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Chapter 10:
Sasuke narrowed his eyes at the gesture, dark lifeless eyes glaring at the encounter.
"I have different bonds now, the bond of hated for my brother" declared making everyone stare back at him. Misaki was looking at Sasuke, but wasn't really seeing him, in his stead was all the memories she tried to repress for years on end, not wanting to relive something precious and realize it's already something long past. Unforgettable memories, the good the bad, everything she had treasured of him, he put behind him.
"Too many bonds can mislead oneself, and weaken the most important desire and cherished memories" Sasuke finished his declaration. Everybody had mixed emotions with his answer, anger, sadness, a lot of emotions, making them more overwhelmed with emotions more so than the first time they had seen Sasuke. For Naruto and Sakura, they didn't imagine this reunion to turn the way it is going, as for Misaki, she didn't really know what she was going to expect, or if it was the right things to do, nor the right time to do it.
One thing she was definitely sure of as she stood there looking back at the deep dark pools of Sasuke's eyes, she knew, her Sasuke, the Sasuke she knew was gone, replaced by one-mindset person hell bent on getting his revenge. It's too painful, the pain almost physically manifesting to know that someone you held so close to your heart might never return to you, leaving you a shell of who he was once, like a heart breaking reminder of the bitter sweet past.
Misaki wasn't sure how she was going to accept it or if she was ever going to accept it; the reality of right now.
Even as Sakura stood between them, Misaki could feel anger and frustration seep from Naruto as his body began to tremble.
"Then why, back then why didn't you just kill me back then" Naruto yelled back at Sasuke, with a fervor comparable to his rampage earlier.
"It's not that I couldn't kill you that day, the reason is quite simple, it was just irritating to me, obtaining the power based on the method he told me" Sasuke explained simply and Misaki internally snorted.
'I wonder how long he had to come up with that´ Misaki thought as she continued to observe Sasuke, so far everything that came out of his mouth convincing them sounded more like he was convincing himself more than anything else. Going on about how he chose to sever bonds like it's a rope that you can literally cut.
"What do you mean?" Naruto pressed, but Sasuke merely shot him down uninterested to further define himself.
"What I can say to you is, back then I only left you alive because of my passing whim" Sasuke said, and for a moment, for everyone except Misaki, Sasuke seemed to have disappeared and reappeared next to Naruto, shocking almost everyone, but to someone who is as adept at speed such as Misaki, she was able to see Sasuke's movements and perceive his direction.
Misaki stood there, watching Sasuke's action and everybody else's reaction to his every action, and even as Sasuke drew his sword and raised it against Naruto, and even as her stomach did back flips and her heart, several paces, she stood unmoving, trusting Naruto's instincts, whilst praying to the gods above that he wasn't going to get himself killed.
Quite surprisingly, it was Sai who blocked Sasuke's threat quite perfectly, but none of them could have prepared themselves for Sasuke's next attack.
"Chirdori; Stream" Sasuke said and streams of lightning flew from every part of his body, sending every person in its surface area flying back, and when Sakura began to lunge at Sasuke, Misaki took a deep breathe, this was where she draws the line when he collected chakra in his hands, ready to go on the offensive against Sakura.
In an instant, Misaki stood in between Sasuke and Sakura with her katana drawn, but instead of blocking Sasuke's sword, she deflected his strike, forcing him back a couple of paces.
'She's fast!' Sasuke thought as he was forced back a few feet.
"The manner of defense, was correct" Sasuke said eyeing Misaki who had her sword with one hand, as she stood defiantly against him, eyes focused like he hadn't seen her before.
"Why didn't you block?" Sasuke said as he swung his sword preparing to attack once more.
"I've used swords far longer than you have been Sasuke, I know the sword of Kusanagi when I see it" Misaki said and she swung her sword a few times, and Sasuke braced himself for a new attack.
However he wasn't prepared when Misaki sheath her sword and picked up a scroll. Everybody watched as she bit her thumb and spread it along the paper of the scroll and soon in her hand is an identical katana, but instead of a white hilt and silver blades, this katana was all black, from the hilt to the very tip of the blade. As she swung the black sword, in her left hands, she drew the white hilted sword in her hand.
Sasuke watched her form trying to find a weak spot, he knew how she fought, they began training with each other in the earlier stages of their life, but Misaki was an expert in one handed swords, yet he has yet to see her use two handed swords.
