《Once Neglected, Now Protected (Book 2 Completed)》Chapter 17
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Ten minutes passed as everyone ran around like chickens with their heads cut off. Naruto stood at the gate closest to the approaching signatures with the other Jinchuriki behind him.
Six bodies, with the same chakra signature and the stench of death landed first before the other eight different signatures landed behind him. The 'lead' body stepped forward and Naruto went to meet him. "We ask that you surrender the Jinchuriki peacefully and we will not destroy your villages." The spiky orange haired corpse with piercings in his nose and lip stated. "Fail and we destroy everything and you will know the one true god! Fail and you will know Pein!" He shouted almost dramatically.
Naruto blinked. Then he pouted. "But they are so cute! Why should we give them up?"
Pein frowned at the statement, eyes moving to gaze behind the blonde Uzumaki in his way to look at the other Jinchiriki who did not look the least bit impressed. "Then it is final. You shall know Pein." The corpse raised its hand.
Naruto grimaced. "Jump!"
The Jinchuriki all jumped as Pein shouted, "ALMIGHTY PUSH!" and blasted the gate apart at once, the bijuu pairs darted off to their destinations and Akatsuki pairs followed their assigned targets.
Five of the corpses rushed to Naruto and one summoned some kind of weird animal that kind of looked like a dog...
A dog with multiple heads.
Naruto bit his thumb and slammed his palm to the ground quickly. "Summoning Jutsu!" At once thousands of two tailed foxes appeared, thanks to the Uzumaki Chakra Reserves. The foxes lunged at the opponents as Naruto led them in a dance through the now empty village and listened to the explosions of the other battles while he recovered some more chakra. Kurama was meditating in his mind to gather some more chakra quicker while the bijuu's chakra is going to be for reserve.
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The foxes overwhelmed the summoning corpse and tore it to pieces as foxes near Naruto started to dispel. Naruto's eyes widened before they narrowed. Chakra absorption, how rude. He formed a Raisenshruiken and threw it into the smoke of dispelling foxes as he disappeared into a second Raisenshruiken that quickly followed the first as his clone dispelled. The absorbing corpse, Naruto really didn't care much for names, absorbed the first jutsu with a smirk.
That smirk disappeared when Naruto appeared right in front of him with ice daggers and sliced the corpses head off before running away and continuing the game of chase as he mentally thanked Haku for allowing him to copy his Kakai Genki
A rod of some sort slammed into his arm and Naruto released a short cry of pain but kept going. Two of the six corpses are gone and that left four but he didn't know what three of them-
"Universal Pull!" A monotone voice stated from behind him and Naruto was sent flying back into the grip of the lead corpse. Naruto grunted when a rod went through his thigh and spinning him to the ground. "Enough games." Naruto gripped the rod in his thigh and gasped as he pulled it out.
"You... will... not... touch... my FAMILY!" Naruto spat, spitting lava in a twenty foot radius catching another corpse, not the lead corpse sadly. That one had jumped away from the danger and was now on a nearby building.
Naruto released his golden black chains and ripped them through another corpse before disappearing across Konoha in a second. Four down and two to go. The blonde paused for a moment to catch his breath and in that moment a missile went through his stomach from another corpse that happened to be several blocks away. Naruto froze, before coughing up blood and falling to the ground.
"KIT!"
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Sword System Academia
2/17 NOTICE: I'm putting this on hiatus, possibly permanently. I didn't want to spam with an "update chapter", so hopefully here and in the story blurb will get enough eyeballs. There are a couple reasons for ending SSA for now. 1) I wrote the next chapter but wasn't happy with it. I've been less and less satisfied with SSA's quality the more I thought about it. Part of the reason is... 2) I am seriously thinking about trying to publish some novels to help pay the bills, since I don't have my other source of income anymore. I have never asked for anything from SSA readers, no money, not even a review or rating. SSA is written for fun to amuse myself, primarily, and I would kind of feel bad actually charging someone money for something as unserious as that. I don't think it is good enough to ask anything in return. To use an analogy from music, SSA is more like a jam session with a bunch of friends. You're just chiling and having fun playing some music. I mean, if you are Mozart or even Eminem, your jam session is good enough to sell, but for an amateur beginner like myself, haha, no. If I want to publish something, I feel like I need to go the proper route of practice and rehearsals, which might be more similar to a classical concert performance. With SSA, I work from worldbuilding notes and a loose outline, but what you are essentially getting is the first draft with lots of so-called pantsing. Pushing out a web novel like this also means it is very difficult to go back and improve things without breaking everything else downstream. I wanted to try this "jamming" approach, as it was a good way to teach me about another aspect of writing, but to move forward, I think I need to hone my "classical" techniques, which emphasize rewriting, or at least, revising outlines. 3) While I intend to try to make $$$, my actual current goal is to "get gud". I've spent a lot of time recently trying to understand the self-publishing industry, and I'm pretty sure I can make some money by using short-term strategies with my current amateur skill level. But I've seen too many authors come and go/burnout, and really, the only way that I think I can enjoy writing and still make money on a long-term basis is to become a better writer. And the next step for me, which I haven't done much before, is to spend more time on rewriting and outlines. That is pretty much antithetical to the way SSA is developing. I've always been kind of 20/80 plotting/pantsing, but I want to spend a lot more time outlining before I even start writing. SSA jam sessions don't really fit my goal anymore. If you're curious about what's next, read on... Among other regrets, I regret not finishing SSA. It's the first story I've dropped, but then again, it's the first web novel I've attempted, so I suppose that's not a surprise. I don't think traditional web novel formats suit me that well. The whole SSA story I had loosely planned (beyond a first book or major arc) is way too large as well. Big story = good for neverending webnovel with Patreons, bad for penniless and fickle writer like me. I am currently outlining a complete trilogy to another story in great detail. I want the story to end concisely, and I also want the chance to really spend a lot of time on the full outline to spot pacing problems, character issues, lost themes, and so on. I'll still share this story on RR. What I intend to do is finish book 1, flash-publish the whole thing here for a few weeks, then publish on the big Zon. Repeat for books 2 and 3. The upcoming story will be about crafting heroes. The backdrop is an isekai-like setting, where elves will summon humans to their world as heroes, but the whole hero crafting business is still in its infancy. 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