Hey guys, not having the normal information I put at the top and bottom for a reason… I hope some of you will read the explanation for the lateness in my story plus the lack of the repeated author note.

Please read the bottom note!

The instant I entered the dorm, I looked around for Akuma. The dorm was completely empty and all of my books and papers were stacked up against the wall like they originally were beforehand. I glanced over then noticed the sticky note on my computer screen. "Went out to scare Kiba… not sure when I will be back… P.S. there is food in the fridge… P.S.S… Foxy and Kurama came with me." I crumpled up the note then tossed it into the trash. I yelled at her before to never put sticky notes on my screen, but it was the only place I would notice a note right away.

"I wonder when she left…" I mumbled to myself as I opened up the fridge and pulled out the box that had a sticky note on it with my name. I brought it to my desk and sat down, pulling out the rest of my books. I glanced over to my one notebook and sighed, pulling it out as I opened it. The fact that it didn't appear disturbed told me that Akuma didn't know that this was my journal.

I feel like shit today. Everything was going great, minus the fact that I made Akuma feel like she wasn't good enough anymore… but we had fun despite it being such a sort trip. Coming back to the news about Itachi was harsh on me. I thankfully didn't lash out at Akuma, but spoke to her in a way as though she didn't understand how I felt. I know that is a lie… I mean, if she actually had family still alive, she probably wouldn't be stuck in this hell hole or suffering as much as she was. They would have taken her in, maybe, and got her what she needed. I'm not sure if Akuma has ever lost someone after a fight… she rarely speaks up about that sort of thing.

I feel like a jackass now though. For 10 years, I pushed away Itachi and never gave him a chance to tell me his side of the story. He died with the thought that his little brother still hated him. I didn't hate Itachi anymore… Akuma helped me on that part, but I did detest the fact that Itachi would hit on Akuma. Itachi was always there for Akuma when we were younger, but Akuma never had anything to reflect Itachi's feelings. Unlike Itachi though, I actually told Akuma my feelings. I just feel like an ass for that though.

Itachi had someone he loved before Akuma. I never got to meet that person, but I did learn that they died in a car accident. Itachi was still young, but he managed to heal up fast from the loss. That happened to be around the time that our father announced that Akuma would be staying with us for a while. I still remember those days as a child, constantly fighting over Akuma and our silly truth or dares that we had that were related to admitting that we loved Akuma.

I wish I at least told him that I forgave him… at least something that would have left him in a peaceful state of mind before he died. I jus-

I stopped my writing as I heard something fall on the floor. I turned around to see that Akuma's bag fell off her chair. I walked over, picking up her bag, only for papers and a journal to fall out. My eyes landed directly on the journal. I picked up everything and put it back into the bag before grabbing the journal and sitting down at my desk.

Contradicting myself, I opened up the journal and began reading. For the first good bit of entries it was just some small things that didn't matter at all and only explained what she was doing those days. I read over the journal entries from around the time my parents were murdered, causing me to boot up my computer. Akuma had asked me if I knew someone named Rin, this must have been why. I searched up on the internet for Rin, only to get more entries than I wanted. However, none of them were what I needed. I threw her journal in frustration. I was hoping there would be information about someone named Rin, so I could find a connection of some sort in order to clear my brother's past suspect status so that the homicide detectives would investigate.

"I have to do everything on my own." I asked, narrowing my gaze. To do this, I needed to get as many law books as I could in order to score high on being a lawyer and get into the task force. I wanted revenge against whoever murdered Itachi, and the only way I was able to do that was if I was able to get onto both the task force and become a great lawyer.

I had distracted myself from these studies for far too long thanks to Akuma. She was on her own now; I wasn't going to help her. She needed to learn that I wasn't always going to be there for her. I searched up on the internet several books that would help me in my studies, then wrote them down on notebook paper and placed it into my planner which I wrote my new plans for tomorrow. I would wake up early and head out to the library and take out as many books as I could before going to the book store and buying the study guides. I had to do make up tests too, so I knew I had to study for those so when winter break ended I could go straight in and do the testing.

I stood up as I heard movement at the door. I grabbed my planner as the dorm door opened. "I hate you Uzumaki! I hate you so damn much!" I heard Kiba shout from outside the dorm door. "Hold on! I'm not the one who provoked Kurama to begin with! You should know better than to torture a fox!"

