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[writer168]

question about eight... will we ever see Sakura and Kisame have any kind of good relationship? or some more real good mom-Konan?

definitely! it's a slow healing process, but it certainly will heal <3

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[writer168]

Thank you so much for answering my question! I really wanted to know how the coliseum arc happened in the lemonade stand, it seems that it was very important on shaping team 8, but it seems like Sakura still has her arm so idk. Hope ur doing well!

of course!

as for the coliseum arc, i didn't think there was a way for that to translate well into this world at least and kind of supplemented that by having them be a little more delinquent than in the original universe. like in the ninja world they have training and missions and have orders where killing people is the norm, but in the lemonade stand modern world? not so much. so team 8 is constantly truant, get into fights with other kids, get caught by cop-tenzo until he actually grows fond of them. this team 8 wouldn't call themselves a gang but they certainly did act like one

as for sakura's arm, she certainly still has it but let's just say it's not quite normal ;)

i know the lemonade stand world is kinda wonky, but it also won't be the only fic that mashes the Hoshigaki!Sakura/Naruto-verse and Resident Evil world in this way :D

and i hope you're doing well too!

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[writer168]

I've read your "the lemonade stand" and i'm really curious how the events that happened in "Hoshigaki" and "Eight" trasfer to it, so if you had perhaps an outline of it and don't mind sharing, please share, i'm wracking my brain for how it could work.

Have a wonderful whatever-time-is-it-where-you-are!

hi!

so the barebones ideas i have for team eight's lore in the lemonade stand goes something like this:

the akatsuki have based themselves in north america, but kisame leaves sakura in tokyo with an old relative on his wife's side and doesn't keep in contact, hoping for the best and living with the guilt the second he drops her off. unbeknownst to him, that relative passes a few weeks later and sakura is promptly shuttled into an orphanage

the years sakura spends there helps her grow into the calm, smart, calculating version we all know and love in the original hoshigaki-verse. naruto is a part of the same orphanage but they don't really interact. she sees him cause trouble, get chastised by the works, watches the cycle spin over and over. but it's none of her business and he's never really talked to her, so she keeps her head down and spends her free time finishing homework that's too easy for her and sticking her nose in library books until curfew hits

she meets kiba sometime in the middle of elementary school and her free time splits to spend some time at the circuit of shelters and veterinary clinics the inuzuka family owns

by junior high, sakura and kiba are thick as thieves. the first day of their first year, they meet shino and immediately get him in trouble with them. they spend that day's detention under kurenai yuuhi, their homeroom teacher. from that day on, shino's sucked into their group and they gain a reputation for themselves by racking up more absences than attendances and most teachers couldn't care less about what they do with their time. they still turn in their assignments, still keep up their grades, and if they keep their 'delinquent tendencies' out of their sight, it's not their problem

kurenai disagrees. they're good kids, she knows it, and she'll try to help steer them on the right path no matter how many detentions she has to host for them. now if only they could take it seriously and stop bringing her cheap snacks to bribe her into letting them leave early

it's also in junior high that naruto starts hanging around sakura and her friends. they both had growing up in the orphanage in common, and both had that troublemaking gene, and it was both of them that went out of the orphanage together to make a deal with a landlord who didn't mind renting out some rooms to a couple punk kids who were tired of the group home. the kids were scrappy and clever and knew their way around the streets so he offered them this: a unit for each of them if they ran odd jobs for him whenever he needed them to. when they made deliveries, they'd never look into a package. when he sent them to check up on people, they wouldn't get caught - if they did, he wasn't doing anything to get them out of it

anything beat going back to the orphanage. so they agreed

back at school the other teachers keep telling kurenai it isn't worth the effort, especially when police officer tenzo keeps hauling them back to the school if he can catch them out during school hours. but what they don't care to notice is how police sergeant tenzo is half trying to keep himself from laughing along with these kids and half trying not to worry himself gray when he find that they've thrown themselves into another fight with another group at another school. it doesn't matter if they keep winning, and it's certainly not funny when kiba's cheek is so swollen that it makes him talk weird for a week

but what tenzo's really worried about isn't the fights or the truancy or how scary smart these kids can really be. it's that because they're scary smart that they'll get in trouble with the worst sort of people one day, and him and kurenai won't be enough to save them

his fears are realized in the kids' second year of junior high when one day, they disappear

kurenai is distraught. her and tenzo are the only ones outside of the inuzuka and aburame families that actually care that the kids are gone, and along with it comes some gutting realizations. her the kids never stirred up any real trouble, per se, but they never made many friends at school or got in any other teacher's good graces or care enough to actually address the reputations they've built up for themselves

