AUTHOR'S NOTE!! VERY IMPORTANT SO PLEASE READ!!!

Hi everyone!! The fic is in the next click of the button but I just wanted to make this note for all of you (okay, well, I NEEDED to make this note).

If some of you remember me (like Roxy I'm sure you do right?) I used to be named "Hitomi_Fanel" or "HitomiFanel". I wrote such fics as "Reflections", "A New Life" (my most popular one), "A New Life: Arnold's Turn" etc. If you don't remember me then that's probably because you're new.

Oh, btw, what ever happened to "Silver Kitten"? She wrote a GREAT fic called "An Act of Care" but I never saw her post at this section anymore. CoSmIc DrEaMeR also hasn't been around but I know the reason. It's the same reason as me, which brings me to the point of this note.

Okay, so here's the 411 on this fic. I came up with it MONTHS ago, wrote episode 1, posted it, then totally and completely abandoned the fic!! I'm angry at myself but the reason for the abandonment is the same reason many of us have (right????)

That reason is called SCHOOL!!!!!

*ahem* Anyways, that's what I want to make a short note about. Because of school and the one-act play festival that I'm a director of, and the fact that I'm a REALLY popular author in the Inuyasha section (under "anime"), I can't supply the episodes of this fic as quickly as I would like to. There's homework, having to stay after school for the rehearsals and auditions, doing my other fanfics that are even more popular than this one, studying for tests, preparing for the SAT (STAR) tests, etc.

But PLEASE, bare with me as I TRY and make an effort to get the episode's out ASAP. I'm not going to abandon this fic this time and I know I'll have a whole lot more fun writing it this time other than before because I was FINALLY able to stop obsessing over revising episode 1. I just decided to leave it as it was and post it.

Okay, so enough of my ramblings. I just want to say one last thing though. This fic is dedicated to the following people:

CoSmIc DrEaMeR (and I hope A Christmas Present for Arnold is continued soon. Remember how you said that you would post it and work on it if you saw this fic continued???), Roxy(and she has some numbers included in her name that I can't remember) (Sorry about not remembering your fully name Roxy!!! But I hope you enjoy this fic!!), Silver Kitten (Where did you go????).

Then there's this author who made a fic called "Missing Pieces" (sorry I don't remember your name!!! Please don't hate me for it!! I promise that I'll dedicate an episode to you (Oh! Episode 3 is ALL yours!!!)) but this fic is also dedicated to you. There was a lot of stuff that I needed to comment on about the stuff you said in your author's notes. For one thing, Craig Bartlett DOES read fanfiction. He said so in an interview with someone. Two, I also thought the dance between Arnold and Helga (the April Fool's one) was VERY INTENSE O.O Three, it seems we have a lot in common. You're an actress (since you were in that play Pippin) and you're 18 (well, I'm 17 though but we're still almost the same age!!). And four, CONGRATULATIONS on being accepted towards the college you wanted!!! I hope I get that luck!!!

Okay, NOW you can go ahead and read the fic!!!! I hope you enjoy it!!!

Signed,

Inuyasha-loves-Kagome (A.K.A. Inu-chan)

Email: hitomi_fanel1111@yahoo.com