Stepping Stones by Manicjoy (NC-17)

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Fandom: NARUTO
Pairing: Everyone but mostly Gaara/Lee, Guy/Kakashi, Skika/Choji, Shizune/Tsunade, Kiba/Shino, etc.
Author on LJ: ManicJoy
Length: 11,000 words
Author website: ManicJoy
Why this should be read:

Last year during the Sweet Charity (fandom - making a difference) auction, ManicJoy was the writer who made my little fangirl's heart go 'get her, win her, want her, Now!' See, she had listed Naruto as one of her potential fandoms & as you have discovered, I am always craving a good Lee/Gaara fic. And then I won her.

And I got scared. What if she couldn't write Lee/Gaara like I wanted? What if she was a Naruto/Sasake person? Shika/Choji? Sakura/Ino? Teamgroupings? What if, what if ... Yes, I admit it. I panicked. I dumped every pairing I loved in Naruto on this poor woman - and a few I'd never read. (sigh) I'm so lucky she didn't flame me, kill me, and salt my bones. Instead, she spent months, months, Months trying to give me what she thought I wanted. She lost her beta, and then another ran away. (I swear, I'm personally responsible for her loss of more betas...) Then she gave up, and wrote it like she wanted. :-)

Stepping Stones is one of the strongest, tightest, smoothest stories I've ever read in AnY fandom. The author covers canon, adds an incredible layer of fandom, and lays it out for the reader to revel in as I have only seen authors such as O.S. Card and EE Beck do. It's fast, showing events like the click of a camera. Almost every character of Konoha and Suna has a moment that the reader can enjoy - some are funny, painful, many are bittersweet. These are the people you know from the series growing up. Life is happening and in the middle of it all, Rock Lee and Gaara try to build a relationship. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have.

Stepping Stones


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