A.N. This is a story that picks up from somewhere in the middle of #235 in the anime. If you haven't watched it recently, you might wanna. It's on crunchyroll and a lot of other free sites too.

Chapter 1

Naruto smiled softly as he lay down on the grass. It wasn't the softest in the world, but that didn't matter much to the blond. His mind was actually almost all the way back in Konoha as he recounted the way he felt whenever he looked at Sakura-chan. He was just getting to her smile when he started to feel somewhat uncomfortable. He couldn't sense any Killing Intent, but he could feel...something in the air wanting to do him harm.

It wasn't anything pronounced, just a sneaking feeling he got that he almost felt he was imagining it. In fact, he could only feel it because of his training in the sage arts. It felt like nature itself wasn't very happy with him at all at the moment.

Not a pleasant thought.

Raising himself slowly onto his elbows, he met the eyes of the only other person in the clearing. Well, 'met' would imply that she reciprocated the contact. As it was, her eyes were looking straight at him but were filled with such hatred that he didn't even think she was seeing him anymore. Her fists were clenched tightly on her lap as she sat on her heels. His very sensitive nose was picking up the slightly metallic scent of blood, and he had the sneaking suspicion it was coming from the tips of Shizuka's fingernails digging into her palms.

Her expression hadn't changed much from the cool, dismissive one she usually wore, but her eyes were more expressive than any face she could make. 'She's probably suppressing her killing intent as much as she can so the little that I'm sensing must be what she can't really hide.' That was impressive. It took massive amounts of control to suppress your killing intent and she was doing a near flawless job of it. Most normal people would never be able to pick it up.

That thought made his eyes widen slightly, breath almost catching in his throat. She was suppressing it not because she wanted to showcase her skill, but because she was trying to keep herself from killing him. It was killing intent in the most literal sense. Most ninja just projected an impression of how much they wanted to kill someone using their chakra. It was usually heavily embellished and didn't truly represent their drive to end their opponent's life. They wouldn't even be able to hold themselves back for a second if that was the case. But apparently that was the case here. She actually wanted to kill him so much that her urge was being projected by her chakra network, regardless of how hard she was trying to suppress it.

That was bad. She was pretty damn powerful, and although he'd beaten her in that first fight, he was sure if she was going all out he'd have to do the same. That wasn't really something they could do this close to a town. The collateral damage would be devastating.

He bit his lip for a second, running through what he could do to get her to calm down. He didn't want to startle her while she was so wound up. That could only end badly.

Just then, the wind started to pick up around her, swirling protectively around her kneeling form. He sprang backwards away from her, bringing a kunai up just in time to block the one she'd aimed at his head. "What the hell!" He yelled, hopping back to put a little distance between himself and the now standing kunoichi.

She didn't say a word, but her expression seemed to darken at his words. She swept her arms at him in twin arcs, sending kunai flying that he hadn't even seen her palm. Having no time for handseals, he instinctively did the only jutsu he could without them. Three clones poofed into existence in front of him, slowing down the kunai enough for him to dodge. He'd seen the faint shimmer indicative of wind chakra hovering around the kunai and they were going a fair bit faster than in the earlier fight they'd had.

"What are you-!" He stopped short as she rushed at him, sending shuriken at him with controlled flicks of her wrist. Within a second he'd picked up on the fact that she wasn't trying to kill him with them, but to force him into close combat. Having the knowledge didn't help the blond though, as she was already assaulting him with a kick that almost broke his guard. She continued in her pursuit, sending kicks enhanced with wind chakra at the jinchuuriki as he attempted to stay alive.

Despite the rage she was obviously feeling, she hadn't lost any of her superb control. Her attacks were swift and sharp, the wind natured chakra coating her limbs being the most dangerous thing. The blond was forced to dodge all her attacks, backpedaling out of her reach whenever he couldn't. He wasn't sure he had anything that could stop one of those kicks, and he wasn't very keen on finding out.

Measuring his breaths, he managed to speak between pants. "Why-"

He dodged one of her kicks, ducking under it and springing back to his feet.

"Do you-"

He deflected one of her punches at the elbow, making sure not to overextend himself.

"Hate me so much?!"

