The demi-god of Konoha
Kingdark: For some reason I lost ALL my progress. Nearly four thousand words give or take a few hundred. On top of that, my computer started crashing, I had to scramble and use all the tricks in the book to get it running again properly. If THAT wasn't bad luck enough, my pet bird bit me until I bled which pissed me off. So… Yhea, that sucks. On the bright side, I was half planning on scrapping chapter five anyway and start over. I'm much happier with this version anyway. On a side note, is it just me or is my story so terrible because I haven't received as much as a single review even if it was to tell me that my story is terrible, cliché, overdone or that it basically sucks. Seriously, I'm doing really well with this and it seems that nobody likes it!
Disclaimer: The usual. I don't own anything that happens, I'm merely playing in a fictional playground.
Warning: My characters play hard and loose about mature subjects like sex, drugs and alcohol. There will be references to sex, pregnancy, humiliation, sexuality and casual mentions of breaking limbs or beating someone black and blue along with mentions of brutal violence. That being said, to obey the rules of the site, there will be no explicit content and I will leave most of it to your imagination. If you want to read stories with explicit content with lemons and such, this is not the story for you.
The demi-god of Konoha
Chapter 05
Tutorial: Additional explanation of contracts
A previous tutorial will already have touched on what contracts can do for you, but it failed to mention a number of things. Firstly, you are in full control of the contract. You could in theory, offer a contract that gives the one that signs the contract, a power or an ability. In return, you could ask of this person a significant favor or something that is important to you. The only way they would 'sell' their souls to you if they deliberately broke the terms of the contract. Should that happen then you would gain immediate and absolute control over the soul that signed the contract. To put it bluntly, it will turn this person in your absolute servant in every way that counts. A slave in other words. An important thing to know is the fact that for every contract that is signed, no matter what the terms may be -unless it is specifically restricted- will increase the amount of divine power you gain. As of right now, you are powering your own divine power supply and this means that your divine power is increasing extremely slowly and that's an understatement. For every contract that is signed, both the quantity, quality as well as the speed in which you gain divine power will increase. But remember that it will only be a significant and noticeable increase if you reach a milestone. For example, the first contract will have an increase in both speed and quality of your 'divine power' income.
Actually, the power you saved up is actually classified as your emergency divine power supply. It shouldn't be used except under the most dire circumstances. Why? Because the less divine power you have, the easier it would be to hurt or kill you. Not only that, but your forms of immortality rely on a minimum divine power to function properly. If you are low on divine power you would immediately be redirected to reincarnation instead of popping up somewhere after twenty four hours. Because being reborn, means growing up all over again and that on its turn means you'll need a minimum of ten years before you are back in your teens. The thing about being low on divine power, also means that it will be all random. You won't know your gender. Won't know who your parents are. Won't know when you will remember everything… IF you remember anything at all. On the bright side, should you live a lifetime without remembering anything, you will remember anyway upon your natural death. Because without remembering anything, your power would be blocked or sealed away. That isn't the only disadvantage you will have if you are low on divine power. It was mentioned a bit earlier that you can offer boons to people in order to tempt them to sign the contract. When you are low on divine power you won't be able to offer them much if anything at all!
There are ways around this of course. You could use your healing ability to heal someone who is dangerously ill or injured in return for signing the contract. If they refuse after being healed you will gain authority over them during their life as a penalty. If they sign as agreed your divine power income will increase and then again when the one that signed the contract dies.
This concludes this tutorial.
Training ground forty four (44) DAY THREE (03) 10.00 o'clock.
Roughly three days had passed since they had started the exercise and team seven had been far from idle, but the same could be said about their enemy. Not even an hour after they had made their first temporary bunker, Naruto had sensed hundreds of people crossing the border of the training ground. He hadn't been able to give them any specific information but the numbers alone made them a threat. So team seven had decided as a
whole to confuse the enemy by launching a hit and run attack. Well, they had intended to do hit and run operations but it is much harder to manage in practice then it is in theory. Especially if there are only three of you and hundreds (literally) of them!
Temporary campsite two clicks from the C zone border.
DAY THREE (03) 12.30 o'clock.
Team seven limped back into the campsite. None of them had managed to escape unharmed and even Naruto with his powerful healing factor still felt the phantom pain about the kickass they had received.
"That was a disaster." Sakura remarked sourly as she finally allowed herself to rest and sit down.
