Main thing to note before reading, I changed the ending in the Otogakure section of the Interlude, so things are going differently than you may have expected them to.

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"So," I start with a clap. "Since I killed the Otokage, does that make me the new one or am I just a double missing nin now? This kind of situation wasn't listed in the Oto shinobi handbook, so I'm not too sure on what the procedure is." I ask as I come face-to-face with Dosu and Guren.

Dosu narrowed his uncovered eye at me while Guren just raised a brow, though her eyes were filled with suspicion at me. After a few moments of silence, it was Dosu that answered me. "Officially, an attempt would either get you executed or experimented on. Or, unofficially, if you were impressive enough, promoted. Though most of the latter two don't last long. But as usual, you prove to be an exemption." Dosu answered plainly.

"And a successful attempt?" I asked with a bit of mirth.

"A complicated situation, as we both know Orochimaru well enough to know that he'd never account for such a possibility." Dosu said, a bit confused but willing to go along with my questioning.

"Then it seems like it'll be up to us to account for it now, won't it?" I said. "After all, there's no standard procedure to follow. Of course, the most obvious route would be to follow the Otokage's successor, except that two individuals could fill that role. Me being Orochimaru's apprentice and Guren being his second in command. Or it'd be more accurate to say you yourself Dosu, no offense Guren."

"None taken. Though I'm surprised that you're even here, hell, let alone considering filling in for the role. Pretty much everyone expected you to be going after Itachi the second that you could." Guren said, just as confused but going along.

"I know, right? I wouldn't have expected him to be patient enough to grab myself, Karin, and Jugo, then ditch him, before heading on over here, and then going after Itachi." Suigetsu added in, just as surprised as she was.

"Jugo? And seeing as he's not here, ditched even, he's either running wild elsewhere or he's-" Dosu guessed.

"He's not in his prison or dead," I interrupt to clarify. "Let's just say he's actually getting treatment for his anger issues with people far more qualified than Orochimaru could be."

"I find it doubtful that they'd succeed but regardless, I wish them luck."

"Honestly it's Jugo that needs it more than they do. The snakes of Ryuchi Cave are not the most gentle of caretakers."

"The snakes accepted you as their new summoner?" Dosu asked, surprised. "Well, that certainly helps in proving you to be a good replacement, in any case, picking up the mantle of the Snake Summoner that he left behind."

"To be a replacement would imply that I'm merely filling in for Orochimaru, which would be completely wrong. I am beyond him."

"You may have killed him Sasuke but the Sannin was crippled by his sickness. His full strength is yet to be something that you could overcome."

"I say this because I became the one thing he could never be. After all," I say dramatically before taking a pose similar to what Sasuke did when showing off his Curse Mark Form while dropping my Henge. Once dropped I let out a little of my Senjutsu chakra, revealing my Sage Mode for them to see. I left out the hand wings and tail so I didn't just ruin the only outfit I had with me. I could always revert to my base form but I wanted to get used to being a Sage and all that would apply to it. Besides, if there's no downside to keeping it on then why not. "The Snake Sennin would be far superior to the Snake Sannin."

"The Curse Mark!? No, this is similar but so much more! This could only be Senjutsu!?"

"Well, we were relative in power before, but with this on top of that then it's clear who the hat goes to," Guren admits, accepting it though not entirely happy with it.

"Aren't you going to put up more of a fight over it? Because honestly, I'd rather not wear it."

"What? No damn it, I don't want it either. The only reason I'm still here is that I don't know where else I could go without worrying about Konoha going after me." Guren groaned with some disappointment. Her reasoning was a bit strange to me since as soon as she could she took Yukimaru, the boy she took up raising, with her and went into hiding, but I guess without encountering Naruto she wouldn't have him to vouch for her and avoid being hunted down by the Leaf.

"If you don't want to be Otokage, then why are you here? And what for?" Dosu asked.

"As mentioned earlier, there are some issues regarding the line of succession. Some would argue for Guren due to her being in charge when he's away. Some would argue for me since I killed Orochimaru and proved myself his superior, thus stronger, and fit to rule. However, since Orochimaru never made a statement on this it could be easy for those who'd prefer neither to assert another nor themselves as Otokage. Obviously, this is going to be a problem if a resolution isn't found quickly. And I don't trust the nutjobs in this place not to do something stupid in a civil war."

