Hey guys…

To those of you that actually take your time to actually read my author's note in this chapter, I would like to applaud you for your initiative, because BOY do I have A LOT to rant about. You all deserve a hug!

Anyway, guess what? I moved out of my parent's place! I'm actually living by myself right now! Yaaaay! Well actually, I have to move back into their home in April since I'm only here to feed my uncle's fish and water his plants while he's away with his family in Asia. But maybe this will give me the opportunity to mature and be independent.

The problem is that I've been staying up and doing whatever on the computer until 4-5AM in the morning for the past few days. Ugh, I know, terrible, and my mom would have hit me if she knew (but she doesn't, since I live by myself now!). Just yesterday, I had to wake up to get to university but I actually slept in. If it wasn't for my mom coming over to my apartment and slamming on the door for half an hour, I would have probably woke up near the evening time. Yikes. I missed all my classes for today. I totally missed all the seminars I signed up for as well.

Today, I have to go to an elementary school to teach some kids, and I have to wake up and be there by 10AM. But I'm so scared that what happened yesterday would repeat itself again, so I've decided to stay up the entire night so I won't disappoint those kids, and jeopardize my chances of successfully being hired for the organization. So how am I going to pass my time for the next six hours? Well, I'm going to write the overdue chapters for The Dead Girl That Made Me Love Her!

I can't believe that you guys actually like this story! I'm not complaining, really, I've got to say THANK YOU, but I feel like there could be so much more improvement! Especially from a university student!

If I took down the story and re-wrote it, would you guys object? Really, let me know the honest truth!

Oh! I'm also going into nursing now! If any of you read the author's note from one of my last chapters, I was contemplating between pursuing a career in nursing or pharmacy, and in the end I chose pharmacy. Huge mistake. I'm not interested in any of that at all anymore, not with all that intense chemistry! I DO love chemistry, but when they purposely try to fail you and not teach you the advanced level questions, I WILL get fed up. I'm waiting for an offer of admission into this great nursing program, and I've made sure to get my marks up in the 4.0 GPA range (yes, it is a 4.0 on a 4.0 scale) so that I can successfully transfer. When I DO get my offer, I'm going to somehow persuade my mom into letting me go. She doesn't want me to pursue nursing! Arghh!

Are any of my readers in nursing? Tell me how it is!

And sorry for not updating when I said that I would. I WOULD have updated on time if I could find that darn file of The Dead Girl, but it wasn't in my laptop!

Well, please review! And thanks so much for putting my story on your favorites and alerts! That is actually why I'm updating right now!

-Tammy Sakamoto

Something was wrong with Sakamoto. There were so many signs that he could not have thrown that obvious conclusion out the window.

Perhaps the first sign was the fact that she had confessed to him. "I love you." she had whispered. He wished he could have denied that those words had made his heart shoot up his throat. But this had not been a good enough reason to conclude that something was wrong, because she HAD almost…touched lips…with him earlier that day. There had been too many things to worry about, not just within the Gotei 13 and Karakura, but in the noble families as well, to have let Byakuya not reason out that maybe Sakamoto just decided that the moment was right to confess her undying adoration. Her embrace did not help matters either.

The second and third warnings were definitely the most striking signs that Sakamoto was not the Sakamoto he knew. Her eyes were dead. Many times he would catch them sad or in a daze, or maybe approachable like they usually were. A lot of the time it was because of those eyes that he wanted to bully her as well not to mention that another reason was because she had his wife's name. Why did the others wonder why he called the third seat 'Sakamoto', instead of 'Hisana' like everyone else did? Well, whatever emotion she was harbouring in her eyes at that moment, never, would they be dead. Except for that time with Aizen's official defunct from Seireitei. Maybe that reference was another clue that Sakamoto was gone at this moment.

And then the most obvious clue of them all, Sakamoto just stabbed him. The time when they were swallowed whole by the Hollow had been the first time she confessed she wanted to protect him. Why would the woman that acted so many times on that statement go against that very same pledge?

That was when Byakuya decided to fight away the absolute shock his body was captured in. He easily pushed the girl away from him, even with the gaping wound in his abdomen.

He looked at the girl. His eyes narrowed.

Maybe the most obvious thing out of the entire scenario was the following:

Hime Manaka.

Kuchiki Byakuya decided then at that moment that he will stop at nothing, to get Sakamoto out of the wicked man's control.

Byakuya will not even hesitate at hurting her.

Maybe.

If he can convince himself that he cared about her too much within the time of now and when he gets his hand on the young nobleman.

-TBC

Yes, I'm stopping it at there because I want to see what the reaction will be like from updating for the first time in so long.

Please DO review and everything, as that will very likely determine whether I will ever update again or the plans I have for The Dead Girl That Made Me Loe Her will forever remain in my brain. :D If that happens, I will be starting on an AU fic I have for Byakuya, which I think will be quite interesting to write and read! It's got a very SERIOUS Byakuya but he always gets into these really ridiculous (and I would like to think funny) situations. It's OC, like usual.

-Tammy Sakamoto