Deleted Scene Episode 5

Warnings: Very un-edited.Takes place some time between chapter 11 and 12.

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Naruto opened the door to the apartment carefully, feeling a little awkward when he entered the large empty apartment. He removed his sandals after a moment of hesitation, slipped the key in to his pocket and moved towards the kitchen.

He paused at the entrance to the kitchen, and looked up at the photographs on the wall. He slid his eyes away immediately, entered the kitchen and moved to the refrigerator.

The cool air from the fridge created goosebumps on his arms but he sighed at the slight relief from the outside heat. But then he gaped as he looked at the inside of the fridge.

Every inch of space was filled with all sorts of boxes.

Naruto recognized boxes from all sorts of restaurants- the barbeque place, the sushi store, some other seafood joint and most importantly the cake store. He immediately reached for one of the cake boxes, but a fluttering piece of paper on a plastic box caught his eye.

He pulled out the box, stared at the bright paper, squinted at it and read out loud, “Fried Omlette, reheat for two minutes, put some more salt before eating. The pepper is in the cabinet above the sink.”

Naruto pulled out another random box from the fridge and found another note affixed to the top. The more he looked, the more he realized that every box in the fridge had instructions for preparing it and eating.

Nii-san's handwriting is horrible. Naruto mused as he pulled another container out and pulled it's paper closer to his face. Then he remembered the bandages. I see! It's because his hands are hurt. Otherwise his handwriting would be super awesome. Definitely way better than mine.

Satisfied with his selection of five different containers, all with food that he was sure his nii-san had actually made, Naruto finally closed the fridge.

As he reheated the food according to the instructions, Naruto's mind filled with an unpleasant thought. Wait, before I came here to talk to him, he was going to give his key to those annoying guys. Izumo and Kotetsu.

He looked down at the home-made food feeling more than a little irritated. He made this for them? Even the notes on top?

Just for that, I won't let them have any. Naruto nodded to himself, content with that plan, as he pulled out a plate and took generous helpings of everything and moved to the dining table.

As he sat down, he caught a glimpse of the photos on the wall. He grinned up and said, “Itadakimasu”

After taking a couple of bites, the lack of noise around him finally made him look back up at the photographs.

“Nii-san's cooking is awesome, obaa-san,” Naruto said, looking at Harii's mother, as he took another bite. “I can't make anything than ramen.”

The photos just smiled back at him.

“Of course, ramen isn't bad. But nii-san's cooking is nice.” Naruto turned away from the picture happily and took another bite. When he swallowed he turned back to the photograph. “I wonder if he got his cooking skills from oji-san or you.”

“Unless...” He looked between both of Harii's parents critically. “Both of you couldn't cook at all.”

Naruto snorted and finished the last of his food. “I'll probably just have to ask him when he comes back.” He placed the dishes in the sink. “All right, time for cake.”

Naruto opened the fridge and grabbed one of the cake boxes. He frowned slightly when he noticed a note on top, but grinned when he finally read it.

For Naruto only.

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I never actually planned on creating a scene like this- I never wrote any such scene for the actual story. In a way this could be considered more of an omake- but I think it came out as more of a deleted scene.

Anyway, the only deleted scene I had planned on putting up before uploading chapter 13 was a multiple PoV one sometime in Dec.

But then Duchessa sent me this picture--->

which I'm pretty sure has mystical powers in it. Not only did I stare at it like a creep every time I could (getting all warm and gooey inside) for a good amount of time, but then the above scene sort of popped up in my head. 

I don't know about the rest of you but my favorite part of the picture has to be Hedwig. It's almost like she's supervising those two- making sure they act all brotherly and stuff. ("If you're not nice to him, I'll peck you!")

So thank you once again, Duchessa, for the picture. And thanks to glockgal, the artist that Duchessa commisioned to have this picture drawn, for such an awesome piece of work.

If any of you want to see more of glockgal's artwork- be sure to check out her gallery here and her journal here.

Polar

P.S. Omg, end of November- and I have like 5 more chapters (6,7,11, 12 & 14) that need to be written for my NaNoWriMo challenge. Darn my horrendous all-over-the-place style of writing.

P.P.S. If this deleted scene made you all warm and gooey, then I have irrefutable proof about the picture's powers.

A Feature of Inspiring Fanart.

Because of my NaNoWriMo project, I've decided to do a feature for art that are centered around the Bleach character 'Grimmjow' - who has been fun to write alongside Team 7 these past few days. All the art here was rather inspirational in some form or the other for my writing up till now and I felt the need to thank them in my own way.

Grimmjow- The Panther King by grindpantera0219

This fanart actually gave me the plot bunny for my story ages ago. I can't quite explain why the picture gave me a plot-bunny for a crossover story, but I'm very glad it did. I would have left a comment on the page, but I don't have a dA account (even though I lurk there all the time).  So this is my thanks to the artist for inspiring me with a crazy but fun idea.



Bleach- Why tea only? by Washu-M 
Washu-M has a lot of funny comics- a lot of them with Grimmjow in them. Those comics actually made me feel a lot more comfortable about writing silly humour. More than that, the comics made me crack a smile when I got too stressed out. I definitely recommend going through Washu-M's comics for some light-hearted humour when you have some free time.



