Hello everyone, you friendly neighborhood Shadow here! And welcome to A New Adventure Sans the Determination!
First, thanks to everyone who supported this until now. And secondly, I am so, so sorry to all those who wanted to see what happened in the originally planned chapter three... For those of you who are new or just don't care, you may just skip to the story if you haven't already.
As I said, I am really sorry for the change to the story, I originally wanted to tell you this amazing story as an explanation of how Sans got to where he is as a character. This hasn't changed and I do want to tell you this story, however, I feel like doing it here and in a flash back wouldn't do it justice. With the way I was writing it, it felt... cramped in a sense.
I had to fit a lot into a small amount of chapters to tell you the story. I had to do it in few chapters, so that it didn't take too long to get to the actually story. And at the same time, I didn't feel like really long chapters would work, because then it would feel daunting and overwhelming and I didn't want it to be something not fun or something that felt like english homework. So in the end it felt rushed instead, and I didn't like the way it was coming together.
I was having fun making the story and developing potential ideas, but the way it was being expressed wasn't doing it for me.
So, I decided on a plan, and currently I am liking it more than the other way I was doing it. I will be writing this story, Sans in the Narutoverse, by itself without talking about the backstory, minus a few hints here and there, and eventually I want to get to writing on a full story of Sans' life underground without squishing things together. I still haven't thought of a name for such a story, but if you have a suggestion I'll be more than happy to hear it out.
I must say again how sorry I am for the change, especially for those of you who came here for Sans' story. I sincerely hope that you will give this fic a try, even if you aren't necessarily Naruto fans.
Anyways, I won't take up anymore of your time, so to those of you reading, I hope you have a nice day.
In a dense forest we can see a group of four people, three males: one female, dashing through the foliage, using the branches as a springboard for each jump between trees. The group all wore similar outfits with black, sleeveless shirts; black pants that were confined at the bottom with mid-calf high black sandals. They all wore black, elbow-length gloves with metal arm-guards over them and a red spiral tattoo on their upper-arms. But most interesting of all their outfit choices were the masks that adorned their faces, each individual mask had a separate design.
One male, who had short brown hair, wore a mask that resembled a cat, and had green and red markings adorning it; the next male had short black hair that he kept in a low pony tail, and wore a porcelain mask that resembled a weasel with three triangular markings, one on each ear and one at the forehead; the lone woman of the group also wore a cat mask, but unlike her male companion her mask held three red stripes, one on each cheek and another on her forehead, the bangs from her beautiful purple hair fell over the front of the mask while the sides of her bangs framed it; the final man was quite the sight, he wore a dog themed mask with four red markings on its cheeks and its eyes lined with red, but this is not what made him stand out, no; on the dog masked-man's head was the most random and comical sight one could behold, on his head was silver, gravity defying hair.
These were ANBU operatives Tenzo, Itachi, Neku, and Inu respectively, together they formed the entirety of Team Ro, one of the most well respected ANBU teams. They had been sent by their leader, The Third Hokage: Hiruzen Sarutobi, to Kusagakure for a mission that had quickly escalated into a newer, more dangerous mission. At first it was a simple mission to stop some saboteurs from bombing Kusagakure via bomb tags hidden under the streets. However, while near Kusagakure, they had heard some rather strange rumors while undercover; apparently there are some rumors circulating about a cave in a nearby mountain that holds a demon. This would normally never get the attention of an ANBU unit, however several factors make this rather odd occurrence. Firstly, Kusagakure had no known Jinchuriki, or holders of biju, which are the most commonly known demon. Secondly, this is no where near Oni No Kuni or Numa No Kuni, so that would rule out Moryo, the demon trapped in Numa No Kuni's mountain. Finally, Orochimaru has been spotted here recently, so the chances of this being some abomination made by him is high. They still couldn't rule out that Kusagakure could have stolen a Jinchuriki; after all, a hidden village would never admit losing its biju, that could make them a giant target, especially minor villages.
With all these factors, they couldn't stand idle, so they contacted the Hokage and he gave them the green light; sadly though, he could not send reinforcements, so they had to be extra cautious; even if they were some of the best ANBU in history, this mission had so many variables that it could go south faster than Shisui could do a mile.
