A/N: This was a fun one to write! :D I got another review yay! Hooray Review. Btw just to let everyone know my Disclaimer carries throughout this entire story! Just to let everyone know , Anywho on with story!

Even though Sakura and Sasuke really wanted to bring there blond friend and teammate home after being gone for so long they weren't traveling as fast as they could have for the sheer reason that said blond was nervous as they had ever seen him. Of course he wasn't really worried about Tsunade beating him up like his teammates first teased him about, he was more worried about the villagers reactions to having him back. He hoped that everyone still felt the same way about him as they did when he defeated Pain. Deep down however he still knew that a lot of the older villagers didn't like him still but they would never say anything out against him like they once did. He had proven himself to not be the fox many times but some wounds never can heal without leaving a mark reminding people what happened.

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After getting to the half way point Sasuke and Sakura veered off the road and into the woods a little distance with Naruto absentmindedly following after them. When they came to a stop and threw there packs down the noise forced to blond to look around. "Hey, what is going on?"

"Naruto…. Were you not even paying attention to what we were talking about? We are going to camp here for the night then finish getting to Konoha tomorrow, we believe we have taken enough time letting you get adjusted to the thought of going home." Quickly after seeing a slight flash of surprise cross the blonde's face Sakura added, "Well, we have been traveling for almost a week now."

Naruto flashed a smile and reached up with his right hand and scratched the back of his head. "I'm sorry guys. I don't mean to be such a bother, I really don't. I guess I just don't know what people will think of me."

"Well you know that your twenty years old now and not to mention the fact you mastered both of your father's signature jutsus Tsunade-sempai can probably announce your heritage."

"Yeah, when I turned twenty, Hokage-sama officially handed over all the rights and titles to the Uchiha clan to me. So I am sure that she can do the same for you!"

"Bah, you guys are just trying to cheer me up."

"Well, yeah… But, we are telling you the truth too. Your heritage has to come out sometime and now that you're able to protect yourself and actually of age there is no better time than we get there. Well maybe a little after of course, give everyone a little bit of a chance to settle down once there great hero gets there."

Naruto's head was down and his eyes were closed, when he finally spoke his words were little more than a whisper; "I am no hero; if I was hero then people would love me."

"Naruto, people do love you. I love you, Sasuke loves you, all of our friends include the Hokage loves you. The Ichirakus love you, and god knows how many other restaurants miss you coming in and eating like a party of ten. Besides after you left Gaara officially withdrew his alliance from the village, of course you know Tsunade got him to reaccept once she explained to him what actually happened with Danzo and everything."

"Sakura that's enough," Sasuke suddenly said forcing the two to look at him. "If the fool wants to believe that no one cares for him that's his mistake but we both know the truth and once we finally get him back to village he will see and understand how wrong he is." Then with that out there Sasuke turned and began setting up his tent, which prompted Sakura to go ahead and start helping with setting things up. Naruto however just stood there taking in the words that the Uchiha had said and slowly as he digested them a smile pushed across his face.

"Hey Sasuke, sorry about that I guess I just get a little emotional sometimes when I think about the place I had to drag your ass back to, you know when you were being all emo and decided to run after Orochimaru."

Sasuke didn't even turn around and instead opted to raise a hand behind him and flick off the blond, Sakura however just started giggling at the two shinobi which caused the other two to begin laughing as well. Once the antics played out Naruto began setting up his tent and once he was finished he realized there were only two tents and his was only big enough for one person. "Uhm, are you guys sharing a tent or is there another one around here or something?"

Sasuke turned to Naruto with a questioning face before Sakura jumped in, "Naruto, me and Sasuke are dating, don't you remember in your own story just a few days ago that Konohamaru told you that we were a couple."

"Yeah, but on missions you should never have just one tent. Especially if there isn't going to be a lookout or anything, because what happens if you guys only have one tent and it gets surrounded and bam you two are toast." The blonde's two teammates just sat there dumbly staring at him.

"What?"

"Just because there is one tent doesn't mean we are in it together, one of us is on watch while the other one sleeps. We normally do missions together just due to the fact that our fighting skills go so well together."

