Summary: It is pretty much accepted fact that most of the anime fillers are so poor, I could dose a monkey on steroids, hand it a typewriter and the result would probably be more watchable. So prove my point for me. Write a better filler than those in the anime. It can't be that hard...

I'm looking for a high-quality story that could potentially happen in the Naruto-verse. So:

• Your plot must be Naruto canon. Whatever you write must be feasible as a Naruto filler. You may not have a real world person visit the Naruto-world or vice versa; you may not send them all to highschool; you may not turn canon people into vampires or werewolves or similar; you may not introduce a very unlikely sibling or family member; you may not radically alter well documented clans and systems like the Uchiha clan or the Kage system; you may not create new bijuu or jinchuriki of those bijuu (they are all accounted for in the manga & anime, so they are all accounted in your story. Past jiinchuriki are a different story, like Killer Bee's cousin, but they would no longer have their bijuu unless your story is set in the past. Remember that many jinchuriki die with the extraction of a bijuu); you may not change a character's gender or do anything else drastically AU - because all of that would defy the point of this exercise.
  That doesn't mean you can't be creative. You may introduce OCs if you can support them in the canon universe; you may design new places or other types of ninja; you may set your story in the past (preferably not the future, because that wouldn't really work as a filler); you may introduce new hobbies/interests/pets/etc providing they fit a character's personality; you may introduce other types of people (pirates, rouge scientists, princesses, bandit gangs etc) providing you can justify their existence.
• Your story can be any type of genre. Warm and fluffy, action and adventure, horror, supernatural, fantasy... Providing you can keep it canon. (And canon involves everything from a land of talking frogs onwards so we can be pretty liberal here.)
• All Characters must be In Character and character bashing or flaming is out of the question. You may not like every character in Naruto, but try to do as realistic a portrayal of everyone as you can. You might have a plot that draws out new elements of someone's personality and that's fantastic, but please avoid deliberately making everyone hate a character they clearly don't; or making someone appear more stupid/meaner than they really are; or even making someone ridiculously fluffy. Let's try and stick with who they are please - and if you really can't stand a specific character that much, then just attempt to avoid them in your story.
• You may however use any type of rating or romantic pairing you wish. If I were being true to my goal I should force you to keep your plot suitable for Naruto's normal audience of young teenagers and forbid the use of non-cannn pairings. But I know for a lot of you that might make this whole exercise just too boring to attempt and I know people prefer to read (& review) romance - and there simply aren't a lot of canon pairings. So do what you like: Yaoi, Yuri, Hetrosexual, Hentai... I don't care, but I do ask that you keep any non-canon romance along side or just one part of a canon-worthy plot. Thank you. I want something I can read and think 'Wow! This could really happen' not 'Well, Shikamaru and Temari are having fun today. I can't really imagine that they'd be married with a baby by the end of Shippuden though'
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