My faithful readers and followers, I come to thee with sad tidings. I thank all of you for having the patience and grace to put up with my hiatus for Ruby Claims The Sapphire. However, I have decided to go for broke and remake the story and its chapters. When I first started this story, I was quite happy that I got to have a chance at writing on and sharing it with fellow readers such as myself.
The reason I have decided to rewrite this story are several reasons. I took a look back on some of the chapters and was rather disappointed with the turnout. I noticed the story plot I had originally intended was dragging off into random nothingness. My plotline consisted of Naruto's attempt to make a life for himself outside of the expectations of others. Also, was vexing that Naruto just readily accepted Sasuke's proposal of entering into a relationship so easily. Hello, princes don't typically kidnap girls off the street and go off the bat proclaiming how much they "love" and adore" them and then have the princess fall head over feet. Nevermind the earlier circumstances and deciding they love them anyway. Please! Naruto in this story is no daft bimbo nor is he gonna be some simpering damsel in distress waiting for a prince to come rescue him. While the new chapters will be slightly different they will take some liberties from the previous story.
There is also the matter of where the idea of such a story came from. A couple of years ago, I was on the net reading a story by hopesterocks titled "I will have you". The original summary intro was the same as mine but probably was meant to be different. For some reason, the author chose not to continue or was on immediate hiatus. Of course, I was tempted to take over the rest since the autor/authoress was making no move to do so. I admit there were some snags with the production process but I managed to improve quite a bit. Later on, there was a story request challenge by Amber Dawn-chan for several Naruto themed fictions; all of them being midevial style or Shakespearian. In the middle of writing the chapters, I was getting a lot of beef from not so polite people critiquing my story writing. Not wanting the risk of having it on alert of something (I wish now I had the nerve not to listen) I got fellow author GespenstKAF to edit and improve writing. Later on, I decided not to let a couple of close minded hypocritical people bully me about my writing style. I am proud to say I have improved on my story writing and am grateful to all my faithful readers and followers for their support and advice. I am rather saddened to know that I might be disappointing a lot of people but this is what I feel must be done.
On to the characters, I realized I made some of them a little O.C. Naruto displayed his typical anime personality; brash, cunning, stubborn, and loved to play pranks while his fiction part showed some timidity when in the face of terror or experiencing a bit of trauma. However, he has also shown a devious side when downgrading his enemies/attackers (via opposers). He will have some trauma in his life which will inhibit him from readily accepting any long term relationships. Sasuke will be a tad more persistent in breaking down the protagonist walls and earn his trust through means of coercion. Itachi will be in the story as well, but only as a separate area. Neji and Gaara will try to get the blonde for themselves while attempting to undo the other. As for the mysterious "Shadow", he will not be so vague as in the latter version. All the other characters and events will commence quickly and in tandem with intended plot.
I hope and pray you will like the redux version much better and will show better approval. Thank you all for reading and reviewing. I shall see you then. In the meantime, you are free to reread the story from the beginning. Until then, wait for the new version: Ruby Claims The Sapphire:Redux
Celestialfae out.
