I've received more than a few messages asking, justifiably, if I'm going to finish Homecoming and It's Nothing. I am. I intend to. I will. But when? Alas, I'm struggling with them. At this point I've improved so much as a writer since I started them that I want to rewrite from the beginning, which is of course a large task given the size of the stories. Perhaps rewrite is too strong a word, but certainly edit extensively.

At the moment I'm recovering from major abdominal surgery in mid-March 2008, and am struggling to have any energy for writing at all. But I will persevere, and I will, I hope find the ending to It's Nothing and my other unfinished stories, and to resume writing again soon.

When I am a bit healthier, I'll be spending a good bit of time moderating and writing for the very literary Naruto RPG Fallen Leaves, set 5 years after the Kyuubi attack, and focusing on ANBU. It is the successor to Scarlet Spiral. I'm also at work on Moonlight on Masks a collaborative piece of dual perspective fiction about Hayate and Yuugao that I'm writing with Kilerkki , which we are cross posting here. Check them out if you want some good reading.

Why I like to write about Umino Iruka and Hatake Kakashi from Naruto

Californian. Kinsey 4. Old enough to have voted against the first President Bush. University of Michigan graduate with a BA in Theatre. Disabled. On my healthier days I write, manage Fallen Leaves, read, and chat with friends online. On my less well days, I read, watch television and sleep. I have pet rats: Shinobu, Izumo, Anzu-hime, Sora and Seiji.

Favorite music: everything by Kanno Yoko - she is a goddess of sound come to grace earth with her presence.

Nihongo o benkyoushimasu, but I still need the English subtitles...

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1. Moonlight on Masks » reviews

All Uzuki Yuugao ever wanted to do was to be the best. As an ANBU rookie, she thinks she's finally made it... Until she realizes that the greatest challenge she's ever faced is her captain, Gekkou Hayate. Collaborative fic with Kilerkki

Naruto - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 9 - Words: 64,955 - Reviews: 44 - Updated: 8-6-08 - Published: 9-1-07

2. Genma Short Subjects » reviews

A collection of short pieces about Shiranui Genma, from his days at the Academy to his ANBU service and after.

Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/General - Chapters: 12 - Words: 3,654 - Reviews: 33 - Updated: 3-29-08 - Published: 7-25-06

3. Summer Fades reviews

As summer draws on to autumn, another weary ANBU team returns from a mission, but this time the one who didn't come back was Genma's lover. 21-year-old Genma and his grief, another aspect of shinobi life.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,065 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 2-29-08 - Published: 2-29-08

4. Diplomatic Immunity » reviews

Genma centric. Two failed attempts at a mission involving a traitor in Amegakure result in the deaths of three Konoha ninja by mysterious jutsu. Genma and Shizune are sent to investigate. GenRai. Chapter 3: Getting Caught

Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 3 - Words: 6,378 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 9-1-07 - Published: 8-20-07

5. Keeping Up Appearances reviews

[Kurenai Neji, Oneshot] Kurenai runs into a staggering drunk Neji in the street late at night.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 800 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 6-4-07 - Published: 6-4-07

6. Temptations reviews

[Hayate Yuugao, Oneshot] Hayate has faced many temptations in his life, and learned from his mistakes. Getting involved with his subordinate Yuugao, he can tell, would be a bad, bad idea.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 822 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 6-3-07 - Published: 6-3-07

7. Boxes reviews

[Genma Raidou, Oneshot] Genma returns from a mission to find the house not quite right, the television news playing silently to an empty room, and Raidou mysteriously upset. What happens when the news covers a mission.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,050 - Reviews: 22 - Updated: 6-1-07 - Published: 6-1-07

8. Patient reviews

[Hayate Yuugao, Oneshot] Some nights Hayate wakes up screaming.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 468 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 5-31-07 - Published: 5-31-07

9. Far From Home reviews

The mission was supposed to have been a cakewalk. Now his partner's dead, and all he can think of is how very far from home he is. Oneshot.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 533 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-17-07 - Published: 4-17-07

