GOMEN NASAI! GOMEN NASAI! GOMEN NASAI! GOMEN NASAI!

continuously bowing, repeatedly hitting head on floor GOMEN NASAI! GOMEN NASAI! GOMEN NASAI! GOMEN NASAI!

Pants Well…now that that's over…

Hello everyone. Sethra Ri-Senzo here! I would like to thank everyone who has been reading my story, even though I've been very naughty and haven't updated in over a year. Your updates have meant so much to me! It's wonderful to know that some people actually like my story. I don't believe that I have gotten flamed yet (though I could be wrong-I usually am!).

I feel privileged to have such wonderful readers. I'm sorry that I'm not actually posting a chapter just yet. But I felt that it was my duty as an author that actually has readers (GASP!) to inform you WHY I haven't updated in so long, and to let you know that I WILL have a chapter posted within the next two weeks. I promise that it will get done, even if it takes me many sleepless nights to do it.

Oh, and if you're like me, and sometimes get annoyed by reading author's notes, I'll repeat in bold letters, so that it might get your attention (I know I sometimes just scan over notes and only read what's in bold—I feel so ashamed!) I WILL BE UPDATING WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.

I hope you all didn't think that I was yelling at all of you. Actually, I would like to give everyone of you my patented bear hug! Now as to why I haven't updated. There are several reasons, actually, and some of them may seem very stupid to other people, but they are very important reasons to me. If you don't feel like reading them, I don't mind.

1. I haven't had internet in over a year. I'm actually typing this out at the radio station where I work. Heh heh, I'm using my boss' computer! (He actually doesn't mind. He's such a great guy!) But, that can kind of be remedied! My best friend Anna, aka Ruby Star on and the one I dedicated this story to said that I could use her computer any time I liked. If I don't get internet within the next month or so, I may take her up on that offer.

Doumo arigatou gozaimasu, Lily-chan!

2. I am having SEVERE family issues. My parents are constantly at each other's throats. I wish that they would just "do the deed" and get a freakin' divorce!

3. I have been very worried about my uncle. He has several severe diseases, including kidney disease. He has to do dialysis several times a day. It may not sound so bad, but believe me—it is. Since he got sick (about three years ago, I think) he has been in the hospital once a month. Sometimes, his hospital visits (That sounds so freaking annoying! "Visits"—as if he chose to stay because he liked the food or something!) have lasted for a month or two. He has had several major strokes because of his illness. I really love my uncle. It has been tearing my up to see him as he gets sicker and sicker.

4. I had been having…problems with my school. You see, I'm almost constantly sick. It's not always that bad. Sometimes it's just a cold. But I get strep throat A LOT. My doctor isn't sure why I get sick so much. My opinion is that I have a very bad immune system. shrugs Anyways, my school isn't very forgiving of anyone who exceeds the maximum number of allowed missed days. I think this past year it was seven a semester. I missed about twelve or thirteen days the first semester. (Bad me!) And actually, that is a very low amount of days for me. I don't remember how many days I missed the second semester, but that brings me to reason #5.

5. In the past year or so, I have developed chronic migraines. They started around the beginning of school last year, but they weren't really that bad, so I didn't pay any attention to them. But in January, they became severe. I got them several times a week, and at least one or two of them is so bad that I have to lie down in a dark room and try to take a nap. My new medicine reduces the number of migraines I get a week and how severe they are, but I still get them. Anyways, back in April, my school decided that I was being a bad child and told me I wouldn't be graduating this year. This, of course, pissed me off. It was, after all my Senior year. So I told them they could go screw themselves, quit, and enrolled in night school. And I'm much happier now because night school ROCKS! Plus, the administration has been so good to me there. And it's really cool that the principal is my former 6th Grade English and Social Studies teacher!

Anyways those are the reasons. All the ones that I can think of, that is. I'm sorry I if some of them seemed trite, but such is life.

A few quick notes. I may not post my notes to the reviewers in the next few chapters. I will try to, though. But if I don't, I promise I will get to them eventually. Your opinions mean so much to me, and I think that those who review my story deserve to get acknowledged in return. Also, if you feel that you don't want to read my story because I took so long to update, I completely understand.

Ummm….anou….. well, that's all that I can think of right now. Now I have to go find my muses, Kitsu and Asha. They kinda ran away, taking the rest of the plot with them! As soon as I find them, I can remember where I was trying to go with this story! Well…yeah… Thank you for reading my author's note. If you have any questions, suggestions, rants about how I'm such a bad author and I should stop writing for the sake of mankind, or if you just want to talk, feel free to e-mail me or post another review.

DOUMO ARIGATOU GOZAIMASU, MINNA-SAN!

Sethra Ri-Senzo