"Isn't that the truth." Sasuke agreed with a frown.
"Well, hindsight is twenty-twenty as they say so I suppose this is a valuable learning experience." Sakura answered. She looked at Naruto and frowned when she realized that he had barely said anything since they had been forced to retreat with their tails between their legs.
Sasuke who had looked up at Sakura's tone and then looked in Naruto's direction when she given a barely noticeable nod towards him frowned. "It was just a bad decision overall." He said carefully. "I think it was better to make a mistake under relatively controllable circumstances and learning from it then to make the same mistakes in the field."
"But that's the problems Sasuke." Naruto said quietly. "We've been told repeatedly to consider this a live operation. A real operation. We were told bluntly to fight to kill… Except for when our old classmates show up." He looked up at the sun which was only now above the horizon.
"We failed to keep that into account." Naruto continued. "We should have never even tried a hit and run attack when we're supposed to lay low to try and convince the enemy we're long gone!" He told them.
"The idea itself was a good one. When we realized that their leaders were out in the open it was a target we couldn't ignore. It was an opportunity that we wouldn't have again! They shouldn't have expected us attacking them directly! It was a good idea." Sakura argued back.
"But we still should never have gone through with it!" Naruto snapped back. He forced himself to take a deep breath.
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have snapped at you."
Sakura waved his apology away. "Don't worry about it. I still think there's something we can do though. Do you know what 'passive aggression' means?"
Seeing that neither of her two boys answered, she answered her own question.
"It means to be hostile or aggressive but without being direct about it and for us specifically?... That means traps. Lots and lots of traps." Sakura was about to continue when Naruto interrupted her. He looked very serious, like he had just made a life changing decision.
"Sasuke… Sakura… I want to renegotiate our bet." Naruto said suddenly. "But first, I'm going to guarantee our privacy."
Naruto followed that up by throwing a dozen or so kunai in a dozen different directions, each hitting a camera apparently because whatever seal that had been used to hide them from plain sight failed to work as the camera was destroyed.
TEAM SEVEN IS REMINDED THAT YOU ARE NOT TO DESTROY CAMERA'S. IF YOU WISH TO -
Naruto growled and then threw another dozen kunai at the speaker system and the voice was mercifully cut off.
"Is this really the time and place to discuss that stupid bet of yours?" Sasuke demanded.
"Hardly." Naruto answered. "But it is partly because neither of you are aware of my full capabilities that we got our asses kicked back there." Looking at Sakura he added, "and I'm willing to agree my side of the bet lost which is why I want to-"
"No." Sakura disagreed. "Let's call the bet even, where neither of us has to do anything. A shame though…"
Naruto just shrugged. "You would never have guessed the full truth anyway. The bet was unfair towards you."
Sakura raised her eyebrow against him. "This again?" She asked. "You are the heir of some long lost clan." She said with a confident smile. "A clan that was thought to be destroyed, but somewhere a child survived. Its descendants never activated their bloodline so you are the first that managed it.
"You are technically correct but still very, very wrong." Naruto answered her. Then he shook his head and held up his hand to stop her from speaking. He took that chance to tell her the first part of the truth.
"I am the son of Uzumaki Kushina, the only survivor when Uzushiogakure was destroyed." Naruto explained at her skeptical expression.
"I thought you didn't know who your parents were?" Sasuke asked.
"I never said that did I?" Naruto reminded him. "I always let you think I didn't know."
"What about your dad?"
Naruto gave her his best arrogant smile.
"Namikaze… Minato was my father." Naruto told them.
"No way!" Sasuke muttered. "I was supposed to grow up with you!" Sasuke realized.
"What?" Naruto asked.
"When… HE did IT when I was younger…" Sasuke began… "I visited every old Uchiha home and had most of it put into storage and I donated things like food or toys to orphanages because I wasn't exactly in the mood for childish games. Anyway along the way I found dozens if not hundreds of journals, scrolls and other private memento's that I read to remember my clan. It's part of why I'm so good." A pause.
"That didn't come out the way I meant to, I didn't mean to sound like an arrogant idiot." Sasuke said quickly.
"Anyway, several of those journals belonged to my mum and dad. They had both written in it from when they were little and continued writing in it as they grew up." Sasuke paused again and after several moments had passed he shook his head and refocused on the conversation.