"That night, I told you the next time we see each other, it would be by the end of each other's swords" Misaki said, Sakura's eyes shifted from Sasuke's form to Misaki, observing her .entirety. Misaki was known for being a girl who is always smiling, even at tough and on an occasion embarrassing moments, and even now, she was smiling at Sasuke, but behind that smile, Sakura felt it, a tremendous amount of pain she never spoke of, and somehow looking at her, Sakura felt that sad smile of hers spoke louder than the tears she had shed. This was the first time Misaki ever mentioned about what happened the night of Sasuke's defection. Up until now it was all just a figment of their imaginations, what happened that night, and how did it came to be that Misaki was the first one to report it. Did Sasuke tell Misaki he was going to leave? Did Sasuke ask Misaki to join him? How did they meet up that night? Did Misaki even try to stop Sasuke? Thousands of question, Sakura wanted to ask Misaki, but never had the opportunity to do so.
Sasuke lunged at Misaki and Misaki met him with equal fervor, clashing swords in incredible speed so fast that the people outside the exchange can only keep up with the sparks the collision of metal make.
"Too fast!" Sakura exclaimed as she and Yamato observed the exchange between the two, both famed for being young geniuses of Konohagakure, to them, it would seem that Sasuke was matching Misaki par for par, but what they didn't take into consideration was the years of kenjustu under Misaki's belt. Sasuke's sharingan came through and saw it an opening, a strike she would be forced to block and with his sword of kusanagi, evidently failed.
But his plan were cut short the moment he brought down his sword against the stark black blade of her left hand sword and heard a loud clang, effectively blocking it.
"You're not the only one with special swords Sasuke, you see these twin swords, were made by two specific sword smiths who came together to procure these blades, the unstoppable white sword of prosecution by Murasama destroys everything in its path and the impenetrable black sword of defense by Musamune defends against anything against it." Misaki bragged the about the swords with a proud smile.
Sasuke felt himself getting impatient and concentrated his chakra, special or not, these swords are made of conductors.
"Chidori Stream" Sasuke executed the same technique once again sending shock throughout her body, forcing her a couple of steps back.
"Misaki!" Yamato yelled after his smalled subordinate as she stabbed the floor with her black sword to keep her from falling on her knees as she panted. Visible current of electricity were still visible shocking around her body telling Yamato the concentration and the intensity of the attack was higher compared to the one used on Naruto and Sai, who was able to share the brunt of the attack, but quite surprisingly, she was able to take the attack in a flash, compared to both Naruto and Sai who were still lying
"You seem to be forgetful nowadays Sasuke, I too am a lightning user, I can channel lightning attacks on me, compared to one of my sensei's electricity this is only a fraction" Misaki said and concentrated her chakra on her hands towards her swords the emanated strong electric currents.
"Twin blades of Raijin" she yelled and swung her sword towards Sasuke, freeing the lightning from the blades to the intended target, whilst Sasuke, who was able to see through her attack with his sharingan summersaulted backwards to avoid getting hit, but Yamato seized this golden opportunity to imprison and capture Sasuke.
"Wood Release: Dome Wall" Yamato said as he finished his hand signs, trapping Sasuke within the confines of a domed shaped prison, but not for long as Sasuke forced his way through the the wood walls of Yamato's technique, back all the way to his former perch on ground level.
As Sasuke ascended to his high and mighty position, the team took this opportunity to pick up their fallen teammates, with Sakura assisting Naruto who was in more need of medical attention since not only was he sustaining damages of this battle, but also the damages of his earlier rampage, and Misaki helping Sai up on his feet with his arm on her shoulder.
"Sasuke, why? Why don't you get it?! Soon Orochimaru's going to take your body," Naruto yelled back, completely frustrated that things are going the complete opposite the way he planned, err imagined it would be, that and not having the power to convince Sasuke to go back home.
"If it happens it happens, you're still a kid Naruto, revenge is everything to me, if I can carry out my revenge, it's no concern of mine what happens to me, or even this world. To put it simply, neither I nor Orochimaru can beat Itachi right now, but if I can obtain the power by giving me body to Orochimaru then I'll give him as much of my life as he wants," Sasuke proclaimed his another jaw dropping bomb for the rest of them to take.