Inu, the acting leader of Team Ro, quickly made a few short hand signals. The others nodded their heads in understanding and began to slow down, in a few minutes they came across a clearing and settled next to some foliage for cover while Inu began to bring out a map of Heiya No Kuni, the country that Kusa resides in. Seeing that he had their attention Inu began to address his squad.
"Before we go running in like some green-horn genin, we need to quickly address the situation." Inu began, his voice seemingly quite lazy, but held a firm and powerful undertone. "From what we have gathered thus-far, we can narrow down the possibilities down to a select few; sadly for us, none of these possibilities will end cleanly. The first potential scenario is that this 'demon' they are talking of all around Kusa, is one of Orochimaru's experiments. This leads to a couple potential risks by itself, Orochimaru or one his hideouts might be there, meaning we will have a rather large battle on our hands. In this case the best possible outcome is to distract for long enough to contact the Hokage and let him know of the existence of Orochimaru's hideout."
The team nodded in confirmation with his analysis of the situation, then Neko, the female member, spoke up, "I shall prepare not only a messenger bird for the Hokage, but also for any other close by ally of Konoha and other countries that have a bingo book entry for Orochimaru, just in case."
Inu nodded his head in response, "Yes, Neko, get all that prepared, but also prepare plenty of medical supplies, and body seals. Now, our next scenario: if we find out that Kusa has indeed stolen a Jinchuriki from another nation we need to follow a very strict set of rules, or this could end in a new Great Ninja War." The squad shuddered in remembrance of the horrid wars, not many people who were there to take part would forget the events that unfolded. "We must eliminate all, sans the hostage. From there we will seal up the bodies of the deceased in a special disposal scroll, which will be carried by both Neko and I," to showcase what he meant he pulled out a white scroll with several lines written on it in hiragana, with a giant kanji representing the word 'erase' on the side. These were special disposal scrolls that worked a little bit differently than most, unlike other disposal scrolls that released all contents upon destruction, this special scroll would keep all contents locked into a pocket dimension even after the seal was destroyed, ergo whatever was inside the scroll was lost forever.
"Upon confirmation of the elimination of those residing in the mountain, we will have Tenzo use his wood release to keep the Jinchuriki confined until mission success. After that, we will destroy the mountain that the ninja were holed up in with minor explosive tags in key position, to create a faux cave-in, so that we will be able to conceal any evidence of Konoha's involvement. Normally we would have Tenzo use his earth release to do this, but in this situation with the fact that Kusa has many sensors; we will not be able to create a cave-in with jutsu, it would leave behind a very large mark, and Kusa will be able to claim that some ninja have caused wide-spread damage to their country, which will launch an investigation amongst the Daimyos' courts and lead directly to Konoha."
It was a lot to cover, especially for something that has such a low chance of occurring, but they had to be ready for the worst. They were no longer dealing with a small village, they were dealing with a chance at a world war, one they wanted no part in.
Finally, they were on the last scenario, "Now the last possible outcome," Inu said as the other four operative began to seem a little on edge, "This is the most outrageous and unlikely of the options so far, but also the most dangerous, not in a political sense but in a battle sense. Demons are a very rare occurrence here in the elemental nations, and as such not much is known about them, aside from they are by far the most powerful creatures one can find. I am sure we have all been to Oni no Kuni and as such have had the opportunity to learn about Moryo, a powerful demon that is sealed in the mountains of Numa no Kuni, he is but one example of a demon that exists outside of the group of Biju. There may be even more demons out there in the world, but they are very rare, and as such, we have never had the opportunity to study more demons. With the only example of demons being the Biju and Moryo, that sets the standard power of demons very high; so high, in fact, that should we encounter a demon, we will no choice but to flee and hope that either it is trapped to the mountain, or that we have enough time to send a carrier bird and receive reinforcements." Inu concluded with a sigh, as he seemed rather winded from the speech. His team was taking time to soak in all the information, when suddenly Tenzo posed a question.
"Inu-senpai, with the demon theory, would it be far fetched to assume that, since I have Wood release, wouldn't I be able to subdue the demon before any major catastrophe, even if at least for a little while?" Inu put a hand to his chin and thought of a response, before talking in a very tired tone.
