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Life in Konoha was quite normal these days. The civilians moved about selling their goods and took care of their businesses, and overall people were very happy. The genin in the village were meandering about running after cats, painting fences and doing all types of meaningless typically mind numbing jobs that gave the older shinobi well deserved humor breaks.
The chuunin were currently at work bustling about around the village doing their assigned jobs, not slacking in the least. The jounin in the village ambled about having no immediate missions to complete. Most would sit in the fast-food joints, gossiping like old women. If there was one thing that held true about any shinobi village was that the ninja were worse gossips than the old civilian women and that was saying something. ANBU ran, easily patrolling the village looking bored behind their masks about the inaction in times of peace. Not that anyone would want another war, it was just they wanted to do something other than patrol the village. Even signing up for guard duty of the troublesome duo seemed better, because those shinobi at least got to apply their minds to something other than run around the village in a mind-numbing routine. Ask any ANBU and they would tell you just how quickly that got old!
However, one simple incident ran round and round in all their minds. Most of the Shinobi and Kunoichi would snicker out of nowhere and their insanity could be blamed to the above mentioned incident which happened a week ago.
The official story was that Yondaime-sama had gotten so bored of all the paperwork that he left the village without permission or following any protocol. And the minute he came back there were flashes of the Yondaime all over the village as he got chased around by his wife, who refused to listen to reason. The reports then stated that the Yondaime had played dirty by hiding behind his seven year old son and in one smooth move had kissed the red-headed woman in a shameless PDA (according to the stuck up ninja in the village) and had later whispered something that made Kushina–sama blush and nod, and then the both of them were gone. Poor Naruto who went ignored by his parents had stomped through the street and less than a day later there was an enormous very detailed prank that was directed at the ANBU of the village. (This was something the ANBU hated about the Yondaime's family. Any wrongdoing by the Yondaime and the ANBU in the village paid for it. Not that it happened very often.)
Every person in the village had different perspective over the Yondaime's disappearance and his subsequent reappearance and the following incidents. The Genin and children of the village thought it was quite funny to watch their adored dorky leader get chased by the red-headed woman. The chunin enjoyed the show and wondered if they would ever be allowed to slack off and get away with their duties and tried to not see the obvious implications for they did not want headaches. Although some chunin suspected something big was at play. The jounin of the village knew there was something wrong but most of them ignored it hoping they would be wrong. The ANBU definitely knew something was wrong but unlike the jounin could not ignore the feeling as their arms throbbed with the feel of their Kage's killing intent. The people who knew the most though would be the Clan Council.
The skilled members of the hospital staff watched several henged, indistinguishable members stroll through the hospital throughout the week. What only Tsunade-sama and her apprentice knew was that the top floor of the hospital which was usually reserved for high-end suspects and guests was now occupied by a person who looked to be about 20 years old: A twenty year old male with the worst case of poisoning and some of the most gruesome burns to ever be witnessed on a person.
Senju Tsunade watched the everyday goings-on in the village out of her window and looked at the deceptive peace that held the village in its arms. The peace which would be shattered to its last fiber the second the boy's involvement in the Kyuubi's attack makes itself known. Even if the boy had saved the life of their beloved Yondaime and his wife, they would definitely fear the person who could very well control a Bijuu. That was the fickle thing about the human mind. You fear anything you don't understand, Tsunade thought to herself. The boy had put up an impressive fight against his injuries but the true victory over that battle happened only after his admittance into Tsunade's tender care.
The poison was unlike anything even Tsunade had seen. It was something she would bet her finest sake bottle on, that even Orochimaru, her idiot-ex-teammate-of-a-missing-nin and poison expert extraordinaire would deny having ever seen. By all possible counts the boy should have been dead already! But there he was on the top level of the hospital breathing. That boy had an impressive resistance against poisons, as impressive as Orochimaru's own. The second Minato had brought the male back to the hospital, Tsunade had very quickly diagnosed his condition. There were multiple contusions, a little internal bleeding, a liver that had swollen to the size of a balloon, a fractured thigh bone and a punctured lung. In all her medical career Tsunade had always known what to do when a patient was brought in, but after seeing the boy she knew she had no idea where to start.
