That's fine, there's a million other Naruto fanfics.
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Yeah, it was weird. Way I see it though, if a single chapter that wasn't like, out of left field terrible managed to butcher a huge horde of readers, the chapter wasn't the problem.
AN: This chapter focuses a bit on a gruesome theme, and people besides Sakura. I was experimenting with another form of storytelling at the time and as I learned later, it really didn't seem to be a banger. Not everything is. If you've actually read up to this point you're one of my favorite people on the entire site, just figured you deserved a warning. To say the story butchered readers in Arc 3, very specifically on this site nowhere else, everywhere else I gained readers in Arc 3, like a lot, would be an understatement of extreme proportions. I'm actually not sure there's even one person reading this.
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Sakura's struggling to figure out how she feels about one person, Harem might be a bit off.
"Good, she needs a tool…" Ino mumbles to herself, and uses a pair of tweezers to remove a stick in the way of Naruto's steamy healing. "Do you think you'll survive this training? These injuries are getting worse every day."
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There's a side story covering Tenten holding the sword on SV, it's great.
"You don't?" Sakura looks down at her dark sword in confusion, then Tenten, then the sword, then back to the irate girl. "Huh. That explains a lot… well okay the eating their corpses part is new. I wonder what that's about."
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She's working on it. She has plenty of years before they're not kids anymore, after-all. Lots of time to think about it and develop.
Ino has moved from [Deeply In Love With You and Sad She Can't Have Your Babies] to [Might Create a Jutsu to Get Your Babies Someday].]
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A lot of the small penalties the system gives are almost entirely based around natural cause and effect. "Yes Sakura, sitting at home and doing absolutely nothing while a festival occurs and you're eligible, is a very low charm thing to do. I will lower your charm if you do that. Go, have a failed date, experience life, do something." There's very few of them in the story, and most are sarcastic.
[The Melody of Hearts Event is has started. A festival will be held tonight, and you need to decide which date to bring! Procuring a date will result in a bonus of +1000 affection for whoever you decide on, as well as a unique bonus depending on the date. Failing to procure a date will reduce your Charm by 5]
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One of the few swears I left in. I started filtering out a lot of them later on in edits, I felt it was too crass. They're still there but have more impact in later chapters. I loved writing that scene.
"This is important, no lies." Sakura asserts with a very straight expression, "did the Kyuubi fuck your mom?"
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Business Naruto was actually introduced in a side story beforehand. A lot of the side-stories are canon and directly intrude on the story in some way. Unfortunately, they're only on SV, SB, and the paid place. But there's over 40 of them.
"At the investors meeting." He explains with a bit of a sideways glance, like that should have been obvious for her. "You'll have the place to yourself for a bit, enjoy." He tips a bowler hat at her, and walks away, disappearing into the sea of people that is the Konoha market district.
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And so it began.
Luckily it's not her problem right now! She'll revisit the idea when she hits that phase of girlhood where she's fawning over every guy with chiseled abs. Everyone of her ex-classmates except Ino appear to have hit that stage a year ago, so she's not actually sure she will hit it. Either way, she has something much more interesting to focus on, traits.
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She does indeed.
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Sakura Haruno The Gaming Addict, And Her Gamified Life [Naruto]
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