Long Live the King of Pop: R.I.P. Michael Jackson
I don't remember if I was ever a big M.J. fan, I admit. Heck, I've laughed at a lot of jokes about him and the problems he's gotten into these past years. That doesn't mean I don't feel saddened by his death. I mean, before the decline of his career, I may have liked his music and liked him in particular... Anyway, big ups to you, M.J. I'm not joking when I say that I hope you're moonwalking up in heaven right now...and if you're not, then I hope your stay in hell's not too painful. No offense.

I'm starting to HATE Sasuke again
In recent manga chapter 453, after being told that Konoha was already destroyed by Pain/Nagato, Danzo was the new Hokage and that the Five Kage were gathering to figure out how to stop Akatsuki, Sasuke comes up with a new revenge-driven plan: go to the meeting and KILL THE KAGE. ...Okay, I kinda died for a moment there and had to reread that page because instead of having written/translated "kill Danzo" or "kil the Hokage", it said "kill the Kages". Plural! Damn it, now Sasuke's just being a big crybaby! Getting revenge on the entire villager even though it was those old geezers' fault that your brother killed your entire clan was one thing, but killing the five Kage?! He's just being full of himself with that Mangekyo Sharingan of his now...

And is it just me, or does anyone else hate Karui (the black chick with the red hair) for how she acted towards Sakura? I thought she was cool at first, but then she started trashing on my favorite kunoichi and made her cry... (>w<) Or maybe I'm just pissed off because we've got yet another redhead chick in the series? Why couldn't Kishi have made her hair black? Show love for the brunettes for once?

Of course, the best way to end this rant would be...GAARA!!! (>x<) It's been too long since we last saw him! Loving the new outfits! Although Kankuro's man-dress irks me... (-_-)

Naruto X Rewrite has landed!!
Say cheers! Since I'm already at the Nami no Kuni arc, I've decided to post the Naruto X Rewrite chapters now! I mean, I'm going away on July 30 and will not have access to my computer for at least a week, so...I've decided to post a chapter a day until I reach Arashiden. Now...know that a lot of these chapters have just been copied, pasted, and only slightly rewritten from the original Naruto X and that the original story will only be up for a few days until it is removed (because I don't wanna get in trouble with the authorities of FF.net).

Here's the link: Naruto X: Rewrite, so remember to please REVIEW!! Because it would not be worth rewriting if no one even gave me a teensy amount of recognition for this...

"Alright, whose idea was this?!" The Hokage screamed as he pointed a finger out the window to show the ANBU the defaced Hokage Monument, where several childish pictures had been drawn and, from the letters written on the foreheads of the six Hokage, the world 'loser' had been spelt out across the mounainside for all the village to see. "Who's the culprit?! How long has this been going on, Enoki?!"

"3 days, sir," said the ANBU wearing the lynx mask.

"And who is the culprit, Juri?!"

"We don't know yet, sir..." said the short-haired female ANBU wearing the brid mask.

"So what're you doing standing around here for?!"

"Because you called us, old man--I mean, sir," the spiky-haired cat-masked ANBU in the black cowl stated.

Naruto glared at the cat-masked ninja. "Don't get smart with me, Kira...! Get going!!" The frightened ANBU disappeared in puffs of smoke. Once he was alone, the Hokage stared out the window and sighed. He wasn't exactly angry...more like upset, because there was finally someone who had gone to the same extremes as him. And for three days straight! 'Still...that's kind of interesting...' "I need to at least know who'd be crazy enough to try this--or else I'll go crazy!" He groaned.

 

Naruto X...Revamped?
Seriously speaking, there are some things I wish I could change about Naruto X's past that would probably result in me rewriting most of the story. Some ideas are minor(removing characters, replacing characters, rewriting characters, new characters, earlier character appearance)and some are major (Sharingan Hanzo? Flirtatious Tsuki? Original Naruto alive?). I probably--yeah, right, more like most likely--won't do it, but I wrote some sketches nonetheless. Gimme your opinion, okay?

#1: Nostalgia
That morning, the village known as Konohagakure was peaceful...until several people discovered the messages wriggen on heir homes, apartments, places of business, trees, fences, even stray cats and dogs, and worst of all...on the six faces on the Hokage monument that overlooked the village. The message: 'Vote Kazaki Nataro for your Hokage!!'

"Heh-heh!!" A young blonde of 12 years with spiky blonde hair and sky blue eyes, wearing a short-sleeved orange jacket with black cuffs, a black shirt, orange pants, blue open-toed sandals and a pair of black strapped goggles with square orange lenses giggled into his hands. Before him sat the leader of the Hidden Leaf Village, the Rokudaime Hokage.

