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From Dust Till Dawn

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Chapter 1: A Hollow Victory

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"Naruto! You're lucky I was able to give you that bit of Senjutsu Chakra or you'd be dead right now!" Kurama yelled at his host as the blond crossed his fingers to activate his signature jutsu. "And you're Chakra's already long been drained from-"

"Amaterasu!"

Using his right arm to block the heavy inferno, Naruto channeled a small amount of Kurama's Chakra to rid himself of the black flames of Amaterasu. As the bubbling mass of Chakra slid the flames off of the blond, his raven haired opponent scowled in thought.

"A diversion? I can't beat him with this-" his thoughts were interrupted as a spike of pain went through his head, signaling that he could no longer use the powers that his left eye gifted him. "Shit!" he cursed to himself as he placed a hand over the now useless eye. "I've used too much Chakra! I can't maintain control!"

Seeing the boy's distracted state, Naruto dashed from his position and quickly delivered a powerful raising kick to the Uchiha's chin. As the raven haired boy flew into the air, three plumes of smoke signaled the creation of Naruto's clones, who continued to pummel the him into the air.

Quickly before the final strike could be laid into the airborne Uchiha, Sasuke spun quickly, using his the enhanced reaction time the Sharingan gifted him, and caught the blond in an equal exchange of fists, sending both fighters spiraling to the ground.

While falling to the ground, Sasuke summoned three shuriken from the seal on his wrist and channeled his lighting element into them. Once he landed on the ground, he quickly struck the three Naruto clones with the lightning enhanced projectiles, paralyzing them for a brief moment.

"Chidori!" He called as he slashed a blade of pure electricity through the three clones in a single wide arcing motion. On the last of the three, his hand stuck into the clone's chest, but did not dispel the clone like he did the other two.

Grabbing onto the Uchiha's over extended arm, he held him in place as the original rushed over and delivered a devastating blow to the Uchiha's face, sending him rolling across the ground for several meters.

Quickly forming a Rasengan, Naruto made to capitalize on the opening he had just created. As he grew closer, Sasuke looked up and tried to react, only for his Chidori to dispel after it's supply of chakra ran out. Gritting his teeth, the Uchiha waited for the blond finish the fight, only for Naruto lose his balance and fall to the ground, his Rasengan forming a small crater underneath his hand as it dissipated.

Smirking to himself, Sasuke moved forward and lashed out at the prone Jinchuuriki, kicking him so that his body would roll to where he was laying on his back. Moving at a sedated pace, Sasuke placed himself over the dazed blond and started raining down blow after blow.

At first, Naruto tried to defend himself. He grabbed the Uchiha's face in an attempt to keep him out of reach, but a strong blow to the face caused him to loosen his grip. He tried to keep his guard up as he took each and every hit, but soon, the damage grew too much for him and his arms laid on the ground, lifeless as the Uchiha continued to pound his head into the dirt.

Taking a moment to regain his breath, Sasuke looked down into Naruto's eyes for a brief moment, and that was all the blond needed to turn the situation around.

Reaching up and grabbing the high collar of the Uchiha's shirt, the blond pulled himself up and delivered a powerful headbutt to the raven haired boy's face, sending him reeling back. Using the shifting in weight, Naruto brought up his now free leg and kicked Sasuke off him, sending the boy flying through the air for a brief moment before he landed in a heap on the ground.

Coughing in pain, Sasuke slowly made to get up, and saw that Naruto was stand over him, a small frown on his face as he wiped a bit of blood from his chin and gave an indignant sniff, as if saying 'is that all you got?'

"He's still not-" Sasuke thought with a growl as he pulled himself to his feet. "Just, give it up already..." he growled in a pained, and rasping voice, before moving again to confront the blond Jinchuuriki.

Taking a deep breath and closing his eyes, Naruto readied himself for another clash before giving a small smirk and dash forwards.

"Naruto!""Sasuke!"

They roared at the same time before trading an exchange of fists. After the initial strike, Naruto rolled his torso under Sasuke's follow up and planted his fist into the boy's gut. As he began to pull back and ready to strike again, Sasuke quickly recovered and smashed his fist into Naruto's face, causing the boy to spin away from the blow. Catching his balance, Naruto quickly blocked a second strike from the Uchiha and planted another blow to the boy's ribs, although, not being fast enough to stop the palm thrust to his chin.

