The wedding is still underway. After the classic cake-cutting and -eating scene, Shoda and Shigeko snuck off for a bit of…training? Meanwhile, Tokuzen’s daughter, Kohana dives in and wrecks the cake. Fortunately, the Drunken Brothers had a spare cake made in case of such a catastrophe. Then Taiken skillfully cut the cake with his awesome Fuuton skills. Not long after, the Hyuuga couple returned, and their first dance commenced. Currently, the reception is on their second song, being played by super awesome DJ Hinote, the Tsukikage.

But outside the land of the Naruto RPG, I’ve been doing a few things in Bleach. Most notably are the addition of two new characters to my roster: Yokoto Setsuna and Rundi. Setsuna is at E-Rank, the lowest possible, and I plan to slowly work her up to skills. Starting from Shinou Academy, she’s in the Onmitsukidou program (or Ninjagami, as I like to call them when I don’t think I can spell it). Rundi, whose surname I’m still deciding, is the Sexta (6th) Espada. I’m still working on him, which is why Kuro and I are practicing together in the Bleach Waiting Area.

Last night, I sat down and worked on a sketch for Rundi, thinking having a clear image might help me think of him and his characteristics. After spending a lot of time trying to draw in Kubo’s style and me messing it up with the final features, I got frustrated and began to draw randomly, luckily creating this image you see. It may not be the neatest or cleanest, but I like it.

Elsewhere in Bleach, Kurai got in a little scuffle with Kidou Corps chief Neriki. It didn’t last very long, but it was quite the short show. After Kurai finally passed, he checked out Karakura, only to find that any event there that he had sensed was already over. He was too late, due to the shinigami delay. So, he returned to the Kamenjin base, finding someone new inside.

In other news, the current badge battle is a Pinky Battle Royal! Not to mention, it’s being run by Dorian. I guess you can call it his first act of pinkness.

Congratulations to Dorian on becoming the next RPG mod.

We know you’ll do great. You’re an awesome RPer, one of the very best. You always have good ideas and are willing to help out. So no worries, because we all have faith in you.

Dorian tried to add his characters to the mod list, as every moderator gets to and is usually the first act of a Pinky, but there was great saving difficulty. With my internet being bad at the time (and still now, at the moment), barely enough to get on TN, Kuro kindly split the mod post between Pinkies and other mods so as to make the post smaller and easier to save.

Kuro also did some other post manipulation, allowing the Deceased/Retired and OOA lists to be on the second page. This has greatly increased loading speed. Hopefully those who have had viewing problems in the past will no longer.

So not only did the RPG get a new mod, its most popular News Thread got a bit of a makeover.

With the wedding completed, the Hyuuga couple made their way to the reception in Kankyou Town. From there, everyone ate, and even the Hokage showed up to give a toast to the new bride and groom. And it was a super awesome toast, might I add.

And a nice big welcome back to RPer Dorian (Silver Cross), who controls the Hokage and was gone for so long. We all missed you. That toast was a nice way to make an entrance back into the game.

So, ever since I started making it that I just talk about everything I do on TN, I’ve had a lot to write about. And I like being able to look back to see what I’ve done.

I’m really glad I decided to do this.

Finally, the wedding between Shoda and Shigeko has taken off! The two finished getting ready in Konoha, then have made their way to the original Konoha. Their parade through and to the Shinto Shrine has begun!

OK, so me getting out late from my midterm, and then Kuro getting caught up in something by the time I came home messed up us getting the wedding done yesterday. However, today will be the day.

Meanwhile on TN, I’ve made some posts in the Battledome. First, I started taking part in the Konan vs Neji thread. With a few of the BD regulars against Neji, I think it might put some activity in if I play on the other side. Plus, I got some cool ideas on what he could do.

The other thread I took part in was one I had made: Kakashi vs. Kirin. Now, before someone thinks of the jutsu, it’s not. I’m talking about Kirin from 666 Satan (or O-Parts Hunter by Viz) by Kishimoto Seishi.

