Afterword - Volume 1

Hmm... this is the place for author to rant, right? Nice, nice, uwu

First of all, thank you for everyone who have taken their time to read my mess of a story. As long as anyone is entertained, then it had been a time well-spent on my part.

I initially started this story because I want to write a comedy. If you noticed, I really like to use manzai act and misunderstanding tropes, so if that's the kind of joke that'll make you laugh, by all means please come aboard~

As time went on, however, the characters' background opened up to me, and now I have this full set of plot just waiting to be unleashed. Hopefully.

Now, to address the big elephants in the room.

Apologies in advance for people who felt 'tricked' by the way I wrote the MC for the first three chapters. If you noticed, whenever the view shifted to Kokuo, it never specifically mention Yao Huang's current gender, only referring him as "the kid". Every masculine pronoun always refer to Yao Huang as the old soul, not his current body. Naturally, it changed from fifth chapter forward, as the name 'Yao Huang' was getting forgotten and his 'new' name took place.

Well, if I have to be honest, I just like female MC. What can I say? Then again, gender never really struck me as that important in the first place. You can have overly feminine guy and excessively masculine girl in the real world. That's how personality works, it got nothing to do with physique, it's more about environment and experience.

Then again, if you dropped it in chapter four, you won't be here, huh... so let's drop the topic and move on xD

This first volume is focused on the life before Naruto story officially started, covering the three and a half year period of their childhood before Naruto's third graduation exam. As such, I had to get a bit trigger-happy creative with the events. While I want to say that I've done my research well, any advice is always appreciated.

From here on, the characters will be more involved with the canon storyline, as well as changing it whenever something happened involving them. At some point things might deviate entirely from canon, so don't be surprised when that happened. You've been warned.

Hmm... what else...

I sneakily added an OC called Negi inside as a homage to all those 'twin brother/sister' fanfic out there xD Negi means scallion, which is one of the usual toppings for ramen aside from Kamaboko (Naruto) and Menma. A quick google search didn't find any character with that name in canon, so I guess it's safe to use? I want to hear your thoughts.

Edit: None in canon, but an awful lot in non-canon... uhhh... it's too late to change it so we'll just have to roll with it hahaha... please enjoy my version of Negi Uzumaki~

Finally, my sincere thanks for people who had enliven the comment sections: Enesith, TrueImmortalDevil, Shinkaio, LostSoul1, and everyone else whom I haven't mentioned yet.

Also thank you for all the 'thanks for chapter' squads: Franco98, StealerOfSouls, crazyfornovel, gingerghostflyewby, and all the other members. Know that even if I didn't reply or like your comments, they were all appreciated and put in this humble one's heart xD

If you got any suggestion or question, feel free to shout in the comments below.

I'll see you again really, really soon. Bye~