"Ah, my bad guys I wasn't trying to say you were incompetent and didn't take watch but I guess I just never liked the idea of being so close to someone."

"What are you talking about? You use to ask me out on dates all the time."

"Yeah, and did you ever accept Sakura?"

"Well, no I didn't I mean back then it was kind of annoying having someone come after you and say they loved you every single day…" Sakura turned to her boyfriend, "And just what in the hell do you think is so funny Mr.?"

Sasuke began to laugh harder as he realized that Sakura didn't even know that she was also talking about how she use to be before she began to train with Tsunade. Finally seeing that Sakura was getting annoyed he stopped laughing and sat down and looked at her. "Well, my dear princess. Do you know who would follow me around every single day since the beginning of the academy confessing her love for me and arguing with other people that did the same?"

Sakura of course had the decency to blush when she realized what she had been saying to the blond however her musings were cut short when there was the sound of someone running towards them forcing all three of the shinobi in the clearing to take to the trees. When they looked down and saw who was running into there camped they tensed up thinking it could be a genjutsu for down in the camp was Kiba and it looked like a good chunk of his upper arm was missing.

Suddenly the figure out below called out to them, "Sasuke, Sakura I can smell you guys. Come on I need some help! Identification one-one-eight-nine-six-three, there get your asses down here I got to get my arm fixed and go back and get Shino and Hinata."

Jumping down Sakura tapped Kiba with a chakra infused finger making sure it wasn't a genjutsu one last time before Sasuke and Naruto followed scaring the shit out of the dog boy, "Na-Naruto?! Where the fucks have you been I couldn't even smell your scent!" Just as Naruto was about to reply Kiba waved him off with his good arm while Sakura continued to heal his bad one. "Never mind that you and Sasuke need to go get Hinata and Shino we were on a mission to capture some rogue nin's and it turns out there is more than what was said in the mission dossier. However, I was the only one to get injured and formed a few kage bunshins to take my place while I came to get you guys since it smells like you guys haven't had a shower in a week."

Sasuke was about to ask where the others were when Shino, Akamaru, and Hinata came into the clearing with several ninjas following them. "Quick, take them out before they realize you guys are here!"

After hearing what Kiba said Naruto and Sasuke jumped into action both of them pulling out a sword and charging the ninjas, however they didn't expect another group of rouge ninjas to come up behind them and take on the others. "Sasuke, we have to hurry! Hinata and Shino were low on chakra and while Akamaru wasn't injured Kiba was, and you know Sakura will be fine but I don't want to take any chances." A soft 'Hn' was his only reply before the Uchiha began to form seals, and quickly realizing what he was forming Naruto formed his own and jumped towards the Uchiha. "Fire Style: Great Fireball!"

"Wind Style: Great Breakthrough," Shouted the blond as he jumped over his friends head and directed the cone of wind behind the fireball making it three times the normal size.

"Shit Naruto, I don't think it worked even though that was a nice a trick." Sure enough to what his teammate said only two out of the eight ninjas that they were attacking went down in that attack on however looked his right arm and leg got hurt but he was quickly healing him self.

"Stand back Sasuke I got a new jutsu I want to try out," said Naruto as he was quickly flashing through hand seals. Ending on the dragon seal he called out, "Earth Style: Swamp of the Underworld." The ground before him turned into a swamp effectively catching the six ninjas that attacked his friends, and with a smirk he began another set of hand seals this time ending on rabbit. "Lightning Style: Flat Current!"

Sasuke stared in awe at the performance of a C rank jutsu that was doing the work of an A rank or possibly S rank as it killed the six people Naruto had caught in his Swamp. Quickly shaking off the excitement of having a new sparring partner, Sasuke turned to see Sakura putting down the last ninja with a chakra infused punch that sent the ninja into the ground bloody and broken. "Wow Sakura," came a voice from beside him, "I completely forgot Tsunade trained you to fight like her too!"

Sakura smiled triumphantly "Yeah, I am awesome aren't I?"

"Oh shush pinky, you didn't even see the twenty I took down by myself!"

"What was that? Do you want to pick a fight with me again Hinata?"

"I kicked your ass the last time didn't I?"

