A/N: Once, sometime ago, I had an idea. I remember watching the Naruto anime, and asking myself, 'What if Naruto is a girl? How would the story change?' So, I set out to write a story, trying to figure out just what might happen.

However, I eventually discovered that I had NO idea where I was going with the story- I had hit a proverbial brick wall. I decided to rewrite it; it was my pride and joy at the time, and I didn't want to abandon it. However, still, I had no urge to continue, no desire to set the story back in motion- I still could not figure out just where I wanted the story to go. So, I set it on the back burner, applying myself to other ideas I had had at the time, and lo, the story was slowly but surely left behind.

What boggles me is that Crimson Clouds continues to be one of my most popular stories, for all that it is choppy and redundant story-wise. Most of me believes this is because many of you hold the belief- admittedly false though it is- that this is a SasuNaru story, but also, a small part of me hopes that it because you like where the idea of the story had been going.

I admit, that I had at one time considered the possibility of a SasuNaru for this, until I took a look around at female!Naruto stories, and noticed that SasuNaru saturates the genderswitch aspect of Naruto fandom. I started writing female!Naruto to be original, and when I noticed that I was heading in a very unoriginal direction, I decided to change things. This is what eventually drove me into a quandary, and so, I decided I would work on some of my more original ideas until I had found a way to break through my slump.

Now, over a year later, I have decided to rewrite Crimson Clouds as it was meant to be. This is NOT and will never be a SasuNaru story. Back when I first started this story, I didn't want to make it SasuNaru because that was too redundant- now, I honestly cannot stand the pairing. Any and all of the current chapters that I have up will be scrapped, and I will be working from the ground up.

Thank you, and I hope to see all of you there at the renewal.