Hi! Thank you for looking at my profile. My name is Sakurano- surprise! I love animes and mangas, esp. Shoujos.

My fav. animes are gakuen Alice, Hunter X Hunter, Skip Beat, Kimi no Todoke, Special A, Naruto, and many many many many more!

For now I plan to write in accordance to the challenges given out in the Stories Galore Forum. This is my first attempt, and it will serve as my 'training' of sorts before I write a really long story of my own whose plot I thought of myself.

I also joincontests since prompts seem to be the sources of inspiration. lol. So far the contests I'm taking part in Wallflower OC contest by Papilio Ageha and The Underappreciated Pairs contest by Nispedana.

I love reviews, but I don't like flames. So please turn off your flame throwers.

Thanks!

Sakurano-chan

25 Reasons to Thank my Mother:

1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
"If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."

2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"

4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
"Because I said so, that's why.

5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."

6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

7. My mother taught t me IRONY.
"Keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about."

8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
"Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck?"

10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
"If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
"Stop acting like your father!"

15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."

16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
"Just wait until we get home."

17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when you get home!"

18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."

19. My mother taught me ESP.
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"

20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don’t come running to me."

21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
"You're just like your father."

23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
"Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
"When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

25. And my favourite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"

If you support gay marriage and want to show it, paste this into your profile.

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian

I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman

I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights

We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time

I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room

I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had...

I wish they could adopt me

I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again

I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear

We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men

I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me

I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman

I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman

I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male

I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men

I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that

I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual

I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me

I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind

I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love

I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male