I seem to make these post more than anything else, but some times that is just the way things go I guess. I just wanted to let you know that I'm still alive and I just motivation to write at the moment. Not in the sense that I've seen run rampart over Naruto fan fictions countless times. I haven't lost my motivation, because I'm not liking what's going on in the Naruto Fandom right now... I could careless about that right now. While I love watching the anime and I love reading the manga, but I'm not going to let that effect my stories.

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The Unforgiven
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It seems that I tend to do this a lot, but I'm sorry for the slow down once again in my updating of my two stories. Just things have started to get a little hectic for me and I haven't been able to work on the new chapters as much as I would like to and when I have been able to get on the computer I have found myself working on a side project... an as of yet untitled all original work that I hope to get published. So if you were wondering the updates have been... well there they have been. However, on the bright side of things I have chapter 18 of Unforgiven and Chapter 4 of Someday The Memory Remains done and I'm working on them.

Also I have decided not to make a three part series for each of the stories, because I'm lazy like that. However, each of them will in reality have three parts... I know this won't go over too well with some of you, but I am pretty much going to write the stories in three parts... however instead of posting them all separately making them "sequels" I'm just going to put the story on haitus for a little bit to take a break from it and then when I resume writing it I'll just add the new chapters into the existing story to keep things not only neater in my gallery, but also to limit confusion on many different levels.

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The Unforgiven
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Okay I know that this is going to seem a little stupid to some of you, but this just something that I have been thinking about doing for a while now. Which I was going to make it a regular upload to my gallery, but then I thought it really isn’t worth that much. I mean it’s not really a fan fic or anything meaningful so I thought I would do it as a journal update. Which gives it some meaning as it will help me make my journal a little more lively, but also a way for me to answer the questions I think you have about my stories. Speaking of which if you have one don‘t be afraid to ask… any ways the idea for Questions with the Author… is that one of my OC’s from stories… mostly from The Day That Never Comes considering that they are the ones I’ve spent the most time thinking up. So here is the first installment with Meikyou…


Meikyou - Yo, Meikyou Kouen here to ask the questions on all of your minds and to do that I’m here with writer, Keibo Kouen… wait Kouen? Are you a member of my clan?

Keibo - Um… no.

Meikyou - Then why do you bare my clan’s name?

Keibo - Well it’s just a scene name…

Meikyou - Bastard… how come I don’t have any family members in The Day That Never Comes? (Which now will be referred to as The Day for the duration of the interview.)

Keibo - Well… because their dead. I can’t really say more than that at present, because it would open up a can of spoilers.

Meikyou - Can’t have now can we? Any ways… recently The Day and Someday have both had comments made about the pairings… however, it was mostly the one from The Day that upset you… why?

Keibo - Because as an author I want to be remembered for the story I’ve wrote… not because I a wrote a certain pairing.

Meikyou - That didn’t answer my question… why did it upset you?

Keibo - Because… someone I won’t say who got offended by slight NaruHina-ness in The Day which is NaruSaku. It just seemed that even though the story is NaruSaku I’m a traitor to the pairing, because I dared to show a little NaruHina in it. With The Day I didn’t just straight in to the main relationship and I dealt a little bit with NaruHina in the beginning to show the slow evolution of Naruto’s and Sakura’s relationship… which didn’t really start peaking in terms this person seemingly wanted from the get go until Chapter 23.

Meikyou - Why didn’t you just go from get go like you did with Someday and Unforgiven?

Keibo - I can’t explain why I didn’t, because I didn’t and I wanted to keep the dynamics of the relationships on a realistic front. I hate when people just put two people together with out really explaining the why they are together.

Meikyou - But you did with Someday and Unforgiven!

Keibo - No I haven’t… while both Ino and Hinata have expressed their feelings for the blonde knuckle head in their respective stories… Naruto hasn’t expressed any true feelings towards either of them due to the set up behind the stories in question.

Meikyou - Well… then why put NaruIno and NaruHina in their titles if they end up being NaruSaku?

Keibo - Not answering that other than to say… because I’m the author.

Meikyou - So… *Shifty eyes* Which pairing is your crack?

Keibo - What? What’s this about crack?

Meikyou - You know the one that you can’t live with out in your life.

