Author's Note of Extreme Lateness and FUCKED UP STUFF!!

So let's do a small checklist, okay? Try not to kill me through your computer screens before I finish.

Writer's Block?: CHECK.
This thing has been the major problem since I've returned. I've kept coming back to try and finish the next chapter, but every time I do I end up writing and then erasing over five pages of junk. I've even put this on hold and started reading some real books from real authors (it's my way of getting back into the swing of writing), but even that doesn't really do anything. Then I started reading my own story from the beginning to reacquaint myself with the story flow, but...well...see Personal Dislike of Writing

Real Life?: CHECK
I've started college, have been at it for a little while now, and it's mostly sucked up my free time during the day. It's probably not nearly as hard as others have it, but still I've had to really cut back on all my personal likes and hobbies to focus on it enough to pass my classes. So updates will never be scheduled anymore and pretty much come whenever I have the time. Of course, I have to actually start updating again for that to really count...(sweat drop). Want more details? See after Personal Dislike of Writing

Changing Ideas?: CHECK
As any author could tell you, especially a fanfiction author who's story revolves around a still going manga in real life, ideas come and go like that (snaps fingers). Now not too much has really changed in my story, especially when it comes to the main plot and such, but details behind it has. Mostly details involving people like Madara Uchiha, Shisui Uchiha, and the various Kage's of other nations.

-- Shisui I feel has never really been given the proper spotlight in any fanfiction. He exists in them for about as long as he's needed to be killed, and even then they don't go into details about his appearance, skills, background, and personality. I want to give Shisui what he deserves, give him life instead of simply painting him into the corner of my masterpiece. And the only way to do that...

-- The Kage's, in the manga, are all slowly being revealed. As of this author's note, we know of the Hokage(Tsunade), Kazekage(Gaara), Raikage(Kirabi's older brother), and a former Mizukage(Madara). In my story, only Tsunade is going to be the same. It's not too much of a spoiler really for me to say simply that Madara never took a position of Kage, in any land, especially not Mizukage in my story. The Mizukage I've made has already been spoken of by Naruto as being a sadistic and cruel man, but I haven't really gone too far into developing him or the remaining Seven Swordsmen, two of which still remained with him during the untold 4 years in my story. As such, with two more Kage's needed to be made for my story, I have to really delve into developing my characters more so that they're more than simply a bad guy or Kage that the main characters barely know and deal with in just one chapter or more. No, they need to live just like Shisui, which again can only be done by...

-- Lastly there's Madara. Ah Madara, the big bad, mask wearing leader of Akatsuki and former clan head of the Uchiha's. So much to do with him, so much...And I'm not telling ya'll a damn thing too! (Nyah! (sticks out tongue))

Personal Dislike of Writing?: CHECK, CHECK, CHECK!!
Now this is perhaps the most important problem of them all, far more so even than real life and writer's block. You see, after I re-read my story from beginning to end, I realized something. The story was good, I'll allow myself that much praise, but the details were sketchy and, being the author, I knew that there were holes in the plot that would only expand as the story, as it was, went on. It probably wouldn't have mattered if I had simply broken my writer's block before re-reading it, and I doubt anyone would've cared about the holes, but I did re-read it and I do care.

-- Problem 1: Naruto in this story is powerful, so this does count as a Super!Naruto story. I planned for that, and the enemies he'll face by the end will give him a damn good run for his money. But how does he do it, how does he go from a first year student in the Academy to a member of the old and later the new Akatsuki that he personally helped create by fighting alongside Itachi and the others? How did he manage to fight a two year war, keep the whole damn thing a secret to the outside world, and still manage to kill the Mizukage personally?(Spoilers, Gasp!) How did he go from zero, to hero? Some people don't give too much detail behind such things, and that's fine, because it works in most cases. Most people don't give an explanation behind the lost years in Naruto's life, during which he of course becomes Super!Naruto. But I planned to, I wanted to show what happened, because there was practically an whole story by itself involved, and I made an entire arc for the sole purpose of telling the tale to you. But then, when I looked at how Naruto was during the Chuunin Exam arc, along with several other flaws behind it, I realized something was wrong. Not telling you more about it though.

