What's up guys? As of recently, I've dubbed the following arc the "Staycation" arc, and for the most part, It'll expand the focus on a few girls who haven't gotten as much "screentime" both on their own and with Naruto as well. Simply put, Hanabi, Ino, Hinata, and Mitsuki to an extent, are in need of some more scenes with Naruto as of now (Mitsuki especially since her family will be in town very soon, hehehe :D ) That's not to say that the other girls will be non-existent during this arc (I'm trying to build everyone up equally for whenever the hell the "final decision" happens. Which will not happen soon, that's for sure), but they won't be focused on for the next few chapters.

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Otogakure Village; Orochimaru's Laboratory:

Orochimaru had always taken pride in his keen intellect, his inability to find any challenge too great for him to overcome… However, this "Jashin" that the captured Akatsuki member kept pleading and referring to continued to elude the snake Sannin.

The man growled as he flipped through a scroll containing recorded knowledge concerning ancient religions, and while he was elated to have found a few mentions of "Jashinism" in relevant material, he failed to find anything useful concerning it. The original clan that practiced the religion was wiped out, dismembered and scattered across the land hundreds of years ago. Any detailed information concerning them was sparse at best.

On top of that, it wasn't like he could interrogate Hidan, the man had some sort of superhuman pain tolerance, merely laughing when Orochimaru ordered Kabuto to carve his eyes out to get him to talk.

He slammed his desk as hard as he could in order to crush an errant fly that had been buzzing around for the past few minutes.

He angrily parsed through Hidan's medical examinations, which were inconclusive as well. The Sannin had run many a test, repeatedly removing and reattaching limbs, measuring healing efficiency and speed.

Orochimaru continued thumbing through his notes, he stopped on a circled passage concerning one of his many hypotheses regarding Hidan's insane vitality. It detailed the lack of cellular degeneration in Hidan's detached appendages, and the rapid healing upon reattachment. After running a few tests, he concluded that the man was somehow drawing chakra from an outside source to maintain his body, and that killing people using some sort of seal or ritual is what facilitated the process. He cursed, not even knowing where to begin if such a thing was true.

Said hypothesis was the only thing that made sense in the Sannin's mind, yet, he barely knew anything more than he did the day before.

The Snake stabbed a kunai into the desk out of frustration, cursing the immortal monster he'd captured. The last time Orochimaru tried to question him, Hidan had bitten off his own tongue, they'd resorted to holding his mouth open with a vice and stitching it back in just so he'd be able to talk.

Orochimaru groaned and pulled out another scroll concerning ancient religions until there was a knock on the door.

"Yes, what is it?"

Kabuto entered the room, carrying a tray of tofu-flavored food pills, he placed a few into a mug on his master's desk before speaking.

"Orochimaru-sama, the interrogation went as it usually goes. He bit out his tongue again, we've got medic-nin stitching it back in as we speak, however, I wouldn't come to you unless I had news."

Orochimaru grunted and swatted the mug off to the side, shattering it against the wall, the food pills bounced around the room. He growled and turned around, visibly annoyed.

"This had better be good…"

"Of course… I have an idea, sir. I believe Sasuke-san may be able to aid in our interrogation. While we don't have any Yamanaka shinobi in our midst, I believe the Sharingan may be useful in tricking him into revealing how he became immortal."

Orochimaru narrowed his eyes and spun his chair back around to his desk. He retrieved some dossiers he created on the Sharingan and rapidly flipped through the pages for a few seconds until he stopped on a page near the end of the file.

He read through it and his scowl contorted into a sickening grin. He handed the dossier to his aide and hashed out his orders.

"Kabuto-kun formulate a plan, and then summon the boy… kukukuku…"

Konoha Hospital

"Well, that's… strange…"

Shizune continued to shine her flashlight into Naruto's now slitted pupils. They'd dilate and contract as normal, but they also stubbornly retained their cat-like appearance.

Naruto maintained his blank expression while Shizune intently stared at the glowing seal on his stomach.

'Oi, Fox… You sure I'm gonna be alright?'

'Hn. Aside from being better looking, your body has become adapted to handle more of my chakra, just as I thought.'

'Better… looking? What?! I look like a damn furry!'

'I take offense to that term, human.'

'Whatever, just don't screw this up anymore than you already have.'

