I have something to say which I dare say will not be pleasant for more people.
In my last update, which was a hiatus notice, I had announced that, since my final exams were upon me, I would upload in April. Sadly, however, in these two months, I have completely revised the whole story, and come to find that Marriage of Convenience is sorely lacking in not only depth, but also in characterization and accuracy. Even though it is an AU, I had actually started this story without any knowledge of shippuden, except for what the characters looked like. Therefore, there are a lot of plot holes. Another gaping hole was the fact that there are many loose ends, something which I particularly despise in a story. Therefore, I am very sorry to announce that Marriage of Convenience is unfortunately not going to be updated anymore.
Before you start throwing curses left, right, and center towards me, I would like to interject another thing: Marriage of Convenience is going to be rewritten. I am going to read all of the Naruto chapters that have been released so far, and then I am going to rewrite Marriage of Convenience, with the same basic plot (Hinata being forcibly married off to Itachi, Sasuke falling in love with her, Hinata's confusion, etc.) but different, hopefully more sophisticated, language, a lack of plot holes, and a lack of all those chapters that are just resting there. I suddenly realised that there are so many filler chapters in this story! The whole story seems to be full of filler chapters, with one or two that seem to move the plot along.
I am going to put my twitter account's link below. Please keep in mind that you do have to remove the spaces, since ffnet does not allow you to post links. This particular account deals only with my fanfiction persona, and thus, I will keep you posted on my progress here. You will get to know the moment I finish reading the Naruto manga books, or finish the first chapter!
I understand that this must be upsetting for a lot of people, and I sincerely apologise to all of you. The fact remains that Marriage of Convenience was the first story that I had ever written, and I wrote this when I was 13. Three years have passed since then, and my style of writing has evolved and matured. I simply cannot continue writing in this style.
Since I do have a sentimental link to this story, I am going to keep it up. Also, I will post another author's note here when the new story will be uploaded, so if you see another alert from here, then you know that the new story is up.
A million thanks to all the fans of this story – you gave me confidence in my writing. I don't know how I could have survived without you! I am so sorry!
The link is this: twitter. com/ #! /conorlover_ff