Lost Year

Associating!

If someone wants to be part of your life, they'll make an effort to be in it.
So don't bother reserving a space in your heart for someone who doesn't make an effort to stay.

Sakura could feel the huge vibration that was occurring in the room as she stared in disbelief at the huge crater on the wall and ceiling of the bathroom. The entire ceiling and half of the small bedroom was also disintegrated due to the explosion.

"Sasori!" The pinkette screamed and dashed into the smoke. She knew the redhead was still alive, but she just wanted to be very sure that he wasn't hurt at all. Sasori indirectly kept Sakura from worrying any further as he jumped out from the smoke and stood still on one of the shattered wall, unharmed and still well. He gave a sidelong glance to see if the medic was hurt, but he quickly diverted his attention away from her and onto the enemy since Sakura was obviously unscathed.

"What is happening?" There was a loud banging on the door as the housekeeper tried to force it open, but it would be useless due to the amount of rubbles that were blocking and preventing the door from opening successfully. Screams could be heard outside the inn as the tourists were running around shouting when the explosion occurred, thinking that there were some terrorists hunting for their precious life.

Sasori grabbed onto his kunai from his back pocket and got into his stance, he squinted his nut-brown eyes, trying to find who the hell had ruined his peace before the smoke managed to disperse.

But Sakura knew better.

"O…Oro-" Sakura dilated her emerald eyes at the man who was standing a few meters from Sasori. His infamous Akatsuki cloak was flapping rapidly due to the impact from the explosion.

As the smoke continued to dissipate, an extremely pale-skinned human with waist-length black hair was staring down at the redhead with both of his amber eyes with slits in his pupils and purple markings around his eyes; which remind both of the Shinobi of a snake.

"Orochimaru…" Sakura spoke in a whisper that only she could hear. She was still staring widely at the snake man who was licking his lips with his long tongue. Orochimaru decided to keep his third explosion tags since he knew that the damage he caused was enough to make Sasori appear before him.

She mouthed the Sanin's name again while walking dazedly towards the smoke, passing Sasori who was trying to surveillance the strange situation they were in.

As Orochimaru disregard the girl who was just beside the redhead in the pile of wreckage below him, he silently stepped forward at the edge of the devastating building and observed the puppeteer from above.

"Your fast reaction sure surprises me, though I would be greatly disappointed if you even get a scratch in the explosion." The Sanin spoke.

"Who the hell are you?" Sasori narrowed his eyes in anger.

"Orochimaru!" Sakura screamed her lungs out, unintentionally answering Sasori's question as he shockingly turned his attention to the pinkette beside him.

Orochimaru? Sasori scrutinized that tall man before them.

"Hm?" The snake summoner spied on Sakura carefully before flipping back to the other side of the building when Sakura jumped up and produced a punch to the exact place where he was originally standing on, leaving a huge dent in that area.

After successfully landing on the rooftop of another building right beside the ruinous inn, he jumped back successfully after Sakura run after him and managed to escape from getting a hit as he handed back to the same spot as he first appeared before.

Sakura panted hard, knowing that landing a hit successfully on Orochimaru was impossible, but after trying a few times to hit him, she felt much more energetic and motivated to do her very best to even just put a small scratch on the Sanin; If that were to happen, her whole 16 years of living would already be worth it.

"I have to say, you do have the strength just like my other former teammate, Tsunade." He muttered, gawking at Sakura cautiously as he stood up behind the rubbles.

Tsunade? Isn't she one of the people along with Orochimaru, who was claimed to be the Sanin by Hanzou? Sasori glanced at Sakura for a moment. That name suddenly rang a bell in his head; he was quite sure that he heard Sakura mentioned this name before, but he just couldn't remember when was it.

"I'll kill you!" She proclaimed before charging forward again.

He dodged all the attempted hits successfully and rather, unimpressively as he stared at Sakura uninterested. Although she's quite special to have such a humongous strength for a small girl like her, her speed and accuracy skills pulled her down.

When Orochimaru stood back and pulled out his arm under his sleeve, a couple of snakes crawled out in a rapid speed, catching Sakura off guard. She tried to take out her kunai to attack, but Sasori reacted faster. He grabbed onto Sakura's waist and pulled her away, taking the sharp kunai he had in his hand and sliced each of the snakes' head successfully.

