A/N: Not much more to go. The fighting will really kick into high gear in this one, and if pacing goes according to plan, next chapter will wrap up the fight completely. We're in the end game now, as the young kids say.

Hope you all enjoy. The end is near.

Time for Chapter 73

Enjoy!


Satsuki heaved deep breaths as she stared at the rising stream of air bubbles ten or so feet in front of her. She had stuck him decisively. He had provided her a glaring opening, and she had taken it. The fight was over. It had taken far less time than she had expected it to, and though she had been in control, not due to any massive difference in power. Mindset and headspace had been the deciding factor. She had been sure of herself, and Naruto had not. Such was the lie she was telling herself. In truth, the labored breathing she was experiencing had nothing to do with exhaustion. She was unsettled and shocked by her own actions. She had performed them with conviction in the moment, but now, mere seconds removed, reality was hitting her in the back of the head.

Odds were, she had killed him.

'You just…couldn't do it. You couldn't…' she thought to both herself and the fallen Jinchuuriki numbly. There was no room for regrets. It was all by her own design. She could have chosen to avoid him entirely. She had waited for him. She could have stayed in Konoha. She had chosen to run. And now, with a mind muddled by contradictions and a heart pumping poison, she stood at the watery grave of the only person to care for her unconditionally, sans her late family. Blood was on her hands. Shaking her head and wiping sweat from her brow, Satsuki stepped away from the rocky wall. The bubbles signifying Naruto's struggle to breathe had ceased. He was gone.

Closing off her emotions behind a thick dam of apathy, Satsuki slowly walked out to the center of the canyon. There were still a number of miles to cover before she would reach Orochimaru, and commence her preparations for her brother's demise. There would be time to mourn, but not now. As she took her first intended step, she was stopped in her tracks by a storm of bubbles rising up all throughout the small lake. Tensing, the Uchiha looked around the trench in all directions. It took her no time at all to find the epicenter. Turning around fully, Satsuki clenched her teeth as the water boiled where she had sent her partner to sink.

A beat later, Naruto's hand burst through the surface, and grabbed hold of the water. Within seconds, the rest of his body emerged, and it was cloaked in a fiery aura of burning chakra. He was still alive. He had kick-started his own heart. Powering up to his feet, Naruto threw up an unpleasant sum of water. From the looks of him, he had nearly drowned as well. Satsuki's hands tightened into fists. She had spoken too soon. Her torment was far from over. With her dull melancholy replaced by desperate frustration, the raven-haired girl greeted him harshly.

"I gave you an easy way out! Why can't you just lay down and quit?!" she practically screamed. Naruto dragged a clawed hand through his bangs to clear their edges from his blood red eyes.

"I already told you once." he started roughly. His aura then flickered outward. Several wounds she had previously inflicted on him sealed themselves shut. His cuts mended, and his bruises disappeared.

"It'll take more than some broken bones, or even a heart attack. You can't scare me away." he finished. His canines had lengthened to fangs. Despite her every desire to block out his words, they brought her mind careening back to that bleak night weeks ago. When she had cried in his arms. When he had been her safety net. Her escape from reality's coldness. But, she wasn't ready to give in. She was still determined to follow through, no matter the cost. Allowing her curse mark to spread up to her cheek, Satsuki drew a kunai.

"Then you know how this ends." she said threateningly. Naruto said nothing. He simply drew his own knife. With no further discussion between them, they met in the middle and sent a shower of sparks to all sides. As the duel of kunai commenced, Satsuki was immediately struck by the difficulty she was having keeping track of the blonde's movements. His speed had massively increased, as had his reaction time. It was only logical. He was no longer drawing on his own strength exclusively.

As their knives slammed into one another by their edges for the umpteenth time, the pair locked into a stalemate with their eyes boring into one another. No words were exchanged, but Satsuki could still feel the message he was sending her way. So long as the option existed, he would keep on pushing. A hellish struggle was ahead of her, no matter the outcome. Deep down, that fact brought Satsuki comfort. There was still left time to be spent with him, even if it would be bloody and painful.

Shifting her weight, Satsuki finally managed to knock Naruto's kunai aside and repel him back a step. With enough space to attack again, the Uchiha wheeled her left leg up toward his head. Naruto caught her ankle with his free hand. He then stepped through, spun her around, and sent her flying backwards. Remaining collected and upright as she soared through the air, Satsuki formed a sequence of hand seals.

