Hi Guys,

it's been three years since I wrote this story, and I am very sorry for the long delay in updating. The last chapter of Naruto was simultaneously heartbreaking and infuriating for me. I fell out of love with the characters and the story because the writing did not make sense considering where the character development had led. Last week, someone asked about what fiction etc I had written; I directed them to this story, and began to wonder about the quality of my writing in it, and what the story was like. So I re-read it. I liked it. Perhaps it was a little juvenile in some areas, but considering it was a story with a great deal of plot and character development behind it from the show, I realized the story wasn't too shabby and it was a shame that I stopped writing after that jarring evening with Sasuke and Hinata. From today forward I will start working on the next chapter, and the next and the next until the story is complete.

I would like to also say thank you, for your support of my story, your reviews mean the world to me and I can't emphasize enough how going through them all again really made me smile.

For those of you who would like to know what my life has been like since I stopped writing and what I'm doing now, my Instagram page is jacthemartian ... perhaps I will change that name to Imaginative Fool.

I write to you fondly, and can't wait to begin again,

IF aka JactheMartian aka Jacqueline