Bringing Sakura safely onto the ground, he stepped back and away from Sakura, tying to hint her to stay out of his business. Although he was pretty sure his actions previously did not work at all when the pinkette was still so enraged by this certain Sanin.

Trying to force Orochimaru to turn his focus onto him instead, Sasori started fighting Orochimaru hand on hand without using his battling materials like his puppets. He didn't find a need to, since the redhead was quite positive that this suspicious man wasn't trying to harm them or anything, but rather, he wanted to debate on some matters with Sasori yet Sakura had interrupted him again and again from the start.

The puppeteer and the Sanin exchanged no words in the battle, but somehow Sasori knew that this Sanin was actually analyzing his battle skills, despite the fact that he didn't understand what the heck was Orochimaru doing that for.

But no matter what Sasori had done to make Orochimaru stop attacking Sakura again, the pinkette always tried to barge into the battle and charged towards Orochimaru aimlessly. Her mind was completely lost with the amount of anger and hatred she held in her heart. Sakura had never hankered to kill someone so badly but now it clearly shows how much she wanted to do so now.

"I won't allow you to make Sasori join Akatsuki!" Sakura cried out, finally in full rage. She knew Sasori had warned her from using any moves that required chakra, but she really wanted to use her full strength to beat up Orochimaru and Sakura knew she might have to break this promise between them any second.

Orochimaru ducked Sasori's shuriken attacked and landed at the edge of the building again, eyes a little wide and creepy for Sakura's taste. And the way he stared at her was just like some psychotic killer finding his or her next prey.

"Who are you, girl?" Orochimaru finally responded to her shouting and threats. "How do you know about our little organization?"

"I will stop you." Sakura yelled at the Sanin, ignoring his questions before turning to Sasori. "And I will stop you from joining them." She cried out, forcing herself not to shed a single tear in front of the two highly ranked ninja.

Sakura didn't like the disdained look she received when she glared threateningly at Orochimaru. However, she didn't know how to react to the confused and worried look Sasori was using to stare back at her.

"Akasuna no Sasori. I have a deal to make with you." Orochimaru observed Sasori who was still gazing at Sakura with that troubled frown. "Join Akatsuki. We have the power and we have the strength. We can reach our goals together-"

"Don't shit with me!" Sakura growled, jumping onto each of the shattered clumps of bricks and scurried towards the tallest side of the building to reach Orochimaru. She then raised her fist up high, aiming directly at Orochimaru to make sure that she wouldn't miss before she yelled out thunderously.

"I'll make you-" Before Sakura could even produce another attack, she slowly fall from the top of the ruins and had already became unconscious. If she couldn't save herself from the fall in time, her head could be pierce right though the sharp glass right beneath her…

A flash of red suddenly bolted from the broken bathroom door and towards the falling kunoichi. Sasori managed to catch Sakura before she had fallen to her death. Evidently, the medic had fainted due to the sudden stress that overwhelmed her and the overuse of her chakra.

"Sakura. Sakura!" The puppeteer shook onto the fragile looking girl that had fainted in his arms. Realizing that there was no point in calling out to her, Sasori slid his arms under her legs and back and lift her up from the ground.

"Where do you think you're going?" Orochimaru slyly said, walking steadily towards the two. Sasori carefully clung onto Sakura, slightly crouching in his position.

"I got a score to settle with you." Sasori sneered, grasping a little harder onto Sakura's attire as her pink locks brushed against his cheeks, tickling him. "However, this has got nothing to do with her. I don't want her to get involve."

Orochimaru halted in his movement as he glanced at the pinkette who was in Sasori's arm. He didn't really care whether if the girl had fainted or was dead, the Akatsuki member was just still slightly interested in how she actually knew him, since his name shouldn't be so popular in a town like this.

Unless she's a Shinobi. He licked his lips patiently before giving a small smirk. Of course… With that strength she has, she must have been very well trained. If that Tsunade hadn't been a drunkard and a gambler all day every since Dan and her brother died, I would have thought that this girl was coached by that slug-princess.

However, the thing that truly shocked him was not just about her knowing his name, but when she also knew about this little organization called Akatsuki when Orochimaru was very certain that he never mentioned the name before. The organization had not made its way to fame yet since the amount of members that that had at the current moment was so little and they were trying to recruit strong and qualified Shinobi. Sasori was one of the people that the Leader wanted to recruit and apparently, this redhead could be his future partner if he were to join.

