Disclaimer: I do not own Bakuman

In this chapter I talk about the lives of manga authors you might know if you read their mangas. Your probably wondering where I got those ideas on the things that happened in their lives. Well I learned it from someone on Youtube. And thank you Valrkya for editing this chapter.

It's been two months since Noriaka took his chapter in to get published and now he was in the same room as before with Eisuke hoping to finally have it published. He made two short stories for Sato and both of them weren't really exciting for Noriaka to write; they hurt his fingers making the story more than drawing manga did.

In the two months it took just to make the first chapter different Eiji had a streak of first place victories of his new manga. Noriaka became a fan of that manga-he found it to be an inspiration for him of analyzing his manga and making changes to it. Noriaka's regret was Eiji wasn't in the building the day he came back.

" Thank you for making those changes like I asked," said Eisuke. " Just because I didn't like them though doesn't mean other people wouldn't have but thank you anyways."

Noriaka didn't spend two months working on the chapter just to hear the first draft was fine the way it was.

When he was going through hell the only saving grace was that life in the manga world was so much fun.

" On the parts with the mistakes I don't get this line of ' feeding on chicken eggs'. Do you mind telling me that."

" I wanted to write an animal people don't slaughter like chickens instead of cows milk. See her brother believes he can swoon people when he steps forward before he slays them. He thinks of people kind of like animals that get butchered."

" Second problem is you bring in another psychotic character but you just ruin him by getting him arrested off screen. Other than that much better chapter."

Noriaki tapped his fingers like sticks on a drum picking the right moment to ask the big question all struggling mangaka's ask after handing in their first chapter.

" Is my chapter good enough for you to publish?"

Noriaki waited but Eisuke didn't respond. It seemed highly unlikely he was quiet to give him good news afterwards. Eisuke took the whole chapter in his hands and stood up.

" Your manga is going to be in a Jump Magazine. If your chapter is popular enough you could have a job working here. Even if you fail just know many artists start off high and then keep either attention or money when they're done."

Noriaki was happier than a kid watching a Disney movie. It was like a tickle in his brain showing him an alternate reality where he could live like a king. On the other hand he thought it was like someone was standing over him, taunting him that he published his manga too soon.

Sato and Noriaki were doing something together. It was Sato's treat to Noriaki that they would watch a play with his girlfriend by his side. The play was pretty good except one character overacted at times and that made him want to spit on him but he didn't.

After the play Sato treated Noriaki to a restaurant known for their wontang soup. Sato had the best table manners thanks to a class he took when he was in grade five.

Weird things happen to people to make them who they are. The author of Dragonball was bored with his work Dr. Slump so he tried making a new work and was allowed only if his new work was better than his episodic manga. For five days he worked on Dr. Slump and for the other two days he and an acquaintance tried thinking of a new work, but no ideas came to mind at first so they quit. It was on a day he would only give the new manga one last chance Akira, the author of Dragonball, worked with his editor to make a manga. Then Akira's wife walked in to give them some tea. After that she brought up that he watched Kung-fu movies when he worked on Dr. Slump.

Noriaki learned that reading a book from the worst bookstore he goes to, Chapters. He had pasta with lot easier of vegetables and Pesto sauce for his dinner. It was slicker than the food Noriaki was used to but it beat sushi with wasabi and horse radish.

The whole time Noriaki was sitting down eating pasta he saw Sato using his own napkins from home to rub grease off his food. Seeing him rub off the grease made Noriaki think little of himself for not working on a new manga in case the one he went to Eisuke didn't get serialized.

Noriaki was snapped out of his thoughts by Sato. Before he knew it he was hitting his seat because his hand was feeling reckless and he wanted to make sure he really was still in the restaurant. It was considered weird by Sato and his girlfriend but also charming.

" You're our special friend Noriaki." Sato said. " I think the waitress here couldn't keep her eyes off you. First date you get with a girl is on me."

Noriaki needed revision surgery because there was no way he was looking at a real person right now telling him this stuff. Was he for real?

That conversation went nowhere and eventually Noriaki walked home. On his way home he saw a shop with Bleach Volume's 4-6 on the display window. Noriaki knew about how Bleach was once the third most popular manga on Shonen Jump but dropped to rank 16th or lower and eventually not even the most die hard fans could finish it.

It all started when Tite Kubo was just an eighth grade student who wanted to give his favorite teacher something to remember him by before he left. Some speculate what he gave him was the first picture of Ichigo or his teacher in cool cloths-no matter the reason his teacher thought it was amazing and showed his new students what his student made.

Back then they had stage shows of people doing Bleach and it was one of the most dressed up in cosplay events. The first major arc was so badass and cool people thought the rest of the story would be that way, but the author Tite Kubo repeated the next arc the same as the Rescue Rukia arc before admitting he didn't like working in Shonen Jump. In the magazines that once showed Ichigo they had him in the front, but later they made him move further to the back of the magazine and put Monkey D. Luffy on the front beside Naruto and Goku.

His work was just good at one point and his downfall would probably help him in the next manga he creates. Maybe it would last more than fifteen years, maybe not. Noriaki just knew the more about manga and the people who create them he knows the more he can show people how much he's learned.