She swiftly changed her stance, jumping and kicking off him with both feet, sans wind enhancement. It still hurt like a bitch though. Landing perfectly a good distance away from him, she stood at the ready. He could see the tension in her muscles and the way her holsters had been locked open. When she spoke, her voice was the same flat and neutral tone it had always been instead of the contemptuous venom he'd been expecting. "You leaf nin are just the same." She said, tone unaffected by the fight.

"What?!" He said, tilting his head to dodge a kunai. "Hey, can we just talk?!"

She paused for a second, her shoulders rising and falling with a calming breath. "You and your master are just the same." She spoke, her calm tone somehow carrying over the entire field. "Do you know what happened when my mother came back to the village, after your master chickened out of their fight."

Naruto had no idea, but by judging by how she all but spat the word out of her mouth, it probably wasn't anything good.

Her jaw seemed to tighten at his lack of response. "Well, Konoha nin."

"I…" He stopped, unable to lie to her in the face of her anger. "No. I don't."

She blew out a breath through her nose, and the golden haired boy couldn't tell if he'd just made her more or less angry. "Did it even cross your mind." She said, and it wasn't really a question. She already knew the answer. Shizuka didn't even wait for him to speak, sending a torrent of wind enhanced kunai at him. "No!" She yelled, her voice finally rising above its normal speaking volume.

Naruto ducked and dodged, bouncing around his side of the clearing as he avoided the deadly projectiles. Her speed had once again deteriorated to what it had been before, but that didn't mean he could relax any. One mistake and he'd be skewered. But that was okay, she'd have to run out at some point, and he may even have some answers by then.

"You didn't even give it a single thought, did you!" She continued to fling the projectiles at him, arms working double time to get them out of her holsters as quickly as possible.

Speaking of her holsters, they seemed bottomless. She just continued throwing more than any container could hold at the spiky haired teen.

"Just like your master!" She snapped, flinging one last one at what he'd deemed her full speed. This one would've taken his head off if he hadn't poofed a clone into existence to kawarimi him out of the way. Some of her anger seemed to have faded, to the point where he was almost sure he wasn't imagining the hurt behind her eyes.

"I'm sor-" He sprang high into the air, narrowly avoiding the string of bladed weapons she'd sent hurtling at him.

When he found his footing, her eyes were hard again, voice even and controlled. "Do not lie to me."

He nodded slightly, facing her with a serious expression. He waited a beat, making sure she wasn't going to fling any more knives at him before speaking. "What happened?"

Shizuka didn't reply immediately, seeming to search his eyes for...something. When she spoke, her tone was measured. "What do you think happened. She didn't go out and seek any other men to challenge. She didn't 'move on with her life'. She didn't find her true love and grow old with him." She paused, centering herself with a breath. "She trained."

Naruto nodded to himself a little, having suspected as much since she'd started speaking.

"Day and night, she trained for the rematch that he'd promised they'd have. She waited for years for him to come to the village. After a while, she sought him out, leaving instructions for the village guards to tell him to wait for her if he came." She breathed once, her chest seeming to shudder with the intake.

Naruto nodded slightly, knowing what was coming. "He never showed up." He said more than asked.

She gave a hint of a nod, the slight movement seeming to add to her anger. "A few years later his...books… started to become popular and they discovered what kind of man he really was." Her eyes started to glisten, fist clenched tightly by her side. "She still couldn't move on though. In our village, nothing is held higher than your word, so she had to wait for that rematch. She couldn't accept any of the challenges she received since she'd made a promise to your master."

The Uzumaki couldn't find the words to answer her. He merely stood and listened as she continued.

"He made her life hell in her own village. Imagine that; being the first Nadeshiko kunoichi to be rejected, and by a known pervert. People...her villagers...they look a-" Her breath caught in her throat and she paused, blinking away a tear. "They looked at her with such pity. The leader of the village, the strongest kunoichi in all of the elemental nations, and they pitied her." The very thought seemed to revolt her.

Naruto looked down at that, knowing why she hadn't just ran or ended it. If Jiraiya had ever come back looking for that match it would've brought great dishonour upon the entire clan. A black mark that would take more than a miracle to wipe clean. And he understood her 'choice' too. Keeping his word was his nindo and he was wise enough to admit he had his pride as a warrior. He knew he wouldn't even last a day as Hokage if people looked at him with those eyes. He wasn't nearly naive enough to deny the power of a look.