This girl could have been a spy or some sort, Orochimaru didn't care. But he had to keep that girl's face in mind in case something were to happen that might harm the group and when it was then needed to report it to the leader.

"I'll wait for you then." Orochimaru narrowed his eyes, watching Sasori cautiously. "However if I realized that you had escaped and run away from here, I'll hunt you down and kill that girl." His lips twitched, liking how Sasori had flinched when he finished his sentence.

The short silence between them made Sasori realized he was finally granted to go safely without a fight. Walking backwards slowly, he swiftly turned and hopped down the building, landing softly on the ground. After making sure that Sakura was still alright, he glanced back at the premises for the last time.

The man that was after him was already gone. There left were just a few curious tenants looking around the wreckage in disbelief and also the housekeeper, who was standing onto nothing but rubbles, screaming in agony for the devastation caused to her inn.

0o0

A soft scraping sound was heard and Sakura could feel a shadow blocking out the lights above her. She slowly pried open her emerald eyes to find the redhead tugging the blanket just for her. She blinked once more to make sure she wasn't dreaming about the kind puppeteer doing such things for her.

"S-Sasori…" She mumbled wearily, staring at the Sand-nin who was no more than five centimeters from her face.

His movement halted immediately as he slowly diverted his attention to the pinkette who was staring exhaustedly at him. Without further do, he quickly scurried back on the chair silently and scuffed the wooden stool against the floor, acting like nothing had happened.

"W-Where am I?" Sakura rubbed her eyes tiredly before blinking them rapidly, trying to accommodate to the bright lights in the room. When she took in a deep breathe, she was immediately wide-awake. Sakura was familiarized with this type of medicine smell for 3 years already.

"The hospital." Sasori drawled, crossing his arms. "Due to over-fatigue."

Sakura positioned herself better on the bed as she turned to stare at Sasori who handed her a key.

"Here's the key to the room I rented at the west of the town nearest to the gate." He placed it onto the side of the bed before Sakura could reach out to take it. "Our room is the one that is closest to the stairs."

"What happened to the one we're staying in previously?" Sakura gasped, fiddling with the cool metal in her hand.

"Damage. Very badly." He snorted, looking away from a couple that was in the same ward as them. "If you didn't have amnesia, you should be pretty sure what had happened."

Sakura averted her gaze away from the stern-looking man beside her.

The silence between them was unbearable but Sakura wasn't bothered to break it just like any other time she was travelling with him. The rosette was tired, and she had no idea what to talk to the redhead either.

Sensing her discomfort, Sasori stood up abruptly and shocked Sakura as she jumped up a little from her position. Without a word spoken, he turned and was about to leave when something had caught his wrist, preventing him from leaving.

"Sasori." Sakura looked down, hand grasping onto his wrist as he stared impatiently at the girl. She bit her lips for a while before daring herself to look at his lazy chocolate-colored eyes.

"Where are you going?" She asked.

Sasori just stared at her, making no emotion or movement that showed Sakura he would reply her. Sakura's not going to deny her feelings right now but she's indeed truly worried for Sasori from the bottom of her heart.

After a minute of silence, Sasori finally replied unwillingly. "That's none of your business." He said blandly.

"Yes it is!" Sakura yelled, earning a few disapproving glances from the patients and the visitors in the same ward as her. Sasori raised his eyebrow, ignoring the glares that were directed from them to him as well.

Sakura lowered her head as she shifted on her bed, causing a loud creaking sound. "Please don't go anywhere." She uttered softly.

"What is wrong with you?" Sasori questioned, slowly sitting back onto the stool again. Sakura immediately released her grip, knowing that Sasori was extremely uncomfortable with it even though he didn't mention about his uneasiness.

"You're acting reckless previously and I haven't even talk to you about it." He gave a pause, looking at Sakura wearily. "You seemed to know him, yet he was obviously unaware about your existence. What on earth happened between you and him?" Sasori asked, his tone trying to sound uncaring and bored.

"It's complicated." Sakura admitted sourly.

Sasori sighed inwardly, knowing that it would be pointless to force his companion to spit out anything. Soon, it was back to that awkward silence again. The redhead obviously didn't like how Sakura was acting so impassive and dejected right now, he preferred her more bubbly and cheerful personality.