"Fire Style: Phoenix Flower!" she called out, launching a dozen mid-sized masses of flame in Naruto's direction. The Jinchuuriki, in classic fashion, chose to meet the threat head-on and charge right through. There was an opening down the center where, should he move quickly enough, he could pass right through without being touched by the fire. Having considered his likely response well ahead of time, Satsuki grinned and altered the sign her hands were forming.

"Fire Style: Burning Bloom!" she yelled. Just as Naruto came crashing through the small opening she had left for him, each ball of fire exploded in unison. The result was a massive inferno engulfing the entirety of Satsuki's immediate line of sight. The technique was a new one, and she had yet to perfect it, but its first use in active combat appeared to be a success. Before she could even begin to admire her work, however, Naruto came tearing into view with fire streaking behind him. The blaze had not deterred him in the slightest.

The moment the Uchiha's feet touched the water once again, Naruto was right on top of her. With no realistic chance to evade him, Satsuki dug her heels in and accepted an even trade. It went poorly. As Naruto's fist neared her face, the Uchiha attempted to intercept his oncoming sternum with the point of her knee. All the attempted counter accomplished was compromising her stance, as she was hit forcefully on the cheek with only one foot planted. Staggering on unsteady legs, Satsuki was struck a second time by Naruto's shin planting across her stomach.

With much of her wind knocked from her lungs, Satsuki still managed to catch his leg, but when she attempted to yank him off balance, she was unable to make him budge. Then, with shocking ease, Naruto stomped his foot down and freed himself from her grip. The Uchiha was promptly sent skidding back by a head-snapping punch between the eyes. When she came to a stop, Satsuki felt something warm drip down the bridge of her nose. Wiping her face, she was met with stains of red on her fingers. She was bleeding. When she turned her attention back to Naruto, she discovered that he was mere feet from her. He had no intention of letting her rest. Apparently, his near-death at her hands had broken him out of his emotional haze.

Selecting a more appropriate strike with which to intercept him, Satsuki ran him face-first into the brunt of her forearm. Naruto buckled momentarily, but held his ground and slugged her in the liver. The punch folded the Uchiha in two. His raw strength had increased dramatically. As she doubled over, Naruto hit her a second time, this time on the temple. Finally, Satsuki fully dropped, and was forced to catch herself with her hands just before her rear end touched the water. She was quickly plunged into the depths regardless, as Naruto forcefully stomped down on her chest and sent her floundering under the surface.

Having been forced to endure the frigid water once before, Satsuki was able to remain calm despite the horribly low temperature. Taking the chance to regroup, she swam a fair few meters away from Naruto. When she burst up to the open air again, the blonde hadn't moved from his spot. Slicking her soaked hair from her face, Satsuki fought to control her rising turmoil. He was overpowering her. Plain and simple. The exchange that had put her under the water had been one decided by Naruto's raw physicality. He had clubbed her until she could take no more. It angered her greatly.

In particular, a bitterness she had long since buried was worming its way back to the forefront of her mind. As she stared at the Jinchuuriki's burning aura and slitted eyes, a hot rage brewed in the pit of her stomach. His strength was not his own. It was unnatural. Born from the bowels of a creature responsible for the fracturing of their home. But, it served him with undeniable effectiveness. It was his safety net. His second chance. While Satsuki fought alone, with only her homegrown talents to rely on, Naruto had leeway. His body regenerated, his chakra was inexhaustible, and his power was beastly. All by virtue of something bigger than himself.

As her vexation grew, her curse mark creeped its way up her face, only stopping when it had reached her forehead. With it came a wave of even uglier feelings, crashing in with such intensity that Satsuki's ego took full control. She wanted to overcome him. She wanted to win. In that moment, as an unsavory purple haze began to rise from her body, she saw him as a roadblock. A test to be passed. With bleak conviction, she charged in to satisfy her bruised pride and petty self-loathing. Naruto met her aggression in kind, and when they came together, they engaged in a furious exchange of punches and kicks.

Fueled by her darkest motivations, Satsuki pushed on through every brutal strike she absorbed, and returned fire with greater intensity each time. At every turn, Naruto matched her. There were no free punches. No stolen kicks. He repaid her in equal measure. The result was a vicious maelstrom of punishment on both sides. Taijutsu in its most uncomfortable form. The longer it stretched on, the cruder it became. Eventually, after a nearly five minute brawl, the pair's foreheads slammed into each other.

