The Game: Finally Understanding What's Going On

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So, people agreed pretty hard that I should just continue. Of 8 voters only 2 said they would like me to redo some stuff, and upon chatting with one of the two on Disco...

Introducting the Dog

(Discord inside joke seen in title)

I had this one a few days ago but I sorta barraged the Beta with a lot of stuff all at once and, well that's sort of on me. They think it looked fine thoug...