Something that's been on my mind for a while....

So I've been looking back at some comments for SE:AMS, and I've noticed a certain complaint/fear that a lot of people have voiced over the course of the series, especially since the second SEquel prototype chapter.

And that complaint/fear is the idea of Hinata having any sort of sexual interactions with a male character other than Naruto. This complaint has always bothered me a lot ever since it was first voice who knows when, and it's one that is hardly a fair one to make.

SE:AMS is a series all about the joys of sex, and sexual understanding, and one where Naruto has had sex not only with Hinata, but also Naruko and Anko, so I have to ask a serious, important question: What gives him a free pass?!

For those of you who didn't know, there was once a different ending to SE:AMS in which Yahiko becomes the fourth member of Team Anko, and he and Hinata have some time together while Anko gets time with Naruto.

Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE was pissed about Hinata being with someone other than Naruto, and it's between those complaints, and the fact that I admittedly hadn't thought out such an ending all that well in the first place that it was changed to the ending you now see on FF.

And from what several of the comments on the second Prototype SEquel imply, a mass majority of the votes for the Advanced Sex ed story concept were made specifically to avoid Hinata having any sort of sexual activity with any students (male or otherwise) in her class. Well, hate to say it, but I got news for you all: It's gonna happen no matter what!

When Anko's Advanced class starts up, she and Naruto are going to be her assistants, meaning both of them are going to be stepping outside their comfort zones in her class. This ALSO means that anyone reading is going to have to step outside their comfort zones a little bit! (and I'm not just talking about the idea of Hinata having sex with other males) Even if I do decide on a different premise for the SEquel from the ones I've previously posted, Hinata's probably going to have sex with one or two other males besides Naruto at some point or another.

I understand that Naruko and Anko have had a personal relationship with Naruto even before the boy graduated his virginity, whereas Hinata never made any sort of bonding with any male characters, but regardless, it just feels incredibly petty and unfair to say that Naruto can fuck whatever girl he wants, but Hinata doesn't have the same liberty with the boys. I don't know how else to say it, but as much as you don't like that idea, it's gonna happen eventually! Everyone seems to understand that, while Naruto fucked Naruko, he wasn't cheating on Hinata, and he reserves his love for her, but when even the idea of Hinata being around another male comes up, why is that suddenly sick, and wrong, and completely cheating on Naruto?!

Something I've briefly tried to touch on with SE:AMS, and plan to further indulge upon in the SEquel, is expose some of the idiotic double standards society has, particularly when it comes to sexuality. Among the double standards I want to touch on included: female breasts being branded as sexual organs when they're not, and how sex between two girls is awesome but sex between two boys is sick and wrong, but one of particular note that's bugged me the most is how guys who bang a lot of girls are 'players', 'studs' or otherwise 'awesome,' while girls who bang a lot of guys are 'sluts', 'whores', or 'gross individuals.' Or hell, guys who're perverts are... well, just perverts, while girls who are perverts are 'whores.'

Okay, to put things in perspective, here's a brief anecdote about something that happened with me and my dad: I was about... 15 or so, and I said something about some flirty chick in some movie/tv show being a bit of a whore, to which my dad responded 'why?'. I replied (feebly) that it was because of her perverted attitude.
Dad: So, she's a whore because she likes sex?
Me: Uh... yeah?
Dad: Do you like sex?
Me: Uh... yeah.
Dad: So you're a whore too! :P


Anyway, so while I understand some of the readers' reasoning why Hinata doing it with boys besides Naruto is undesirable, I hope that they also understand my reasoning, being that it's unfair to say Naruto can do any girl he wants, but Hinata's forbidden from having the same liberty with boys... actually, that brings up something else I hadn't quite thought of; why is Hinata bedding with boys a bad thing, but bedding with other girls is a-okay? Seriously, Hinata's had a few lesbian experiences in SE:AMS, with Yuko, Onnasuki, and Anko (and I think Naruko at one point or another), and nobody had a problem with it at all! In fact, I've known a few people who rather enjoyed the idea. But when even just the thought of her being with a boy (other than Naruto of course) crops up, it's such a forbidden and immoral thing.... Wut???? I can get if it was just Anko she'd brushed with, since they have a personal relationship, but she got a free pass with Yuko and Onna too. So... even just thinking about her being with any given male character is so bad... why, exactly? It just strikes me as a double standard that I could do without.