It took the Hatake brat's yelling for her to decide. She quickly removed as much poison she could from the boy's body; it took about to 20 minutes to remove an exact amount of 97 percent. Her apprentice, Shizune, then started on healing the boy's liver and that took about an hour to restore its shape to at least 50 percent of its natural size, and restore its function to a minimum of 45 percent. The minute he was healed a little the boy had put up an impressive fight as his instincts probably screamed for him to get away from the others in the room, never mind the fact that he could barely move. It took Itachi and Kakashi to move in and pin him down, both being mindful of the person's injuries. A brief flare of their combined chakra seemed to freeze the boy and he'd surrendered without a hint of fight after. The boy had an impressive affinity to lightning though because even in a condition like that he'd managed to zap everyone who laid hands on him and that little zap had hurt. Minato and Kushina had entered at some point during the fiasco and watched the situation with gaping mouths. It would have been funny to see Kushina gaping in any other situation.
After that it was decided to bind the boy's chakra away to prevent future zapping sessions. And that earned a low animalistic growl from the boy- he was still awake? It was probably at that point that the Uchiha matriarch entered looking for all intents and purposes to be on a mission. She carefully laid her index finger onto the boy's forehead and whispered the word sleep. It actually worked, the boy had fallen asleep in less than a minute after that and that told Tsunade just how much of Mikoto's title as the Genjustsu Mistress was true. But credit went to the boy for being able to fight against it for a whole minute before succumbing to sleep. She then worked her chakra to heal the internal wounds silently urging Tsunade to resume healing as well; all the while Fugaku watched silently standing behind Itachi and Kakashi.
Tsunade then proceeded to heal the burns- a good majority of them were on his chest. It was quite a surprise to see that there were none on his face though it was covered with matted dust filled dark hair. The burns as they turned out were easily removed and most of them hadn't even scarred. There was one particularly nasty injury on his left arm which would definitely scar, that Shizune. Later, Shizune took on the process of detangling the boy's hair which was long and surprisingly very thick. The long black locks were difficult to deal with and Shizune more or less complained about the entire thing for the next full hour, threatening to cut it off only to have Itachi and Mikoto turn a passive look at her that chilled her apprentice to the bone. The entire thing would have been funny were it not for their patient.
The entire stabilizing process took about five whole hours and Tsunade was more than glad that she had another person who could share the burden with her and Shizune. The boy's internal injuries and broken bones were easy to deal with once the whole life threatening poison and liver conditions and infection causing burns were dealt with.
It took Tsunade a second to realize that everyone in the room was staring at the boy and another complete minute to realize why. There was the boy who caused her trouble for five whole hours. The boy's, no man's- she had to call him that because he barely looked younger than Kakashi- face was for the first time dust free and blood free- and she had to bite back a gasp at how very much the boy resembled Uchiha Madara's picture.
Uchiha Fugaku broke the silence in a deadpan tone, "Look at that, he's definitely an Uchiha ."
Six pairs of wide incredulous stared back at the man, when Tsunade broke through it first. "Thank you for that Captain Obvious. We've decided to hire you for the TV show 'why people never piss off an angry Kunoichi.'" She deadpanned.
Fugaku barely even heard her as he moved forward and that seemed to be the cue because suddenly no one in the room could stand still. The boy had the pale complexion that only an Uchiha would, his long black tresses seemed to have a mind of their as they stuck up in all the sides even when Shizune fixed them half a minute ago. There was long scar running down the boy's left cheek, the injury would have surely taken his eye out but miraculously the eye was still there and healthy at that. Though the chakra pathways to the eyes were severely burnt; it would take atleast six months for a non- Uzumaki torecover from such extensive damage. She was very sure that it would be a month before the boy would literally be able to open his eyes without passing out from the pain. Tsunade wanted to get a more comprehensive study on the Uchiha's burnt eyes pathways and she wanted nothing more than to send the slightest bit of her chakra to his eyes and find out their fascinating secrets. The Uchiha's pathways would always be far more extensive than a Hyuuga, to sate her curiosity. But before she could a small hand stopped her.
She turned to look at the owner of the hand and found the Heir to the Uchiha staring at her with an impassive expression.
She raised an eyebrow at that, silently commending the Uchiha on not withering away like many of her subordinates, and quietly commanding to answer the question before she sent him through a wall.
"Foreign chakra near an Uchiha's eyes will bring out a survival reaction," Kakashi explained. "That is the only reason behind his chakra flaring a while ago. You've got to be the most oblivious person Tsunade-sama."