'You're aware that you've done this to yourself… right? This is one of the many failsafes built into your seal, if you push your limits, it will adapt your body to handle more demonic chakra so that you may remain in control.'

'… Control?'

'Of course. Your survival may be in our best interest, however, I WILL steal your body if you screw up, I guarantee it… though that has become more difficult as of late.'

'I've been wondering about that, from day one, we've been taught you can't actually kill Bijuu. What happens to you if I get killed?

'Many things could potentially happen. I would have to observe your seal more closely to be entirely sure as far as us specifically, however, a poorly sealed Bijuu will escape simply re-materialize in the place that the host body expires. You and I are in a different situation, your seal appears much more robust than the previous seals that have been used to contain me.'

So… now what?'

'Just allow the humans to do their inspections so you can be done with it. You have females to impregnate.'

'Oh… shit! Why do I keep forgetting about that?!'

'Because you're a moron… If you follow my lead, you'll come out on top… and I'll get to have sex again, that last one was a freebie, I'm starting to get bored in here.'

Shizune's voice snapped Naruto out of his inner exchange.

"Naruto, have you been experiencing any blank spaces in your memory? Time passing without your perceiving it?"

The blonde shook his head. "Not since the training trip before my seal stabilized. I'll let you all know if I blink and 5 hours have passed or something."

Shizune nodded and then replied; "I'm going to set up an appointment for you tomorrow then. Tsunade-sama will need time to prepare for you… however, I'm starting to think Jiraiya-sama would be the best one to examine you."

"When's the appointment?"

"Tomorrow at 9:00 sharp, don't be late, Naruto."

Naruto nodded and hopped off of the examining table, he threw on his black shirt and made sure to go somewhere private before teleporting to his front door. He stood there in front of his spacious mansion for a moment and began to feel a familiar chill run down his spinal column. Naruto took it as a bad omen and decided that it would probably be better for him to come back later. The boy paused and wondered where else he would go that wouldn't attract any unwanted attention. Seeing as the sun had just gone down, his options weren't exactly very diverse.

He couldn't go to Ichiraku… at least not without a date, seeing as women had started staking the place out for when he'd show up, and the Black Lotus was out of the question since it was a weekend, the place would be packed, that, and the fact that Naruto was still hurting from Tsunade's salary deduction for breaking her desk.

There was a moment where Naruto's mind went blank, and then, it was as if a light had flipped on inside of his head.

He'd nearly forgotten with everything that had happened up until this point, but it was perfect. Thinking back to the day on which he'd met Mitsuki, he remembered that he chose to keep his old apartment for no particular reason.

Naruto turned around from his door and jumped off into the night sky toward his old residence, a few seconds later, the door creaked open.

"Naruto? Lady Tachibana would li-… You were wrong, Shukaku."

Gaara stepped out into the night for a moment to look around; finding no hint of blonde, or orange, she pouted. The Kazekage mentally chastised her inner demon for the false alarm concerning the Kyuubi's proximity before slipping back into the doorway.

"Finally."

Sasuke, after a bit of bargaining, had gotten Orochimaru to hand over the Snake Contract, he'd spent the day in the Sannin's library reading up on the previous users of the scroll, with Orochimaru preceding him directly. He was now ready to sign it, he had the hefty paper unfurled across the living room floor of his spacious apartment.

Sasuke was sitting cross-legged on the floor with a kunai and some bandages, he dragged the sharp steel across the tip of his left ring finger and began to fill his name into the blank space next to Orochimaru's. When he put the final characters in his signature for the snake contract, he picked up the roll of bandages next to his knee and began to tie them around his profusely bleeding digit.

"Dammit."

Just then, there was a knock on Sasuke's apartment door; he'd figured it was Kabuto or something. The Uchiha boy knew how to get information from people using genjutsu, and he figured it was only a matter of time until Orochimaru or Kabuto remembered so as well. Sasuke figured they'd eventually summon him so that he could get some pertinent information from the immortal prisoner.

He groaned and stood up, slowly walking over to the door. He was met with a preferable alternative to Kabuto's smug visage.

"Hey there, Sasuke!"

Sasuke exhaled in relief, or... annoyance? It was always hard to tell with him... He moved to the side, allowing the girl room to enter the apartment. She was carrying a large brown bag and placed it on the counter, she was about to begin removing the contents when she saw Sasuke's blood dripping from his finger at a rapid pace.

