Okay...first of all, thank you Travis and Zen for all your input. It 
helps, it really does!
    I will take both suggestions (that is, suggestions by Zen and by 
Travis) into account when re-vamping parts one and two. Basically, I like 
the idea of a compromise between your ideas so that Noriko starts out 
trying to be as journalistic as possible *at first* but then slowly but 
surely decays into the "blind fury" (boy, I wish I had never used those 
words! ^^) I currently have her cast into by about, say, part three. 
However, for now, I want to get the rest of this story on the road before 
I forget all the ideas I have for it, so re-writes won't happen until 
after I'm done with the story in pretty much its entirety. (That doesn't 
mean, though, that I don't want any more C&C; more please! And 
preferrably like Travis and Zen do, although a simple "I hate your story 
and I hate you" will do.)
    Part three will come out sometime next week. Hopefully. Maybe. Zen 
and Travis will have to bite the bullet in the meantime until I get 
around to re-writes. Thanks for all who read my attempt, and even more 
thanks to those who actually respond!

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Raphael See