"Normally that would work for a Jinchuriki, however, your Wood release is not as good as Lord First's, and as such, I have no inkling if that would work or fail if used on a biju, let alone a demon of unknown caliber. It wouldn't hurt to give it a shot, but we cannot rely on it working, we need to quickly formulate a plan of action to counteract anything that may go wrong." Inu finished before pulling out a map and began to form a strategy for all the scenarios they had just covered. They had eventually decided that Itachi would go in first under a genjutsu to quickly scope the area out, once properly examined he would relay back to the group. Then, Tenzo and Neko would follow Itachi and once inside scatter to cover more grounds, should an emergency happen they were to flare their chakra and Inu would come quickly to assist them, as he was the assassination expert of the team. The situation that they encountered inside the mountain would determine what steps they would take after scoping the place out.
Happy with their newly formed plan, the ANBU squad set out to fulfill their impromptu mission. (1)
Meanwhile in a dark cave, one could make out a giant figure of a monstrous black widow spider, which was also surrounded by smaller black widows, and lying on the back of its abdomen was a skeleton with a white tee-shirt and blue overcoat that had tanned fur trim on the hood, which was kept down. Five badges were on the skeletons jacket, one badge, placed on the left breast of the jacket, was circular with wings and below it were three triangle badges, one pointed up two pointed down, the last badge was on the other side of the jacket, it was a mostly white badge with dark gray and yellow borders, the badge held a blue lightning bolt and on the white was a small globe. The skeleton also wore black pants that were obviously well pressed as a seem could be identified on the front; the skeleton's feet were covered in blue fuzzy slippers. If one were to look at the skeleton's face, nobody would be able to miss the gigantic toothy smile that the skeleton had; strangely though the skeleton's eye-sockets were closed, as if asleep.
Suddenly, the silence was broken by a high pitched voice calling out, "Sans, wake up you lazy bones!"
The skeleton began to stir as a low groan was heard, "Flowey, do I have to move?" The voice was very mellow sounding and lazily toned. The skeleton began to sit up from its laid down position, "*sigh* fine, I'm awake, what's the emergency?" The skeleton brought a bony hand up to his constantly smiling mouth as if feigning a yawn, its eye-sockets slowly began to open revealing a pitch black abyss with two white dot, one in each eye. It then looked over to the side and saw a giant daisy surrounded by small black widow spiders, sans one larger black widow that was nearly the size of a small dog, on the carpel (2) of the flower was a face with two large eyes and a mouth; the flower looked very agitated.
"Sans, can you please help me with these goddamn spiders!?" the newly named Flowey asked.
The skeleton, who we now know as Sans, took up a thinking position, "Ya' know, if you were a little bit nicer, maybe they wouldn't give you so much trouble." he said in a very bored tone. However, his advise seemed to only agitate the flower more.
"Maybe I would be more nice, if I wasn't the only one playing babysitter for a group of arachnids, not to mention, I wasn't the one who decided that we would be their guardians." At this point Sans began to lay down on his side with his eye-sockets half lidded. Noting this, Flowey let out a sigh and asked in a pleading tone, "Can you at least get the princess off my back for a while?"
Sans let out a small chuckle as he stood up, jumped of the giant spider and landed on his feet. Walking over to Flowey, Sans responded with a nod, "Sure thing Flowey, I wouldn't mind giving ya a hand." Once next to the flower he reach for his right hand with his left, and pulled it off with a *pop*, and held it out for the flower.
"Sans, this isn't a joke!" Flowey growled angrily, as its carpel began to turn red with anger.
In response, Sans let out a little laugh, "Come on, Flowey, didn't that tickle your funny bone?"
*growl*
"… Ok fine, I'll stop," Sans said in a saddened tone as he put his hand back where it was supposed to be, he quickly became more upbeat as he looked at the largest spider amongst the group, "now, come on, Muffet." The large spider looked at him for a couple seconds than proceeded to crawl up his legs and back before resting on his head.
"I still can't believe you wanted to name her after that woman." Flowey stated while looking at the spider on Sans' head, "Though, considering how much of a pain in the roots she is, I guess it fits."
Sans put his left hand in his pocket as his other hand went up and began to pet Muffet, "She wasn't that bad Flowey."
Flowey let loose a huff as it leaned forward, and narrowed its eyes in remembrance of the spider woman that used to inhabit the underground, "She was a scam artist, not to mention terrible at her job."
"Well that second point isn't really fair now is it? After all, didn't you lose to Frisk too?"
Flowey's head quickly fell near the floor, its tone of voice quickly took up a sound of shame, "Don't remind me of that, I don't want to remember having to grovel at a human's feet. It's bad enough that I had to live through it once."