Just trying to touch base

Well... this has proven a very unproductive year so far! :/

I must apologize for lack of content posted lately, both here on the blog, and on FF, and understand that I haven't been so busy that I haven't been writing at all, but things have been going pretty slowly with me right now, and I hate it so much! :( I very much hope to fix this problem soon.

Anyways, so I have a few questions for all of you reading that I would like your honest opinion about:

First off: Do you think I should try something new with my work? I sort of get the feeling that I might be coming off as something of a 'one-trick pony' as of late, and whether or not this is true, I'd like to know from any of you: What kind of new thing do you think I should do? 

And seriously, be honest on this one. I don't care whether it's using a new pairing, or a different type of story, or different kinds of sexuality, if you think I should try it, just say it, and I might give it some serious thought.


Next question:

Do you have any ideas for Sex Ed Side Stories? Go ahead and shout 'em out! I'd be interested in hearing your ideas, and don't get your hopes up too much, but I just might use your idea (giving you credit, of course) if I like it enough!


Lastly:

If I were to make a new series not related to SE:AMS, Kushina's Wife Test, or any of my other fics, what anime do you think it should be based around, and what do you think the premise should be? I would be quite interested to hear your thoughts.

More news for the SEquel that you should hear!

Wow! SE:AMS is actually getting a sequel after almost two years of The Digger's laziness?!! :P

Joking aside, I really do have some important news about the sequel to SE:AMS in regards to it's premise, so as Anko herself would say "Listen up, ya maggots!!"

Okay, so one of the main reasons that this SEquel has taken so damn long is because honestly... I'm not sure where I want to go with it. Ever since finishing SE:AMS, I've kept switching back and forth between a number of potential ideas to continue the story, and I will agree that it's really starting to get a little ridiculous now.

As much as I'm sure some of you out there (you know who you are! :P) would be happy with just seeing more smut with Anko Mitarashi and friends, that's just NOT the way to do a sequel, and so many sequels, be they in literature or film, have focused too much on such things as sex appeal or action that they've forgotten to focus on what really made the original source material successful, and that's one misstep I am not making.

But getting back on topic, I actually have conceived several possible ideas for the continuation of the SE series (which will hence forth be known as the SEries :P), but deciding on which plotline to follow is honestly one of the biggest reasons that the series has taken as long to show results as it has.

I've heard some people ask me if I'm going to be sticking to the same story arcs as the canon series, and there are a few particular story arcs, such as the Chuunin Exams and the Land of the Sea arcs, but other than those and a few others, I'd much rather not stick too closely to the main canon stories because that would just be boring!

Regardless of which canon arcs I keep or not, do keep in mind that I will find one way or another to introduce all the characters to come that everyone loves: from Tenten and Gaara, to Tsunade and (as if I ever could forget this guy) Jiraiya!

I didn't want to share this with the masses, but at this point, I feel like I have little choice in the matter. While I've come up with dozens of potential stories over the past couple of years, the items I'm about to list are some of the final potential story concepts for the plot of the next entry in the SEries:


1.) Advanced Sex Education

All things considered, most if not of you probably took this story as a given. For a while, I kept switching between an advanced sex ed class, teaching more in-depth sexual technique, etc to graduated Shinobi, and a class teaching erotic ninjutsu (aka, Erojutsu), but then I realized that the two could be merged together, and as Anko's classes continued, she would teach her students Erojutsu alongside her other teachings.

It's not so much that I've gone back on this idea, but like I said, there are a bunch of other possible SEquel ideas that I can't really overlook, and kind of put this Advanced Sex Ed class idea into question. However, I will see fit that the OCs contributed so far will be put to good use in one way or another, regardless of whether or not this story concept is used.

2.) Anko's Origins

So most of my readers so far have been demanding a continuation to the SE:AMS series, but what if I were to go in the opposite direction? And instead of a sequel series, the new series were to be a prequel, telling my version of the story of Anko Mitarashi?

