Top Favorite fics

1) Sins of the Past

2) Training for the Job

3) Never Cut Twice

4) Foxhound

5) The Ice Princess of Konoha

This isnt all just me complaining. Some of it Im not. But ya, whatever ~

At this point I have stopped reading Naru/Hina fics in their entirety, whats up with every author and their brother/sister writing either Yaoi or Naru/Hina? I wouldnt have a problem with it if they were good fics, but Ive become so jaded from SO many badly written Naru/Hina fics that I just dont bother even trying to read them anymore and if I see a fic is going to be Naru/Hina after I started reading it I stop, because Ive seen a whole of 1 (ONE) author on this sight successfully make me believe that it was a realistic "coming together"so to speak (karrafear). Other then that its always some stereotypical BS. Not saying that alot of the newer Naru/Saku fics arent doing the same thing because they are, but at least thats a bit more realistic because we do know that Naruto DOES want Sakura currently and has throughout the story. Even so I still get irritated when someone just has Sakura magically fall for Naruto all of the sudden for NO apparent reason. Having said all that my favorite pairings (not inside the actual story but for fics, cause quite frankly fics arent ABOUT cannon, if they were then why would we even bother reading them?)ahem, my favorite pairings are!

Weird ones! hehe, Naru/Tema, Naru/Ten, Naru/Ino, Naru/Kure, Naru/Anko, Naru/Tayu well... pretty much any Naru/Female aside from Hinata and sometimes Sakura these days.

ONWARDS with my Naru/Hina rant! OK FOLKS LISTEN UP! If in your story, Naruto is not the "happy idiot that trys really hard even tho hes failing"then Naru/Hina CANT WORK, because Hinata would have NO reason to like Naruto anymore. Come on people dont be dumb! Ive seen so many fics that could have been great, but they somehow try and force Naru/Hina in and in doing so wreck their own storyline in the process. (small caveat: If you change Hinata's character completely as well then you can make Naru/Hina work if Naruto isnt the "happy...see above" but its on you to make it work)

Now to Yaoi! I have no problems with people wanting to read/write yaoi, but come on folks there are so many of those out there now its rediculous, chances are anything you want to write about has already been done and redone. But thats offpoint. Anyways in closing, Yaoi/Yuri will appeal to some of your potential readers. Het will appeal to most of your potential readers as even avid Yaoi/Yuri readers will read het as well, whereas many Het readers will not read Yaoi/Yuri.

Another irritation! The proverbial "that couldnt happen in cannon!" or the "they are so OOC!" guess what folks, this ISNT cannon, these are FANFICS, treat them as such. People can do whatever the heck they want here its their story, let them tell it how they want!

Yet another! Why do people curse at the authors in their reviews? I cant begin to tell you how much that bothers me, if you really dont like it that much, why the heck are you reading it? Just leave, dont leave a review, just close it on move on to your next fic. As I said above, Authors are free to do as they wish within the restrictions placed on them by the site.

Potential Irritation! Be cautious when naming made up Jutsu's, make sure the name sounds good not just "whatever you could think of" an example of this would be: "Then Where When is Now, Book's 1-3"very good stories and after the first couple chapters of book 1 the technical aspects (IE Jutsu useage) is VERY good. Unfortunately, and this is my biggest irritant, KARM no jutsu... makes me wanna cry, wtf kinda name is that? Dageki Shi Soshi (strike of the four elements, roughly translated) would have been infinitely better. However as I said, some of the best Jutsu's every put in a fanfic are in those stories as well as a great storyline. If you are having problems figuring out jutsu names, look through other stories and as long as they arent originals pull them from there, if they are originals send em an email and ask if its cool if you borrow them. There are also Online English to Japanese dictionaries if your jutsu name in english might sound stupid, maybe it will sound cool in japanese. If jutsu's arent a main focal point in your story I suppose it really doesnt matter what you do with it.

To all of the Authors out there, you are all great, regardless of how reviewed your stories end up, the very fact that you take your time and energy to give us all something to read and enjoy is greatly appreciated. To all of you keep up the great work !