Author's Note: So this is it, the chapter in which I explain what I had planned for this story but ended up just, well, not wanting to write it.
I had the idea of making it so that the arcs in The Mission Blues would have me adapted some storyline from the anime, with Naruto building a specific relationship with a girl in that arc before they came together at the end of it.
For example the arc I had planned after the Shion arc would've been based on an anime filler arc that featured the 6-tails jinchuriki, and a girl named Hotaru, she would've been the girl for Naruto to get with at the end of that arc, which would've also had Orochimaru's henchmen somehow involved as the main villian with Danzo also having a hand involved.
Speaking of Danzo, guess I should talk about what he was planned for. So he was gonna be the main antagonist of the Mission Blues, being built up in the background as he conspired to take control of Konoha in preparation for the Akatsuki threat. Major events that would've helped to advance this would've have Minato dying(or at least being perhaps captured) halfway through the story when he went to the Rain Villiage along with Jiriaya, with the two not just taking on Pain and Konan, but the rest of the Akatsuk, taking down characters such as Kakuzu and Hidan only to be overwhelmed, Minato would send (heavily injured)Jiriaya back to the village before making his last stand. Minato probably would've back as some by some manipulation by Tobi/Obito, Pain, or Orochimaru, possible as a Path or Edo-Tensei that Naruto and Naruko would've have fought against.
Another thing, Sasuke would've eventually had his fight against Itachi and learned the truth of the Uchiha massacre, he would of course have a fight with the group, and a brief scuffle against Naruto and Naruko, before they all are able to come to an understanding that they need to at the very least, take Danzo out. This would've had lead to Naruto and Sai having a battle, with Hanabi potential joining in as well, with Sai still being loyal to Danzo but due to the bonds he made with the team, would've been unable to kill them when he had the chance. Naruto than would've joined Naruko and Sasuke as they took on Danzo for one final battle. This would've been the end of the Mission Blues arc of this, "The Blues" Sage I've had kinda planned, with the third arc focusing on war with war with Akatsuki and Orochimaru's group, though I haven't been able to plan in detail what would've exactly happened during this war.
Other plot pints that would've been explored in the story would of course have been Naruto's relationship with Kushina, Naruko, Ku.
I think I said this before in chapter 1, but for Kushina, the plan was for her to basically meet Naruto in her younger, transformed form, kinda being a bit of a fuckbuddy who suddenly showed up when Naruto wasn't expecting, while she taught him other things in her adult form.
Naruko's path, was a bit more plot focused, she wasn't really gonna show up much in the first half of this story, but the plan in the second half was to have her and Naruto journy to the Cloud Village to meet up with Bee and Yugito to learn how to control their respective powers of the Nine-Tails, with Naruto and Naruko working together to help her control her half, rewarding Naruko with her Nine-tails Chakra mode, and Naruto would've gotten some minor, much less but still a significant power up for him version of that. During the trip as well, I planned to have Naruko teach Naruto the rasengan. I also had planned to reveal that due to each of them having a half of the ninetails, they were drawn to the other like mates, feeling need and lust for each other build up more and more during the journey until it eventually boiled over after they had controlled the nine-tails.
Ku, was a much more tricky beast, the next major step in her arc with Naruto would've been for the two to work together to defeat the one-tailed version of him roaming around in his mind after it took control of him during a mission, most likely the one involving the 6-tails and Hotaru. Afterwards, the two would've had more small moments with one another to build up their relationship, but I wasn't and still not sure how to get them to have tied the knot.
Other characters I had plans to be feature would've been Fu, the seven tailed Jinchuriki, who Naruto would've meet sometime before the midpoint of this story, forming a friendship with her and I would've had her join him and Naruko to heading towards the cloud village to learn how to control their jinchurki.
That's pretty much most of what I have to say for now, so yeah. As for this story, I may upload some oneshot ideas eventually, but what and when they could be, I don't have much of a clue.
But anyways, thanks for reading this story, didn't end how I wanted it, but then again, it spiraled into something I never expected. And, it was a bit of a fun, if still stressful ride.