Stunned, the teens stumbled back away from one another. For a time, they both heaved deep breaths. Naruto's stoicism had slipped, and his eyes were full of open pain.

"This isn't worth it. You know it's not." he said between breaths. Even being brought to death's door had not put him off appealing to reason. Satsuki stepped in and punched him square on the jaw.

"Seeing him dead is worth more than you could ever understand." she snapped. Naruto caught his footing after a brief stumble and ducked under her attempt to follow up.

"I do understand. You miss them. You want to avenge them. But this isn't the way to do it." the Jinchuuriki insisted as he kicked her legs out. His words struck a sensitive nerve deep within Satsuki. In response, she called upon the speed she had stolen from Rock Lee, long ago. Briefly vanishing, she reappeared in a crouch right inside Naruto's personal space. She then sent him floating up into the air with a brutal kick to the side of his face. Jumping up to fly parallel with him, she unleashed on him both verbally and physically.

"How could you understand a damn thing about it?! You never had a mother, a father, aunts or uncles!" she yelled, punching him repeatedly as she listed off all that she had lost, and what he had never had.

"You were all alone right from the very beginning! You don't know what it feels like to lose!" she screamed louder, performing a short flip and slamming her heel into his stomach. The impact sent Naruto crashing down to the water below. Surprisingly, he was able to apply chakra to his body in time to avoid being dunked under the surface. The tradeoff was an obvious one, that being that his collision may as well have occurred with a solid surface. As a result, Naruto let out a wheezing cough as his back hit the lake and stuck to it. Water could feel like concrete if struck with enough force.

Satsuki landed a few feet away from him a half-beat later, and by the time she had, Naruto was back up on his feet again. He was unflappable. They clashed again within the same second, with the blonde knocking her head back with a punch that bounced off her forehead. Remaining steadfast, Satsuki evaded the second punch he sent her way, stepped out to the side, and planted her fist behind Naruto's left ear. The angle and placement of the blow sent Naruto awkwardly lurching forward onto his hands in front of her. Satsuki drew her leg back, and then promptly kicked him in the side.

"You never had to wake up one day to the reality that everyone and everything you'd ever cared about was gone. It's all been the same for you. To me, what you've gone through sounds peaceful. So, don't get all empathetic and run your mouth. You don't get it. You never will." she said as Naruto was sent rolling away. With no break in between, Satsuki weaved the hand signs she had committed to muscle memory.

"Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu!" she bellowed. The flames she unleashed were of a far greater heat and intensity than before, with edges of searing blue. The further her tattoo spread, the more potent the power coursing through her became. The flaming orb crashed into Naruto with a mighty explosion just as the Jinchuuriki had managed to make it to his knees some forty feet away. Even once the initial blast had subsided, tongues of fire licked up from the water itself as steam billowed. Naruto was down on one knee in the epicenter of boiling water with his arms crossed in front of his face. The majority of the sleeves of his jacket had been incinerated, leaving his burned arms visible. For the briefest of moments, the visual brought a tightness to Satsuki's chest. He had taken serious damage.

"You're wrong." Naruto said, rising to his feet. There were small embers burning on his jacket, eating away at the fabric.

"Our lives have been different, and maybe I can't fully understand, but I do know how it feels to lose." he continued as he ripped off the last of his sleeves. Satsuki suppressed the urge to take a step back. His aura was thickening and flaring around his outline.

"What do you think this is, huh? Just some mission? Just me trying to control you?" he continued, his voice rising with every word. The water at his feet then began to swirl.

"I'm watching the only real friend I've ever made tear herself to pieces and throw her life away. I'm losing right now. I'm losing you. And I won't let it happen without a fight." he vowed with bared fangs. Satsuki's eyes widened as a powerful pulse of raw heat and chakra sent her hair flying back. The Jinchuuriki lowered his stance and turned his palms out toward her. His nails had lengthened further into serrated claws. As the burning chakra engulfed the entire area around him, Naruto let out a feral roar.