Staggering back a few feet, Naruto tried to regain his balance before Sasuke could follow up on his attack. And follow up he did. Moving as fast as his legs could take him, Sasuke rushed forward and tried to land another blow to the blond's face, but was caught in a counter where Naruto parayed the first blow with his forearm and delivered a third strike to the Uchiha's undefended gut, caused a spray of blood to erupt from his mouth as he staggered back, holding onto his midsection in pain.

Bringing up his fist, Naruto moved forwards and smashed his knuckles into Sasuke's chin, pushing the boy even further back. Continuing his assault, he failed to block a debilitating blow to his knee where the Uchiha lashed out with his own leg to stop the boy's advance. Cursing to himself, Naruto fell to his knees as Sasuke wound up for a second kick, which he lashed out into the blond's stomach, sending him sliding across the ground.

This back and forth fighting went on for hours on end, each of the two fighters delivering bone shattering blows to the other, only to get up and continue fighting on in a battle of wills. As they fought, they both let out roars of conviction and continued to bludgeon the other.

It wasn't until the sun began to set that the two began to lose steam. They're once precise strikes now sloppy, and lacking any real power to them. The two were breathing harder than they ever had before as they continued to fumble after each other, landing small blows whenever one of them neared the other.

Weakly kicking the blond away from him, Sasuke tried to stand up, but fell from his own exhaustion. Slowly, the two began to stand up and move to one another, fists raised for another clash.

But this time, there was no power to it, they merely placed a fist against one another. Naruto's against Sasuke's forehead, and Sasuke's against Naruto's stomach. Taking ragged breaths, the two looked at each other with their swollen and bruised eyes before slowly falling to their knees. As they sat there, Naruto's Hitai-ate slowly fell from his forehead and floated in the shallow water they sat in.

"Hang in there!" Kurama called to his host. "It isn't much, but I've finished infusing more Chakra-!" The tailed beast began before he was cut off by a sudden tugging sensation.

Looking down to Sasuke's fist, Naruto saw that the Chakra Kurama had just finished creating for him was being extracted by force. Losing his balance while groaning pain, Naruto fell forward and was forced to his hands and knees while Sasuke looked down at him in smug victory.

"This is one of the Rinnegan's abilities," he said as the blond fell. "As someone who possesses the eyes of the Uchiha…My victory is inevitable." Struggling to stand, Sasuke gave a grunt of pain as he lifted his arm and charged up one final Chidori. "Now…" he thought to himself. "I can finally be alone…"

"Farewell...my one and only friend…!"

As the Uchiha brought down his lighting encased fist, Naruto looked at the boy's reflection in his Hitai-ate, a look of determination entering his eyes. Quickly looking up into Sasuke's eyes, he moved his head slightly out of the way, just enough to avoid the attack, and planted a chakra enhanced fist into Sasuke's open jaw, sending him flipping through the air and cratering into the side of the ravine.

"Nice counter! Good job noticing his visual prowess was weakened." Kurama said to his host as Naruto grabbed onto his fallen Hitai-ate. Putting it into his back pocket, he looked up to the crater that he created with Sasuke's body and waited for the Uchiha to emerge.

"Over and…" Sasuke growled as he began to exit the hole in the wall. "Over and...over and...over and over and over and OVER AGAIN!" he yelled as he began to smash his hand into the wall of the ravine, smashing the rock and scratching his fist. "Just give up! And LET ME CUT YOU DOWN!" he roared out to the still kneeling blond.

Looking up, Naruto gave the Uchiha a small, and quiet laugh, before he spoke for the first time since the fight began.

"Can't do that…" he said as he stood up, his voice ragged and in pain, raising his head to look up at Sasuke with a confident grin. "'Cuz I'm your one and only friend…"

Sasuke looked down at him and snarled. He growled for a long moment before taking a deep, and calming breath. Opening his eyes, he let the chakra he stole from Naruto flow into his hands and formed a flame controlled Chidori.

