Necratoid Wrote:The problem was that Naruto's plan, which he'd planned to set off then leave for the Netherworld as it went off, basically started a full on war against the civilians after the ninja, minus a skeleton crew, were off hnting down remanents of the failed invasion during the Chunin exams... this plan would, by default, kill off his stil beloved older brother character, Iruka, in the first 10 minutes or so.
Uh, Iruka was already dead when Naruto set things off. According to one of the author's notes, there was an error in an earlier version of one chapter where he accidentally wrote Iruka when it was supposed to be Ibiki, but by that point Iruka was most certainly already dead. At that point, all the people who were in danger were ones I think he no longer considered even marginally on his side. (The only people who I'd say were both at risk and who he'd count as friends were the Ichirakus.
New Game+ though... So, maybe this story would be part of Naruto: The Videogame?
On character bashing, I can generally ignore this as long as a couple conditions are met. There must be something else going on that I find interesting, and the author doesn't turn any characters I'm fond of into rapists. So I'm still keeping up with Chunin Exam Day, because PL hasn't run out of problems for the characters to solve, and some of his ideas on how the Naruto universe would work are interesting.
-Morgan.