Strength of Fist and Heart
by Darklion74

A/N: Okay, the number of reviews each chapter keeps increasing, and Kyuubi has said he'll respond to five reviews every chapter and no more. As long as Mr. Snuggles doesn't try to eviscerate him (as he just about did so after chapter five), the fox will be cooperative, if somewhat argumentative. To reiterate one point to my newest readers, there will be NO yaoi pairings, as this is a non-yaoi fic (this author is non-yaoi, not anti-yaoi, please understand this).

Now, on with the pain... I mean the show!

Chapter Seven
Shining Stars - Hidden Shadows

The Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi, looked carefully at the visas that were presented before him and at the two boys standing before his desk. Naruto had adopted an outfit that was a near replica of the Hokage's own student, Jiraya, except where the Toad Sannin went for red with a yellow circle for a vest, and a green fatigue uniform, Naruto went for a black uniform, and a gold vest with the symbol standing of seizansha (survivor), while his physique was not quite lithe, it was not really muscled either, seeing as though he was only eleven years of age.Haku on the other hand took on a teal vest with a white border, and a green fatigue uniform. The dark haired boy stood just under a head taller than his younger brother, with a very lithe and graceful physique, that made Naruto's somewhat average appearance almost look muscular.

"Naruto, words cannot express how sorry I am that you had to come back to us this way, especially with what you went through, but now is not the time for words."

Naruto was trying his hardest not to say a word, though words of anger were biting to go off of his tongue, and the desire to tear the throat out of the old geezer for even mentioning that point. Though he tried to remain in control, his fist clenched and unclenched unconsciously. A welcoming hand on his shoulder from Haku, calmed the boy down.

Sarutobi then looked towards the young missing-nin. "You on the other hand may have been a problem, if you weren't already declared dead by the Mizukage. He and I concluded a deal, just a few weeks ago, saying that Momochi Haku, a distant relative of the missing-nin, Momochi Zabuza, was raised in secret among the Leaf Nin, and is among that village. This was not an inexpensive deal, I hope you understand."

Haku, taken somewhat aback from the harshness of the Hokage's tone, merely nodded, understanding the implications. Naruto didn't quite understand it, but felt some sort of veiled threat toward his brother, and immediately frowned.

"Now, now, don't worry, Naruto, everything is taken care of. In fact, the curse seems to have lifted now that you have returned, though I am not certain as to why."

Naruto felt a buzzing in his ear which turned into deep words, almost a mantra. "Revenge against the Leaf, Revenge against the Leaf..."

Naruto silently replied to the fox. "Revenge against Orochimaru, the snake must perish. Let's hold judgment on the Leaf until they prove their current guilt or innocence. Much may have changed in nine years."

The trapped fox merely snorted and growled. "I doubt they have, but you're the turnkey and I'm the inmate. Agreed, for now."

Sarutobi felt Naruto having something internal happening to him, but if it was a struggle or something else, he could not quite tell. Nevertheless, the young blonde did not look care free but someone hardened by harsh experiences, even though he looked to not even have a scratch on him. All of the true injuries he sustained, except for that bite, were internal.

Haku on the other hand seemed rather quiet and contemplative, very similar to Orochimaru, but the young boy had someone to look after and care for. In the Sandaime's mind, with luck, the boy would not turn out like his gifted but disappointing student did.

Through all of the reports, these boys were all but ready to be immediately put into the rank of chuunin, and in Haku's case, perhaps even jounin, but they needed a rapport in the town, and to learn alongside other children their age. So it was decided they would attend the academy.

"Now, it is important you don't show off too many of your abilities while in the academy. Using chuunin to jounin level abilities will be frowned on and will give away too many secrets, such as who taught you and showing your true strength. You're going to need to do a little acting, pretending to be weaker than you really are. Your mission right now is to truly blend in, and become leaf-nin, by working alongside and developing bonds with others around your own age."

This caught the boys by surprise, as they were prepared to go all out in the school, and it disappointed them since they were robbed of the opportunity to show off. Though he did say in the academy, so they could still train themselves in secret to their fullest extent, but would just need to be careful. The same thought crossed through their minds. 'Why do adults always find ways to complicate the simplest of things?'

