Alright, it's come to my attention that people are still somewhat interested in this fic. In fact, this is the most popular of my fanfictions, old and new.

That is why it gives me such displeasure to announce that this fanfiction, Gore and Cigars, is going to be shut down.

You see, I've gotten better at reading, my readers, and I've looked over this fic again. I cringed, reading this over again. Now, it astounds me that you found some amount of entertainment from this.

And thus, I find no pleasure in discontinuing this.

However- I will write a new crossover like this, NarutoXThe Darkness, with Jackie coming into the Naruto universe.

That said, there will be differences. Jackie's history will be different, how Jackie talks will be different, how things play out will be different, when things happen, how Naruto will gain the Darkness will be different, and what the hell happens will be different. The redundancy of this paragraph should hammer this fact through your skull: things will be different.

As in, not the same. In fact, there are even more differences; for instance, the Darkness won't act or speak the same way (it won't have an over-defined gender or be crushing on the Kyuubi no Kitsune), I'll attempt not to inject God Give Him Will lore(planned lore; that fic didn't work out either, I'm afraid…) into the story(none of the magic migraine fingers or any o' that…), Anko won't be a raging slut(still pervy, but more private about it than her fingering herself in public and shit like that), and some other details, like a prologue on both sides of the void(in the respective universes).

Not to mention I've actually read up on my material and now know exactly what the hell I'm talking about.

A few elements will carry over from this story, like Naruto's relationship with the opposite sex, the depression Konoha's way deep in, and dimension travel and Equilibrium lore will be a definite part of Jackie's lore.

Some things to do before reading my reloading of the Naruto/The Darkness crossover:

Watch Equilibrium. Just watch it. It was made by the same duo that brought you the Matrix Trilogy, that should be reason enough.

Download The Darkness via Rapidshare (Pain in the ass that the wait is, it's reliable and at least the wait's not more than twenty minutes between downloads (. The very link you wanna use; anything else is bullshit))

Download the decrypting/unzipping program 7-Zip Portable (/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable just copypaste this link in the bar and it'll take you to the site you have to load. You can put this on a flash drive that's over 5 megabytes or a portable hard drive, and it works like a dream. All you have to do is set its target area in the same place as where you put your downloaded .cbr files(Documents worked best for me)) You'll need this to unpack the images of the comic from the zipped .cbr files, or else you're gonna have to rely on 's e-reader format-conversion services, which are made of utter fail.

After doing all that, you should be set(One extra thing your could do, though: download the Witchblade comic- it intertwines with The Darkness frequently…).

Oh, and if anyone can find that damn comic book crossover between the Batman and The Darkness, that'd be fantastic; it's constantly referred-to in the later issues of The Darkness, and I have nearly no idea what the hell they're going on about…

Cheerio until later, me buckoes, and if you want me to actually do what I planned… TELL ME, DAMMIT! No use entertaining a lost crowd, ya know?