for a year and a half, she mourns them. she watches inuzuka tsume demand the police to find her son and why the hell aren't you doing anything he's out there and he's thirteen and if you don't do something he'll be dead. she watches aburame shibi, the quiet and polite managing partner of the renowned Aburame Law Offices, blame his son's friends for turning him into another bad kid when he has such a bright future ahead of him. she watches as tenzo tries his best to keep their case open because he's so sure they're still out there despite it growing cold around the edges; he'll never give up on them, he says, even when everyone up to the superintendent general of the tokyo metropolitan police department - second in rank only to the chief of japan's national police agency - thinks he's chasing shadows. she watches as naruto never loses hope of sakura and kiba and shino coming home and... and that one has a particular sting to it. especially when it's only recently that an explosive altercation between him and his best rival landed naruto a couple month's stay in the hospital and had sasuke whisked off somewhere out of japan without leaving so much as a phone number behind

kurenai never loses hope, and it's that same hope that kills her a little bit every day

everything changes when naruto starts his first year of senior high school. because three kids stroll onto the same school grounds like they hadn't ever gone missing in the first place. sakura, taller and stronger and indifferent and with a shock of pink hair. kiba, louder and angrier and sharper and a hearing aid in one ear. shino, more brazen and colder and more blunt and never taking off the dark sunglasses he's taken to wearing on his face

they're back, and it's like the warmth has found its way back into kurenai's blood

(it's later when the kids and kurenai and tenzo flee to north america for a charge of a murder they didn't commit that the latter two find out what really happened. one day when the kids were skipping school like usual, they see police officers dumping the body of a missing child. back then they hadn't been quick enough or strong enough or wise enough to react accordingly and get sucked into a dark conspiracy that they never wanted to be a part of in the first place. superintendent general shimura danzo is kidnapping kids, he had once sold some of them to disgraced scientist orochimaru to supplement illegal experimentation, and prime minister sarutobi hiruzen was covering it all up.)

((then, superintendent shimura finds out there are witnesses. he figures them out, packs up three teenagers into a shipping crate and loads them up on a ship, and sends them off to their deaths. when their bodies are inevitably found, it won't be hard to spin it: "three juvenile deliquents up to no good. something like this was bound to happen. what a shame, what a tragedy. may their souls end up in a better place than their bodies did."))

the conspiracies end up coming to light by the time the kids are sixteen, exposing a rotten and corrupt system that the new prime minister, senju tsunade, is quickly and aggressively working to root (ha) out. but even as names clear and charges drop and japan is ready to welcome three misjudged teenagers back with open arms, they decide to stay in north america.

kiba's intrigued with the goings-on in technology department at RAIN Securities and would probably go to college for something in the field. he's a whizz with tech anyway, and he knows they're probably going to pay for his degree in exchange for his employment

shino knows he's going to put himself on track for medical school. kiba and sakura are always getting hurt and he wants nothing more than to devote himself to the little family they've made for themselves. keeping them safe and healthy will always be in his top priorities, and he's already had exposure helping the medical team at catatumbo sanctuary in south africa. sure it was all veterinary medicine, but at least he knows he's interested in that sort of science

and sakura, well, isn't sure what to do with herself. she's content with floating through high school and taking general courses in college until she finds something worth doing. maybe she'll find something in physics; the subject makes kiba gag, and that's as good a reason as any to study it

it's not like the north american high schools are much different than the ones in japan when it comes down to what matters, anyway. she doesn't make any other friends in the school, she doesn't endear herself to the staff, she submits her assignments and takes her tests and thinks that they school should be lucky they don't have to deal with her and the boys' truancy habits this time around. the days go by and she spends her time after school in a rotation of places: her dad's gym, konan's company, sasori's tattoo shop, kakuzu's car customs shop. it's more of a variety than japan, but it's still routine. she doesn't expect any change

then one fateful day, she gets a project partner in the form of the the football team's pretty boy. and the timeline of the lemonade stand begins :)

this... really got away from me lmao. the outline turned out to be both way more information than i thought i'd get down and not enough detail to fully explain how the world is molded by the events of the hoshigaki-verse, but i hope it's a good structure to give you some idea of how things went down! i could definitely make a prequel fic to elaborate on the world, but we all know i'm already struggling to update my current fics lmaooooo

but if you have any specific questions, i'd be happy to answer them! thank you for your wonderful ask! <3

#asks #hoshigaki #eight #au in an au #i loved hoshigaki sakura so much she became my own canon and i've just made it everyone else's problem #i don't even know how leon managed to shoulder his way in here but now my true otp for sakura is the wildest crackship #that i'm the only one making content for #i guess they call it rarepair hell for a reason #but i just never thought it would happen like this specifically #leon scott kennedy you're one of my greatest muses #and my greatest adversary LMAO

[writer168]

your first work that I ever read was Darkest Before Dawn I believe. You like massively impacted my whole life dude and I’m super thankful for it. I also periodically reread Snow Storms and Snake Wine whenever I’m sad cuz it’s such a silly feel good fic nd I love it so much. I appreciate you epically

thank you so much! <3 Darkest Before Dawn really was that first fic that actually started getting popular and even though i've archived it, i'll always be grateful for it!