"In any case, you begin your academy training in the morning. You can use those uniforms if you like. As this is the latter half of the year, you will be going through exams in only a few months. I'll explain to the instructor that you've had some training beforehand and should be ready for the Genin Exams." The Hokage then gave a bit of a map with an "X" upon it. "This is where you'll be staying for the time being, and it's already been furnished. Since it's getting late, you both should head off, you'll need to be in class by eight o'clock. Dismissed."

Both boy simply bowed their heads and vanished from the office. The next one to come in was Umino Iruka, now the lead chuunin instructor for the Academy. Sandaime smiled lightly as he started to explain who the new students were. Iruka had never heard of one of them, but the other made him nearly pass out.

It was their first day in the academy classroom and they looked around at the number of students, from the gifted to the hopeless. Both Haku and Naruto simply smiled at one another as if they had a secret others had to find out, which obviously they had, many in fact. They waited in the hall until they were called in by Umino Iruka. "Now boys, kindly introduce yourselves."

Haku decided to come in first, as some of the girls began to look at him very inquisitively, his bishonen style grace immediately catching their eye. "My name is Momochi Haku. It's a pleasure to meet everyone."

The calling by nearly every girl in the classroom that they had a seat next to them that wasn't being used, even emptying those seats of their prior occupants in order to try to get him to sit down next to them. Iruka merely coughed lightly in his throat, seeking to end the argument. "Momochi-kun, you can sit down next to Hyuuga Neji, over there."

The girls immediately moaned and asked how Iruka-sensei could be so cruel and uncaring. But Iruka merely continued unfettered. "Now settle down, we have one more student to introduce, who incidentally is the foster brother of our newest target of crazed fandom."

Hope immediately surged back to most of the girls.

When the black clad figure in a golden vest finally did enter, the look of hope turned to shock, and not just the girls, the guys were also quite shocked. They didn't quite recognize the blonde-haired boy, but for an instant, the same visage went through almost everyone's head: A black wolf, a young boy, a snarl, a lunge, and the visage of blood. The sole person who didn't look with Naruto with shock was a young red-haired girl, maybe six years of age who looked around at those around her as if they went nuts.

With a bit of a grin, Naruto bowed. "My name is Uzumaki Naruto, nice to meet everyone, again."

The look of shock intensified as the rumored boy who was thought to have died in a wolf attack almost nine years ago came back, not only alive, but looking quite strong in fact. They could not overlook the fact that Naruto wore a very similar outfit to that of one of the legendary Sannin, Jiraya. They also looked at the kana on his vest, seizansha. Iruka merely coughed once more and pointed to a seat.

"Please take a seat next to Ikegata Tenten, Uzumaki-kun, and... welcome home."

Naruto paused for a moment, then looked at Iruka with a stunned surprise for a moment or two. The boy could probably beat the chuunin into the ground as if he were nothing, but the dark feelings he had inside of him began to wane slightly, as he beamed at the chuunin-instructor and took the seat next to Tenten. His neighbor began to think she was now seated next to a certified weirdo, if not an absolute psycho. He did give a polite nod and a smile, then prepared to listen to the lessons for the day.

He and Haku tried very hard not to fall asleep, as these lessons were already taught to them by Tsunade, Shizune and Jiraya. Haku somehow remained awake, Naruto was not quite as fortunate. Iruka was not happy that his two newest students were yawning in class, and enraged that Naruto fell asleep. He broke the chalk in his hand and threw it at Naruto at full force, intending to wake him up.

"Naruto, wake... up?"

Naruto had caught the thrown piece of chalk with ease, as he woke up, bleary eyed, but semi-alert. It seemed he caught the extremely fast projectile on sheer instinct alone. He blinked then yawned. "G-gomen, sensei. I didn't get much sleep last night."

The class was apparently surprised, as well as Iruka at the sudden adeptness of the dumb looking blonde. A slight cough from Haku, and a quick, sharp warning glance conveyed enough of a message to Naruto. Iruka sighed and continued with the lesson, asking Naruto if he knew the answer to the question.

Naruto yawned and blurted out "four."

Iruka was about to chastise Naruto when he took another look at the problem, and redid the calculations in his mind. Well, the kid was right. Maybe he can pay attention and be asleep at the same time. He turned his attention to the yawning Haku. "To the other sleepy brother, maybe you can do this problem in the book. Do number fifteen on the page indicated here."