"I won't be joining Akatsuki, or whatever they called their organization." He gave a slight halt and glanced briefly at the pinkette. "If that's what you are worrying about." He muttered.

Sakura blinked, tearing her gaze from her feet at the end of the bed before staring strangely at Sasori. The medic didn't exactly know how he knew what was worrying her all along since she never mentioned about it. But Sakura tried to remain that stoic expression she learnt from Sasori as she answered quietly.

"You wouldn't?" She tilted her head to one side.

He shook his head, slightly turning his head to the other side of the room, avoiding making any eye contact with Sakura.

"I don't see why is there a need for me to join them when I'm currently enjoying what I am doing now."

"I'm sorry but-" Sakura paused as she raised an innocent eyebrow, staring in confusion at the redhead. "-What is the thing that you enjoyed doing now?" She stretched her neck, trying her best to see Sasori's expression.

"Are you an idiot?" The puppeteer mumbled quietly.

"How would I know what you meant when you are saying things that I don't understand?" Sakura pouted, partially glad that Sasori said he wouldn't join the Akatsuki.

"I enjoyed travelling with you and I don't intend to go anywhere or do anything other than travelling with you. Get it?"

Sakura blinked.

He ruffled his crimson red hair and stared awkwardly at her feet beneath the bed sheets.

"But if you want to break the travelling deal between us, you can do it anytime you want. Even if you do, I'll still keep my promise and wouldn't join Akatsuki."

There were some words that were trapped in Sakura's throat yet she was unable to say them out. She didn't know how to react to the sudden response given by Sasori.

"So Miss Sakura have woken up." A nurse walked into the ward after noticing the pinkette staring back at her. The nurse exited and appeared shortly once again, one hand holding onto a chart while the other hand holding onto a familiar equipment that Sakura always see in the hospital back in Konoha.

"Excuse me. Please allow me to check her blood pressure." The nurse inquired politely at the redhead.

"I'll go get some fresh air." He stated and stood up from his stool, moving away while the nurse approached Sakura like what she wanted.

"Will you come back?" Sakura asked worriedly, grabbing onto the bed sheets tightly till her knuckles turned white, not exactly liking the idea about getting separated from the Sand-nin.

"Yes." He gave a curt nod without looking back and trudged out of the room in a second.

The medic just quietly let the nurse take her blood pressure as the ward fell back into silence again.

After a few minutes, the nurse had ensured that Sakura's blood pressure was perfectly fine. She took her equipment and prepared to leave the room. "I'll take your blood pressure two hours later. If everything is alright, you can leave." The caregiver assured her before leaving the ward for Sakura to rest.

0o0

Sasori walked down the crowded street, ignoring the villagers that bumped into him or trying to sell him the food or products from their store.

In order to get Sakura back to the hospital safely, he already agreed with Orochimaru that he would get back to him or both of them would get hunted down and things wouldn't turned out as nicely as everyone wished to be.

At first, Sasori was a little pissed off for the need to search for the snake man since the puppeteer was actually unwilling to do so, but it didn't take him long enough to find out where he was when Orochimaru had purposely exposed his chakra signature in the woods to let Sasori locate him easily, which the Sand-nin was slightly grateful for.

"So, have you decided?" Orochimaru licked his dry purple lips with his long tongue, eyeing Sasori with a certain respect. The leader had ordered him to find that missing puppeteer who had escaped from the Wind village to be his partner, so this redhead should have done something to catch the leader's attention. Although it was a little easy following him around since there was this obvious colour of pink sticking around with him.

"Yes. But I'm positive that you would not like my answer." Sasori spoke with his deadpanned expression, staring ahead at the Sanin who was leaning against a tree in the huge clearing, which was coincidentally perfect for it to be a battle scene.

"I don't like using the forceful way, but since you insisted." The Akatsuki member stood up straight and slowly stretched out both of his arm, aiming at the puppeteer. In an instant, a dozen of snakes appeared under his cloak and attacked the Sand-nin in a matter of seconds.

0o0

"Is it here?" She tapped onto the door softly, before knocking it even louder. There wasn't any sound or movement in the room. She guessed Sasori hadn't come back from the get-some-fresh-air adventure like he had promised that he would come back after the nurse had checked up on her, but after waiting for another hour after she was released form the hospital, the medic gave up and came to the inn on her own after finding some food to eat.