"I figured as much…" Kurama grumbled to himself as Naruto looked up at Sasuke. "He's assimilated the Chakra I infused for you, and made it his own…And now Flame Control...He intends to finish this in one final blast. Listen, I'm giving you what remains of my Chakra. Once I do that, it's gonna put me to sleep. Don't unleash your jutsu until the last minute, well...it's not like he could use his Rinnegan to absorb your jutsu, but-" the great beast cut himself off as he saw his host smile up at him, and offer the demon his fist. Smile back down at his host, Kurama reached out, and placed his massive hand against his host's fist. "Finish this...Naruto!"

Jumping into the air, a Rasengan formed into Naruto's hand, and as the two attacks clashed, Sasuke looked into his friend's eyes, slowly letting his left eye open as the two attacks began to violently react to the other. With a final pulse of the remaining Chakra he had, even using the last of the energy that he needed to survive, he let a grim smile form on his face.

I'm sorry Naruto...but if I can't win this...then...neither can you…

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The roars of an engine could be heard all throughout the eerily empty streets of downtown Vale as a yellow motorcycle vaulted through the lain's before coming to a screeching halt before what seemed like an abandoned warehouse. Though, the sounds of thumping music and the subtle flashing of lights in the second story windows of the building suggested otherwise.

Once the bike was parked, turned off, and the kickstand in place the rider stood up removed her helmet and aviators. Her long golden locks flowed well past her shoulders and to the small of her back, the unruly and wild stands pointing every which way in some sort of controlled chaos. A cocky smile was plastered on her pale face as she strutted to the front of the building, her heeled knee high boots clacking with every step.

Once she entered through the first set of doors into the seemingly abandoned building, she was met with a short line of people standing outside of a large pair of sliding doors guarded by two bouncers wearing all black suits and fedora's accented by the vibrant red of their ties and shades. She just continued on her way past the line, earning displeased grunts and curses from the ones in line as she flashed the two goons a flirty smile, quickly convincing the two men to open the doors into the club for her.

Strutting her way into the now vibrant club, she paused for just a moment before descending the small flight of stairs that lead to the main dance floor and the bar at the far side of the large room.

As she made her way passed all of the happy dancers, she looked around, her lilac eyes taking in the sights of the popular club. Four color changing glass pillars surrounded the dance floor, playing off of the flashing lights that followed the rhythm of the blaring music coming from the DJ booth where the bear themed DJ jumped and worked the music to the rhythm of the crowd.

She continued to walk towards the bar before she paused for a moment, seeing a man in a white trench coat and a black Bowler hat pick up his cane and stalk away from the absurdly tall man and the two strangely short twins he was just speaking too. And once the blond biker laid eyes on the tall bearded man, she smirked as a small hint of red entered her playful Lilac eyes.

Yang Xiao Long had just found her target.

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Hei sighed in exasperation as he leaned against the bar in front of him. Damn Roman. The man dared to come into His club and demand for some of His men, and wanting them for a GOD DAMNED DISCOUNT!? Bastard could rot in hell for all he cared. He looked up at his blond bartender before giving the kid a nod, signifying by some unspoken language what he wanted. The blond behind the bar nodded and wordlessly reached underneath the bar and with a single hand flipped a bottle into the air, pulled out a glass with two small blue crystals in it from under the bar and placed it on the counter before catching the bottle upside down and letting the contents pour into the glass, filling it halfway before giving the bottle a single bounce to stop the flow of alcohol and turned the bottle right ways up and placed it under the bar once more. With a small smirk he pushed the glass towards Hei with his single arm, earning an amused snort from the man.

"Damn showoff" he growled out, but with little to no venom in his words. He then took the glass and nearly downed it in a single drink. "Paaaahh" he sighed as he brought the glass back down to the bar. "Damnit I needed that…"

The blond bartender frowned pulled out a pair of martini glasses from under the bar before looking at the two twins that wordlessly sat down next to the tall club owner. "That bad?" he asked, his voice a deep baritone as he started to prep the two girls their drinks.

"Psh," the one in white started. "Idiot wanted Junior's men for half the price." she said eagerly looking at the blond as he started to fill the shaker for their drinks.

"Yeah, like, who the hell does he think we are? Girls gotta eat ya know?" the one in red said as she rested her elbows on the bar next to her sister.

The blond would have responded, were it not for his blue eyes to train on a fellow blond making her way over with a purpose to her step. Filling up the two martini glasses and quickly sliding them over to the twins. The blond teen gave Hei 'Junior' Xiong a look before sharply nodding his head towards the approaching girl.

