(Completely rewritten as of 20/01/19 because the previous bio was cringe-worthy af.)

I have a folder on DeviantArt now which is dedicated to companion drawings to Hinata's Hero. to get there, copy the following link, replace the (dot)-'s with actual dots, and paste it into the bar at the top of your browser.

www(dot)deviantart(dot)com/LabraBell/gallery/69600777/Hinata-s-Hero-Companion-drawings

My name is LabraBell. Anyone who writes with me will know me as Narutomanic or FanficFanatic, and anyone who knows me on a friendly basis knows me as Emma. Some people call me Em, and for some reason that makes me happy.

I am female, 18 years old, and have a lot of emotional issues. But without those issues this fanfiction account would never have been born, so I can't help but be very slightly thankful for it.

Why I joined FF.net

It's been around a year since I joined FF.net. I had just started GCSE english language resit in college at the time, and my tutor Aretha had told me I was really skilled with writing. She told me she had no doubt that I'd pass my first resit. Alas, I did just that.

Aretha taught me that I should write a skeleton story, that I could adapt to any of the potential questions in the exam. I wrote that story over and over again, committing it to memory and improving it every time. The skeleton story was very loosely based around a traumatic event that had happened to me in my childhood, so I was able to describe the emotions pretty well.

I was really into Naruto fanfiction at the time, so after a while of thinking and rethinking the same story, I eventually came to realise that I could put this story into the Narutoverse.

And so, Hinata's Hero was born.

It was rough around the edges, it was rushed and poorly written. Not to mention the amount of spelling and grammar mistakes as well as structural errors that came as a result of doing everything on the mobile version of FF. I was truly green when it came to writing fanfiction.

But as I finally got a computer (Ancient potato as it is) and started to invest more time and effort into making the story flow better, my ability as a writer grew.

Around November last year, I went to hospital following an attempted overdose. Though my memory of those few months is pretty vague now, I know that the extent of my emotional turmoil caused me to take a totally unplanned break from writing. For a long time I would look at the previous chapters of my work, and I wouldn't be able to think of a single thing to write about it. Negative reviews on Hinata's Hero, a total botched job of Dealing with It and a fatal mistake in Kako to Mirai meant that the three stories I had put so much time into were falling flat, and I no longer had the motivation to continue.

Then, one day, I came back to fanfiction, and discovered I had three beta requests!

Two of them were for stories I couldn't get into. One of those weren't replied to anyway. But one person did reply. She still needed a beta, and the story was an amazing read, and so I became a beta.

Beta writing for someone else, reading a story with the sole purpose of helping to improve it, was the catalyst that brought me to finally get back into writing for myself.

In the break I had taken, my writing abilities had somehow skyrocketed. Coupled with the fact that beta reading provided me with a way to look at my fics from a completely different perspective, I came to realise that I had improved all around, to the point that everything I had previously written was absolute trash compared to anything else I've written.

With Kako to Mirai, there was little else for us to do than republish. The content that had been added, coupled with the review that had been made about it, meant that there would be little chance to redeem it. The original intention was to keep the first few chapters, and cut out the one that we'd made a fatal mistake on, and continue from there. But as I was reading through, I just couldn't help but realise that there were so many issues with what had been written in the first place. Thus I made the decision to write it all over again.

After a while I realised that I'd been neglecting Hinata's Hero. Because it was such a long story at the time, I decided to re-read the whole thing so that I knew what to write next. But again, I couldn't get further than the first few chapters without cringing - and I mean cringing HARD - at the child-like writing I had done it in. Yes I had been using a *Guh* mobile phone to write it, but that was still no excuse for the terrible quality. I remember when I was first writing those chapters, I'd look back and apologise for such a long one!

As if 500 words is a long chapter.

So, naturally, I decided to rewrite that too. The same person that had been posting negative remarks on my stories decided to post them here too, and this time I came to realise that he wasn't just hating on my stories as I had selfishly claimed, but was providing constructive criticism to tell me how to improve (albeit in a pretty aggressive way.) Now that I'm listening to him, as well as his remarks of the past, my writing is so much better.

I used to rush through parts of a story, writing as little as possible and getting through scenes as fast as I could so that I could get to writing the parts I really wanted to write. I realise now that that was a mistake, and as such now I am putting a lot more time into small plot advancements.