Thinking that she had to stay outside until the redhead came back, she recalled that Sasori had left the key for her so she could come back whenever she wanted. She fished out the key from her back pocket and slotted the door key in successfully.

Turning the doorknob slowly, Sakura peeked into the dark room, feeling slightly relieved that Sasori had chosen two single beds for today's stay so she didn't have to snatch for the blanket again.

After looking around to observe the room carefully, making sure that nothing was amiss and the inn was safe to stay, she slowly trudged in and towards the single bed nearest to the door and slumped heavily onto the soft and creaky mattress.

The medic untied both of her kunai and first aid pouch and placed it nicely on the bedside table, finally letting all her weariness out and lay down on the bed tiredly.

She wasn't going to find any more excuses to lie to herself about not able to attack the Sannin when she wished she could. She knew that her strength and power hadn't reached the potential to do such a thing.

"If I am stronger. I could have killed Orochimaru at that point of time when I had the chance." Sakura grabbed onto the bed sheets till she could almost hear the ripping sound.

"This isn't working." Sakura mumbled. "I don't think I can stop Sasori from joining Akatsuki and change this stupid future."

'Why do you think so? Didn't he said he likes travelling with you?' The voice in her inner mind spoke. Ever since this old man had started invading her thoughts, her inner self that always disturbed her musing when she was just a twelve years old girl had stopped appearing.

"Yes but people changed their mind often." She sighed inwardly, her bright emerald eyes glimmering in the dim-lit room. "Furthermore, why would he want to travel with a weak girl who fainted so easily in such a chaotic situation and could not even help to do a single thing?" The horrible and familiar feeling for being useless came back to her again.

'Why must you always have to discourage yourself like that? Everyone has his or her weak side. Even Sasori does.'

"I'm not trying to dishearten myself." Sakura mumbled, turning to let the side of her stomach to lie on the bed. She rested her chin on one of the pillow and gave a soft yawn. "I actually thought I could catch up with Sasuke or at least Naruto. But now, I doubt I can even-" Sakura shook her head and stuffed her head into the soft cushion.

'I'm pretty sure Sasori doesn't felt that way.'

"I'm pretty sure that you are right." Sakura muffled sarcastically into the pillow.

The old man became silence once Sakura had spoke out the seven words so icily. He would usually demand Sakura to stop depressing herself, but he seemed to understand how miserable she felt when she was unable to do anything to help Sasori. Just like the Forest of Death incident where she was only helplessly screaming and yelling out for Naruto and Sasuke's name.

Sakura raised her head and turned again, letting her back resting on the bed as she stared at the ceiling in daze once again.

Perhaps Sasori was right. At that moment when he was dying in between of his parent's puppet, he claimed that emotions are useless and only makes Shinobi weak. And before he died, all she did was screaming at him about the importance of life and family when obviously he knew how important it is.

Sakura felt horrible. She had never truly been able to put herself in Sasori's shoe since no one that was as close as her parents had died, or having to suffer that loneliness since she always had so many friends behind her back. Now when she recalled herself punching him and yelling at him about feelings, family and life, she realized how stupid she was.

It was true… those words that left Sasori's mouth after Sakura had rebuked him on that day they battled 16 years later.

Emotions were things that make ninja so vulnerable and weak. If Sakura weren't so engulfed in her emotions, there would be the chance that she was able to beat Orochimaru.

Sakura violently kicked the blanket as it slowly covered her entire body after a few attempts. She fluffed up her pillow before lying comfortably on it, facing the bed that was beside hers, still as tidied like before.

There was absolutely no point in thinking all about this anyway since there wasn't anything she could do now…

0o0

"Shit." The redhead cursed, accidentally stumbling onto one of the roots on the soft ground as he fell right on his face, pathetically and weak in his opinion.

He gave a loud grunt, silently whimpering when more blood flow out through the small gaps in between his fingers where he had tried to cover his wound at the abdomen area. Sasori slowly pushed himself off the ground using his other arm and started off with his knees next before brisk walking back to the town not far ahead. As he attempted to ignore the amount of blood that had soaked his shirt and stained his hand, he recalled that the blade that had caused him the serious injury was already abandoned at the river a few meters away from where he was now.