Granted, no matter what direction the story goes, I do plan to look into Anko's past, but what if said past were the entire focus of the new series?

This prequel would start with a young Anko Mitarashi as she graduates the Ninja Academy, her adventures and life under the tutelage of Orochimaru, and her exploits in the years after she left Orochimaru, possibly even leading directly into the very beginning of SE:AMS. Basically, we'll get to delve in deep to know just how and why Anko is the woman that we know and love!

3.) The War Against Daimao's Den

This is another thing I have every interest in at least touching on no matter what the story, but again, if this particular storyline is followed, then it'll be the main focus.

In the later chapters of SE:AMS, we're introduced to Daimao's Den, a sinister, dangerous crime organization specializing in ever possible illegality imaginable, most prominently, slave trade. And after the organization resurfaced, Anko decides that it's the solemn duty of Squad 11 to put an end to the bastards once and for all!

While plenty of lemons and humor will be present, it's important to note that this series will get to be considerably darker as it progresses, as we not only learn more about Daimao's Den and who they are, but also learn more of the atrocities that they've inflicted upon others (And trust me, this shit gets SO dark and nasty, I'm even disgusted at some of these ideas actually came out of my head! :/).

4). Sex Education: Shippuden Style

This is an admittedly odd one that I've thought of, and one of my more recent concepts, but what if instead of tying directly into SE:AMS, we were to skip ahead about three or four years?

That's right! Shippuden era, baby!

Not only would we be jumping ahead a few years, but we would also have ourselves a few new main characters, though, of course, with our favorite heiress, knucklehead, and nymphomaniac as lead characters acting as this new cast's mentors.

In other words, Naruto and Hinata get to go from awkward, embarrassed sex ed students, to proud teachers of a new generation of awkward, embarrassed sex ed students! :P

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As much as I'd like to cover all of these, I can only focus on one, so I'd like to hear all of your thoughts. Do you have any questions about any of these story concepts? Do you have a story idea that you'd be interested in sharing? Which of these story ideas would you most like to see come to life? Please leave your thoughts in the comments!

Important news regarding Kushina's Wife Test

^^; Okay, so... for those of you who aren't aware, about a week or two ago, I posted a rather furious rant on Kushina's Wife Test, venting over the frustration that some of the haters and complainers of the series were giving me. You won't find that rant now, because I realized soon after posting said rant how much of a mistake it was to blow up like that on everyone, and some of the scathing comments I'd gotten certainly didn't help me feel that much better :/

I don't regret saying some of the things I said though; Ever since I started writing and posting these mature fics, readers have mostly respected my work, and by that, I'm NOT talking about just praising my writings; I'm talking about understanding what I wrote, and accepting, if not necessarily appreciating/agreeing with how or why I did things. SE:AMS? I know people were taken aback/somewhat turned off by the dark tone that ch13-14 gave off, but they still seemed to appreciate why I did what I did, and continue to enjoy it regardless.

KWT, however? Right out of the gate, people started complaining that Naruto and Hinata would be cheating on one another for Kushina! ...But nobody had any sort of issue with Naruto having moments with, even straight up fucking Anko or Naruko in SE:AMS!? ^^; Internet, I just... I don't get you!

I could go on for hours about such frustrations, but that's not what I'm talking to you folks about today. I'm here to discuss the future of KWT.

Some of you may notice that I've added to KWT's description that it's on hiatus, but that's not necessarily true: Technically, I've discontinued it completely.

But don't worry! I have NOT quit on nor discontinued it! What do I mean? Well, let me explain:

You see, I haven't discontinued the series because these haters have gotten to me; actually, it's because I myself am unhappy with how the series has turned out so far, and overall, I had little planned for its future. Basically, I'd written myself very tightly into a corner! So, looking for some glimmer of hope for it, I decided to look back at my writings, and, well.... I can see a lot of places where I screwed up. Not in the whole 'Naruto and Hinata are cheating on each other!' or 'it's stupid that Kushina had their lessons separately!' way, but in other, more relevant ways that I just can't get into here.