Groaning to himself, he quickly shooed the twins off now that they had their drinks and quickly downed the rest of his own before passing the empty glass back to the blond bartender.

"This day's just been one cluster fuck after the other…"

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Yang noticed the twins get up and leave with a huff, holding their drinks and subtly glaring holes at her. Her smirk only widened at that. 'Good, fewer people in the way.' she thought to herself as she slid her way next to Junior at the bar, giving the Bartender a quick wink.

"Strawberry Sunrise, no ice. Oh! And one of those little umbrella's." she ordered the blond man, earning an unamused look and a cocked eyebrow before the blond man shrugged and turned around to grab a few bottles off the wall behind him.

"Aren't you a little young to be in this club, blondie?" The tall club owner asked her with a small frown on his face. To this, Yang simply let out an innocent giggle before replying.

"Aren't you a little old to have a name like Junior?" she sweetly said while bringing up a hand to idly twirl a lock of her wild blond hair. Hei grunted at that and leaned back against the bar.

"So, you who I am, you got a name sweetheart?"

Yang again let out an innocent giggle before bringing up a hand to lightly trace a line down Juniors chest. "I have several names, but you can just call me 'Sir'!" she started sweetly before growling and letting her hand trail lower and viciously grabbed the poor man's family jewels, earning a pained squeak from the giant.

Growling slightly at the man she pulled out her scroll and opened it to show a picture of a black haired woman dressed in red. "People say you know everything. Tell where to find her and I'll let you go."

Junior squeaked in pain as her grip grew tighter. "I've never seen her in my life, I swear!" he squeaked in a high pitch than normal, only tear up as her grip tightened even more.

"Excuse me!?" she yelled out to the poor man in excruciating pain.

"I swear, sir!" as soon as he finished his corrected response, his group of bouncers finally arrived to get their boss out of trouble.

Yang gave the group of armed thugs a quick glance, taking in their poor stances and red colored hatchet's before quickly rolling her eyes. "Looks like we have an audience. This must be pretty embarrassing for you, huh? Awkward~" she purred out as she stared Junior directly in the eyes, he grip not at all letting up.

"Listen, blondie, sir." Junior squeaked. "If you want to make it out of this club alive, you'll let me go. Now!" he finally growled out, earning his freedom with a relieved sigh as Yang released him. Pulling out his red shades he unfolded them and started to walk away from the bar.

"You're gonna pay for that…" he snarled as he put his shades on, his men circling around himself and the blond terror.

Yang only playfully followed after him, her arms innocently held behind her back. "Oh Junior~, I was just playing with you. Don't be so sensitive." she giggled before she stepped in front of the massive gangster. "Come on, let's kiss and make up already…" she added with a suggestive wink before leaning in slightly.

Junior blinked behind his shades. It might of been the alcohol talking, or his frustrations with Roman, but he hummed in acceptance. "O-okay…" he stuttered before closing his eyes and leaning in.

And it was then that he was met with a fist to the face from the blond girl, sending him spiralling through the air and through one of the glass pillars that surrounded the dance floor.

Dancers screamed in panic as they started fleeing towards the door. More of Juniors men rushed to their boss' aid and further surrounded the blond boxer. Yang just let out a predatory smile as her yellow bracers unfolded into a pair of Shot-Gauntlets, Ember Celica. She brought a fist back, cocking in a fresh shell into Celica's chamber.

And with that, the thugs rushed in.

Yang's smile never vanished as she deftly leapt into the air and over her attackers, rearing back a smoking fist before slamming into the ground, causing an explosive shockwave that sent the crowd of thugs flying back. Yang was surrounded by fire as she smirked at the downed grunts, bringing her hands up into a textbook boxing stance, waiting for the first of the grunts to get back up to their feet. And once they finally got up and went after the girl, she let loose a whirlwind of punches, kicks, and buckshot from Celica as she systematically tore the thugs apart. Blocking their blades with her armored gauntlets and countering with a bullet enhanced punch, she made short work of the tactless grunts before dodging out of the way of a spray of bullets courtesy of the bear themed DJ and his machine gun.