"Both my mum and my dad mentioned a Kushina but never her last name for some reason but they did say that she was pregnant and that we would be around the same age. Both of them hoped that we could grow up together as close friends. They hoped for us to be in the same genin team… Well, that did happen obviously but not in the way they intended…" Sasuke frowned as he said this.
"It's only now that I realize that when I was born, things got tense somehow. They began to mention Kushina less and less. Well, they did say that she died during the Kyuubi attack and they never even mentioned if her baby survived or not… Neither my mum or dad ever mentioned who she was married to. If only they had mentioned her last name at least once, but I suppose that doesn't matter anymore." Sasuke said quietly.
"My mum did die when the Kyuubi attacked." Naruto agreed. "The truth is more complicated than that though." Naruto responded.
"I suppose you could even say that the Kyuubi attacking Konoha started the chain of events that leads to me being so strong. Anyway, the Kyuubi was never killed. It's impossible, literally impossible to kill a construct made out of chakra permanently. It can be 'destroyed' temporarily and would take a couple of years to reform." Naruto explained.
"Then what happened exactly?" Sakura asked with a frown.
"There is only one way to deal with a tailed beast. Only one way to deal with an intelligent construct of chakra and that is to seal it away. But a regular item wouldn't be able to keep the Kyuubi locked away for even half a dozen minutes, let alone enough time to matter. Only a human can safely hold a tailed beast. The younger the human is when it happens the better." Naruto paused and then pointed at himself.
"I'd say that having it sealed in me, seconds after I left my mother's womb was young enough."
"…Is this really the right time to drop something like this on us?" Sasuke asked with a frown.
"It is." Naruto confirmed. "That specific bit of information isn't even the big secret." He told him.
"Wait, you being the… holder?"
"Jinchuuriki." Naruto supplied.
"You being the… Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi is NOT the big secret?" Sakura asked.
"That's right." Naruto agreed. "But before I proceed… I need your solemn promise to keep my secret to yourself. Tell nobody, not anyone about what I'm going to tell you." Naruto said solemnly.
"I even have a way that will protect you from being forced to tell anyone unwillingly." Naruto explained.
He snapped his fingers and a basic contract came into existence. "Read it and then sign it. Please." Naruto said, giving a copy of the contract to both Sasuke and Sakura.
The terms in the contracts were simple, beneficial to his team mates and very straight forward. The contract stated that if they signed it of their own free will that they would agree to keep their silence on what Naruto was about to tell them. They could only tell someone if Naruto gave them specific permission. Without that permission they literally wouldn't be able to communicate the secret in any way shape or form to anyone. In return for their silence on the matter, Sasuke and Sakura would be allowed to choose one boon of several options.
They could either choose to have supreme control over a single element, have a healing factor equal to that of himself, the ability to heal someone else no matter how injured they were or the ability to change into anyone they had ever touched. Sasuke and Sakura would only be allowed to choose one thing because Naruto wasn't powerful enough yet to give them more. As it was, doing this would drain his emergency supply of divine power until it was dangerously low. It would take him at least six more years before it would've recovered back to where it was now. The only way to get his supply of divine power back to where it was now, faster would be to gain 'worshippers' or make 'real' contracts with people.
The contract then went on to say that Naruto would gain considerable authority over them during their lives if they ever broke the contract willingly.
"What's the catch?" Sasuke asked with narrowed eyes. He knew, but wanted to hear it said from Naruto himself.
"If you break the contract, I'll gain considerable authority over you, but this will only happen if you break the contract."
"What happens if we do it unwillingly?" Sakura asked.
"Interrogation?" Naruto asked.
"That. Or genjutsu. Or perhaps plain old psychology."
"You won't be able to. You literally will not be capable of answering with any kind of drugs or genjutsu or whatever. But you have a point…" The contracts flashed as they were updated.
"The contracts have been updated so that if you are put in a situation where you would be forced to tell them, the penalty would be… Less." Naruto explained. Specifically, they would be his servants for the remainder of their natural lives. When they died they would move on outside of his authority.
"I want to be able to heal anyone and have superb knowledge in biology. I don't suppose you could get me that healing factor as well?" Sakura asked.
"It depends on what Sasuke wants." Naruto answered her cautiously. But he knew that he really couldn't. Not without draining his reserves dry. Literally. If he 'just' gave Sakura and Sasuke a single boon each, he would have some left over. Not much, but enough. If he gave them two boons, it would leave him nothing.