Naruto looked at Kiba, Shino and Sasuke as they came over towards him to leave the girls alone. "What the fuck happened while I was gone!"

Kiba and Sasuke began to laugh while Shino let out a quiet chuckle and then began to explain what was funny to them, "Over the last three years or so Hinata began training under Lady Tsunade just like Sakura did, however Hinata took to the lessons faster than Sakura did because of all the chakra training the Hyuuga's use to learn the Jyuuken. Now normally this wouldn't of been a problem as Hinata would never want to supersede any kind of boundries already there but something happened and we are not sure what it was but ever since last year the two began fighting and training together."

"So they always argue like this?"

"Nah man," Kiba decided to cut in. "They only do this when there out on a mission and one of them takes out more enemies than the other. It has only happened a few times but it's pretty funny, it reminds me of how you Sasuke use to be. Anyways how have you been we have all been missing you man!"

"I concur," stated Shino ominously.

Blinking Naruto just looked at Shino, "You still talk like you're the smartest person I know, which you probably would be if I didn't know Shikamaru."

"Again, I concur."

"Anyways I haven't been doing much I guess, just training and wandering around; I finally have control of what is inside me."

"You mean the Kyuubi right?"

"Yeah, I know you guys remember about me telling you about it back when we were trying to capture the three tails."

"That's great man; I can't wait until we get you back home! Everyone is going to go nuts!"

"Eh, whatever you say. Whatever you say, I just am not looking that forward to it. I know the civilians still hate me and despise me like they once did."

"Nah man, Madara declared war on the shinobi nations and forced the five Kages to ban together and create an unstoppable alliance."

"Yeah I know that but what does that have to do with the civilians liking me?"

"Well Tsunade told everyone in the village that it is because of Madara that the Kyuubi attacked the village and the Fourth Hokage was forced to seal it inside of you to stop its destructive power. After she announced that the village was in an uproar about how everyone treated you, I mean I don't think that everyone felt bad because some people are complete and total assholes and should be put down, but most feel really bad. You should see your apartment…" He was stopped when a feeling of killing intent radiated off of Sasuke and Sakura at that last comment.

"Kiba…."

"You weren't supposed to tell him dobe, now he will expect something!"

"Sorry, it's just that I could tell he was really down."

"Wait, what's wrong with my apartment?"

"NOTHING!!! Don't ask again!"

"Yikes, Sakura is still scary… How can you date her?"

"What was that Naruto…?"

"Eh, uh nothing Sakura I promise!" After that was said the blond ran away from the camp and Sakura hoping to avoid her fists.

"Get back here baka!" Sakura ran after him intent on hitting him at least once.

Sasuke looked at Kiba and sighed, "Great I get my best friend back and my girlfriend goes after him to kill him. What the hell man."

"Ha-ha, don't look at me it isn't my fault."

"Yeah, I guess so," Sasuke took a look around. "Anyways what is with these ninjas, why are there so many of the damn things?"

"Sasuke does make a good point Kiba, we weren't told of this many ninjas. I have a feeling this might relate back to the war, which means we need to get back to Konoha tonight in order to pass this information along." Shino stopped and turned towards Sasuke, "Do you wish to accompany us?"

"Yeah, might as well. Naruto will probably do better with being around more of his friends."

"Sasuke-san, is Naruto-kun really that worried about the villagers?'

"Yeah, Hinata, he is worried they will treat him like he isn't even there again."

"What do you mean Sasuke?"

"Well from what Naruto told me, while no one other than maybe Mizuki and a small few others actually tried to physically hurt him most just completely ignored him as a living being. That's why he likes ramen so much, because Teuchi and Ayame actually let him come eat there and didn't ignore him like everyone else did. I think that is also the reason why Naruto acted out so much when we were younger."

"Man, I don't think I could live like that, being ignored and shunned by everyone. I talk to so many people daily its ridiculous."

Sasuke snorted, "That's because they all tell you to take a bath Kiba."

"Stuff it Sasuke."

"Whatever, lets go ahead and eat then we will rush back to the village to deliver the news to the Godaime."

