A Shinobi's Ethos: Kitsune of Justice

by Cpt. Achilles-117

Naruto Uzumaki had failed. The Shinobi Alliance was gone, as were his friends and comrades. Consumed by the fires of war and greed. Bloodied and hanging on Death's door. Naruto stands defiant, sending one final attack towards Madara. The last thing he sees is a blinding light before he wakes up, But not in Hell. Rather, in a new world filled with superheroes and villains.

5. Chapter 5 Author Note

Author Note:

This note is from my Work Dragon in The North But I decided to include this in Shinobi Ethos as it is one of the two most popular fanfics I've written and There has not been any activity on this fanfic. Apologies, ignore some of the stuff towards the end as It's not relevant pertaining to this fanfic. Thanks for Understanding.

Hi guys,

I try and not dedicate an entire chapter to an author note but I suppose it's necessary due to the inactivity. I am not dead(Spartans Never Die, they're just MIA, real ones will know) lol nor have I abandoned ANY of my stories and certainly not this one. The reason I had taken so long was simply that I had hit the mother of all writer's block, I could not write, no matter how much I put my mind towards it. That desire, that drive or feeling that I'm certain many of you have when writing was gone over the last year, I thought that maybe I had lost the will to write altogether, move on with another hobby but ever so often would the desire/drive be there just not enough to actually want to write. The bit that I could write was barely a few sentences, and they were garbage lol. When I was not busy with university or training/reserve exercises, I could write 5 hours nonstop no problem, I could barely try 15 minutes now trying to write. I could not figure out if it was emotional, mental or some sort of physical cause, if it was depression or what. I had done research on Google, went to my doctor, tried to eat healthier (as healthy as I could on a diet consisting of Meal Ready Eats lol) The prognosis was unknown.

No matter how much I tried I couldn't write, When I did manage to get a chapter done (for Skyrim/GOT chapter 4 about 75% done my 15k chapter, two weeks ago my google account where I had written all my google docs suddenly and without warning got deleted/banned and not only did I lose all my original work of current Fanfics including chapter 4, other fanfics I had written years ago but never actually uploaded to FanFic(I had started a Bungie Destiny Fanfiction, A Naruto/High School DXD and a Star Wars Clone Wars/Naruto all got deleted). And big surprise Google a billion-dollar company has no human customer support or even a live chat option, and none of the pre-written bot solutions were any help.

So unfortunately it seems I will have to write Chapter 4 as well as current chapters from other fanfics from scratch. I will be honest I don't know when I will get Chapter 4 in or as some of you will come from my other fanfics when I will get my other fanfics like Shinobi Ethos or New Mission Noble Six done. I will try to work through whatever this is but I won't give any of your hopes up except that I have not abandoned any of my fics, I just have some difficulty getting into them. In the meantime I have also tried to do more research on improving writing, expanding more knowledge on how characters in ASIOF talk versus our modern slang, fighting scenes, dialogue, keeping up with the original characters and plotlines of RR Martins work, as you are well aware, writing fanfiction is not my strong suit and I've tried to educate myself more on the finer details. How I will balance the book storylines since I think we all prefer that after the ending of… Season 8 *shivers versus the TV Show, whether I was going to stick with one medium or the other or both.

I try to make it as enjoyable as I can for you, which equally improving my writing. I Do hope you all will stick with me on this journey and be patient, I know it's hard to ask but I do appreciate the help. I hope you all are doing well and being safe during these uncertain times. BTW: I don't know if I am at the stage where I would need one, especially since my delayed writing issues but if any of you with a firm grasp, err firmer grasp on the English language (Grammar, Spelling, Sentence Structure etc and would be interested in maybe being a Beta reader for this fanfic, plz feel free to DM. I would appreciate the help as I am certain you are aware, writing fanfics is not my forte, but editing is much worse.

Anyway, take care all and remember Winter is Coming!

-117.

"For those without an unshakeable love they must rely on their own compass to prevent being pulled in opposite directions, and hopefully healthy self-love, and a dedication to one's life mission will point the way out of destruction. After you've walked away from some kind of fame or fortune and stripped yourself of pretentious aspirations, you'll find the person you were meant to be, not that titmouse of a man, but as a man was meant to be. A man is naked and unafraid of most things because he has strong comfort in what he knows. He knows that all things belonging to this earth will die, that nothing will last forever yet he has some dedicated conscious thought to building things, even knowing while life imposes limitations, he will build with an energy as if he were seventeen again. He may lose a child, a marriage, a job, a friend. Man is born to live, suffer and die but he is also born to hope."