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Lord Marshall: Tell me that Riddick is dead, Aeyron, and I might just save your planet...

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Lord Marshal: ...FOR LAST.

Aeyron: The chances are good, Lord Marshall...

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Aeyron: ...that RIDDICK IS STILL ALIVE.

( More on The Chronicles of Riddick (no real spoilers) )

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So I lied about having this chapter done. It was almost done, but I couldn't seem to concentrate enough to finish. So, as much as it broke my heart have to post another super-short chapter in which nothing happened, I only put a part of the chapter up... but that was yesterday! Today, I have the whole chapter. If the added bits seem unnaturally short, that's because I ended the chapter earlier than originally planned. It's a stylistic thing - this way I don't have to change viewpoints mid-chapter. If they also seem unnaturally rushed, well... I have no excuse for that.

Prologue is here, Chapter 1, here.
Warnings, etc, are the same as before. Most notably, this is post manga and will likely very shortly be proven AU. Also, I'm never going to finish this.
Summary (whole story): "Naruto is forced a lose-lose situation, where failure means death, enslavement, or, worst of all, being stuck in second place; success means taking away his partner's purpose in life." That's partner in the platonic sense, guys.
Summary(this chapter): The Hokage gets to the part with the plot.

( Complete Chapter 2: Mission Statement (Tsunade) )

( Starting from the added bits )

I think I need motivation - boredom works well, but then again, I'm a naturally lazy person. In case you're interested, Tsunade was pretty easy to write. Well, this Tsunade was - you may have noticed that she doesn't have a whole lot in common with the real one. From easiest to hardest, I'd put the order at

Tsunade ---> Naruto ---> Sakura ---> Sasuke, although I expect that Jiraiya, when he shows up, will be the new hardest.

EDIT: AANNNDDD someone stole the gas out of my tank. Lovely neighborhood we have here, right V? That's what I get for parking the car out on the street. In my defense, gas prices are high, but they're not that high. The last time this happened I was with the family in Macedonia, and they were rationing.

I've actually finished another chapter of that Naruto fanfic thing, but in a rare display of restraint, I won't be posting it here in until tomorrow. I figure I'll give it day, look it over in the morning without the headache, sort of thing. In the meantime, and because I have no illusions about the quality of my own writing, here's some ( Naruto fanfiction recommendations ) I wrote up for keraha.

Also, my thoughts on current anime episodes/manga chapters ( (Naruto, Death Note, Fullmetal Alchemist, Monster, spoiler warnings inside) )These are all personal and probably vastly uninteresting to anyone else. Ah, well.

I still have no idea what to title this, so for now I'm calling it "Less Than Ideal." I also considered "Ending Means" and "What Thin Partitions," but with those I was sort of injecting a theme into something which isn't terribly thematic .... relying on the title to convey a message is sort of crutch, right? I guess I'll just pick some random line after I finish.

Wait, did I just say that? I'm not going to finish this, so forget it. Prologue is here.

Series: Naruto
Author: sub_divided
Email: onyabear@yahoo.com
Pairings: None, really. SasuNaru if you're obsessive. SakuLee if you squint.
Disclaimers: Not mine. I'd ruin it.
Description (whole story): "Naruto is forced into a lose-lose situation, where failure means death, enslavement, or, worst of all, being stuck in second place; success means taking away his partner's purpose in life."
Description (this chapter): Sakura at 17. From whence comes strength?


( Chapter 1: Because That's How it Is (Sakura) )

Problems I see with this one:
I think I made the "moral message" too obvious. Too much telling. And poor Sakura, so callously used for exposition purposes... not a lot happens in this chapter. Working in italics is both a pain and another crutch. Also, the style here is different from the style of the prologue. I wrote this one first, my first-ever piece of fanfiction for any series. So of course it's mostly an introspective (what you mean there's something else?).