Hell, I'm pretty sure that without Dosu and Guren taking the reins as the village's strongest shinobi in addition to Guren's status, that Oto would've already been in the starting stages of falling apart. Though enough did remain that Orochimaru could rebuild after the Fourth Shinobi War, I very much doubt that such a possibility would be relevant here.

"You're not wrong. Without the excuse of Orochimaru focusing their efforts towards medically life-saving ones, some of our scientists could certainly unleash something problematic. But I doubt that's all you're here for."

"You're right, I am here for my selfish reasons. There are some experiments that could be of some use to me. That, and I want all of Orochimaru's personal notes, especially any of the ones that relate to his ninjutsu, techniques, fuinjutsu/jutsushiki, Hashirama's cells, and the Sharingan. Also any references to an individual by the name of Danzo Shimura, even the most minor and vague. And of course, I want whatever spy network that Oto has to locate any leads on Itachi." I said, listing off what I wanted.

"Really? Whatever happened to that spy network of yours? Not effective enough for this?" Suigetsu asked with a smug grin, bringing up our talk from that restaurant back in Wave.

"Sadly it can't be used for this. Their loyalty was guaranteed by my stunning good looks, but Itachi is not only handsome, but he's also edgy, and feminine in certain angles." I explained with a mocked sadness about the weakness of my spy network.

"Doesn't that fit you already?" Suigetsu asked with a raised eyebrow.

"There's a difference between effeminate and pretty boy. Besides, he's an older emo bad boy too. So there'd be a conflict of division and I wouldn't be surprised if the network devolved into a mess of counterespionage."

"What the hell kind of spy network are you running?" Dosu asked incredulously. "The second that Orochimaru died, ours went haywire and while a good majority remained loyal, even then some started charging higher prices for their services."

"All you need to know is that it's one easily bought and self-maintained," I answered cryptically.

"Gossiping fangirls." Suigetsu spoiled bluntly and with glee as well.

"Oh, allow me to rephrase Dosu's question," Guren said before turning to Karin. "Karin, what the hell kind of spy network are you running?"

"...I'll admit that my affection was a bit much but I was not bad enough to be his top fangirl." Karin sheepishly defended. "Though I am his top girl, however, hehe."

"Oh Sasuke, fill me with your seed! Fill me with you!" A shrill voice called out from Suigetsu's mouth.

"We never did anything like that!?" Karin roared in anger and embarrassment, before deflating at what she just said.

"As fascinating as it is to hear of Sasuke's sex life," Dosu interrupted, his flat tone betraying his fascination.

"I'm pretty sure that retaining your virginity counts as a lack of one," Guren added with a mock, getting a glare from Karin and a laugh from Suigetsu.

"Weren't you going on about how you were saving your body for Orochimaru?" I shot back with a raised brow. the comeback was seemingly unexpected as Dosu blinked and Guren froze. Suigetsu laughing even harder seemed to break her free from that.

"Not like that and not anymore!" Guren quickly yelled out with a blush and a glare.

"We do need to get back to business." Dosu finished, though I could detect a bit of amusement from him. Not totally a stiff then.

To defeat the Huns!

But yeah he's right.

"Yes, we should. So, where do we go from here?" I asked.

"Well, your wants are reasonably doable. We'll grant you free access to all of Orochimaru's belongings for you to look for what you want. The same access will be granted to the experiments that we have and know of as well. And though I can't promise the effectiveness of our spy network in regards to finding Itachi Uchiha, we'll certainly keep a more focused eye out for him." Dosu said, giving in to my requests. But it seemed that he was about to give a request of his own. "And speaking of an Akatsuki member, we have a problem."

"Unless you happened to kidnap a Biju, I don't see why they'd have any problems with Oto. Unless Pain is feeling petty enough to order it, which is unlike him though it may be up Deidara's alley."

"It's neither of those two and thankfully it's not Deidara. Though I must ask about who this Pain figure is."

"He's the leader of the Akatsuki and wielder of the legendary Rinnegan. The man is powerful enough to have 10 S-Ranks follow him, some of them forcefully, and to destroy Oto with a single jutsu, so word of advice, if you ever spot one of them," I take a moment to use a Henge and spawn five extra clones to help illustrate my message. I then continue using the Deva Path's voice. "Get as far away from them as possible. Though if you happen to have auditory genjutsu, use it, he's very much susceptible to it. Though that's just a theory."