And that’s basically all I have to report for now. You’ll hear more from me one the wedding starts off. But Shoda and Shigeko have already left INS, so it’s going to get good soon.

Since the meeting was dragging on, and the details were mostly all worked out, Shoda called the meeting to an end. Well, also because the Kazekage, Tsuchikage, and Sonchou of Otogakure had already left. If everyone’s leaving, might as well end it all, right?

Another thing that came to mind is how since September, there has been this whole war thing going on in the Naruto RPG. It finally clicked: this is what’s slowing everything down. The alliances, the wars. And these sorts of things should have been an event to begin with. Everyone was forcing themselves to take part in this mess, but did everyone really want to?

This was giving the characters playing village leaders too much power. They were deciding for every character within their village about who their friends and foes were. You know, that’s not cool. It’s too bad we didn’t realize this until too late. The Naruto RPG could’ve been somewhere more fun now. But all we can do is learn from this, and stop the war thing that just one or two people are pushing from continuing. It isn’t fair if only one or two RPers control the fate of everyone else’s.

Anyway, moving on, the preparations for Shoda and Shigeko’s wedding are happening right now! A group of people from Konoha headed over to the old, deserted Konoha, along with Kinyoubi and Neriki. They’re going to fix it up a bit so that the wedding ceremony can be held there. Then, after Shoda basically kicked out all the village leaders, he sent Zeni to Kankyou Town, the place where the wedding reception will be held.

This all seems to be working out well.

In some other Naruto RPG news, Versin is still in Kirigakure, but is trying to escape now. A little while back, I began using one of my new characters. She is a Genin Suna-nin named Nagahama Hiromi. However, she goes by Hiro. I started posting with her again today.

It seems like the village leader meeting is coming to a close. I know I will push for it to end if it doesn’t, we have planned that Shoda and Shigeko get married on the 24th. Plus, the whole thing has just been going on for more than long enough. End please.

Meanwhile, Kirigakure is under attack by the Kusa missing-nin Versin/Ninstruck. My character Michi and Schro’s Luttes are taking the S-Class on. Apparently, he thinks he can just join up against the organization of Kurotaka peacefully after killing two Kiri Jounin. Ha, what?

I’m currently working on a new Bleach RPG character. This one will be an academy student, and through hard work, will rise through the ranks. I am also making the Yuki-nin I put together earlier for the Naruto RPG, Shirosaki Norio, a Genin instead of a Chuunin. I’m having difficulty deciding what exactly he should specialize in, so I figured that I could just play with him, and in time, figure it out. Let him grow into what he does.

I’m also trying to push for the 666 Satan RPG to begin soon.

On another TN-related note, two members from the RPG took their leave from TalkNaruto: legendary RPer Chronicknave (username now Kaizer) and the very helpful Zepzune (currently SooperTrooper). They seem to never want to come back, and although we shall miss them, it is really up to them to decide what to do. Although I do feel it is a bit dumb to declare leaving forever, not even giving an option for occasional visits, again it’s what they want to do. If they really do never come back, I will accept it. And if they do eventually come back, well, then that’s fine, too. I wouldn’t make a big deal about it really. I’d rather have friends come back anyway.

Today, the final battle in the B- and C-Rank tier in the Tournament of the Fireflies in the Bleach RPG came to an end, with Kuro’s Hatoyama Senji beating out my character, Ishida Shizuka. It was a good fight though. I’m really proud of myself. Fighting is my weak point in RPing, and I’m steadily improving. (link)

In the Naruto RPG, the gathering of village leaders is still going on. Hopefully that will come to an end soon. (link)

I’m also loving my new avatar.

I’ve been trying to think of what to use this site for, for a while now. I realized that all the things I put here could possibly be put on TN.

So, I’ve decided. I’m going to tie this site into TN. A whole lot. I’ll put my posts and all that jazz on here. If you want to know what this ninja is up to, then this is the place to be.

Let’s see how this goes.