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Chapter 5: Kakashi's Mission and Team Yamato's Fight
Tsunade stared at the man that had walked into her office. "And what are you doing here?" she asked him sternly. "I thought I told you to rest," she added to satisfy her medical mind. The man smiled with his visible eye the way only he knew how to and scratched the back of his head.
"Maaa," he said lazily, "I was just wondering if my team had returned yet," he offered as more of a question than an answer. Tsunade sighed and wished she had a different hiding place for the key. She could use some sake right now. Instead, she just glared at Kakashi until he continued. "I know I shouldn't be up and about yet, since that last mission took a lot out of me," he offered as a treaty although it didn't work. Under Tsunade's glare he continued. "However, this is about my team, so I had to come. Besides, I can't feel Gai's presence anywhere, so I thought it would be safe to come out of hiding."
Tsunade finally answered Kakashi which made her wish for more sake. She reminded herself to have Shizune go get her some more later. "Kakashi, I have yet to hear from your team. As for Gai, I sent his team after your team for backup. They went to speak to Kabuto, but if a conflict ensued, then I don't know what could happen," she admitted with a sigh. "I probably should have tagged along just in case, but there are still things to settle with that last mission. The Kazekage plans to visit before too long," she informed him. "However, there is also so much of this Akatsuki crap to deal with," she said, pointing to a large pile of paperwork. Kakashi nodded and turned to leave. "Where do you think you're going?" he heard behind him. He sighed and turned back around. Tsunade was standing up now, her arms crossed under her bosom. Kakashi forced his perverted mind to look at her face. "If you're well enough to walk here, then you're going to be running some of Shizune's errands while she's out on a mission, understood?" she asked with a very persuading look on her face. Kakashi gulped and nodded quickly.
"Understood, Hokage-sama," he said which caused a small smile to cross Tsunade's features.
"Good," she said throwing him a wad of cash before sitting back down. Kakashi caught the cash and counted it up. At least three thousand ryo was sitting in his hand. He gave Tsunade a quizzical look but before he could ask Tsunade answered. "Go and buy me more sake. As much as possible with that amount," she added. When Kakashi didn't leave for several minutes her anger surfaced. "What are you still doing here?! Get out and get me that sake!" she said forcefully. Kakashi nodded and turned out the door. Geez, he thought, she's really mean. Oh well, at least I get to get out.
Naruto jumped from tree to tree behind Lee, although he could feel a certain kunoichi behind him staring. He continued to jump behind Lee and tried to only focus on the act of not falling. However, he could feel his legs weakening with every jump. They had only been on the move for about an hour or two, so Naruto kept silent about it. The waves of pain he had felt after the first hour were still there, but his mind had mostly shut them out, which he was very grateful for. Any more of that pain and he knew he probably would have collapsed. He figured he would soon anyway. In front of him, it looked like Lee had been bent out of shape and everything had somehow blurred into everything near it. Naruto closed his eyes and shook his head to try and fix whatever had gone wrong. He opened his eyes to see the ground coming up at him. He blinked while his mind put it together. It figured several things out in a short amount of time, although Naruto himself didn't piece it together. His legs were in pain, his vision had blurred, he had shut his eyes and now the ground was coming up at him. A second too late his mind put the pieces together. I'm falling, he thought simply. Well it explains the ground coming up at me, he reasoned. He snapped back to reality when he heard his name.
"Naruto!" Sakura yelled while jumping down to try and catch him before he fell. When Naruto heard that, he realized his body was acting on pure instinct. He had turned over in the air and had grabbed a somewhat stable branch without thinking. He sighed in relief with a shaky breath. Sakura landed on a nearby branch that was completely stable and instantly found herself mad. Her eye twitched and her lip curled back a little. Naruto looked over and wished he hadn't. "Naruto," Sakura said in a forced voice, "what did I tell you?" she asked him. By now, the rest of the squad had gathered around the two so they could make sure that nobody had been injured.