He heard a soft thump on the ground, the slight clinking of metal accompanying it. Looking across, he saw her knelt once more, sitting on her heels. When he met her eyes, tears were freely running down her pale cheeks. "I will never let you do that to me, Naruto." He was about to speak, but she cut him off by letting loose another kunai, watching it plant itself by his feet. "So either you marry me…"

He closed his eyes, tightening his fists by his side.

"Or-"

"No!" He shouted, head snapping up so he could look her in the eye. "I won't kill you! Arghhhh!" He ran a hand through his hair, gripping it tightly enough to wake him from a dream or dispel a genjutsu. "Why do you people have to have such st-"

Her voice still had that increasingly familiar hard edge to it when she interrupted him. "You think we want to live the way we do? That we choose to keep these traditions because we like them?" She scoffed derisively, eyes hardening. "What kind of a village do you think we are, that you'd assume we like attracting the type of men we do. The kind who only see us as trophies." She said, a flick of her arm gesturing slightly to the wall he'd sent Kokuyô careening through.

That gave him pause. "What…" He paused, swallowing and calming his breathing. "What could make you keep those traditions."

She exhaled quietly, the breath coming from her nostrils. "That...is a long story, Naruto. Don't make me waste my breath if you're just going to kill me."

"..." He worked his jaw a little, unable to find any words to respond with. He really didn't want to make any promises, but it was starting to seem more and more like Jiraiya already had. "I'll...think about it, okay?" He asked, hoping she'd take it. He was pretty sure he couldn't bring himself to kill her if she said 'no'.

She closed her eyes, head oriented skywards as she spoke. "I know a nicer place where we can talk."

A few minutes later they were both seated on the bank of the river that passed through the clearing. They were both barefoot with their feet in the water.

"Women of the Nadeshiko village are sought out all over the elemental nations. Men come from far and wide seeking to challenge us because of our traditions and our...attributes." She frowned as she continued, actively trying not to lose herself in her emotions again. "We also get more than our fair share of perverts looking for a peek."

Naruto nodded having figured as much.

"The vast majority of us are 'D' cups or larger. We all possess more or less the same figure." Another frown, but this one seemed a lot more self deprecating. "Generally all the other women are taller than me...Closer to Tokiwa's height, actually."

It took Naruto a minute to remember that 'Tokiwa' was Shizuka's attendant. He let out a breath, using all his willpower not to whistle. That was like something out of those manga he used to read. There was one that came to mind immediately, but he couldn't quite get his tongue on the name.

"We have great stamina and are blessed with much larger main coils than most, but we also have disproportionately thin chakra pathways." She saw incomprehension in his eyes and expanded. "We have significantly increased reserves but our control is still naturally much better than average." Her lips twisted to the side a little and she admitted, "While this does make us a lot more vulnerable to viruses that affect the chakra circulatory system and devices that can forcibly control your chakra, we are also lucky to have a superior immune system. We hardly ever get sick."

He raised an eyebrow, wondering why she'd disclose such obviously classified information. "Why are you telling me that, what if I was just gonna kill you and take advantage of the intel you're giving me?" One corner of her mouth twitched up a little, light seeming to dance behind her eyes.

She didn't answer him, though. "Our senses and skills are also naturally sharper than others, meaning we make very good trackers." 'And all other types of ninja' went unsaid but was clear to both shinobi. "The final attribute is that we only give birth to Nadeshiko women." A slight shake of her head stalled his question. Her features darkened a bit as she continued. "From this knowledge, most would link our lineage to a jinchuuriki. The prevailing theory is that Kinkaku and Ginkaku from Kaminari no kuni became 'Kinka and Ginka-chan' when the kyuubi's chakra changed them from the inside."

Her sarcasm was quite thick when she said the names, but she almost continued without much fanfare. "Wait, wait, wait. Who and who?" The Uzumaki asked, unaware of their identities.

She frowned. "Kinkaku and Ginkaku… the 'Gold and Silver Brothers' from Kumogakure no sato...swallowed by the kyuubi and survived by eating its body from the inside…"

Naruto narrowed his eyes, not sure what kind of history she'd been learning in the Nadeshiko academy. The kyuubi was a being of pure hate and malice and chakra. Surely it would've at least chewed? The fox just didn't seem like the type to let a single person go unharmed, let alone two. He shook his head slowly, clearly expressing his disbelief.

