AC_D12: Sound's Strange (Part 1)

Despite my big hopes to post tons of stuff, this is going to be the final post for Advent this year. For the posts that I didn't get around to putting up, I'll post them after all the holiday going ons.

Speaking of the holidays, I hope you all have a wonderful time within the next few days- whatever you are celebrating or not celebrating.

For this final advent post, I'm actually going to start a new series on the blog- based on one of my old brainstorms- mostly so that I can explore writing with some different characters in an AtO-ish setting.

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AC_D11:An Alternate Temple Scenario

This is a partial fill for an Anonymous prompt sent in through the Ask Box, “Are the December prompts still open? If they are i had two suggestions: 1) A kinda angsty to eventual happy one for Monk Harry on ffnet. Naruto survives but Harry does not. This starts off a Groundhog situation for Naruto since Harry was never meant to die (cuz of the prophecy or since he doesn't really belong in the world, etc.) and the day loops continuously. The only way forward is to keep Harry alive. 2) Alternate Job-Professional Ghost Hunter.”

This is way too complicated for a prompt- groundhog day scenarios require a good amount of words and work to be anywhere near good. And the only groundhog day story I've ever liked is an Original fiction called Mother of Learning (Read it, you won't be disappointed).

So, I'm only going to do the slightly easier part- have a short fill for the angsty portion of the prompt.

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AC_D10: The Beginning of a Friendship

This is prompt fill for Mer “If possible, can you write about Hedwig visiting Konoha hospital, delivering poisonous snake heads to Sakura?”

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Sakura squinted at the cramped text, grimacing at the amount of reading she had left to do before tomorrow.

A large tap made her look up and see a large white owl outside.

She hastened to open the window.

The owl swooped in, dropped a freshly cut snake head onto the boring text that Sakura had been working on and left with a soft hoot.

Glad to have an excuse not to read the boring text, Sakura grabbed her med kit and moved tot he snake head with anticipation.

AC_D9:A Reversed Change in Age

A fill for an Anonymous prompt sent in through the Ask Box. The prompt is “Harry gets turned into a toddler. The Naras, Naruto, Izumo, Kotetsu, and Itachi take care of him. Toddler Harry can bake. Fluffiness :)”

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Mindful of the soft but hurried knocks, Shikaku opened the door as softly as possible and stared. “Naruto?”

The blond looked at him with troubled eyes, his arms tight around a covered bundle.

“What's going on?” Shikaku asked.

“I need... we need help.”

“We?”

The small bundle in Naruto's eyes moved and green eyes stared back at him from under a distinctly familiar scarred forehead. Naruto pulled the blanket up and covered the bundle once more.

AC_D8: An Extended Stay at the Fire Temple (Part 2)

This is a prompt fill for foxsw “I'd like a followup to the story on ff chapter 7, where Tsunade and the clan-heads try to understand how their tame civilan Uzimaki Harry killed two unkillable, immortal akutsuki.”

In case you haven't read it already, the previous part of this story can be found here. 

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As Shizune entered the office, Shikaku gathered his papers and turned to leave.

“Stay,” Tsunade said and turned to her assistant. “Did you complete the autopsies?”

Shikaku straightened. There could only be one autopsy that Tsunade was waiting for.

“Did some extra tests, just in case.” Shizune nodded, the thick files in her hand coupled with with slight tinge of darkness under her eyes showed just how much work she had done.“Nothing.”

“Nothing?” Shikaku asked when Tsunade didn't.

“Nothing,” Shizune repeated, her eyes fixed on the Hokage. “No poisons, no damaged organs, no real physical damage other than those self-inflicted ones that the pale one had. The one that matched Na...” Shizune paused and cleared her throat, looking away from the Hokage's hard eyes and down at her files. “They just died.”

AC_D7: Alternate Jobs- Fisherman

“You're a fisherman and you moved to Konoha?” The shop owner asked with disbelief.

Harry nodded as he examined the fishing rod in front of him. Sleek and smooth, it was fitted with strong metal fittings and looked sturdy enough. “I wanted a challenge instead of the usual.”

“Well, it'll certainly be a challenge to earn anything here. People can catch their own fish. The ninja are quick and don't even need a fishing rod.”

Harry shrugged. “That's okay.”

The old store owner stared at him. “You know, wanting a challenge is all well and good but it won't pay the bills.”

Harry nodded but said, “I'd like some extra line.”

“And tackle?”

Considering he didn't actually know what a tackle was, Harry shook his head. 

The shop owner looked ready to launch into some sort of lecture.

Harry said, “Can I fish at any location or are places restricted.”

“As long as it's not on a clan's property, it's okay to fish anywhere. Clans keep their compounds secure, so you won't end up there anyway.” The shop owner looked at him. “Anything else?”

