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Author has written 19 stories for Chrno Crusade, Rurouni Kenshin, and Naruto.

Amateur: (n) A person who engages in an art, science, study, or athletic activity as a pastime rather than as a profession.

Curiosity

may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what death was like, having no cause
to go on licking paws, or fathering
litter on litter of kittens, predictably.

Nevertheless, to be curious
is dangerous enough. To distrust
what is always said, what seems
to ask odd questions, interfere in dreams,
leave home, smell rats, have hunches
do not endear cats to those doggy circles
where well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches
are the order of things, and where prevails
much wagging of incurious heads and tails.

Face it. Curiosity
will not cause us to die--
only lack of it will.
Never to want to see
the other side of the hill
or that improbable country
where living is an idyll
(although a probable hell)
would kill us all.

Only the curious have, if they live, a tale
worth telling at all.

Dogs say cats love too much, are irresponsible,
are changeable, marry too many wives,
desert their children, chill all dinner tables
with tales of their nine lives.
Well, they are lucky. Let them be
nine-lived and contradictory,
curious enough to change, prepared to pay
the cat price, which is to die
and die again and again,
each time with no less pain.
A cat minority of one
is all that can be counted on
to tell the truth. And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living do,
that dying is what the loving do,
and that dead dogs are those who do not know
that dying is what, to live, each has to do.

Alastair Reid

FATCAT_648@HOTMAIL.COM

xxx88888xxx

'I reject reality and substitute my own.' (Adam from Myth Busters)

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1. Before the Lights Come On reviews
It’s become nothing but habit for her to open her door and see the Uchiha resting against Apt. 247. She doesn't ask questions and he doesn't answer them. Courage was not always a matter of yes or no. Neither was love. Oneshot.
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,004 - Reviews: 22 - Published: 2-9-09 - Sasuke U. & Hinata H. - Complete

2. Wedding Bells Black and Blue! » reviews
Hinata a topnotch wedding planner has long since labeled romance as possible for everyone but her. That is until wedding planner meets wedding crasher? But the crasher is now best man to the one man who left Hinata at the altar. Now who’s in charge?
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 8 - Words: 24,433 - Reviews: 259 - Updated: 7-31-08 - Published: 8-20-07 - Hinata H. & Sasuke U.

3. Gunho! Panic for Love! » reviews
He never wanted a bodyguard, but at the insistence of friends he ordered the best. Expecting a meaty thug, instead he finds a shy blushing Hyuuga. Uchiha Sasuke meet your body guard, Hyuuga Hinata. AU [SasuxHina]
Naruto - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 4 - Words: 7,821 - Reviews: 133 - Updated: 5-17-08 - Published: 9-22-07 - Hinata H. & Sasuke U.

4. Eve of the Blood Moon reviews
DateMe Entry A date gone supernaturally wrong as the call of the blood moon turns some into monsters, powers into being, and one very confused Uchiha. SasuHinaNaru
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Romance/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,149 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 4-27-08 - Hinata H. - Complete

5. Bridging Love reviews
DateMe Entry 'There's a myth about a bridge in Venice that promises true love will last forever. When the church bells are ringing a spell is cast.' Sasuke could only snort at the idea but as latter events would prove, the myth had been true... SasuHina
Naruto - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,541 - Reviews: 11 - Published: 4-27-08 - Hinata H. & Sasuke U. - Complete

6. Nothing Ever Ordinary » reviews
No ordinary princess would make friends with a demon right? And no ordinary demon would save a princess right? And no SANE person would bind her soul to a demon RIGHT? Too bad nothing is ever that ordinary to stop either from kissing to saving the kingdom
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 13 - Words: 29,036 - Reviews: 137 - Updated: 12-25-07 - Published: 3-2-07 - Kaoru & Kenshin - Complete

7. Wrongly Convicted to Paramour » reviews
Ever since Hinata took residence in her rusty rundown Chevy, life has not been kind. It isn’t until her car’s stolen that things change. Especially with her inside it! Now she must cooperate with Uchiha Sasuke to help prove his innocence. AU [SasuxHina]
Naruto - Rated: K+ - English - Crime/Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,171 - Reviews: 28 - Updated: 11-27-07 - Published: 10-10-07 - Sasuke U. & Hinata H.