"Sakura-chan, calm down," he said shakily. He could feel the branch he was hanging onto bend and he could tell it would snap soon. He swung around, jumped, and landed on a sturdy branch near Lee and Yamato. He hoped that if worse came to worse they would be willing to help him. Yamato sighed loudly and announced that the group would take a break. During which, he would decide who would carry Sasuke next while Sakura took care of her patients. Naruto let out a sigh of relief. Then he heard that Sakura would be treating him, which wasn't something he wanted to hear. "Oh no," he muttered to himself while Sakura approached him.
The white haired jounin sighed. I could go buy the latest Icha Icha Paradise book with all of this money…but then Godaime-sama would get angry, he thought and envisioned what would happen if he were to anger her. I think I'll go buy her the sake, he decided. But… where should I buy it? he asked himself. He sighed again and shook his head. This is why men shouldn't do chores.
Kakashi walked past several stores before he decided it was a wild goose chase. If he got the wrong kind, he could see himself getting pummeled by Tsunade. If he took too long he could see the same thing happening. He stepped into a store that looked like it would sell sake. He lazily walked up to the counter and asked, "Maaa, do you sell sake to a Shizune?" The storeowner shook his head and Kakashi sighed. Then he turned and left. He repeated the routine several times before he saw something he wasn't expecting. He stared at the person for a few minutes before deciding to finish his task. He sighed. I guess I'll talk to him later, he looks a little busy.
Naruto still felt pain whenever he touched the new bump on his head, even though Sakura was healing him. "Sakura-chan, did you really need to hit me that hard?" he asked rubbing the bump.
Sakura cut off the green chakra. "Yes," she said plainly. "Stay here while I go give Sasuke his medicine. Don't move. You still aren't healed," she said sternly. Naruto sighed and nodded. As soon as Sakura was out of sight he stood up and looked around. He had no reason to leave, but he had a bad feeling. He couldn't pinpoint what it was, but he knew that something bad was about to happen. He heard a growling noise and jumped. He readied a kunai but then realized it was his own stomach. He laughed nervously and put the kunai away. "I'm just a little jumpy," he said trying to calm himself down. He felt Sakura coming, so he lay back down in what resembled his original position. Sakura was mumbling to herself and adjusting her gloves. Naruto blinked and looked up at her before she sat down and started healing him again. She looked down at him with a face that made Naruto scared for his wellbeing.
"Good news," she muttered. "You get to ride on Lee's back and Sasuke is going to continue riding on Yamato's," she told him. Naruto sat up quickly from surprise.
"What? But I'm fine, I was just a little tired!" he protested. However, Sakura forced him back down and continued healing him.
"Doesn't matter," she said after a few minutes. "What does matter is that if you fall from that height and add those injuries to the ones you already have, you could very well die from internal injuries or you could bleed to death," she added and Naruto sighed. "If I only knew how it is that you get these injuries then it wouldn't be as bad. I could treat whatever it is that's doing this," she muttered to herself. Naruto stayed silent. He had decided to not tell any of his teammates about his problem and he had made Neji promise not to either. He only planned to tell Tsunade and that was it.
Sakura announced that she was halfway done. "For some reason, the injuries are worse this time around than before," she concluded. Naruto nodded although his mind was on the ominous feeling he had. He couldn't shake the feeling that was in the pit of his stomach and no, that wasn't hunger.
After a few more minutes his suspicions were confirmed. He heard a yell—it sounded like it had come from Tenten—and then the distinct clang of metal on metal. He stared at Sakura with eyes that begged her to let him go fight. They were in a location somewhat separated from the rest of the squad so he wasn't sure what had happened, but he sure wasn't going to sit back while everyone else fought. Sakura sighed after a minute of contemplating. "Fine," she finally submitted to those eyes. She took her hands off of his torso and let him go fight. She sighed, stood up, adjusted her gloves, and ran to the battlegrounds.
