Vengeful Thoughts, Chapter 8
Bet you didn't see this character coming. I got the idea while reading "From Ramen with Love", since Ayame plays such a major role in it.
And to verify, Ayame is the waitress at Ichiraku Ramen stall. I've only seen evidence that her family name actually is Ichiraku, but if that's wrong, please let me.
Another factor in the creation of this chapter was when I was thinking of how, as a waitress, Ayame would overhear lots of gossip from the villagers.
Not to mention that she and her father were some of the few people that didn't dislike Naruto (at least as far as I know).
So, due to that fact, this chapter will be written slightly differently.
Please read and review!
Flamers will have their name mentioned in the sentence "flamer's name loves gay sex" , which will scrawled over the bathroom walls of every gas station within 15 square miles of my house.
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Kai's Snowfall: I'm about holds up fingers THIS CLOSE, to begging you to be my beta reader. The only thing holding me back is the fact that these chapters are way too short to justify having a beta. Readers like you are the best kind that any author could ask for.
Addressing what you mentioned in your reviews:
For chapter 5 (Hinata)
Thanks for letting me know about –teme. I wonder how many times I've made that mistake ever since I started writing VT. Honestly, I wish American's didn't have such a relatively simple language, because it makes knowing it lose all its bragging rights. But, on this topic, name no yarou means something like name-jackass right? Of course, the subbed episodes I got that from might just be pulling my leg, but I don't know either way.
Glad to hear I was close with my definition of "ano". I guess I might have gotten any wrong ideas from misinterpreting other fanfics. slaps forehead in shame
For chapter 6 (Naruto 2)
Thanks!
For chapter 7 (Iruka)
Yeah, I considered how most fanfics I've read set Iruka around the age of 19. While 19 is most likely a great age to be (one year older then moi, as a matter of fact), I doubt that he would have grown completely out of what I like to call the "fury phase". That is, how a teenager may sometimes use existing anger to make them selves even angrier. I do something like that occasionally, so I speak from experience.
And yeah, reading it over after I posted it, I realized that I should have used more variety in his swearing. I actually wasn't thinking about what I had written about shit being stoned while writing the swearing in the line beneath it.
Anyway, you are a great reviewer, and I hope you like this chapter and the ones after it as well.
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Disclaimer: If 1+12 and 2+24 then I still don't own anything from Naruto that I didn't write myself.
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Ramen, ramen, ramen, ramen.
All day long, nothing but ramen.
Until he started coming...
Until a little blonde kid began to call me onee-chan, as he told me about his day, while devouring noodle after noodle.
Until a cheerful smile on a little blonde head greeted me at least once a day.
Until I met Uzumaki Naruto...
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You tend to hear lots of things working as a waitress.
Rumors, gossip, confessions,
I hear it all around here.
After a while, you get good at picking out facts from between all the meaningless shit.
But then you hear things that you never want to believe.
Sometimes, truth can be all you need to go on.
But other times, the truth will only make you weep.
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"I can't believe Sandaime lets that demon live here like a person."
I refuse to believe.
"I know. Even after that hell spawn killed the Fourth, the old bastard treats it like one of his own damn kids."
I refuse to believe.
"The forth hokage gave his life to save us all, so why does the creature that took it still breath?"
I refuse to believe.
"You know, maybe it's about time some of us fixed that fact. Maybe I'll get to drive the blade through his little blonde head myself"
I can no longer refuse to believe.
And after a shift full of such talk is over, I step into the backroom, and begin to sob.
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"Did you hear? The entire Uchiha clan was murdered two days ago by Itachi."
Why the fuck would I care? Those pompous assholes hate ramen for the most part. Not like we're losing any customers.
"Yeah, and I also heard that he was only 13. They say the only person left alive was his younger brother, Sasuke."
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If I had known that the life of Ichiraku's best customer was about to become an even worse hell, I might not have just casually reacted to that news.
Of course, that doesn't mean that I know what I would have done instead.
Fuck...
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Soon after, I overheard one of the ANBU that occasionally got take out here talking about that brat Sasuke again.
"The Uchiha kid's smart, I'll give him that, but that obsession of his really gets on my nerves after a while. If only there were no survivors, there'd hell of a lot less paperwork for us."
The other ANBU laughed as they both stepped outside.
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Later I found out that those two ANBU were killed in an attempt to assassinate Naruto.
And I smiled.
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I remember the first time I heard someone call Naruto a dobe.
Dead-last, that word makes no fucking sense.
Anyway, that little bitch Haruno and her rival, little Yamanaka 'slut-of-the-year' Ino, stepped in.
They were laughing about how pathetic "that little blonde dobe is."
And since one of the two blondes in the village was sitting in front of me, well, you get the idea.
When she slid her chair back to get up, I 'accidentally' spilled a bowl of scalding water on her lap.
Damn, that bitch has some powerful lungs!
Of course, I wouldn't have minded 'accidentally' throwing a knife into that gigantic forehead of hers, but alas.
What a shame that knives aren't needed at all to make good ramen.
What a shame.
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I'm sorry Naruto.
Ayame nee-chan couldn't defend you better.
Ayame nee-chan thought you could take care of yourself.
Ayame nee-chan was nothing but a fucking coward.
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Whew, that was...harder then I expected to be honest, but it was either Ayame, or that omake with Rock Lee that my muse kept bashing into my skull. Trust me, if you could have read that chapter, you'd be bashing my skull too.
Too lazy to make many notes this time, but I do want to mention that I based her perspective of other characters from what I've read in other fanfiction. While I absolutely love Naru/Ino fanfics like "Foxhound", many fanfics make her out to be really slutty.
And while I do approve of Sakura/Ino Yuri (I'm a guy, for fuck's sake.)
Second I wanted to address the reason that I used less swearing in this chapter.
For two reason's to be honest.
1. Ayame seems to spend most of her free time working at her father's stand. As a waitress, she most likely would have developed habits that would stop her from cursing too much, in order to not scare off customers. My idea is that these habits would also work in her thoughts.
2. Making her swear a lot would make it redundant, period.
Because I have no clue what it's like, I have no idea whether or not my plan to make her sound like she's not just on PMS (no offense to girl readers, I know that must be a really annoying pain in the neck)
But anyway, before some angry Sasuke-fan shows up to burn my house down, I want to mention the subject of my next chapter.
Tenten.
And now, my teaser.
She's completely blind.
….it will be interesting, I promise that.
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Until next time,
Ja ne!