-Kinda spoilers in the square brackets-

[For example, when Naruto went through the incident in Hinata's Hero, I sort of rushed through the next couple of scenes in order to get to the part about him waking up in hospital. I rushed through the wave arc because I didn't really want to write it out. I rushed because I found writing certain parts to be boring and annoying and I thought that people would prefer me to get chapters out as fast as possible.]

But now I know that writing is about patience as much as being good at writing. My writing was poor quality primarily because of my inability to take time making sure a scene looked right, and made sense. As I have matured into adulthood over the past few months, my writing has improved on a basic sense, but at least 70% of my skill has improved because I've taken more care to create a story that people would want to read, rather than one that has "meh" content, and rushes over most things.

Naruto's clones and their difference from canon

I've written a full guide on how Naruto's clones work in my fanfictions, as I was not happy with the way they worked previously. This will apply to all fics.

In canon, Naruto would create 1 clone, and it would take half of his chakra.

Creating a second clone would split his chakra in half once more, meaning the first clone had 50% chakra, the second has 25% and Naruto has 25%.

By that logic if the first clone created another clone, the chakra would be split in half again. So Naruto would have 25%, and all three clones would have 25%.

I don't like this, as even a chakra powerhouse like Naruto would feel the strain after splitting his chakra not hundreds, but thousands of times. It just doesn’t logically hold up, especially when you consider that the clones’ chakra just dissipates into thin air when they dispel.

It would make sense as to why it’s considered a kinjutsu, but it just doesn’t hold up to the numerous plotholes that can be poked into it.

So naturally, to prevent any plot holes in the future, I’ve come up with a slightly more complicated, but better flowing alternative.

Instead of a clean split, Naruto’s chakra is shared equally between all of the clones he creates. Instead of 50%/25%/25%, the scenario above would become 33.3%/33.3%/33.3%. When Naruto creates his first clone it would split 50/50, same as before, but creating a second clone would equalise the chakra between the three of them.

Imagine a barrel of water, which has a hole in the bottom leading to another barrel. The water will flow from the first barrel and into the second until the two barrels are at the same water level. If you add a third barrel to them, the water will flow from the first and second and into the third, until all three barrels are filled to the same level. When a barrel is taken away the water is poured back into the original, to spread evenly between the rest of them.

So no matter how many clones he makes, they’re all going to have the same amount of chakra.

The idea that Naruto can have a clone dispel and retain the memories it held, yet not retain the chakra it held, is pretty stupid in my opinion. So I’ve made a change to that too.

Rather than losing all of the chakra that the clone holds, it instead costs a sizeable amount of chakra to actually create a clone – enough that it can drastically affect the chakra levels of a normal shinobi below chuunin rank. For a shinobi of chuunin rank the cost of creating a clone generally isn’t worth expending for the benefits that come from having a clone, and so oftentimes the only ninja who use the shadow clone technique are those of rank jounin and above.

Because of the cost there are very few people who can create more than a few clones, which is why it’s a kinjutsu.

When a clone is dispelled, other than the original cost for creating it, any chakra it held is retained.

For the sake of reference, a clone created by Naruto is a primary clone. If a primary clone creates a clone of its own, that clone is called a secondary clone.

If a primary clone creates a secondary clone, Naruto’s chakra levels are unchanged, save for the cost of creating a clone in the first place. By this I mean that the chakra isn’t shared evenly between all the primary clones as well as the secondary clones – the secondary only gets chakra from the primary that created it.

So if Naruto created three clones, meaning each has 25% chakra, then one of the primary clones created a secondary, the two of them would have 12.5%.

If Naruto created a fourth clone, the chakra levels would change as if there were no secondaries. So the clone that created a secondary would receive an equal amount of chakra to the rest of the primaries, and then it would be shared between the secondaries after. It’s a sort of relative thing.

Warning: lots of numbers next.

Let’s imagine Naruto had 3 clones again. 25% chakra. Clone #1 creates a clone of its own, meaning it has 12.5% and the secondary has 12.5%. Just like before.

Naruto creates a fourth clone, bringing his chakra to 20%. All of the primary clones’ chakra levels decrease to represent this, meaning that the secondary clone that clone #1 created is reduced to 10% chakra, and so on.

So you can consider that a primary clone and its secondary clones are all classed as one group with their total chakra level being equal to that of one primary clone without any secondaries.

Hope that makes sense lol. But anyway, that’s the description of the two changes I’m making regarding clones in the narutoverse.

Profile written, checked and factually correct as of Wednesday, 29th May 2019.