She blinked once at his apparent lack of knowledge and continued. "Well, they existed long ago. Granted, the kyuubi's chakra did change them." her shoulders rose and fell in a controlled shrug. "No one would be able to manifest a cloak of the bijuu's chakra off of mere remnants. The two of them gained the ability to produce said cloak at will."

Naruto nodded, thoughts straying to that 'Sora' guy who was in pretty much the same boat. He guessed it wasn't totally and completely impossible. If you squinted.

"Since the fox is a female creature in most folklore, it's widely accepted that when their chakra was changed, their bodies were changed too." She finished.

"To 'Kinka and Ginka'?" he asked, mostly just to be sure.

She gave him a shallow nod, lips twitching a little at the face he made.

"Right." he said a few minutes later, deciding to process the stupidity of people later. "So what's the truth?"

She sobered up slightly, looking at him with a curious eye. "How much do you actually know about the Uzumaki clan?" She asked, nodding a little to herself when he froze.

He shook his head mutely, not fully able to process what she was saying. Could she possibly be...

She continued, voice a little softer as she spoke. "You do know why they were destroyed, don't you?"

He nodded once more, his voice coming back to him. "They...the other villages, they feared what they could do with seals so they…"

She nodded once, having expected him to know at least that much. "They were feared by the other clans. All but the Senju. Even the Samurai were wary to deal with them." She stopped herself, forcing her way through the rest of the story. "They were loved by their allies, feared by their enemies and hated by everyone else."

"What?" Naruto gasped, shocked by the statement.

"It was a long, long time ago, Naruto. People were a lot more religious then than they are now." She looked off to the side, watching the water pass them by. "Their fuinjutsu studies were considered blasphemy at the very least. People believed it was only Kami-sama's place to command the force of gravity or seal food in a scroll, outside of the reach of time. They had always been too feared to ever be attacked openly, but the Elemental nations have never been a good place to be an Uzumaki."

Naruto couldn't look at her, facing the water but not quite seeing it drift between his toes. Hearing this was…

"Having red hair was once as good as treason. There were stories of lone travellers finding themselves murdered in their sleep. In most inns they would be tied to their beds and set on fire. Non Uzumaki parents who bore redheaded children would more than likely kill them, and their families would eventually fall apart from the ceaseless accusations of belonging to the clan. The number of Uzumaki children who didn't commi-"

"Stop!" He urged, tears trailing down his whisker marks. "Just-" His body shook with a shuddering breath. "Can you…" He looked at her, eyes imploring.

She nodded. "Your clan didn't hold family above all else for nothing, Naruto." His head dipped back down, hair falling to cast shade over his eyes. "Regardless, Uzumaki Tada didn't want that for his children. His life's work was developing a seal that would allow whatever children he had to have all the benefits of being a part of the Uzumaki clan without any of the drawbacks." Her head tilted slightly as she amended the statement. "Well, most of the drawbacks."

"Your clan's...attributes." He said more than asked, understanding where this was going.

She nodded to him, aware he couldn't see it. "That's correct. He also didn't want us to be the same as the Uzumaki clan, so he strengthened our line." She paused for a second, trying to choose her words. After a moment she decided on her course of action. "The Uzumaki line was very...weak."

As expected, the blond's head snapped up at this, anger clearly present in his cerulean orbs. She raised a hand preemptively to stall his protests and the boy acquiesced grudgingly.

"For Uzumaki traits to be passed on the child generally has to have both Uzumaki parents." She gestured at his hair, making him nod reluctantly. "It is very rare to have full blooded Uzumaki traits in a half blooded one, so they...kept to themselves." He nodded a little sharply, and she moved on with her story. "Tada-sama wanted his descendants to be able to keep all their strengths without having to 'keep within the clan'. That's a part of the reason we can only give birth to girls."

His eyebrows rose at that. "He wanted all his descendants to be females?"

She smiled a little, shaking her head. "No. To make our line so resilient, he configured the matrix so our chakra would become a little...carnivorous." He raised an eyebrow at her. "Hardly any of a man's line shows up in a Nadeshiko kunoichi." She tilted her head a little, letting her ponytail fall over her shoulder. "I'm one of the very few who doesn't have brown hair and...isn't very tall."

Naruto wanted to dispute that since she was about his height and he proudly stood taller than most others his age, but there were more important questions to be asked. "Okay...but I still don't get why you're all females though."