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Thirty Minutes Later

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Naruto and Sasuke sat on one side of the camp with everything packed up while Hinata, Sakura, Kiba, and Shino took care of the bodies belonging to the rogue ninjas.

"You know, Sasuke shouldn't we be helping them?"

"Nah, I always leave that to Sakura because she knows how to permanently dispose of bodies thanks to some of those medical jutsus, and Hinata is just the same. Kiba and Shino are just pointing out where the other bodies are at."

"Yeah I guess."

"What has been bugging you so much? Surely you're not that worried about going back home, right?"

"Meh, I just don't want to lead Madara to Konoha and have him destroy it. I mean I worked hard to train myself in secret and keep my skills high, to tell you the truth I actually knew there was fighting going on close to us when we went to set up camp, but I was so distracted in thought I kept pushing it to the back of my mind."

"What how in the hell did you know?"

"My main chakra affinity is wind, and because of that and the extreme training Kirabi put me under I can control the wind around me just enough to make sure no scents from me are pushed out and that anyone else's scent comes to me."

"Dude that's crazy, how in the hell did you learn that?"

"Well Kirabi is a pretty damn good sensei, he knew more about being a ninja than I ever did that's for sure."

"What do you mean; you have always been a good ninja."

"Nah, I admit I was way to strong headed when I was younger. I had to learn how to think with my head and to know when to follow my instincts and when to disregard them. It was a very hard lesson to learn and one that I didn't master until I fought with Hidan, and Sasori."

"I thought you were fighting Deidra too?"

"Nah, I killed him first while in sage mode with a rasenshurikan, it took the three of them by complete surprise."

"I bet, so anyways why don't you tell me what happened?"

"Don't you mean us?"

"Yeah Sasuke don't hog Naruto all to yourself!"

"Hehe okay guys, but after this we have to leave and get back to the village."

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Flashback

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3 Years ago Outside of Suna

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Naruto had just left Otogakure where he had left a dead Orochimaru, Kabuto and a limitless amount of shinobi fodder in his wake. He knew that Orochimaru had to pay for all the pain he caused his family over the years and what better time than the present. His smile dropped at how Kabuto had actually begged for him to leave Orochimaru alive but sadly the Snake bastard had used Kabuto's body as a decoy and shoved his sword through the grey haired teen shinobi's heart and sliced him in two trying to get to Naruto. He sighed and went back to thinking about Gaara, it had been so long since he had seen his friend and now he was finally going to stop by and see how his insomnia was holding up. Naruto chuckled at his own joke as he crossed through the desert luckily, while training with Kirabi he had learned that walking through sand was like a chakra control technique and perfected it very easily. Unfortunately the sand began to pull under him and towards the village as he noticed Gaara and another shinobi fighting and 3 others outside of the village waiting for him.

Sneaking as close as he thought possible he began to summon sage chakra which unlike his former master took him only a few seconds and soon after summoning a few more clones he formed a rasenshurikan and threw it at the group of three turn to four as one shed what looked like a suit and jumped away unharmed then watched as the three of them that jumped away only one of them jumped straight up so much like he did when he fought pain he used his chakra to expand the blades on the rasenshurikan and catch the one that jumped up with the explosion. The bastard was dead before he hit the ground.

"Hey, Sasori look it's that fucking Kyuubi jinchuriki! Jashin commands his blood be spilt this day stand back."

"I think not Hidan, I am pretty sure that even you would perish if you took him by yourself let us partner up briefly so that we might capture this filth."

"Fine just stay out of my fucking way or I will kill you too!"

"Hah, you and Kakuzu aren't the only two immortals in Akatsuki and you would do well to remember that!"

"Whatever! Now keep him busy while I pray to my lord!"

"Tch, you are such a simpleton. Watch as I capture this fool with my art."

A scroll popped out and Sasori ran chakra through it revealing a figure floating in the air wearing the Kazekage's robes. "What the hell is that," wondered the blond as he prepared to fight it when a smell hit his nostrils that caused him to flinch. The figure was laden with all kinds of poison, whatever it was he had to avoid it at all cost.

'Kit, use my chakra. Remember you can use all nine tails in the cloak or stage two, or you can always release me?'