She walked around the counter and stuck her hand out. "Cut yourself? Gimme your hand."

Sasuke gave her a blank stare for a couple of seconds before complying. "I cut too deep when I was signing the snake contract. It's bleeding… a lot."

Karin frowned after giving the boy's hand a quick inspection. "Sasuke? You nearly went down to the bone, that's some serious pain tolerance… You didn't disinfect it at all before you wrapped it did you?"

He merely shook his head, prompting Karin to usher him to the couch. They sat down and she produced a small first aid kit from her sleeve, she pulled out two tiny vials, one was a clotting agent, the other was a disinfectant.

Sasuke silently handed her the roll of bandages while he removed the already blood-stained bandages from his finger.

Karin exhaled as she applied the disinfectant and then the clotting agent.

"I may be your personal physician, but you have to know how to keep yourself safe while I'm not around. Just because you put bandages on something doesn't mean it'll heal properly."

Sasuke turned to the window with a bored expression. "Sure, whatever."

Karin lowered her glasses and raised her eyebrow. "Oh you don't have to… at least until I have to amputate your hand due to infection, and then retire you early because you can't make hand signs anymore."

Sasuke turned to glare at the redhead, but she just smirked back. "Sasuke, you know that look doesn't work on me. I'm just looking out for you."

Sasuke's glare subsided and he turned back to the window for a moment before speaking.

"… Karin."

"Hm?"

"It's becoming too dangerous for me to stay here... I have to go soon."

"Wait, what?! Really?"

Sasuke nodded and turned to the girl. "Orochimaru… he's becoming weaker, more erratic... He's created some foul technique that forces his soul into the body of a living host. I've seen it with my own eyes, and my time here is running short, I don't plan on letting him doing that to me… I still have so much to do."

Karin appeared downtrodden when Sasuke turned back to her.

"… There's no other alternative."

The girl replied to him in a hushed tone, she was staring at he lap. "It's not that, I want to see you achieve your goals… it's just… Will I be able to say goodbye?"

The Uchiha flexed his newly bandaged hand. "… I'll be leaving within a week."

Karin became even more worried when she noticed a duffel bag in the corner of the room, Sasuke was serious. She could see that it was visibly stocked with provisions for a long journey. The redhead sighed before asking another question.

"… Where does that leave me, Sasuke?"

The Uchiha paused for a moment appearing to be deep in thought. There was a long pause, the only audible noise was the sound of Karin adjusting the bandages around Sasuke's ring finger. The girl began putting a few thoughts together during this silence, she wondered why Sasuke of all people would be telling her this as opposed to just disappearing one night. She looked at the Uchiha, who was still staring out the window, there was a slight movement in his shoulders before he suddenly broke the silence.

"… It leaves you nowhere. Do what you want."

Karin's pout slowly turned into a warm smile. "Then... I'll be going with you."

Sasuke looked down at his hand for a moment and then back at Karin.

"... Fine."

Opting not to teleport for once allowed Naruto to just take in the scenery of a night in Konoha. The paper lamps illuminated the streets below with soft golds, reds and oranges. He could the reflections of happy faces in the windows of shops and stores, there were merchants of all types, conversing amongst each other and trying to rip people off. Naruto smiled at the streets below, It was nice to be home, and with everyone here in Konoha, the coming weeks had much potential, and fun was something that Naruto could seriously use right about now.

The stress of the past few days was really wearing on him, even though he didn't outwardly show it. The mere thought of Haku's return made Naruto's stomach turn, and until he found Orochimaru, there wasn't much he could do about it. The blonde sighed and took a leisurely pace as he hopped from roof to roof, he eventually arrived at his old apartment complex, landing in an alleyway on the side of the building. Walking up the side of the building to his old window, he slid it open, jumping into his bedroom.

Naruto landed on the bed, the mattress was completely stripped, with not even a bedsheet left on top of it. The jinchuuriki leapt from the bed and did a front flip out the open door and bounced off of the wall in his hallway, rebounding down the stairs to land on his feet. He energetically swung open all of the cupboards, and to Naruto's relief, his butlers and maids opted to leave his instant ramen alone, he grabbed two packs and filled them with water from the faucet, he then poured the spices in and threw them into the ratty microwave he was overcharged for when he was in the academy.

It was here that Naruto finally took a moment to reflect on the past week and a half, he sat down at the ratty kitchen table, in his favorite ratty chair and hit the replay button in his mind.

