Wow I'm back on this app and I honestly never thought I would be writing here again. Well Hello everyone, how's the last 3 years been for everyone? I hope everyone is ok and in good health and all that good stuff. Who knew how much 3 years could actually change you both physically and mentally. When I first started writing this story, I wanted it to use it as an outlet to escape the real world that I was in, and now my perspective on everything is completely different. I want o apologize to everyone who read the story and commented and replied for me to keep going. You're support meant a lot and I'm grateful for it.
To make it up to everyone, I'm gonna continue the story for you guys, but with these past 3 years came a lot of introspection of who I was on all levels and in doing this, I'm gonna do this right. To maintain story immersion, the remake won't be a gamer story and just an OC into naruto story. I wanna keep the same theme I had of a pseudo older brother figure for Naruto going through life, while dealing with his past trauma. I have the story plotted out past chunin exams and will try to keep the story going for as long as it canonically makes sense afterwards.
I'm not in any position to guarantee any type of update schedule after a three year hiatus, but I'm pushing for 1-2 updates a month. another big announcement is that this new story wont be on this profile but my newer one Jalwtoo2. By the time you guys are reading this the first chapter should be uploaded there on that account.
As a bonus I wanna give you guys a sample of the new story that you can find on the other account. So keep reading below for that:
Naruto: The older brother
The one thing that is consistent in every person's life is death. Most people's actions, goals, hopes and dreams all revolve around doing something with their lives before they lose it. And at some point in their life, they begin to ponder and contemplate what'll happen. Heck, wars have been fought over it, but no one will know for sure 'till it's their turn.
Growing up, I've been told that there's some grand achievement in dying, the race finally finished and I get to rest or whatever Shakespeare said. My experience has been a little different though. I've been staring into this black abyss for what feels like an eternity, reliving each memory as to how I got here in the first place. It started out as a typical night, but obviously something happened or we wouldn't be here right now.
It was my little brother Avery's birthday, and my mother and I took him out to dinner like we do for every birthday. It was a huge deal for us because it was hard enough to make ends meet, but we always found a way to have the money to go out to dinner for our birthdays. It wasn't always like this, but everything changed when dad died.
From what I remember, he was fine till the day he got hospitalized with terminal lung cancer then it was just counting the days he had left. I always looked up to my dad. He was a strong yet caring man and I remember he would always find the time to do activities with us even though he was busy. I still can't believe it's been 10 years since he died.
Well anyway after he died it was almost as if mom left too. She went into a major depression and would rarely talk to us because we reminded her of him too much. She gained a serious alcohol addiction and basically left me with taking care of my little brother for the most part. She even left us for 5 months after a drunken haze slapped my little brother. I had to drop out and get a job to make ends meet for us. Ever since she came back she's been trying, but it's hard for both of us to forgive.
Anyways I've been saving up for the past few months to take Avery out and I really wanted to make this night a special one for him. Unfortunately I could only really afford to take him to Denny's that night. His favorite show was Power Rangers, so I bought him a Red Ranger onesie and a helmet from the show that I thought he would love. I was right and he didn't take it off for one second. As we left the restaurant, we walked past an alley where we saw a group of people jumping an old man. I saw Avery looking so i turned to him,
"Avery, don't stare, just keep your head down and your eyes forward. We're almost home" I whispered to him.
"But.. what they're doing isn't nice. We have to help him!" He replied, attempting to walk over to them. As I went to grab him, Avery suddenly yelled and the group.
"Hey leave him alone you meanies, that's not nice!" he said with all the volume he could muster in his 8 year old body. Panicked, I tried to pull him away, but the group already noticed us and started walking over to us.
"Hey kid, get out of here before you get hurt" one of the group said. He was wearing black pants, a black jacket and a ski mask covering his entire face except his eyes and mouth.
"He's sorry he's just a kid" I chimed in, trying to drag my brother away from this situation. "we're leaving right now-" I tried to say before I got cut off by one of the other thugs.
"Too late now, the kid didn't mind his business so now someone gotta pay" He said as two of the other guys grabbed my arms holding me so i couldn't move.
Another one of the guys walked up to me and punched me in the stomach. The air immediately escaped from my lungs as I collapsed. The others came over me and started kicking me.
"Leave him alone now" my little brother screamed rushing to me. As he went to grab me one of the guys pulled out a gun and pointed it at my brother.
"Back up kid, before I blast you!" the guy warned but Avery kept coming closer, tightly clutching the toy sword i had just given him.
" As the red ranger... it's my duty to defeat you right now!" Avery yelled as he charged towards the guys kicking me.
'BANG'
A/N: If you got this far I appreciate it! This will probably be the last time I update or post anything on this page also. I just wanna thank you guys again for all the support you've given me. Thank you guys for everything. If you want to start this new journey with me you can find me on the Jalwtoo2 acc on this app. Happy Holidays everyone! Jalwtoo signing off.