Whoa! I finally managed to get this chapter done and online. And trust me when I say, I never intended for it to be delayed for so long.
I wasn't waiting for reviews or anything... heaven knows I have way too many of those. Reviews play no role in what I write or when I write.
And it wasn't really writer's block- just a sense of wrongness that permeated a lot of the chapter. I had to re-write a lot of it because it didn't feel right. And some parts of it had to be moved to future chapters/deleted because it just didn't fit in.
I'm really glad I'm finally happy with what I ended up with. It gives you some answers and points to a potential future plots, but more than likely I think it just gives you more questions!
Random notes/clarifications.
Kakashi- I can just imagine all the fangirls (and boys) going...WTF kind of meeting was that? Where was the laughs and the craziness and the odd bonding over porn? Meh... what? You really expected me to do something predictable?
Sai- Why does Sai get more air time than Kakashi? Because he's an interesting character in his weird anti-social way. I don't know, in some ways Harry could have become like Sai, so a part of me likes to see how they'd react to each other. He was hard to write at times and honestly I just made up parts of psychology for him to say- all to add a feeling of books-can't-really-teach-you-stuff sort of thing.
Chakra blockage- I spent ages trying to some up with some plausible way of introducing a difference between chakra and magic. So I decided to have Harry figure out that his magic spells can't detect chakra pathways.
Wound healing biology- A very abbreviated info dump from the Wiki page. It took me a while to sort through all that and come up with something acceptable enough to use as Sakura's explanation to Harry.
Elemental corner derivative- Err, yeah. Made up with math sounding name combined with Naruto logic of dependence of elements.
Odd Innuendos- I really don't know what it was, but the initial drafts of this chapter was filled with so much innuendo...it was ridiculous. I edited most of them before remembering the rejected writing section- so most of them have permanently disappeared. Thankfully/sadly there were still some I managed to find on the final edit.
Rejected writing (writing too silly/wrong to keep in the actual chapter)
The odd/sometimes bad-ish pornographic lines.
1-He had to consciously restrain his fingers from stretching and flexing in the comforting warmth.
2-I’ll help, just to ensure the proper flow. Don't worry, it won't hurt.
3- Harry curled his fingers in the relaxing heat and sighed.
I'm sure the ones that I had before were even worse.
Polar
P.S.-I'm definitely going to be replying to all of your PMs and comments. Sorry about the long delay with that as well.
P.P.S- Omg-osh I just realized it's been a year-ish since I started the story.
P.P.P.S- I might just make another 'story' for AtO on ffnet- so that I can post extra scenes from the AtO universe. Scenes that don't really have much of an impact on the plot.