The last satement earned Kakashi a glare and he hastily took a step back from her. But before Tsunade could deal any damage to the wayward grumpy and now idiotic student of the Yondaime, Kushina spoke up, "Mikoto, he has additional pathways to his eyes."
That lilting statement had everyone turning to stare at the Head Medic.
"Extra pathways like Shihsui's, Kakashi-senpai's and mine?" Itachi asked, politely.
"No. He has a few extra ones in addition to the ones I've seen active in you," Tsunade muttered. "This Kid is going to be just as troublesome as the other Uchiha."
The statement was simply one to tease the Uchiha present in the room instead of trying to offend them. Fugaku smirked and said, "only a Senju would find an Uchiha troublesome."
Tsunade took a sake bottle from her cabinet and quickly drank from it before her apprentice and long time companion Shizune came to get her to the meeting. Ugh another meeting with the juvenile clan heads! On second thought Tsunade drank as much as she could from the bottle, sake was the only thing that would keep her sane during that meeting.
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The Yondaime was currently presiding over a Clan meeting- which in other words only meant that he, the Yondaime Hokage, was playing the role of glorified babysitter to a bunch of attention-craving, overgrown toddlers. But the current issue and the reason for the meeting to actually take place because of their mysterious subject Savior and his blatant disregard for SOP. The thing they were discussing at the moment had less to do with the boy and more to do with his disappearance.
Most of the Clan Heads had already been to visit the young adult. Minato, for his part, was trying his best, to calm the pool of children gathered there, but all his efforts fell on rather deaf ears thanks to the loud voices of the people in the room.
His well-known patience was quickly dwindling- to the point where he was considering the consequences of the murder of every single Clan Head. It was quite easy to see if one would simply look at their beloved Yondaime. Not even Naruto's pranks left him with such low levels of patience. But that was to be expected considering the circumstances. The Yondaime had been on edge ever since the mysterious man was brought back. What they were discussing- the politest word for, arguing like kids, Minato could find at the moment- was what to do with the person.
When a particularly loud growl erupted from the Inuzuka Clan Head, Minato finally decided that he'd had enough of the fuss and let his killing intent slowly fill the room. The sudden chill of the normally warm chakra of the Hokage had nearly everyone in the room gasping and turning to the source.
There were only a few people, namely Fugaku, Inoichi, Kushina and Tsunade,, who remained calm in the sudden threat of the Yondaime's chakra. These people had all somehow been in contact with the man, unconscious he may be, that they were deciding the fate of.
"Are you done squabbling like the children you are?" the Yondaime's smooth dangerous alto sounded. This was the man who slaughtered hundreds of Iwa men in the Third War. This was the man who was responsible for their victory in that war, and this was the man they were never ever supposed to piss off - which they had, spectacularly so.
When no voice rose, the Yondaime continued, "Since you are done, let us discuss this like adults and make a decision before my child decides that I haven't been paying much attention to him and starts another prank-a-thon with the cute devil prince from the Uchiha clan."
Everyone blanched at that thought, while Kushina just smirked as if the thought of another prank war had her blood pumping even more fiercely.
Fugaku's eye twitched at hearing his son being addressed in such an informal, disrespectful manner but he knew the Yondaime was right. The two of them were a bad combo to the Uchiha police who were the ones who usually cleaned up the messes the brats created. The last mess from the impromptu war took about two weeks to clean and that was saying something.
"Inoichi, now that everyones' stopped behaving like kids tell us what you found from the mind-walk? I've asked you to keep your own counsel until we all met and now I'd like to know."
Inoichi looked like the prey of a hunter-nin for a second and looked too dazed to answer. In fact he'd been behaving that way for the past few ever since he took a trip into the man's mind.
"Inoichi? The council's waiting and- would you like more time to think about how you want to phrase this?" Yondaime asked.
A slow nod, and if people were worried about the sudden appearance of another Uchiha they were even more worried now. Minato sighed thinking of how spectacularly things were going in the meeting. He shook his head from the morbid thoughts and focused on the woman who'd healed a majority of the Subject's injuries.
"Tsunade-sama if you can please describe his injuries and his possible power level?" Minato prompted.
"Oh I will, you little brat! Kushina dear, promise me you'll buy me a drink after this wretched meeting. I have a very bad feeling I might need it."
