An Interlude with Kasumi Saki:

Well, you all know me from the fanfiction, so I guess I don't need to introduce myself. TrebleTwenty is reading the manga again for research purposes, so I thought I'd better say hi, cause who knows how long that's gonna take. I'm like, it's a fanfiction, just write whatever, and she's like, no, it's gotta stay similar, and like diverge from the original plot in a creative way and what do you know anyway? You're a figment of my imagination. Go away.

So, hi.

TrebleTwenty is very mean to me sometimes. She's saying that it she agrees with the reviewers! She's gonna let me get Pwned by Sakura! Me, her own creation! I mean, Sakura has pink hair! Seriously? Who has pink hair?

I don't wanna be Pwned. Whatever that is. It sounds painful and embarrassing.

She said that you guys think I'm a Mary Sue. This I found that teensiest bit upsetting. I don't wanna be unrealistic! I'm trying to be a wholesome, likeable character. I don't mean to be a namedropper! I really do know the Raikage! And is it my fault I'm good with a sword? No, it isn't! It's Kushimaru's!

TrebleTwenty is trying to make me more normal. I resent that. I'm trying to join Team 7 here! The less normal I am, the more I can fit in! Did she mention that Naruto scored 95 on the Mary Sue litmus test? My 29 pales in comparison!

I'm here to promise that not everyone loves me on first sight, and I am not the best ninja ever. So what if I share a plot-device bloodline limit with Naruto Mary Sues everywhere, and have a tragic past embarrassingly similar to Sasuke's? It doesn't mean I'm a bad character. I do have a slight problem that makes being a proper ninja extremely difficult, and according to TrebleTwenty, that makes everything okay. Including the identity of my future love interest. You will not be impressed. Believe me. I'm trying to tell her that nobody's gonna like it, but no, she's all like, it's my story, I can do whatever the hell I want with it, and I'm like, not if you want fans you can't. She's keeping the plot device bloodline against my better judgement, because it gives her an excuse to put her original villain in it. She used to be my sempai, before she murdered a close family member. It was only one, but can you see the similarity there? Exactly.

Honestly. It's like she doesn't even care anymore.

But she loves fans. She thinks that the story is terrible, and she's surprised anybody likes it. I have to admit, for a one-shot, it's pretty damn good. The parts I've read anyway. I didn't see the beginning because I didn't exist then.

Go look at me on deviantart in a minute please. I look awesome in coloured pencil. Photoshopped? Not so much. Oh no, I forgot, there's one of me in the mist now, and it looks so epically epic, I might die!

I'd like to say goodbye now, and see you in chapter 9, when it gets written. I hope it doesn't take too long, because I get really bored with nothing to do.

She has loads of stuff to do. She has school, but she hardly ever does that because she says it's dumb and boring. She's writing a book, but she hardly ever does that because she's a lazy arse. Oh, don't look at me like that, TT. You know it's true. Her favourite thing at the moment is her and Kas's manga, Yashikawa.

Okay, that was a shameless plug. What can I say? She's paying me in dango.

So now, I'd just like to say, don't judge me yet. I haven't been in it enough.

And so what if I have a T-shirt that says "I trained with the Seven Ninja Swordsmen. Beat that, Bitch"? You're just jealous.