Insanity was interesting, Naruto had found over the three plus weeks that he had been trapped in this strange prison.

Before, he had resolved that he was the only sane person in the world—the damn fox could have been counted among that elite club, but she was far too fascinated by genitalia for Naruto's comfort, so no membership for her! Before, he had been sane. It true—he really, truly had! He had been surrounded by a tornado of insanity of the bat-shit variety, and he had been the eye of that damned storm! But now?

He glanced down at the straitjacket that he had been wearing for near a month. Well, at least he was dressed appropriately for his newfound mental state, he thought. Though he really would have preferred the padded cell to his new prison, he decided as he glared at the floating walls of strange symbols that had descended and imprisoned him.

Naruto walked briskly from a confused Mighty Gai before the man cou

The line of symbols vanished only to be replaced by a new one, as they always were the blonde ninja had noticed.

Anko stared at the abomination before and vowed she would hunt down her old sensei and kill him for his hand in this.

That line of strange symbols were wiped from reality.

Naruto dared not touch any of them, having learned all too well the cause-effect relationship that was established by him touching the strange symbols. It could be summed, mathematically, as the following:

Dumbass notion to touch symbols + Actual touching = Pain for Naruto.

Naruto was thinking of submitting it for review and possible publication. He didn't quite know who or where might be interested in his thoughts, but the idle musings helped to stave off the insanity that was slowly entering his mind.

Naruto gazed mournfully down at his stomach, wishing that he could speak with Victoria. She could shove her breasts directly into his face at this point and he doubted that he would even care. He just wanted to talk to someone.

His boredom had given rise to insanity, Naruto knew. He was insane—but he was still sane enough to know it. He figured that put him ahead of the game. Naruto knew he was insane because he had begun hearing voices!

"Stop narrating about my insanity!" Naruto yelled to the air, glaring at no point in particular as he once more heard the voice that felt the need to describe each of his actions.

Naruto heard the voice describe his yelling and simply let out a sigh, mourning the loss of his sanity. Hearing voices was not a new experience to the young ninja, per se, but he knew for a fact that the previous voice he heard had been Victoria, and the fact of her existence was carved into the minds of fears of his entire village.

"Thank you, Mr. Narrator," Naruto grumbled, having decided to give a name to the voice he was hearing. The voice narrated his actions, so Naruto thought the name "Narrator" was very appropriate—though he was ignorant of just how much he was breaking an already very fragile Fourth Wall.

"What's the fourth wall?" Naruto thought. He vaguely recalled mentioning it himself during a conversation with Victoria, but the memory seemed ethereal and fleeting in his mind.

"'Ethereal?'" Naruto repeated cynically. "Great, now the voice is using words that I don't even understand," he spat bitterly. "My own madness is mocking me."

Naruto suddenly fell to the floor, his eyes rolled into the back of his head as the voice suddenly vanished from his mind. He had not noticed it, but the block of writing he had been trapped in had vanished, and the narrative resumed once more.

Authors Note: Okay, sorry for the long delay! I can assure that it didn't have anything to do with Dragon Age 2 being released. Nope. Not a single bit.

The truth is, I know what I want to incorporate long-term into this story, but I had little idea how to get from Point A to Point B. Something that really shouldn't matter in a story that by its very nature is pure chaos and has no plot, but there you have it.

So I thought to myself, if this is a story about fan fiction clichés and Naruto plot elements, then why can't writers' blocks and long updates become part of the story, too? And so this stop-gap was born!

The good news is, this chapter has cleared the way for the next phase of insanity! I promise the next update will not be near a month.