"Care to tell me why you decided to tag just about everything in sight?" The old man with the spiky pale blonde hair and sky blue eyes, dressed in white and red robes, asked as he eyed the boy with an arched eyebrow.

"Promoting my campaign for Nadaime Hokage, Gramps!"

The old man blinked. "Campaign?"

The boy nodded enthusastically. "Yup! Advertisement is the necessary first step! They won't vote for you if they don't know who you are." He stood up on his chair and pointed a finger up to the ceiling. "Now that I'm a ninja, I'm in the running for Hokage! You might as well just give me the hat and robe and start calling me 'Nataro-sama!'

The old man shook his head. "Nope."

"WHY NOT?!?"

"Because no one will want to vote for a vandal..."

Nataro pursed his lips and pouted. "Hmmm... You may have a point!"

The old man smiled and nodded. "Of course I do! By the way..." He got a frightening look in his eyes that made the boy sweatdrop. "You know what you have to do, right...?!"

Nataro gulped as he began to sweat.

* * *

On top of the administration building, the old man sipped some instant ramen from a styrofoam cup. He sighed before frowning and mumbled, "What I wouldn't give for some Ichiraku ramen right about now..." He looked up at Nataro, who was busy cleaning off paint from the heads of the Hokage monument and smiled at the feeling of nostalgia. "Keep it up!! 1 head down, 5 to go!! And when you're done, you still have to clean up everything else you painted on in town!!"

Nataro squinted his eyes in a fox-like manner as he grumbled to himself, "Note to self: TP Grandpa Naruto's house later on in the week..."

"If you finish early, I'll take you out for ramen~!"

The young blonde's body straightened up as he began to wipe furiously at the Nidaime's forehead. "Why the heck didn't you say that in the first place?!"

#2: New Fujibayashi Mitsuki
"Yo, Mitsuki," said Kazemaru as he approached a girl with dark brown hair set up in a spiky ponytail and green eyes, wearing a sleeveless green shirt with a pair of dark green shorts and green sandals. He handed her a DVD case. "Here's your movie, really great, gotta go, bye!" He spoke quickly as he turned to leave. Mitsuki grabbed the back of his hoodie and pulled him back. 'Crap.'

"Hold it! What's your rush?" Mitsuki opened her dvd case and gasped at the sight of a broken DVD that had been taped together. "You...broke my DVD...!" She squeaked as a dark aura radiated from her body.

Kaze's eyes became the size of dots. "Um... Here's the thing: I accidentally dropped the case, but it wouldn't have gotten broken if Nataro hadn't pushed me down!"

"Save it!!" Mitsuke need Kaze in the groid, making him bend over as she held back a sob. "It's...gone! It's all busted now!!"

"Like...my balls...!"

"No one's talking to you!!" Mitsuki cried as she spun around and kicked the pyromaniac in the back.

#3: Karin?!
"We should be getting close..." Hanzo mumbled.

"Hanzo-kun!" Team 14 turned around to see a girl approach them. She looked close to their age with shoulder length reddish-brown hair and red eyes, wearing a sleeveless yellow shirt with long black armbands that went from her wrists to her shoulders and black short-shorts. "Hanzo-kun! There you are!"

Hanzo blinked and looked the girl up and down. "Do...I know you?"

The redhead smiled sweetly. "No~! But I know ev-ry-thing about you...!"

"Dude, Stalker Alert...!" Kazemaru whispered to his raven-haired teammate.

"I'm Yukari. But please, call me Yu-chan! <3" The redheaded girl said with a wink. "'Kay, Hanzo-kun? If you do, I'll show you every trace of my body."

'Say what?!' The boys thought as Nataro and Hanzo turned blue in the face and Kazemaru blushed.

Yukari blinked and began to look in a corner. "...I gotta go." She walked up to Hanzo and placed her fingers on his lips, which made the Uchiha flinch. "Til we meet again, Han-kun~!" She giggled before she walked down the hall, leaving Team 14 alone.

"Han-kun...?" Hanzo mumbled with large, white blank eyes.

"Who the heck was that weird girl?" Nataro asked with squinted eyes.

"Han-kun...?"

"Isn't it obvious? She's an obsessive Hanzo fangirl," said Kazemaru.

"Han-kun...?"

"Fangirl? ...Did Hanzo ever have fans? Aside from us?"

"Since when was I a fan of Fan Boy's?"

"You know what I mean!"

"Han-kun...?"

Kaze slapped Hanzo in the back of the head. "Knock it off!!"

The raven-haired boy blinked and shook his head. "Wha...? What happened?"

"We just met your first fangirl. You sly dog you!" Nataro said as he wiggled his eyebrows.
 