"… I want something that will either guarantee me victory against HIM or a guarantee that will make it impossible for HIM to kill me until I've killed HIM for what HE did." Sasuke said simply.
That was pretty straight forward, Naruto realized. "Giving Sasuke a healing factor would keep him alive under pretty much any circumstances but that wouldn't be what he really wants. It wouldn't protect him against genjutsu either and even I know that Itachi was pretty skilled with those." Naruto thought to himself.
"The healing factor should cover much. I could even extend it a little to protect him from hostile genjutsu as well…. I can't afford to give him a form of immortality without increasing the price and I'm not sure if I want to do that. I can't be sure if Sasuke would make the decision with a clear head…"
"I can give you, Sasuke, a powerful healing factor equal to that of my own. I could even make it so that you would be immune to any and all hostile genjutsu. Right now, I literally can't afford to give you more. Not without increasing the price in your contract." Naruto told him seriously.
"What does that mean, making the price more expensive?" Sasuke asked.
"Right now, the 'price' you pay is to keep your silence about the full truth of my secret. That's it." Naruto hesitated for a moment.
"Sign the contract first. The one that will guarantee me you will keep your silence. Signing this contract won't prevent you from signing more."
Sasuke just shrugged and signed the contract. Getting a powerful healing factor (if that was even true) was a very powerful advantage, just to keep his silence on the matter. The contract flashed as it became legal.
"What about you Sakura?" Naruto asked.
"I want to be able to heal people. Know everything there is to know about their biology. To let me change it. You know…" Sakura answered him.
"You got it." Naruto agreed. The contract flashed as it wrote in Sakura's answer. Sakura then reread it and then signed it. The contract flashed as it too, became legal.
"Okay…" Naruto said with a sigh. "The full truth first, otherwise you would just become confused." Naruto told them.
He followed that up by an in depth explanation starting with what happened the night he had met Joe for the first, only and last time. Naruto went into detail about the things he chose, then explained about his supply of divine power and about the mechanics behind it.
"Right now, gifting each of you with a healing factor and the ability to heal anyone, drained my supply three quarters. That supply is increased by the remaining power of myself, which is the equivalent of a drop every few days if I'm lucky. It's taken me nearly seven years to get this much and the only way to increase that supply significantly faster is to either gain worshippers or for me to gain authority over souls. If I want to gift each of you something more, it will take me at least another three years before I'm comfortable spending as much power as I did just now."
"How much faster would make it if you gained authority over a soul?" Sasuke asked.
"I would recover to what I had before now… In about a year or so I think." Naruto answered thoughtfully.
"What about two?" Sakura asked.
"About the same." Naruto answered her. With Sasuke, the rate of that 'drop' of divine power would increase, with yourself, it would be the 'size' of the drop that would have grown larger." He explained.
"If I sign such a contract, it would mean, I get the power that will guarantee I will see HIM dead?"
"I can't guarantee anything, Sasuke." Naruto answered honestly. "But I can say with one hundred percent honesty that HE would not know how to respond to it." Naruto's power sensed Sasuke's decision and it created a new contract outside of Naruto's will.
Sasuke signed it immediately after giving it a read over. The result was immediate for Naruto at least.
"It seems I underestimated my increase in power." Naruto thought to himself.
Naruto's power created a second contract that Sakura signed as well. Again, the result was immediate but not as dramatic as it had been with Sasuke.
"Both of you signed the contract and while it is already in effect, there is still one part left. One part where you can back out without any penalties of the second contract. This does not apply to the first." Naruto said formally.
"Haruno Sakura, you have chosen to gain a healing ability. The moment you touch someone, you will know their medical history as well as anything there is to know about them. Everything will be clear to you and not even bloodline limits will have any mystery to you. As long as you have the chakra to spare, you can use brute force to heal just about anything. The second part of your power will be in the form of a powerful healing factor that will keep you alive even after lethal injuries. However, you will only receive this power once I have recovered the power I have just spent. In return for this significant gift, I will gain immediate authority over your soul when it dies. I will have the ability to have you reborn after you die, or to have you be my secretary if I so desire it. This contract repeats that you will keep your silence on everything you have been told by me. Should this contract be broken by you willingly, my authority over you becomes supreme. You will not be able to refuse any order I give you, but I repeat, that will only happen if you break the contract willingly. This is your last chance to back out before the contract becomes permanent. Give your verbal agreement and the contract will be complete."