The first person he spoken to when he'd originally returned was Ino. Looking back, Naruto realized that she might have been interested in him for quite a while, not only since he's returned, but potentially years before that. He thought back to his days as a genin and remembered the time she showed a sudden increase in interest when interacting with him. Sure, she was still smitten with Sasuke at the time, but Naruto could tell that he was no longer invisible to her while he was standing next to the Uchiha boy. If he could point to an exact moment in hindsight, he'd say that Ino started to become a fixture in his life after he beat Neji during the chuunin exams. Maybe it was fatigue, or maybe his own naiveté, but since hindsight is 20/20, it only made sense that he'd be noticing it now.

~2.5 Years Ago; Chuunin Exams: Post-match: (Naruto vs. Neji)

Naruto had collapsed from exhaustion immediately after he'd KO'd Neji in their match, he woke up in the arena infirmary area, his vision was somewhat blurry, but he was able to make out a pair of hands going over his various injuries, including his broken right arm, which he could tell was now in a cast. Naruto would forever regret punching Neji's Kaiten while moving at full speed, it felt like every bit of power he'd put into his punch was focused directly back into his fist and up into his shoulder, it was still throbbing in pain from the impact.

Naruto could feel an intense heat in his right arm, he could tell that the demonic chakra was setting and repairing the cracked bones. From his estimate, Naruto figured he be back to 100% in just a couple of days.

The boy sat up, startling the nurse, she jumped backward when they made eye contact.

Naruto continued giving her a blank stare while he thought back to the fight. He had put on quite the display against the touted genius that was Neji. All of Naruto's tenketsu were blocked within the first few minutes of the fight, however, thanks to the Kyuubi, Naruto was able to use his demonic chakra to unblock his chakra flow. Judging from the nurse's reaction, she was afraid of him. It made sense to Naruto, since he felt that in hindsight, he had used far too much of the fox's chakra. He drew it to the point in which it formed a fox-like shroud around his body with a tail. Naruto shuddered as he thought about the dead silence in the arena once he began using the Kyuubi's power. He wanted to be acknowledged by the village, not feared, but that stunt set him way back in that regard.

Naruto was snapped from his thoughts when the nurse finally spoke again.

"Naruto… Uzumaki? …"

The blonde stared at the nurse expectantly, she continued.

"I'm going to finish your stitches… if that's okay with you."

Naruto remained blank in the face and offered her his hand for her to finish. She nervously crossed the room and sat back down on her chair to grab Naruto's hand.

The jinchuuriki stared at his lap with a mixed expression; this was the last way he'd expected for his match to turn out, he began to wonder if his newly found friends would still be there for him if they knew what he was...

He'd been with his thoughts for a few minutes until there was the sound of a curtain slowly opening. The first thing Naruto saw were a concerned pair of green eyes… then a set of aqua blue ones.

"Sakura-chan? …and… Ino?"

The nurse stood up from her stool and stepped out so that she could give them some privacy.

Naruto sheepishly looked back and forth between the girls and his hands, visibly nervous, he spoke in a weak tone of voice.

"I… There's some things about me that I prefer not to talk about with other people... Take what you want from it, but I want you to know that I'll respect your decision if you don't wanna be seen in public with me anymore. I'm… different from most people in some very important ways, it's only natural."

Sakura just stood there wide-eyed while Ino gave Naruto a strange look. There was a long pause until Ino spoke up, causing Naruto to stop hanging his head and look in her direction.

"What're you talking about Naruto?! That was AMAZING! Someone needed to knock that prick down a couple of notches, and the fact that it was you who did it makes it even more awesomely ironic! "The Pariah beats the Prodigy", people will be talking about this for years! The journalists in the audience scrambled out as soon as your fight ended!"

Naruto looked at Ino with a dumbfounded expression, as did Sakura (who's wide-eyed stare turned into a smug grin).

"Be careful Piggy-chan… Someone might get the wrong idea here; you seem awfully impressed with Naruto here."

Ino rolled her eyes in response. "What? Are you not? "

Sakura jabbed Ino's shoulder and turned to Naruto. "Of course I am! Naruto, you just pulled off the biggest upset in the history of the Chuunin Exams, you deserve every ounce of praise that comes your way."

Naruto smiled, and stared down at his hands. "Thanks for not running away or anything, people seem pretty scared of me now."