"The talking is done, Naruto, Misaki, and Sakura I didn'tn want to do anything so rough in front of you guys, but I'm going to get serious now" Yamato said, finally putting his foot down. He kept in the background because he respected the bond Sasuke has for his other subordinates, but seeing as that is not the case anymore, he has to step in as the team's captain no matter that he was only a substitute.
"What do you mean get serious" Naruto asked from Sakura's side.
"I can't just let those who left the village in the same way as Orochimaru run loose, so I'll do whatever I have to haul Sasuke back to Konoha" Yamato said, making Sasuke drag his eyes on his opponents stopping lastly at his pale replacement.
"Konoha, I've had enough of you guys" Sasuke said stabbing his sword on the ground and making a succession of hand seals. Misaki prepared for the worst and raised two fingers to concentrate her chakra, getting ready to face something big as chakra physically manifested around Sasuke's body.
But as he raised his hands, Orochimaru's held on to his wrist, stopping the Jutsu release in an instant.
"Don't bother with that Jutsu, Sasuke-kun" Orochimaru said, followed by the appearance of Kabuto.
"Of course, if there's the snake, there's the tail" Misaki said.
"Hey hey, don't talk to lord Orochimaru like that," Kabuto scolded lightly.
"I have no reason to stop" Sasuke countered.
"You know what the akatsuki are up to don't you? We want these guys from the hidden leaf to take care of the Akatsuki for us, as many of them as possible, your revenge won't turn out well it the other akatsuki get in the way, right?" Kabuto explained.
"That is such a snake like thing to say, Orochimaru is definitely rubbing off on you" Misaki grumbled next to Sai.
"That's a pathetic reason" Sasuke retorted.
"It should increase your chances of revenge even if only by one percent, isn't that right?" Kabuto replied and that finally Sasuke conceded and lowered his hand.
"Let's go, I hope to see you soon Misaki-chan" Orochimaru bade his farewell as he along with Sasuke disappeared in flames with the rest of his companions, his eyes landed on Misaki and the item that lay on her neck…
Itachi's necklace.
Next to Sakura, Naruto released his arm on her shoulder and slumped on the ground crying as he muttered something along the lines of failing to get Sasuke back home, what made it worse is that it was like the sky is working with them as it darkened.
"Naruto, crying won't get Sasuke back home, I'm here, I'll get stronger with you" Sakura said, but she herself was crying her heart out.
"We have close to six months, it goes without saying that more heads are better, besides, I'm pretty strong myself" Sai said, trying to comfort his crying subordinates before looking back to the petite red head anchoring his stance. To him, Naruto and Sakura's reactions were normal, but Misaki, whose face was blank as she bore holes, or rather more holes on the ground was something of the mystery to him.
If she held Sasuke so close to her heart then why isn't she in pain right now, instead, she was the first to move amongst the group.
"Sai you think you can stand on your own for a bit?" Misaki said and walked over to the fallen necklace that was gifted to Naruto by Tsunade.
"Moping around being sad never got us anywhere right Naruto?" Misaki said and as Naruto raised his head to face his sister, the clouds seemed to have given way to clear bright skies, matching her own smile.
"You're right" he said taking the necklace and grabbing her offered hand to help him get back on his feet like many times she had before, both literally and figuratively.
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"It seems that Sasuke has grown considerably powerful, I hear that Naruto didn't stand a chance against him. It appears he wasn't able to show his true potential because od the damage from the nine-tails' cloak" Jiraiya told a still hospital ridden Kakashi.
"No, I'm not depressed at all about that, I figured Sasuke would have been stronger, now Naruto will be more fired up for future training after having realized the difference between Sasuke and himself, I wonder how Misaki?" Kakashi pressed, for he too, though as observant and familiar he might be to Misaki, is still in the dark on Misaki's placement about the turn of events, to this Jiraiya sighed.
"I heard that she was able to hold herself against Sasuke but…" Jiraiya said as he closed his eyes thinking contemplatively.
"We don't really know the extent of Misaki's prowess, but from what I've heard around, she would've been able to take Sasuke, even if she had to used force on an unwilling target" Jiraiya revealed his speculation to Kakashi, who sighed and sank himself to deep thought as he heard it.