"I'm gonna Mikoto too, don't worry you old Hag. We'll drink as much as we want onc this stupid meeting is done with."
The head Medic was obviously drunk and to Minato's total surprise, none of the Clan Heads seemed extremely surprised at seeing her drunk. But still Minato was the Hokage, so he had to at least try and curb the behavior.
"Tsunade-sama! Kushina!"
"Oh, hush, Minato! We've been through a lot in the past few days. Do you know just how much of a troublemaker your son is?"
"Oh now he's my son?! I can quote you at least ten times from the last twenty days only, about how talented your son is at pranking!"
"Okay, okay. Here we go," Tsunade began before the Hokage and the Clan Head could start a lovers' spat right in front of them all. So she continued:" The Subject was brought to the hospital a week ago at 1825 hours by our beloved Yondaime himself. Upon first glance it was not apparent that the man was Uchiha and it was very apparent that the man had severe injuries, the injuries the likes of which would have killed any other ninja."
"He had several life threatening injuries, the likes of which I'm not going to bore you with. If you want to know, you can read this report here. Though I'm sure most of you know what he's been through from the time you've spent staring at him through the glass in my hospital. But I will say this that boy is as stubborn as Kushina herself here."
"His chest was covered with burns and his liver was swollen to the size of let's say Minato rasengan because of all the work it did to neutralize the poison that was running in his system. Poison which should have killed him but there he is lying on the hospital bed hooked up to several tubes recovering."
"As for what I've observed of his chakra network: The boy has a very high affinity to lightning chakra, could almost rival Kakashi's as he tried to nearly destroy our nerves after we observed a panic attack he seemed to have at his condition. His chakra pathways are very well developed and his chakra reserves could rival any elite Jounin's."
Silence settled in the room heavily like a suffocating blanket, when Inoichi spoke, startling everyone in the room with his unusually quiet voice which unnerved the Clan Heads and the Hokage even more.
"His mind is a very….. disturbing?... no…. how do i put it?- a difficult and scary place to be in, that should describe it perfectly. He's obviously been tortured with torture genjutsu before more than once if you ask me, so much so that it shattered his normal mindscape- and his memories float about in the mind without restrain. There's a big door in the end, a door made of solid substance, something I know cannot be broken by any of my mind jutsu, not that I tried especially hard. I was trying to be mindful of the injuries his mind sustained. The overall feel of his mind was one of deepest grief I've ever seen in any person, the kind of grief that a person can only experience after losing everything. I didn't delve into any of his memories Minato; it seemed far too disrespectful and far too intimate."
Inoichi's voice was soft, tired and so heartbroken that Minato couldn't help but reconsider his decision to send him into the boy's mind.
"What do you think of him, Inoichi? Is he a threat?"
"I don't believe so, Minato. From the point of a psychologist what I think he needs is a stable place to recover. He has good potential to love the village as a whole. All he needs, I'm saying this as the head of T&I, is an ANBU team to monitor him for a month- like a probation. From my position as a father and the head of the clan all I think he needs is a family and a clan where he could grieve his losses."
Inoichi's words were met with an even more heavy silence than before. Inoichi who looked dazed at the beginning looked very determined in the end. His pale blue eyes shone with a determination to take care of the boy.
"If he is as you said that broken, then what is the possibility that he wouldn't attack anyone in the village? In that scenario would it not be better to simply eliminate the threat that the man poses?" Aburame Shibi stated quietly.
Before anyone could protest the thought, a firm voice took command of the room. "If it is your decision to eliminate Nii-san, then the second the orders are passed, I'll defect."
Itachi's threat rang rampant in the room. "We, I speak of the Uchiha as a whole, can care for Nii-san, and his position is with the rest of the Uchiha."
Fugaku hardly looked phased by his eldest son's threat. He looked oddly pleased by it, in fact. Itachi himself had a glint of steel in his eyes as he continued to scan the room for people to refute his decision.
"Please do not take offence Itachi-kun, I was merely thinking out loud and bringing out scenarios. I do believe we have enough people like Minato-sama, Kakashi-kun and several others if the need ever arises. I had not meant to offend you," Aburame whispered.
"I know you never meant it that way, Aburame-sama, but this question was bound to come up sooner or later-"
"You would risk treason, Itachi-kun?" Kushina asked softly. Everyone in the room knew just how much the Uchiha heir loved the village.
