Hi! Welcome to my profile and thanks for reading. I'm Joe, aka, Jonohex. As for more about me, I love anime like Soul Eater, Cowboy Bebop, Assassination Classroom, Ghost Hound, Ninja Scroll, Death Note, Tekkonkinkreet, Fantastic Children, Naruto (of course), 3x3 Eyes, Avatar: TLA, Kino's Journey, Ghost in the Shell, Captain Herlock, Hunter X Hunter, My Hero Academia, Made in Abyss, Mob Psycho 100; old-school martial arts movies like Five Deadly Venoms, Sword of Doom, The 36 Chambers, Legend of Drunken Master, Zatoichi, all Bruce Lee and Toshiro Mifune as well as newer stuff like Tai-Chi Master, Legend of the Swordsman, the Once Upon a Time in China series, Fearless, Ong Bak, Shaolin Soccer and Kung-Fu Hustle. Oh, and definitely Kung-Fu Panda! I love fantasy and sci-fi too, Liu Cixin, Joe Abercrombie, Neil Gaiman, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, Neal Stephenson, Walter Jon Williams, Dan Simmons, Ursula LeGuin, Tolkien, Edison, Morecock, Fritz Lieber, Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams, Gene Wolfe, Vernor Vinge, Yoon Ha Lee, Kij Johnson...any too many more to name.

I'd like to extend a personal thanks and shout out to the few people who actually read some of my stories all the way through. Thanks too to those who've taken the time to review and/or add me to their favorites and C2's. I'm interested in any opinions, suggestions or advice on how I can improve my writing and better connect with readers, which seems to be the area I'm lacking in the most.

The Broken Tool -- This story's my attempt to flesh out Haku in an action/adventure with a little good-natured romance too. "My" Haku is a little harder-edged than most I've read, based on the short montage of him from the anime where he's killing other ninja at-will with his senbon. Plus, I figured that Zabuza wouldn't be the easiest guy to stay alive around even if he liked you. Other than that, TBT is meant to stick fairly close to the manga/anime, and is about Haku trying to deal with the drastic changes in his life while fighting a variety of new challenges, temptations and adversaries.

Kirigakure's Shore -- A sequel to The Broken Tool. The summary is: Haku is content with his new home in the Land of Waves. But when a ninja clan thought long dead reemerges intent on destroying the Hidden Mist Village, Zabuza's former apprentice must consider a return to his former life.

The River of Red -- My first attempt at fanfiction, VERY structurally flawed and based on a dream (yeah, I know it sounds cheesy). The story features an OC named Tomoki, an orphan who ended up in Konohagakure and entered the ninja academy for his own reasons -- to persue revenge against the woman who destroyed his village. It's in the supernatural/horror genre, kind of like Big Trouble in Little China, The Bride with White Hair, and Legend of the Swordsman. Tomoki's plans hit a snag when Naruto, curious about the genin's disappearance, tracks him down.

Five Animals Play -- A sequel to The River of Red. Naruto's gone missing and Tomoki (indebted to him) vows to find him. I just re-edited this one and it's a lot better! FAP owes more to old kung-fu movies (hence the title), The Magnificent Trio, One-Armed Boxer vs. Master of the Flying Guillotine and the book, Journey to the West. Also, a little Inuyasha, kinda. I really liked this story though no one else did.

House of Reptiles -- Hmm. Well. I thought it was good at the time...kind of a spooky story/social commentary/Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher only with ninjas. I hate to say it, but you should probably skip this one.

10.23.16 FINAL CHAPTER of Kirigakure's Shore is UP!

Wow...chapter forty-freakin'-SIX! That's like three novels or something. I want to thank everyone who read and especially those who reviewed and shared the fun of writing these stories, through the good chapters and the bad ones/overly long ones/should've been edited a lot more ones. It takes a special breed! I really appreciate it!

06.24.2019 I'm still amazed that there's still traffic on these stories after all this time. As big as the internet is, with thousands of stories just on fanfiction alone, people somehow come across mine? Crazy! There's SO much content on the internet so I'm blown away to see people from all over the world reading. Not huge numbers, but still, people from Finland, China, Italy, Indonesia and, of course, most are from the US and Canada. Thanks all! I really hope you enjoyed.