Dearest readers,

It has come to my attention that people still care about Ocarina of Konoha and the long-abandoned sequel, ANBU's Mask. Let me just say, I'm deeply touched that it still matters to people.

The reason it was abandoned is, admittedly, a bad habit of mine – after a series of broken harddrives made me lose my cast list and chapter outlines, I couldn't work up the motivation to remember who I'd cast as who, what was going to happen in every chapter, what gag I was going to use to keep the plot together. That, and the Naruto™ series started to lose me once it got to that long patch of filler episodes, and sadly, this fic seemed lost to the records of deadfics on this site.

But I still get the odd review or personal message, asking if I'll start it up again. I've also had a few people ask me if I would pass on the writing torch to someone else, just to see this story complete…

So I figure, why not!

It wouldn't be fair not to give each of those people an equal chance at writing it, and so I've decided the fairest way is to make this…

Drumroll, please?

…

Please?

Thank you.

ANBU'S MASK CHAPTER THREE: I CHOOSE YOU! Writing contest!

For anyone interested in completing (or helping me complete) AM, all you have to do is write chapter three and submit it to me for review. The best one will be put up as the actual third chapter and we can continue the story together.

I have no idea if anyone is going to actually care enough to do it…but the fact that people asked in the first place also means a lot.

You can email chapter submissions to the hotmail address ocarinaofkonoha . hot mail. com (obviously, remove the spaces).

For those of you who still care but don't want to write AM, you can do something else for me:

I'm trying to make Kyuubi the fairy more well-known on the internet, one tiny thing at a time. Show me something featuring Kyuu, and I'll add that to my tally box of 'Get off your ass and write AM, Lon' fund.

I'd like to take this closing opportunity to say that I feel massively conceited for even putting this up, so I really hope someone justifies it by sending me emails.

Thanks, all!