"This village was built upon the feelings of brotherhood and family, Kushina-sama. So of course I would for another family member."
The short reply had people's eyes widening.
Shikaku had been thoroughly enjoying the meeting for awhile until Minato decided to ruin by letting his killing intent out. He was the only one who noticed that unlike the other meetings where Kushina would be sitting right next to Minato, she was now sitting half the table away, causing Minato some unneeded misery. Usually whenever the people in this room behaved like kids Minato would very well ignore them all until they sorted their troubles by themselves. He would deliberately play footsie under the table with the Uzumaki clan Head looking extremely pleased. But today the man had out of habit tried to do the same and had instead poked Hiashi's leg which elicited a growl from the stoic man and a stunned, stupid laughter from Kushina; from there the entire meeting went downhill.
Tsunade's and Inoichi's accounts of the troubled young man in the hospital had shaken everyone, despite how well they tried to hide it. What shook them more was Itachi's blatant threat of leaving the village if they'd not given the man a chance to settle here, but it all had the desired effect. The Head of the Jounin knew that there was a lot the Hokage, Uchiha clan head and heir were not saying. Some of which: the boy had saved Minato's life and in turn saved Kushina's life seven years ago. Also Tsunade was wrong in her assumption of the boy just being of jounin level. The boy was clearly more than that as he'd been able to save Minato seven years ago. The boy who looked to be of the same age as Kakashi, then that meant the boy had to be fourteen years old when he saved Minato.
The boy's issue was definitely going to cause a lot of trouble if people found out what had happened during the Kyuubi's attack. They didn't even know the boy's name and if he knew where this was going which he surely does the boy was going to end up with the Uchiha, which could mean trouble for the clan in the future. Truth could never be hidden forever of course.
For now Shikaku merely decided to enjoy the peace of the moment; and the only way to prolong it if possible by beating his lazy son in shogi again after he went home. The peace it brings to his mind when he beats his son in shogi everyday and seeing his son trying to outmaneuver him, it was the only true way for a Nara to relax.
Inuzuka Tsume, for some reason, Shikaku thought, wanted to be a difficult woman that day. She had started muttering and growling unintelligibly under her throat. But for some reason her next words were quite clear and easily understood.
"It is all well and good that you want to give that pup a pack, you little brat. But what I want to know is how – no where he ended up coming from. How did a pup his age stray from the Uchiha in our village?"
That question, Shikaku knew, plagued the minds of every Clan Head ever since the beginning of the meeting, but nobody dared to mention a word about it, for some reason. The head of the Inuzuka leaned forward letting her face rest on the palm of her hand. She scratched the table slightly with her other hand, looking straight at the Yondaime demanding an answer to her question.
Minato seemed to deliberate for a second. He stared at the table in front of him and waited for the Uchiha clan head to answer the question but it seemed Fugaku wanted nothing to do with the question. The head of the Uchiha was staring out the window located next to him with the Heir closing his eyes in exasperation. Irritation at how the meeting seemed to be going on for hours with the promise of it never ending. Itachi could feel the ANBU shifting restlessly in the shadows of the room. He could feel just how irritated they were with this farce of a clan meeting. Granted clan meetings had never been that bad since Dnazo's exile and the council's 'unexpected demise', but today it was nothing more than that. Itachi sighed audibly. But no one paid him enough attention to comment on that, the ANBU did but their comments and vulgar suggestions of loosening up would come later. He shook his head a smile threatening to make an appearance. But he kept his cool because he needed to have Nii-san with him. The way he'd been found, Itachi shuddered inwardly, feeling a deep seated desire to protect the man, no Uchiha Haru. (That was the name the man had given him just before he passed out in the forest; not that anyone other than Uchiha Itachi knew that) Though he was not sure why he felt the need to protect a grown man who, he knew, had to be stronger than him. But just the thought of something happening to him had Itachi's heart palpitating. The only time he'd ever felt such pain was when he saw his baby brother struggling to breathe during the Kyuubi's attack years ago.
But for the question at hand Itachi knew the answer but decided that it was not necessary for the Council to know. It was something specific to the Clan and he was vaguely surprised that his father had not even uttered a word to answer the question choosing to let his gaze drift to the window, while he lazily ran circles on the table with a finger, his mind far away from the meeting.