Though his bandage wrappings covered most of his face, I could tell that he blanched at the mention of Pain's power. "...Noted. Even more so, I must say that it thankfully isn't Pain either. No, it's Kakuzu and Hidan. More specifically, Kakuzu, who wants Orochimaru's head, either from us or from you."

Huh, that's a surprise. Especially since I figured that these two would be after Yugito or Asuma around this time. Strange, was this before or after they killed Asuma? If after, how did they escape? I'd figure that a stronger Naruto would mean even worse chances for Kakuzu unless he had some sense to flee after losing most of his hearts. I wouldn't know until I saw them so not much use in wondering.

Still, this could certainly be useful…

"Well, since I'll be fighting for this village rather than just helping you deal with some internal issues, I'm going to have to add something that I was going to bring up later."

"I'm already giving you what you want, what more could you want out of this?"

"I want a say in how things are run. That isn't to say that I'll be running the place, I just want it to be run differently than how Orochimaru had it run."

"You and I are both in agreement on not wanting to rule as he did. I intend on Sound to prosper as opposed to it merely being a tool for Orochimaru to use, help with that and I'll take your words into account."

"And how would you go about it? Many leaders, good or bad, kind or cruel, claim the same. Many wars have been started and lives lost to fulfill such a claim. Simply stating that you'll rule properly doesn't tell me how or why I should believe you." I wasn't Nagato who could be convinced by just the guts and drive of some idealist, I gotta know how those ideals plan to come to fruition after all.

"I gave a simple answer as I didn't think that you cared enough for one. It seems I'll have to give a personal one then." Dosu said.

"The Land of Rice was left ruined and impoverished after Sasori destroyed our military might. Such events were common for minor Hidden Villages in the wake of the Five Great Nations and their wars, yet that didn't take away from the misfortune. Life was hopeless and bleak for most until a light came, Orochimaru. We were deluded in desperation and then gratitude towards the man for giving us what we wanted, what we needed. Strength. To be strong enough that we would never be in that position again. And stronger than we may have been since then, it soon became clear to me that Orochimaru was never going to fulfill that hope. Not when he had no other intentions for our strength to be but tools, not when he had started to wane in strength."

"You wish to gain strength. The strength to defend from threats, to stand your ground against intruders and imperialists, to protect the people." I summed up. It wasn't much of a surprise to hear that strength was what he wanted. In this world, strength was absolutely needed, be it to carry out your ideals or to simply live unimpeded by others. As the strongest being on the planet through extraordinary luck, I could understand. "And how would you plan on gaining that strength?"

"We have gathered here some of the brightest and twisted minds across the Elemental Nations. We have the potential to branch out in ways that the stagnant Great Five could not, too obsessed with each other's past to bother. I will not leave those minds to Orochimaru's limited and vile experimentations which only conform to those ideals, but to have them expand Otogakure's potential as a village. That, Sasuke Uchiha, is how I'll properly rule the Land of Sound."

Well, that was quite the speech. And despite not seeing the man emote much from Sasuke's memory, I can tell that his words and emotions were genuine. He truly did want to help his country grow, and not just for the sake of himself. Good to know that I won't be setting up a problem to remove later on. God, why is it that only in alternative universes do we get decent politicians? And of course he isn't in my country, though I guess that Tsunade wasn't half bad. Kakashi best Hokage tho, sorry Naruto.

"Honestly, I would've thought you were from Konoha with how sappy that speech was, only thing missing is that you didn't go on about the 'Will of Sound' or 'Will of Rice.'" Suigetsu said.

"It irks me to admit it, but for the few things that Orochimaru was right in, it was in not engaging in such a foolish notion. So that Oto was not bound to a nation or ideal and would instead celebrate individuality as opposed to the foundation that erases the self."

"Stick with that and you're already better than most villages out there," I said. "Though it could be said that there was no need for one since Orochimaru himself was already such a thing."

"It unfortunately is so, but it will be something I will take great effort in expunging from the core of this village."

"...I'd still like to give a few suggestions, but I can tell that I have nothing to worry about when it comes to your leadership."

"Thank you for your words, Sasuke. After all, it is only because you killed Orochimaru that such a thing will be possible, provided that we prevail."

