1 Introduction

Hi and welcome back my dear readers!

To all new readers, please, to understand where we're at, you need to take a step back and read my previous work, a prequel to this story. Now that this was said, I wanted to apologize for the long wait - I had some problems in RL that had to be dealt with posthaste. Luckily, everything is good and dandy now :-)

The following chapters will as always be roughly based on Kishimoto's story, but this time you can expect me to divert away much more rapidly from it. I have the beginning and the end planned out, I'm still deliberating on how to fill the time in between those events and how to connect it to my next story :-P

For your ease my dear reader:

"Dialogue"

'Thoughts'

*Onomatopoeia*

<Jutsu: ...>

[Author's Note]

Now some heads up - I'm NOT NATIVE English speaker, I am trying my best here :-), so if YOU, my reader, see any mistake, problem, or anything else that I f'd up, please inform me. I'm using Grammarly to catch most of the spelling/grammar mistakes, but neither it nor I'm perfect :-(. I'm planning on updating this story with at least a chapter per week, we will see if I can manage that :-). I'm writing this fan-fic for fun, but I can promise you, if or when I catch "writer's block" I will inform you - I always did. About your comments, I will gladly read them all. But please, head my warning, I'm doing it non-profit and for fun, I won't put writing this story before my family, work, nor life (always in this order). If you want to criticize this story please feel free to do it, I will gladly read all constructive criticism - they're frequently more helpful than all "I like!" five stars. If you want to just put a one-star saying BS like: "i dunt lik3" // "H4REM or I quit" then whatever rocks your world, I don't care :-). And to all of you that read to this point, Have fun!

And by the way, if you didn't know - Naruto is Masashi Kishimoto's story. So I don't own anything ... for now *wink-wink* :-).