Alright, chapter 3 is here. I don't think I have anything to write up here but I'm still writing this instead of writing the actual story. See what I do instead of writing the story you all waited for?
Disclaimer is in Chapter 1.
"Talking"
"Biju/Demon/Etc"
'Thoughts'
1 Year Later, October 5, 2023
Kuoh, Japan
Kuoh Academy
Naruko was calmly walking down the blue-painted hallways, a clipboard in her hand. She was dressed in a white lab coat that fell to her shins, a grey shirt underneath along with black pants. For shoes she was wearing a pair of tan combat boots, blame London, it's still a mercenary's haven right now.
Kuoh Academy is an interesting place. A few years prior it used to be a female-only school, then it turned co-ed and many male students took and passed the entrance exam, although their motivation can be called into question.
It was currently between periods so students were walking through the halls heading to their next classes, chatting with their friends as they did so. They also greeted her as she passed, with herself greeting them back.
At the moment, she was heading to the doctor's office which she worked in as the only doctor for the whole school. Usually, all she had to fix was the occasional PE injury like cuts and scrapes, but considering some certain students have a very perverted reputation, she would have to deal with their near-death beatings. Although they would always somehow bounce back the next day perfectly fine, she blames their protection as perverts, similar to Jiraiya with how he would always bounce back from beatings from angry women seconds after the act.
This day so far though has been rather quiet. Nothing much has been happening and she can just relax in her very comfortable armchair behind her desk and read. She was so looking forward to it too. Until the moment she stepped into the room and saw that Issei Hyodo was laying on one of the beds beaten black and blue.
Sighing, she walked to his bed and saw that he was sleeping. Grabbing a pen, she none too gently poked his cheek trying to wake him up. After a minute of her poking him and him not waking up, she stopped and decided to simply slap him awake. The resounding smack filled the room, followed by a loud 'yeow!' from Issei.
"Good morning Hyodo-san. Mind explaining why you're black and blue?" The impatience in her voice couldn't be more clear.
Issei for his part, looked remorseful, "Eheh… Well, Uzumaki-sensei. I was kinda caught peeking into the girl's locker rooms again…" He even had the audacity to scratch his cheek.
"This makes how many times that you had to be sent here for your activities?" Naruko asked, writing something on her clipboard.
"27?" He said weakly.
Naruko kept writing, before she stopped and sighed. "Issei, how many times have I gone over this issue with you before."
"27…" He replied, even weaker.
"Then why must you keep being so perverted. This is not a healthy activity you know."
"But, the beauty of oppai is too awesome! I can't just stop! It's blasph- OW!" His hands going for his head where she smacked him with her clipboard.
"Issei, I pity your parents for having to put up with you. Along with the girls who go to this school." She turned around and walked to a cabinet where she took out some cream for his bruises. "Here, put this on the worse of the bruising." Handing it over to him before she pointed out the door, "Now hurry on out of here and get to class."
With cream in hand, Issei quickly got off the bed and out the door, rubbing some of the cream on the most painful bruises as he did so. Naruko for her part just looked exasperated as she slumped down into her armchair behind her desk. Why is it that this is more tiring than London?
The rest of the day passed without any more incidents though, so she was happy about that. Folding her white lab coat, she put on her jacket as she prepared to go home. Grabbing her keys, she stepped out of the office and into the hallways. There were few students around at this time of day, with most being with their clubs already or already going home.
Reaching the parking lot, she spotted her motorcycle, a black with red trim 2013 Kawasaki Ninja ZX-14R. Her pride and joy, she bought it one day when she was in America before she moved here to Kuoh for her job. She was in the market for something fast and this one caught her eyes. After asking the salesperson for its specs, she bought it instantly and she's brought it everywhere she went so far.
The faces of the students and staff when she drove into the school that first day was absolutely hilarious! With boys and girls gaping as she drove in, she felt, with absolutely no shame, utter satisfaction. Nowadays though, the students and staff are used to the sight, although some of the male students would look at her with jealousy from time to time.
Climbing onto her bike, she quickly put on her helmet and turned the ignition, a grin making its way to her face hearing the bike growl. Twisting the accelerator, she smoothly rode out of the parking lot and towards home.
