So after many years of leaving this account to rot, I've decided to try my hand at writing again! I'm in university now and with the stress of school, writing is a release and I like knowing that people actually enjoy reading it. I have to admit that I have trouble taking criticisms, but I want to improve on that so this would be a great place to start. I hope whoever reads this actually enjoys my story/stories. I try my best to have proper grammar and whatnot, but my writing is pretty rusty.

note: I do write in the UK-style English, but sometimes I mix it up and write it the US-style by accident, so if you see some odd "u's" put around some words, it's probably not actually spelled wrong.

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1) The Meaning of Family is my attempt at an AU Naruto-verse. I wanted to start something that would be different, yet similar enough that I won't completely go off on some OOC tangent. I find myself liking Naruto fanfiction more so than the manga nowadays. It seemed to throw a lot of characters into the background and there's just too much OP-ness. I also wanted to try building up a "what if" kind of setting, so hopefully it turns out well.

EDIT: Okay, so I've been completely MIA with this story but I've decided to revamp it and change how I began it. This will take a while to be updated.

2) Wayfarer. AU Crossovers. I just wanted to get into the practice of writing again, so here's hopefully what will be updated often when ideas hit me. Sakura lives different lives in different dimensions and worlds. So look forward to that!

GENERAL DISCLAIMER: I own nothing but the plots or any OCs in my stories.

Favourite Characters:

I actually really like Haruno Sakura. I find her character to have a lot of potential and really malleable in terms of how to portray her. She started off really annoying and just a tad pathetic, but the fact she grows and takes her weakness as a way to motivate her into improving as a shinobi/kunoichi is really admirable. I hate how Kishimoto really subverts her back to the background despite "not having them watch her back anymore". I mean if you learn from the best, like Tsunade, you have to be pretty awesome, right?

I generally like all the characters in Naruto, none of the others girls really stand out to me personally but I do like them in most fics I've read. The males are all really interesting, heck Kabuto is even really cool to me despite the creepy I-absorb-everyone's-DNA-thing. The one I find myself hating just a little (or a lot) is Sasuke. I mean, he has a reason to be all messed up but Kishimoto kind of sets him up for a god complex and all that. I just don't like him very much, but I'll try my best to portray him without too much bias.

What I generally don't read:

I don't normally read yaoi or yuri. There's the occasional OT3 (team7, nejisakushika..basically anything with Sakura) but even I find harems a little annoying at times. I'm fine with homosexuality, I just don't generally read it as a personal preference; probably because I have pairing biases.

I like some super-powered up stories, depending on how far the authors take it. I generally find it hard to read fics with severe bashing, mostly because the quality of writing decreases a little depending on how ridiculous they make the characters act in their stupidity.