Title: Next
Author: Amael the Chosen
Rating: M
Pairings: Naruto U. & Hinata H.

Fandom: Naruto / Next (Movie)
Chapters: 25
Words: 69,547
Updated: Apr 8, 2009
Published: Apr 17, 2008
Status: Abandoned
Link: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4202377/1/Next
Summary: After an attack, the Yondaime's seal is unintentionally altered. Naruto can now see the future, but only 2 minutes ahead, and only when it directly concerns him. How will things progress, with this one small change? Crossover with the film "Next".

Well, I usually read all the way through a story before posting it, but this one wouldn't stop heckling me until I put it up.

I'm about halfway through chapter 5. The fic is well done, with few noticeable flaws, and just damn amusing to boot. It doesn't start that way, but has steadily gotten funnier as it goes on.

Best of all, imo, the plot has a pretty quick pace. He doesn't spend brain-grinding amounts of time on canon events or on the cliched Naruto-trains-up-his-new-powers stage.

Having seen Next is not necessary (I haven't, though I suspect I will now >>), though you may want to read the wiki entry (s'short) to get a better grip on things. (Interesting, but still not necessary)

More, and a review/rating, once I've finished.

One of the more amusing lines so far...

Spoiler

It was rather depressing, he thought, to wake up every morning and see yourself die from being stupid.

EDIT: And, uh, wow. He's definately not super!Naruto with this power. >>


Checked by Minion, February 11, 2015

 

The movie Next sucked. However... this captures my attention for some reason. It's not horrible, and it's interesting. Still reading, will give a score later.

3/5, I guess. It's not bad, but it's not great. It's more for the "Almost Recommended" thread than anything else.

 

O_O The Chuunin exams end... interestingly.

To say the least.

Yes, a fic that gets past the Exams, gasp. I'm on chapter 14/22 at the moment.

 

The first few chapters was Okay, buy after a while it started to go downhill, I'd rate it 2/5 atm.

 

It was ok till the end of Chuunin exams. After that it started to degrade rapidly.
Not a waste of time, due to some nice ideas of this fic, but not the greatest either.
3 out of 5.

 

This fic seems to have extreme difficulty in deciding what tone it's trying to set, as it seems to jump from angst and the like to jokes in the space of a couple paragraphs. It's rather jarring.


If that was fixed, the story would be a lot better for it.

 

Yeah, I'm stalled out at chapter 18 myself. -,- Guess jumping the gun was what it was in this case.

 

I just don't know what's going on anymore. He jumps perspectives too much and it interupts the flow... and Sasuke decent into madness wasn't handled well. It just popped up. And the whole missing-ring-finger-so-I-take-off-my-shoe-thing? Bleh.

 

I actually thought this fic was pretty good, parts of it could have been better certainly but the concept was good. Kakashi annoyed me a bit though

 

Eh. I recall it was a nice enough read but nothing spectacular. 3/5

 

I stopped reading on the 13 chapter myself.
Great start but it just went downhill to fast.