Unpublished WIP List Game
Tagged by @fineillsignup!
1. An Even More Different World â My current main fic, A Different World, is so sprawling and ambitious, and has been revised so much while writing, that I have a bunch of little scenes thatâre fine, but just donât work with the direction I ended up going. Iâd like to clean them up and post them. Maybe.
Sample:
Nagato who commanded Yahiko's body as the Deva Path. Itachi with Shisui's eyes. And himself, with the eye he had once given to Kakashi.
Obito was starting to feel uncomfortable, which meant one thing: it was time to say something stupid.
"Is there anyone here who hasn't harvested their best friend's corpse?" he asked.
(Another example: In earlier revisions, Kakashi ended up working in adminâspecifically, as a strategic advisor to the Hokageâafter giving his sharingan back to Obito. This idea developed into Kakashiâs mother working in admin in the published fic, but I still have an entire scene written for this storyline.)
2. The Philosophes â What if Naruto isnât weird, and all ninjas fought with Talking no Jutsu? All âbattlesâ would be depicted entirely via dialogue and metaphor. Laying out their motivations and justifications for what they do and believe becomes the entire point of fighting. (Despite the fancy title, itâs less like formal debate and more like a particularly intense and loud personal argument.)
The concept alone is the most pretentious Naruto fic ever.
Featuring: Messiah!Naruto preaching universal love in world of hatred and suffering; Objectivist!Orochimaru; failed messiah Obito whoâs tried the power of love, and knows it canât change the world.
Sample:
âWe must love one another or die,â Naruto said.
âTrue,â said Obito. âBut we donât love one another. And weâre dying.â
3. As We Lay Dying â A series of depressing one-shots exploring various charactersâ reasoning behind all the shit they did. I have one-and-a-half chapters written for this one so far.
Sample:
Itachi knows the value of every life. War was the arbitrage of the priceless, and he would attenuate the cost.
4. Samsara Wheel â The world is set. Rin always dies, Kakashi always lives, Obito always breaks. Until Rin lives, just once. It's all she needs. Rin will tear down the wheel of fate itself to save her team.
Like A Different World, this is way too ambitious. Featuring: massively OP tailed-beast-sage-mode Rin in pursuit of whoever keeps destroying every AU she discovers; multiple versions of Kakashi (the traumatized canon!Kakashi, a traumatized TeenagedHokage!Kakashi who still somehow fails to ever save anyone he loves); and multiple versions of Obito (Hokage!Obito, and of course, Evil!Obito whoâs destroying universes in his search for the âperfectâ version of his team).
I have only a couple hundred words of this written. (The original inspiration for this fic was âTime Braid, minus all the gross parts, and for Team Minatoâ.)
5. Dark Naruto â A deconstruction of all the ~Dark Naruto~ fics floating around. Unfortunately, I canât decide if itâll be completely straightforward (letting Narutoâs cruel, counterproductive, foolish actions speak for themselves) or if itâll mostly be a comedy. Iâve written some for both!
Featuring:Â AU Sasuke, seeing how awful Naruto is, decides he doesnât want to be anything like thatâeven if it means not avenging his clan. I hope you like the idea of awkward good-guy Sasuke!
Sample:
âCongratulations Naruto!â announced Kakashi. âYouâve failed.â
âWhat?!â yelled Naruto indignantly. (He was always indignant because other people were always idiots.) âYou said 'be ready to kill'! And I totally was! Youâre a stupid teacher, just like all the others! Iâm better than either of those two losers,â he said, jabbing a finger at Sakura and Sasuke.
Sasuke was hunched over bleeding while Sakura frantically applied the first aid sheâd learned in academy.
âDouble failed,â said Kakashi.
Naruto screamed and charged at him. Naruto wasnât sure what happened, but he somehow ended up hanging by his leg, paralyzed by a slight current running from Kakashiâs fingers.
âTriple failed,â said Kakashi.
Naruto blinked and he was still standing, as if heâd never charged at Kakashi. Illusion. âTake me seriously!â Naruto demanded, throwing a kunai at his shitty-ass teacher.
The kunai was caught and thrown back at his feet. Kakashi was so fast that Naruto didnât even realize this until he tripped over the kunai now in front of his foot.
âNo,â said Kakashi. âYouâre an asshole.â
âIâm a realist!â yelled Naruto. âI make the hard choices others donât!â
âQuadruple failed,â said Kakashi. âViolence is a toolâone of many in a ninjaâs arsenal. And itâs certainly not a tool you turn on your own comrades.â
Feel free to let me know if any of these strike your fancy. I still donât know which one Iâll focus on once Iâm done with A Different World.
Iâm going to tag @endoplasmicpanda (I know youâve got a ton of them, but I wanna see how long the list is), @athanatosora, and @justenzhe