Haku nodded and rose, going to the board and looked at the problem. His half-asleep mind did the problem in nothing flat. "May I use your chalk, sensei?"

Iruka nodded and Haku proceeded. "According to the laws of gravity and the parabolic trajectory given, a shuriken would need to be chakra enhanced to attain the speeds listed. In addition, an unusually high amount of control of chakra would be needed..."

Tenten, a confused look on her face turned to Naruto in a whispering tone. "Uzumaki-san, do you have any idea of what your brother is doing?"

Naruto, his eyebrow twitching, tersely replied in a whisper. "I have no clue what that baka of a brother of mine is doing."

Iruka, equally confused at the problem, decided to close the book and gulped. "Ah... Momochi-kun, I apologize, that problem was from one of... my... textbooks. Please do problem fifteen in this book."

The entire class was in total shock, as the sensation that he himself made an unintentional goof crawled uneasily into Haku, as he turned around to see the twitching eyebrow of his brother which literally screamed 'Pot calling Kettle black, come in, Pot calling Kettle black, come in, anta-baka!'

Haku uneasily chuckled, putting a hand behind his head and easily did the fifteenth problem on the board. The class still watched in sort of a shocked awe at the genius student. He then returned to a somewhat surprised Hyuuga Neji. 'Something about this newcomer, and with Naruto. I better keep an eye on both of them.'

The little girl in the red-hair however, remaining unnoticed by both teacher and class, was fast asleep, apparently not impressed at all.

As the foster brothers left the academy for the day, a few of the academy students looked at the pair strangely, though the dark-haired boy still got puppy-dog looks from girls. Haku and Naruto discovered it will be quite the challenge to keep their abilities secret. The blonde turned to his elder brother.

"This isn't going to be easy after all. We already goofed twice in the same day, and I don't mean nodding off."

Haku sighed and nodded. "Yeah, and worse yet, we barely made it through one class. The genin exams are about a month away. I wonder how we can..."

"..do what?"

The pair froze and turned around to see a silver-haired masked shinobi in the uniform of a leaf jounin. The ninja had his hitai-ate over his left eye as he looked with his uncovered eye at the boys with a somewhat bored expression. Naruto remembered the voice.

"Kakashi-san?"

The jounin nodded. "I'm glad you remembered me, Naruto-kun. You got taller, as did you, Haku-kun."

Naruto frowned. "There has to be some reason why a jounin would be looking for a couple of academy students in broad daylight."

Haku had a deadpan face. "Especially for such a perverted one such as yourself, Kakashi-san."

Hakate Kakashi coughed lightly. "Well it's simply that I'm to keep an eye on you two to see that you don't cause too much mischief around town. That's the official line. For now, follow me, we need to talk."

Haku and Naruto looked at each other and sighed. They sensed that no good was to come of this.

This was a room within the Jounin-only section of the Hokage's building, in Hakate Kakashi's private office. Only the most elite of the Jounin had their own offices, and Kakashi was one of ten who did. The boys who followed were looked at by the other Jounin there with a hint of suspicion, though those looks died quickly when they saw Kakashi escort them.

"Alright kids, as you know this is the final month of the academy year, as Genin exams will be coming soon. I have no doubt that you'll pass, with utter ease. The reason why I called you here is that in addition to your academy duties, you'll be taking on another mission, a B-ranked mission, assigned directly by the Hokage himself."

The kids, who were bored to sleep today, suddenly awakened. Finally, an opportunity to prove themselves!

"This mission would normally given to high ranking chuunin, if not jounin. I will be your direct contact to the Hokage, as the mission is right here in Konoha. Here is your assignment."

The boys looked over the scroll carefully and blinked in shock, then they looked at each other, then at Kakashi. This "B" ranked mission borderlined with the prerequisites of an "A" ranked mission. The mission was straightforward, but very difficult.

"There is a traitor among the chunnins, but the true identity is unknown. The only other clue that is known is that the traitor is among the chuunin instructors of the Academy. Skilled shinobi are recommended, implants within the academy as instructors or students unlikely but ideal for this assignment. Skilled investigation and stealth is a must.

Mission Rank B - Difficulty rating borders on Rank A."

Haku rubbed his chin. "Within the academy... how long has this been known, Kakashi-san?"