YES!! I'm still alive! But just barely!! Not only do I have to study for the Final Exams...but Dattebayo is no longer subbing Naruto Shippuuden!! Imagine how shocked and angry I was when I downloaded the episode and saw idiotic cars!!! (T__T) Oh, woe is meeee!! I was looking forward to that being my Naruto fix, since Cartoon Networks gone and aired the Naruto Movie 2...again. I miss the days when they showed their movies at 6 o'clock or so, cartoon shows aiming at teenagers like 6teen and Total Drama Island showed on 4Kids TV and Toonami was still alive for my nightly anime fix...!

On a (kind-of) happier note, I'm starting to write my fan fiction again!! ...Yes, I had stopped, on account of college registrations and classes and all sorts of educational whatnot... Right now, I'm in the midst of finishing the final chapter SiNful Rose (I'm on the third to last fight as I write!!), plus the "hidden trailer" for SiNful Rose II. Whether that's a joke or not...is for me to know. Heh-heh-heh...! I have also been working on Naruto X! In only five months I'll be graduating, so I doubt that I'll be finished by then...sadly. But do not worry!! I'll be persistent! I hope. And to show you people my persistence, I will personally sketch three scenes from three oncoming episodes that will be very important to the story's plotline!

Sketch 1: The Unwilling Fox & Weasel

"Thank you so very much for helping me get here, kids!!" The small old woman cooed as she pinched Nataro's cheek like a loving grandmother. She then stretched it out, much to the blonde's disdain. "Who knows what would have happened if I were to travel here alone?"

"No problem, m'am," Ina told the old woman. "I just hope you remembered to pay for our services."

"Oh, sure, sure! No problem!" The woman continued to pull Nataro's cheek before she suddenly released it to wag a bony finger in front of his face. "And you! You had better learn to treat young ladies kindly! You may be cute, but the girls don't want a man who insults them to their face."

The blonde rubbed his sore cheek with a frown. "But--!"

"Ah, ah! No buts! I'm sure this pretty young lady would like to go out with you if you were nicer to her!"

'As if!' Ina thought with half-lidded eyes as she folded her arms across her chest.

"Bye, Granny! Stay safe!" Nataro called out to the old woman before she disappeared into a crowd. Several seconds afterwards, he began to rub his hands in an evil manner. "Bwahahaha!! Now I can have some ra-men~!" The black-clad teen began to skip over to a nearby ramen shop that he had happened to spot when he was suddenly pulled back by the collar of his jacket. "H-hey!! What do you think you're doing, Weasel Girl?!"

"Our mission is done. We have no reason for staying here, so let's get back to Konoha and report this mission as a success so I can get away from you," the raven-haired girl sais as she attempted to drag her unwanted teammate in the opposite direction of the ramen shop.

"Yeah, well...being with you's no picnic, either!" The blonde growled as he made eye contact with the Uchiha. Sparks seemed to fly between them and there was a certain air radiating from the teenage ninja that made innocent bystanders avoid them.

'What were you thinking, Hokage-sama?' Ina thought as a vein throbbed on her forehead.

'When you paired us up, you forgot one thing...' Nataro thought with a vein throbbing on his forehead as well.

'We HATE each other!!!' They both thought at the same time as their glares intensified.

~Several minutes later...~

"How did I get roped into this...?" Ina mumbled as Nataro sat on the stool next to her. 'I'll do anything to keep his mouth shut on the way home.'

"Okay, mister! Let's see how your ramen matches up to Konoha's!" The black-clad blonde said with a grin as he snapped his chopsticks and looked down at the large bowl of miso ramen in front of him.

Sketch 2: Just a Field Medic

"Why did I get roped into this?" Hanzo asked Matsu as he, Shizuka and a second girl with short, dark brown hair and hazel-colored eyes walked behind him. "I'm just a field medic--not a doctor!!"

"It's the same thing, Hanzo-kun!" Matsu told the raven-haired teen with a frown. "Hikari-san said you're very good at what you do, so I believe her. That's why I chose you."

"B-but, I'm horrible at working on a civillian! I'll get worried a-and lose it!"

The brunette girl snorted and ran a hand through her hair. "What's wrong? Big bad Uchiha not up to the challenge? What a wuss...!"

"Hanzo-kun is not a wuss!" Shizuka told the girl. "He's just...not used to working on ordinary people! But once he realizes that the lives of several villagers--of which include the elderly and little kids--are at stake, he'll rise up to the challenge! Won't you, Hanzo-kun?"

Hanzo became slighty blue in the faces. "Lives of villagers...at stake...? In my hands...?"