Sakura stared at the fight in front of her. Already, at least a dozen kunai and other objects were thrown around and Tenten already had another scroll opened. As far as she could tell, only Orochimaru and Kabuto had shown up to retrieve Sasuke. However, it was hard seeing as Naruto had created at least several dozen clones to aid in the fight. She could see Lee dashing around madly getting in kicks and punches. Yamato was busy creating a small cage for Sasuke again. During the break he had let Sasuke out of the wooden cage he had been traveling in, which he now realized was not a good idea. Sakura looked back at the fight to see that only a few Naruto clones were remaining and that Neji had taken his normal fighting stance. For right now, he was battling with Kabuto. Neji had gotten a few hits in so he had managed to shut off some chakra points, although not many. Kabuto was still attacking the Hyuuga with ferocity and Sakura decided to help. Who better to fight a medical nin than a medical nin? Naruto, Tenten, Sai, and Lee were all busy fending off Orochimaru. Sakura concluded that she could easily take care of Kabuto with the help of Neji and then they could both help assist the rest of their team in keeping Orochimaru busy. Sakura ran up to where Neji was and jumped up. She readied her fist to attack but Kabuto saw it coming and jumped out of the way. However, Neji realized what was going to happen so he had jumped to the exact place he knew Kabuto would jump to. "Hakke Rokujuuyonshou!" he yelled, instantly launching into his attack on Kabuto's chakra points. After the vicious attack, Sakura took the chance to land a direct punch on Kabuto. It sent him flying, but as soon as she turned to help distract Orochimaru, she heard him laugh, which made him sound slightly like a maniac. Neji turned and glared at him with his Byakugan.
Meanwhile, Orochimaru was easily taking care of the clones, weapons, ink attacks, and punches that were thrown his way. He laughed lightly at the Konoha ninja's futile attempts to keep him at bay. Naruto created even more clones, although it caused more pain than usual when he forced chakra through his body. He gritted his teeth and made a dozen more clones appear. Tenten continued to throw more and more weapons at Orochimaru. Lee was exhausted, so he took his leg weights off to give him more speed. "Sougu Tensasai!" Tenten managed to yell. However, yet again she found that the jutsu had little to no effect on her opponent. Nearly all of the weapons she had used now found themselves stuck in trees or in the ground. She quickly summoned a pole to fight with. Naruto created more clones than he had before, which of course caused him more pain. He found himself down on his knees amongst a crowd of his clones. He managed to stand back up and help in the fight. He slowly realized that using chakra was causing him more pain. It made sense, of course. Just not at the moment to Naruto. So, he continued to use chakra. He had a clone help him to create a Rasengan which he promptly tried to shove at Orochimaru. Orochimaru saw the attack coming and had already used the Kawarimi jutsu to replace his body with a log. As soon as the Rasengan hit the log, Naruto realized what had happened. He tried to turn his body so that he could stop the Rasengan and fight more, but when he did move he saw too late that Orochimaru had already thrown a kunai at him. Tenten noticed and threw a kunai to deflect it, but her kunai was traveling too fast so it just flew by while Orochimaru's hit Naruto's right shoulder. When Orochimaru had first thrown the kunai, he had been distracted so Lee appeared in front of him near the ground. With a quick kick skyward, Orochimaru found a ninja shoe in his face. He had not been expecting it, so it hit him exactly where Lee had planned it and Orochimaru landed several meters away from the small group.
Naruto ripped the kunai from his shoulder after the Rasengan had dissipated. He watched for a moment as the small wound first started to heal itself and then grow bigger; it almost looked like the tissue surrounding the wound was in a war with itself. Naruto shook his head and turned his attention back to the fight.
Neji stared at his opponent and waited to see what would happen next. Sakura had had enough of waiting, she wanted to fight. She concentrated her chakra to her hands and ran up to Kabuto. As soon as she reached him she began to pummel him with punches. Neji watched with surprise. It looked like Sakura was barely doing any damage. Kabuto laughed lightly at Sakura's attempt to incapacitate him. "That will never work," he said. "I had already begun the healing process before you even ran at me, before the Hyuuga attempted to shut off my chakra points!" he added. "That's why Orochimaru-sama likes me so much, for this power of mine." He concentrated chakra to his own hand.
