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Arc 9 Poll

So we have lost, a lot of people over the last couple of weeks. We're at an all time low for the last like 6 to 8 months.

The question has come up and been talked about in my groups and I've...

Chapter 140- Arc 9 - The end of subterfuge, Sakura reveals herself!

The end of the Arc is here and a lot of moves are suddenly made, next chapter starts on a new tone. Tomorrow I'll be hosting a poll of sorts to see what people thought of this arc and see if it cou...

Possible misstep - notice

So I had a Patron explain earlier why they didn't super like the Arc so far, as I've been wondering. I figured 'this is an unexpected shift' or 'I just don't have interest in other worlds' was a li...

Chapter 139- Arc 9 - Making a Move, a Shallow Trust Betrayed

Three big notes before I post here.
1. Lost a lot of patrons recently. It's not a big deal, and I somewhat expected it when I went full AU on us. This was always planned, and even foreshadowed, ...

Chapter 138 - Arc 9 - Sending a Message, and at Least there's Good News... kinda

Sakura being horrendously out of her depth has always been one of my favorite parts of the story and even if I don't think this arc is portraying quite the way I wanted, I will say her being out of...

Changelog (116-121)

116: Mostly just changed some wordings, cleaned things up, made it feel better. Some stress was taken off Pt 3 to make the Karin sequence a little more palatable without detracting from the potency...

Ino and Sakura: Medical studies?

So, in the original draft of this there was a very obscure and incredibly nerdy joke in the first part. I realized almost no one would get it, so I made it even more obscure, meaning either you don...

Chapter 137 - Arc 9 - Let's Play a Game: Studying, Dark Knights, and a glitch.

Some much needed expo is given in the form of Sakura studying and then some drop in.
It's what she does best, it'd be weird if she was presented with this much context and didn't open a book. 2025-02-25 15:57:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Wave Becomes Sakura Country

Another canon side story is here.
Poll will be up for $10 patrons for the next one in a bit, since I am behind those polls just go right out.

Enjoy the side story and thank you for your s...

Chapter 136 - Arc 9 - Let's Play a Game: A visit to the library, and Sakura Country

So here we are, Friday's chapter.
I also have the side story done which'll be posted later today.
My beta says this chapter felt good, it's "hitting its stride." So you know, there's some con...

Chapter 135 - Arc 9 - Let's Play a Game: Options

Sakura's in a bit of a place, and working her way out of it is half the fun.
Getting into it is of course also a part of the fun.
Some of the fun just gets lost in the wind, I don't know what...

Ino and the System: Trying her Hardest

This one was voted on by everyone! Because I messed up.
If you'd like to participate in future polls, feel free to join the $10 tier.
Now's actually a fantastic time to do that because I am b...

Chapter 134 - Arc 9 - Let's Play a Game: Learning her Part

One of the things I actually put a lot of effort into in this story is making the negative chapters not feel bad. My Beta has helped a lot with that recently, I really appreciate it.

As for ...

Chapter 133 - Arc 9 - Let's Play a Game: Setting the Stage

And with this chapter we kick off an entirely new arc. Technically last chapter started it but this is like, the important intro.
I think it's important to recognize when a tone has shifted, and...

Thoughts moving forward here

So I've been setting up the arc we've just entered for, probably six months now.
Technically there's been other stuff before that but the active efforts, six months.

And I always thought ...

Birthday delay

Hey it's my birthday, I'm gonna comply with everyone's demands and celebrate instead of writing tonight. So chapter'll probably be a day late.

Have a good day ya'll.

Chapter 132 - Arc 9 - Let's Play a Game: Setting the stakes, an alternate perspective

So to avoid overfocusing on them, the story officially assumes you've either read the side story: "Other...

Chapter 131 - Arc 9 - Let's Play a Game: Bad End Avoided, Question Mark?

This chapter is a big one. This is technically a potential quit point. It's a little jarring by nature, but I like this and I think anyone who would be hit too hard by this scene was ...

Poll winner, announcement (22)

So I don't normally do these but I kind of screwed up and made the poll public. I asked the two $10 patrons in the discord what to do about this and they said to just count their votes double, and ...

Changelog 109-115

109: Mostly just changed some wordings and made things clearer.

110: I changed a lot of wordings, made a lot of things clearer, the flashback sequence is less jarring.

111: Mostly just ...

Chapter 130 - Arc 8 - Forest of Quest: Questioning Existence

A lot is coming together here, and while it's not 100% how my outline originally intended this to go, I actually like this more. It's close. I had planned for a bit more in between but this is alre...

Side Story Poll (1/22/2025)

Alright, just two weeks behind again. Weirdly enough that's progress. Considering how busy I've been the past few weeks, how much work I've had to make up, and that the current actual chapter parts...

Dango with Anko: Peptalk of the Traumatized

This side story has been kind of done for a while now. The Beta didn't like it, then I didn't like it, then they were busy and then I was busy.

Anyway, little awkward but I think I got it to...

Chapter 129 - Arc 8 - Forest of Quest: Breaking the Rules

Some Chekhov's guns went off here.
Possibly more than I realized... Either way, have fun.

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The trees are hard to move through for the...

Chapter 128 - Arc 8 - Forest of Quest: Rally The Forces

As always, writing this arc is fun.

I contemplated switching the order of the scenes because the timeline is off a little bit and it feels a little awkward having the Gaara alert scene right ...

Testing the Mindswap Mechanics

This is a little confusing because mindswap is confusing to describe. I think I made it clearish, but uh, yeah I had fun here.

This takes place during the 2 months of "Village Arrest" Enjoy!...

Popping the Clones: Aftermath, the Hokage's Decision

“The carnage you caused is truly unheard of for two people inside their own village.” The Hokage’s voice scolds them harshly, and she can’t help but feel herself wilt a little.

She’...

Chapter 127 - Arc 8 - Forest of Quest: Playing with his food

Thank you for your patience, have a 4K chapter.

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“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu-” She has no idea how long she’s been cont...

Notice of delay

I don't normally do this because honestly, if I'm one day late I'm one day late. I'd rather not annoy people by telling them I overslept or underslept or some fuckery.

But today's special as...

Chapter 126 - Arc 8 - Forest of Quest: Avoid a Bad End, FOD

I'm super happy with this chapter, the beat is finally dropping. I've been dominoing this for a long time now and am happy to see them fall just right. This is probably the longest I've actually pl...