For anyone who cares: First chapter of "Heroine" is up.

Also: I had completely forgotten about Jack the Mad, but I'll be putting it up soon.

I've discovered that the more I think about it, the more I respect Naruto and Lee. they had nothing to support them, no natural talent but stubbornness (Naruto's healing is only compensation for the beatings he got), and yet have pulled themselves up to demi-god levels of fighting ability. Respect hard work.

Does anyone know how to submit new Anime categories? I have a half-finished fic for Beet the Vandel Buster that I'd like to post but I can't find out how anywhere.

So sorry to all those waiting for updates! I am trying, but no inspiration is coming. Momochi Naruto is currently dead. Sorry! New inspiration just isn't coming. Im not a particularly prolific author.

I really like Naruto, so much that it has taken up all the anime space in my brain. I get bored a lot, so I spend a lot of my time trying to figure out how to use chakra and creating cool jutsu in my mind. I thought Zabuza was really cool, so I decided he would live on... sorta. I only have one story up so far...

Some anime I like: Naruto, Shaman King, Ranma 1/2, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle (hey, this and Spirited Away are really good if you watch them subbed), Initial D, and FullMetal Alchemist is kinda cool. I also like Jing: King of Bandits and Real Bout High School. My manga collection passed the 650 volume mark recently...

I've always been fascinated by zombies, believe it or not. My zombie fic has been deleted, by me, and I'm not reposting it. I just couldn't get into it.

Chapter Four completed! Yes, to those who wonder, I have read Foxhound, and it is currently one of my three all-time favorites (the other two being A New Nindo and the Lazy Uchiha). Kraken's Ghost's story is one of my major sources of inspiration, as are Never Cut Twice, A New Beginning, and the long-forgotten Bloodlines.

Author's Note: Although I don't like the way I'm being asked about it (that was very rude, Eternal Thief) I will allow the adoption of Momochi Naruto with specific permission (basically, e-mail me and ask).

~I am a part of the Authors Against Perfect Original Characters Society (AAPOCS). If you are too, copy and paste this into your profile!

Something disturbing that I learned recently: In a military sense, America won the Vietnam War. In combat, we completely demolished the Viet Cong. Almost every battle of the entire war had ridiculously lopsided kill ratios, 20-to-1 or better. Meaning every single American soldier who went down took at least twenty VC with him. In one battle (can't remember the name) it was an amazing 148-to-1 ratio. In a humanitarian sense, we won. The South Vietnamese loved us. They got access to American medical facilities, and steel sheet metal for use in lean-to's and shacks, and we were keeping the Communists from coming in and executing all the dissenters (which they did after we pulled out). So, what went wrong? We won the hearts and minds of our allies, and we defeated the enemy, but we lost the hearts and minds of out own people. Too many people in America were actually cheering on the VC, Pol Pot, Mao, and even Stalin. The American Communists were a small minority, but they made a lot of noise, and many in the mass media listened to them.

About Communism and why it fails: So often I read something about Communism in the US, most of it from the time of HUAC, and I'm shocked that no one ever seemed to challenge the terms of Communism, to actually say that Communism as an ideal was bad, especially when it seems so easy to show that it is. As far as I can tell, the only possible reasons are either A) that American speakers didn't want to know what the Communist Manifesto said, for fear of being called Communist for reading it, or B) because the reason is rather depressing. But it is simple: greed. Communist and socialist theories make the assumption that greed is the product of capitalism, but this is patently ridiculous. No one would really believe that people living 3000 years ago weren't ever greedy, and that is long before the ideal of capitalism. Likewise, no one really believes that there are no greedy Communists, given that Fidel Castro is probably the wealithiest head of state in the world. But other than ascribing it to "capitalist pigs", both fail to account for, or plan for, greed. Whereas capitalism makes greed into a tool, by placing limits in the form of private property rights on it. Basically: "If you want what I have, you can't just take it from me. You have to offer me something that I'm willing to trade for in order to get what I have." Both socialism and communism give the power to just take to the state, not realizing or perhaps not caring that the government official who orders the seizure can then use the property to enrich himself, and that he is by-and-large not held accountable for doing so.

"With God and black magic on my side, I can't lose!" Adrienne, quoting MTV.

Prisoner: I've heard stories about the Black Pearl...they leave no survivors.
Capt. Jack Sparrow: If there aren't any survivors, then where do all the stories come from?

Professor Lupin: Severus, don't be a fool.
Sirius Black: He can't help it. It's habit by now.

"No, mademoiselle, I would not like to see the childrens menu I have no doubt that the children's menu itself tastes better than the meals on it"
Artemis Fowl II

"Casualties many; Percentage of dead not known; Combat efficiency; we are winning."
Colonel David M. Shoup - (Tarawa) - 21st November 1943

"Oops. My sword slipped." Hiei, destroying the Chapter Black video.

"Tell me, what's it like living in a constant haze of stupidity," said by Hiei to Kuwabara, the one living in a constant haze of stupidity.

"There are two things you can't avoid in life. Death, and chickens." Tanner.

"Oh great, my alien looks like a guy in a turban!" My friend Reshma (some interesting people I hang out with, huh? And it really did look like a guy in a turban. That was my idea. We made masks in art class.)

