A Series of Birthdays

by Llama Queen Katie

Basically what it says! This will be a gianormous fanfic with each chapter being its own fic, all centered around a specific character's birthday. Each chapter will also be posted on the birthday of whichever character it's about. Better summary inside.

1. Prologue

Hello, everybody! I got this idea sometime last year, when I started looking at the birthdays for the Naruto characters. I guess that I must have gotten the idea in September or October, because Naruto's b-day fic was the first one I wrote, and his b-day is October 10th. Anyway, I wrote the fic and had it ready on the 10th, but then the site was down for some stupid reason and wouldn't even let me access my log in page. So I figured, "Ah well, I'll leave it for next year." Then I thought, "Hey, if I'm already leaving this one for next year, why not start ALL the b-day fics next year? Then I can put it as one giant fanfic, and it will be made of epic win! Yay me!" So now here I am, and here you are.

Just as a quick little note as far as pairings for the fics go: In general, I will involve my favourite pairings at least somewhat in each fic, depending on who it's centered around and whether he/she would interact with each of those pairings. For example, though I love SasuNaru with all my heart, I sincerely doubt it'll play a part in Temari's birthday fic when I write it. So I'm including a list of all the pairings that I usually like to support/write about, and if I decide to break from any of those pairings for a chapter, I'll say something at the beginning: SasuNaru, KakaIru, ShikaTem, JiraiyaTsunade, KibaHina, InoSaku, MinatoKushina (duh), ItaDei, and that's about it for pairings I can see myself writing. There will definitely be some floating around with those, and not every fic will involve a pairing at all. I won't put a pairing list before each fanfic, and I won't say anything if the fic either doesn't involve any pairings, or only involves one or two. The ONLY time I will put anything about pairings (after now) is if the pairing I've chosen to feature is different from one of the ones on this list.

One more quick note on how much/how little Japanese I use in my fics; nearly all the Japanese I know has come from reading or watching Naruto related things, so I don't generally use much. All I really use are the names for the villages, some honorifics, and various other terms, such as "bijuu", "Jinchuuriki", as well as the names of all the bijuu (for example, it'll be "Kyuubi" instead of "Nine Tail" or anything like that). There may be other random Japanese terms I'll throw into a fic, but these are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head. The only people names I don't use the Japanese name for are things that only Naruto calls people, so Tsunade will be Grandma Tsunade when Naruto's talking to or about her, and Jiraiya will always be the Pervy Sage, just because I like those terms better. They make me giggle. XP And Shikamaru's catchphrase will always be the English dubbed version of "such a drag" because, again, it makes me giggle. Names will always use the Japanese style of having the last name first (ie "Uzumaki Naruto" instead of "Naruto Uzumaki") with the exceptions of Lee and Gai. They will, sort of, remain as they are in the English version ("Rock Lee" and "Maito Gai") simply because I'm pretty sure that's the way it's actually said for the Japanese version.

Okay, I think that's about it. I'm finally done blathering on and on. I think I'll have to make this a prologue chapter, just because it's so damn long. Oops. XP Ah well, it means I can post this now instead of waiting til January 19th, the first birthday on my list. Yes, that means you all just have to wait until then to get the first chapter. XP Sorry, all! Though I suppose it makes sense to have this as its own chapter, seeing as it gives all the info required for the fanfic, so yeah. I'll just shut up and post this thingy now. Lol.