The Sannin Beatz

Nuff said.

I can't get over how much Reload pleases me. The implications for Itachi?

M04R

 

Hmm...pudgypudge has started a couple of new stories. A puppeteer!Naruto story and a Naruto-Bleach cross. Both seem promising. Seeing the dearth of good fics lately, thought I'd go ahead and post them even though there's only one chapter each.

Author: pudgypudge

Title:No Strings Attached
Rating: T
Paring: None so far
Category: Drama/Humor
Summary: Inspiration strikes in the most odd and inconcievable ways. After seeing a puppet show as a child, Naruto is intrigued and wants to learn the art of puppetry. Slowly, but surely, the puppets will lift from the ground on their strings and dance.

Title: The Crosses We Bear
Rating: T
Paring: None so far
Category: Drama/Humor
Summary: The afterlife is a place where second chances and fresh lives start. He had no choice but to begin anew. With no past to hold him down, Naruto will blaze a path in this new world. Could a clean slate lead to a happier life?

 

Yep. I read them both and they both have nice potential, though it is a little early to tell how they'll turn out. Pudgypudge is a good author and has quite a decent update rate from what I recall. Go ahead and read them. Note that he'll continue one based partially on a poll on his profile so you might want to vote for your favorite. =]

 

I've found an excellent Naruto fic that has great grammar, logically develops plot, deviates from canon, is original, and is actually creative -- and has no pairing (otherwise known as having no "silly romance that is painfully hard to digest and shows that the author has absolute no experience in it". Eugh.)

In any case, I'm actually really impressed with this fic:

While the prologue comes in at less than 500 words, the next chapters easily reach almost seven or eight thousand -- which, by the way, is another thing I truly enjoy. Lengthy chapters.

I give it a definite 5/5.

 

Yes, this is good. I was reading this yesterday and was impressed. The way in which the Kyubi was revealed to Naruto was novel as well.

 

redlight district, teaching himself to read at age 3...no thanks

 

It's not impossible to be able to read at that age. I've been told that I was able to read and understand the newspaper at about the same age, though whether my parents or someone else had been actively teaching me to read or not, I don't remember.

 

I agree with LT2000. Phonetic reading at age 3 or before, while rare, is certainly possible (we have video of my son sounding out words before his third birthday) and memorizing symbols and associations in kanji for hundreds of words is plausible at that age. My nephew did the same with hanzi and was reading newspapers at age 3 (though he tended to guess a lot, filling in his own words where he didn't recognize the characters). One only needs knowledge of a few thousand words to be functionally literate in either.

 

Learning to read without any help? At age 3, does not sound plausible to me. with adults helping you along, sure, but not by yourself.

 

It's unlikely, but not unheard of for a very young child to learn to read without help or guidance. There are several documented cases of kids doing just this in the literature on profoundly gifted children; for instance, see "Exceptionally Gifted Children" by Miraca Gross.

It's possibly easier for exceptionally early reading in written languages like Japanese and Chinese. Very early reading kids who do so without guidance typically memorize the words rather than rely upon phonetics. Symbolic alphabets like kanji or hanzi tend to be easier for these kids to remember than long chains of alphabetical characters. Moreover, these symbols have some common roots that can allow a child to decipher what a word means even if she doesn't know what the word itself is.

That said, I agree that few authors can write a convincing profoundly gifted kid. I've not read the story in question, but I'd be surprised if it were done all that well, so I can appreciate your inability to suspend disbelief, Gizmore.

 

Thought I recognised the author name from somewhere. He is, in fact, writing one of those HP AUs I'm following at the moment.

This story is also great, I personally don't have a problem with the early reading thing. I would normally have reservations, and say some crap about characters getting powerful and intelligent too fast, but not in the Naruto fandom. Itachi, anyone?

 

Kakashi would be a better example. He graduated the Academy when he was like four or something, IIRC.

 

Six I think, Itachi graduated at five.

 

And then we have the Third becoming Hokage at 12. Each of the Sannin, plus Kakashi, graduating at six. And yeah, Itachi at five. It's ridiculous -- but it's canon.

And besides, I feel that the author presented it well. It wasn't overly done.

 

Wait. The Third became Hokage at 12?!

 

Apparently, for the dates to match up, the Third Hokage has to have been between 10-12 when he got the hat. I'll take 12. (In fact, in my own story, I have him at 13.)

 

Well slap me silly and call me confused. I had no idea, I assumed he was at least in his twenties or thirties, since I thought he began training the Sannin before he became Hokage.

 

The theory, though, is that the other Hokages weren't necessarily dead when he was appointed.

eg: The First was severely wounded during the fight with Madara, enter the Second. But the Great Secret Shinobi war was forcing the Second to out on the field at all times--which is why he appointed his apprentice, the Third, to take care of domestic issues. Thus, there was significant overlap between the Third and the Second. Similar to the Third choosing the Fourth before retiring, I suppose.

 

Yeah. I think there was a part during the fight between Sandaime and Orochimaru where the Shodai and Nidaime are shown appointing Sandaime as the Hokage.
BTW, the sannin graduating from the academy at six is canon??