Kakashi shook his head. "Not long ago at all, in fact this information was very recent and disturbing. We don't know what the traitor intends to do, only that there is one. Too many hints were left behind, but the person suspected is skilled in covering his tracks, which would likely mean one of chuunin rank. A jounin would likely leave no hints behind at all. It was still possible that it was a jounin until the clues led to the academy. It has to be a chuunin, since jounin do not teach at the academy."

Naruto commented on the mission "Implants within the academy as instructors or... students. This is why we were selected, and why we were told to keep a low profile. Damn! I wish we knew this sooner, Kakashi-san."

Kakashi nodded. "Technically I was already supposed to have told you last night, but I was caught up with this little kitten who wouldn't get down from the tree..."

Nerves began to twitch from both of the young shinobi, as they both detected the obvious lie.

Kakashi immediately recovered. "In any case, just go with what you've already done, even if by mistake. There's no doubting that you are a genius ninja, Haku, so go with it, don't try to hide it now. Naruto, you may be somewhat skilled in normal academics, but don't overdo it. Still, show a small surprise of natural skill once or twice, even a surprise of ineptness once in awhile. It'll keep up your appearance. However, keep your high level jutsu's a secret. Save for one, the final exams. Iruka always has his students perform Bunshins. Give him a shock or two for me." Kakashi said the last part with a wink.

Haku and Naruto looked at each other then nodded. It seemed like a good plan.

The next couple of weeks were rather difficult for Haku, as he had to find more and more creative ways to avoid the mobs of crazed prepubescent fangirls. He started to used Mizu Bunshin in order to mislead the crowds so he could get home, training and to class. Naruto had a slightly easier time acting talented but somewhat inattentive. He had a number of skills but kept himself appearing unskilled in bunshins.

Naruto began to get a few admirers himself for his tireless effort and stamina, even in the worst of situations and questions, even while trying to hide his intellect with some success. Among them, Ikegata Tenten, and begrudgingly, even Hyuuga Neji thought that there was something more to the blonde ninja than his outfit. Naruto did however allow one of his natural talents to shine... his inhuman senses of smell, hearing and eyesight that could manifest at any point and time in order to sense where danger may be coming from without seeing it.

Even with blending in, and none of the Chuunin Instructors suspecting a thing, the pair had a great deal of difficulty in tracking down the traitor at all. No clues came up, at all, and none of the teachers could be eliminated as a possibility, there wasn't enough evidence. Apparently the traitor was waiting for a particular point and time.

As Naruto was taking in the sights around town, a tap on the shoulder caught his attention. He turned but found nobody. Another tap on the shoulder came and again, nobody. He chuckled a bit and called out. "Okay, Tenten-san. I know it's you."

Tenten "hmphed" as she jumped out of the tree and took at a look at the young blonde. She looked at him with a bit of playful suspicion. "So, Naruto, where are you heading off to so quickly?"

Naruto grinned and whispered in her ear. "It's... a... secret." Then he winked conspiriatorially, one of Jiraya's more charming effects on his outlook.

Tenten pouted and grunted. "Come on, Naruto, tell me! You've been such a mystery for such a goofball in the classroom. At times you seem like you actually have a brain in your head and at other times you shoot that theory to Hell. So what is it? Do you really want to become a shinobi or not?"

Naruto merely laughed. 'If she only knew.' "What if I told you I was already one?"

Tenten smirked. "I'd say you were delusional, Uzumaki-kun."

It was Naruto's turn to stick out his tongue. "So what? What if I'm just goofing around right now, just as you'd said. Okay, fine, to be honest I'm just off to spar with Haku-niisan."

Tenten raised an eyebrow then continued her attack. "So you can fight... I guess. Trying to get some of the genius by having it beaten into you?"

Naruto, having enough of the verbal bantering, looked saddened for a moment, but hid it and continued on with a smile. 'Tenten-san, if you only knew the hell I had to go through to get to this point, even after that damn wolf.' "Tenten-san, it was nice talking to you, really, I'm just running real late now! Ja ne!"

Tenten blinked then started to run after him. "Nani? Chotto-matte! Come back here, Naruto! We haven't finished yet! I mean where did you come from and where..."

Tenten blinked as she turned a corner, and the blonde shinobi had vanished. "...did you go?"

Something was up with Naruto, and moreso with his brother, Haku. Too many things didn't make sense with Ikegata Tenten and she was determined to find out more.

