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[TwinEnigma]

Hot off the press

Date Night

In which Sasuke attempts to be nice and help Naruto with his anniversary date with Sakura. Hilarity ensues.

[catsi563]

Hot off the press

Date Night

In which Sasuke attempts to be nice and help Naruto with his anniversary date with Sakura. Hilarity ensues.

beat me to it darnit, read and reviewed.


Quick edit: Dancer me just updated Stand Alone with its last chapter. its a weeee bit hot and steamy so not for the young of mind.

Edited by catsi563, 23 June 2011 - 04:23 AM.

[TwinEnigma]

beat me to it darnit, read and reviewed.

What can I say? I'm a ninja.

And my NaruSaku posts are sneaky and unexpected.

[catsi563]

What can I say? I'm a ninja.

And my NaruSaku posts are sneaky and unexpected.

Because no one ever expects the NaruSaku Inquisistion!!

[shadow_Uzumaki]

HAH! *Silly-walks away*

[ciardha]

Hot off the press

Date Night

In which Sasuke attempts to be nice and help Naruto with his anniversary date with Sakura. Hilarity ensues.

I laughed and laughed reading this tonight, thanks for the funny narusaku

[Phantom_999]

though it should be censored for the under aged

[fooby_tkw]

Nah, the T-rating is fine.

Btw, here are a few drabbles from an author I really like. Check them out.

http://www.fanfictio...23/1/Solacement

Yeah. Yvette is pretty good at writing with accurate characterization.

[ciardha]

Yeah. Yvette is pretty good at writing with accurate characterization.

Not at all. That first one is completely inaccurate for Sakura and off for part 2 Naruto as well. Seriously, go reread the manga. This is just the usual Sakura bashing so called narusaku fanfic.

Exhibit pre A- When Zabuza attacks for the first time in chapter 10, Sakura throws herself on top of Naruto to protect him, instictive she reacts to save Naruto over everyone else- including herself, she doesn't think for a second of how Sasuke might react when she starts to forfeit during the written part of the Chunin exams, she only thinks about Naruto, saving his dream of becoming Hokage, when Naruto and Sasuke are both unconscious in the Forest of Death Sakura is equally worried about both, she cries over both of them

Exhibit A- part 1, Sasuke tells Sakura Naruto saved her from Gaara and she smiles, and later we see her thinking about Naruto doing that and she not only smiles again, but she blushes. She's not angered or dismayed, she's happy.

Exhibit B- still part 1- Immediately after Naruto makes the POAL speech Sakura thinks- Naruto, you always understood me.... She's not angered or even dismayed by this, she's comforted. The words are quite similar to her completely honest romantic confession of her feelings to Naruto in 469-70.

Exhibit C- still yet part 1- Sakura apologizes to Naruto for being weak and with a sweet smile to Naruto vows to get stronger so they both can go after Sasuke the next time.

Exhibit D- still in part 1- when she goes to Tsunade to ask for training, Naruto and Sasuke are equal status in her mind.

Exhibit E- part 2, first chapter- 245, the very first moment she sees Naruto she smiles and blushes at how much a man he's become and flirts in an very overt way- outright invites him to look at her body in a sexual way.

Exhibit F- she nearly confesses her feelings to Naruto during the rescue Gaara arc- the feelings are still a bit muddled at this time, but she knows she is attracted to him and is quite comfortable about that and cares for him intensely.

Exhibit G- 296-7: Sakura acts to save Naruto out of her feelings of love for him, and cries to Yamato that she can't do more for Naruto. Yamato tells her that depth of her feelings for Naruto is all that matters and that those feelings are romantic love- the last gets cut off for the readers, but Sakura's expression of surprised wonderment (not anger or dismay) makes it clear she understood Yamato was telling her that those feelings she has for Naruto is real love.

Exhibit H- she teasingly calls Naruto baka- readers familiar with Japanese typical romantic interactions will immediately see she's being the playful flirtatious, teasing girlfriend here.

Exhibit I- heh, this should have the H: chapter 343. Sakura does something even done much more innocently than she did that is meant to suggest to a boyfriend that the girl is open to becoming more physically intimate. Sakura makes it an overt invitation, she looks at him seductively and moves in so close that had she not been interrupted by first Sai then Kakashi, her breasts would have been brushing against Naruto every time she fed him. (Note in the manga Sakura has her hand clenched in a fist at Sai for interrupting them as Naruto shouts at Sai for "ruining the mood" and when Kakashi teases them Sakura has an embarrassed at getting caught doing something naughty expression on her face.