'What…is this?' Satsuki silently pondered with eyes like saucers. She had seen him tap into his inner demon's power more than once, but the display before here now was of a completely different nature. It was wild, uncontrolled. She could feel a tornado of emotions pouring out of him, and none of them were positive. As Naruto's scream finally died out, the reddish-orange chakra around him formed into the silhouette of a gigantic, multi-tailed fox. Satsuki could have sworn she heard the echo of a far deeper, more ancient roar fade into the ether.

The shadow then faded, and Naruto lurched forward, with his hands hanging just barely above the surface of the lake. He had pushed himself far beyond his usual limits. He had given up so much of his own agency that his natural instinct no longer called for him to stand up straight. He was submitting himself to his beast's animalistic nature. It was a heartbreaking sight to behold. Satsuki swallowed an unwanted lump in her throat.

"All of this…for me? Why?" she whispered under her breath as a mix of blood and cold water dripped from her face. Broken feelings. Sleepless nights. Forsaken humanity. All for her. A brutal, tragic show of love. She had been steadfast only seconds ago, but she now found herself teetering on the edge. Her mind was a pendulum, swinging from emotion to emotion, sentiment to sentiment. She was scrambled, and he was the culprit.

"I won't let him ruin you."

Satsuki flinched at the sound of Naruto's rough voice. Though she had been looking straight at the blonde, she had been staring right through him amid her tumultuous thoughts. Locking eyes with him, the Uchiha readied herself for what she knew would be a far more perilous fight than it had been up to now.

Shaken as she was, Itachi still loomed large in her mind's eye. Her goals remained the same, and for all that she loved him, Naruto stood between her and her most heartfelt ambition.

With nothing left to say on either side, the battle resumed.


Hiruzen shuddered as a strong sense of foreboding washed through his office. His senses had dulled some with age, but he could still feel much of what went on within the borders of the Land of Fire should he put his mind to it, and he had thought of nothing else since the earliest hours of the morning. Something horrible was happening out in the field. Things had gone amok. Nearly thirty minutes prior, he had sensed what he could only assume was a large-scale explosion, set off by a particularly enormous chakra signature. In all likelihood, Gaara was responsible. He was the only person present with the firepower to produce such a blast yield.

Things had gone relatively quiet for a time after said explosion, but they had come alive again in only the past few minutes, and unlike the first disturbance, the Hokage knew the source of the turmoil beyond a shadow of a doubt. Naruto's seal was loosening with alarming quickness. To call the volume of demonic chakra leaking out of him concerning would have been a gross understatement. The only logical explanation was that he had encountered Satsuki. Emotion was the strongest trigger for the emergence of the Fox's power, and there was no greater vulnerability in Naruto than the girl he was chasing.

A fairly strong section of Hiruzen's conscience regretted allowing the blonde to be included in the mission in the first place. He was undoubtedly powerful for his rank, and far smarter than he got credit for, but he had personal stakes in the outcome. Stakes that nobody with any kind of heart could ever hope to ignore for the sake of duty. And yet, Hiruzen had sent him anyway. It went against every principle of the profession, but the old man couldn't stomach robbing the boy of what was rightfully his fight.

In a tactical sense, there were justifications for the decision. With only genin available for the initial dispatching, Naruto was certainly the strongest choice to combat the Uchiha head-on. Shikamaru stood next to no chance against her, and while Neji and Lee were formidable, they were far from reliable choices. Beyond that, Naruto was built from the ground up to complete endurance missions, and such a pursuit was nothing if not stamina-intensive. If things had progressed to the point that the Jinchuuriki was confronting Satsuki directly, then if nothing else, the Hokage's judgment had proven itself to be sound from a purely objective standpoint.

The scope of all that Hiruzen still did not know weighed heavily on the elderly leader. He knew not the sacrifices that may have been necessary to facilitate Naruto's lone duel against the Uchiha. Gaara was still a massive wildcard. The timing of the Anbu's arrival at their aid was unknowable outside of a rough estimate. Endless questions, few answers. Rubbing his temples, Hiruzen stood up to pace about in his office for the thousandth time. He had never felt more useless. All he could do was put his faith in the aptitude of a child. Sighing, he took a long look out the window toward the village gates.

'Come home to us. All of you.'


Red saliva flew from Satsuki's mouth as Naruto's fist sank into her ribs. Things had gone south incredibly quickly. If any errant doubts had existed surrounding Naruto's ability to fight effectively in his current state, they had been summarily silenced. He was orders of magnitude more daunting. He was blisteringly fast, extremely strong, and his movement patterns were erratic and unpredictable. The Uchiha was at a loss. Even when she did hit him, which was far less often than it had been, the blonde barely budged.