Arriving at her house, a simple two-story thing she bought as soon as she arrived, she unlocked the front door and stepped inside placing her jacket on the coat hanger just inside the entryway. She slipped off her shoes and padded into the kitchen for a cup of cold sweet tea. Taking her glass with her, she went upstairs to a room with a heavy-duty locked door. Unlocking it, she entered the room and the first thing anyone would notice is the amount of monitors on the other side of the room. This was another of her pride and joys. Her own personal makeshift supercomputer. Cobbled together from 8 heavy-duty computers that has capabilities that would be illegal in many countries, with the help of a few people she knew she managed to create the beauty.
As she walked in, she made two clones, the clones in the seats in the three monitor banks, which had four monitors each, she dispelled and received the memories of what information they were doing since she made them this morning. Replacing them with the just-made clones, she went for the bank on the other side of the door, slumping into the leather office-chair and taking a healthy sip from her sweet tea. reviewing the memories in her head, she reached over for the phone on the desk and made a call.
"Hey Koko, its Naruko." She said into the phone.
"Naruko, you got the info packet I sent you?" Koko replied back.
"Yeah, I got it. How bad is it." Naruko said, typing rapidly on the keyboard as she pulled up multiple windows onto the four monitors.
"Pretty bad, some of HCLI's people, and some of yours, were killed. Good news is the equipment they were to deliver are already on the way so we didn't suffer much on that end. Your package should be coming in by tomorrow."
The windows on her monitor loaded and showed several security clips of HCLI holdings, mainly warehouses, being attacked. The warehouses shown were all attacked by people in white armour and using unmarked weaponry. "So the Aspari has finally made their move. What's your response going to be. I'm already moving security assets to reinforce my remaining holdings."
"We're also moving security assets to ours, I'm also going to move into the region to consolidate and send some of our people to hit back. Are you planning on hitting them back?"
"Yes I am." She said, nodding her head even if Koko couldn't see. "We were going to let them be, but since they didn't like us coming on their turf we're going to have to bleed them dry. Some of my agents are mobilizing as we speak. Plus, I've been dying to test out the suit you're sending me." Signalling one of the clones to send out the orders.
"Alright then. HCLI will take care of the Aspari in our area, and you do yours?"
"Perfect, complete information sharing as always yes?"
"Of course, our two companies have been doing great so far, why change something that has been working so far?" Koko said, mirth in her voice.
"Great, I'll talk to you when reports come back, hopefully by this weekend."
"Copy that, how's the other problem going."
"Good so far. They haven't suspected anything much. The Three Factions have their nose too far in the sky to think that any human can fight them on equal grounds."
"Will do." The line went dead and Naruko sighed. Her new upstart company, Wulf Western, rose to become one of the newest 'syndicates' after taking over EuroCorp assets in Asia during the confusion of its fall. The power vacuum after the event meant that while other already established syndicates began eating up what assets they could get, companies like hers could slip in and grab bits and pieces here and there. Fortunately for Wulf Western, their CEO was a Shinobi who could do things no one else in the world could do. So instead of bits and pieces, it was chunks and whole slices. The result was Wulf Western rocketing to become the new kid on the block in the Syndicate War. While at first other syndicates didn't take too kindly to their presence, with Wulf taking key assets in Asia and Oceania and help from Koko which in extension HCLI, they had enough power to fight back.
As soon as the first hits from big companies like Tao and Cayman Global happened, they found their holdings in Asia and Oceania being hit and taken over. At first they were like bug bites, a quick raid here, another there, before the attacks gained momentum and spread like wildfire (thanks in part to Naruko's blatant and utter abuse of Kage Bunshin). Assets all over Asia and Oceania were either destroyed entirely or taken over completely.
Now, Wulf Western has practically complete dominance over much of Oceania and large parts of Asia, with Tao and Aspari being the ones hardest hit the two agreed with Wulf for a cease-fire, which Wulf Western agreed to in order to organize and consolidate their new assets and personnel and smooth out their partnership with HCLI. Based out of Sydney, Australia, the syndicate has turned into a powerhouse faster than anyone could have ever predicted.
This all happened in a one-a-half year span, and boy was it a busy one for Naruko, with her finishing her doctoring education and building up Wulf Western, she had few free days for herself. Even then she had something she needed to do. Which mostly concerned the fact that Christianity and its beliefs was actually real after the fact she got hired to be the nurse/doctor for Kuoh Academy. The amount of latent energy, even the little specks of chakra in the area was suffocating.
