Inuyoukai's Author Challenges

by Inuyoukai52

Basically, this is my dumping ground for ideas that I have neither the time, patience, or ability to fulfill in a story. My rules might seem a bit strict, but its mainly to ensure a unique story. NOTE; this first chapter is just the rules, I'm having someone go over them to make sure they're reasonable.

2. Challenge 1 Ashura Naruto

Challenge # 1

Naruto awakens Ashura's spirit much earlier than in canon. Somewhere during the training time skip would be great, but also during the valley of the end works. Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT let him have full control immediately. I want him to only be able to control one of the chakra spheres in the beginning, and only in rudimentary ways such as throwing it and expanding it into a shield. No rinnegan for him either, as it would defeat the purpose of choosing just this particular skill set. I want to see what someone with Naruto's creativity can do with perfectly malleable chakra in his hands.

Pairing options; As this is the first challenge I am posting, I will allow NaruHina. Alternatives might include Fu and possibly yugito (You'd have to be really compelling for it though).

No Naru/Saku. No yaoi. Period. Also, you can do gender bender, but you have to talk to me about it first.

All Romances must take time to come to fruition. There can be no "I met her today and fell in love instantly" bullshit. I want it to take at least 6-7 chapters (depends on how long they are of course) or around 30k words before the relationship actually gets off the ground. In addition to this, they wont instantly be a perfect couple. There will be fights, and there may even be a temporary breakup. Also, no arranged marriages for this one, they work well in certain stories but I don't think itll work out in this one.

Other requirements; Eventually, I want Sasuke to unlock Indra early as well, but a good bit after Naruto. A good idea for this would be to make him awaken it right after his battle with Itachi. On top of that, I want him to come back to Konoha after he meets Itachi. This is non-negotiable in my opinion. A possible change that might facilitate this is that Itachi isn't sick, and therefore he survives to explain what happened in his own words. Its up to you if he lives or dies after that, but Sasuke will get the EMS, and he will also go back to Konoha.

No bashing. I stated this in my overarching rules, but seriously, don't.

If possible, I'd like Jiraiya to live, as even though his death was a major turning point for Naruto, he's such a wonderful character that his death was a big downer. On top of that, Naruto doesn't grow enough from his death in Canon anyways, and he seems to even forget about him later on, along with everyone else.

This one is gonna be a little interesting… I want a Grey Orochimaru. He's not evil, but hes not good. He looks out for himself, but doesn't seek to harm others. This means you either have to do away with his invasion, or give an alternative reason for it. Basically, he will only be focused on his eternal life, and won't give a shit about Konoha, or any of the other villages unless they interfere. This also means that he most likely will not be killed by Sasuke, and he will also not try to take him over. This is kind of a difficult requirement, so its optional.