"Way to go, Blue-Hair! I think you just made him freak out!" The brunette exclaimed. 'Oh, Hanzo-kun!! Don't be worried! I'm sure a cool guy like you will do great!!' She thought as a figure with the kanji for 'Inner Kaori' on her forehead appeared in the brunette's mind with hearts for eyes.

Sketch 3: Cult Fiction

"That's the cult leader?!" Kazemaru shouted at a higher volume than he had wanted.

Chao and Konjo turned around to look at him with arched eyebrows. "Is there something wrong, Kaze?" The Hyuga asked.

"You bet there's something wrong!! He doesn't look anything like the cult leaders on TV! They're usually old men wearing robes and stuff, but he's...he's..."

"He looks normal," said Chao-Mei.

"Exactly! You wouldn't be able to tell him apart from the rest of the people in this weird town!"

Konjo stared at the people who were crowding around the man with cries of "Bodhisatva-sama" and whatnot. "From how these people are reacting to him, I could see why he'd want to blend in..."

I didn't die. I was doing *shudder* homework.
Yeah, to my dismay, even though Christmas is next week, I still have school for the rest of the week. And what's worse is that I still have work to do in my classes!! (T__T) I must think of the positives! ...But I think I'll focus on the negatives, first. I have a project due for Engish 12 AP: a scrapbook on England, and I also have homework for the class where I must write a scene modeled on the renaissance (sp?) period that we've been reading about (I'll just get some inspiration from FFXII) due when I come back from Christmas vacation. Then there is the portfolio I have to turn in by Friday (which I thought would be the only time I would come in this week. Guess I was wrong! (T__T)) and there's the Calculus Quiz I have on Monday. Damn Calculus...! >x< There are also progress reports on Monday. That's just what I need: a letdown from learning I'm still failing Pre-Cal and Chemistry before the Christmas break. Way to ruin my Christmas spirit, you educational bastards!!!

Wait, I said I was going to look at the positives, wasn't I? Well, the positives are that I get to play with Disgaea 3 and Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm over the Christmas break. My brother also bought Singstar Vol. 2 for the PS3 for me, because I asked him to, since there weren't any good games left that I wanted (the bad part of going shopping two weeks before Christmas). I'm not exactly into games like Singstar and Dance Dance Revolution (anymore) because I rarely have anyone to play them with. That, and because it gets boring when you don't update. And since Singstar needs to be updated online to get new songs (I say yet again: Why did you make Playstation Network a place to get new updates instead of just putting everything on the games?! WHHHHHYYYYY?!?) and I don't like singing outloud (just in case someone is outside listening, and that would be embarassing), I'm not sure if I'll be playing it much. What else is there to be positive aside from gifts? My dearly beloved big sister coming to visit, of course!! <3

Konohamaru's a Ninja Afterall!!
Yup, in the most recent Naruto manga chapter, Konohamaru showed his stuff as a descendant of a kickass ninja clan!! I still don't think much of him, but...hey, at least he's proven that for a genin, he's pretty strong. He doesn't even have the, erm..."condition" that Naruto has and he can make Kage Bunshin and the Rasengan! Though it was kinda weird how he thought Naruto was talking about the Sexy Jutsu when he was trying to teach Konohamaru how to make a Rasengan... (-_-') And now Pain knows where Naruto is!! Finally!! I was getting depressed from seeing Konoha get its ass handed to them by 6 corpses and a living origami woman... Maybe playing Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm will cheer me up about the series! ^__^

The Way to the Dawn sketch: "Restoration"
She held the drawing up to her chest and smiled to herself mere seconds before something jumped off of the wall behind the construction materials and landed on top of her. A skateboard fell to the ground, its wheels continuing to spin as Namine felt a throbbing pain in the back of her head.

"Uhh... Huh? Oh my gosh! I'm so sorry! I-I didn't see you there! Y-you're not hurt, are...you?" She heard someone speak.

Her dark blue eyes slowly opened to see brighter sky blue eyes staring down at her in concern. Then she saw the face of the person who was kneeling over her with worry written on his face. Blonde hair that spiked up to one side...blue eyes...familiar face... "Roxas...?" The words came out of her mouth before she knew what she was saying.

"Roxas" arched an eyebrow. "Roxas? My name's not Roxas. It's Sora," he spoke in a voice that definitely was not Roxas's.

"So...ra?" In a matter of seconds, her crush was replaced with a spiky-haired brunette whose hair had blonde hightlights and sky blue eyes. His face was so similar to Roxas's that it was no wonder she confused him for the blonde boy. "...Sora?" Namine repeated again as she sat up and stared at the brunette.

"Yeah. You're not hurt, are you?" Sora repeated as he held a hand out to help her up. She took hold of his hand and got to her feet, blushing until she released his hand. "Nothing's damaged, right?"