"Oh. Our chakra destroys most, if not all the signs of the man's line and the girl born is almost her mother incarnate." She shrugged a little. "A man doesn't leave enough of his chakra in a woman to subdue her line enough, so the seal ensured we only have girls."

"Uh huh…" Naruto muttered, mostly so she'd know he heard her. That sounded...yeah, he still wasn't quite sure what he thought of that. He was no medic nin but the theory behind that was...he decided to move on. "Well, that was a very interesting story, but it still doesn't tell me why you have to live with those old traditions."

"Right. Well, if a man's seed isn't strong enough to survive our chakra, we will not get pregnant." She gave a small, controlled shrug. "We train our bodies to our very limits, so much that no one with a weaker line could possibly be able to beat us. We know that if ever we lose, that man's line will be strong enough to give us a daughter."

He nodded at her words, fully understanding her situation. He knew that not having kids wasn't an option, especially not for her. They were all part of the Uzumaki clan after all, and the dream of having their own family was all but imprinted on their souls. That brought him up short though. "Wait, one thing doesn't make sense though."

"Yes?"

"How were you born? You said your mom never fought another man again, right?"

Shizuka nodded, black bangs swaying with the motion. "Years after the rise in popularity of your master's books the village elders decided on a contingency. They couldn't allow the clan head's line to die with my mother so they went to the most advanced medical centre at the time."

"Konoha." Naruto whispered, not having any illusions as to what she was talking about.

Her answering nod was so small he almost thought he'd imagined it.

Almost.

"They had a procedure that was mainly used for lesbian couples who wanted to have children." She paused, seeming to gather herself.

"They wanted her to make a clone." He said more than asked.

That imperceptible nod once more. "My mother wouldn't have any of that, especially not in Konoha, so she called in a favour from one of the few friends she had. Are you familiar with the name Mifune?"

Naruto's eyes widened. "The leader of Iron country?"

She nodded. "He is now. Back then he was just a Samurai who came and challenged her a little while after your master."

Naruto's face scrunched up. "Wait, what?"

She smiled softly, a hint of pride showing through it. "He'd heard about our customs and decided he'd marry my mom so he could change them." She paused, seeming a little lost in thought. "He believed we were naively inviting 'dishonourable ruffians' who would sully our virtue." She smiled, remembering the stories her mother had told her before…

She looked up at Naruto, eyes once more hard as she questioned him. "So what are you going to do now, Naruto?"

Naruto exhaled slowly, half wondering if he could still be Hokage even with what he was about to do. The other half was worried he wouldn't be able to live with himself if he did it. Looking directly into the Nadeshiko princess' jade eyes, he spoke.

Well, that's chapter 1 for you guys. Hope it was enjoyable, now Imma just get into some theory stuff. How I came to all my conclusions and all that. If you don't really care, feel free to skip the rest of the AN. Leave me a review, though.

The Uzumaki DNA being recessive

I picked this up from both Naruto and Tsunade. Of course Tsunade wasn't a halfblood, but her grandmother, Mito, was a full Uzumaki. Tsunade, however, doesn't really have any traits in common with the Uzumaki clan. Not the hair, not the chakra capacity, not the chakra density. You can tell by how early she started to develop her super strength technique that she didn't have Uzumaki reserves that she had to work to control. She was obviously born with average (Or maybe better, because Senju) chakra control and average capacity. She was able to train and enlarge her capacity while maintaining her control. Naruto didn't have any Uzumaki traits either. His stamina, chakra capacity and control don't really factor into the equation since they were affected by the presence of the Kyuubi. His hair is a dead giveaway, though. Also, the density of his chakra wasn't unique at all, not mentioned all through canon, unlike Kushina's which was mentioned the first time we saw her (the chains). Naruto never had any trouble with regular techniques because his chakra was too dense, leading me to the conclusion that it was of average density. All that, and the fact that both of these shinobi were closely related to the main 'royal' line (Both Mito and Kushina were 'princesses' of Whirlpool) which would usually have the strongest genes and they weren't able to pick up a single trait, is what leads me to believe the Uzumaki genes, while powerful, are recessive and if you're a halfblood, you're not really an Uzumaki.

Shizuka's predecessor also being her mother

When Naruto meets Tokiwa, she almost immediately tells him about how the Nadeshiko is a 'Matrilineal' clan.