Speaking of the Snake, I pulled out a Storage Seal and pulled the Sannin's head from it. Surprisingly enough it didn't decompose at all. I then tossed it at Dosu, to which he looked a bit off guard but caught it anyway.

"There's no denying it, this is most certainly his head. Of course, there's the chance that a sufficiently skilled Medic nin could produce a convincing fake, but for all the skills that you possess, a Medic you are not." Dosu said after giving the head a look. Once he was satisfied he tossed it back to me. "Ah, and I take it that from the lack of a body that you had thoroughly disposed of it as well. Even the brain is thoroughly damaged from what I felt."

"Though he may be dead, it wouldn't hurt to make sure that nobody alive could cause any trouble with his remains." For all I knew, some asshole, more than likely Danzo, might try to clone or rebuild his brain to get access to his genius mind. Sure the soul is gone but his memory can still do some damage. "Speaking of trouble, funny enough, I was going to cause some trouble of my own with it here," I admit.

"Trouble of your own?" Dosu asked with a narrowed brow.

"Yeah, just walking in while swinging it around for everyone to see. Then beat up anybody who had an issue until I became Otokage." I elaborated.

"Yes, we know. A certain ANBU made sure to tell us this." Dosu said grumpily, still not happy about that heart attack I gave him.

"I'll admit, it'd be something I'd have suggested before Orochimaru dumped his hat on me," Guren said.

"It was definitely an appealing option, cutting through most of this bullshit with brute force and being done with it."

"Uchiha, you would have no idea how fucking appealing it is until you had to deal with some of this shit for as long as I had. The amount of human experimentation these assholes get off on…" She agreed, backed up by having to experience what I'd rather avoid.

"I hope to never find out. That said, I don't plan on giving up the head."

"You mean to tell me that you're willing to risk a confrontation with them over money? I mean it is a rather large sum, but still." Dosu asked.

"It was my kill, so I see no reason to give it up just because some asshole demanded it. But besides that, and more importantly, I plan on making an enemy of the Akatsuki anyway. Not just because Itachi is a part of them but I oppose their plan as well. Did Orochimaru not mention it?"

"Yes, he informed us about them, but only generally. They seek to capture all nine Tailed Beasts and use their power for the sake of 'peace'. Yes, I can see why you'd want to deal with that. And a superweapon like that would certainly pose a threat to Otogakure…" Dosu said, concern deep in his words. "And it wouldn't do us favors with the people if we just gave in to Kakuzu's demands. Oto was humiliated by Konoha but it could be excused, however bitterly they may feel since it was one of the strongest villages. Humiliation and submission to two S-Ranks would kill any faith in our leadership."

"So it's clear that we'll have to fight them, how long will it be until they arrive here?" Karin asked.

"From our latest report, which just came in today, a few hours to a few days. Which I'm sure you can imagine, is a rather terrible time frame as we'd only have a few hours, and I'm treating it as such until proven otherwise, to prepare on how we're going to deal with two S-Ranked shinobi." Dosu said with some stress, before stopping to pause as if something new just came up. "Though, I suppose in your case this may be quite the boon. You said you wanted to cut through the bullshit of Oto politics and prove your strength to the village, then I do believe that this would be quite suitable for you."

"And no, I don't plan on having you fight and end up getting killed for it," Dosu added on hastily. "I know well enough not to antagonize you since all those years ago, and with your current ability now such would essentially be suicide on my end. I just plan on letting Hidan and Kakuzu take out some of our more problematic shinobi grunts in the village, most notably Orochimaru's most fervent fanatics. Then your team along with Guren and I would face them. We should have good odds of taking them out with all of us working together."

"It's a sound plan." Everyone was unamused. "And I'm about to make your day with even better odds. I know their weaknesses."

"Really?" Dosu said, his mood brightened at that news. "Then by all means please do explain them."

"Me, essentially," I stated simply. Dosu was even less amused but remained silent since he could tell I had more to say.

"Kakuzu's power lies in his kinjutsu, the Jiongu, also known as the Earth Grudge Fear. He's essentially a rag doll made up of thick black threads. Said threads allow him to separate and reattach his limbs, and harden as a form of armor. His armor's weakness is Lightning Ninjutsu as it is Earth-based, so I have plenty of counters to it. His greatest weakness is also his greatest strength, the four masks on his back. They grant him the elemental affinity and chakra reserves of whoever's heart he steals, and as long as he has a single heart in him he is for all intents and purposes immortal. Since he was attacking Oto shinobi for them, it'd be safe to assume that he has a heart for each Nature Release by the time we confront him."