The blonde mage shook her head as she rubbed the back of her head, wincing upon feeling a bump. "Maybe my head..." She noticed that Sora was staring at her. For some reason, that made her cheeks heat up again. "Is something wrong?"

"No, it's just that...you look familiar."

Namine blinked and tilted her head to the side slightly, her blue eyes reflecting the same confusion as Sora's. "It's funny. You look familiar to me, too. Even your name's familiar, but I'm not sure where..."

"Well, how about if you tell me your name?" The brunette asked as he scratched the back of his head. "I really think we've met before."

The blonde nodded and held a hand to her chest. "I'm Namine."

The spiky-haired teen's eyes widened for a moment before he gave a smile. "S-sorry, I think I heard wrong. Could you tell me your name again?"

"My name is Namine. ...Is something wrong with my name?"

Sora stared at the blonde girl before he gave a wide smile, showing his white teeth. "Namine!!" He started to hug the blonde tightly, which made her entire face tomato red. "You're here!! You're home!!"

Kingdom Hearts: Twilight Heart sketch: Battle Tutorial
Hiro took a step forward and his foot landed in a black puddle that he didn't seem to notice before. He looked down at the puddle in disgust. "Gross!! Oh, that is sick!" He lifted his foot up out of the puddle to try and shake of the black gunk off of his sneaker when a pair of long, clawed black hands reached out of the puddle and grabbed Hiro's leg, its claws drawing blood from his skin. "AAAHHH!!" He fell back in shock as the creature crawled out of the puddle.

It was inky black with sticky skin and looked somewhat humanoid. It had a pair of wrinkled antennae that curled back and large yellow eyes that glowed eerily. The creatured started to crawl on top of Hiro, digging its claws into his body as it made its way up the brunette's body.

"G-get off!! Get off of me, ya little...thing!!" The gray-clad teen shouted as he tried to swat the monster off of him, but it scratched his arms and hands. "Get...OFF!!" He swatted his bleeding hand at the monster again and light appeared in his hand. The creature froze before the light as it took shape and threw it off of him. Hiro stared at the object of light in his hand as it glowed and in a flash, it transformed into a weapon. It resembled a large key with a square blue handguard and a long golden blade with teeth that resembled an actual key. "What...is this?!"

*The Keyblade... A weapon forged by your feelings and the power of your heart. It is the key to your destiny.*

The creature got to its feet, twitching erratically. Its empty gaze fell on the Keyblade in Hiro's hands. It leapt at Hiro and attempted to slash him in the chest.

*Block!*

Not really wanting to know what the thing would do to his chest if it got the chance, Hiro raised the blade in front of him. Some sort of force managed to push the monster back.

*Now, attack!*

"Attack?! I don't know how to fight with a sword! Just a...a bat!" Purple eyes blinked, then widened in realization. He began to imagine that instead of a large key, he was holding his steel bat. He started to swing the Keyblade with all his might, spinning right, then left, then digging his foot into the ground before... "HOMERUN!!" The teeth of the key struck the monster in its head. Hiro was expecting to have blood or something like that trailing down the blade, but the monster simply disappeared in wisps of black smoke and disappeared, leaving a pink heart behind. Hiro reached a hand out to touch the glowing heart, but it floated up into the sky and disappeared before he got the chance. He looked down at the key in his hand.

"So...this is what a Keyblade looks like? Doesn't look as cool as the Keyblades Dad said he used... It just looks like a plain old key--supersized. But..." He swung it around a few times with a small smile on his face. "It's still kinda cool, I guess."

Christmas is Just Around the Corner
Yes, ladies and gents. It's that time of year again! Well...it's not, but with the way people have been selling off Christmas stuff for the last couple of months, you'd think it were. So it's time to endure the joy and frustration that is the Holidays! (Not sure if I should say Christmas, since it would offend others of different faiths.) It came so fast, don't you think? (T__T)

My sister asked me if I wanted any games for the holidays. I said "no," because I didn't think the games I wanted were down here yet. They were Disgaa 3: Absence of Justice, Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm, and Little Big Planet in that order. I thought she would get me only one...but she got me all three!! 
See this? --> (O_o) This is the expression I had on my face when she told that she got all three. It was weird, considering that I only just read the reviews for Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm and Little Big Planet in Playstation Magazine's Holiday edition a few days before she said she got them. Then, she said she would send one down for me and send the other two for Christmas. (O_O) That was when a dilemna hit. I didn't mind not getting Disgaea 3 until Christmas because I wanted something long to play over the Christmas break, but Naruto UNS and LBP are both great time wasters...I was caught between a ninja and loveable brown sack thing.

