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║║║║╔╗║╔╗║╚╝║║║║╚╝║╔╗Naruto!
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COMMUNITY: If you are looking for the best Sakura-pairing stories, look no further. My community, The Cherry Blossom's Glory, has all of the best stories that meet the following requirements. They are in-character, the plots are good, the grammar is done well, and the writing within them is good enough to enjoy reading. So, if you need some Sakura-centric fan-fiction, you know where to go.

Rants: Idea stolen from Shan Hu Hai (LatiasChild)

Reviews:Ok, if you are taking the time to read a story, REVIEW IT! Tell the author what about the story you disliked or liked, because everybody here is just trying to become better writers, and we love criticism. I don't just want to hear "Oh good job, I loved this story, update soon." I want to know more than that, people. A good job isn't a review, it is an exclamation, it is worthless to me. I value opinions, I value criticism, hell I even value flames, because when people flame, they go on about what it is they didn't like, which helps me out a lot in the end. Comprende?

Summaries: Ok, now listen up here. Summaries, they describe a story, they appeal to a person's interest. Therefore, you really have to think about a summary before you post it. Don't just say "I suck at summaries, R&R please!" Do you know what will happen when you do this? People will doubt your writing expertise and completely ignore you. Not being able to write even two sentences about your story? Come on! Also, asking people to review? What the hell!? It is a summary, not a begging party. Now, I understand turning a read and review comment into a joke, but do that in A/N, kay? Again, Summaries, they are meant to draw in readers! Think of something! Give a general overview, or better yet, explain the main idea of the story, sucking us in, wondering how you are going to apply this profound knowledge to the story! Don't, however, beg me for a review!

Sasuke-Naruto: Ahem, seriously? Now, don't get me wrong, I have nothing against Gays, seriously, I don't. As far as I'm concerned, they are completely normal people and I couldn't care less if they like girls or boys. Now, what about this couple makes any sense whatsoever? Now, if you go pulling the "But they kissed in the third episode!" line, I will kill you. We all know that was a complete accident, and it has been PROVEN that Naruto likes Sakura, PROVEN! He is always asking her out on dates, he cares about her safety, etc. Alas, Sasuke is too wrapped up in revenge to even think about being romantically involved. Naruto sure as hell ain't gay, and Sasuke doesn't have emotions other than hatred, so just forget about this freaky prospect of a couple and ignore it. Pairing Sakura with absolutely everybody makes way more sense than a Sasuke-Naruto story possibly could.

Twilight: What was so great about this again? I did enjoy the books, even if the romance was too unreal to possibly make any sense. There are so many things wrong with the romance plot that I prefer to just skip to book two and enjoy the background plot, because that is the only enjoyable part about the books. They were well written, making easy cliche romance lovers way too easy to sway into liking, but not so much for us smarter people who actually LIKE vampires. If you were to pit Zero from Vampire Knight against Edward from Twilight, Edward would be DEAD! Yes, a dead vampire, new concept, deal with it. I mean, come on, EDWARD SPARKLES! What about that makes any sense? And Twilight doesn't have any good VAMPIRE MOMENTS! Where is the stolen blood, the passionate helpless moments, the tearing of limbs? For vampires, the story really sucked. The 'werewolves' were the best part. As for the movie, what was the director thinking when they hired those actors? Edward doesn't look anything like Edward, not to mention that he has really taken a DIVE DOWN when it comes to looks, and Kirsten or Kristen or whatever sucks at acting so badly it was absolute horror on my eyes. How my mom dragged me into that theater, I will never know, I do know we were both really bored and had a spare ten bucks, so yeah.

Lemons: God I have been wanting to do this forever. First off: this is a local site where KIDS browse all the time. Now, if you are like me, you look at an M and think, what is it rated for? Violence, ok, big deal. Gore? I can handle that. However, nobody expects lemons to be posted, and if you are new to the fanfiction world, you don't understand the term lemon. Do you know how many innocent minds have been lost because people are stupid enough to post this ridicules stuff online?

Now, second. I can basically guarantee one thing, lemons will ruin your stories. I mean it, seriously. I have only encountered THREE, out of the hundred of thousands of fan-fictions I have read, where the lemons didn't ruin the story, and that is because the lemon had purpose and meaning. One was a SasuSaku story, where the story half-revolved around the lemon, the second was a SakuDei story, where the three lemons within actually had importance and they weren't just thrown in there because the author was horny. I have once read this SakuNaru story that was going really great, then came the lemon the author was pressured into doing, guess what happened? The story I was about to fave went on my hate list, and the lemon completely ruined it so much for me that I didn't even finish reading.

If you're smart, you will just avoid lemons unless you plan on making them lemon one-shots, but don't just put them into stories unless they have a direct purpose, understand?

MONITOR ABUSE! When I do my writing, it's in the middle of the night, at least eleven o'clock or later, sometimes spanning to four in the morning. Which means, my monitor is like a blue-light, FOR BUGS! Yes, oh my gosh, they get attracted, they crawl all over my poor screen, and they REFUSE TO LEAVE! Even when I flick them! So I have to smush them, just so I can write in peace, which means way too many smears on my sensitive monitor. The poor thing is being abused by bugs, and there is nothing I can do! She just looks at me with that dejected look that says "Please make them stop, their little legs are spreading oils around my screen and ruining everything." AND I AM POWERLESS! EVEN WITH THE POWER OF YOUTH ON MY SIDE!

AU vs AR: I know, I know, AU is the popular term, but popular doesn't always mean correct, now does it? An Alternate Universe is like all those different worlds you see in books, like how the Hunger Game's world is so different from ours, or how the Eragon World is different, and even how Orson Scott Card's worlds are different, those are Alternate Universes. An Alternate Reality is where a choice or event happened differently, such as somebody doing something that wasn't in the anime, TV show, book, etc. and it changed the outcome of things. When you write a story where something like that happened, it is essentially called an Alternate Reality, not an Alternate Universe fic.

More to come as I think of them.

Things to Check Out!

An Awesome video that I seriously watch like ten times a day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0JIo4S94uo

A Video that inspired Can't Leave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVUxFXZEct8&feature=channel_page

A fan-manga of Naruto and the gang in highschool, created by Damleg and translated by Onihikage.

http://onihikage.deviantart.com/art/KHS-Chap-1-page-1-English-107697317

May and Drew as Yuuki and Zero: this Artist has some really good May and Drew pics, along with some awesome Pokemon Gijjinka, which are all seriously better than awesome! Especially her Eevee Evolution ones.

http://latiaschild.deviantart.com/art/Rose-Red-125013893

Disclaimer: Because I don't feel like doing this for every story and every chapter, I will do it right here. Anything that I post on fanfiction is and shall always be fan-fiction, which means it is pretty much impossible for me to own any of the characters, stories, etc. told about in my stories. The only thing I own is the brilliant plot! Seriously, though, how can a sleep-deprived, stressed-out, over-worked, addicted to fan fiction, insane girl own Naruto, Shugo Chara, Harry Potter, Twilight, Tokyo Mew Mew, Vampire Knight, or whatever else I decide to write about? It just doesn't make sense! Really, I am not even genius enough to come up with those plots, so no, I don't own Naruto. Also, by definition of the word FANFICTION! It is purely impossible for the remote possibility for me to write fanfiction and OWN IT! Plus, one question? If I owned Naruto, would I write fanfiction about it? Not when I can make anything I want actually happen in the anime/manga...