[FFML] [Naruto] One Hundred Days - Epilogue: The Night After

[Eimii]

> >>        The question of what would happen to them was still open, but
> >> Sakura suspected that Shizune intended to let them loose.  There was
> >> little damage the three could do to the Leaf, and Ren and Saburo's help
> >> had been invaluable.  Better to have a few Mist who bore the Leaf some
> >> goodwill than worthless prisoners who felt betrayed.
> >
> > Midori's fate is still looking pretty grim, though. If she makes it
> > back, she'll either be executed as a traitor or spend the rest of her
> > life as a prisoner or test subject. If Ren decided to spare her friend
> > that, she could either kill Midori herself or let the traitor go. One
> > wonders what she would choose...
>
> Yeah.  I'm starting to wonder whether it might be better to go with one
> of my earlier conceptions of the epilogue, which takes place in the Leaf
> Village after everyone returns, which might allow a better wrapping up
> of subplots like this and the Rui plot, among other things.
>
> I liked the symmetry of this being "The Night After," though.  (The
> prologue being "The Night Before"
>

I'm a sucker for symmetry and patterns as well -_-;. It's probably
possible that you could do it all at once, though, if you wanted to
take a few narrative liberties.

One possibility: earlier Anko helped Ren escape in the middle of the
night, and Sakura could probably be forgiven for repeating her
teacher's 'mistake' if she felt uncertain about the Mist trio's fate.
It would also probably be best to do it before the Rock turned around
to go home, as the Leaf are the ones that are technically at war with
the Mist, but the Leaf are currently at the mercy of their former
enemies and current, very tentative allies, the Rock.

This could have consequences for Sakura, i suppose, and might be hard
to engineer (unless custody of the Mist genin was granted to the
senior Leaf present, and Anko or Sakura managed to convince Shizune to
'look the other way' while the Mist 'escaped'...)

> >> 2) All in all, I'm fairly proud of this work.  It's much, much longer
> >> and probably better than anything I've written before, written faster on
> >> average than anything I've written before, even with the delays on the
> >> final chapter.  Not everything turned out as well on the page as I
> >> imagined it in my head, but I think I managed to meet my self-imposed
> >> goal of being more amusing than the anime fillers.
> >
> > You set your goals low O_O;... but yes, you did accomplish that ^_^...
>
> Heh.  Set your goals low enough, and you can't fail.  ;)

This is not necessarily true; i imagine there's always _some way to
fail. It's like some sort of universal law O_o;...

>
> ...also, when I started this story I was fairly down on my own writing,
> given that my current project wasn't finding much of an audience.

That can be discouraging; there are a few different series that i'd
like to write about, but i'm uncertain that it would be fulfilling as
there probably wouldn't be much of an audience ^_^;...

> > You outline things before you write them? That's far more organization
> > than i've got. I just start writing, strive to make sure that the
> > characters act true to who they are (at least in my story) and hope
> > for the best. Sure, sometime's i've got a vague idea of where i want
> > to go, but these always fall far short of an actual 'plan' ^_^;...
>
> My outlines consist of a list of chapter titles, and then before I start
> each chapter I write a one to three sentence summary of/idea for each
> scene to organize myself.  Well, except for the prologue of first half
> chapter one of this, which were written entirely unplanned.

I usually wait until right before i post before fomally choosing
chapter titles for Suiren... but then, i got into the habit early on
of making every chapter title some incomprehensible, single-word Zen
koan, so i guess they might not be all that important anyway. I'll bet
there are very few people who have any idea what the story title
means, either -_-;...

Though i may have an idea of what i want beforehand, i try not to
write anything down about a scene before i actually sit down to write
it; i find that it sort of takes away some of the excitement and sense
of 'discovery.' It causes me a lot of worry, but i like to be
surprised when situations i create cause characters to act in ways i
hadn't anticipated...

Not that i recommend this method for anyone else O_o;...

I look forward to seeing what you write next... though i can't give
you an iron-clad gaurantee that i'll read it, if it's not a series i'm
normally interested in. I've gotten kind of lazy, lately -_-;. At any
rate, thanks for writing!

~Eimii