"Sakura! Get out of the way," Neji warned her. She nodded and jumped back several feet just before Kabuto's hand cut through the air where she had been a minute ago. She could feel the chakra was used for cutting and not healing. She glanced over at the other fight to see that more Narutos had appeared. She returned her gaze to her opponent, who was currently busy fighting Neji again. She could tell that Neji could easily hold his ground, but she wasn't sure if it was enough to beat Kabuto. The kunoichi glanced back over at Naruto's fight. It was hard to decide whether to go help Naruto and the rest fight Orochimaru or stay where she was and help Neji fight Kabuto, but she decided to stay and fight with Neji. She joined the fight again by throwing punches and kicks at Kabuto whenever she saw an opening. She felt her punches and kicks connect most of the time, and she wasn't too surprised when Kabuto was not able to heal most of his injuries quick enough. Once, while both had jumped back from a quick swipe from Kabuto, Neji informed her that Kabuto's chakra was slowly diminishing and would be gone in a little while. Sakura nodded and they both continued their assault on the Sound nin.
Naruto's clones and Sai's ink animals attacked Orochimaru as a distraction for Tenten and Lee, who apparently had come up with a plan. Orochimaru frowned while the clones came at him. "This is getting boring," he said quickly dispatching any and all clones that attacked him. Tenten readied the giant scroll on her back and waited for her moment to strike. She watched as the green blur appeared in front of Orochimaru and placed a kick square in his chest. Before he could get far, though, Lee had kicked him again near Tenten. Tenten took the opportunity and used the same technique again. The summoned weapons fell down with perfect accuracy. Orochimaru smirked and used the Kawarimi jutsu to avoid the falling shuriken, kunai, and other assorted weapons. The weapons cut deeply into the Naruto that Orochimaru had switched his own body with and impaled several clones of Naruto, who disappeared in a puff of smoke. The Naruto that Orochimaru had used also disappeared to his teammates' relief. Naruto slowly realized that his body was screaming in pain, but he didn't pay attention to it, he was too busy trying to think of a strategy that didn't involve using the Kyuubi's chakra to beat Orochimaru. Unfortunately his mind couldn't come up with a good plan in the time allowed. So, being his usual self, he resolved to beat the crap out of Orochimaru. It had worked several times before, so he didn't see a problem with it.
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" he yelled one of the more infamous of his techniques. It caused pain in his entire body, but he managed to create a dozen or so clones. Tenten had produced another large pole that she was trying to beat Orochimaru with. Lee and Sai were also busy trying to hit Orochimaru again. Some attacks landed, but not enough to truly make a difference. Naruto was using more and more chakra to create shadow clones to attack the snake man. When he used chakra, however, he could feel the strain it put on his body.
Sakura hit Kabuto several more times and he finally reacted negatively to the punches and kicks. Sakura hit him a few more times and Kabuto realized that his chakra was too low. Neji confirmed any suspicions he had. "Sakura, he's out of chakra," he said before she nodded and adjusted her gloves. A smirk crossed her face as she jumped up and prepared to attack. There was a certain gleam in Kabuto's eyes as gravity took a hold of Sakura's body and pulled her back down to the earth. She turned so that she would fall fist first. The effect of falling added to her chakra-enhanced punches could easily take out Kabuto and she knew it. She curled her hand into a fist and fell to the ground.
Naruto felt the ground shake under him as Sakura's punch connected. Neji glared through the dust and dirt that had risen from the impact. He could still see a chakra signature, but he was unsure of whether it was Kabuto's or Sakura's. He continued to stare and eventually recognized the signature. It belonged to neither Sakura nor Kabuto, but rather someone else entirely.