Keibo - Believe it or not… none of them. I don’t believe in the idea that there is only one special out there for someone to love and the fact that people fight over it is insanity. I like to believe that there is moment in life where anyone can be anyone’s special one and it up to them to catch that moment to catch fire or to fade away in to nothing.

Meikyou - Deep… any ways what’s the deal with Kakashi’s and my eyes in The Day?

Keibo - All I’m willing to say at this time is that it be answered in the sequel Master of Puppets.

Meikyou - Oh so that is going to deal with the ’Master’ you hinted at in The Day? Oh and will there be any more romance between Kioiko and myself?

Keibo - Maybe… *Laughs Evilly*

Meikyou - Your so dead…

Keibo - That’s all for now! *Uses Substitution to avoid being stabbed*

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True Blue Love Series - The Unforgiven
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If your life were a movie, what songs would be on the soundtrack? Copy and paste the list of different scenes below and fill in your answers by opening your media library and setting playlist to shuffle to see what you will get.. No skipping though if you don't like the song... what you get is what you post!

-Opening Credits: Just A Dream by Carrie Underwood (Okay so the person I love dies before the opening...)

-Waking Up: Undiscovered By Ashlee Simpson (Blah... *makes note to kill sister for adding this song to my computer*

-Falling In Love: Counterfeit by Limp Bizkit (So true every girl I seem to have two faces)

-Fight Scene: 28 Days by LFO (Blah *Shakes fist as sister*

-Breaking Up: Gone by Switchfoot (Fits doesn't it?)

-Making Up: Someday by Nickleback (Woot two in a row)

-Secret Love: The Unforgiven II by Metallica (Sweet)

-Life's OK: Sin With A Grin by Shinedown

-Mental Breakdown: She's Always Right by Clay Walker (Okay... I guess it fits considering they cause them...j/king lol)

-Driving Scene: Something In Your Mouth by Nickleback (So wrong, but so right...lmao)

-Flashback: Jezebel by Ricky Martin (Where's my gun... my sister has to pay for this)

-Happy Dance: Only God Knows Why By Kid Rock (Make sense...)

-Regretting: Country Comfort By Keith Urban

-Long Night Alone: Me Neither By Brad Paisley (So wrong, but so right...)

-Final Battle: Broken By Seether w/ Amy Lee (Awesome song, but wished it was for the Death scene or credits...)

-Death Scene: My Last Name By Dierks Bentley (Fits... seems the way my life is headed.)

-Final Ending: Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) By Offspring (So wrong...)

-End Credits: Nice Guys Finish Last By Green Day (So true...)

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True Blue Love Series - The Unforgiven
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Okay in my last journel I talked about how I was going to take a break from posting up new chapters of my two current fan fictions in the attempt to build up a little leeway up to where I could make updates possible even if for some reason I didn't get a chance to write or in case of writers block. Well that worked out about as good as an ice cube on the floor of hell... needless to say in the the week and days that I have been trying to save up to spare you guys longer waits on the new chapters... I frizzled. In fact Chapter 16 of NaruHina "The Unforgiven" was mostly all written after I decided that I would continue on with the way that been. Posting when ever I have the chance too... which at times might be longer than some of you can bare, but it works for me.

It just seemed that all the way that I was trying to save up to have a couple chapters in the hole to hold on to... I just lacked the motivation to write them. So yeah... I'm just going to write the both of them like I had been, but this time I swear once I finish one of them than I'm not starting another until the one that I have left is finished. Hopefully this time I will heed my own words, but I never know when an idea is going to hit me that I just have to write it just like you guys do. Anyways, now to the second purpose to this journel.

Remember the poll for a little while ago where I asked you if you could draw would you draw fan art from my fics. Well I can't really what this is contest, because I have no idea what I'd be able to the winners as prizes... challenge is a little bit better, but still it hints at competition between all of you that read my stories. So... I guess the best way to put it is a resquest.

I'm not saying that you have to or anything, but if you are willing, able, and have the time to do some do you think you could possible help me by drawing any of the main Cannon characters from Naruto in my ideas for their redesign costumes? Now I haven't really given all the redesign a complete thought yet, but I have at least thought up a basic look for all them based on characters from different series and video games. Which you should already know from reading "The Unforgiven" or by looking at the cover art that did for me will know that Hinata is dressed like Rinoa Heartilly and that Sasuke is dressed like Squall Lionheart both from Final Fantasy 8 game.