"In that case, you really are his counter. Rather than it being your usual arrogance." Dosu appraised. "And for Hidan?"

"He's one of their weakest members. That said, do not take him lightly. If he even gets a drop of your blood, do not let him draw a circle or you are fucked. He can perform a Voodoo ritual where any damage that is dealt to him affects the one whose blood he has used, be it inflicted by others or on himself. Still, as long as you keep that in mind, dealing with him should be doable,he is purely a taijutsu and melee combatant. And while Kakuzu's immortality is dependent on his hearts, Hidan's is dependent only on that god of his. But unlike Kakuzu he can't reattach himself, though Kakuzu can do that for him with his threads."

"So basically, don't let him touch you and just cut this guy to bits. Got it." Suigetsu aptly summed up.

"Yes, he should be someone you are more than capable of handling with your Hydrification Technique. Especially after the brief training I put you through."

"I can appreciate some harsh training as much as the next guy but you slashing me about a hundred times until I managed to block you was just torture! And not the fun kind!"

"Oh calm down, I put Karin through the wringer just as much as I did you."

"I'd hardly compare teaching her the Shadow Clone to what you've been doing to me, though those headaches did look killer."

"Those headaches were killer enough for me to want to kill myself. By the way, Sasuke, I'm looking forward to training you in some fuinjutsu. Trial and error can be a fun way to learn, I've found. You showed me."

"My body is ready." I winked, which overridden her annoyance with a blush.

A gravelly cough came from Dosu and we left our banter behind.

"Of course, there are some things I could have missed. This was all the information Orochimaru gave me and he hadn't encountered them in some time. So be sure not to be complacent with what you know and be sure to watch out for any surprises." I warned, in case the Zombie Duo had a surprise up their sleeves and to explain away how I know this. I mean, there were already differences in this world compared to canon, and while they wouldn't be a threat to me for the most part, I didn't want to risk losing Karin or Suigetsu just because I got cocky, and losing Dosu and Guren would be a pain since I'd have to spend more time here than I'd like if I wanted to get things under control. Oh wait, Edo Tensei, but I still wouldn't want to resort to that unless I had to.

"Even if this information is out of date, it is still much more than what we had to work with. Now we just need to discuss how we can use said information and discuss it fast. We still don't know when they'll be here."

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*5 hours later*

Much to Dosu's dismay, he was right as it hadn't been long until Kakuzu and Hidan arrived. It was just barely enough time for him to set things up.

Standing on the outskirts of Otogakure stood Guren clad in the robes of the Otokage, in a style matching the one that Orochimaru had once worn to the Chunin Exam in Konoha years ago. Besides her were her aid Dosu along with a few Oto ANBU. And in some space towards the village were the mooks who were standing to guard the village in case of any altercation that could occur, though it was more so that what would occur would have witnesses and be spread by them.

"I'm glad to see that you've received my message and brought him to me, Otokage. Though there's no need to have so many shinobi here for such a simple affair." Kakuzu greeted as he walked into the area surrounded by Oto shinobi without a care beyond his objective.

"I can agree that there's no true need for them, but did you really need to attack our bases if all you wanted was to send a simple message?" Guren asked, annoyed with narrowed eyes.

"Well, I was in demand of a supply that only the freaks of your village could provide without drawing too much attention to myself."

"And I needed those freaks to show my thanks to Jashin-sama," Hidan added in as he waltzed right next to Kakuzu. Though for some reason he was wearing a patch over his left eye. Did something not regenerate?

"That supply being hearts with nature affinities. And that attention is fear of Konoha finding you after they nearly killed you." I said as I revealed myself, dispelling the hedge of an ANBU member while looking the former Taki nin straight in his eyes.

"How did you?-" Kakuzu said surprisedly before he collected himself and narrowed his eyes on me, still looking at me straight on my own. "Hmm, it seems that Orochimaru had told you about us. Yet that doesn't explain how a missing-nin like yourself knows the event of my battle so soon..."

"He's not wrong you know, making us run the hell out of Fire Country the second that we could. So what they know how to kill you now-" Hidan mocked before he found himself interrupted with a smack from his partner.

