Wow, okay. Hi everyone!

So, just to start, obviously this isn't an updated chapter, it's just a little note that I decided to write thanks to TegamiBachi25. This is in no way any ill will against this user; it's a genuine message that I thought should be addressed thanks to this user who recently commented on my story A Captain's Feelings.

I haven't logged on to this site in 6 years give or take. I try not to think about it because my writing that's portrayed in this story and the other stories that I've posted here: I hate them. Point blank. I nearly gag reading my old writing (especially this story), and I constantly wonder how the hell I thought any of it was worthy of being posted. They're terribly written, there's poor characterization on any and all of the canon characters, my own characters are unrealistically over powered with seemingly no flaws or limits, etc. I was just a kid when I first wrote these stories; you can claim that it shouldn't be an excuse, but I didn't know any better. I didn't know what it took to write a well-developed character. I was just in love with the concept of being able to make a character and make them my own however the hell I so pleased. And I was encouraged by people who also didn't know any better; people who don't know anything about the canononical world that these stories derive from (aka Bleach), and people who just don't know the meaning of "OC" in the first place. So that lead to this story which was… for a lack of better sentence structure, everything I wanted from this newfound ability of making whatever I wanted. Feel free to ask me to clarify if that doesn't make sense.

Anyway, what I'm getting at is that overall, I'm sorry for the way this story was written. Please, I fully endorse you to put the full blame on a young and naïve Me. She didn't know what the hell was going on; she was just getting in to writing and starting off with fanfictions as a basic, creative outlet. Everyone starts somewhere and their start isn't always going to be pretty or anything.

Some 6-7 years later, and I like to think I'm beyond capable of being able to truly grip and understand the personality and structure of an already existent character and I'm also able to construct a character of my own creative, unadulterated imagination who has flaws, who has limits, who struggles like any person should in a given conflict. It's a process, one that I finally grasped at least 5 years ago. I stepped away from fanfiction as to not let that influence me and moved on to more archaic and prosed arts that I could base my writing on. Now my writing is much better (though there's undoubtedly room for further improvement) and my ability to develop a more in-depth character is MUCH better.

This is getting longer than originally intended. So, if it hasn't become clear already, this story is discontinued. Granted there is a posted sequel to A Captain's Feelings, that story is discontinued. I've re-written Yura's story, starting from her time as a human all the way to a few years AFTER the end of A Captain's Feelings. Her story is much more detailed, much more complex. Not all of her powers that you're aware of in this story even exist anymore, and she hardly has a connection to Hitsugaya that goes beyond co-workers, and even more. Things have drastically changed. And I'm still writing it to this day. But I currently have no intentions of posting it; it's purely for my own benefit as a way of staying close to my characters. If I ever do post it, however, it won't be through Fanfiction. If any of you would actually like to see an improved version of this story, then I highly encourage you to tell me and I will take it into serious consideration. It won't be a priority; I'm in my final year of college and have a future to plan out, but it would be a hobby I'd be more than happy to come back to.

If you want to see where my writing style is currently at, visit . I'm not shy about my writing anymore, so check it out if you want to see how far I've come in 5 years.

Thank you all for having supported this story and for providing constructive criticism. It's been a great help.