Seishin

by Jeneva Mehr

(Removed) Naruto is becoming Hokage during the 4th Shinobi war. Sakura refuses his advances and he is pressured with the task of bringing peace to the world while trying to combat the mistakes of the past. When he meets a civilian woman his world begins to balance but how long will it be before his family is stolen from him again? Naruto and OC Kaori Hayashi.

Hello all,

As I am sure you have noticed, I have removed the story. I have done so because of the reasons below \(0 ~ 0)/. I have very much appreciated your reviews, support and questions and even those salty few who tried to tell me how I don't understand my own story; that gave me quite the laugh.

I will keep you updated if I rewrite this. I would very much like to but it is a huge time commitment so please don't hold your breath on my account.

Thanks all,

-J

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Hello all, I just wanted to address some things about my story so please take the time to read on.

I am a Women and Gender Studies Major, I work at a Women's Clinic and I teach sex education. My work deals a lot with gender and stereotypes. In this story I use a lot of these stereotypes, representations of unhealthy social and sexual relations and tropes that no longer match how I feel this story should have gone. I think Fanfiction is a great place to express oneself, one's imagination and such but I also think I have executed this without proper respect to the issues at hand. I will not go into detail now because this would turn into another 40-some chapters, but I want to point out to my readers that while my characters are fictional they can have a big impact on readers. I don't want readers to take away ideas that someone obsessing over another person is romantic or thrilling. For many people stalking and obsession are daily threats that are treated as desireable. It's not. The dynamic between my male and female characters is also unhealthy. I have pitted two women against each other, much like how our society tries to pit women against each other for men. This is wrong, this is simplistic and doesn't respect the complexities of social dynamics. I could have pitted Kaori and Sakura against each other and shown how unhealthy it was but I failed at that. I'm sorry.

I make the women in my story very weak, very shallow and they lack the depth that human beings deserve. I don't want to keep up these tropes because they have affected me, my friends and peers and people all over the planet. It has been a long journey to get past this and I value where I have come and where I am going in my understanding of this.

Over all, I would like to rewrite this story but I cannot. I may delete it entirely because it cannot be useful in this state. It is harmful, it is wrong and I am sad that I could not execute this story in a way that gave agency and autonomy to my characters. When I write I want my readers to take away some healthy awareness. I failed at that here.

I hope this encourages others to question their media more. We take a lot of wonderful things away from what we hear, read and see but we must be on guard in case unhealthy, poisonous tropes slip by.

Thank you very much.

- Jeneva