The battle between him and the Sanin didn't go like what he wanted, and he was already expecting that situation to happen. With that sword plunging right through his stomach, he had no choice but to escape from the battle, although it might bruise his ego to the furthest extend where he couldn't accept at all. Sasori hated running away, but he knew if he continued to be stubborn and stayed there, his life would have ended sooner that he blinked.

Luckily, he still managed to retrieve several of his prized puppets back; examples like Hiruko and his current favorite one, the third Kazekage. He had spent almost half a year to complete the third Kazekage and turned him successfully into a human puppet. And he was quite unwilling to have to show his prized collection to that sickening Orochimaru just like that.

No. He didn't even have the choice to choose if he wanted to fight with the Kazekage puppet at all; he was forced to reveal his best puppet actually.

Orochimaru had sent out the first and the second Kazekage using the forbidden jutsu that Sasori heard the first Hokage had created.

The Impure World Resurrection technique.

Orochimaru had two of his comrades that seemed to have a crazy Kekkei Genkai or something by his side too. They had the ability to change into different forms when a sort of weird looking tattoo overwhelmed the person. Not that Sasori was interested in what the hell the technique or jutsu was; he was actually stunned to see that Orochimaru used his partners to successfully carry out the Impure World Resurrection technique.

And to think that Sasori had to be his accomplice when he joined Akatsuki like what Orochimaru had boasted and claimed about, the redhead's life could possibly end just like that two friends of the Sanin who fought till the end for him, yet they were used just like that.

There's no way Sasori would be associating with him in any manner when he had treated his collaborators like that.

After Orochimaru sent out the two Kazekage using the corpse of his comrades, Sasori managed to defeat and seal the second Kazekage successfully. However when he was done, the puppeteer had almost no more chakra left to attack both Orochimaru and the first Kazekage. Furthermore, with the grave injury he suffered when the first Kazekage plunged the sword into him, escaping was the only choice left.

"That bastard." Sasori muttered, slowing down his pace as he started panting heavily. He stood silently and tried to sense if Orochimaru was still following him. After a few minutes of making sure that the Akatsuki member wasn't after him anymore, he slowly sat on the dry ground and leaned against a tall tree that was fortunately nearby that spot where he had halted in the woods.

"Damn it." Sasori licked his dry lips tiredly, taking in a deep breath afterwards. He's going to pass out anytime soon, and the redhead wasn't too sure if he would be even able to wake up the next morning due to the amount of blood he might lose during the number of hours left until sunrise.

The Sand-nin smirked, trying to picture Sakura's reaction if she were to find out that he was dead or thinking that he had betrayed her and went to the Akatsuki. Both of her response shown should be rather interesting for him to see…

Ah… Why was he even wasting his last moments thinking about that pinkette? He inwardly shook his head, too tired to even ponder about it. Sasori wasn't too sure what he was exactly feeling right now since his mind was rather blank and foggy, but the Sand-nin was rather glad he was able to tell Sakura that he had always liked travelling with her.

But then, everything's going to end here, just like that. Nothing in his life would last forever; Not his parents, not his best memories with that pink-haired brat, not his life as well.

Everything was going to end so miserably and cruelly, although he always thought that he would die after he had finished his 300 puppet collections. Guess that not everything would end like what we always wante-

"Akasuna no Sasori." A muffled and deep voice suddenly spoke, yet the redhead still could hear his name called out very clearly

The puppeteer took all the energy he had left to open both of his brown eyes, to only see two feet before his pathetic self. As he forced himself to raise his head, the voice continued to speak.

"Not bad." Sasori could hear the sound of a few pieces of paper shuffling. "You're worth 65 million ryo, and that's a lot of money."

Before the redhead could even respond, he felt himself being forcefully lifted up and slung onto the bulky man's shoulder. He tried to strike back, but he knew his effort would be fruitless, as he didn't even have any chakra left to resist at all.

But in spite of the black dots that started appearing in his vision, Sasori swore that he just saw a familiar red cloud symbol on the mysterious man's black cloak.

Author's Note:

I have planned out the ending for this story quite successfully and I got to say, it would be rather fun to write this one. Although my update timing might become irregular due to the amount of remedial lessons piling up as there is a very important exam taking place in next year and it would require a lot of lessons since I'm somehow (sad but very true) weak in my sciences.

Okay, my Author's note is getting to nowhere, but I would be glad to hear some reviews from you if you don't mind sharing your thoughts in this chapter!