Yo, I have some news about this fic. Sorry about the radio silence for nearly two months!

It's not abandoned - It never will be. If I have to finish this in twenty years, I will. The problem isn't writing this fic, not it's actually Naruto as a brand.

I grew up with Naruto, among DBZ/One Piece/Sailor Moon. Those were the manga and anime that I knew came from Japan, and as a kid I loved each and every one of them.

Yet when the latest Boruto chapter came out, and Kuruma, the fucking Nine Tails established in chapter 1 and episode 1, way back when. Something that I remember reading and watching for the first time and being intrigued, someone who I saw develop throughout the series and for their death to make me feel empty? As if it was some random filler character?

Unacceptable.

I'm probably in the minority, lots of you probably loved his death. And don't get me wrong, I have no problem with him dying. But the way he died felt rushed, underdeveloped and just hollow.

I tried to give Boruto a fair chance, and it got to the point where I simply didn't enjoy anything to do with Naruto. So i'm giving myself a break from the series and the fandom as a whole. I'm going to jeep writing chapter, but I'm not going to post them at least until June/July.

Once again, this story ain't abandoned. I guess an hiatus, but I'm still writing. Right now i've written half way through the Chunnin Exams, and hopefully by June/July I can be well into post time skip. Hopefully by then I can start to love the first Manga and Anime I ever experienced as much as I did, because it seriously sucks looking at my manga collection of Naruto and feeling shit.

It sucks looking at Shinobi Strikers, and seeing how much time I spent in the game just having fun. It sucked watching Blazing's servers be shut down and not feel much, even though my and my friends were playing Blazing since day one release on Global. Naruto as a whole doesn't make me happy as it did even a year ago.

So yeah, it's mostly my fault. Ya' can blame me, I don't mind.

But thanks for the support I got for these first 7 chapters, I reached 50k words with something... that boggles my mind.

June/July is a rough estimate, it might be in May or may be in August. Really depends as I'm planning to force myself to re-read Naruto from the first chapter.

Sorry once again, hopefully one day I'll edit this out and put Chapter 8 in all it's glory with a bright smile on my face. When I get to the Chunnin exams arc, instead of feeling empty while I post I'll giggle in joy that I actually wrote that, that I contributed to the Naruto fandom. Now that doesn't mean I'm not going to be writing other Fanfiction, if anything I'll use them as writing expereince for this fic.

So until then!

EDIT:

I need to work on some other things before this gets fully updates. But a small progress report is in need for you all.

The entire fic is planned out. I fully sat down and thought about what I wanted to write, and how I would write it.

Characters fates, endings and even potential romance. The problem is actually writing it. I'm not exactly the best writer around, and what I want to do isn't very easily accomplished for me currently.

Solution?

Quarterly/monthly updates. Depends on you guys really, every three months for long chapters roughly 20-40k words as I'll be combining chapters.

Or monthly that aren't as long. Honestly I don't mind either, but I would prefer quarterly as it allows me to monitor my progress easily.

When will it start?

June 14th is when I'll be done with my major exams, so probably looking at late June/Early July for this to start.

So please go tell me!

Meanwhile I'll be uploading stories and updates weekly to things to gain more experience, things I'm not as passionate about as this.

Things I don't mind not doing to perfection.

Why?

Because compared to the other stories they are based of a singular moment I had in mind, How to be a Ninja! Was a concept I fell in love with when it came to writing and planning.

I NEED to do this justice, for myself.

And I will to it to my standard, no matter how high they may be. This fic will close a chapter of my life which is why it's so important to me. Once this fic is done I'm going to leave this platform forever.

So that's the plan, once again thanks for all the support.

While I still don't like Boruto, and reading through Naruto again might have done more harm then good I feel fresh. I feel like I want to do this fic justice.

So that's the new notice, true chapter releases soon!

Peace, Papireaz!