Ugh, it's been ages since I last updated. I've had a ton of homework and other things to do with college recently. I also got some results from exams back and errrm... let's just say I could have done better.

Anyway, recently, the filler episodes have been going down in my opinion. I don't even find them particularly funny anymore. The only good bits of this arc so far are the first episode of it (episode 256: the one with lots of Rukia in it) and the part where Hanataro's zanpakutou owned that Toju with a massive cannon that came from it's chest (That was incredibly badass :D). I'm not going to go as far as to drop Bleach but I really am tempted to because there are way too many fillers now.

Enough of my ranting, time to read the chapter. As compensation for not updating anything for ages, this chapter is extra long :D.


Chapter 29

Explanation

'Aizen said he was going to Karakura town now didn't he?' Renji said. 'That means we've got to find some way of getting there and quick.' True, Aizen was going to Karakura town now but everyone had no way to stop him right now. He could use a garganta to get there. No one apart from Aizen and his subordinates and Urahara could use one.

'Aizen can get there quickly with a garganta' Chad said. 'There's nothing saying that he isn't already there.'

'It doesn't appear that any of us can do anything' Uryu said. No one knew of anything they could do to get there to stop Aizen.

'Rukia' Ichigo said after a while. All this got was a confused look from everyone. 'Rukia can get us back' he told them. 'If she's an arrancar, she must be able to make a garganta.'

'Of course' Uryu said after thinking briefly. 'That might even be the reason why she became an arrancar again.'

'Then why did she attack us?' Chad asked.

'I can only imagine that it was because Aizen was watching us' he concluded. 'She probably couldn't move around easily as Aizen may have known that she was in control.'

'When she attacked us, it was definitely a hollow in control' Ichigo remembered. 'She might not have been able to make the fight look convincing to Aizen if she was the one fighting us. She must have let her hollow take control for that fight.'

Just then, a few hollows appeared before them. 'Damn, Aizen's probably gonna send wave after wave of these just to keep us here' Renji muttered. The hollows began attacking immediately but they were cut down before anyone could react.

'Who-?' They all said before seeing someone they recognised. 'Rukia?'

'Yes, it's me' she said. Sayumi was with her but she had obviously been told to stay back while Rukia killed the hollows. She sheathed her sword and then looked at the area where the hollows were. What looked like their reiatsu remained. Strangely, it seemed drawn towards her until her body appeared to absorb it. She was confused by what this meant but dismissed it as it was most likely to do with her hollow.

'You've got a lot of explaining to do.' Ichigo said to her. 'First off, what's the deal with her?' he said as he pointed at Sayumi. 'And also, why aren't you an arrancar now?'

'I should have explained everything to you all before' Rukia admitted. 'But, you all deserve to know about it.' She began telling them about what happened while she was gone.


Flashback

(Note: This flashback is a continuation of the events in chapter 26)

'Rukia-chan, wait up~' Ichimaru called to her. Rukia didn't stop though. She just kept walking away from him. Ichimaru smiled evilly and drew his sword. 'Ikorose...' Rukia heard he was about to release his shikai. He probably wouldn't be allowed to kill her. He was just trying to scare her. What she didn't expect was when he appeared some distance in front of her. 'Shinsou!' The sword extended itself at an extremely fast speed. Rukia was lucky to have stopped because if she didn't, she would have kept going and been impaled straight through her heart.

'You have my attention now' she said calmly. 'So what are you going to do?'

'I'm not really supposed to let ya go anywhere without Aizen's permission' he replied. He allowed his sword to retract before walking close to her. Rukia considered drawing her own sword but she didn't want to risk having it taken away from her. 'Anyway, I've got to take care of ya while yer stayin' with us.' He placed his hand on her head. Rukia immediately tensed up when he touched her. 'Now we can get to know each other a little better' he said slyly. Rukia didn't like the sound of that. He probably had something else in mind.

'Why do you always have to act like that around me?' she asked, annoyed. 'Am I the only person you torment? You enjoy what you do to me don't you?'

'I just like our conversations' he said.

'I don't believe I've ever replied when you tried to start a conversation with me' she told him. 'I believe I was always petrified in fear.'

'Awww, I'm not that bad am I?' He pretended to feel slightly hurt as he asked her.

'Yes you are!' she snapped. 'Out of everything in this world or all other worlds, you are the thing that I hate the most!'