10. Stranger At My Door reviews

When Genma was 17, he shared a torturer's cell with a chuuninn from Konoha who was as crazy as a loon. A year and a half later, guess who shows up at Genma's door. Scarlet Spiral fic.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,234 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 11-22-06 - Published: 11-22-06

11. Bringing Back the Living reviews

The orders were clear and unambiguous... It was a retrieval mission. Three ANBU presumed captured and feared dead. Shiranui Genma was one of those missing agents. Scarlet Spiral fic. Four months after Kyuubi's attack. Rated M for blood and gore

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: M - English - Drama/Horror - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,039 - Reviews: 5 - Updated: 11-20-06 - Published: 11-20-06

12. Five Fives » reviews

Lists of Five, on various themes, about Shiranui Genma and his comrades.

Naruto - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 2,069 - Reviews: 19 - Updated: 10-8-06 - Published: 10-8-06

13. Five Words Left Unsaid reviews

Five times Hayate has wanted to tell Yuugao he loves, her, but hasn't.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,175 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 10-8-06 - Published: 10-8-06

14. Raidou's Rhinovirus reviews

Raidou misses a workout session with Genma? World is clearly coming to an end. Genma goes to investigate. Set in Scarlet Spiral world, Genma 20, Raidou 22, both in ANBU, before Raidou's face was scarred. BuddyFic

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,191 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 9-1-06 - Published: 9-1-06

15. Unbreakable Bond reviews

Shiranui Genma and Namiashi Raidou share a bond forged in the flame of Konoha's most brutal service.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 897 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 7-29-06 - Published: 7-29-06

16. Slaughter of the Innocents reviews

When the Uchiha clan was massacred, there were many in Konoha who keenly felt the loss. One was Shiranui Genma.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 901 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 5-18-06 - Published: 5-18-06

17. Puzzle Pieces reviews

The little things that make up Shiranui Genma. This is Genma at the age of 20, as an ANBU agent.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,146 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 4-23-06 - Published: 4-23-06

18. Morning After reviews

The morning after the demon fox was defeated, Shiranui Genma, a 17 year old ANBU agent, sifts through the rubble of what had been his family home.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,001 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 4-20-06 - Published: 4-20-06

19. It's Nothing » reviews

[KakaIru, GenRai] Kakashi, returning from a mission, had sent for Iruka to meet him for a little R&R on the way home, but a powerful enemy has ambushed and done him serious injury. Ch 13: An important lesson for Kakashi. Rated for gore, violence, language

Naruto - Fiction Rated: M - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 14 - Words: 46,757 - Reviews: 236 - Updated: 3-27-06 - Published: 1-23-05

20. Shinobi Waiting reviews

[KakaIru, GenRai] [oneshot] Waiting is hardest on those who wait. Iruka waits for Kakashi, plagued by bad dreams of his mission gone wrong. Raidou waits for Genma, feeling tenser with every second his comrade is overdue.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,551 - Reviews: 23 - Updated: 3-17-06 - Published: 3-17-06

21. Imaginary Food reviews

Younger ANBU Genma returns from a difficult mission battered and desperately hungry. Genma and Raidou.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,163 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 1-14-06 - Published: 1-14-06

22. See No Evil reviews

Genma has a mission that requires him to assassinate a child who reminds him of his sister. Warning: Involves the death of a young child.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,000 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 1-5-06 - Published: 1-5-06

23. Brothers on the Wheel of Life reviews

18year old Ibiki has an assassination mission that makes him think of his brothers and the nature of life taken too soon. Warning: Involves the death of a young child.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Spiritual/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 573 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 1-3-06 - Published: 1-3-06

24. Broken reviews

GenRai, KakaIru: The drinking jounin together again. Genma's broken something, Raidou's trying to keep him from making it worse, and Kakashi and Iruka find it hilarious. With Shizune and Kurenai

