Naruto Primer: Closing

Epilogue

Hi everyone. We would just like to say that we REALLY appreciate everyone following this story to the end! At first, we never thought this story would make QUITE the impression as it apparently did. If you could see what we originally titled it, you'd see that it was called 'Crack' because we thought the story was on crack.

Some of the inspiration we had for this story was from…you guessed it! Sideways Stories from Wayside School. The beginning sort of had the same format by telling you about each character and launching into random, plotless yet slightly plotful stories.

We had the twelve initial chapters and then we had twelve chapters where each character was sensibly paired up with another person that might prove to make in interesting plot. We planned on stopping right after Chapter 23, the one with Kiba and Naruto with the Uchiha Wallet. But then we decided we were having too much fun and hadn't quite yet had the teachers involved in any chapters so we wrote the first competition and the reactions afterwards.

There would be no ending it at 36 chapters, that was such a silly number! So we split them all into groups of three, alphabetizing them by their first names. Then we switched Neji and Lee. And, as some of you may have noticed, we failed to write Shino, Tenten and Shikamaru's chapter. Why? Because those are three extremely boring characters to be all together and it just wouldn't have come out all that interesting. So that's why you never found out what they were doing. Just assume that Shikamaru was looking at clouds, Shino was collecting bugs and Tenten was hiding under a rock.

To make up for not doing their chapter, we made three more chapters. The Slumber Party, Itachi's chapter and Gaara's chapter. Gaara and Itachi's chapters go back to the Wayside School format and the Slumber Party is just…well, on crack.

Then, since we enjoyed the competition to an unhealthy extent, we wrote a second one only we made is so we didn't have to think quite as much while writing it.

After, we figured that the females had a chapter so the men needed one. That's where the camping one came from. And what was our reason for poisoning all of them except for Neji, Sasuke and Lee? Hair color. Our next set of groups were arranged by hair color. Because those three had black hair, they got to play laser tag. Then we decided that we didn't want to work with the other hair groups and move STRAIGHT to the Sexy Ninja chapters.

That certainly was a crackish arc! We were originally going to make it so the teachers split them up according to their sexiness for one reason or another, but that seemed a little strange so we went to a character index and searched for a lady who could run the magazine. We got Suzume. Babykefka was kind enough to illustrate the chapter and now we shall pimp her picture because it's SO awesome! (at the bottom)

THEN, it's the Lil' chapters. We thought they would be a good winding down chapter so we moved back to the Wayside School formats…for a little while. What followed was a pattern, in case you didn't notice it; 4 Lil Chapters, 2 Paired Up Chapters, 4 Wayside Chapters. That continued until all the Lil people were done. We also threw in a bunch of group chapters like the Disembodied Head that Ate People and the Pool Party and the teacher ones…

We wrote the last chapter (Chapter 87 at the time) and we were done. 87 seemed like such a stupid number. To add twelve more would be 99 and that was an awesome number. Luckily for us, 12 was the amount of characters we had been centering around. But what would we do? We couldn't very well write another twelve regular Wayside chapters because it was hard enough to think up ONE chapter for Tenten.

So we thought up FUTURE chapters! Those are the ones you just read. Those were fun, but also confusing because they took place at different points along the timeline. At first, we weren't even going to submit these chapters because we thought you guys would think that it was being dragged out. But thanks to all your kind support, we decided to go the extra mile!

THEN THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED!! Chapter 1 was deleted because it violated the terms of service in fanfiction.net. That meant that, even though we had planned it all out SO perfectly, we still only had 99 chapters!! We couldn't leave you off with 99 chapters when we promised you 100!! We'd look like liars!! So we had to quickly think up another chapter. That's where the final Itachi chapter came from. You know, that one that you just read about how Itachi choked on a sandwich and died? Yeah, that one. Sorry it was so anti-climactic but you understand now under the circumstances that it was the best we could come up with. To the scum who reported chapter 1 as a list…your days are numbered.

The plot hole in Shikamaru's "Box" chapter: It was the wrong Hokage. If Shikamaru is a chuunin, then it should be the FIFTH Hokage, not the third, as it so obviously was considering he was male and all. We, of course, didn't realize this until AFTER the fact but it wouldn't have worked if the third was dead because I don't believe the fifth would want Shikamaru to baby-sit Konohamaru…AND, to all of you that felt left out of the loop when reading the chapter, thinking that maybe it was a metaphor or something clever, then don't worry. It's just a stupid game that we play with someone we baby-sit for. What? What do you MEAN you think that's on crack?! YOUR MOM!!