"He's taken off with a fixated ghost! That totaly violates the laws of the underworld. Ew he's so reckless!" Botan

"YUSUKE YOU IDIOT! So tough! For freakin' BAD-Ass... AND YOU DIE IN TRAFFIC! That's a wimps death! I didn't raise no WIMP! moron." Yusuke's caring mother, Atsuko.

"I don't want a shot! I don't want a shot!" Goku, DBZ

"That's okay Joey, you don't have to say anything mushy," Mai, Yu-Gi-Oh (Yes, Joey, please, whatever you do, if you love Mai at all which you do, but that's beyond the point, DON'T SAY ANYTHING MUSHY!)

"It's an acorn, dumbass!" Mai, an O.C. in a YuYuHakashu story.

"It was about as unbelievable as if you had fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you," Rutherford, a scientist in the 1900's, of his gold foil experiment.

""We're on a grail quest. Who better to help us than a knight?" Robert Langdon, the Da Vinci Code. Answer: ANYBODY! But that's just my opinion.

Okay, apparently Barbie had a little sister, Midge, who used to live in the Dream House with Barbie. Then she disapeared. My friend Jessie has a theory on this. "Ken got Midge pregnant so Barbie kicked her out of the Dream House, but she forgave Ken 'cause she LOVES him."

Another Jessie quote- "Have you ever noticed that Ken doesn't seem to have a job? It's always Barbie. It's like Ken's being paid by Barbie's parents to play with her!"

Also from Jessie: "Barbie has a new career every week. Astronaut, rock star, teacher, president...She's like 20!"

"Alcohal-the cause and solution to all lifes problems," Homer, the Simpsons.

"They killed Kenny. You bastards!" Kyle, South Park.

"In case you haven't noticed, we're not in bloody England!" Carla, whenever someone gets mad when she keeps saying Bloody Bugger. But then, given how often she says those two, chances are we'd get mad no matter what she said in place of those two.

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely," Lord Acton.

"We all have sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others." -François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may have peace," George Washington.

98 percent of teenagers have either drank alchohol or done drugs. If you're one of the 2 that hasn't, post this on your profile.

92 percent of the teen population would be DEAD if Abercrombie & Finch said that it wasn't cool to breathe anymore. Repost this if you'd be one of the 8 percent laughing your ass off.

"The British have been oppressing us for too long by keeping us dependent on them for drugs! But now, we're pulling one over on them! Now we're starting to make our OWN drugs! We're cutting them out of the picture entirely!" -Me, who is Irish, to my friend Edith, who is Chinese.

"The British outlawed the sales of opium in their own country, but legalized its sale to China." -My history teacher "Well, that was thoughtful." -Edith

("Jesus is standing in your room and he asks you to point to one thing in your room that would show him what you are looking for in life." -Robin, my Church-Leader-Person

"My bible!"

"My cat!"

"My PS3!"

"Uh, Jesus." -Me

"All excellent answers! Now, is Jesus real to you?" -Robin

"Obviously. He's standing in my room." -Me) (No, Jesus is not real and probably never existed.)

"There's no such thing as a stupid question. Only stupid people asking questions."

"There's no such thing as a stupid question. (someone asks question) I stand corrected."

"Disturbing? Who am I disturbing? This is a coma ward! Don't you WANT them to wake up?"

"Good to see you, Mr. Bond. Things have been awfully dull around here...I hope we're going to see some gratuitous sex and violence."

"No, I don't have a gambling problem. I'm winning, and winning is not a problem. That's like saying Michael Jordan has a basketball problem, or Def Leppard has an awesomeness problem." Earl (My Name is Earl)

"It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." Winston Churchill

The Top Eleven Things Everyone Should Know About Twilight:

1. Werewolves are only immortal as long as they want to be. Yeah. Kind of strange. Apparently it has to do with how often they choose to become wolves. Of course, these are quite strange werewolves who don’t follow the moon.

2. Vampires sparkle in the sun. Really. And no one ever laughs at them when they do this. Then again, they only ever show this to lovestruck teenage girls.

3. In a werewolf/vampire/human threesome, the human has to be in the middle so the freezing vampire and burning werewolf balance each other out. Or something like that.

4. It is not at all creepy to make an unborn baby your soulmate nor is it creepy to raise your soulmate from infancy as its father/brother and then become its lover.

5. Author Stephanie Meyer is apparently a big supporter of the rights of demon babies.

6. Wanting to literally eat your girlfriend is romantic, not deeply disturbing.

7. Jeopardizing a fragile treaty between two very dangerous, deadly groups because you can’t control your hormones is endearing, not painfully stupid.

8. When you’re friends with vampires and werewolves, you no longer are required to care about your human friends and family.

9. . When a guy you have been dating for a few months abruptly leaves and never plans on coming back and you take to cliff diving to hear his voice, you are in no way crazy nor should you look into therapy.

10. You should never, ever let Bella and Edward name anything. Ever.

11. TELLING a group of vampires that want to kill your baby that she is half human will do nothing. Finding someone who claims that they are half-human solves everything. They’ll even kill that vampire that’s out to get you for you.