"Yes. I agree with all conditions. Sakura declared honestly.
"Very well then." Naruto said solemnly.
He followed that up by offering his hand to Sakura, to get her to shake it. It was a bit of unnecessary drama but he wanted to make a good impression. His power had gifted Sakura with the ability to heal anyone the moment she confirmed her agreement. The moment they shook hands, Naruto used his connection with his air element to create some special effects that did essentially nothing except make a lot of noise and make some bright flashes. All bark but no bite.
"It is done." Naruto declared. He turned to look at Sasuke who had figured out that the latter part hadn't been necessary. Naruto gave him a look that basically said: 'don't you dare to ruin my fun.'
"Sasuke, you signed the contract so there remains only a single part to do. A verbal component." Naruto repeated. There were some parts that he had to obey.
"Uchiha Sasuke, you have chosen to gain a powerful regeneration ability. You will recover from just about any injury in seconds. Losing a limb is more an annoyance then it is a threat. In addition, you will gain a significant natural defense against harmful or other attacks that play on the mind. Lastly, you'll know psychology like the back of your hand to round it off. As long as you have the chakra to spare, you can restore yourself to perfect health. The second part of your gift comes in the form of a clone. You will be gifted with the knowledge in making a second you. You will be able to watch through this clone's eyes and other senses. If either of you are destroyed, you will take possession of the remaining clone. You will only receive both the power and the knowledge once I have recovered the power I have just spent. In return for this significant gift, I will gain immediate authority over your soul when it dies. I will have the ability to have you reborn after you die, or to have you be my bodyguard should I desire it. This contract repeats that you will keep your silence on everything you have been told by me. Should this contract be broken by you willingly, my authority over you becomes supreme. You will not be able to refuse any order I give you, but I repeat, that will only happen if you break the contract willingly. This is your last chance to back out before the contract becomes permanent. Give your verbal agreement and the contract will be complete."
"I accept." Sasuke said simply.
"Very well then." Naruto agreed. He followed that up by offering his hand to Sasuke, to get him to shake it. Again, this part wasn't really needed but he had to do it if he didn't want Sakura to be clued in that this part wasn't really needed. It was just a bit of harmless fun.
The moment that Sasuke and Naruto shook hands, Naruto was about to repeat what he had done before when everything went out of control. The weather above them changed abruptly and this time, Naruto had nothing to do with it. Then, just like that it was over. Team seven wouldn't discover the significance of the short freaky weather for years.
"It is done." Naruto declared.
"Is there anything you forgot to tell us?" Sakura asked. Naruto considered it and went over the major points again. He told them about the God he met that he nicknamed Joe, what gifts he had chosen himself as well as the truth about Kuro and Kurama.
"Joe?" Sasuke asked with a smirk. "You called an honest to God JOE?" Sasuke couldn't help but snort, which then evolved into a laugh which then changed into right hysterical laughing.
Then, Sasuke stopped laughing abruptly when he noticed sakura and Naruto staring at him. "I thought it was funny. Joe…" He snickered again.
"Would you ever connect a name like that to an honest to God deity?" Naruto asked.
"…That was a terrible pun Naruto." Sakura muttered.
"Unintended." Naruto told her.
"I am kind of surprised that you aren't freaking out more about this." Naruto observed with a frown.
"It's not that I'm not freaked out about you being a demi-God." Sasuke said slowly. "But more the fact that my new healing factor is in overdrive to keep me from freaking out."
"I'm still processing all of this." Sakura said with a shrug. I'll freak out when I can afford to, which is not now."
"What about you?" Sasuke asked. "I have a feeling that you had another reason to give us the full contract."
"It will make me stronger on the long run. That, and…" He paused. "Understand that this next bit is only if I ever kick the bucket and I don't show up in the next twenty four hours." Naruto cautioned.
"Naruto...?"
"See, I have several methods of immortality to me." Naruto explained. "The first is my healing factor, the second is through the clones, the third will have me trapped in a void where all my senses will be blocked for twenty four hours and the fourth and last is through reincarnation." Another pause.
"I will know what women are pregnant and I can wait a maximum of nine months before I'm reborn randomly." Another pause.
"I would prefer to be born to a couple I know I can trust." This statement was followed by an uncomfortable pause.
"But, that's a matter of last resort." Naruto hurried to explain. "I wouldn't want it to happen unless I had no other choice open to me." Naruto added.