Sakura and Ino's smiles slowly disappeared when Naruto spoke, Sakura's expression became especially grim, likely thinking back to the mission on the Great Naruto Bridge.

Naruto scratched his head and grinned. "I'm not all that used to people congratulating me... But thank you."

Sakura faked a smile, but continued to stare off to the side, her mind was quite obviously elsewhere. Ino just stared at Naruto for a few seconds before speaking.

"Hey, Naruto... do you wanna sit with us when you're released?"

Naruto looked up, slightly surprised at Ino's compassion. "Really? Sure!"

The smell of ramen ushered Naruto out of his reminiscence, he grabbed the two cups and a pair of chopsticks from a paper cup on his counter, and began to immediately stuff his face.

He wondered for a moment, how he'd gone from being nearly universally hated, feared, or ignored, to being completely polarizing since he'd returned. Naruto had been observing the reactions toward him ever since he'd returned from his training trip with Ero-Sannin, and he could never seem to find people who were truly indifferent toward him at this point. He'd figured his striking resemblance to his late father had a lot to do with the rapid shift in public opinion concerning him. Naruto could even remember a few people approaching him specifically to apologize for one reason or another, their reasons could have been genuine, or they could have been self-serving, he didn't particularly care at this point.

Naruto's mind drifted to the girls in his life, with things progressing so quickly he was beginning to have trouble keeping up, just then, and idea began to formulate in his mind. He tossed the empty cups of ramen into the garbage bin and walked back up the stairs to his room.

Once he was inside, he went over to his dresser and opened the top drawer, he pulled out a marker and turned to the wall on the far side of his old room. Naruto walked over to the wall and began writing the girl's names, one by one, his mind spinning with possibilities concerning the many different paths his life could take based on the decisions he chooses to make.

The jinchuuriki suddenly froze before he could finish writing the names on the wall. In spite of all of his swirling thoughts, Naruto was able to sense the fact that he was not alone. Before he could even begin deducing who could be watching him, the fox interrupted the boy's train of thought.

'It's the little one… Now's your chance.'

Naruto ignored the Kyuubi's kernel of advice and turned his head to the window, speaking in his usual tone of voice.

"Hanabi-chan. You don't have to sit out there all night if you don't want to."

There was a short silence, and then the window made a tiny creaking sound before sliding open. The 9-year-old stepped through and made eye contact with the blonde. Her eyes darted toward the wall for a moment and back to his. For that fraction of a second that she looked at the list, Naruto could see her blank expression flip to a glare and back.

Naruto looked toward the wall as well; she'd interrupted him before he put the final name on the list, hers. He felt a pang of guilt decided to try and salvage the situation as best he could.

The young girl spoke first. "Salutations, Uzumaki-san… I suppose it would be courteous to lend you my assistance in creating a proper tallying system…"

Naruto stared back and the big-eyed girl, visibly surprised. "You'd really help me with this?"

She nodded, prompting Naruto to smile a little bit. He motioned Hanabi over to him, she pressed her fingers together a few times before apprehensively crossing the cramped room. When she was next to him, they both turned and stared at the wall while Naruto spoke.

"I'm still reeling from everything that's been happening lately, and while I understand that people can care about me as more than a son or a little brother now, I'm just not used to it… I spent more than 90% of my life wondering if I'd ever find love, and... I eventually did…"

Naruto was emitting a notion of somberness that Hanabi had never seen from the blonde ninja.

"Love… It was taken from me just as quickly as I found it, and I stumbled around, almost completely blind for nearly three years… Now, here I am, with more love than I know what to do with."

Hanabi's eyes went from the wall, to her feet, and then upward toward Naruto's face; he appeared sad, yet hopeful.

The blonde continued. "It's one of the few things I want out of life to be honest... Love, I mean… Hey, Hanabi-chan?"

The young girl replied in her usual neutral tone. "Yes, Uzumaki-san?"

"You're a lot more mature than you let on… you ever thought about what you want out of life?"

Hanabi looked down for a moment, deep in thought. What came out of her mouth next, was insightful, far beyond the standard emotional capabilities of most others within Hanabi's age group.

