OMG, Carpe Diem. I cringe when I re-read it, yet I'm still very fond of it on a basic level and I want to 'fix' it and finish it. Just never seems to garner my full focus on the rare occasions (well, rare until recently) that I can muster any focus for writing.
The NejiNaru - ee, I'm so pleased to be writing it, even if it's not coming along as swiftly as the new YamaSai obsession. Their dynamic is somehow very familiar, and I like the pairing quite a lot even though I almost never run across it in the fandom. Was catching up on the manga (I've now finished vol 48 and have 49/50 on hand to hit next); the few frames where Team Gai arrives and Neji is the one vehemently and insistently demanding that they go back up Naruto while he takes on Nagato - that made me grin. ^___^
(And holy crap, Naruto really does have Jesus-powers; he talked down Nagato and Changed him - I mean, it's awesome that Naruto is truly That Awesome, but I did not see that coming. And this is totally not related but WTF is the daimyou thinking making f*king Danzou hokage over Kakashi??)
And 'cause you guys are awesome and patient and all, have another snippet: ~~ Naruto scoffed at the idea of fate, declared boldly that anyone could make of themselves anything they wished; he believed it, wholeheartedly, and he had made Neji begin to believe it as well.
Did that make him the moth, then, fluttering blindly into the draw of the flame? Or the bird, newly freed from his cage, winging eagerly for the warmth of the sun?
He stared fiercely at Naruto while the boy slurped the last of the noodles from his bowl of ramen, looking endearingly ridiculous.
He'd like to think he had more sense than the moth.
And Naruto, after all, was the one who had shown him the way free of his cage. ~~
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The NejiNaru - ee, I'm so pleased to be writing it, even if it's not coming along as swiftly as the new YamaSai obsession. Their dynamic is somehow very familiar, and I like the pairing quite a lot even though I almost never run across it in the fandom. Was catching up on the manga (I've now finished vol 48 and have 49/50 on hand to hit next); the few frames where Team Gai arrives and Neji is the one vehemently and insistently demanding that they go back up Naruto while he takes on Nagato - that made me grin. ^___^
(And holy crap, Naruto really does have Jesus-powers; he talked down Nagato and Changed him - I mean, it's awesome that Naruto is truly That Awesome, but I did not see that coming. And this is totally not related but WTF is the daimyou thinking making f*king Danzou hokage over Kakashi??)
And 'cause you guys are awesome and patient and all, have another snippet:
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Naruto scoffed at the idea of fate, declared boldly that anyone could make of themselves anything they wished; he believed it, wholeheartedly, and he had made Neji begin to believe it as well.
Did that make him the moth, then, fluttering blindly into the draw of the flame? Or the bird, newly freed from his cage, winging eagerly for the warmth of the sun?
He stared fiercely at Naruto while the boy slurped the last of the noodles from his bowl of ramen, looking endearingly ridiculous.
He'd like to think he had more sense than the moth.
And Naruto, after all, was the one who had shown him the way free of his cage.
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