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(AN: The chakra cloak that the jinchuriki can use is stage 1, the stage 2 is where the chakra becomes youki the demon form of chakra and becomes a shield remember the four tailed Naruto as he fought Orochimaru, then there is stage 3 or summoning the demon out. All of this will be explained in higher detail later on most likely in the next one or two chaps.)

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'Nah Kyuu, I can't let you out this close to the village and I doubt they would let me lead them anywhere. Instead I am going to use stage one nine tails and my fathers jutsu. They won't see it coming, I can promise you that.'

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"Wait, your fathers jutsu? So it is true isn't it? You're the Yondaime's son!"

"Nothing gets passed you Kiba does it?"

"What the hell does that mean Shino?"

"Nothing, besides the fact that the Yondaime sealed the Kyuubi within Naruto and don't forget the fact that if you compared any pictures of the Yondaime to Naruto they look almost exactly the same minus the whisker marks."

"Don't forget the chin! Naruto's chin is a little narrower than his fathers."

"You guys are crazy anyway, back to my story?"

"Yeah, sorry about that continue on."

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'Hah, yeah that's for sure. Just remember to watch out for that Jashin character, the followers of Jashin are crazy and they can only be destroyed by destroying there weapon and there head.'

'What the hell?'

'Trust me kit, there are things out there that would make you laugh at me.'

'I already do fox. I already do…'

'Fuck you, just hurry up and kill them.'

'Right.' Naruto cut the link with his demon as the stage one cloaked formed up around him and he pulled a scroll out of his hip scroll holster and flung it in the air and began to form hand seals while Sasori launched a iron sand attack through his puppet, and Hidan charged the blond hoping to strike him before he finished not know what to expect.

"Scroll of ten hundred kunai, release!" Called out Naruto as the scroll opened up over the battlefield and rained down hundreds of kunai upon the battlefield forcing Sasori and Hidan to stop there attack and defend themselves. Hidan did this by spinning his scythe over his head and deflecting the kunai all around him while Sasori retracted his puppet and forced it to take the damage instead of his body. He stared down at the kunai at the same time Hidan did and they both could only think of one thing, 'what the fuck?!?!'

"Now you two are mine!" With that said there was a dark yellow flash before Sasori realized the bastard was right behind him as a rasengan tore through the bottom half of his puppet body leaving just the torso but more than enough as the blond flashed to Hidan, Sasori flashed through hand seals and watched as his chest cavity opened at the same time one hundred puppets came to life linked to his chest. He was with a little bit of pleasure as Naruto shoved another rasengan into Hidans' weapon shattering it then tried to kill the Jashin follower with another blow to the head but was forced to back off as Sasori finally decided to get his puppets into action and defended the bastard.

Naruto jumped back avoiding the puppet and smirked before flashing away between puppets with a wind style: rasengan that completely shredded through the puppets forcing Sasori to concentrate on trying to lead him into a trap. "Hidan take this!" Sasori rigged a puppet to throw a blade to Hidan and smirked as Naruto began his focus on the Jashin follower again.

Naruto began his attack anew on Hidan that now had another weapon, and fortunately he hadn't been nicked yet so deciding to use the Kyuubi cloak to its max ability he shot his arm forward causing an ethereal arm of chakra to shoot forward and ensnare the bastard. "Time for you to die, you immortal bastard," Naruto smirked as the hand closed around his head and blood splattered across the sands and the body fell limply on top of the Jashin symbol etched into the sand. His smirk was cut short however as a blade stuck out of the front of his jacket.

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"What, you were stabbed! What the hell man, are you okay?"

"Kiba you idiot this was like three years ago, I am sure he is fine right Naruto?"

"Yeah, I got a scar from it actually though. It is my only scar besides the one Sasuke gave me." Silence pushed through the camp as Naruto stood up, "Come on, we will continue this back on the way to Konoha there isn't that much left to tell anyways."