"… Since I was a toddler, I could remember being groomed to be the heir of the Hyuuga Clan… It was not until recently that my father re-bestowed that birthright upon my sister. After which, I began searching for something else to aspire to, so I poured myself into my training… it gave me something, but it was never quite enough. In life, I have realized that my deepest desire is; to find some form of purpose that I can truly invest myself into with every fiber of my being… Everything I have been doing until now feels inconsequential to me... So when you made such a profound change in my sister… It made me wonder about you... and if you could do the same for me…"

Hanabi grabbed Naruto's hand and looked up at him; she had a slight pout on her face as she prepared to address him. There was a notable sternness in her voice that Naruto was unaccustomed to hearing.

"So, to answer your question… Yes, I do think about these things on a regular basis, I just wonder if… you take me seriously."

Naruto was taken aback by the weighty nature of the young girl's words; he broke eye contact and looked at the wall for a few seconds. Hanabi could see the gears turning inside of Naruto's head as she waited for him to answer.

The blonde smirked and knelt down, turning to face Hanabi. He produced the marker from his sleeve and handed it to her, the girl sheepishly took it from him and her big lavender eyes bounced between the blonde's face and the marker in her hand. Hanabi's brain began formulating potential outcomes to the situation, but given the circumstances, she just decided to be up front.

"Uzumaki-san, what exactly are y-…"

Hanabi trailed off when Naruto grinned and picked her up by the waist.

The former Hyuuga Heiress inhaled sharply and gave an uncharacteristic squeak at the sudden feeling of weightlessness. Naruto placed her on his shoulder so that she could reach the top spot on the end of the wall. If it weren't for her stoic disposition, Hanabi probably would have giggled as well. Naruto was smiling, though it was decidedly not his patented grin, this smile was subtle in nature. Hanabi looked at him from her perch on his shoulder and she could tell that there was a rare sort of earthliness to him that contrasted his usually outlandish expressions. She began to wonder what exactly was going on inside his head, since this was a side of Naruto she'd never seen before.

Naruto spoke to her in an even tone. "As you can see, I left enough space for one more name… So, to answer your question… Yes, I do take you seriously, Hanabi-chan."

Hanabi, despite maintaining a rather mild expression of surprise, went from a modest pink to a bright red, much in the vein of her sister. Hanabi could have sworn her heart skipped a beat when Naruto lifted her onto his shoulder, and now, she was beginning to feel lightheaded. Naruto and sincerity were attached at the hip, and it was here that she was beginning to truly comprehend why she had such an intense 'gut feeling' concerning the village pariah.

Hanabi smiled, looking down to her toes as they dangled in space, she then looked dow to Naruto, there was a warm tint to her usually cold and calculated speech patterns.

"… I suppose this is why I find you so… interesting, Uzumaki-san. Those whom you come into contact with, find something within themselves that they were previously unaware of, and as such, they always change for the better. Perhaps..."

Hanabi cut herself off and decided to just enjoy the moment for what it was, she put her ever-elusive smile on display as she proudly signed her own name on the wall in much neater handwriting than Naruto's to the left. It was a profound moment of mutual understanding that both of them had only occasionally felt during their short lives, he placed the girl back on the ground and she turned to him with a tiny smile on her face.

"Uzumaki-san… Arigato." The young girl scuttled over to him and wrapped him up in a surprisingly firm hug. She let go after what felt like a silent eternity, and then, bowed. The unexpected reaction caused Naruto's eyes to widen slightly, seeing as he rarely saw such a thing from any Hyuuga aside from Hinata."

The boy smiled and replied in an unusually humble tone of voice.

"Anytime, Hanabi-chan."

AN: The feels... they are strong with this one... Anyway, thanks for sticking around this far! Chapter 39 will be a bit longer than usual, since there's a lot for me to cover, especially Mitsuki's family reunion (oh, that's gonna be fun to write.)

Now then, Naruto's list will be playing a very important role from now on, and seeing as Hanabi will have a deep understanding of how it works, she's going to be able to pull some strings and make the puppets do a little dance whenever she feels it's necessary (I've got some funny omakes that I wrote a while back that I'd like to actually fold into the story over time, you'll see why soon enough).

Alright then, It's time to begin work on Prologue Orange Chapter 2.

UPDATE 8/21/16: I'VE JUST POSTED A VERY SPECIAL POLL ON MY PROFILE PAGE. TAKE A LOOK, VOTE, AND POTENTIALLY LOSE SOME OF YOUR HAIR DUE TO STRESS.