Hello readers, I'm going to take this chapter to have a serious sit-down talk. (Do not lose hope for this story! I just want to explain myself!) I'll be blunt, I've had a very rough time since I last updated. A lot has happened, and when Naruto ended I found myself drifting from the fandom. All the in-fighting and hate (none directed at me, thankfully) really disheartened me and I was tired of it all. This led to my migration to comic books, which I found myself a lot more motivated to work with.

I've grown a lot as a writer and as a person, and all 40 of the works I've written for the Young Justice fandom over on Archive of Our Own were written in the past year. So, I've spent a lot of time working on my writing skills and confidence. Mentally, I'm in a bit of a better place now and this has allowed me to write more.

So, here is the situation with this fic, and possibly some other things I've written. Much of the content in the fic was not properly dealt with, and I want to devote more time to really filling out the story. Certain elements might even be removed if I can't emotionally handle rewriting them (this is for the reviewer who asked why I did not actually write out the rape scene, I cannot do that without triggering myself, so that scene will remain non-explicit and might even be removed from the plot.)

Generally, this story almost certainly is not dead. My plan, and hope, is to completely edit, rewrite, and re-upload the story at some point in the future. I will of course keep you updated on this.

I'd like to thank you all for your continued support and kind comments, I did not receive any emails telling me that anyone had commented, so when I logged on today I was SHOCKED to find 47 comments on this story. I felt ready to cry, because in my opinion this story is not my best writing, and here you all were cheering me on. So thank you for that. It is for that reason that I will be looking at this story again. If you would like to, you can check out some of my other stories on A03 They're much better as far as the writing style, and even though they're not Naruto they are mine. The account on that site is Cyanidegirl.

Thank you for your patience and continued support, it means so much to me.