Hey guys, or anyone who happens to stumble on this that hasn't heard the news via The Last Ninja or my profile...
So this story. I came up with it in 2013. And haven't updated it since then. There are reasons why, and I will explain myself later. In any case, I have some big news. This story never left me, and guess what...It's coming back, remastered, and COMPLETE. What? Yes, I would say I've been thinking about doing this for over a year, maybe two, but it wasn't until this February, that I started finalizing my plans. 7 Days would be changed to Seven Devils, a very special and complete remaster and attempt at a real-time fanfic. It got put on the back burner though, and I wrote other fics. Then recently, soon after starting The Last Ninja, when was it, July?, it hit me that I was running out of time. So I pushed—okay, I SHOVED everything to the side and began working like mad on Seven Devils again.
I'm pleased to say that I am nearing the finish line and am confident that even if it is not the masterpiece I feel like it should be and has potential to be, it will be done before that point in time. See below, I just did the math:
(9/29) The Prologue: currently at 5,074 words.
(10/4)The First: currently at 7,660 words.
The Second: currently at 11,664 words.
The Third: currently at 10,012 words.
The Fourth: currently at 8,510 words.
The Fifth: currently at 5,725 words.
(unfinished) The Sixth: currently at 3,278 words.
(unfinished) The Seventh: currently at 3,246 words.
(?/?) (unfinished and undecided) The Epilogue: currently at 654 words.
Supplementary Marital:
(9/30) The Email: 62 words.
(10/5) Excerpts From Kakashi's Notebook: 723 words.
(Yes, the Sixth isn't even done yet there is already almost the same word count for the chapter after it. It's been like that from the start, trust me. Pre-writing everything has allowed me to work on everything almost simultaneously)
That is a total of 56,608 words that I have written with a month to go. And the last two chapters and epilogue are not even finished. The previous two before even them are in need of serious buffing up. But I have a month. A month. That should be enough time.
(The Spotify Playlist (I really couldn't resist...) is 60 songs. Feel free to check it out to see my poor tastes...that affect story and some are what I would even call certain character themes...Some of them were even Shogi songs. Hah. I never change. It's Seven Devils Playlist by shaxra15. )
It is my last pre-Boruto gen romp. Most likely. A love letter to what I fell in love with because the series is over and I need one last romp with the original crew, pre-adulthood.
I am wanting a sequel, yes, I am already thinking about it, it will be the characters as adults and Boruto will be a thing. If you think Seven Devils is gonna get pretty bad, a little dark towards the end, just wait until its sequel...I want to go balls to the wall with that one. (Yes, I am happily evil sometimes.) I hope it will not take me forever to write like everything else because the sequel will not be as freaking packed and busy as Seven Devils is. Just pulse-pounding. That is my hope at least. You have no idea how far I want to push it. No idea. *smiles evilly*
Anyway, please check out SD when it hits the site on the 29th of September, one month from now. It'll be fun. :)
And terrible...
Um, it'll probably be posted, mmm, early morning. 7:00 AM, or in the evening, 5:00 PM (EST) depending on how anxious I am. I don't think I'll be able to hold it any longer, whatever the case, morning or preferably evening, it'll be on the 29th of September. A Friday I believe...Gosh, I should know...I freaking wrote it like that.
PS NEVER ATTEMPT TO WRITE REAL TIME, EVEN PARTIAL. DO NOT DO IT. YOU WILL HATE YOURSELF AND SCRAMBLE ALL OVER YOUR DOCUMENTS, BASHING YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE WALL.
Oh, one thing more...There are, er, scenes in this that didn't make it into the final cut...A lot actually, and it is particularly a few Iruka and Naruto ones I'm missing in Seven Devils. This fic will be cleaned out to prevent spoilers but I'm going to leave scenes intact that I feel both serve as a time capsule of me and moments between the characters I don't want to let go of and want to be available, should someone get curious reading Seven Devils and wander over to the original. A lot of elements were removed, some were added, but regardless, this fic has got to get itself purged. Don't want spoilers. Not like there's much. It really hadn't gotten as far as Seven Devils has in the original timeline. Seven Devils' last paragraph has already been written.
The story of the seven days, they're coming. :) Please give it a shot if you liked this, all those years ago. It practically begins the exact same way...(Thank God for Copy and Paste) XD
