AN: Hello everyone. It's been a while since I've put something up. Before you begin to wonder, no I'm not discontinuing neither of my stories. This is just a simple update for both stories and to explain what's been going on. I'll be putting this on both Hero's Pride and Heroic Shinobi so if you read both stories than you'll know that it'll be the exact same thing.

Now the lack of uploads are partly my fault. I had recently begun working at a temporary job that's been tiring me out both mentally and physically, mostly Mentally due to the fact that I practically do the same job over and over again.

While yes, other authors work and are able to upload chapters more frequently than me, when I'm tired, I usually half ass my work or stories and as much as that would be very easy to do, you all deserve better than that.

I'm not sure when I'll be updating either stories, as I had begun both the new chapters for both stories. At this point it's like waiting for a UPS delivery that changes once in a while.

I apologize for any inconveniences that I've caused any of you by not updating.However there is a silver lining to this. As I've stated, this is a temporary job, however the time there has allowed me to think more about my stories than ever before on my free time, so when I get back to writing again, hopefully I'll be updating more and more frequently.

I would also like to thank those who have been leaving nice reviews, despite the fact that realistically, I'm not a very good fanfic writer. I appreciate the kindness and I will try to repay that kindness forward by updating more.Hope everyone has a good day.

From the idiotic but amazingly talented writer.

Loner.(Also that title I gave myself is a joke)