Naruko, seeing the threat they could be, informed Koko and they both began research on effective countermeasures. Considering they're supernatural beings, research meant diving into subjects that would have otherwise been considered fairy tales. The mythical properties of Damascus Steel, the power of Ambrosia, Orichalcum of Atlantis, no stone was left unturned.
The research is still in the early stages, but some things has already shown to be working. Damascus Steel truly did have some magical properties, effective against many supernatural beings. This was especially tested on rogue Fallen Angels who would attack any human they wanted, some who, unfortunately for them, were sent to test the Damascus Steel bullets produced.
The results came back and they were spectacular. The bullets were very effective, turning bullets that before were like throwing rubber balls to shredder or armour piercing slugs. Pushing them for mass production turned out to be slightly problematic considering that they needed to be made a certain way to have all the magical properties, but after watching and copying the way they were made, the bullets are now mass-production friendly.
So far, they've made enough bullets to outfit all the agents in Wulf Western and most of the more elite units. With them, they'll have a better modicum of success against any supernatural threats.
Taking another sip, she set it down on the desk. The situation with the Aspari will hopefully be under control in a few weeks time, but the situation with the Three Factions, is another problem. Should it ever be known that humanity is building up power to be able to take them on, they'll most likely throw a fit and try to take them all out.
It's going to take lots of money, power, and slick out maneuvering to sort this out in a positive manner. Good thing she has lots of all three.
7 October, 2023
Tokyo, Japan
Central District
"Everyone UP! Final equipment check!" The jumpmaster yelled out as the light next to the cargo bay door turned yellow. Naruko and four of her best agents, Aidan Fall, Tihomir Darius, Akuma, and Miles Kilo, stood up and checked their equipment. Making sure everything is ready and clipped to their suit. The cargo bay door already open, showed the darkness beyond turn to specks of light.
The light then turned green and the team readied themselves before the jumpmaster shouted for them to jump, "Go! Go! Go!" The team of five launched themselves out into the waiting dark, the lights of the city below rising up to meet them. On their helmet faceplate, the altimeter rapidly counted down, which after a minute or so of freefall flashed red and automatically pulled the parachute.
Gliding down slowly, the team guided themselves onto the Aspari main headquarters, one of the tallest skyscrapers in the city. Landing on the roof, the team quickly restrained their chutes and prepared to rappel down the sides of the tower. Naruko after landing though, quickly made several four-man teams of Kage Bunshin, two to rush down the stairwell, and three to take the sides of the towers that the agents weren't hitting. They weren't rappelling though, as they just used chakra to stick themselves to the glass and run down.
Quickly, the teams were in position. The agents taking the North side, with the three Kage Bunshin teams taking the other three. Naruko was going in with the agents, heading straight for the CEO office of Xian Li. Considering that it is nighttime there shouldn't be that many people in the tower proper.
Quickly, everyone got into position, and on her signal they started. The rappelling teams launched off the roof, the agents along with Naruko, Shadow team 1, were going to floor 75 where the CEO office is. The team on the South side, Shadow team 2, were going to floor 62 where the computer servers are located. The East and West team, Shadow team 3, were going to floor 50 and hold off any security teams heading up. The stairwells team, Shadow team 4, were going to be clearing the floors as they passed down.
Shadow team 4 quickly opened the roof access door and went down to the next floor, Shadow 4-1 quickly summoning another team of eight to clear the floor, having been pumped full of chakra, before heading to the next floor. No one ever uses the stairs, so progress was quick. Shadow teams 1 through 4 quickly moving to their assigned floor, with Shadow team 3 having the longest time between launching off and reaching their destination.
Shadow team 1, having the closest floor, arrived a few minutes after launching off the roof. Using a laser cutter, they quietly made a hole in the windows and entered the floor proper. Aidan and Akuma went to clear the floor while Naruko, Tihomir, and Miles went for the office. It was very quiet, only the hum of the air conditioner filled the air. Seconds after they landed, they were in front of the office doors, stacking up, Naruko placed a modified explosive tag onto the door. Counting down with her fingers, she lit the tag. The explosion wasn't as wild as an ordinary tag, instead only serving to explode the door, similar to a wall breacher.