Anyway, in order to keep the orders fair so boring people wouldn't always go last, we'd usually pick names out of a little bowl. They started up being stupid tiny torn up pieces of paper but then they got pretty and professional looking. On the papers, Shino's name was 'Auron' and Lee was 'Rock Lee' and Tenten's name was 'Gaara' and then became 'TenTen'. We also drew on the Chouji, Sasuke and Lee papers with pink marker but it seemed a little unfair so we had to make new ones.

We just thought we'd now talk about how the characters developed, especially people like Neji and Sasuke. Well, for Sasuke's superiority complex, it was something that rooted back to the very first time we ever watched the show. Whenever Sasuke would come on screen and make an angry face (or any face for that matter) we'd dub in a little "I'm BETTER!" cause he looked like he was thinking that. So our little dub Sasuke turned into our REAL Sasuke. As for all the random things he was usually eating and collecting like Hamburgler and the Ninja Watch… I don't know. We just figured he'd be silly if he did that. But he IS twelve after all.

As for Neji… frankly, if he didn't have a silly quirk then he wouldn't be very interesting. So, instead of being cocky and bastardly, he ended up being rather whiny, self-conscious and awkward because we sort of overloaded him with quirks.

KIBA! We love Kiba. Go to our Kiba shrine. The link is at the bottom.

But anyway, we kind of overdid his sensitivity and his attraction to Hinata which might very well not even exist. But it was precious. As for his frequent arguments with Akamaru, it just wouldn't be interesting if he agreed with him all the time.

Chouji's obsession with Shikamaru was a little over the top, we know. But whatever. It was funny.

A lot of you were complaining that Shino was eating the popcorn and not Chouji! Well, what else was Shino suppose to say?! He's such a difficult character to work with. Go on, try. We kind of felt bad for the little guy so we ended up giving him quirks like we gave Neji, such as the Ants in the Pants and the obsession with bugs. In every chapter he seemed to have a new personality trait that wasn't real. Ants in the Pants, a crush on Hinata, taking pictures of bugs and himself, taking NUDEY pictures of female bugs, popcorn, so on and so forth…

The teachers now. Yes, yes, they were ALL out of character. But we tried our best to keep them from meshing into one omnipotent teacher by giving them their own way of speaking. Gai would usually SPEAK IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS WITH MANY EXCLAIMATION POINTS!!!!! Asuma, obviously, brought up the fact that Shikamaru was a chuunin a lot and would use one to two exclamation points. Kurenai was bitter and always seemed to be on her period while usually using an exclamation point but most of the time she didn't. As for Kakashi, he would frequently tell people to look underneath the underneath and we tried our best to limit his usage of exclamation points. He was also very blunt. He had the best one-liners.

I hope you all caught the metaphor. Ice cream=family. The bigger serving of ice cream, the bigger the family. Then you had Neji and Sasuke who HAD ice cream, but someone stole it and Naruto who never even had any in the first place but Iruka treated him to some sherbet which was just as good! We thought it would be more obvious… actually, we thought it would be painfully obvious. But no one got it! No one at all! sniff

And, just so you know, we don't HATE Naruto! Stop accusing us of being mean to him. We're just telling it like it is in the show. Someone else will always get the best of Naruto and it would be out of character for him to suddenly topple someone else! I mean, leave the out of characterness to Neji or Asuma or someone…

Some of our favorite chapters include; "The Turkey", "The Greatest Prank", "If You Mean…", "You Offend Me", "Laser Tag", "Ice Cream Man", "Revenge", "The Disembodied Head", "Hazing", "Angels and Devils", "Halloween", "The Pool Party", "Training Pinata", "Extreme Makeover" and all the competition chapters.

Speaking of "The Turkey"…we could explain to you where this came from… but we're not going to. We'll just leave it at the fact that we could not possibly think up a REAL idea for Tenten.

Another thing, this was another idea that never made it… KARAOKE! You see, Karaoke's a fun idea but how do you go about writing something like that? Someone walks up, sings and then walks down. But here's how we planned to have Team Kurenai sing their Karaoke session: Shino, oh Shino! What are we going to do wiss you? Makin' tha promises oh so big. How you gonna make 'em come true? (That means that Shino is rapping like Aaron Carter and Kiba and Hinata are the random background singers with fake accents.) It would have been great, but SO out of character. For all of them. ESPECIALLY… wait, no. All of them.

That's really it…as soon as we finish writing this we'll think of something else we want to put here… (we've already done it about six times) but anyway, thanks to everyone who read this story and reviewed and, without further adieu, we present to you the FINAL 100th chapter!!

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