"Shut up, Hidan," Kakuzu said to his partner before turning to me. "How annoying, in other circumstances I'd be inclined to dispose of you for knowing so much. But, I'd be willing to make an exception, provided that you hand over Orochimaru's head. Or failing that, the location of the head."

"And if I fail to provide you with either, you fail to provide me with that exception." I surmised.

"Yes, I'm glad to see that you could understand. Now all you need to do is give either to me."

"I can't."

"You can't. Well, why not?" He asked plainly, though it was easy to note his displeasure.

"I burned it." I simply stated.

"...You what?"

"You know how that bastard is, I mean sure, his head means a nice check or something to mount on my wall. But for all I know that bastard could come back to life and molest me or whatever else he does."

"I mean he does have a point, I did plenty of that after all. It's a thing we do when you're hard to kill or immortal, it's fun seeing the looks on their faces wh-" Hidan agreed, before he found himself interrupted again, "KAKUZU YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE YOU DO THAT SHIT TO ME ONE MORE TIME!"

"I can tell that you have a smart mouth, so I'm going to disregard everything you just said and give you a second chance. Now, where is his head?" Kakuzu demanded.

"Takigakure, they said I did a better job of collecting bounties than their oldest fuck up who couldn't unroot a man-child."

"Ooooh Kakuzu, he got you bad. I mean you're always bragging about how 'I fought the First Hokage' like you're hot shit or something-" Kakuzu rather than smacking his partner just threw him at a nearby tree.

"You know, one would expect an old man such as yourself to know when to learn from their mistakes."

"And what exactly would those mistakes be? Clearly, they can't be any worse than the one that you're making right now by testing my patience."

"Your first and greatest mistake, Hashirama, enough said. Your second, Asuma, you may have killed him but Team Asuma along with Kakashi Hatake and Naruto Uzumaki came pretty damn close to avenging him. And now your third and final, me."

"Do you think of yourself as my equal just because you killed Orochimaru, boy? I faced the strongest shinobi of all time and lived, I have lived for longer than the villages have existed, I faced some of the best Konoha had to offer, even the Jinchuriki of the Nine-Tails, and I lived. You along with the rest of this backwater village are nothing to them. You are nothing to me."

"Boast about surviving Hashirama as much as you want, but even then I'm not impressed. The man was soft enough to hand out 8 Biju to the other villages, letting some no-name from Takigakure live seems up his alley. Now had it been Madara Uchiha you survived a battle with, then I'd be more inclined to take you seriously. Of course, had it been Madara, at best, you'd be buried in some unmarked grave and remembered as a failure, if remembered at all."

"That. is. it." Kakuzu declared with each word laced with his Killing Intent. "I'm going to gouge your eyes out, dismember you and sell your limbless body to the highest bidder, Itachi's words be damned." Huh, Itachi's words eh? I'd be offended at the lack of faith he had in me if it weren't already for the clusterfuck of emotions I had for the guy. Regardless, it seemed that my ribbing worked as intended.

"Well then, feel free to do your best," I said as my Sharingan went blazing and my hand began gathering chakra. "You're going to need it."

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It's been a long time, I know (it was in May but since June was the next day I'm counting that as four months). But hey, it wasn't as bad as last year's update time at least (April to November, 8 months I'm so sorry, sheesh). But seeing as it's the month of Naruto's birth I didn't want to just let this fic go on for much longer without an update, so here it is!

Not much happened here I'll admit. Sasuke speaks with Dosu and gets some stuff in exchange for helping out, and then there's the start of a fight before that ended at a cliffhanger.

Next part will pick up right after and the first (serious) fight scene will arrive. That was kinda why this took so long to come out along with a few other things. The next chapter/part should come a helluva lot sooner since it was split from this chapter though. So expect it to come out sometime this month (I know, as unbelievable as Austrichh not taking months to update sounds, I'll try lol)

I'll admit, it's been a while since I've been in the headspace to write this so forgive me if things seem off compared to the last chapter. Not to mention that this is still raw after a sorta late night rush. So even after posting this I expect there to be some or a lot of issues that went past me, I'll probably be making some changes to some dialogues and such, probably the ending most likely too since I still suck with those lol. So feel free to leave some feedback/critique and tell me how well I did or didn't do for this chapter. So you can consider this to be a test of quality of sorts idk