And to be perfectly honest... I haven't had much fun writing the series :/ You see, for me, writing is a hobby first and foremost. The reason I've written the successful fics that I have is because I've simply had fun writing them, from "Nudist?", to SE:AMS, to my lesser known works, such as "Judai is a Woman?". KWT, however, began as a commission for DeviantArt user and commission connoisseur LawMan09, and so the main reason I even completed the chapter that I did was just to get it done and over with! (And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I don't do requests or commissions!) So while I've had some inspiration with the idea, it just wasn't as much fun to write as it could have been.


So I've rambled on for a while, but where am I going with this?

Simply put, I'm rewriting Kushina's Wife Test! I'm currently working on a new, drastically improved first chapter for a new, drastically improved KWT that I'm having more enjoyment with already! And this time, I'm doing it to please myself, not some stuck up Suzume-folk who take enjoyment out of twisting other people's words to absurd levels! :P

I can't give an exact date when the new first chapter will be finished, but please know that I WILL be deleting the current series, and replacing it with the new one when this first chapter is completed.

"But where will I be able to read the old chapters that I liked?", you might be asking at this point. Well, I have confidence that the new KWT will be so much better, you won't even care about the old chapters, but if it's really so important to preserve relics of the past, then... I'll make a new blog or something for them, I don't know :P I'll worry about that when I get there.


Anyway, just one last thing before I get back to doing what I love to do: I'm proud to present to you all a preview of Kushina's Wife Test's first redone chapter! Enjoy!

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Complete despair.

Those are the words that would best describe the state of the Village Hidden in the Leaves on October 10^th. Kyuubi no Yoko, a tremendous rust-red demonic fox with blood red eyes and nine lashing tails roared as it destroyed forests, crumbled mountains, and decimated cities, the Shinobi of the Land of Fire, despite their best efforts, unable to even come close to subduing the mighty behemoth.

But just as all hope seemed lost, one man with golden hair in a long white coat stepped forth to oppose the beast, summoning a brown, scarred toad whose height rivaled that of the demon that threatened the village.

This man was the Fourth Hokage, greatest of all ninja of the Land of Fire.

An intense war broke out between this masterful ninja and the demon that threatened his village, and though the Hokage put up a valiant fight that no other ninja could hope to match, he soon realized that he was no match the Nine-Tailed Fox, and his summoned beast was felled before the demon.

As he slowly recovered his battle wounds, a mysterious masked man stood before him, a newborn infant with golden hair that matched the Hokage’s in his arm, an armed hand raised, threatening the child. 

The Hokage made quick work of the masked man, able to save his son and take him out of harm’s way, but the masked man wasn’t so easily defeated. As he realized he was outmatched, he gave a lazy gesture, and the Nine-Tailed fox snarled as it loomed hungrily over its victim. The Hokage, weary from his battle with the beast, stood helpless before it as it raised a claw to him.

However, as all hope seemed lost, the beast growled in pain and anger as spiked, golden chains sprang from seemingly nowhere, binding it tightly and restraining its movements. The Hokage smiled as he turned to see an exhausted woman with long, deep red hair, who was barely able to keep a solid grip on the restraints that protected her husband.

Frustrated, the masked man gave an inaudible order to the monster, who thrashed furiously, breaking its bindings loose and dropping an enormous claw onto the baby, both husband and wife throwing themselves in front of the sharp claw that threatened their child, large holes being torn through their bodies as the demon’s bloody claw stopped just inches short of the baby, protecting him from harm.

The Hokage created several quick hand signs before ending in a clap, an ominous white figure appearing before him, who ripped out the soul of the destructive demon, and in a blaze of chakra that burned red like fire, everything faded into nothingness....

A woman awoke with a loud, frightened gasp, long red hair flying as she shot up in bed, panting in terror at the vision she bore witness to. She shuddered as she recalled the dream, cold sweat soaking her face, her mind erratic with fear and confusion.

For who knows how long, she had slept, reliving the same horrible dream again and again, and while some parts of the dream changed, the same terrifying events presented themselves to her repeatedly, seemingly without end. And now, at long last, after what felt like days of tormented sleep, she was free!