Snow Storms & Snake Wine does have my entire heart. i know it's been a long time since i've updated it, but it's one of those fics that mean so much to me that i don't think i'll ever let it go

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[writer168]

so.... eight/harry potter crossover mentioned... any plans with that?

honestly the urge to indulge in harry potter pops up once in a blue moon like supernatural does. if that urge ever catches me when i'm actually writing something then maybe! for the most part, though, probably not

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[writer168]

It’s been 4 years since I found out about your stories trough stumble on fanfiction.net, and I have to say, I’m very glad I read it and got to your other works. You write so well it amazes me how you develop the characters and the world they’re in! Love your work, hope you’re doing well!!

thank you so much and thanks for sticking around!! <3!! I'm doing as well as I can and hoping to chug away with updating in the new year :D

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Ty for writing eight and hoshigaki, such passion for these works is astounding. The amount of emotion I have felt thru these 2 books is amazing, I am able to be there in the moment , I discovered hoshigaki around my 8th grade year and now am a freshman in college ! It truly is the only thing on wattoad that still feels refresing!! All your works amaze me

thank you so much for reading them <3!!! i think i started Hoshigaki when I was in high school? it's so crazy to think that it's still on-going, and thank you and everyone else who follow it for being patient with my slow update schedule!

thank you again, and happy reading!! <3

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Hello! I just found your Supernatural/Naruto crossovers on A03. I love them! The character dynamics between Sam, Dean and Sakura are perfect! Will there be anymore fics of them in the future?

<3!! my supernatural interest comes and goes and it's gone for right now, but if there's ever a time in the future where it resurfaces there will definitely be more! i already have the concepts for 2 more one-shots when the time comes :)

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i hope you’re doing well!! i was wondering if you were ever gonna expand on that thriller story about hidan and kid sakura you gave us a sneak peak of !

that one is going to be a full blown story! i plan to start publishing it once Eight is completed :D

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now that the percy jackson series is out, for your consideration i submit the following: a percy jackson/eight crossover. thank you 😌😌😌

ok but i've definitely made the concepts for an eight/gods crossover in my plot bunnies folder and if i knew the percy jackson series more i would definitely do it!!!

(also completely off the record you didn't hear me say this but i perhaps maybe have 4.5k words of an unfinished eight/harry potter 4th year crossover collecting dust in my drive lmao?)

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Thank you so much for writing Snow Storms & Snake Wine. It’s one of the only things I can reread again and again and never get bored of it, and every time I do it makes my week

and thank you for reading it <3! Snow Storms & Snake Wine has honestly made a special place in my heart and even if it's been a while since i've updated, i do have so many plans for the world and these characters

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https://www.tumblr.com/writer168/727756525332987904/i-have-a-bizzare-thought-in-canon-it-was-kisame?source=share

I remember Sakura describing Sasuke in Hoshigaki as having a wonderful personality and that made me laugh so hard because it's true! I mean I have no love for Sasuke (he's like an ex-boyfriend I dated on and off highschool at this point) but I think he deserves the full truth.

I am rereading Eight and I'm at the section where Choji reflects on Sasuke's favoritism. It's sad because of the people in Konoha who genuinely cares for Team Eight but I'm not sure if they'll ever belong there again. Like sure, there are people like Tsunade who ain't dumb enough to buy that there isn't something but they were so miserable in Konoha compared to other places.

Sorry for rambling! 😅

don't apologize, keep rambling!!

and honestly, i think one of the most important things about Eight even in this AU is that they're still not the main characters of their world. sasuke has his favoritism because that's how it was in canon, and naruto will save the world regardless of what team eight does because that's also how it was in canon. they have no support because no one is looking in their direction, and the ones who do care about them kind of pale in comparison to the level of support that people like naruto and sasuke get

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[writer168]

ONE OF THE BEST ASKS I'VE GOTTEN AAAAAA I LOVE THEM

#asks #deepest pits of rarepair hell #sakuleon

[writer168]

<3!!!!

I finally got a new stylus pen so I did a little thing for one of my fave fics :D

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#fanart #mcu #spider man #peter parker #frostbite #frankee4foure

[writer168]

I have a bizzare thought. In canon, it was Kisame who revealed the truth about Itachi to Sasuke... but in Eight, will it be Shino?

that's an interesting thought 👀

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[writer168]

I'm like listening to your playlist nonstop! Thank you so much! I love your music taste 🖤🖤

<3!!!!

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[writer168]

Thank you so much! I think I'm gonna listen to all of those on loop!

Btw, any chance there would be Leon x Sakura set in a ninja/Naruto world or zombie au?

if you're looking for zombies, you're in luck! the third installment of the lemonade stand series picks up as a Resident Evil 2 Remake AU ;)

and i can't believe i forgot about this until now but i did in fact make playlists for both bands in cherry red vans to give their general vibes, links below!

Raccoon City

Snow Storms & Snake Wine

#naruto #resident evil #cherry red vans #asks #playlist