'Let's change the subject shall we?' he said, dismissing what they were just talking about like it was nothing. 'Aizen said that I had to take care of ya and he said he was gonna do somethin' in a while so I guess I should just be takin' ya to yer room or somethin'.'

'I can find it myself' Rukia said. Not wanting to even be near him anymore, she walked away from him again. Ichimaru smirked a little.

'Ikorose, Shinsou' he said again. Rukia wasn't worried this time. She knew he wouldn't kill her. He was just trying to scare her again. This time though the blade went much faster so she couldn't tell when it would hit. She was stabbed through the shoulder. She stopped herself from showing any weakness from it despite the fact that it hurt a lot when he retracted the blade. She placed her hand over the wound and scowled at him. He was probably enjoying her pain too.

'Fine' Rukia said while facing away from him. 'Take me to see Aizen then. Maybe that way I won't have to see you all the time. I'd rather see Aizen than you.'

'That's not really what a noble like you should say to others' He was enjoying his taunting.

'I hardly consider myself a noble anymore and how I act to people is none of your concern' she said. She simply followed him to the room where she would be placed this time. She was in a different room now although it looked very similar to the last one.

'Wait here for a while and Aizen will come see ya' Ichimaru said as he walked out. 'He said he wanted to try somethin'.'

Rukia thought about what he said. 'Try something? What does he mean? Does the Hougyoku have more abilities?' She couldn't think of anything he could possibly try. All she knew was that the Hougyoku could create arrancar. 'Am I just going to be a test subject again?' After a while of waiting the door opened.

'I'm glad to hear that you and Gin are getting along well' Aizen smirked as he walked in. He was holding something that was folded up. It looked like an arrancar uniform.

'What are you testing on me this time?' Rukia asked. 'You already found that you could turn a shinigami into an arrancar.'

'This time, I won't be trying anything' he began. Rukia looked at him curiously. 'You will be.' He showed her the Hougyoku. It didn't have its gem-like outer casing now. It was just a small black orb. Aizen had a cloth over the hand that was holding it to prevent it from activating itself while it was in his hand.

'What are you thinking now?' she asked. 'Do you think I can use it? If you think that I could do that, that's impossible.'

'Ordinarily, yes it would be impossible' he explained. 'The Hougyoku can be awakened briefly by someone with about twice the power of a standard captain.'

'I'm not exactly what you would define as captain strength though am I' Rukia interrupted.

'Please let me finish' Aizen held up a hand. 'This theory came to me when I remembered it had absorbed your reiatsu. I think that you may be able to use it. The reason being is that it may recognize your reiatsu and it might think that you are offering more to it. Rather than continue thinking about it, I decided to simply test it now.' Ichimaru then came in with a hollow that was bound so much that it couldn't move. 'Now, let's see if it will allow you to create an arrancar.' He placed the cloth with the Hougyoku on it on the hollow's back. Rukia just looked at it. 'It is simple. You will only have to touch it and then see what happens.'

Rukia slowly moved closer to it. The hollow couldn't move at all. The kidou that was binding it was very strong. She slowly held her arm out so she could touch the Hougyoku. She wasn't entirely sure of what would happen. She decided that going slowly wouldn't make a difference so she just touched it. Nothing was happening but she let her fingers continue resting on it. She looked down at it again. Small black tendrils came from it and looked like they were burrowing into her fingers. She was shocked to see this but she still didn't move her hand back.

She felt a familiar feeling shortly after. 'This feeling is... Is it absorbing my reiatsu?' The Hougyoku began to glow as Rukia pulled her hand back. It had taken some of her reiatsu. It didn't take much but she definitely felt it do so. She covered her eyes as she was suddenly blinded by a bright light from the Hougyoku.

When she could see again, she stared at the thing that was on the floor in front of her. 'D-Did I just create that?' It was an arrancar. She had been able to use the Hougyoku's power. The arrancar she had created was female. It had long, straight black hair. It had a hollow hole on its right shoulder. When it looked up to look at its surroundings, Rukia noticed that its eyes were the same violet colour as her own. Its mask looked like the beginning of a pair of glasses. There was a part that went over its ear and it ended underneath its right eye.

'It seems you were able to create one' Aizen commented. 'However, it isn't nearly as strong as what I have created.' He was about to kill it as it would be of no use to him.