"Geez," a familiar voice said, "we were just returning to Konoha from a mission, but you guys made a racket so Ino said we had to come and check it out," the lazy ninja announced. "Sure, she transferred her mind to a hawk and flew overhead first to make sure it wasn't just a fight with some bandits or something, but apparently you guys really needed our help," he added with a tone of voice that made it sound like he really would rather be doing something else. Of course, he probably would. Neji sighed in relief, but then realized he should be searching for Kabuto. When he finally found him, he realized that Sakura was doing plenty to keep him busy. By the time her fist had connected with the ground, she was already angry so she was taking her anger out on Kabuto, the person who had caused most of it. Most of her punches were connecting, but when Kabuto got a hit in it was aimed at vital points or points he knew would cause serious damage. Sakura, however, knew that they were coming and usually moved out of the way enough to sustain damage, but not enough to incapacitate her.
Orochimaru found himself easily blocking and deflecting every attack thrown at him. Sure, the annoying one that was wearing a green jumpsuit was a bit harder to block, but it didn't stop Orochimaru from doing so. One of the several Narutos yelled with small grunt of pain as the Kusanagi cut through its body a second before it disappeared. Orochimaru was now annoyed at the ninja's feeble attempts, seeing as they kept coming at him. He swung his sword again, taking care of several clones at once. He noticed that the real Naruto had yet to attack him, even though he talked about 'kicking his ass', if Orochimaru remembered correctly. He looked over at the one that had been throwing weapons at him nonstop. She had obviously run out of chakra from summoning the multitude of weapons throughout the battle since she was slumped over with her hands on her knees to keep steady. He looked over at the other one that was wearing a green jumpsuit of sorts. He was obviously tired out, but he continued to fight. Orochimaru smirked lightly. "This is fairly intriguing," he said lightly. He looked back over to Naruto, who surprisingly, had yet to create more shadow clones. Instead, the jinchuuriki was holding his shoulder and glaring at Orochimaru. He faintly remembered seeing a kunai he had thrown pierce the Genin's shoulder before he was saw the bottom of a shoe and was sent several feet away. Orochimaru frowned as he remembered the kick. It hadn't hurt much, but he did not like the blow either way. He looked around and realized that he was no longer near Kabuto or his fight, which was fine with him.
Meanwhile, about a half mile away, Sakura, Neji, and the Ino-Shika-Cho team had managed to deplete Kabuto's chakra and force him into submission. Sakura smirked down at the Sound nin before Neji reported that Naruto, Tenten, and Lee needed help. Sakura nodded and the two left Kabuto in their friends' hands while they jumped off to help the small team fighting Orochimaru. "What does it look like?" Sakura asked Neji while they were running.
"Not too good. Tenten's chakra is gone, Lee is getting exhausted, Sai is in a location that I can't see, and Naruto doesn't look like he can form handsigns or anything," he reported. "However, Orochimaru has used almost no chakra and is easily deflecting and blocking all of Lee's taijutsu attacks."
"Does he have his weights on?" Neji shook his head and Sakura sighed. Finally they arrived on scene to see a startled Tenten staring at them.
"Thank goodness!" the weapon mistress sighed in relief. "Lee's barely able to hold him off even with his weights off, Naruto hasn't made any shadow clones in a while, and I'm all out of chakra," she reported since she had no clue that Neji had already deducted that. Naruto turned around to see Sakura and Neji, only to have a shocked look cross over his face before he turned back around. Lee had landed a few feet in front of him, so he ran up to check on him.
"Ow," Lee mumbled before getting up. "Naruto-kun! My youthfulness alone is not enough to stop this man! You must help!" he said triumphantly. Naruto looked down at his shoulder for a second and shrugged.
"Yosh!" he said, punching his left fist into the air. It exposed his shoulder wound, but Sakura was on the other side of him and Lee paid no attention at all to it. Naruto could almost feel the edges of the small wound burning away and healing itself again, part of which was a painful process. Naruto went at Orochimaru from the front and tried to avoid any and all attacks. However, he found himself with several small cuts and scratches. Wherever a wound was created, he could feel the small war begin, but he didn't pay attention to it. Instead, he continued his small onslaught against Orochimaru. Then, Lee appeared behind Orochimaru and kicked him into the air. Naruto smiled. The plan's working, he thought excitedly. However, Orochimaru spun around and before Lee could react, he had kicked him.