Bringing her gauntlets up to defend her face as she bobbed and weaved through the hail of gunfire, she used the explosive force from her weapons to launch herself up to the DJ and kicking him in his bear hat wearing head, slamming him against the wall behind him. She then reached forwards and grabbed him by the arm, throwing him with an explosive toss back down to the dance floor where his bear hat fell off and slid to the feet of the now armed twins.

"Melanie, who is that girl?" the one in red asked.

"I don't know Miltia, but we should teach her a lesson." Melanie said as she idly scrapped her bladed heels on the ground, eager to start the fight as her sister finished strapping her massive red claws to her hands.

Yang frowned at the two before she popped the empty shells out of Ember Celica, proceeding to toss two fresh belts of ammo into the air and catching them in their respective chambers. Cocking her fist back, the blond shot off round after round at the twins before hopping down from the DJ booth and back to the dance floor.

Showing off their dexterity, the twins easily dodged the projectiles and made their way towards the stationary blond boxer. Yang was forced to stop her barrage of bullets and duck underneath Miltia's claws, and just barely brought up her gauntlets to block a bladed kick from the girl's sister.

Sliding back, Yang loaded a fresh cartridge into Celica's chamber and launched another shot at the twins. Melanie brought up her bladed heel and deflected the shot with a well placed kick, the dust infused bullet shattering another of the glass pillars around the dance floor.

With that, the twins rushed the still reloading blond.

Melanie rushed in with a flying kick, being blocked by the blonds yellow gauntlet. However, before Yang could counter the over extended girl, her Sister came in with a slash towards the blonde's midsection, forcing her to back step out of the way. Yang then tried to lung with a right cross, only for Melanie to kick the offending arm off course, causing her to miss. The twin in white then continued to drop into a leg sweep and take the blond's legs out from under her, while the Red twin used her prone sister as a springboard to enhance her own attack and send Yang reeling back with a vicious claw to the unbalanced girl's stomach.

Yang growled as she slid back and regained her balance, her eyes flashing red as her hair began to glow. Suddenly with a burst of speed she formerly did not posses, Yang shot forwards and delivered a heavy blow to the White twin, sending her sliding across the dance floor and away from her sister.

Using Miltia's shock from seeing her sister being sent flying, Yang began to unleash a flurry of blows at the Red twin, her claws barely keeping up with the empowered blond. She didn't last long as Yang used her armored gauntlet to tear through her guard. Striking the Red twin in the stomach, Yang pulled the trigger on Celica causing a small explosion to knock the girl into the air, only to take three more similar strikes from the blond before being knocked clear through the dance floor and through the final glass pillar.

As soon as Miltia crashed through the pillar, the poor girl landed on the floor and slid to the bar, her head hitting a stool with a hard 'thunk'.

The blond bartender who had been watching this all go down just sighed as placed a yellow colored drink with red syrup slowly fading down the liquid onto the bar. Looking over the bar he saw Miltia was out cold, and looking up, he could see Melanie getting thrashed now that she was alone as well.

"...haaaa…." he sighed in exasperation before using his one arm to vault himself casually over the bar and began to walk out onto the dance floor just in time for the blond girl to knock the white themed twin out with a spinning kick to the face.

"...Alright...now or never I guess…."

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Yang was panting lightly as she returned to her initial ready stance, waiting for any other opponents to make themselves known. Her Aura enhanced senses picked up on the click of dress shoes across the dance floor, causing her to whip around to find the source.

"Jeez kid, Junior doesn't have what you want so ya go n' wreck the place? That ain't cool, without this club I don't got a paycheck…"

It was the bartender she ordered her drink from from before. She narrowed her eyes at him while he walked out to her with a casual gate to his step.

He was tall, taller than her at least. He looked around six foot, maybe six-one. The guy wore the typical dress for employee's at the club, minus the fedora and the shades of course, letting his wild and spiky blond hair to flow free and his striking blue eyes to stare directly at her. Physically, he wasn't much to scoff at. Even with the suit she could tell he was fit underneath, a swimmers physique with broad shoulders and a strong looking jaw. Though, the only thing that was overly striking about him was either the three whisker like marks on each of his cheeks, or the fact his right sleeve was folded up and sewn to his bicep, showing he only had a single arm, and that his right arm was cut off just above the elbow.