Frantically jumping back out of range as her abdomen burned, Satsuki threw a volley of kunai Naruto's way, with paper bombs attached to half of them. The Jinchuuriki veered right with inhuman speed, bounding along on all fours as the explosives wasted themselves blowing away nothing but air. With another burst of speed, he closed Sastuki down and back-handed her across the cheek. The strike spun the Uchiha around, leaving her unable to brace for the harsh kick to the back she received a moment later. Skipping off the water like a stone several times, Satsuki barely managed to slow herself down in time to avoid slamming face-first into the jagged wall of the canyon.

Whirling around to face Naruto again, Satsuki reflexively ducked down to narrowly evade a swipe of the blonde's claws. His aggression had only increased since his heartfelt words to her. He gave her no breaks. She was on the defensive no matter their positioning relative to one another. With a sharp pivot, the raven-haired girl was able to gain a dominant angle on Naruto, who had over-swung and thrown himself off-balance. Taking the opportunity with both hands, Satsuki clipped the blonde on the chin with a well-aimed punch as he adjusted his feet to reorientate himself.

Having not seen the counter coming, Naruto stumbled back into the wall. Correctly choosing to not let him off the hook, Satsuki weaved a complex series of hand signs as rapidly as she could manage. When finished, she reached out, seized Naruto by the shoulders, and sent a violent surge of electricity into his body.

"Lightning Style: Depth Charge." she uttered. At first, all seemed well, with Satsuki's chakra ravaging the Jinchuuriki's body in the form of artificial electricity. However, a few seconds before the technique could conclude, a strained yell ripped from Naruto's throat, and the current reversed. As a result, Satsuki was blasted backwards by a volatile wave of static. Her landing was relatively smooth, but when she attempted to rise up from a crouch, she was sent back down to her knees by an involuntary twitch. Her entire body was numb.

In the split second before the reversal of her jutsu, the Jinchuuriki's system had flooded itself with an excess of demonic chakra, causing his body to overflow and force out all foreign substances. Apparently, including unwanted electrical charge. Whether the maneuver had been a purposeful one or not was irrelevant. It had gotten him out of danger. Soon enough, Naruto was fully recovered. Unfortunately, Satsuki's own recuperation was far from complete.

'This is bad.' Satsuki thought to herself in a panic. She had been losing already, and while her body was capable of handling sudden shocks by virtue of her natural affinity, she was still compromised. Naruto appeared to recognize as much, as he breathed in deep, pushed off his back foot, and charged. She was done for. The chances of the assault to come resulting in anything but her severe injury were incredibly low, barring a sudden reappearance of Naruto's mercy.

But, as he approached, Satsuki noticed something strange. She could see him moving, and time seemed to be slowing itself down. An issue she had been unable to overcome post his most recent transformation was the fact that his speed was such that he often rendered himself impossible to track. But now, he was fully visible to her, and not only that, she could make out the path he seemed poised to take. A cut off to her left, with a sharp turn to blindside her. Though perplexed, Satsuki moved as best she could despite her numbness, acting on the foresight she now had.

Her prediction's accuracy was verified barely a second later, as Naruto crashed into her space, moved left, and then attempted to charge back in from his new angle. With no time whatsoever to spare, Satsuki dove to her right and avoided his oncoming charge. The stomping of the Jinchuuriki's feet sent droplets of water flying into the air, with one in particular hovering right in front of Satsuki's face. In it, she was able to glean her reflection. What she saw was both surprising and heartening.

Her sharingan were now sporting three tomoe each. At long last, they had fully matured.

Her elation was cut off by time speeding back up again, and Naruto kicking up a large shower of water to stop himself from sliding too far past her. Interestingly, he did not resume his pursuit. Instead, he stopped to study her. His eyes narrowed the slightest bit. He had spotted the change. Naruto Uzumaki was far from eloquent, but he was sharp and observant when he wanted to be. The lull was short, as the pair soon began to circle one another. Characteristically, Naruto acted first, with his body twitching forward just an inch. The small motion was enough to set off the next stage of their grueling confrontation.