"I thought the fox was domestic!" I heard Akuma snort. "You saw that fox when he came to the dorm!" I glanced over at Akuma, raising my brow at her outfit. When Akuma and Kiba were done yelling at each other, I heard Gaara's voice join in. "Thanks to you, that blackmail picture will be long forgotten." I heard slight movement. "Eh… Kiba deserved this scare; I could treat it as revenge for him posting photo shopped images of me in the bar."

"Here is your lip ring." Gaara said. I narrowed my gaze. So Akuma did pull out her suitcase filled with her normal accessories. I shook my head, stuffing my planner into my pocket before pulling my jacket off my chair and putting it on. I walked over to the door, making my way past Akuma and Gaara. "Sasuke, where are you going?" Akuma asked. I stopped walking as I gripped my planner in my pocket.

"None of your business." I walked away, leaving Akuma to be dumbfounded while Gaara started shouting at me that I shouldn't treat the person I care about like that.

-AN—

I will start off on telling you guys why I am late by a long while on updates. Around the end of March, my internet was turned off, due to the company claiming we didn't pay them, which they found out was an error on their part… First week in April, we had the same run in with the electric company, which ended up ALSO being on their part, AND them turning us off a week before the day they exclaimed they would. Then the internet company hit us again, which caused the biggest uproar since our payment plan is to pay them on the 20th every month, and it wasn't even the 20th, considering it is the 24th now, and this happened around the 8th.

I won't go into much detail about this 'suspension' mistake that was placed on me.

Now onto the information I want you guys to read.

While I wasn't able to get on to put up chapters and everything… I was setting up my stories for 'Phase 2' and 'Phase 3'… 'Phase 2' is a rewrite to get most errors out and to fix the reading since 'Phase 1' is just the original copy thrown on without review. 'Phase 3' is the final form of the story, where the Author Notes won't be around and the story will have a whole different touch to it. Uzumaki Twins is the only story that may have to go through a 'Phase 4' since the original 'Phase 2' was pure laziness of just combining chapters without much review. I am currently rewriting it as I would in Phase 3, since that story is practically done and the ideas are out there.

So in other words… For some time now, as I rewrite my stories, there is a high chance that there will either be no update, or an update with an un-reviewed chapter(Meaning that there could be a lot of errors, or just seems like it was written when I was asleep) I would like everyone to understand my delay as I do this.

NUA is my longest story now, and will take the longest to rewrite with its current 85 chapters and the other 20+ chapters sitting on the computer waiting to be put up. As I stated before, Uzumaki Twins is already in rewrite mode, which I have not put any of the rewritten chapters up, since I want to last minute review the chapters when the freshness is out of my mind for me to read and see the errors. I have yet to look over YnK since that story is fresh already… NnB was already in Phase 2 rewrite and most of the chapters were already replaced. HSF… notes are currently in progress, and NHS has not been looked over yet. I want to update Caged and HoM sometime this week, either tomorrow or Saturday.

That poll on what stories you guys want to be put into a comic is still up… I still do want to try and get back into drawing, and I still need to get all those late Christmas stuff up on my Deviantart for people.

To those that do complain on the lateness of updates… I just want to state this… I am human just like you, and I live a life outside of the internet. I go to classes just like everyone, and most of them tend to be early morning classes or late at night classes. I go to the gym everyday for 3 hours, causing mild exhaustion due to weak health. I have been job hunting while dealing with my extended family calling me lazy and a 'good for nothing' in which they try to compare me to my baby cousin who they neglected from the start, who now is a drop out. I dropped out of school after my 3rd year, and went straight into a local college…

They complain that I always am in front of the computer 'tippaty-tappating' for hours, frying my brain cells. They don't appreciate my writing and art; never have… only 'Tachi, Eui and Koh do… So just like everyone else, I have to deal with life and stop my chances to update stories. I wish people could understand that I am human, just like you…

For everyone that actually read the author note, I must thank you. I must ask who does read my Uzumaki Twins story, since I may need to ask some of you something about it. Don't worry it's nothing bad!

I plan to draw up a cover for HSF… anyone have any ideas they think would be a good cover?

-Ja ne for now