Wherever the conversation was going was quickly cut off when Flowey's head shot up, "Sans, there are four individuals of unidentified LOVE levels coming here at a very quick rate." Sans quickly pulled his hands out of his pockets, and motioned all the young spiders back to the queen that lay in the center of the cave. He turned back to the flower who had its eyes closed and was concentrating, "They are hiding their LOVE rather well, however I can still sense their rather high EXP. I can tell that if they don't like what they find here, than they can and will resort to violence."
Sans narrowed his eye-sockets at this information, four individuals of unknown LOVE was certainly a potential problem, but knowing that they had very high EXP was even worse, they knew how to kill and would be able to do it again. (3) He looked towards Flowey, who was still stationary, "What else can you identify about them?"
"They are all human, but have ridiculous amounts of mana, much higher than most humans we've seen. I can also tell that they are accustomed to it, as they are using it to leap between trees. Also, they have a medium sized blade on their back and a pouch on their legs that may contain more weapons." Sans began to take in all the information Flowey gave him, as he reached his hand up cupping his chin.
"Okay… I think I have a plan," he began, as Flowey's eyes opened and it looked at Sans with its head tilted. "I will lay out, and hopefully they will pass over me, thinking I'm just an old corpse, as soon as they get past me, I want you to set a barrier so no one can get in or out. Afterward, I will engage them, and should they prove to be hostile, I will be forced to attack them, and trust me, I won't take it easy at the start like I did with Frisk." At this point Flowey's demeanor began to get a lot more somber and worried.
"What if these humans have enough determination to do things similar to Frisk? You could barely handle one. I don't want to lose anyone else..." Flowey's voice trailed off into a sad mumble, as it began to wilt forward; Flowey was quickly brought back to reality when Sans put his hand on Flowey's head and ruffled its petals, like one would do to a child's hair.
"Don't worry, Flowey. After all, with you lying in wait, they'll have no idea what hit 'em! You're our ace in the hole, after all." Sans' cheerful nature became absolutely contagious, and soon a huge toothy smile spread across Flowey's face.
"Ya! And even if that failed, we're impossible to beat if we do our special combo!"
Sans quickly got off his knees and pointed to the entrance of the cave triumphantly, "That's the spirit, Flowey! Now quickly, fetch Papyrus' scarf, I want to look my Sunday best, or at least my Tuesday pretty-good." He said as Flowey nodded and burrowed underground to get his brother's scarf. It might not have any purpose in the fight itself, but it did make him feel better knowing he was carrying his brother's will, literally on his shoulders. As soon as Flowey returned, Sans quickly put the tattered, red scarf on and proceeded to give more orders. "Your Majesty, please relocate to your nest at the top of the cave with all of your subjects. Flowey prepare your mana for the barrier, and make sure your souls are ready to go." With everything set, the show is about to start.
The squad was drawing close to the unnamed mountain that housed their target, whatever it may be. Everyone had chosen to remain silent throughout the trek there, but Inu was currently going through many thoughts; he just couldn't quite shake the feeling of immense foreboding he was feeling, somehow he just knew that this situation would go south and he didn't have a say in the matter. 'There just has to be more to this situation than we are being told, there's no way that a demon just appeared here, so this either must be something that was known for a long time and just came to light, or it is something else entirely; no matter what the outcome is, I highly doubt that any of us will be the same after what we encounter.' His thoughts were cut short when he notice that they were almost at their destination. Inu held out his hand, open palmed, signaling everyone to stop and quickly looked towards Itachi and made a hand motion towards him. Itachi quickly nodded and made the ram hand sign as he melded away, as he was using genjutsu to make him nearly invisible. Inu followed up by giving similar signals to the other ANBU operatives, who quickly took up areas near the entrance.
"There appears to be no entities in the first area, Tenzo, Neko, you may proceed." Inu heard Itachi's hushed voice come over the small radio earpiece. Neko and Tenzo blurred into shadow as they rushed inside. Inu was having a very hard time concentrating now, because the ominous feeling he was have earlier had just come back in full stride, only to be brought back to reality when something he hadn't planned upon had happened.
His team's chakra signature had suddenly vanished!
