...And here is the promised Authoress Note. :) I include one of these in most of my multi-chapter fanfics, just for thanking readers and telling you all some things that I had intended to write, but changed. But first, I believe in proper etiquette, so I will thank all of you consistent readers first. :D (Or...just any old reader I remember because my internet is screwed up at the moment.)
can't think – You are the awesome-est! You stuck with me from the very first chapter I put out to the very end, never failing to review any chapters unless you were gone! ((glomp)) (Don't you hate that they don't allow asterisks?) Also, you never disapproved of what I wrote, no matter how bad it might've been. I thank you SO, SO much!
ryouholic – I know you disliked the way I approached the Seto x Isis part, but hey, you were straightforward with it and...didn't say it in a hateful way. For that, I thank you for your patience and maturity. :)
Vanessa463 - You were one of the later reviewers, but I luff you bunches! (Oh my gosh, I'm turning into a demented teddy bear!! 0.0) You revived a new word that had been long lost in the vortex I call my mind (The word 'bodacious'. Remember that?). Thank you for approving of what I did! :D
Witch01 – Thanks for reading it in general. :) I'm always glad to have appreciative people like you reading my fanfics...It's great to know that people like what you write! It really is!
Let's give those four people a round of applause, okay? ((claps vigorously))
Now, for the humor of it all. What I had originally planned...
1) When Kaiba had sent Isis off on a helicopter with the fuel tank containing hardly anything, she was originally meant to die. I was going to make Kaiba fly over to the ruins, talk to her in her last moments, confess his hidden love, and start crying. Instead, I thought that would be too predictable later on and thought of something else.
2) When Gozaburo and Kaiba had their "showdown" at the hospital, Kaiba was going to die (God, I have a dark mind. oO;). But then...I didn't want him to die at the hands of his horrible step father, was a retreat was in order.
3) In my attempts to try and make Kaiba not so OOC (For those who don't know, it's an acronym for 'out-of-character'), I was going to make him just get over Mokuba's death instantly and move on. But then, I really believe in strong sibling bonds, so that was not to be.
4) When Gozaburo broke into Kaiba's secondary building, his original entrance (In my mind, I thought it all out first.) was leaping through a window wearing black and tying Isis to something. Then again, when I tried to picture it, he sounded like a fifty-five year old man impersonating a talented ninja.
5) Mokuba wasn't supposed to get to the Buddha so quickly (Once again, in my mind.). Instead, I pictured him having sappy love moments with Kara. Later on, I realized that when I introduced him in earlier chapters, he wasn't like someone who would do that. Too happy-go-lucky to stick with a girl. xD; So away the idea went and they were just very good friends...or something.
Not as long as you thought? I'm sorry...:( But I must get onto more important matters. I might make a continuation to this fanfic, but that probably won't happen, so don't beg. However, I included a little description of some other of my Yu-Gi-Oh fanfics if you really like my writing enough to read them.
Movie in the Making
Genre: Humor/General
My Rating: 9/10
Description: Ever seen the Yu-Gi-Oh! Movie? Were you disappointed because of how it was played out? The plot? Well, this fanfic is dedicated to all the things that happened behind the scenes of the semi-polished over movie...
Retrieval
Genre: Angst
My Rating: 8.5/10
Description: An angst-driven one-shot on Noa's past, what had truly happened, and how his emotions had been wavering out of control since his own father had shunned him aside. Goes from his death to the Noa Arc.
One Summer Day
Genre: Angst
My Rating: 8/10
Description: My take on Jounouchi's past without any interpretation from the manga. Very cute and sad.
Genre: Angst/Horror
My Rating: 5/10
Description: ((coughcough)) Ihatethisfanfic ((coughcough)) It's horrible, clumped together in huge blocks because for some reason I didn't make paragraphs whenever characters spoke. Very amateur-like work as it was my first fanfic. Yuugi and company are roaming around, once again looking for adventure. Bakura, who mysteriously got Kaiba to make him a body, is torturing Ryou. He is also merciless and doesn't really care about who and what gets in his way...He also hates how I made the fanfic and wishes that I never wrote it at all. I do, too. Not a very good first impression, putting up something so horrible.
And those are some fanfics I've made! Trust me...About 50 percent of my fanfics are Yuugi Ou/Yu-Gi-Oh, so you shouldn't need to look hard.
I feel so attached to you guys, though. You all were with me every step of the way, whether or not you left a message saying, "Hey, I liked it." or not. I treasured and bathed in your attention, compliments, comments, and suggestions. It was beautiful! But now it's time to say good-bye and I don't want to go anywhere. Just remember that Lightning-Chan (That's my real web alias, but someone took it on here already.) will be checking back on your pages, so you'd better have some fanfics to present! ;)
Loving you all toa bursting point,
--Lightning-Dono AKA Lightning-Chan
"A true love story never ends."