Misaki wasn't realty a difficult person to read, most of the time she wore a heart on her sleeve, and would have revealed her deepest nature if asked, however after that incident, she almost kidnapped, then she left the village entirely and now on her return, it seems that no one has had the heart nor time to talk to her about it.
"Excuse me" after their long pause of silence, the door opened to reveal the very person they were both contemplating about.
"Oh, Misaki you're back!" Jiraiya exclaimed in a voice that would give him awards for being such a good actor.
"I didn't realize I'd still be able to catch you staying here Jiraiya-san" Misaki said smilling as she approached Kakashi's bed, carrying a bento box.
"Mom asked me to give you this, sorry Jiraiya-san, but we didn't know you'd be here" Misaki said, rubbing the back of her head in embarrassment.
"No worries, really I was just about to go" Jiraiya said and left out the window after saying his farewells.
"He loves his dramatic entrance and exit does he? Really, when will he ever learn to use a door" Misaki said closing the window behind Jiraiya.
"He's been like that for as long as I can remember" Kakashi said smiling in amusement and embarrassment too. Misaki began to unpack Kakashi's lunch in silence, humming a random tune as she laid down each item that Kaede had prepared for Kakashi.
"Shouldn't you be reporting or resting after your mission" Kakashi asked light-heartedly as Misaki sat on the chair beside him peeling apples as Kakshi began to eat his lunch.
"I left the reporting to the others, since I it was their mission in the first place, besides it's pretty nerve racking to be home again with no one really in it, so I guess I'll stick with you for a while" Misaki said shrugging her shoulders, neither hands nor eyes taking its attention off the apple.
"I see, how did the mission go?" Kakashi asked, he was contemplating on beating around the bush, but it's no used with Misaki, who silently sliced the apples and placed them on the bedside table with a 'you know I know' kind of smile.
"Surely you heard enough details from Jiraiya-san, the elders and the hokage are lax with a sannin type ninja roaming around following no jurisdiction of some sort because the information he provides is invaluable." Kakashi sighed in defeat at Misaki's statement, physically she might take from her mom, but mentally she was just as sharp as her father ever was.
"I know you worry, and it's okay, I'm quite flattered to be high on your list. Don't worry I'm fine, it's Naruto I'm worried about" Misaki said with a soft encouraging smile.
'How could someone be so like somebody they didn't even met' Kakashi thought as he almost saw a silhouette of two of the closest people he ever held close to his heart.
"I heard that Naruto took form of the nine tail's cloak" Kakashi said, and Misaki's eyes instantly reflected her worry for her brother.
"I know, this time we weren't expecting it to escalate just as quickly as it did, good thing that Yamato-taichou was able to take reign just as he did. Who knows the extent of the damage that would have occurred if Naruto continued to take form. I'm afraid the seal's strength is wavering, but I trust Naruto, and if it's one thing that wouldn't waver it's his determination" Misaki announced with conviction, the fire in her eyes returning in quick succession of sparks.
After a while, Misaki sat back on her original position, crossing her legs and taking out a medicinal/herbal book she acquired from Kazumi.
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Days passed and Konohagakure remained uneventful, the newly formed team Kakashi under Yamato's supervising went on several missions whilst Misaki was left in the village either helping Kaede in her hospital duties or assisting Kazuhiko and Shikamaru prepare for the chunin exam, but truth be told majority of her days were spent wandering around the library, cleaning Naruto's apartment and simply loitering just outside the village borders wherein every once in a while shill bump into the fourth's abandoned outposts, reading scroll for scroll.
This day she found herself in the library collecting anatomy books for Kaede to bring to the hospital when she delivers Kakashi's lunch for the day, it wouldn't hurt to also bring some of Jiraiya's famous Make Out books for Kakashi to pass the time with.
Already on her way to the hospital, Misaki noticed Naruto sitting by the side, a blank expression written on his face.
"Naruto, Naruto, Na-ru-to" Misaki pressed but when the blond didn't even flinch a muscle she placed Naruto's nose in between her middle and point finger and pinched hard.
"Naruto!" Misaki exclaimed as she finally woke Naruto, who was muttering something about pain and what not.
"Good morning Naruto" Misaki greeted mischievously as Naruto rubbed his abused nose.
"Geesh Misaki, you didn't have to be that harsh" Naruto groaned, still feeling the residual pain from Misaki's sneak attack.
"That's what you get for spacing out in the middle of the day" Misaki said placing her hands on her free hand on her hip.