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AC_D6: Welcome Visitors

A prompt fill for Amberfox “Since you did a skit about Naruto in the Wizarding world it would be cool to read about Harry's friends visiting Naruto in his Strawberry Cake apartment.”

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“I'm sure there must be some in the hallway cupboard,” Naruto said.

Harry nodded and entered the hallway. He opened the small hallway cupboard, got a glimpse of the inside and slammed it shut.

“Nii-san?” Naruto questioned from the kitchen. “Did you find it?”

“I found something,” Harry muttered, reaching for his wand as he kept a hand on the cupboard's door handle. Whatever it was that he had gotten a glimpse of, it was most definitely not what the inside of a hallway cupboard should look like.

“Is it not opening?” Naruto asked, entering the hallway. “The handle gets jammed sometimes.”

Before Harry could reply, Naruto grabbed the handle and pulled the door open.

He swallowed and stepped away from the open cupboard. “Did you...”

AC_D5: A Snapshot Omake for DtE

Even though I've marked Complicated Detour to Evolution (DtE) as complete on ffnet, I do still get fun snippets of ideas/scenes for it. And I thought I'd put some of them together for this post.

This omake is mostly centered around Sakura. And in keeping with DtE's overall tone, it's all fairly ridiculous but still loads of fun to write.

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“What the fuck is that?” Grimmjow grimaced and flinched away from the swaddled bundle. “It took you nine months to create this ugly thing? You had to stay in Konoha for this?”

Sakura, sitting up on her hospital bed, rolled her eyes. Her husband, the blond foreign ninja whose name Grimmjow never wanted to learn, narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth but quietened when Sakura grabbed his hand. “Don't take his words so seriously, Shi.”

“But,” the foreign ninja said. 

“That's just his way. You should be used to him by now.”

“Bitch, don't pretend like you know me.”

AC_D4: Hedwig to the Rescue

This is a prompt fill for Haley Novak “Hedwig delivers a letter to one of Harry's ninja friends just in time to save their lives in a serious situation(Harry is not involved)”

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“They asked for me?” Shikamaru asked. “Me, specifically?”

His father nodded as he sipped on his steaming tea. “You must have made an impression people while you were in Suna.”

“I was in meetings the entire time.” Shikamaru felt the need to point out.

“We can't say no to the request without a proper reason.” His father, the heartless man that he was, grinned.

Shikamaru ignored his father's amusement. “You think they're finally open to making a proper deal with us?”

“It's a possibility.”

“Then do you really want me to go? I haven't even finished aunt's lessons on clan trading and negotiations.”

“Your aunt would say that nothing teaches better than first hand experience. Besides, I'm sure you know the basics. Don't sign any paperwork. Don't insult or threaten them openly.”

Shikamaru stared at his father with something like disbelief. “Harii was right. You do think that you have a sense of humour.”

AC_D3: Behind the Scenes (Part 3)

This is a continuation of my “Behind the Scenes”-verse and also a partial fill for a prompt that came in a while back. In September to be exact, but I never had a chance to work on it.

The prompt was “Can I request a scenario where the "fairy-tale" that Harry was asked to give circulates around Konoha and soon books, a fanbase, etc. start to pop into existence. Harry is then given another movie role, but as the creepy/snake/diary/evil man?”

To whoever sent this prompt in, I hope you don't mind seeing it so late.

Fyi, the fairy-tale thing that the prompt is referring to, is from a much older prompt that I filled out ages ago.

AC_D2: Scraps from AtO 15

For today's post I thought I'd post some rough/un-edited bits of chapter 15 that I cut out while revising- stuff that just didn't fit in anymore.

1. A conversation between Naruto and Harry

"Are you still complaining about Jiraiya'ss food choices?" Harry asked in amusement.

"Everyday for two years, nii-san. Two years!"

"Couldn't have been everyday if he visited the brothels as often as you said he did," Harry said.

"Nii-san, whose side are you on?"

"The most amusing side," Harry replied primly.

Naruto groaned. "Those two free-loaders have corrupted you."

"They're not free-loaders."

"But they have corrupted you!"

"Corrupted me with what, exactly?" Harry asked, his lip twitching upwards.

"With ridiculous one-liners," Naruto said. "They've taken away all your super niceness."

"But you were the one who kept telling me to be less nice."

"To other people, not to me!" Naruto huffed in indignation. "You're supposed to be nice to me forever!"

Harry rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "Even when you make fun of my hair?"

"Especially then," Naruto said.

"And when you make me eat too much ramen?" Harry asked.

"Even then," Naruot nodded sagely.

AC_D1: Deleted Scene Episode 8

It's Day 1 of 2016's Advent Calender. I'm not sure how many posts I'll be able to put up this year, but hopefully more than 8, at least.

I thought I'd start things off with a deleted scene from Gaara.

Warnings: Very un-edited.Takes place during chapter 14

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