Shinobino Atarashii Yoake
The scene is within a long, narrow room, the walls of which are lines with redwood shelves, upon which are scattered books and scrolls and loose papers and a few oddly shaped tools and weapons. As we near the end of the shelves, the room opens into a round area with suits of armor from various lands and eras lined up along the walls. Adjusting the helm on one set of armor is a rather thin young man with brown hair tied back, a short red beard and a pair of oval glasses, in crimson pajamas, black fingerless gloves, black slippers and a red plaid bathrobe.
"One moment, please," he says as he wipes a bit of dust off of the protective gear. Standing back and nodding in approval, he turns to you, "Welcome, dear readers, to another of the scattered sections of my psyche. For my new readers, I am Blood Brandy. I have begun this section, known as 'Shinobi no Atarashii Yoake' which should mean 'New Dawn of Shinobi', for any speakers of the Japanese language, I apologize if I have in any way butchered it. If I have, please relay a message and I will see about making any changes. This is like my 'Magical Beginnings' section, in that it is a repository for some of the many story ideas I crate based within the universe of Naruto. I will also be placing a specific rating for each story at the beginning of each chapter as well as any crossover and Genre information. Some are my reaction to stories and the challenges of others and others are challenges and ideas of my own invention. If any of my fellow writers wish to base a story on one of my works, I simply ask you let me know and I will place the name of the writer and the story at the bottom of the chapter."
"To begin, though, I would like to say a few things, and the first is about Uchiha Sasuke. I am aware that he has some fans out there, so I will warn you that he will be heavily vilified in many, if not all, of my stories. I have never really cared for the Uchiha boy, his views, his ideals, anything really. I will admit I pitied him for a while, and I can understand he lost his family and wished revenge, but any residual positive thoughts I had about him died when he had killed his brother, and I truly began to outright hate him when he attempted to kill his own teammate, simply because she had been taken hostage. To begin with, his goals were the reverse of what they should have been, a better revenge would have been to rebuild the clan his brother sought so hard to destroy, and with a number of well trained family members, then he could seek and destroy his brother. I also cannot respect his goal to become what he wanted so badly to kill by turning traitor himself. And then he turned against the village his brother wanted to protect, seeking its destruction, and no doubt if he achieves that, he will find something else to avenge, continuing on that path until someone kills him or he sees a need to seek vengeance upon himself. Sasuke seeks to destroy the village because the peace they enjoyed was at the cost of his clan, forgetting that if the Uchiha had attempted the Coup de tat, it would probably be them against most if not all other clans of the village, in my belief the clan, including Sasuke, would have still been wiped out, or at least some survive to flee the village, and the only main difference would be deaths outside of the clan would be higher."
"And finally there is his claim that Naruto doesn't know his level of suffering, and on that I agree, I think Naruto's suffering was on a somewhat higher level than Sasuke's. Sasuke knew his family, he knew how his father was, and he knew his mother loved him, as did his aunts, uncles and his older brother. Naruto never knew who his family was, whether they would have truly loved him or cared for him, or even wanted him. I don't think I can even imagine what it would be like to be an orphan, alone in a small apartment, agonizing over such things and never knowing the answer, wondering deep into the night if you look like your father or mother or a great uncle, if you might have family who don't know about you, if you could have had siblings."
"And while on the subject of Naruto's childhood, I have heard a few people say that it was stated that Naruto wasn't abused in his youth in cannon, and I have to say that I don't believe that. Naruto lived in a rather large town in which at least the majority of the civilian population despised his very existence, and he lived alone, I cannot believe that there weren't at least a few very bad incidents. And even if there weren't, the emotional neglect would cause possibly irreparable damage."
"And whilst we are on the subject of Konoha, I would like to point out the truth about something. So many people write about a council. The truth is that the council consists of only of Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane, and their only position is supposed to be in an advisory position. The Hokage still makes the decisions. And the two of them are said to hold views quite similar to Sarutobi, if somewhat more militaristic, they always want what is best for the village. And people seem to overplay their personalities, Koharu is a more reserved person than most seem to think, and Homura is more of an authoritarian. Danzo, on the other hand, is not a councilman, and seems more interested in his own power structure, and has little concern for anyone else. He says that he wants what is best for Konoha, but he allowed it to be destroyed, both by withholding his Root division and not allowing Naruto to be notified, so he could become Hokage, and is not above betraying whoever he needs to further his own needs. However, I will admit from later chapters that there may be a few things unknown about him, and he may have had a few…redeeming qualities at one point. And I will admit that, for his faults, he is what a military (or ninja) leader should be, strategic, decisive and, at times, ruthless. However, he seems to forget something, a leader without any followers, is really just a man on a walk. He almost condoned the complete destruction of the village, and what is the point of trying to defend a ruined, empty village."
"Back on the subject of the Jinchuuriki, I would like to say something about the beast, Kyuubi. Unless I have a very specific reason not to, I will be portraying the fox as a female. My reason for this is that as far as I have checked, Kitsune are, more often than not, female. In fact, in some areas it was once believed that any woman out at or after dusk could easily be a fox in disguise. Among many other abilities, some believed them to ba able to drain energy or life force through sexual contact, like western succubi."
"My final piece is on the people close to Naruto, beginning with Haruno Sakura, I understand there is a number of people who don't like her, and I will admit I didn't much care for her in the beginning, or for her recent self, it was a bit of a guilty pleasure to see her turned down, but I think some people push things a little too far concerning her. Young people can make mistakes with their friends, and she deserves to catch some trouble for the pain and trouble she had caused, but some take things too far, she is still human, so to speak. Next is Kakashi, him I don't really like, he was never really much of a teacher to the team and despite his talks about camaraderie he did show a blatant favoritism towards Sasuke. Now some say that he was teaching off screen, but if you take his personality into account, if Naruto had learned something, wouldn't he have used it, or shown it off, as soon as he could? Next is Jiraiya. I like his character, but I rather dislike many of his choices, primarily his choice to leave Naruto to the wolves, so to speak. Some would say that he was out to gather information on the Akatsuki, but the truth, as far as I can figure, is that he deemed tracking the traitor Orochimaru more important than checking in on his godson, he had only learned of the existence of the group because Orochimaru joined it. And to end on a positive note, I feel the need to mention Hyuga Hinata, she is one of my top five favorite girls in the entire series, and since it is not possible for the others, (Due to either being of the wrong relationship with or being anime-only characters) she is the one I truly hope will end paired with Naruto in the cannon manga, if there is a paired ending at all."
"And now that I am finished with that, I must be off to search for the pieces of stories scattered throughout my mind," Blood walked to the armor he was working and pushes the head back, the wall behind it spun around. Once it finished a complete turn, the armor came back, but the writer did not.