Bloody Macabre Halloween by blackstorm

As the title suggests, this is a picture of Grimmjow covered in blood. Even though he's covered in blood and looking rather insane- that's perfect because that's just how Grimmjow is- and this picture acted as a good reminder for me.

Of course, I did end up writing a lot of fighting and killing- which I have toned down- too much blood does get repetitive.



Bleach- RePantera by AkiMao

There isn't a lot of art of Grimmjow in his adjhucas form (at least I never saw any). But among the few that are there, this one really stands out to me.

It really has it's own unique mood and somehow manages to convey a different aspect of Grimmjow's attitude- and even a mixture of things, the longer you stare at it. 


I'm really finding this year's NaNoWriMo odd, not because it's fanfiction or anything like that. It's just how I seem so much more eager to write the story backwards- i.e) the ending bits first (I have the final scene done!).

I've actually noticed this happening while writing for AtO as well- I write out bits of future chapters and even the epilogue easily but when I have to work on the chapter that needs to be published next I'm find myself not able to concentrate and work on it. But I only took proper notice of it when I was writing this story.

In a way, it's nice for me as a writer- like I know for sure that I know what's happening and how I want to resolve my story.  I suppose this would work well if I'm writing a proper fiction novel (but that's not how I wrote last year's NaNoWriMo- then again I never had a proper ending for that story...)

But for fanfiction readers- it's probably very annoying since I can't really upload anything even though I'm writing so much. Future chapters will only make sense if I write out the previous chapters. 

Polar.
P.S. When I finally upload all my NaNoWriMo story's chapters online- I'll definitely do a Team 7 fanart feature!

Bad writing habits?

So I finally put up chapter 2 for my NaNoWriMo project... and you're probably thinking that I'm already slacking behind.

You'd be right and wrong at the same time.

I did try to write chapter 2 after I finished chapter 1. But no matter how hard I tried, I honestly couldn't. Instead I found myself writing chapter 8- which is a transition chapter before we enter Shippuden's storyline, which probably doesn't meant anything to you right now.

I didn't bother about it too much and tried to write chapter 2 after getting chapter 8 out of my system.  Again, that didn't work out. I ended up writing snippets/scenes/broken pieces of dialogue for a number of future chapters.

So yeah, my bad habit when writing - is not writing things in order and not being able to write what I'm supposed to. Instead I keep writing things and hoarding them for future chapters.

Does that mean my mind is cluttered or something? How do you fix that sort of thing?

Polar
P.S. Bad habits aside, I'm enjoying writing the bits and pieces for this crack-ish story. Maybe because it feels so light-hearted (plot-wise) and I'm not editing it like crazy?

Day 1 and 2 apparently.

So it's actually the wee early hours of November 2nd and I've finally put up my first chapter. A bit irritated that I couldn't put it up on the 1st since I did write my 3000 yesterday. Unfortunately I underestimated my need to edit- it took me more than ages to edit things ( mostly because TV distracted me and I feel asleep).

But it's up- and omg did you see? 3000+words in one day, that's such a huge thing for me. Obviously if I edited it seriously, it'd probably be cut down a lot- maybe half the words?

I think the thing that really helped me write so much was "WriteMonkey"- a software that keeps you focused on writing. It blocks out your computer distractions with a dull typewriter-esque screen. My favorite feature is that timer- somehow I felt motivated to write until the timer read zero.

As for the editing, two cups of tea really helped because my writing was seriously horrible. At least now it's only terrible.

Polar

Happy Halloween!

Today has to be one of the most hectic days of the year. Not only do you have to deal with ravenous kids who'd probably kill for candy and idiotic friends who want to horror movie marathons, but it marks the last 'free' day before NaNoWriMo madness begins.

Of course, when I say 'free'- I mean it's the day to finalize your basic plot for your NaNoWriMo story, find and organize your notes (if you have any) and then try-and-fail to convince yourself not to participate in NaNoWriMo.

So what fanfiction story have I decided on? It's a NarutoXBleach crossover that I'm calling "The Complicated Detour to Evolution" (the title might change tomorrow after I write chapter 1)

And you might recognise the plot bunny - since I had listed it on my blog. It's the crazy idea of Grimmjow from Bleach ending up in the Naruto world and somehow sticking to Team 7's lives. A very crack-ish premise especially if you know how Grimmjow is- bloodthirsty, slightly unhinged and callously violent.

You're bound to think, nothing good can come from that situation. And you might be right.

I chose it simply for the fact that nothing like that had been done before (for good reason probably), as far as I know, so I had to think about the plot. I did some of my research (if you call re-reading manga, research) and hammered out a rough outline of what should happen in the story.

The aim is to have a complete story of 15-16 chapters written and edited in a month. That means a new chapter every alternate day and the final chapter on Nov 30th.


I'm not very optimistic with my punctuality as usual, but I'm still hoping for the best.

Polar
P.S. Are you guys keeping up with the Naruto manga? You really have to give Kishimoto credit- he's really good at screwing with your head. Even the fic plot bunnies his recent chapters spawn are just... beyond crazy.