"Listen pal, I don't want to fight you so why don't you go back to the bar alright?" She said while placing an armored hand on her cocked hip, giving the older looking blond a hard stare. All she got in return was a sigh as the blond brought up his one good arm to scratch the back of his head.

"Ugh...Now I can't do that kiddo. You sort of trashed the place, and as an employee here, I'm sorta obligated to get you to pay for the damages soooo….yeah. You're gonna have to pay for all this, and the drink you ordered, of course." He said as he pointed towards the bar where her drink was still sitting, little umbrella and all.

Yang looked over to the bar and blinked at the drink with a surprised look on her face. "Yeah, well I don-" she started to say as she turned back to the blond, only to feel a heavy and painful force hit her face sending her flying across the club and into a table on the second level above the dance floor.

The blond bartender stood where she once did with his fist outstretched and sighed as he set himself back into his lazy stance, looking at where the blond landed and waited for her to get back up.

And get back up she did. With a burst of fire erupting around her which shattered several other tables in the area Yang yelled in anger as she jumped high into the air with a boost from Ember Celica, and launched herself towards the blond bartender.

The one armed man just jumped back as the blond boxer landed where he was and slammed her fist into the ground, forming a small crater there. Her eyes were a burning red now and her hair had wisps of flame flowing out from it.

"Huh, neat…" the blond man said with a quirked eyebrow as he watched the girl slam her fists together and charge forwards again.

"This is for the cheap shot you prick!" she yelled as she threw a heavy right cross towards his face, one that he swiftly moved his head out of the way of. She growled and continued her combo. She continued to throw punches until she got fed up with the guy just weaving out of the way with barely an inch of room between him and her fists and decided to add in a few kicks.

After another missed jab she tried to bring a knee up and catch him in his stomach, only for the man himself to bring up his own leg and completely block her before she could come close to hitting him, the force behind the block was enough to make her stumble on her one leg, leaving a momentary opening for the blond man to exploit. He brought up his one good arm and gave the girl a harsh shove, palm striking the center of her chest, sending her sliding across the dance floor until she skidded to a stop.

Using the momentum she was given, she rolled backwards and onto her feet and used her gauntlets to launch herself back at the blond man with incredible speed that she was sure he wouldn't able to react to. Though, a downside to this would be the fact that her attack was incredibly linear, so the man merely side stepped her as she fired off and watched as she sailed past him.

"Look kid, are ya done yet?" he asked as she huffed in anger as she turned back to face him. Seeing her eyes still blazing red, the blond man just let out a tired sigh before he looked her directly in the eyes, a frown forming on his face as his eyebrows began to furrow.

And just like that, Yang was nearly brought to her knees by the sheer force of his gaze. She felt as if hell itself was looking down at her through his cerulean eyes. She began to choke on the very air as a miasma of foreboding dread filled her and completely knocked her out of her semblance. Her knees grew weak as she fell to the ground, hands shaking as she stared in fear at the older blond.

However, just as quickly as the feeling appeared, it ended as the sliding doors to the Club burst open and several officers suited up in full assault gear entered the club, weapons trained on the both of them.

"Everyone freeze! VPD!" the leading officer shouted as he brandished his rifle and pointed it directly at the blond bartenders head.

The blond man sighed once more and brought up his hands in surrender, faintly muttering something Yang barely caught.

"Goddammit...not again with these guys…"

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(A/N): To be continued…

...Don't hate me...please...I know I have other stuff to be working on *cough* Immortal finale *cough* but I had a spark, something I haven't had in like, a year. Plus, I'm competing in the NaNoRiMo competition to write 50,000 words in a month. I say 'competing' because I started late and probably won't finish on time. But eh, I'll give it a shot.

In regards to The Oracle and The Twice Caged Bird...I mean...after all this time, I just lost track of what I wanted to do with them and completely forgot the story I was trying to do with them. So, sorry to say, they are on indefinite Hiatus. The First Immortal though, is almost done. I'm just trying to tie a decent ending together...which is MUCH harder than it seems.

Anyway, I'm really getting back into the groove with this one I think. Anonymous Jonin also did not help me with the editing so if there are any grammar mistakes that I myself missed, don't hesitate to POLITELY call me out on them, thnx :D

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