'Wait' Rukia stopped him. 'That isn't your arrancar. I created it.'

'Does that make any difference to you?' Aizen asked.

'I won't let you kill it just because you think it isn't strong. I'm choosing to let it live.' She had created it and it had used some of her reiatsu. Rukia saw it as a small part of her because of that.

'It doesn't matter what you choose to do with it. Whatever you do with it is meaningless.' Aizen and Ichimaru left the room. Aizen had left the arrancar uniform behind.

Rukia was left alone with her creation. The arrancar looked quite weak and frail. Rukia picked up the uniform and helped it dress itself. Even if it was an arrancar, she was going to look after it. It probably wouldn't be able to survive on its own. It was a somewhat similar situation to what Rukia was like when she was growing up in Inuzuri. She wouldn't have been able to survive there if she was on her own.

'You... created me, didn't you?' it said softly. Even its voice seemed weak. Rukia thought that it was weak because she didn't have enough reiatsu to give to it to make it strong like Aizen's arrancar. It was hard to believe that this arrancar was once the hollow that was bound a little while ago.

Rukia nodded. 'I'm sorry I couldn't make you very strong.' She felt that it might die because it was too weak. 'The other two people who just left wanted to kill you because you weren't strong.'

'You are a shinigami aren't you?' it asked. Rukia nodded again. 'Why do you care for me?'

'Until now, I thought all arrancar were just like regular hollows' Rukia said. 'Even I was just like a regular hollow' she thought. 'I can tell that you don't mean to do any harm. I don't know if it's because I couldn't make you strong or if it's because of my reiatsu. Because you have some of my reiatsu, you are a part of me.' Rukia sat in front of her after helping her. 'My name is Rukia. Do you have a name?'

'I don't know' was her soft reply.

'If you don't have a name, I can give you one' Rukia said. There was no response from her creation so she assumed she had no objections. She began thinking about what she could call her. 'Sayumi' she decided. 'Your name can be Sayumi.' It was a much nicer name than what all the other arrancar called themselves.

'Sayumi' she repeated to herself. 'Thank you, Rukia-sama' she smiled at her.

'Please, don't call me that just because I created you' Rukia said. 'Rukia will be fine.' Rukia paused for a while. 'I don't want to upset you but I didn't intend to create you. It was just an experiment to see if I could use the Hougyoku.'

'It doesn't matter' Sayumi shook her head. At least she seemed a bit livelier now. 'You didn't want to kill me like the other two wanted. Rukia-san, if you want me to do something, I'll try to do it to the best of my ability.'

'Thank you, Sayumi' Rukia smiled. 'But I don't-' she was about to say she didn't need anything but she remembered she was technically a hostage. 'Actually, there might be something. I'm only here now because I'm a hostage' Rukia explained. 'My friends are probably trying to look for me. Do you think you would be able to find them for me?'

'Yes, I'll try to.' She was about to get up but Rukia stopped her.

'You won't just be able to go straight up to them' she said. 'They're trying to rescue me so they'll kill any arrancar. You'll have to convince them that you know me. If you tell them that I created you, that might help but you'll have to be prepared for anything else they'll ask you. Hopefully they'll notice that your eyes are the same colour as mine.' She thought to herself after saying that. 'Actually, they probably wouldn't notice that.'

'Can you tell me what they look like?' she asked.

'There are four of them. Two of them will be wearing what I'm wearing' she explained. 'You should be able to recognise them because of their hair colour. Try to make sure you aren't seen by the two you saw earlier. They'll probably kill you. If you see any arrancar, don't worry about them. They won't attack you. That's all I think.'

'Okay, I'll do my best, Rukia-san.' She opened the door, looked around and quickly went out.

'Why does someone like her have to be an arrancar?' Rukia asked herself. 'I have to keep reminding myself that she is an arrancar.' She just sat in the room hoping that Sayumi would find her friends and convince them that she wasn't like other arrancar.

End Flashback

'Sayumi is an arrancar that I created' Rukia said. 'She only has some of my reiatsu and nothing else.'

'Okay, that clears that up' Renji said. 'Now tell us why you aren't an arrancar anymore.'

'Technically, I still am' Rukia said. 'I can choose when to put it on or take it off.'

'So that means...?' Ichigo began. 'You're a vizard?'

'I don't know what I am anymore' Rukia said sadly. 'I'm more like that now than I was last time.'