"Speaking off… If and when you eventually do 'It', make sure to take every precaution because Sasuke's little soldiers will be extremely stubborn and youthful."
"… Not to sound like an idiot, but what does that mean?" Sakura asked.
"It means that you'll get pregnant if he orgasms and his dick is still in you." Naruto said bluntly.
"…Although, I suppose that with your healing ability you could just as easily kill them off, on the other hand that may not work at all."
"Right, so no sex without condoms-"
"Actually…" Naruto interrupted her. "I would suggest to not have sex at all because any condoms will just break."
A pause.
"You know what? Never mind." Naruto muttered. "I'll just be the fun uncle when the little tyke arrives nine months later."
"I think we should shelve this conversation for another time and move to a different location." Sasuke said suddenly. "We've been in the same location for a while already and I for one don't want to be caught off guard myself. The destruction of those camera's and mic's will have made the leadership curious at least. Speaking of our leadership, does Hokage-sama know?"
"Oji-sama doesn't know yet. I intended to tell him after I graduated but then this thing happened and well…" Naruto just shrugged helplessly. "It's not like it's my fault that I haven't had the time to tell him."
"But you've had it for years!" Sakura pointed out logically.
"That much is true." Naruto agreed. "But Oji-sama wouldn't have taken me seriously and he would've probably dismissed it like one of my pranks. Besides, I couldn't even prove it in the beginning because I lacked practice and experience. As time passed, I began to realize that the tricks I know now, can be mimicked through ninjutsu as well. Well, most of them at least. So what do you think he would've thought? To believe I really am a demi-God when I already am the jinchuriki of the old kyuubi?"
"Is that why Kuro and Kurama have been missing?"
"Nah. They have been scouting around. That and they are enjoying the thrill of the hunt." Naruto answered.
It was technically true. They were on the hunt but for any lone scouts that they could pick off alone and then drag to the lair of a creepy animal.
"Let's move to that underground bunker you spent yesterday building. Isn't there supposed to be an entrance around here somewhere?"
"Yhea, two clicks to the north." Naruto confirmed.
"A question before we leave and table your situation until this scenario is over with." Sasuke said suddenly. "What would you do if the Hokage's political opponents find out at the same time as the Hokage himself?"
"Why would that matter? It's not like we live in a democracy. The Hokage has ultimate authority. If he wanted to, he could have his political opponents executed through an accident that can't be traced back to him. The fact that they exist means that the Hokage doesn't consider them a threat and he's just humoring them." Naruto answered after having considered it for several moments.
"Still, what would you do if they turn out to be hostile?" Sasuke insisted.
"…I don't know." Naruto admitted. "Make a contract with them probably. The fact that I can offer pretty much anything as long as I have the divine power is a significant temptation. I'll just have them sign a contract that will keep them to their promise as well as their honesty. If that doesn't work…" Naruto paused.
"Well, it's not like I'm on a time limit here. I'll just wait a couple of decades until they have forgotten about me, use a different appearance and climb the ranks that way and that's just something I thought off right now. I'm sure I could get better idea's if I really considered it. But they don't know and they aren't hostile so it doesn't matter. Konoha is still my home and I would do a lot to protect it." He added.
"Except sacrificing my son to seal a construct of chakra after it escapes your wife's seal in an act of desperation. If he had played it smart he could have let it 'destroy' Konoha but if the people escaped mostly unharmed the could just start over again."
"I'm ready." Sasuke replied.
"Let's go then." Sakura agreed. Team seven then buried the campfire as well as removing any evidence they had ever used this place and then they were gone.
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Kingdark: This chapter took me longer to write and that's partly because I had to start over from scratch. I used bits and pieces of what I remembered writing in the first chapter but most of it isn't used again. Anyway, I've been considering (but very unenthusiastically mind you) to rewrite the story from the beginning. Right now, roughly thirty seven thousand words written. If I do the whole thing from scratch and improve the earlier chapters to reflect what I wrote later, I could probably increase the word count to forty or even fifty thousand words and still end up 'here' at the end.
Anyway, I had originally planned to really make this AU but I can't figure out how to make it happen without making it too convenient. (Activate an old seal that malfunctions somehow and launches team seven into another fandom. Convenient huh?) They would eventually get back around the same time they had left. I had planned on including the other rookies as well. Leave as green rookies and come back as hardened veterans of war!
Thoughts?
Kingdark