On holiday this next week but Hopefully (no promises) I’ll have time the weekend after next to get ch 2 of tkab done 🫡

Question

Since I'm rewriting tkab I was sorta wondering if anyone had anything you wished the original covered/did differently?? I've actually already got an overarching plan so I can't promise anything but I am curious of other ppls opinions on this

This one person is lucky they haven’t turned pm’s on bc the lecture they would be getting on review etiquette rn holy shit

Reactions to being Sakura

og tkab!sakura: I realised, quite calmly, the obvious: that I have been reborn into the Naruto universe

new tkab!sakura:

Loving this new rewrite

To Kill a Bull Rewrite Ch 1

She is done at last! I will be editing her hopefully tomorrow to correct any typos I missed/improve on some things I know are a bit clunky, but wanted it out as soon as possible for you all :)

>:)

Realizing I'm posting a rewrite update on april fools besties i promise this isn't a prank lmfaoooo

Sneaky tkab preview

Stopping writing for tonight but lads....we are close

“Sakura!” Mebuki interrupted Kizashi’s thoughts, his wife looking startled as she stood up. “What are you doing up? It’s way past your bedtime.” 

“I heard shouts downstairs,” Sakura replied, voice soft. She furrowed her eyebrows, a shift in expression that erred on the side of exagerrated. “Am I really failing at school?”

Mebuki looked stricken. She began for the staircase, not quite able to hide the panic in her voice. “No! No, of course not, it's just some misunderstanding.”

“But sensei just said I was,” Sakura replied, not letting Mebuki get away with her vague lie. Her lower lip jutted out slightly, her grip on the banister railings tightening. “It’s true isn’t it? All the other kids are doing better than me in class…”

Logically, Kizashi knew he should be going up those stairs like Mebuki, rushing to comfort his daughter. But there it was, that churning in his gut, that cursed feeling keeping his feet stuck to the floorboards. “They aren’t, sweetheart,” Mebuki insisted, kneeling down beside their daughter as Kizashi watched from the lower floor. “It might seem like they are, but it’s just because they’ve been taught some of those things before.” His wife smiled reassuringly, tucking a lock of hair behind Sakura’s ear. “Don’t worry, mummy and daddy are going to get you a tutor. And then you’ll be just as quick as your classmates, you’ll see.”

Something flickered across Sakura’s face when she heard she’d be getting a tutor, but it was gone before Kizashi could parse what it was. “But what if that doesn’t work?” She asked, flicking her gaze towards her feet. “Maybe I’m not meant to be a shinobi.”

Mebuki immediately began to protest but Kizashi didn’t join in. He watched Sakura’s expression instead: sad, round eyes, trembling lower lip. It should’ve kickstarted his parental instinct, made him stop thinking these stupid thoughts about his daughter and go reassure her already for god's sake. And, to be truthful, it almost did. Except-

Practised, he thought. She’s practised this.

“Are you failing on purpose, Sakura?”

Just wanted to say, take as long as you need for TKAB~! All of us are rooting for you and happy that you are still writing it at all! best of luck <3

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ahhh thank you!!! i swear as soon as timing allows it tkab!sakura will see the light of day again

Can you explain a little how your phd is going? Or how it started?

(I like to check in semi-regularly to see if you wrote more for tkab and your side questing is so hilarious to me, it’s sounds like you’re having a wonderful time 💕💕💕)

ahaha i'm glad youre enjoying my sidequesting too lmao!!

And my PhD is going really well!! This trip out to the observatory is actually even a side quest from my Actual PhD lmao - by sheer luck I managed to get a supervisor who is very involved with making telescope instruments so alongside doing my official project I'm being trained up as an observational astronomer (which was not advertised really at all for the PhD so I'm really lucky lol).

And then my actual project is making a lot of headway too! We're already onto discussing what I'm going to write for my first first-author paper so its aaaa exciting!!!

"discoabc when are you updating????"

me, in the middle of nowhere at an astro observatory: uh

Guys I promise I haven’t dipped on the tkab rewrite again, my PhD is just kicking my ass at the minute 😭😭😭😭😭 i was really delusional thinking I was gonna get out the first chapter before the new year 🫠

I've been following you since Kyoko days (and I am still waiting for whatever happens next). It's been almost a decade since (i think), and I still haven't forgotten the feeling of pure confidence I got loving the character you made.

I think you're as 'extreme; as Kyoko is and I'm really glad to know you're still around!!! Congratulations on your graduation and best of luck to whatever you choose to do next :)

omg thank u so much this is so sweet 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 I can’t believe it’s been so long aaaaah you are similarly extreme for being an og who kept around this long 😭😭

And thank u for the congrats!! I’m currently doing my PhD so still trying to figure out if I can make time for somewhat consistent chapter updates but fingers crossed it all works!!

Many thoughts being thunk….🤔

Spark ch 2 Snippet

Some food to tide you over until I figure out my exposition dumping 😭

Trying to tamp down on her rising irritation again, she glanced down at the book resting in her lap. “Kaguya: is there a Mother to our Father of jutsu?” had been an impulse purchase during her wait to board. She’d meant to bring along her own copy of “The Founding of the Fire Sages”, but between packing and that blasted cipher, it’d completely slipped her mind.

It had therefore felt like some kind of divine providence when she saw Tatsuo Muto’s name from across the station, a selection of his books advertised at the front of a small bookstore. They’d been half off, the clerk had told her, a sale following the sad news of the academic’s untimely death. Sakura had had to swallow down a near hysterical bubble of laughter upon seeing that the infamous “Icha Icha” series sat only a couple bookshelves away.

When she was younger, a bout of curiosity had led to Sakura stealing her mother’s copy of “Icha Paradise”, an act that had scarred her for life. However, unlike the salacious nature of those books, Jiraiya’s works as Tatsuo were entirely different. While on one hand fascinating, they were much more serious, dry affairs, filled with endless footnotes and references to academic papers. Had Sakura not known the two authors were the same person, there was no way she could’ve ever drawn a connection between them. Hell, even knowing the truth, it was near impossible to resolve the image of both men in her head.

Sannin Jiraiya.

Like many of her peers, Sakura had grown up on stories of him and his two teammates. Their great battle against Hanzō the Salamander was considered legendary even by her own parents, shadow theaters once regularly performing dramatised versions of the fight.  Markers of their impressive legacy were dotted around Konoha: street names referencing the victories they’d helped to obtain, entire sections of libraries dedicated to fields they’d begun. A painting of Sannin Tsunade even hung still in a darker, less publicly used corner of Central Konoha’s General Hospital, an attached plaque recognizing her contributions to medicine.

The Sannin had been the poster children of the perfect shinobi…until, suddenly, they weren’t.

The drunken deserter. The insane traitor. The perverted failure.

Sakura had personally seen the aftermath of Jiraiya’s career-ending error: a massive crater, a little ways east from Konoha. It had been years since the Kyuubi’s momentary escape from its container and yet its chakra still tainted the very soil, whatever plants that did manage to grow there blackened and twisted.  

Except, turns out it wasn’t career ending after all, was it?

Mini update

Just to say I’ve not perished lol spark chapter 2 is just kicking my ass - I’m like 2k words in and having to fight hard against the urge to exposition dump the entire time bc I did way too much world building 😭😭😭

But to people who’ve been following along: your girl graduated with a first class degree (to Americans I think the equivalent is a 4.0 gpa?) so 🎉🎉🎉!