Itachi, who had just entered the cave, was scoping the area under his camouflage genjutsu. At the entrance of the cave was a skeleton, which in and of itself was a tad worrying, but there were several things wrong with the skeleton. Firstly, it had no flesh anywhere on its bones, nor any cobwebs, that would mean that someone or something else is here. The second thing that worried him was the skeleton's outfit, it wore a large coat and scarf, which no one who lived in a humid area, like Kusa, would ever wear. He quickly scanned through the rest of the cave entrance, which was rather bland as it was just a simple rock cave with a few stalactites and stalagmites strewn about. However, at the rear of the cave was a small opening that, upon inspection, was blocked off by a barrier.
Not seeing anything that could be considered a threat in sight, he stopped to call in Neko and Tenzo, mostly because Neko was the expert with barriers and other seals. Even though he found nothing of suspicion, Itachi still didn't want to push his luck with sending a chakra flare or being otherwise loud, so he whispered into the mic of his earpiece, "There appears to be no entities in the first area, Tenzo, Neko, you may proceed."
Within a few seconds the two operatives that he called for appeared next to him. Tenzo being the first to speak up, "What have you found Itachi?"
Itachi, who had let up his genjutsu by this point, motioned through the cave and began to relay his assessment of the situation, "There is nothing in this room that is of significance, sans the occasional spider and that odd skeleton near the entrance. However, if you will direct your attention towards the dark shadows of the room, you can make out a small opening, big enough for a human. As I went to investigate it, I noticed a barrier made of chakra." Itachi paused in his speech to allow his fellow ANBU to think about this new development.
"So, from what I'm gathering, this chamber is a false room; an entrance hidden in plain site." Tenzo stated with Itachi nodding in response.
"Yes, as far as I can tell… It seems that someone doesn't want anyone to proceed further; that's why I called you two in here. Neko, you are our barrier and seals expert, so I would like for you to take a look at it."
Neko gave a small grunt of approval before reaching into her pouch, "Of course Itachi-senpai, give me a second to-"
Suddenly, they conversation was cut off when a new voice sounded, "Now, now… You can't just come in here destroying someones barriers willy-nilly, you should at least buy them dinner first." The group quickly took a triangular formation, searching for the entity that evaded their detection. Itachi, who was facing the entrance, gasped when he saw what talked to them. His gasp prompted the other members of their squad to look towards the entrance, only to recoil in shock at the figure in front of them. "What's wrong… You look like you just saw a ghost…" The voice was coming from the skeleton that had previously laid limp near the cave opening, who was now standing up. The skeleton's face had changed drastically, a large, toothy grin was spread across it, and the skeleton's eye-sockets held a white dot in each eye.
"I guess that because you are my guests, I should introduce myself first… My name is Sans the Ske-" Before Sans could finish his intro the weasel masked ANBU leaped at Sans with his weapon drawn, revealing it to be a tanto, a single-sided short-sword. As the blade inched closer Sans lowered his head, shadowing his eyes to the onlooking ANBU, and, with grace higher than anyone expected, he side stepped so that the blade had missed his clothes by millimeters.
Seeing his attack miss, Itachi quickly corrected himself, shifting his momentum so that he was no longer going forward and swung his sword horizontally, in hopes to catch the skeleton off guard.
His efforts in vain, as Sans ducked underneath the slash, while doing the splits, and used his arms as pivots to swing his legs in a sweeping motion. His attack forced the ANBU to jump in the air to avoid the attack, which is exactly what Sans wanted. Sans, still in the splits, moved one arm up and spun his body in a move that one would find in a break dance video, ending with his body vertical with his hands on the ground; he then used his arms as springboards to launch towards the airborne ANBU, kicking him in the abdomen, causing spittle to fly from his mouth as the wind was knocked out of him. Sans didn't relent in his assault, hooking his foot under the flak jacked Itachi wore and began to pull, while in tandem pushing his chest forward and cocking his closed fist backwards, preparing for a devastating punch.
As the fist rushed forward, Itachi was forced to watch every second as his sharingan slowed down the action, but he was unable to do anything as his body was still reeling from the kick he had just received not even a second ago. And sure enough it struck, causing Itachi's limp body to go flying, as the porcelain mask he wore shattered, revealing half of his face. He had larger than average eyelashes, and handsome facial structure with little baby fat; what stood out most about his face though was the rather large tear trough that ran under his eye.