I only bring that up for this, because I'm lazy and the redesigns of the characters will be universal for all my stories. I know it's a little lame, but it will save me from having to keep all the different designs straight from one another when I writing the chapters... the only one that currently has to differ from the other stories it Kakashi, but his only a slight difference. Any ways, here is the list of characters and the ideas I have their outfits...

Team Guy -

Rock Lee - Outfit wise Ryu (or Ken Masters) from Street Fighter, because that's always been the way I viewed him with the tattered karate Gi. The only other real big difference is that his has his hair cut from before he started training under Guy.

Guy - Pretty much a tombstone tossed next to Lee's redesigned self... I know I'm evil, but I can never think of anything important for Guy to do other than die so that Lee grows and becomes his own shinobi instead of a Mini Guy.

TenTen - To go with Lee... outfit wise she's based off Chun Li from Street Fighter considering that they already share so much in common with one another and I think TenTen would look damn sexy in Chun Li's outfit. However, to make it a little different TenTen's hair as it much longer than it is, but it's put up in to the buns like she and Chun Li have, but there some of it isn't pulled back. What I mean is is that from the buns comes some of her hair giving her pig tails on top of the buns. I don't know... maybe I'll have to attempt to draw it to show you what I mean... but it won't look pretty.

Neji - I've been tempted to just go with Neji as Ken Masters to kind of complete the trio... I don't know how many of you have watched Street Fighter II: V the anime, but ironically the main three characters in the show are Ryu, Ken, and Chun Li. However, I haven't been able to pull the trigger on that idea, because there is some else that's better suited to play Lee's Ken or Ryu depending on how you look at the two of them. Also considering that Neji despite being from a lesser branch of the Hyuuga clan... he still comes from a well respected and well off clan from Konoha and I highly doubt that he would wear an outfit that looks like it's been used as a rag. So considering Neji's clan and his attitude he had when we first were introduced to him I have to say that I'm digging Byakuya (I know... Byakugan...lol) Kuchiki from Bleach. I don't know... they just sort of seem like they could be two sides to the same coin.

Team Kurenai -

Kurenai - I have nothing... other than in in one fics she's still just a mother to be... while in the other two she's already given birth. So it's up to you if she is carrying the child in her womb. Other than that I haven't decided on anything for Kurenai.

Kiba - Outfit wise I think Zell Dincht from Final Fantasy 8 fits him well enough, but other than that I think Kiba should have longer hair than what he has in Naruto. I don't know, but maybe it's because of his connection with Akamaru, but I've always though she should have longer and shaggier hair than what he does.

Shino - Don't have anything other than basic ANBU uniform and to continue with the theme of him covering up more of his face as he gets older... a ski mask that he wears underneath the ANBU Mask which would be shaped like a Horned Bettle.

Hinata - Rinoa Heartilly from Final Fantasy 8... lol

Team Asuma/Yamato

Yamato - Haven't thought of anything...

Shikamaru - Haven't thought of anything...

Ino - Haven't thought of anything...

Chouji - Haven't thought of anything... other than I picture him looking more like Batista of the WWE instead of the chubby that Kishimoto makes him out to be.

Team Kakashi -

Kakashi - Pretty much the same as he is now, but with the addition of the Hokage robes depending on the story your depicting as he's only the Hokage in NaruSaku. Also make note that in NaruSaku unlike the other stories he has removed his mask to reveal his super sexy face, but that he also no longer covers his Sharingan eye... as of Chapter 60 if you want to get the grasp of why he doesn't cover it any more.

Sakura - Haven't thought of anything yet...

Sasuke - Squall Lionheart from Final Fantasy 8...lol

Naruto - So many ideas that I can't pick one... I mean I've toyed with the idea of Naruto being Lee's Ryu or Ken depending on how you look at them, I have thought of maybe using Seifer to play of Hinata's Rinoa and Sasuke's Squall, I have thought of using something like Ichigo's outfit when he unleashes his Bankai... I thought of using a mixture of everyone's who has made him who he is... The 4th, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Iruka, and Sasuke... Gah it's so hard...

Any ways that's all the main ones for now... and again you don't have to do any of them unless you want to, are able to, and most importantly have the time to.

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True Blue Love Series - The Unforgiven
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