Author's Note:

I hate Author's Notes...

Other people can write them for all I care. But I don't like needing to say anything. I like my stories to speak for themselves.

But anyways, I have tragic news. When I was uploading Chapter 6, I realized that something seemed wrong. First of all, it was only 300 words, and second of all it had things I didn't remember having introduced into the plot at that point.

After reading back to where Chapter 5 left off and where Chapter 7 picks up, I've come to realize that Chapter 8, the point I was at when I stopped writing (Chapter 7 having been the final published chapter) was accidentally saved on top of Chapter 6.

All that to say:

I accidentally saved over Chapter 6 and no longer have it.

Anywhere.

At all.

I've checked. I've asked people I thought might still have it, I've checked all my other folders for a copy, I've checked flash drives and all kinds of places. It's gone. And I don't entirely remember what I wrote, and I don't really have the energy to rewrite it. Even if I did, I'm sure I'd end up leaving things out.

So what I'm gonna do is list the things I remember having happened in the chapter so that I can put up the next chapter without anyone being lost.

I don't know how to do it other than that. It's shitty and I hate it, but I don't know what else I can do that'd be better (rewriting the chapter wouldn't be better).

So:

Sasuke gets to bed late, having stayed up talking to Itachi. They're still awake when Kisame comes in late at night, despite it being past the Nazi-instilled curfew of 11.

Iruka calls Itachi early that morning to ask if he can watch him while Iruka goes to work. He tells Itachi that Naruto is feeling worse, but that he's missed too much work. Itachi agrees, Sasuke having left an hour or two earlier, and heads over to Iruka and Naruto's apartment. He makes himself coffee as Iruka rushes to work.

Kakashi, who took off work in the afternoon, drops by Iruka's apartment around seven or eight that night, only to find Itachi. Itachi explains that he hasn't heard from Iruka since earlier that day. Kakashi offers to wait on him, and Itachi agrees, since he's worried and suspects that Kakashi would help if something were wrong, such as Iruka not getting home before the 11 o'clock curfew. He's also worried about Naruto, who's gotten much worse over the day and had only woken up for about an hour that afternoon.

Itachi and Kakashi are sitting in the apartment at 10:58, watching the clock. Both of them are silent, Itachi hoping that Iruka will burst through the door as it the clock his 10:59. Kakashi stands up and starts pacing. They hear a door open and see Naruto standing there, looking pale. He staggers quickly to the bathroom and starts vomiting, horrible wretching from behind the door. Itachi watches at the second hand passes the 10, counting down the seconds. It hits eleven and the belltower in the distance starts chiming. On the eleventh chime, there's silence. Kakashi takes in a breath, about to say something, when a sniper rifle's shot rings out in the distance.