As his body was about to his the wall of the cavern, his purple haired team mate caught him mid-air and landed in a crouch; she quickly gave him a once over before the skeleton's voice rang through the air. "You humans really like to cut us skeletons off during our intros… All I wanted to do was introduce myself, look cool, maybe even come to a peaceful alternative to you invading my home…" At this this point Sans raised his head up from its lowered position showing his brows furrowed in anger and the white dots in his eyes gone, creating quite the imposing visage. "But no, you have to attack at first sight and make everything so much more difficult… Well guess what, you aren't the first humans I've fought, and if I learned one thing, it's that you all have the survivability of cockroaches. But, that just means," a dark blue aura began to resonate around the skeleton, and an iris rolled forward in the skeletons head, the iris sharing the blue hue of the power that was being emanated, "I'll just have to stomp harder!"
Tenzo, who had pulled out his own tanto in a backhanded defensive position, began to sweat under the intense power the skeleton was releasing, he began to yell at Neko without turning his head from his opponent, "Neko, is Itachi battle ready?!"
His answer came from Itachi as he groaned while trying to stand up, "Yeah… I'm okay, Tenzo. Despite not having any muscle, his punches hold a lot of weight, more so than most jonins, and his speed, I don't know where to start..."
Sans, unable to help himself, said, "I think a great place to start would be to stop masking you strength, or else you're boned!" He let loose a chuckle, no matter how serious the situation, he always had time for puns.
Sadly, his puns were ignored by the ANBU, in favor of continuing their conversation. "And with all this power he is flexing, I'm surprised Inu-taicho hasn't come to investigate." Itachi looked towards Neko, "Have you any luck contacting Inu-taicho?"
Neko who was still kneeled, let out a slight growl, "No he isn't answering the radio and all I'm hearing is static. Also, I've noticed that his chakra sign is gone."
Itachi grit his teeth at this news, that would mean either Inu was eliminated or they had a barrier surrounding them… either way, they were going to have a bad time.
And that's a wrap folks, thank you for reading this chapter of A New Adventure Sans the Determination. If you have anything you want to say about the story, whether it be a question about why I did something a specific way, give your input about something, or to simply give me a suggestion about what I should do with my story, than please review and let me know, after all you are the ones reading.
Notes:
(1) I had actually done a lot of research for this particular segment. Firstly, I had decided where to put "Mount Ebott" based on the map of the elemental nations, Kusa is a very foresty nation that is next to a sand nation and hilly nation. Second, Team Ro is an ANBU team that actually exists in the Naruto canon, and is consisted of these characters. The mission I mentioned briefly in this chapter, the stopping a saboteur from bombing kusa, was actually a real mission that Team Ro was a part of, I just moved it into the correct time zone for my fic. Finally, while I knew quite a bit about Moryo and Oni no Kuni, I did do research to iron out any kinks in detail.
(2) A carpel is the female part of a flower's reproductive system, and is the giant center part that you see on any bloomed flowers. Yes, I had time to look up this shit.
(3) My way of think about the whole LOVE and EXP situation is pretty simple, LOVE is your willingness to hurt people, EXP is the amount of killing that you have done, and with this in mind, I figure that knowing that Team Ro had a high amount of EXP meant that they have killed a very good amount of people, but they had indistinguishably LOVE and as such they could be friendlies that have had to kill, or psychotic murderers, ergo they are dangerous in a mysterious sense.
Also, I actually wanted to ask some quick questions to all of you reading this right now:
Should I have Sans move into Konoha or should I have him be a wanderer that does his own stuff relevant to the plot?
I lean more toward him moving to Konoha, as it opens up more possibilities for comedy.
Should Naruto be a girl?
In all honesty, I will more than likely making him a girl... mostly so I can make jokes about Sans becoming Papyrus. ;)
In tandem with the last question, should Sasuke be a girl?
Whether or not he's a girl, I will not bash Sasuke. As he is one of my favorite characters, and I always hated how bratty and arrogant bashers portray him. With that said, I want Sasuke to be a girl, again for comedy reasons. But, like with all the other points, I'm open to opinions.
Do you like a more yandere like Flowey or a tsundere like Flowey?
I am honestly wondering this, as both sides are so appealing... to me at least... Ya' I'm weird.
And, again, thank you all for reading.
And to all who came for the previous version's chapter three, sorry.
This has been ShadowBlade40,
Signing off.