Exhibit J- chapter 450, Sakura romantically embraces Naruto in front of the whole village- even Kakashi is lightly blushing while observing the scene, while Might Guy and Kiba have faintly leering expressions.

Exhibit K- chapters 469-70 Sakura's confession, Kishimoto outright said that Sakura was being honest and determined about her romantic love for Naruto.

More- Sakura never showed a dislike for close physical contact with Naruto, even earlier on in part 1. In fact, she often is the actor in that close physical contact, even early on in part 1.

This is just a thumbnail of the most obvious things, if you read the manga you'll see much more. The manga is story canon, the anime is only an adaption, and often is off in characterization- sometimes grossly so. Trusting very poor character information sources like Narutopedia is even worse.

As far as the inaccuracies about Naruto, reread the manga. In part 2 Naruto does almost no flirting with Sakura, he loves her but has, completely unknown to Sakura- and to her absolute horror when Sai tells her, built this mental wall between expressing his love for Sakura and his public persona. Naruto also misses all the signs Sakura gives him that her feelings have changed, that she now loves Naruto. Even Sakura's very overt actions in 343 only breaks through momentarily, even her actions in 450 doesn't break through. She has to fiercely insist in 470 to get Naruto to partly grasp that she is in love with him.

It would be a nice change for fanfics to actually reflect manga canon, not Sakura bashers gross distortion of manga canon.

Edited by ciardha, 25 June 2011 - 06:17 AM.

[ciardha]

Well, I can't say I agree with all of the drabbles, especially the first and last one, it is a bit OOC. But, they're fun to read.

It's very difficult to find really god fanfiction, especially the ones where Naruto and Sakura are in 'part II' character. People still focus on how they were in part I.
I agree with your explanation, bit you can't say Naruto doesn't flirt with Sakura in part II. He still teasingly talks about dates...

In part 1 he did it earnestly, in part 2 it was like he was faking he was still like he was at 12 when he did it- he never noticed she was actually interested in him, except briefly when she got rather overt in chapter 343, but he promptly "forgot it" because it didn't fit his mental image of her as the 12 year old unattainable Sasuke fangirl.

It doesn't really even fit part 1 past chapter 4. (and is even rather iffy once you get to the bench scene in chapter 3- Sakura only disliked Naruto because she thought he was tormenting her like those girls that tormented her when she was 6 years old did. Naruto was only known for playing pranks, nothing would have shown her otherwise that he wasn't doing anything but making her the object of a prank by what he was doing.)

The point I'm making is people are writing these fanfics not based on the manga at all, they are even more off than the anime, it comes straight from the image created by Sakura bashers. I think anyone who writes a Naruto fanfic shouldn't write them if they don't read the canon source material.

Edited by ciardha, 25 June 2011 - 07:59 AM.

[Fyuria'sLeo]

Well I wouldnt say as much for the movies there are alot of NaruSaku moments in them like I think its the 4th movie were kakashi leaves the village.

[Gravenimage]

Well I wouldnt say as much for the movies there are alot of NaruSaku moments in them like I think its the 4th movie were kakashi leaves the village.

It's the 3rd movie when Kakashi leaves the village the 4th movie is when Naruto returns to the past and meets up with his dad Minato.

[Fyuria'sLeo]

Ah thank you I dont watch them very much so i didnt know what one was what.

[catsi563]

our very own Highspeed0516 author of Sakura Season and Kisisng the wind has posted the first chapters of the thrid in the trilogy Will of Fire

[Gravenimage]

Finding inner strength by Shadow2700 has been updated with chapter 22 http://www.fanfictio...t/s/6055113/22/

Early team by deadly wolf has been updated with chapter 86 http://www.fanfictio...t/s/4044450/86/

Edited by Gravenimage, 27 June 2011 - 12:09 PM.

[Toasty Warrior]

Reflection Of Two Hearts has been updated with chapter seven: http://www.fanfictio...n_Of_Two_Hearts

[pharix]

aw, I thought you were gonna sneak in a bench scene revisit :<