um yeah .__.

[askerian]

First things first, Crossed Wires is officially discontinued.

Sorry guys. Story died and refused to stick around à la zombie, no matter how many times I tried to raise it. That'll learn me to write when I don't have a plot in mind. What I had were a bunch of random ideas, but they never gelled together to form an overarching arc with a definite middle and end in sight, and then I lost interest. Sasubot is adorable, but. idk.

I'll still be willing to write drabbles in this 'verse for any sequel/prequel/genderbending/whatev' memes, but the main fic is officially dead.



You guys know how I get all "rar don't nag me about the next chapter of xfic!!! >E" ?

This is the official "what happened to X?" amnesty post. (please still remember the difference between "aw, i want/ed to see more of X" and "how could you not give me X!".) If the fic is abandoned or unlikely to be continued I'm even willing to spoil the hell out of the planned plot to people who request it. Eh, why not.

Comments

[ex-sasukich.livejournal.com]

ouch. poor gaara. did you have the end of his arc sort of plotted out? i just want to know if he ended up dying (maybe getting killed by sasuke's the thing that pissed off naruto?) or saved by naruto's eternal optimism...

oh, and i was reading some of the other comments and i'm wondering if kabuto ends up betraying sasuke to orochimaru or something... it would suck so much if kabuto ended up as a bad guy b/c i had the feeling sasuke liked him (and he gave sasuke advice and they *bonded* and everything!) and sasuke's still young, emotion-wise as an AI, and he's already so cynical and paranoid and full of trust issues... usually i have no compunction when it comes to sasuke-bastard getting hurt in fics, but AI sasuke's just so oddly adorable ^^;

itachi spending all his time in sharingan mode makes so much sense... i know he's a psycho murderer in this story, but i can't help but admire him a little for being able to break away from his army conditioning... how did he manage to overcome his core directives anyway? did he have help? i mean, without shikamaru's hacking sasuke wouldn't be able to murder, commit treason, etc.

re: re: pr0n... lol you've just redefined the meaning of the pleasure button! to be able to turn your hormones on or off... i don't know whether most pubescent boys (as sasuke would be technically) would turn it permanently off or on!

[askerian]

gah. I thought i'd answered this! I am bad person.

Alas yes I did have the gaara arc planned out. Mostly Naruto is in the process of calming Gaara down when Sasuke arrives to "save" him, since Sasuke thought Naruto was in danger. Gaara instantly pings him as an Uchiha bot, which means Naruto was lying and there ARE still Uchihas to be destroyed. Which means Gaara loses it spectacularly and tries to kill Sasuke, and he's been made to counter Sasuke's specific advantages so Naruto has to kill Gaara to save him.

(Temari then goes "I know you had to do it and he was suffering with his craziness, so thank you, but if you step on my turf again I will kill you.")

So Sasuke feels like ass because he didn't trust Naruto telling him he'd handle it and Sasuke couldn't help, and as a result Naruto had to kill his friend who he was raised with. (even if it was really a matter of time before Gaara self-destructed spectacularly, he'd been steadily losing it ever since his father was killed and had to get involved in Temari and Kankuro's hostile takeover to grab control of their father's mafia. Gave him way too many reasons to kill and then he couldn't stop.)

Kabuto pretty much sold Sasuke to Orochimaru the first day he met him. Sasuke doesn't know that they know Itachi, and they have really similar faces, and from then on it was easy to check up on. Kabuto is alas very good at being friendly. Mark of a good spy!

Itachi hasn't really overcome his core directives, he's using the sharingan mode to displace them, that's why he never comes out of it, it'd jump in his face the next second if he did. But at the same time Sasuke was in law enforcement and Itachi was in covert ops, so Itachi had a much looser ethical code installed in, and he had much worse experiences to build on.

A plot secret is that there are other Uchihas still alive, but the reason Itachi spared them is that they'd managed to grow past their conditioning or find some other way to block it, and he wanted to observe them to learn how to do that. The one condition for them to be left alone is to not come out as AI. If they can manage to pass as humans, he lets them live. For now he's still deciding about Sasuke. He's still a baby bot and they had a prior attachment that's swaying Itachi into giving him a little more slack than he would anyone else.

[ex-sasukich.livejournal.com]

ouch. the gaara fiasco really sucks... poor naruto, poor sasuke! (no wonder you don't want to write it ^^;)

on the other hand, itachi with a teeny tiny emotional attachment to sasuke fills me with glee XD