'So, what's the difference?' he asked.

'When I put the mask on, I have little control over the hollow' she explained. 'That was what happened earlier. I tried to fight against it to stop it from attacking Sayumi.'


Another Flashback :D

(Note: This flashback is written in he 1st person.)

I was still in the room for a while after Sayumi left. Aizen came in a while later to try to tempt me with the Hougyoku again. When he left, he left the Hougyoku behind. He said I might change my mind if I was actually holding it. It was just sitting in my hand while I looked at it. There was something strange about it. It felt like I was looking directly at power. I couldn't really resist it. I was holding this incredibly powerful object in my hand and I was going to let it go to waste. I changed my mind straight away but I wasn't going to be selfish like last time.

I allowed Sode no Shirayuki to appear in her materialised form to talk to her. As I thought, she thought it wouldn't be a good idea. I didn't need to do this again. I told her that this time, I was going to make sure I was in control so I could be of more use to everyone. She didn't seem particularly pleased with my reasoning but she allowed me to proceed. I also told her that she would have to use it on me once I became I hollow anyway. She should be able to use it. She is a part of me after all. I looked at it again before trying to mentally prepare myself for it. Slowly, I brought it up and placed it against my forehead. I wasn't even sure if it was going to work. I knew I could use it to create arrancar but I didn't know if I could turn myself into one.

I could tell that it began working when I felt the same strange feeling as before. This told me the pain would start again too. It did shortly after. I dropped the Hougyoku when I brought my hands up to grab my head. I tried to hold in the pain for a while but I couldn't do that anymore. I cried out in pain as it was becoming unbearable. My face was being covered by the mask and my arms and legs were beginning to be covered in the same substance. I knew it would be over when everything formed but, in my opinion, it wasn't happening fast enough.

After what seemed like an eternity of agony, everything was complete. I was just standing there in a familiar form. At the time, I didn't know what was happening. I lost all memory of everything. My vision was blurred so I could barely see Sode no Shirayuki even though she as standing right in front of me. When I saw her though, I didn't know who or what she was. For all I knew, she might have been a threat. I shakily walked closer to her. I wasn't used to this body yet. She moved slightly as she was probably going to use the Hougyoku on me again. For some reason, I attacked her. I attacked my own zanpakutou. She was able to move out of the way. She must have realised that I was in a mindless state right now. I would never have attacked her under normal means. She then encased the majority of my body in ice to prevent me from moving. She approached me again and held the Hougyoku up in front of me. This time I couldn't get away and I was transformed again. Everything went black shortly after.

I woke up again, still trapped in the ice, in my arrancar form. It felt very familiar to me as it was the same as last time. When Sode no Shirayuki noticed I wasn't trying to break out of the ice, she was about to let me out as she knew it was me.

'Wait a minute' I said to her. 'I'm not finished yet. I need to face the hollow on the inside. While I'm doing that, I'll turn back to what I was a little while ago. You'll have to fight me until I can defeat it.' She agreed with what I had said to her as she knew I was trying to lessen what I had done to myself. I went inside my soul into my inner world to confront the hollow.

'I was beginning to wonder when you would show up' a voice said to me. I could instantly tell who it was. That was my voice so it was definitely the hollow. This hollow looked exactly like the last one. White skin and robes, yellow eyes with black sclera but it still had my hair colour. I simply frowned when I looked at it. 'That's not exactly the reaction I was expecting' it said.

'I know what you are, hollow' I told it. 'I came here to face you myself and when I defeat you, you're going to be doing what I tell you.' I drew my sword. Sode no Shirayuki was on the outside so I couldn't use her powers. This would be a hard battle.

'You're making a bet with me?' it asked. 'Interesting. The fact that you think you can defeat me is even more laughable. When I defeat you, you can watch as I kill all of the people you care about before I kill you. That way, you will learn how foolish you were to challenge me.'

'You don't scare me' I said. 'I did this to myself willingly. I was prepared for this.'

'Heh, you act tough, but that's all there is to it' it smirked. 'You can't hide anything from me. I came from you. You're pretending to act strong because you feel completely empty on the inside. I believe it has something to do with something similar to what I am, correct?'

'...' I didn't say anything. It was just trying to prevent me from fighting at my strongest although; all of what it said was true. I wasn't going to admit that though. 'Let's get this over with' I said to it.