On one hand, Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm looks way better than the Ultimate Ninja series for PS2--almost like the anime itself. The new fighting system looks neat, but sadly, there are characters I really liked to play with (Kurenai, Anko, and sweet Shizune) who cannot be obtained unless you download them via the PlayStation Network. Damn it!! What kind of fighting game is it when you have to download characters?! Alternate costumes, stages, and music is one thing but characters?! What the hell was Sony thinking when they created such a thing as downloadable content! Think of the people (like me) who have no access to an ethernet connection and probably never will!! ...Rant done.

But, on the other hand, Little Big Planet looks so gosh-darn cute and fun! And I usually kind of steer away from games with cute leading characters, but who can resist that cute burlap face?! (T_T) It seems pretty neat to play: according the online trailers I saw after reading LBP's reviews, not only can you design your Sackboy or Sackgirl anyway you want, you can even make your own stages and share them amongst other players! The only problem is...the game focuses on playing with other players a liiiitle too much for my taste. You even have to work with other players to complete Story mode--which I'm sure was once a mode for one player to play by themselves.

I'm not sure what sort of delusions I was going through when I said I wanted LBP. I wanted Naruto Ultimate Ninja, but I feared I would get angry with it for the downloadable content thing or that I would pop it quickly, and Little Big Planet seemed to have more replay value, and I could always just download a gamesave online and get all the costumes and materials I want to costumize my character... Either way, I'll see how good it is by Monday, which is when it will be getting here, hopefully.

Now, I still need to do my own Christmas shopping: some nice things for my sister. Something pretty for my mother. Something my brother needs. And something I can buy myself with the $100 I have stowed away in my room. Heh-heh-heh. ^__^

Thanksgiving with the (future) In-Laws
I should have written this down first, shouldn't I? Oh, well...  Yesterday, my mother and I were invited to spend Thanksgiving day with my brother's fiance's family. They're really a fun bunch of people, y'know. Though...I kinda had to tune out the conversation they were having on the different kinds of alcohol and what they mixed them with... There was one about rum and egg yolk... (O_o)

When we came home from said Thanksgiving dinner, my mother and I found our house smelling smoke. Apparently, my idiot father was cooking at the stove when he did the dumb thing thing of going outside to sit down. Now I ask you: who goes outside when you have something lit on the stove? The scent of smoke had practically filled the entire house...and he hadn't even cleaned up the mess he made from it! He just left the burnt pot right there in its place. And worse of all...he used one of my plates! Un-freaking-belieaveable!!

The night ended nicely, though, when I got to dig into the slice of coconut tart that I took home while I watched Jeff Dunham's Christmas special on the Comedy network. This has been the best the best Thanksgiving ever! Joking. :P

Stay tuned for sketch ideas for upcoming(?) chapters of Naruto X, Time is NOT a Toy, and Way to the Dawn! See ya!

WHAT'S THE F'ING DEAL ABOUT INTRODUCTORY NIGHT?!?
My mother made such a big deal about me not going to introductory night. Then again, maybe if I had told her about it, she wouldn't been so upset and wouldn't have gone on a tirade(sp?) about how I didn't involve myself in school activities and I didn't do anything and I'm always closing myself off and that I was almost 18 and going off to college soon and that I should show her something different by now, which then went on to how I spent most of my free time writing instead of looking over Calculus (which I don't care if I fail now, so long as I do my best). It makes no sense to me, though. I can't dance--be it to calypso and reggae music like the ones my classmates listen to at school jams or that waltz thing that the kids danced at introductory night. I hate buying/shopping for dresses because I seem to have no fashion sense when it comes to formal wear. (My fashion sense with normal and casual wear screams "States Kid", too.) I'd feel awkward dancing with a guy that I was paired up with and have no feelings towards. And introductory night isn't the same as the last school prom, is it? (I probably won't be going to that either, since there isn't a guy in the world for me or even holds a crush for me and going to a dance without a date's too weird...) Besides, I'd have to pay 20 bucks just to enter my own Introductory Night.

What I hated the most, though, was the way she made it sound like I was supposed to go to Introductory Night. At least, I think that's what she said. If she meant it like that, then she probably thinks that I should want to be Miss CHS or perform in a talent show for those rude children that are my schoolmates. When will she learn that there is no such thing as a "normal teenager"?


namida NAMIDA namida
That title is too random... Anywho, I saw the recent chapter of Naruto! Nothing in particular stuck out to me, except for Kakashi's daddy (wonder if Kakashi looks like him underneath that mask) and Ino's reaction to having a piece of Katsuyu on top of her (Priceless! ^__^). I kinda have to wonder how Konohamaru fans (are there Konohamaru fans?) out there will react to the next chapter to see what Konohamaru's going through. If he gets killed, a lot of people are gonna cry. Heck, I'd cry if he died because he's just a kid!! T__T