As they got back on the trail through the trees as ninjas do, they kept giving Sasuke dirty glares, even Sakura and finally Naruto caught on to what they were doing as he stopped on a tree and turned around quickly grabbing Kiba before he passed him and shoved him back to where the others are. "Now listen here god damn it! I got over what Sasuke did to me a long time ago and I suggest you do too. When his fucking brother showed up he lost the little bit of life he was slowly gaining back and tried to do what it took to finish his goals and I stopped him from going down that path and I got a little ruffed up on the way but I can't really blame it all on Sasuke due to the fact that he was under Orochimaru's vices when he popped out of that damn barrel. So suck it the fuck up and let's go so I can continue my story or I will start busting heads, you got it?" Then with that said the people quickly turned to the last Uchiha and apologized before following Naruto again with Sasuke having a small smirk on his face.

'Friggen Naruto always standing up for me, Itachi isn't my brother Naruto is.'

"Okay now!" Called out the blond, "Let's get back to the good stuff."

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Reflashback ,

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The only thing that crossed the teens mind as he stared down at the blade was pain as his Kyuubi cloak flared and pushed back everything around him the sand below him turning to pure glass. Slowly the blond reached behind him and pulled out the blade and flung it to the side. "SASORI," he screamed across the desert, his chakra cloak from the Kyuubi fluttering out as the beasts chakra worked in over time to heal the damage that the blade caused. 'Must have been poisoned, damn that fucker wait what's that?' Naruto had noticed a seal saying preservation on the red head's chest then suddenly realized what was going on with all of the puppets. Sasori was just his own puppet and to kill him he had to destroy the seal or whatever was inside of it, after figuring this out he secretly thanked his father for all the scrolls he left on seals and sealing.

"So what are you going to do now, Namikaze-kun?"

"Hmm, you guys know who my family is then?"

"Well it's not like your trying to hide it with using that jutsu, or did you think we were complete idiots?"

"I am pretty sure anyone that attacks my home village or anyone that is in league with anyone that does something that stupid is an idiot. Especially anyone that is working with Madara Uchiha someone made of pure hatred and evil."

"Whatever lets finish this, I want your head Namikaze!" Sasori began to form handseals when the blond disappeared from his sight and a pain erupted from his chest as the visual of the blond appeared in front of his body holding a tri-pronged kunai out front of his body with the tip protruding from his heart container. "So you figured… it out huh? Good… for you Namikaze… don't give up on your dreams like I…" and that was when the red headed puppet fell backwards and knew no more.

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"Wait what? He just died giving you advice? What kind of shit is that?'

"Kiba-kun, can you please watch your tone?"

"Yeah, sorry hime won't happen again."

"I know it will but just try not to."

"Hehe, Kiba is so whipped! What a loser!"

"And you aren't, Uchiha?"

"What? Hell no. I do what I want when I want!"

"Oh really Sasuke-kun, you do whatever you want huh?"

"Well, I… uh well you know Sakura, I mean…"

"Hey guys were here." Shino's voice cut through the 'discussion' as everyone turned towards Naruto who just kept walking as if someone had a knife to his back. With a quick nudge to Sasuke from Sakura the Uchiha quickly caught up to the blond and began walking beside him.

"Hey idiot, how are you doing?"

"I'm nervous Sasuke, I am deathly nervous."

"Well I got some good news for you."

"What's… that… what the hell?"

"Welcome home my brother." In front of Naruto and Sasuke was what could have been called the entire village, everyone stood there waving and holding up signs and banners for the blond Uzumaki, smiles were plastered among every single face as people slowly came up to Naruto and attempted to just touch him as if he were a deity. Some said sorry and some said thank you but there was one common theme among every person that Naruto realized, everyone accepted him for what he was and they respected him. Tears silently rolled down his cheeks as he reached the end of the crowd and noticed a big congregation of his shinobi friends all standing behind Tsunade who had a sign behind her that said in big bold letters, "Welcome Home Naruto, My Grandson!"

Authors Note: Hey what did you think about the chapter? I thought it was pretty good! Anywho well yeah unless I get some more reviews however I dont think I am gonna rush out another update, I mean I have got a ton of story alerts and all that but I think its fair to want somekind of feedback. Even if its negative feedback as long as it contains some type of "Helpful" information and isnt just a crappy flame then I will be happy to take it into consideration. So cmon at least lemme get a total of ten reviews ,