Authors Notes-Changes to The Story.

Hey everyone! I expect this is most likely a disappointment as you were expecting Chapter 14, sorry 'bout that! This is actually some rather important Authors Notes, i realise that this is probably annoying as all hell, but Fan Fiction has no way of updating readers of a story without posting a new chapter.

I've decided to fully rewrite the story. While i'm excited to work on Chapter 14, I haven't even started yet, so I can't even provide a sneak peak like last time with Chapter 13. Currently I've just finished reworking Chapter 3.

I know that this story can be better than it is currently, it has been irritating me for a long time now, I have re-written this story once already but I was still not happy with it, back then i simply reworded, restructured and attempted to fill in plot holes, though that was a long time ago and i feel I've improved massively as a writer since then.

As I looked back at chapter 1 especially, it was almost painful to read, there was inappropriate grammar everywhere, the work had clearly not been checked for errors as some words were even stuck together ( likethis) and all in all it was just bad. I've always been happy with the plot of this story though it has always annoyed me how little the characters had been filled out, there was rarely any proper interactions until the later chapters.

The new version of this story will have the same plot, yet certain things will be changed, some of them from audience feedback. Mostly it will consist of more detail, more depth, adding to the story with scenes that didn't exist before. Hopefully it helps to make the story feel more alive, more exciting and engaging to read. There is plenty more dialogue in the first three chapters, which I found were, painfully lacking this.

As well as dialogue the story is simply written better, to a higher standard, with points of the story being explained much more clearly as well as adding characters thoughts or opinions, hoping to make the characters feel more alive. I have also added more Naruto / Sasuke interactions, hoping to make the reader feel more familiar with them.

As an example of just how much the story has been changed;

Old Chapter 1 : 5,892 words. New Chapter 1 : 7,854 words.
Old Chapter 2 : 3,328 words. New Chapter 2 : 8,049 words.
Old Chapter 3 : 4, 087 words. New Chapter 3 : 10,324 words

Chapter 3 is not yet complete. There are a few more things i'd like to add to it, when done it will most likely finish out at about 11,000 words. Hopefully this gives over the scale of how much i'd like to add to this story, not just in the first three chapters. I'm unsure of if people would prefer me to upload them now, or to wait to fully release all of the new chapters, likely 1-12 though the later chapters will most likely only be minor changes. I am also hoping to re-write Sakura's dialogue, though I wanted her to be an irritating character that grows to realise that being a kunoichi isn't all fun and games and she needed to become strong, i feel that currently she's just too annoying, to the point where every time she appears in the story its like UGH, which is obviously not a good thing.

Thanks to everyone who bothered to read this, and those of you who continue to read my story and post reviews, they really do inspire me to work harder on this story. I'll get to Chapter 14 as quickly as possible and i have alot of interesting ideas in store!

Thanks, MM