-- Problem 2: Backstory is often the flawed aspect of even the best fanfiction author's story. How did this guy get so strong, who did this or that against these people or that person, why can't so and so do this or why is it that the problem they have is so hard yet stupid, and the most infamous of them all...the Biju. The Biju just by themselves have been the center point behind over a hundred different forms of history for any fanfiction, since nobody can actually say anything solid about them or where they came from. Hell, I doubt we'll ever get a straight answer about them, not even from Kishimoto. And although some of them have actually been revealed in the manga, the infamous fan-made Legend of the Tailed Beasts has more influenced what the Biju are in fanfictions than the actual stuff, and I myself use LoftheTB for the Biju in my story...to a point. But the Biju are only a piece of my own stories backstory that I need to define, and that's all I'm saying about this problem.

-- Problem 3: Relationships, whether simply talking about teams or love, are a diverse topic in terms of details. I'm sure all of you are already familiar with the usual NaruHina kind of stories that fill this website.
Ex. ("Oh Naruto-kun! I love u, pleas kiss me!" Hinata cried. "Okay Hinata-chan, u are my one tru love!" Naruto replied.) I intentionally used 'u' and misspellings to prove my point.
...I may have exaggerated, even in that small example, but the point stands. True author's build a real relationship, something full of love, hate, problems, sorrow, lust, beginnings and ends, and with proper grammar and spelling! True love can and does have it's place sometimes, but not often, so the author must show that. Even friendship relationships need building to be real, and not even Naruto can really just become close friends with anyone. The only reason he gets along with canon Gaara and canon Haku, despite having only been around the two for only a few hours each time, is because they all understand each other, Haku because of their troubled pasts and Gaara the same with their status of jinchuriki added on. In my story, Naruto x Haku does have history, and a reasonable explanation for why Zabuza's tool comes to be the Haku already shown in my story, but not enough for me to be happy with once I start telling the story behind the 4 years.

-- Problem 4: OC's...damn them, damn them all to hell, even the ones I make! Original Character's can either be some of the best people in a story, the uber powerful guy that practically steals all the limelight from the main characters, a good side/support character that helps other canon characters whenever the story calls for it, be a person that's killed off and simply there to make that action possible, make things normally impossible possible, or fall into that horrid and terribly unwanted title of Mary Sue's. My OC's, Hinote and Uindo, are not Mary Sue's, but hold all the potential to be one if I do them and their history wrong. And they're not the only one's I have to watch out for...nuff said.

IN CONCLUSION!!

I've already done one re-write of this story, but that has apparently failed to do this story justice. It's still good, oh no don't get the idea it isn't, but this story can be so much more. And so, despite everything inside me telling me not to, I am indeed putting this thing on Hiatus as of right now, so that I can re-write this thing from the ground up! And the funny part about all of this? I decided the fate of this story by flipping a bloody coin. It landed on heads, care to guess what that meant?

Go ahead and call the hitmen, I deserve it, really. I'm sorry for doing this, but I really can't finish this story until I re-write it. &#! I hate doing this, I really really do! But...sigh. On the small plus side, I'm not going to erase any chapters and I'm going to keep this story up until the new version is complete. From there, I guess I'll leave it to a vote as to what'll happen to the old version. In fact, I'm setting up that vote once I finish this author's note. It'll be on my author page, go and vote whenever you feel like it.

Also...in case nobody ever noticed, I've put up a small collection of story ideas that I've decided to put up for adoption. It's story ideas that I personally can't seem to write, but also personally believe shouldn't simply be discarded because of that. They're actually pretty good I think, and I'd love it if someone would contact me and ask to adopt it. I'll even let people adopt the same story even after someone already has. And as a bonus, once you do start writing it, I'll leave a link to your page so people can go and read it. Seriously, people, think about it.

Well that's all for now...sorry once again...peace.

-Oni244