Entering the office revealed the large and spacious room sparsely filled with personal items. The center of the room was filled with a large oak desk with three monitors on it and no personal effects. Signalling for the Tihomir to stand guard and Miles to search the room, she moved forward to the computer. Taking out a USB stick loaded with a program to breach computer security and copy any and all information found which would be deleted afterwards.
"Spectre to all Shadow teams, report in on status." Naruko said into her headset as she searched the room with Miles, the memories of the clones clearing out the floors Shadow 4 passed coming in.
"This is Shadow 1-3, Executive's floor is clear, security checkpoint neutralized." Aidan reported.
"This is Shadow 2-1, we've arrived and we're tapping into the servers as we speak, should have any and all information downloaded in ten mikes. Security checkpoint neutralized." The Kage Bunshin in charge of Shadow team 2 replied.
"Shadow 3-1, we've arrived on the 50th, we've stopped the elevators and are fortifying our position." Said Shadow team 3 lead.
"Shadow 4-1 here, we're on 78 at the moment, we'll reach 50 in three mikes."
"Copy that. Shadow team 4, when you reach 50 hold and reinforce Shadow 3 and fold in with Shadow 3. Shadow 1-3 and 1-4, regroup with Shadow team 1 in the exec office. Shadow 2-1, summon an additional two teams and have them patrol your floor, callsigns Ghost 1 and 2, they'll be under your command henceforth. Exfil in 12 mikes. Spectre out." She ordered, not finding anything of interest in the room, she sat down in the chair behind the desk, monitoring the progress of the download.
Five minutes later, Shadow 3 came over the radio, "Shadow 3-1 to Spectre, security personnel are coming up the stairs. We've engaged and are currently holding them in the stairwell."
"Affirmative Shadow 3-1. Hold them for 7 mikes. Exfil team heading out, Callsign Seraph." Naruko then summoned another four-man team into the room, "Seraph, head to the roof, secure and prep for exfil."
Nodding, Seraph team quickly made for the stairs and started running up the stairs. Three minutes later, Shadow 3 came back on the radio, "Shadow 3 here, Aspari security personnel are still coming in but they're starting to get heavier equipment. We've been hearing movement in the vents as well and set some traps, should get -" Before she could finish though the radio cut to static. The building shuddered as what sounds like a big explosion rocked the tower.
The memories of most of Shadow team 3 came back to Naruko, sifting through the memories, she saw that the clones holding the stairwell got hit by a grenade launcher fired by an Aspari trooper. Getting back on the radio, she attempted to contact the remaining clones of Shadow 3, "Spectre to remaining Shadow 3 members, hold that floor for as long as you can. Additional team are heading to create secondary line at floor 60, callsign Phantom 1. Exfil in 4 mikes." With that, she created another 12 clones and had them go for the stairs and went down to the 60th floor.
A few seconds later, the sounds of a helicopter reached the ears of Naruko and the agents. "Shit, they have choppers. Shadow 1-2, head for the windows, keep an eye out for them. Shadow 2, status update." Miles quickly ran off, his rifle in his hands.
"This is Shadow 2-1. Download will be complete in one and a half minute. Ghost 1 has already moved to the floor's staircase in case a QRF is needed."
"Spectre copies. Calling in for exfil. All teams, hold your positions and hold them off for a minute and a half. Then we're out of here."
A minute later, the last of Shadow 3 dispelled and the memories filtered through Naruko's mind. "Phantom teams, report."
"Phantom 1-1 here, we've made contact. We've already thrown a few grenades down to slow them but they're still coming up. Enemy gunship is climbing up the tower though, it's about at floor 45."
"Phantom 1-1, hold them off for a few more minutes, download should be about complete and exfil is coming in. How copy?"
"Phantom team copies all. We'll hold them. They'll have to spill blood for every inch they get."
"Shadow 2-1, that download better be done, we're cutting it close here. Aspari forces are tougher than expected."
"Shadow 2-1 here, it's done, we're coming up now."
As Shadow team 2 was gunning it up the stairs, the sounds of the chopper were getting louder and louder. Soon, it was level with floor 60. "Spectre, this is Phantom 1-1, that gunship is level with us! SHIT! Everyone take cover! It's spinning up it's guns!" The heavy hum of the minigun the gunship apparently carried sounding through the radio. "Spectre, Phantom team will hold them off as long as possible. Just get that USB and exfil out of there!"