"What are you doing the streets anyway, if you were tired you could have just stayed at home" Misaki raised an eyebrow curiously.
"Oh, Sakura and I are about to meet up, we're going to visit Kakashi-sensei" Naruto said.
"What a coincidence, I was on my way there to deliver some books and his lu-" Misaki didn't finish as Naruto raised his palms against her and started waiving it frantically in the air.
"No no no no, I was thinking it would be more like in the lines of a date since it would be such Sakura-chan and I" Naruto explained, leaving Misaki to raise the already raised eyebrow higher giving Naruto the 'I'm not amused look' before laughing out loud.
"You're such a hopeless idiot" Misaki said in between laughs as Naruto turned red in embarrassment, half yelling, half stuttering something about him not being an idiot.
"Naruto, Misaki!" Sakura yelled and waved at the two as she approached with Sai in tow.
"Well there goes your notion of a date" Misaki said blowing the air on her palms as a form of exaggeration.
"What Sai is with you too?"
"Oh, I bumped to him in the library" Sakura said.
"I was just in the library, picking up a few things for mom and Kakashi" Misaki said raising the cloth wrapped books.
"Oh, are those the books Kaede-sensei was talking of getting?" Sakura said and Misaki nodded.
"Yeah, mom has been busy juggling her time with patients and duties that I figured to get the book in her stead, plus I also rung up a few books for Kakashi to read in his final days at the hospital, lord knows how bored he is" Misaki explained with a smile whilst Naruto ranted about something about planning on walking with Sakura alone.
"Misaki, Naruto, Sakura" Sai stuttered completely out of the blue and into their conversation, startling the others so much that such soft spoken words caught everybody's attention.
"Could you include me in the conversation too?" Sai asked almost shyly, then proceeded how he read it in a book, it was too adorable.
"Oh you're worried about that" Naruto smiled his usual rugged smile, care free and not showing an ounce of apprehension.
"So that was what you were doing in the library" Sakura expressed in realization as Misaki simply smiled at Sai, and how the situation between the three comrades changed.
"And I was thinking about nicknames, but I couldn't come up with anything good, so I'll call you guys by your fist names for now" Sai said walking even closer towards the tightly knit circle.
"You don't have to think about those sort of things, it just comes naturally" Naruto said.
"For nicknames, or terms of endearment, you should just say that person's character trait, for instance if we're talking about Naruto, we could use Idiot Naruto or Moron Naruto or something" Sakura jested making Misaki laugh at Naruto's dejection.
"Sakura, you're taking things too far with that" Naruto complained. Misaki watched as Sai pinched his chin in deep thought staring at Sakura intently.
"Thank you, I've got the hang of it now… ugly" he added the last part, referring to Sakura. For a while, everybody tried to sink in what Sai had just said, before Sakura went all ballistic and Naruto trying to stop her, which ended up in to nothing as Naruto too became a victim of Sakura's Amazonian strength.
"Let's go" Sakura said stomping ahead of them with Naruto following in tow and Sai and Misaki towing behind.
"You know, you should be really careful with that tongue of yours around women, especially those with gargantuan strength" Misaki said smiling at Sai.
"Maybe I should try a different approach" Sai said and looked at Misaki just as intently as he looked at Sakura earlier on.
"Shorty" Sai said and observed Misaki who stopped all of a sudden. For a moment there Sai feared for his life Misaki may not resort to violence just as Sakura usually do, but she was lethal with her sword, that was thankfully left at home for the day. What he didn't expect has when Misaki began laughing her heart's content so much the villagers going about their daily routing stopped to stare at the weird girl.
"I'll take it" Misaki said catching up to Sai, still chuckling. In that instant, with the four of them walking, fooling around with each other, the world seemed so light and carefree.
When they arrived at the hospital, and they saw Kakashi sitting idly on his hospital bed reading, like he wasn't reading a book of that caliber.
"Kakashi, lunch, look who came to see you" Misaki said as she entered, with Naruto, Sakura and Sai in tow.
"Sorry to intrude" Sakura bowed.
"Yow Kakashi-sensei" Naruto greeted goofily as Sai merely bowed, unsure on how he was going to approach the situation, always feeling like the outsider in the conversation.
