spookymuffin

Thank you I have been getting a little bit of writing done every now and again... but it's hard to fit it in around work and looking after the zoo that I have at home. I do promise that I'm not abandoning the story though!

I'm pretty sure that the Sai/Naruto fic you're looking for is Wavelengths by Questofdreams: http://naruto.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600095031

The rest of chapter ten is up now: http://naruto.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600103199&chapter=11 This chapter really hated me something fierce and fought me every step of the way, but it's down on paper (?) now and I can finally relax! I need opinions on whether the gore is a little too much. I'm more than willing to scale it back in future battle-oriented chapters if it's turning people off the story. Thanks to cocopower1 (hope you enjoyed it!) and GlassesandWhatnot (I'm glad I've helped make another Sai convert!) for their reviews.

Chapter 9.5 is up: http://naruto.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600103199&chapter=10 Chapter ten is a bitch that simultaneously doesn't want to be written but also managed to balloon out into something much larger than what I originally intended to write for this part. As such, it's going to take me a while to make the tenth chapter presentable but at the same time I'm very aware of how long it's been since I've updated... So, I present to you the start of chapter ten to tide you over until I've wrangled the rest of it into submission. Thanks to cinder1013 for their review. I am a bit of a NaruSaiSaku shipper but I don't think I'll ever pursue it seriously in this fic... however I might be convinced to do a oneshot for the three of them :3

Ninth chapter is up now. This chapter gave me a lot of trouble... there was a big fight scene that just didn't want to be written and then when I managed to get some of it down I ended up deciding that it would fit better in the next chapter anyway. *sigh* I feel like this chapter is kind of boring and transitional... but I promise that it will get better! The next instalment has action and angst all over the place. My beta (who is also my fiancé! I love you baby!) pointed out that he thought that the ANBU enemies have been going down too easily and I guess that I want to address that here (just in case anyone else was thinking the same thing). My reasoning when I'm writing these fights is that Team Kakashi is ridiculously overpowered in universe; Kakashi, Yamato and Sai are all considered "elite" within the ANBU, Sakura is the Fifth Hokage's apprentice and the only one to have learned her deadly super strength and then Naruto is the hero of Konoha, the genin that defeated Pain! I just don't see them having too much trouble with regular ANBU is all. As always any comments and (constructive) criticism are appreciated.

Thank you! I'm glad that it didn't feel emo. I'm just kind of paranoid sometimes that the angst might come across as kind of... gratuitous? Especially when things are going to get more angsty before they get better. The next chapter is giving me a little trouble, mostly with the fight scenes (yep, they are in there!), but I should (hopefully) still get it uploaded in and around a week from now.

Thanks to Danyealle-sama for pointing out to me that it would be more appropriate to post the replies to reviews here on the forums rather than at the end of chapters. The eight chapter is up now and I look forward to any comments or (constructive) criticism that anyone might have to offer. I've been feeling kind of crappy recently and I think that that might have come through in this chapter... it came out way more emo than I had originally intended.