'Someone seems rather eager' it said to me. It attacked me straight away. It felt similar to the time when I beat my last hollow. 'I'm not going to be reckless just because I overpower you with a blade' it said as I was pushed back by it. I was tempted to use Sode no Shirayuki but I remembered I couldn't. She wasn't here at this time. 'What's wrong? Can't you use anything to give yourself that extra boost you need?' It was mocking me. It knew I couldn't use anything else.

Once again, I didn't respond. I would have to think of something to try to confuse or outsmart it. I rushed towards it to attack as it seemed unlikely that I would do that (It seemed unlikely to me anyway). I was easily countered and pushed back though because I didn't really put any thought into my attack and I didn't have a backup plan either.

'If you're planning to lose, you can make it much simpler for yourself' it said lazily. 'That attack was nothing like you would normally do which means that you haven't attempted it before.' The hollow then seemed to copy my previous attack. I stood there defensively ready to block. Before it got to me though, it disappeared and reappeared right behind me. I was kicked in the back and fell to the ground. I remained there for a while trying to think of something. 'Stand up' it ordered me. ''We're not finished yet.' I scowled at it as I picked up my sword again.

'Damn hollow' I thought. 'I need to defeat it quickly. If Aizen appears on the outside, he'll see Shirayuki fighting me. He'll probably kill her and then do something to me to make sure I never have control over my body again.'

It noticed I was just standing there thinking to myself. 'Oi, I told you we're not done yet, so do something already!' It attacked me again but as the swords connected I saw a flash of light. When it was gone, I found myself in a completely different place and also time by the looks of everything else.

'This is... the Soul Society?' I said to myself. I found out where I was in the Soul Society too. 'Why am I at the Sogyoku hill?' I looked around a little more for an explanation. I was shocked by what I saw. I saw Ichigo and Renji standing together to face Aizen along with Ichimaru and Tosen. Convinced that I had seen this before, I looked down at myself to completely clarify it. I was wearing the white prisoner's robes with a reiatsu sealing collar around my neck. My hair was shorter again and my body was exactly how it was back then too. 'What happened?' I asked myself. I was facing my hollow a little while ago and now I was here.

Back on the subject of what was going on around me, I knew I had seen this before. It was one of the worst times of my life. I was scared of something like this happening again. Ichigo and Renji were planning their attack on Aizen. I already knew the outcome of it. Aizen blocked Ichigo's attack with a single finger and easily incapacitated both him and Renji. I tried to yell to them to stop them but I couldn't make any sound. This event had already happened. I hadn't travelled back in time so I couldn't stop it. I had to sit there and watch as two of the people I cared about the most were seriously hurt because they were trying to protect me and I could do nothing. I watched as their attempt to defeat Aizen failed and the two of them were cut down, leaving me all alone.

'That's your fear.' I heard the hollow's voice. 'You fear that your friends will all be defeated while are too weak to do anything yourself.' I was back in my inner world at this point. Both me and the hollow were holding each other back with our swords clashing.

'What was that just now?' I asked. 'Why was I shown that?'

'That's your problem' the hollow said. 'You're worried about being weak. How can you be strong if you worry about such stupid things?' It began attacking me with several strikes which I blocked.

'I might be afraid of that happening again...' I began. 'But... it's also the reason why I have to get stronger!' I saw an opening and seemingly turned the battle around. The hollow was being pushed back now. 'I have to get stronger so I can stop that from ever happening again!' The hollow was overwhelmed by my attacks that were so full of my confidence and determination. I pushed it back for the final time and landed a near fatal hit. It collapsed onto the ground.

I stood over the defeated hollow. 'Damn it!' it yelled. 'Damn you, Kuchiki Rukia!' I simply continued to look down at it. 'Che, I never thought I would end up losing to the person I planned to control.' It was clearly irritated because of its loss but I didn't care about that. I had finally got what I wanted. I offered my hand to it to help it up. I didn't think it would be a good idea to stay on bad terms with it. 'I guess you're the one calling the shots around here, for now anyway' it said as it grabbed my hand.

'Because I defeated you, this means I'm a vizard now, doesn't it?' I asked.

'Not really, no' it said bluntly. I looked at it in confusion. 'You got some of the events on the outside wrong. You went a step too far. Vizards were only turned into hollows by the Hougyoku. You turned yourself into an arrancar which is one step ahead of them.'