"Mom made sure to add some of the sweets from the her favorite sweet shop, but she made me swore to make you swear to not tell Tsunade-sensei" Misaki said as she went on her routine on preparing Kakashi's lunch.
"Uh, it's usually around this time of recovery wherein she replaces the after meal fruit with a sugary treat" Kakashi merely said as he turned the book to its next page then looked at the rest of the company.
"I see you're the new team member, Sai right? Nice to meet you" Kakashi greeted the foreigner in the room, noticing that both young male catered a forming bruise on their faces, causing Kakashi to call on Sakura, inquiring about their camaraderie.
"No nothing happened at all, we're all getting along fine, right Misaki" Sakura said, and Misaki pretended not to hear Sakura, until Sakura repeated in such a familiar fashion that reminded her too much of her mom.
"Right Mi-sa-ki?" Sakura syllabicated her name making her shiver.
"Of course," Misaki said sweat dropping ash she laughed nervously.
"I see, then that's good then" Kakashi said brushing it off. That's when the mood turned a hundred and eighty degree, filling the spacious room with suffocating tension, at least that's what Misaki's felt like as every hair in her entire body stand in attention.
"Kakashi-sensei, about out previous mission,-" Naruto began, but good thing Kakashi was more caring of a team captain that he ever, or will ever let on. Retelling the events of what happened with be hard for Naruto to tell, or for Misaki to listen to, he could tell as he can see Misaki's face turn blank on his peripheral view.
"I heard everything from Yamato, about Sasuke too" Kakashi said.
"We don't have time, at this rate, he'll soon be.." Naruto said, but was once again cut off when the sound of glass shattering on the floor caught all their attention. Everyone turned to Misaki who was wearing a blank expression on her face, until she smiled goofily and rubbed the back of her head in embarrassment.
"Sorry, I think my hand slipped a bit," Misaki said, quickly picking up the shards of the broken glass.
"I'll go ahead of you guys, I still have to deliver the books for mom" Misaki said and left the room as soon as she picked up the last piece of the broken glass, completely forgetting the fact that she left Kaede's books in Kakashi's room.
Misaki blindly and mindlessly walked farther and farther away from the room, letting her feet take her away from the conversation, as long as it's far. Mind as blank as her face as she unconsciously held on the broken glass to tight, she didn't even realize her hand was bleeding.
For the first time in a long time, Misaki felt confused, she was quite used to having a level head and quick wit, but she found herself sitting on top of the fourth hokage's head, her and Naruto's favorite spot, staring out, not even noticing that the afternoon sun has turned to the midnight moon.
"A whole village hidden in leaves, and you choose to hide here" Misaki was jolted from her aimless reverie as Kaede sat down next to her, grabbing her deeply wounded hand and stitching it up herself.
"If Tsunade-sensei would see you now, she'll be scolding you 'medics are the last one to be hurt, we're supposed to take care of the others not be the one to be taken care for'" Kaede jeered, imitating her master as best as she could, making Misaki chuckle lightly, though she did not speak, she covered her mom's working hands with her free hand, squeezing it tenderly.
"Misaki, it would be hypocritical of me to say that I know it's hard and I understand" Kaede began as she finished patching up Misaki's hand, then placing a hand on Misaki's cheek tenderly.
"But I do know, that you're smart, and willful, and I believe in you, that whatever you're going through today, will just be a thing in the past tomorrow" Kaede said kissing Misaki's forehead before hugging her tenderly, as they sat there for a few tender moments.
Until Kaede's fist landed on her head.
"Now you've got some explaining to do young lady, do you know how worried we were?! When Kakashi called me to tell me that you left the room with a crazy look in your eyes, I thought you had left the village once again. Now let's get home and make some dinner, you must be starving, you didn't even eat your lunch"
Misaki laughed whole heartedly, her mother's nagging tuned out, she was home.
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Chapter 10!
Whoah, I thought I'll never be able to post it, things have been crazy and even the internet service at home went haywire, it's been insane, but I'd like to thank you guys who have been supporting this fanfiction. I just want to let you guys know that you are the very reason why this fanfiction is still pushing through, despite setbacks like this. You guys inspire me, and I thank you for that.
Anyways, hope you like chapter 10, I'm not sure, but I think I might be able to upload this simultaneously with chapter 11, who knows depends on the internet service lately.
Stay tuned till the next chapter, until then stay strong and love lots.