Ooh, intense conversation with Naruto and Naomi. Well, it is good to see them together. They've been separated for a while, and I like the chemistry (not romantically, of course) between the two. Naruto seems to genuinely care about her, which is a nice balance to Momoka and some of the other Seishen ninja. I don't like Sakura so much during this scene, what is her problem?!

I'm still sorry about all of your chapters disappearing. Hopefully, it'll get better... maybe?

Excellent work with this. It's nice to get out of the conference room for a bit and get a glimpse into Naomi's true thoughts. Well, of course she wasn't being extremely elaborate, but it was still good to see how she feels about certain matters. Great work with revealing some of her emotions outside of the conference room.

Excellent work, I like the nice contrast that Naruto brings into Naomi's life. I cannot wait for more! Keep up the good work with your writing!

Author's Response: Sakura is simply trying to protect Naruto. She doesn't trust Naomi and doesn't want Naruto to get hurt by her - in any sense, although she's not very good at expressing it. I'm sorry if I didn't get that across very well. Hopefully I'll get a chance to elaborate later on in the story...
I love getting a chance to get Naruto and Naomi together as well. They get on well, which as you say is a lovely change and it's usually fun to write, so I'm glad you enjoy reading it. To be honest I worry about this story getting a little too melodramatic and dark were Naomi is concerned, so it's good to get Naruto in there to cheer everyone up.
You know, I'm also slightly worried that maybe I should have used Ren to do the talking here rather than Naomi (as you say, she's about as naturally expressive as a stone when it comes to her feelings (when she knows she's meant to be expressing anyway)), but even Ren wouldn't have known her true feelings on the matter (as we said, as naturally expressive as a stone...) and at this point there was so much information so widely available that maybe she would feel she ought to talk... even if Naruto has to bully her into it. I dunno. That's how I see it anyway...
Anyway the newest 6.m is the last of the meeting scenes and concludes Chapter 6! Ah, that makes me so happy - you have no idea. It's almost as good as when I was finally able to reveal Naomi's name - almost, not quite that good, but almost. I've got some clean-up & editing to do now (I was going to that anyway for a different site) & I'm probably going to repost the missing chapters here while I'm at it; there another (older) Gaara story of mine I'd love to clean up & post on here and that needs a new chapter too (it's had to wait for months & months cuz SWB has been eating my brain alive with the need to write it); I've got some nice sketches of SWB to put on my site (much nicer than the ones uploaded atm. I have to borrow Mum's laptop, cuz mine is broke & while she is using it I often do some SWB sketching while I wait) and, of course, there is Chapter 7 to write, so I'm going to be quite busy for a little bit - but you shouldn't have too long to wait all in all, so it'll be good hopefully. I have a lot to cover in the next chapter and none of it involves standing or sitting around talking for hours on end. It's quite exciting...