"To RP or Not to RP?" is My Question
As per Mr. CodeKyuubi's suggestion, I've been trying to find an RP to join. There are lots I want to join, but...there's the problem of progression. I'm afraid that I'd have to read aaaall the entries from other players in order to find out what's been going on. Not to mention the limitations on my imagination... I've wanted to play a Kingdom Hearts RP somewhere on fanfiction.net, but I'm not sure if any of my characters would be acceptable or if I could play along properly. I've only RP'ed once or twice in the past, and all those RPs were dropped before I could get anything going. I don't wanna make my own RP because it's difficult and despite my sign, I'm not a leader type, I'm a follower.

Speaking of Kingdom Hearts...
I read in a magazine that Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories would be coming to the PSP in December. Squeal!! Birth by Sleep and that other KH PSP game are also on PSP. But when the heck will they show love for the PS3 and give little hints about a Kingdom Hearts III in the making?! >x< You'd think a game with Disney characters wouldn't be so enjoyable for a teenager about to go to college...

To satisfy my KH urges, I tried to play KH2. But my accursed PS2, which was been mutilating and scratching up my game discs and made some unplayable (DragonBall Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3, Xenosaga 3, Final Fantasy XII...), got to Kingdom Hearts. I can still play my first game, but when I started to play the game over, it freezes in The Land of Dragons (Mulan world) and on my first gamesave file, it freezes whenever I try to play the musical game for Atlantica (Little Mermaid world). I need to fix that accursed PS2 or get used copies of those games!! T__T

And of course, because I've become obsessed with Kingdom Hearts at the moment, I've wound up creating a little future fic in my mind starring the character I wanted to use in a KH RP who was modeled after Neku Sakuraba (main character of The World Ends with You/It's a Wonderful Life, a Square Enix game for the Nintendo DS with artwork done by Tetsuya Nomada, Kingdom Hearts' character artist. The only difference between the character's path and Sora's is that he's constantly being bothered by the original beings of Light and Dark, Cosmos and Chaos (of the soon-to-be PSP game Final Fantasy:-Dissidia-!) to join one of their sides and become one's vessel. He wants nothing to do with the fight between darkness and light, but he occassionally helps out both sides in order to find his sister, helping out the good guys save their friends in one world and helping to destroy another world later on if it would help him find his sister.

There's already a little description of it in a fourshot series I did last night for KH about the fate of Sora, Riku and Kairi's kids and if they would have to go through what their parents did (because light and darkness need each other to really exist, to me, so darkness will never go away). Here's the link to the fic: I Wonder What You'll Be. Hardly anyone's reviewed for it, though, so I can't tell what they think about it. T__T

I've been so bored as of late. SiNful Rose is one chapter away from completion (hurrah!!) but Naruto X hasn't been updated for months, and all the while, new story ideas are continuing to buzz around my head... I'm already in the midst of writing a Kingdom Hearts fic (I wanna do a SquareEnix fic again so badly!! T_T), a Rurouni Kenshin fic, a Sonic the Hedgehog fic, and Memento Mori. No Naruto chapters this week... I've lost my interest in the anime for now. My grades for the first semester have me depressed (English AP--95, Chemistry--75, Journalism--89, PreCalculus--70) I need something to do...so I'll just randomly post some sketches for some fic ideas. Hope you like them.

The Way to the Dawn (AU Kingdom Hearts II)
"Let me go!!" Namine shouted at white-haired teen as he continued to drag her through the forest. She attempted to pry her hand out of the blindfolded teen's grip, but he was stronger than her. "Stop it, you jerk!!"

"Jerk? I'm the jerk who saved your life back there, you know."

"I could have saved myself! I have my book!"

Riku stopped walking and arched an eyebrow. "Your...book?"

"Yes. My book."

"...You think you can beat Heartless...with a book."

The blonde girl tilted her head slightly to the side. "Heartless. Is that what those weird things were?" 'Those same weird things...that broke into my house.' "What are they, anyway? Monsters?"

"In a way. They're the darkness in people's hearts in physical form. When the darkness in one's heart engulfs them, that person becomes a Heartless. The Heartless have the desire to consume hearts--espcially the heart of a world--to create more Heartless."

"The heart of...a world?" Namine blinked. "Are...you saying that we're in another world at this very moment?!"

"This doesn't exactly look like your homeworld, does it?" Riku continued walking, still dragging Namine behind him.

"Wait!! Are you saying that Twilight Town's been destroyed?!" When she got no response, the thick blue book appeared in her free hand and the blonde girl used it to thwack her captor on the shoulder. "Answer me!!"