As she continued her search, Ikegata Tenten heard what sounded like an explosion and decided to investigate. As she went toward the sound, two more explosions came forth, and she increased her speed. As she went into the copse of a forest, she saw Naruto and Haku using various forms of Taijutsu on each other.

What she did not realize, is that she was detected about a hundred meters away, and at a signal from Naruto, they had gone from their jounin level techniques, down to their upper genin-level taijustu, and moved away from the part of the forest that was decimated by uses of the rasengan and mizuken.

Tenten then saw a fairly impressive display of taijutsu, not quite at the level of Rock Lee, but getting fairly close to it. She knew that Naruto had a bit of skill when it came to Taijutsu, but she didn't expect that Haku had a similar level of expertise. Naruto then tried to perform a bunshin, which he intentionally botched, leaving a dead and poorly made copy of himself on the ground which didn't fool Haku for a moment as he formed a mizu ryu no jutsu which caught the blonde straight in the chest and drove him into a tree, knocking him silly.

Haku tsked a bit. "You need to keep your guard up, otooto-kun, as well as really work on your bunshins. I mean really, they need a whole lot of work."

Naruto grunted and grinned as he stood on his feet, woozy but otherwise barely phased by that attack. "You need to work on your stanima as well, anii-san. You're winded already after only a few minutes. You'd need to do better than that if you want to be a genin."

Tenten looked at Naruto in shock. He had taken the genius attack by his brother, which would have knocked her out light a light, and just stood back up like almost nothing had happened. Haku showed incredible skill. She had to make her presence known, and as she stepped into the clearing, a smoke bomb exploded near the two boys. Tenten quickly retreated to higher ground, watching from the trees.

What she found was surprising, it was a grey-haired chunnin instructor, holding an unconscious Naruto, and Haku was knocked to the ground. The chuunin was Mizuki-sensei, Iruka-sensei's assistant in the class!

"Haku-kun. I have your brother with me. If you want to see him alive again. Do exactly as I say."

Haku looked up and growled as he saw his younger brother Naruto being taken by one of the last people he ever suspected, the gentle and kind assistant to Umino Iruka. Tenten however was frozen in place. She knew she was no match for a Chuunin, but what almost frightened her more was the ice in Haku's voice.

"What do you want?"

Mizuki-sensei merely chuckled. "Simple. There's a forbidden scroll in the Hokage's office. While this poor fool has no chance at all in stealing it without being caught, you being the genius ninja that you are could infiltrate the building and take it with ease. This is the kana to look for on the scroll. You can't possibly miss it."

As Mizuki drew the scroll Haku's scowl, became a low chuckle... a very low and menacing chuckle. Mizuki raised an eyebrow. "Something about this amuses you?"

"It was on old memory, Mizuki-sensei. About five or six years ago in fact. You see my brother and I had read up on something really interesting. The item which we read was lent to us, then returned when we had finished. I had almost forgotten about it. But it had a couple of interesting techniques in it."

Mizuki had narrowed his eyes. "Is this speech worth your brother's life?"

Haku had a condescending grin on his face. Unseen in the trees, Tenten had the thought that the dark-haired genius had finally lost his mind. "Well, not my life. But it's definitely worth yours. You see, Naruto and I already read that scroll and mastered what we could from it. Including what you're holding, a kage bunshin!"

Mizuki gasped as the bunshin gave a lightning fast kick to his gut, knocking the hapless chuunin to the ground, while the real Naruto came out with four kage bunshins, as each of them began to pummel the hapless chuunin senseless. Then after the bunshin were defeated, Naruto leaped up and over his brother who had begun a lightning fast charge with a swirling sphere of water in his hand.

"Mizuken!!"

The sphere of water and chakra in his hand literally slammed into the chest of the chuunin, knocking him back into one of the trees, making a huge crack in it, and rendering the traitorous teacher unconscious.

The pair then heard the sound of a retreating shinobi, Tenten. The boys nodded to each other as Haku took the prone form of Mizuki over his shoulders and went off to the Hokage's office, Naruto went off and cut off Tenten's retreat.

She screamed as she prepared her family's specialty, weapon mastery and invisible strings. "Stay back! I'm warning you!"