'So what does this mean for me?' I asked, dreading the answer.

'Well, whenever you put the mask on, you'll basically become an arrancar form which means I'll be in control since I'm the hollow' it explained.

'You knew?' I asked, almost seething with rage after finding this out. 'You knew that if I defeated you, you would have control anyway?!'

'Not my fault' it said lazily. 'I didn't intend on losing though did I.' I turned around in my rage and just kicked a mound of snow as hard as I could.

'Damn it!' I yelled. I can't even do this right. Why did I think I could do this myself? I just assumed I knew what I was doing. The hollow was just watching me. It looked around what it thought to be its new home if it could call it that.

'How am I going to live here?' it asked out loud. I didn't answer it but then again it might have just been talking to itself. It just looked around again and approached the large tree in the centre. It climbed up and simply sat on one of the branches. I resumed control of my body on the outside.

When I was in control again, I could feel that some parts of my body were very cold. It was probably because Sode no Shirayuki attempted to stop me as opposed to fighting me. I was glad to see that she wasn't hurt. I explained what had happened shortly afterwards. Knowing what I had to do now, I put the mask on again and told the hollow that we were going to see Aizen.

End Flashback

'That's all of what happened. I'm an arrancar when the mask is on but I'm a shinigami when it isn't.' Rukia concluded. 'After that, I told the hollow to attack you but not kill you.'

'Rukia, did you think that you had to do that to yourself?' Ichigo asked. 'You-'

'I know!'Rukia interrupted. She shouted her response but there was sadness in her voice. 'I know that I'm different now. I know that it was my fault. But I can't help it. This is what I am now.' She looked down at the floor. 'I never realised how... happy I was as a shinigami. I was like everyone else: normal. I was different to everyone else too but in a good way. I had my own personality and individuality. Now look at me! I don't even know what I am anymore. I'm different to everyone. I'm the only person in this world that is like this. I'm... I'm just a monster compared to how I was before! That's why...' Tears rolled down her face and fell to the floor. 'That's why I hate myself now!'

The snow in her inner world had become almost violent in the past few minutes. It was practically a raging blizzard now. The hollow remained in the tree looking up at the sky through the branches. Sode no Shirayuki stood where she usually did. She walked out from under the protection of the tree into the blizzard and looked up. The snow didn't affect her at all anyway.

'Rukia' she said to herself. The snowfall was reflected by how Rukia was feeling. It was normally gentle but this time was one of the only times it was different. To Sode no Shirayuki's knowledge, this was the third time the snow had been like this. The first being when Kaien died and the second time being when she attempted to escape from the fortress. There might have been more times like this when she was sentenced to execution but at that time, Rukia didn't have her sword so Sode no Shirayuki wouldn't have been there.

'Rukia' Renji said, trying to talk her out of it. 'It doesn't matter anymore. You're still the same person that you've always been.'

'Rukia-san' Sayumi began. 'I know that I haven't known you for as long as everyone else but I know that you're a kind person.'

'Yeah' Ichigo agreed. 'And you're doing that thing again where you're putting yourself above everyone else' he said. 'What do you think I did when I realised I was a vizard?' He waited a little while to see if she responded. She didn't so he carried on. 'I just carried on as if it was normal. Sure, I knew I'd have to try to stop it somehow but I wasn't doing what you're doing.'

'I might not be happy with any decisions I've made in the past' Rukia began. 'But I don't want to die yet if that's what you're trying to talk me out of doing.' She finally looked up from the floor. 'I still want to help all of you as a friend, not as whatever it is I am.' Everyone smiled in approval as she was as close to being back to normal as she was going to get now. 'I really don't deserve such good friends' she smiled to herself.


You might have been wondering why the flashbacks were in different perspectives. This is because the first flashback was originally going to be part of chapter 26 but I later took it out because I didnt want to include it yet. I wrote the second flashback in 1st person because I thought it would work better. I couldnt be bothered to change all of the first flashback to the 1st person as I had already written all of it so I hope that clears everything up.

Well, the point of his chapter wasn't really to advance the plot. It was mostly so everyone knew what was going on. As usual reviews are appreciated.

I have an idea for the next two chapters but if I decide to stick with what I have planned, they will be fairly short. I just thought I'd tell you all.

I don't have anything else to say so I'll be off.

'Til next time.