"Ngh!! It's not destroyed! It's been engulfed in the darkness."  He paused for a moment, wondering if what he said made the girl depressed. "...It's not permanent, you know. Everything'll go back to normal someday. All you have to do is wait until the time comes."

"...Can I stay with you?"

Riku arched an eyebrow. "Excuse me? What'd you say?"

"I want to stay with you. If your weird keysword thingie can drive off those Heartless, then the safest place I could be with is with you, right?" When no response came, she smiled.

The silver-haired teen stopped walking and released the blonde. He turned on his heel to face her, folding his arms across his chest. "You're kidding. You're afraid of me, aren't you?"He smirked. "Don't lie. I can tell that you're still afraid of me."

Namine pouted and walked up to him. "I wouldn't be afraid of you, if...I could see your eyes!!" She reached up to his face and pulled off the blindfold that was tied around his eyes.

"Give that back!"

"Fire!!" The blonde shouted before the blindfold in her hand suddenly caught on fire. She dropped the burning piece of cloth and it disintigrated into cinders as soon as it hit the ground. She turned around in time to see Riku glaring at her with aquamarine eyes. Despite that, she smiled. "That makes it easier to know when you're lying or not. Besides, you have nice eyes."

"...Let's go," the silver-haired teen spat as he grabbed her arm and continued to drag her through the forest.

Ai Naruto (Naruto multicrossover Harem fic)
Damn love potions. Damn them to hell! Damn them to hell where they would burn amongst the breast enhancement drinks and muscle milkshakes, because it was all their fault that he was in a position that he never thought he would be in (at least, not so soon).

"Hi...Hinata-chan!! What do you think you're doing?!" Naruto shouted from his place beneath the indigo-haired girl. He could feel her breasts pushing against his chest as her hands cupped his face.

"Naruto-kun...!" Hinata breathed out, a red blush on her cheeks and a glazed look in her eyes. "I...I know that we've only just met...but I think...no, I know that I love you!"

"Hinata-chan, listen!! It's not you!! It's that stupid perfume that my perverted granpda gave you!! I don't wanna do this! You don't want to do this! ...I don't want to do this!!"

The indigo-haired girl blinked. "A...perfume? No... I've felt this way about you since the day we first met. These feelings...they don't come from a perfume. They come from my heart and soul, Naruto-kun!" She exclaimed before she finally kissed him on the lips.

Naruto's eyes became wide and blank. 'Is she serious? Could she really...have feelings for me on her own accord?' Before he could finish anymore of these thoughts, Hinata was pulled off of him and thrown into a nearby bookshelf. A shadow overcast him, making the Uzumaki heir sweat profusely. "Oh...crap."

Asuna (from Mahou Sensei Negima) cracked her knuckles. "So, this is where you were? Making out with Hinata-chan?! And you called your grandfather a pervert?!" The orange-haired girl shouted as she picked Naruto off up the floor and punched him with enough force to send him flying through the large glass window behind him. "YOU'RE THE PERVERT!!!"

Per-So-Na (A Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 fic)
Minato stared at the little white thing that jumped about in front of him. It looked like a snowman with a little blue jesters had and a cheerful grin on its face.

"What...is that?" Minato asked with a slack jaw.

"That is the Magician, Jack Frost," Orpheus spoke from within his vessel's mind. "He's best known for freezing people to death. You don't know how many people died before your grandfather got him under control."

"What?!" The blue-haired teen looked at the frozen bodies of Yukari and Junpei, who still had those looks of frozen fear on their faces. "So you're saying...that if I don't get that thing under control soon, Junpei...and Yukari...and everyone else it's frozen, then--"

"They will die. You know what you must do."

Minato reached into his pants pocker and pulled out a silver handgun. "I do." He got to his feet and held the gun's barrel against the side of his head.

"Are you afraid?"

Indifference appeared in the blue-haired teen's eyes as his finger rested on the trigger. "Nothing at all...Orpheus!!" He pulled the trigger and the sound of a gun firing echoed throughout the park. It almost seemed as though a bullet went through the side of Minato's head when blue energy began to swirl around his body. In a flash of light, standing in his place was a figure made entirely of metal, save for his face, with a red scarf tied around his neck and a silver lyre on his back.

"Eh?!" Jack Frost stopped jumping around and stared at the silver-haired figure in shock. "Yay!! It's Orpheus! Still playing the part of the good Persona, huh?"

"I want to end this quickly! Minato doesn't want his friends to die!" The Fool exclaimed as he drew his instrument and strummed its strings. Jack Frost jumped out of the way in time to avoid being engulfed in a large ball of fire. "If we didn't need you to complete the Arcana, I'd play you a requiem. So let me play for you the song of your defeat!!"