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You picked a water starter for me, yay!!

12: What do you like least about this fic? 

Hrnnggghh, this is hard to answer. I like CoT pretty well. I suppose it would be that the premise of the fics takes away one of the inherent positive qualities of canon!Sakura. That is, regardless of whether or not you believe Sakura’s parents were civilians or not (it was revealed at long last that they *were* shinobi, we just don’t know their rank or specializations or what have you), Sakura can be easy to identify with because she has no special background. She doesn’t have a bijuu in her stomach, she has no bloodline limit, she doesn’t have special parents, nothing. All she has is her guts, determination, intelligence, and chakra control, which in some ways makes her more of an underdog than Naruto.

However, by making a Mokuton!Sakura fic, I have effectively removed that quality. Sakura *is* special now. She not only has a special bloodline ability, she has special lineage to boot. In canon, we’re not given much in the way of weaknesses of the Mokuton either, except for non natural users (Danzou, Obito, etc). Therefore, once Sakura gets the hang of the Mokuton, she can pretty much curb stomp anyone in the series. And, I mean, yeah, the fic was written with that kind of self indulgence in mind, forcing lots of focus and special attention on Sakura, but it does take away that aspect of canon!Sakura. So, yeah, that’s what I least like, because I *liked* the underdog aspect of canon!Sakura.

5: What part was hardest to write?

Shisui and Sakura interacting, hands down. There’s two reasons why this was difficult for me to write. The first is that I suck at humor and playful (or not so playful) bickering. I am not a particularly witty person. I can be sarcastic, but not witty, and those are totally not the same thing. Therefore, writing that banter between Shisui and Sakura was very difficult, because I want to show that they’re not really getting along right now but they’re also not trying to be outright malicious. And also I think they both have great potential to be assholes, lol.

The second reason why this was so hard to write was because I wasn’t sure how much time I wanted to dedicate to writing their internal dialogue. On one hand, if I never write Shisui talking to Sakura, then he almost might as well not be there. But if I put too  much time into their dialogue, then that takes up text, and it will take me a million words to describe one scene because I have to write both the internal dialogue plus whatever is happening outside Sakura’s mind. To go along with all this, I also wanted to demonstrate that the internal dialogue takes place in real time and that it is incredibly distracting to Sakura. I mean, how many people can actually keep track of two or more conversations simultaneously, in real life, without losing at least a few sentences or details?

Anyway, so yeah, the difficulty was because I suck at humor and because I needed to find balance. Hopefully I pulled it off.

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