As they mutually charged in for more punishment, Satsuki's lips pulled into a confident smirk. She could read him like an open book. She was far from new to the precognition of the sharingan, but her eyes were operating at a level that would have seemed fanciful the day before. Predicting Naruto's leading punch with ease, Satsuki took a short step off to the side, pulled his hand down, and cracked him clean on the jaw. Naruto ate the punch without issue, repositioned, and attempted to kick her in the ribs. Satsuki caught his leg, turned him, dropped the limb, and hit him with a second punch to the head with her opposite hand.

The two successive blows appeared to finally stun the Jinchuuriki, as he backed up a step and paused for just a touch longer than usual. There was still a gap in raw power, but with the ability to see him coming firmly in her grasp, Satsuki could now use precision to her advantage. With trademark eagerness, Naruto shook off the damage she had dealt him and went back on the attack. The Uchiha waited for him, remaining still until the margins were at their thinnest. When he swung for her head, Satsuki ducked down, grabbed his wrist, and turned his momentum against him by throwing him over her shoulder.

Naruto was nowhere near finished, as he flipped himself upright mid-air and produced a flurry of wind bullets that came barreling in toward Satsuki. With total confidence, the Uchiha ran right into the proverbial fire. She effortlessly weaved her way through the fray, coming out the other side unscathed, and ready to meet Naruto's descent with a rising slash of the kunai she had drawn in the midst of the commotion.

She only managed to catch him with the very end of the blade, but her placement was vicious. Jerking his head back and gripping his right eye, Naruto let out a cry of pain and landed on his knees. High on her success, Satsuki brutally kicked him upside the face while he was down. The blonde was sent smashing into the side of the canyon with such force that he lodged right into it. Satsuki blinked, taken aback by her own strength. Taking a glance down at herself, she saw that the black tattoo had spread all the way down to her knees on both legs. Her arms bore similar levels of coverage. Her body was changing, morphing.

Looking back toward the Jinchuuriki, Satsuki took a preliminary step forward. He had managed to pull himself free from the rocks, but he was still clutching his eye. He was badly damaged. He was vulnerable. Even so, the Uchiha found herself unable to bring herself to take advantage. Something just below her skin was holding her back. Slowly but surely, Naruto let his hand drop from his face. The gash Satsuki had cut into his eyelid had healed, but from what she could see of the eye itself, his pupil was uneven. As though it had sewn itself back together imperfectly.

Naruto gradually made his way out from under the shadow of the cliff, breathing heavily. His face was a mask of blood on its right side, with the left being visibly bruised. It was beginning to snow more consistently now, with flakes falling steadily from the sky, and as Naruto's fiery aura burned to life, a steady cloud of steam began to rise up from the blonde's body. The snow was evaporating on contact. The image brought a complex mix of emotions to Satsuki's psyche. At its forefront was pride. She was in control, and she had gained significant ground. But, standing in stark defiance to the girl's desire to be victorious, was an overwhelming undertone of horror.

He was bleeding, he was bruised, and he was in obvious pain. All by her hands. She was cutting him down, one inch at a time. The longer she looked at him, the harder it became to keep fonder memories from surfacing for comparison. Unfortunately, some of her very dearest were fresh. His endearing look of awe as she had stepped into his shower. His gentle smile as she had gazed up at him from his pillow. And now, on the flip side, a bloodied and beaten look of miserable drive. Warm bliss, replaced by a freezing hell. Lost in a daze, Satsuki barely registered the dangerous set of hand signs Naruto soon began to weave. Fortunately for her well-being, her body acted on auto-pilot, and sent her own hands into a storm of seals.

A clash was forthcoming, and it was bound to be treacherous. As they both gathered their chakra and reared their heads back, a nagging, yet truthful thought broke through Satsuki's dam of apathy.

'This isn't what I want…'


A/N: So, I intended for this chapter to be released multiple days ago, but this was probably the single most difficult piece of writing I've ever done. Combat choreography is hard enough, but mixing in narrative and dialogue is super difficult. I went through four versions of this chapter before I finally felt okay uploading it.

So, for that reason, feedback would be VERY MUCH appreciated here. I'm not entirely sure how this turned out. Part of me thinks the pacing is a mess, and I don't know how organically I got Satsuki's turmoil across. Maybe I'm just paranoid?

Let me know either way.

I love you all :)

See you next chapter!