She wiped her brow of sweat and smiled as she looked down at herself, feeling a smooth, flat stomach. After nine months of pregnancy, it felt strange to Kushina Uzumaki to no longer have such a massive belly, to feel so light, and to think that at last her son was born! However, what felt stranger still was that she couldn’t remember giving birth to her child at all.

Sure, she had dremt of it several times in the days she’d slept, but to think that such a nightmare could really have happened was absurd; impossible, even! How could the Nine-Tails really have been extracted from her body, when she practically had every Shinobi in the Leaf Village to keep such a well-known weakness of its seal from being exploited? How could that strange masked man have only now been known to the world? How could the village really have been destroyed by the Nine-Tails when she sat here comfortably in bed, and very much alive? And more over, how could she, Kushina, still be alive now, after not only undergoing the deadly pain of having a Tailed Beast be extracted, but also be impaled right through the heart?!    

It was then that Kushina took in her surroundings, and she came to the understanding that where she lay was in a hospital bed, possibly the place where she’d given birth to her son, who she wanted to name Naruto.

...But wait. The seal that bound Nine-Tailed Fox within her would only falter when giving childbirth. So why, then, would she have her child be born in a hospital, a place where hundreds of people would be killed if something went wrong? And where were the ANBU sentries that would have no doubt been watching over her and ensuring her protection? And where was Naruto? Where was Minato? The more she regained her awareness of reality, the less everything made sense to her!

She sighed, plopping back in bed and trying to relax her confused mind. Nothing seemed to make any sense, her head felt light, and even after waking from a deep sleep, she felt incredibly tired, so she just tried to relax, and let herself heal for a moment.

...But why would she have the need to heal? She was perfectly fine; a little bit light-headed and somewhat disoriented, sure, but hardly in need of any significant medical attention, especially not since she had the Nine-Tails’ regenerative powers. So what was she doing here in a hospital bed? Why was she not in her own bed, waking up to the sight of her husband and newborn son?

Anxiety getting the best of her, Kushina got out of bed and walked out the door, brushing past a young woman with short pink hair, who stared incredulously as Kushina strode down the corridor, ascending a flight of stairs to the roof of the hospital.

She pushed the door open, a light breeze of fresh air sweeping past her as she rushed through several clotheslines with freshly laundered white sheets wafting in the wind, her legs weakening with every stride she tood, and gazed upon Konohagakure with a mix of shock and confusion

This, most certainly, was NOT Konoha as Kushina remembered it. In her life time, she had memorized the landscape of the village to the point that she knew the location and appearance of every notable place like the back of her hand, but more than half of the village’s layout was almost unrecognizable to her, and everything looked as though it was recently constructed, like she had stepped back in time... but as she gazed up at the Hokage Monument, she realized that she was gravely mistaken about stepping back in time.

Near the top of a gigantic cliff that overlooked Konoha, the faces of the Hokage, the greatest Shinobi in the village of their times and leaders of Konoha and the Land of Fire alike, were carved in the stone wall, as though the men themselves watched over their land even in death.

But this monument also differed greatly from Kushina’s memory, as not only did the faces show signs of wear that certainly would not have happened in a matter of days, but a fifth face now accompanied the other four, etched in the rock next to the Fourth Hokage, which throughout her lifetime had always been blank space.

“This is... impossible.” Kushina thought, gripping the side of the building to maintain her footing. “This... all of this has to be some sort of messed up dream.” That was the only explanation, she thought. Right now, she had to still be sleeping, and what she was seeing was just another weird dream.

“Yes, that’s it.” She declared aloud. “None of this is real! It couldn’t be. It’s all just some crazy, messed up dream!”

Her vision started to blur, and her body weakening even more, her legs now shaking to keep her up.

“Lady Tsunade! I found her, she’s up here!” She turned to see the same pink-haired woman she passed on her way up hurrying to her, accompanied by several other doctors as her sight faded to black, and she passed out on the ground, the warped sound of alarmed voices being the last thing she heard before everything went silent as she went unconscious.  

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So, what did you all think? 

And better yet, how do you all think Kushina's Wife Test can be improved? Please, leave your thoughts on this preview and the remake KWT in the comments below. I would very much appreciate any feedback that you can give :)