8. Falling In? » reviews
Kaoru Kamiya is looking for a new boarder to help pay the bills at her house. However there is a samurai ghost that haunts her dojo who tends to scare away any potential boarders. That is until she runs into a certain redhead who can see ghosts.[HIATUS!]
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Romance/Supernatural - Chapters: 8 - Words: 18,912 - Reviews: 64 - Updated: 6-14-07 - Published: 8-27-06 - Kaoru & Kenshin

9. A Ring For A Commitment Not Wanted » reviews
Her fall resulted in the kiss. The kiss resulted in the curse. The curse of commitment! Now Hinata finds herself bound to a man she doesn't even know! And what's with Sasuke's new gaudy gloves?
Naruto - Rated: T - English - Romance/Adventure - Chapters: 5 - Words: 10,884 - Reviews: 65 - Updated: 6-2-07 - Published: 3-4-07 - Hinata H. & Sasuke U.

10. Twenty Brush Strokes Through Pink Locks reviews
A woman’s hair is a woman’s beauty. For Haruno Sakura, her hair has meant so much more, not all the memories particularly beautiful. [20 Truths Format]
Naruto - Rated: K+ - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,078 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 6-2-07 - Sakura H. - Complete

11. Tears of Heart » reviews
Kaoru has been running to save her dying kingdom. With the curse upon her that forces her form to change during the day her hatred for the tyrant grows as she searches for the Sword. But things change when she meets a redhead stranger. KK AU
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Fantasy/Romance - Chapters: 6 - Words: 17,491 - Reviews: 62 - Updated: 5-11-07 - Published: 10-10-06 - Kenshin & Kaoru

12. The Truth that Lies Beneath » reviews
If you had a choice between the truth or happiness which would you pick? Kaoru could only stare at him. It was the first thing he had asked upon finding her since she ran from him. Fulfill her curiosity or go on living in ignorance? KK
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 8,545 - Reviews: 31 - Updated: 5-7-07 - Published: 11-2-06 - Kenshin & Kaoru

13. Speechless reviews
Sasuke always knew practice made perfect. He sadly just couldn't say it to the face of Uzumaki Naruto, not even if it was considered just practice.
Naruto - Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,070 - Reviews: 3 - Published: 4-25-07 - Complete

14. Crimes of the Supernaturalist Unpunished » reviews
Agent Kamiya is on the case of the Battousai murders. However strange paranormal events occur that no one can explain which lead to a new world of the Supernatural. And what’s Kaoru’s house maid, Kenshin, have to do with all this! AU [HIATUS!]
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Supernatural - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,303 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 4-16-07 - Published: 12-17-06

15. Life's Moments » reviews
Moments of life pass by so quickly, we never realize the ones that have utterly changed our lives. Collection of drabbles each their own story. AU
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 13 - Words: 9,213 - Reviews: 52 - Updated: 3-4-07 - Published: 9-28-06 - Kaoru & Kenshin - Complete

16. GenderBender Switcheroo! » reviews
Match met. Bet lost. Gender changed? And the girl is really the guy! Or is it the other way around? Kenshin has just lost a bet and is forced to dress as a girl in the exchange program! But Kamiya Kaoru has other plans..[HIATUS]
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 6 - Words: 17,861 - Reviews: 39 - Updated: 11-12-06 - Published: 9-2-06 - Kenshin & Kaoru

17. A Shadow's Love reviews
I’ve been watching her from the shadows. She’s never known anything about me yet I know her. She doesn’t see me yet I see her. All I do is watch her, hidden within the shadows, the shadows of my pain. Modern AU
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,644 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 9-19-06 - Kaoru - Complete

18. Sakura Kiss reviews
A peaceful picnic under the sakura trees with a shy couple coping with newfound feelings. How else would you spend a sunny spring day? Why spying on the shy lovebirds of course! Warning: Strong Obsession of strawberry cake and violence concerning frogs.
Rurouni Kenshin - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,165 - Reviews: 5 - Published: 9-15-06 - Complete

19. Memories Of the Past Unvieled » reviews
Now 1932, Rosette waits for her Chrno to return from the journey he embarked on so long ago. While searching for something, she uncovers her diary from her time at the orphanage. Memories are revealed as she recalls her first and last meeting with Chrno.
Chrno Crusade - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 3 - Words: 3,135 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 8-26-06 - Published: 11-6-05 - Complete

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