Hello everyone! It has been a long time, hasn't it?

When I wrote the first chapter for Alluded: Prisoner of the Red, I was a sophomore in high school, and initially, I intended to leave it as a one-shot. However, after receiving a comment encouraging me to write more, I instantly just started writing. I had no sort of plan or direction where I wanted the story to go, and subsequently, the seven chapters I wrote were messy, full of plot holes, and had no direction.

I lost a lot of motivation to write the story because I didn't know how to fix all of the problems and it wasn't fun anymore; hence, why there were many promised and failed updates, and an unfinished story.

I'm a junior in college now. While I still love KNB, it is no longer one of my favorite shows, nor is Akakuro one of my favorite ships anymore. However, this story did mean a lot to me at the time, and despite being busy with upcoming term papers for the semester (I have two eight to eleven paged papers due in May please someone save me plus a handful of smaller essays and exams), I would like to give rewriting this story a chance.

I want to get back into writing. I want to be as confident as I was in middle school when I first started posting fanfiction (I still have all of my old stories, though they have been deleted off of my old account so people can't read them anymore) and as confident as I was when I first posted the original one-shot.

I'm not sure how long this story will be, or where it will go. I can tell you that I'm going to do my best to essentially change the story up and redo it from the ground up. Keeping most of what happened in the first chapter, and scrapping what was left (I don't really want the whole original character romance in the story especially, so I'm sorry if you happened to like the characters).

I'm not sure how often updates will happen - because of school and motivation. However, please know, I would like to finish it, and hopefully give the original a little justice.

I'm going to leave the original up because it means a lot to me. It is by far the longest thing I've written and even though I think it's awful (I don't know how people can read it and like it, it is such a mess) and I want to be able to remember it.

I'm leaving this message on the original, so if anyone wants to read the new one, then they can. And marking the original as finished, because I'm not going to finish it. I'm going to rewrite the story and finish that one. I'm hoping to have the first chapter of the new story be posted sometime next week, though it may not be until the sixteenth when I'm finished with finals.

I want to say thank you to all of the people who have ever commented or left kudos, who have found this story even after being abandoned for years, and say I appreciate you, and I hope that you'll like this new story as well. Thank you for sticking with me!

Also, I will more than likely only be updating on my A03 ( /users/insanitys_anarchy/pseuds/insanitys_anarchy). I'll try to remember to update on here as well, but since high school, I've been using A03 more and prefer it over this website.