Naruto sighed and merely sat on the tree trunk laying back against it, as if he didn't have a care in the world. "It's okay Tenten, we were assigned to this. This was something that needed to be done"

Tenten screamed her voice getting more and more frantic. "Shut up! Shut up! SHUT UP! Don't lie to me! What are you and Haku? You're no normal academy students! That attack he did, it almost looked like the legendary Rasengan! Only the legendary Sannin Jiraya and the Yondaime Hokage knew that attack! And those hits you did, they weren't ordinary punches, you could have killed Mizuki-sensei with them!"

Naruto sighed and stood up. "Calm down! Panicking is not going to help. You're right on one thing, we are no ordinary academy students. The truth is we were trained for several years before we came to Konoha, by several different sensei. You may have a good guess as to whom one of them is."

This was almost too much for Tenten to comprehend. Not only was this blonde genin, who looked like he could barely pass the genin exam, stronger than she could ever believe, it sounded like he was trained by one of the Sannin.

"Jiraya?"

Naruto nodded. "Haku and I are foster brothers, we were raised by Tsunade-kaasan herself."

Tenten went into a state of awe. In front of her was a disciple of her idol. This blonde goofball had the skills of at least two of the greatest nin to ever come out of the Leaf Village. Noticing a bad scratch on her leg, Naruto simply summoned a small haze of chakra and used it to heal the scratch. She looked in a sort of a dazed wonder.

"There, that should be better. Do you feel any pain, Tenten-san? Ummm... Tenten-san? Are you there? Ummm... what's that look for?"

Tenten was looking at Naruto with quite a bit of adoration, as a blush suddenly crept on her face. Realizing what she was doing, she gasped and looked away. "Nothing! Nothing at all, you're just imagining things!"

Naruto merely nodded. "Uh-huh... right. We'd better get back soon."

Tenten nodded and the two Shinobi sped back to the village. It was turning out to be an interesting situation after all. 'Now, how to make sure she keeps things secret?'

A/N: Well... longest chapter so far. And Kyuubi is having a hard time picking five reviews to go over. A lot of good reviews to choose from, thirty-six for the last chapter alone. Simply amazing since it's only my second fic. Now, let's go to Kyuubi and the reviews! Please make sure you don't tick off the cat, furball.

"Make sure I don't tick off Mr. Psycho Cat from Hell? Just keep him chained up and we'll all be much happier. A brief side note to those rooting for the cat, I HATE YOU ALL! Alamandorious will be our first review to go over, being a new one to the fic. Yeah, the title wasn't inspired (the muse was drunk that night), but we acknowledge your appreciation of the writing, though we appreciate raw meat, preferably alive..."

Stop slobbering and keep looking over the reviews.

"Another new reviewer, theDragonBard, will be the second. Considering that Haku helped Naruto against Jiraya and Gamabunta, the frog has a long memory and does not forgive easily. I've been authorized by Dark to say that Kakashi will NOT be their sensei since they will be, as you can see, graduating along with Tenten, Neji and Rock Lee, all of whom graduated a year before Naruto, et al, during the manga series. The sensei for Haku and Naruto will be a surprise."

Yep. I'm ALL for surprises.

"Blazer6, my fellow member of the Benevolent Brotherhood of Sasuke Haters, Chapter 42, again commits the sin of trying to give too many ideas to the author. I see him again taking notes. Dark! Stop taking ideas from the reviewers. You're supposed to write it, I'm supposed to be the inspiration... Kami help us both."

The author pouts as he puts away the notebook.

"The fourth review spot belongs to Lita of Jupiter, once more. Still not much of the effects from Jiraya yet, but a little hint here and there. Still, the author thought it better to see how the boys would do on a mission. He'll try to get Tsunade and Shizune more later on in the story."

The author merely nods, feeling a bit tired for some reason.

"The last belongs once more to Gelionlegends. Kuro did realize that yours truly was in Naruto's body. My poor friend doesn't know that the kid and I don't like each other all that much. Still, he couldn't get a better summon at that time. Sasuke is not in this class, but in the class back from Naruto, Neji, Tenten, et al. No, I'm not a pedo, but I do happen to have a weakness for the weaker shade of red. If only she were older... Grrrrrrrrrrrr."

That's enough whining, Kyuubi. You'll have to wait until she becomes of age... and if you ever get parole. That's it for now! Please review! The next chapter may have a slight delay as my mother is scheduled for surgery tomorrow. I'll try to get it in as soon as possible. Thanks for reading!