Minato cleared his throat and answered in a solemn voice, "Where he comes from is an S-class secret, Tsume. I do believe that he will be the last stray Uchiha we ever pick up. I will however divulge his origins if the boy agrees to it."
Itachi flinched slightly at the word stray, but said nothing. His father glanced at the Yondaime and a silent conversation passed between them in the briefest of seconds. It was amazing to see how quickly Minato-sama's charismatic approach had integrated the Uchiha back into the village. It was quite a wonder truly, itachi thought. Itachi had been in peace ever since Danzo's exile and that peaceful feeling only escalated when the clan after a several years of ostracism had managed to form such heavy bonds with the rest of the village. Now, the Uchiha truly believed in the words, 'the Village was the Clan and the Clan was the Village.'
But Itachi could only find one thing wrong with the whole situation and that would be Sasuke. For a week Itachi had been extremely busy with guard duty of Nii-san and he hadn't had enough time to just sit with his brother and poke at his forehead. The last time Itachi had unknowingly avoided his brother due to his duty, Itachi found his entire ANBU team' s supplies swapped with that of blunted kunai of the academy. The pranks continued and after a certain time, the pranks went on getting and more and more bizarre and risky and idiotic to spend any time on, but Itachi would admit the pranks were good way to practice trap making. The pranks just screamed one thing, 'Aniki come back home already. I know you're here!'. His little brother wanted attention and he was quite willing to let the Village's Elite suffer the consequences and Itachi's commanding Officer had quite discreetly shoved Itachi out the building after the sixth bizarre prank.
Now he hadn't spent enough time with his brother and a part of dreaded to find out what consequences that would entail. He had to talk Kakashi-senpai into guard duty for Nii-san. Absolutely had to, before the first prank starts. He was very grateful to his mother for running interference, but he didn't know how long it would take for Sasuke to snap. And his 7 year old otouto snapping was not the best thing there is and anyone who'd seen the prank war Naruto and his beloved otouto started, would know. On a lighter note, they needed to bring a balance to those two or they were very likely to simply burn the Village down in the midst of their adventurous prankathons.
Itachi decided he's tuned out enough of the monologue of the Clan heads and focused on the topics they were discussing. Thankfully, they'd all moved onto other topics of discussion and were making significant progress on the Academy's budget and the funds needed for running various businesses of the Clans. The meeting would end now, thankfully and he could go back to guarding Haru Nii-san. But before that he needed to give his little brother what Shisui would call Sasuke's much needed 'Itachi- attention-time.'
Only Shisui would come up with such ridiculous names.
Suddenly the Yondaime gasped, and ordered the meeting 'dismissed" and flashed away. Everyone in the room seemed vaguely irritated at the prospect but the head Medic and certain clan Heads like Uzunaki Kushina and Uchiha Fugaku, instantly tensed.
Everyone slowly flickered out of the room and the above mentioned people simply flickered away to the hospital room, because that could be the only place Minato could flash away to.
Minato on entering the hospital room with his famous signature technique found both Naruto and Sasuke staring at the older Uchiha and could only wonder how the kids had slipped past ANBU guarding him.
The kids were staring at the Uchiha with slightest bit of insecurity and loads of anger. The kind of anger that Naruto and Sasuke only let the world know when they weren't being doted upon. This was not to say that the kids were spoilt, it was the contrary, the kids knew their parents and siblings had a lot of responsibility and had enough patience to deal with a little bit of negligence on their parts. The adults would at least spend a minimum of ten minutes with the kids but with the newest Uchiha in town they barely had enough time to see them with all the political maneuvering that needed to be done so that the Uchiha clan would still be regarded safe for the Village.
The kids were glaring at the boy nestled in the covers of the hospital bed and Minato for the first time since coming into the room feared for the boy's sanity because Naruto and sasuke going on a resentment trip was really not all that fun. Ask his ANBu if anyone didn't believe it.
Second Chapter done!
I'm a little scared about how this chapter turned out and with all the response from the previous chapter I'm even more nervous about posting this. So please tell me what you think. Constructive criticism greatly appreciated! Once again thanks to all the people who've reviewed fav'ed and followed this fic!
P.S: A question for you all though: what do you think the average length of a chapter should be? Is 5000- 6000 words enough? I've asked some of the people who've reviewed and now I want to ask all the general readers.