Hello to all of you who are here to see this entry.

First of all, thank you very much in advance for your attention. Know that I truly appreciate that you are taking some time out of your day to read this message I am sending to all of you, and that my appreciation is all the greater due to the fact your attention is coming after a VERY long time of net silence from me. I only hope that the site won't give me grief that I chose to share a message in this way, and that you can all read it.

I apologize for such a long absence from this corner of the Internet. While I will admit a not insignificant part of it is due to giving attention to other works, I will also say that the last years have been difficult on the personal front in many ways. I have been studying to finish my course, I had relatives who passed away (both before the pandemic, to clarify), I had to deal with a difficult financial situation and a job that I admit I don't enjoy very much, and been thrown for a loop in many ways. This doesn't excuse me not coming here for so long, especially given the 'attention to other works' issue I mentioned above... but I would be lying if I said it wasn't connected to it at all.

But even in the midst of this time, I kept getting notices on this story, and can without a doubt say that of all the fics I wrote for any work across anywhere on the Internet, this one had the greatest reach and the greatest appreciation. Years later, I keep getting reviews, keep getting people who enjoy this, keep getting interest. As I was then, I am now touched that you enjoy it so much and still want to see where things will go.

And well... so do I.

Which is why I want to give you news that I hope you will like.

I want to come back to this story.

I am hesitant to make promises as to when I will be doing so after I left it hanging for over ten years (goodness, does time fly), but I do want to come back to it.

It won't be for some time yet. For one, I want to take a bit to plan ahead and have a better idea of where certain things will go. For another, much of what is already posted needs a serious polish. A lot of my writing in English from ten years ago reads as simply atrocious to my current eyes (for what it's worth, English is my second language, so I'll likely never be as good at it as in my birth language, though I'd like to think I have improved since then), and I may have skipped over a bit too much stuff from the canon series in certain spots, and certain character moments may not exactly have been the best.

So, all things considered, I think I will be restarting this. I will most likely be leaving the old version up and start the new one as a different story, and the new story will likely have the same title, but the point is still that there will be a new From Enemy To Student.

I am hoping to start next year at the latest, after life more fully smooths out for me, but again, as I said, I am hesitant to make such promises.

In the meantime, if you want to, please feel free to send me suggestions of things you would like. Whether it's things you wish had been included in the revised versions of the chapters that already are up, stuff you would like to be seen in future chapters, or places where you feel I made mistakes, please feel free to send them to me. Whether through PM or review, I will be reading them all, and will be giving due credit to the reader who made any suggestion I use if said suggestion comes up in the story.

Just please take the following things into account if you do so:

- I can't promise to use all suggestions. Whether it's because I already have my own ideas for a particular point or because there may be a suggestion from someone else I may like better, I can't promise to use all suggestions. I am open to them, but the overwhelming odds are that I won't use them all. Please keep that in mind from the beginning, and know that me not using a given suggestion by you is not meant to reflect my thoughts on the quality of the suggestion or of you as a person in the least.

- I won't accept suggestions related to Dragon Ball Super and associated media. That part of the series is simply not enough to my personal taste. I have applied personal Fanon Discontinuity to it, and besides the odd minor detail that I feel is not too jarring, I won't be including it in this fic. This is not meant to be an attack on any who like Dragon Ball Super and associated media. Your opinion and tastes are valid, and I don't think they reflect on you as a person in the least.

- What TV Tropes calls the 'stations of canon' won't necessarily hold true for this story after a certain point (that is, after the end of the Frieza Saga). Please keep that in mind when giving your suggestions.

With all this in mind, please feel free to send me any suggestions you may have.

Again, thank you all for your time. :)

Hoping all is well with all of you,

Genescritor