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,759 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 1-1-06 - Published: 1-1-06

25. Snow Cones and Holding Hands reviews

GenHaya: Genma and Hayate have just completed a mission together. Genma buys Hayate a snow cone, but is he really the one who needs a little looking after? OneShot

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,105 - Reviews: 16 - Updated: 12-25-05 - Published: 12-25-05

26. Habits reviews

Genma and Raidou, and the little habits and practices that define their lives together.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,371 - Reviews: 15 - Updated: 12-25-05 - Published: 12-25-05

27. Rescuing Chouji reviews

Shikamaru and Ino are on a rescue mission. And annoying the heck out of each other. OneShot.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 982 - Reviews: 14 - Updated: 12-21-05 - Published: 12-21-05

28. What is a Pervert, Actually? reviews

Kakashi, Genma, and Raidou have a few drinks together and discuss perversion. GenRai, KakaIru, and a few other implied pairings.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,425 - Reviews: 29 - Updated: 12-15-05 - Published: 12-15-05

29. Scarred vs Not Scarred: A Game of Shuriken Tag reviews

KakaIru, GenRai It was a good day in Konoha. A really good day. Especially good because all the right people were around, either just back from a mission or just about to leave on one, but for now around for hanging out with. OneShot

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,185 - Reviews: 36 - Updated: 12-10-05 - Published: 12-10-05

30. Crabby reviews

Kakashi noticed, but he decided not to say anything. If Sensei wanted to mention it, he would. And as long as it didn't hamper their mission, there was no need to bring it up. A Yondaime short story.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 345 - Reviews: 14 - Updated: 11-13-05 - Published: 11-13-05

31. Insomnia reviews

At six in the morning, Gekkou Hayate gave up. He'd tossed and turned and coughed and ached and twisted and twitched for three solid hours without once actually falling asleep. It just wasn't going to happen. One Shot

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - General/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,264 - Reviews: 16 - Updated: 11-12-05 - Published: 11-12-05

32. Red Maple Leaves reviews

KakaIru OneShot: Sadness, caring, blood red leaves, and a prayer for refuge.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,748 - Reviews: 16 - Updated: 11-9-05 - Published: 11-9-05

33. First Kisses reviews

Seven year old Kakashi's tired and on his way home from a mission when he comes across a lost toddler in the forest. Can three year old Iruka get the better of the future Copy Nin and his sensei, the future Yondaime?

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,823 - Reviews: 74 - Updated: 11-2-05 - Published: 11-2-05

34. Homecoming » reviews

KakaIru, GenRai Kakashi returns home from a mission late at night. Is he drunk, or is something more sinister afoot? [ch 8 Tsunade interrogates a wounded medic, Ibiki gathers information in the chaos in the hall outside Kakashi's room]

Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Drama/Adventure - Chapters: 8 - Words: 24,955 - Reviews: 170 - Updated: 10-19-05 - Published: 2-14-05

35. Slug Trails reviews

Raidou has an encounter with one of Tsunade's slugs. GenmaxRaidou, KakashxIruka. Yaoi.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: M - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,256 - Reviews: 19 - Updated: 5-4-05 - Published: 5-4-05

36. Your Hair reviews

[KakaIru] Kakashi's silver hair leaves Iruka distraught. Written for Naruto500's innocence challenge

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 656 - Reviews: 16 - Updated: 4-19-05 - Published: 4-19-05

37. Idiots reviews

Ficlet. Genma and Raidou return home after hard days at work. Who is the bigger idiot? Rated for language.

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 874 - Reviews: 31 - Updated: 4-2-05 - Published: 4-2-05

38. Icha Icha Speculation reviews

Ficlet: Genma and Kakashi discuss literature while on a mission. Yaoi implied: GenmaxRaidoxIrukaxKakashixAnko

Complete - Naruto - Fiction Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 864 - Reviews: 44 - Updated: 3-9-05 - Published: 3-9-05