"Spectre copies, good luck." Naruko then motioned to the agents in the room, "Ready up, we're moving out. Shadow 1-2, regroup with us at the stairs." She then grabbed the USB stick on the computer and yanked it out before moving with the team to the stairs. Reaching the stairs, they could see Shadow team 2 just a few floors below them.
"Ghost teams, this is Spectre, hold them off at floor 62 if second line is breached. You're our line three."
"Ghost 1 and 2 copies Spectre. We'll buy you time."
Soon, Shadow team 2 arrived and promptly handed the laptop the data was stored in to Naruko, "Spectre, here's the data. We'll see if we can't hold them off in the lower levels. We'll be line four."
"Very well Shadow 2. Good luck." They then quickly about faced and ran back down the stairs. Turning to her team, she said, "Shadow 1, on me. We're heading up and leaving this place." They nodded, before all five of them began running up the stairs with earnest. "Seraph team, Spectre. Report in."
"Spectre, this is Seraph 1-1, all clear up here. We're keeping an eye on the gunship and it's still concentrating on Phantom team. Wait. No, it's climbing up the tower."
"Copy that, we'll pick up the pace. Spectre out." Hurrying even faster now, Shadow team 1 raced up the stairs, taking the steps two or three at a time. Soon, they reached the roof, the sounds of the Aspari gunship ringing through the air.
"Seraph team, head to the edge of the roof where the gunship is climbing up. See if you can't damage it as it climbs up. Shadow 1, spread out on the roof, take defensive positions." She then placed a hand on her ear, "Spirit-72, we're on the roof, where the hell are you."
"Spirit-72 here, we're coming in hot, two minutes out. We had to skip around some turbulent weather after takeoff."
"Dammit Spirit-72, we have a gunship bearing down on us, hurry up!" She then shut off her radio, paying attention to the images and other assorted memories filtering through her mind. She quickly identified them from Shadow 2. "Shit, Shadow 1, Seraph team, Aspari troopers have broken through line four, prepare for contact." Making eye contact with Shadow 1, she motioned for them to guard the stairwell.
A minute later, Shadow 1-1, Tihomir, shouted out that they were engaging Aspari soldiers trying to come up the stairs. Cursing, she contacted Spirit again. "Spirit-72, we're holding on the roof, what's your ETA. Over."
"This is Spirit-72, we're 50 seconds out. We can see the tower already."
"Spectre copies, we'll hold that long. Out." Then to the remaining teams, "Exfil in 45 seconds! Hold them for 45 seconds more!" She said, holding her rifle in her hands she ran to the stairs and started shooting down onto the Aspari troops climbing their way up.
After she started firing a few bursts, they started firing back at her position, forcing her to get back into cover in the doorsill just before the stairs ended on the roof. Waiting for the bullets to lower in intensity, she peaked out of cover again and aimed at an Aspari trooper attempting to throw a grenade up the stairs. Taking his head into her crosshairs, she pulled the trigger and his head snapped backwards, the rest of his body crumpling onto the steps and hindering the ones behind him.
Getting back into cover, she pulled a grenade from her belt and pulled the pin before throwing it down the stairs, "Grenade out!" The grenade twirled in the air as it fell before exploding in a shower of shrapnel onto the Aspari troops. Some were killed instantly as the shrapnel cut past their body armour, others were hit, but not out. Bleeding, they either stopped and fell onto the ground screaming, or seeing their wounds not being that serious, slapped a quick bandage to stop the bleeding and kept fighting.
A few seconds felt like hours as the shooting intensified. The continuous thumps of grenades exploding in the stairwell amplified along with the staccato of small arms fire. Then, Seraph team yelled out that the gunship was a floor below them and rising up fast. Turning around, Naruko ran onto the roof proper meeting up with Seraph team who ran away from the edge. The gunship then appeared, the AH-50 attack helicopter rose up past the roof and had a clear line of sight onto everything on the roof.
"Shadow 1, move into the stairwell and hold them off. Me and Seraph team will take care of the gunship!" Quickly both teams moved, Shadow 1 keeping out of sight from the gunship in the stairwell and Seraph team spreading out on the roof taking cover behind anything they can get behind and opening fire onto the gunship with their weapons. The bullets pinged off the armour of the chopper and it responded by spinning up it's minigun situated under the cockpit and firing on them.