Matrilineal - Of or based on kinship with the mother or female line.

I believe the leadership of the clan is passed down from mother to daughter, when the daughter is wed and deemed ready. I think that's why Shizuka didn't start looking for Naruto until this point, and why Tokiwa still calls her a princess, despite the fact that her mother has probably passed on by now, (Which I alluded to in the chapter). Putting aside the fact that she looked quite old in the cutaway where she was on that bed compared to how young Shizuka looked, the princess didn't seem very keen at all on challenging the student of the man who'd ruined her mother's life. She waited until the last possible moment and only went searching for him when the clan was truly in need of her to be officially sworn in as its leader. I know their bodies don't hold much weight in this argument since she was as tall as Jiraiya in her prime and Shizuka is only Naruto's height, and their hair colour is also different, but they both have green eyes so that's something.

Also, I say she's the strongest kunoichi in the elemental nations since Tsunade usually holds that title, but they've all agreed that the strongest of the sannin is Jiraiya, and she fought him to a standstill so...

A Nadeshiko Kunoichi's chakra consuming the man's DNA in pregnancy

Looking at #235 of the anime, throughout the chapter we see seven Nadeshiko kunoichi. Five out of seven have brown hair, while the other two have black. All of them have almost Amazonian figures, and they are all quite tall. Shizuka's mother was as tall as Jiraiya was in his prime and Tokiwa towers above all. The heights of the three other kunoichi on the bridge can't really be counted since we don't see them in comparison to anyone else. What can be counted, though, is their cup size. Now, I don't know anything about that, so I just went with 'D' cup. It's also the most popular so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Shizuka's mom's life after Jiraiya

I'm honestly pretty sure that's what would've happened to her after Jiraiya stood her up. In their village of warriors, they probably have a lot of pride. Add to that the fact that since the birth of their clan, men have been falling over themselves to marry a Nadeshiko kunoichi and she grew up as the heir of this clan. She was obviously brought up to hold her head high since her birth, and the countless men who came to her village seeking her hand in marriage could only have strengthened these teachings. Obviously, not many of them were worth her time, but as Shizuka demonstrated, she wouldn't just deny them the chance. (Shown by the way she kept fighting the puppeteer). Anyway, she grew up, not only being told, but having it proven that she was close to if not the pinnacle of kunoichi, and then she gets stood up. By a known pervert.

A man who shamelessly stalks anything with breasts.

And he rejected her. That must've caused all sorts of damage to her self image and made her question everything she'd ever known.

And her people. They were kunoichi too, of the same clan, so not only would they understand what she'd be going through, they'd be able to see through her fake smiles. They'd know how she really feels when she tells them she's fine, but what they wouldn't be able to do is suppress the looks of pity on their faces. As we see by Tokiwa, the people are fiercely loyal and protective of their leader, and Tokiwa doesn't even try to hide her concern for her charge. Even if the kunoichis tried to hide their pity, Shizuka's mom would still have seen it since she'd know it was there and she'd be looking for it.

The village elders wanting to take her to Konoha is something I find easily believable. They may or may not have had a hand in Sagiri's (Shizuka's lover's) death in order to keep the main line alive. So having their current clan head (who was powerful enough to fight one of the legendary Sannin to a standstill) clone herself so they'd be assured of having another great head with the same strength doesn't seem like a bad idea at all. To them, I mean.

The Mifune thing I got mainly from three things. Her height, her hair color and the sword she carries on her back. Given her skills in ninjutsu and taijutsu, she probably wasn't a slouch with her blade. Given that he's one of the few Samurai who is willing to not only interact with shinobi but actually help them as well, I think he's a logical choice for the position of her father. Also, using all his hard earned skill to defend the virtue of an entire clan of naive (from his outsider perspective) women is a totally 'Honorable Samurai' thing to do. About his relationship with Shizuka, I haven't actually come up with that. They both obviously know about each other, but whether he stayed there for a few years to raise his daughter or had to send over a teacher in secret (so as to not piss off the shinobi hating Samurai in his village) or have her come over there to Tetsu no kuni (because he's the leader and what he says, goes, and Samurai are supposed to leave their prejudices behind and all that). Let me know if you have any better ideas.

Oh, and new ideas for a summary are always welcome.

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