Ducking into cover, Naruko fired back aiming for the cockpit, but the glass was bulletproof and the bullets ricocheted off. "Seraph 1-1, 1-2, aim for the rotors! See if you can damage it!" The two clones then began peppering the two rotors on top of the chopper with their weapons, some of the bullets biting into the rotor itself but not dealing enough damage to truly take it down.
The chopper then turned around so that it was facing its side towards them, revealing a pair of Aspari troopers sitting on the side with light machine guns in their hands. The instant they could see down onto the roof, they opened fire on where Seraph team was. Peppering their cover with bullets, one of the clones popped after it got shot through it's cover.
Popping out of cover, Naruko trained her rifle onto the two troopers and fired. Her bullets hitting them both square in the chest killing them, their weapons hanging off of their harness. Seeing that their side gunners were killed, the chopper turned around to face them and started to strafe the roof, forcing the remainder of Seraph team and Naruko to keep changing cover.
Then the chopper turned around as it moved and exposed it's other side onto them, giving the gunners on that side line of sight onto them. Deciding that she had had enough, Naruko called out to Seraph team, "Seraph team, distract that chopper! I'm taking it down!"
Instantly, Seraph team popped out of cover and opened fire on the gunners. The gunners were instantly riddled with bullets, going limp in their harness. Naruko then popped out of cover and ran towards the chopper. Before it could turn around and fire with it's minigun, Naruko stepped onto one of the air conditioners on the roof and used it as a step, jumping off of it towards the open cabin of the chopper.
Landing in between the bodies of the gunners, she quickly turned to the pilot and pulled her pistol out of its holster. The pilot turned his head only to stare into the barrel of the gun, which then promptly fired a bullet that cored through his head and splattered his brain onto the glass behind. The chopper started listing to the side as the pilot slumped in his seat, pulling the control stick with him. Naruko quickly turned around and jumped out onto the roof, rolling forwards when she landed.
As she landed, the chopper behind her whirled around in circles until it hit the tower a few floors below, rocking the tower and causing a big fireball to erupt framing her figure. Then the sound of another chopper filled the air, "This is Spirit-72 to Spectre and co. Evac is here, doors are open, let's get the hell out of here."
Looking up, Naruko could see Spirit-72 lowering down onto the roof. The UH-60 Black Hawk had it's doors open and the gunners opening fire into the stairwell. The agents having already vacated the staircase landing and running towards the helicopter and jumping in. Naruko nodding towards Seraph team, quickly headed towards the chopper. Seraph team making their way to cover the stairs just in case.
Getting inside, Naruko shouted to the pilot, "Punch it Spirit! Get us out of here!" The helicopter instantly pushing power into the rotors, quickly taking off. The gunner kept firing into the stairwell as they took off, allowing the clones still on the roof to dispel. Sighing in relief, Naruko looked between the agents, "Nice job guys, we got the data and we all got out of there safely. Now that's what I call a flawless job." Letting a smile appear on her face.
The agents too cracked a smile on their faces. Although they didn't do all that much, everyone still did their jobs. They all clapped each other on the back or bumped their fists, letting a few cheers out.
"Soon as we get back, I'll make sure you guys get a few days off. There isn't much left to do anyway. With what we got off this raid, Wulf Western to take over Aspari and finally have total control over Japan."
"Ma'am, what are we going to do when the Three Factions find out about us." Miles asked.
"Well, we have the element of surprise on our side. Plus the research we've done we'll have the advantage most of the time. Add in the fact that they'll be arrogant with the fact that they're facing humans, we'll have a high chance to beat them if it comes down to it." She said, glancing at Miles. "But don't you worry your little head yet Miles. We still have lots of prep to do before we even think of exposing ourselves to them."
Miles nodded at her answer, before the four agents all turned to each other and started to relax and chat. Naruko then connected to Koko over her headset over an encrypted channel, "Koko, it's Naruko. We got the data."
Well, this is rather late in coming. College prep and settling in to last year of highschool though is really kicking my ass so sorry about that. But we find out here that Naruko is participating in the Syndicate War! With her very own Syndicate! How will her participation effect everything? What are her plans concerning the Three Factions? Why is Issei such a freaking pervert?!
Find out next time ooooon…. Wanderlust Chapter 4!
*Exeunt Romulus*
P.S. : To those of you following my other stories. Now that I've finished this one, I'm going to update HROM next. So look forward to that!