"Oof!" Lee let out as he hit the ground quite a bit away.
"Bushy Brow!" Naruto yelled out. He started to run to where Lee had landed, but he stopped in his tracks when Orochimaru landed in the exact spot he had been in before Lee had kicked him.
"Now," Orochimaru mused, "where were we?" he smirked. Naruto instinctively took a few steps back. Then, Orochimaru stared over him and at Sakura, Neji, and Tenten with no emotion. Only Neji held the man's gaze, the other two found a reason to look away. Tenten looked over in a worried way to her other teammate and Sakura decided to stare at the red swirl on Naruto's back. She traced it with her eyes until Naruto turned to give her a quick foxy grin to let her know that it would be fine. He had been careful to not show her his wound when he did though.
Orochimaru smirked. The fight would be much easier won than the last. He even realized that he wouldn't need to use any snakes to win at this rate. The blonde jinchuuriki turned back around and glared at his only opponent.
Yamato felt bad for leaving the rest of his team behind, but he had no choice. He had said that no matter what get Sasuke away first things first, right? He sighed and rushed through the foliage as fast as he could with the extra weight on his back, which happened to be not so quick. He felt a familiar chakra signature approaching so he stopped for a moment to make sure it wasn't just back at the fight. When he realized it wasn't, he turned and continued to run. That person would have no problem catching up to him with the extra weight.
Yamato stopped again. What was that? he wondered, looking behind him. He could have sworn that Sasuke had just moved, but it was probably just his imagination or a branch. Sakura had assured him that Sasuke should be out for at least another few hours, even if he was fighting the medicine. The dosage, she had said, was high enough to knock Naruto out for at least an hour or two. He remembered clearly that she had also said, "I didn't want to have to travel too far without a rest if that knucklehead wants to go somewhere, he normally doesn't want to stop."
He let the feeling pass and continued to run.
Tsunade rubbed her temples in frustration. Where in the hell is that sake?! she asked her mind. Shizune would have it by now, what in the hell is that jounin pervert doing? She glared evilly at the four empty sake bottles in front of her. If Shizune had been there she would have run out to buy her some sake with her own money. Unfortunately, Shizune was out on a mission and Tsunade had made the mistake of sending Kakashi off on Shizune's chores.
"Maaa," Kakashi muttered not very thoughtfully. He was about to give up searching for the sake since it had gotten late and he was one of the laziest ninja next to Shikamaru. He sighed and walked into a store he didn't recognize. He bargained with himself for several minutes before going in. This will be the last store, he decided as he walked in. "Do you happen to sell a Shizune sake?" he asked the man behind the first counter he saw. The man raised a quick eyebrow.
"And why would you need to know?" he asked Kakashi, who responded with a sigh. "Look, my clients like to keep their information private," he informed Kakashi.
"Well, it's really for Tsunade and I doubt she would like it very much if she doesn't get that sake," he muttered more to himself than the man in front of him.
"Tsunade-san?" Kakashi nodded in answer. "Well never mind then, how much do you need?" Kakashi couldn't believe what he had just heard, but he went along with it regardless. He handed the man the money he had received from Tsunade and told him as much as he could buy with that amount. The man nodded and went back to the cellar to retrieve the amount of sake.
Kakashi sat down and looked around while he waited for the man to return with the sake. His eye caught sight of the newest book of the Icha Icha series. He sighed loudly and pulled out Icha Icha Tactics, which he had yet to finish. He didn't have many breaks except for when he was put on bed rest and even then he was bugged constantly by Gai and, well, that was about it.
For the next few minutes he busied himself with reading and making a few perverted giggles from time to time. "Sir?" the man asked in a strained voice. Kakashi turned around to see the man carrying a crate with about twenty bottles of sake within it. "I got your sake," he explained after he set the crate down with a thud. Kakashi stared at it. I thought Tsunade didn't want my health to suffer from this, he thought while sweatdropping. He picked it up and started to walk out.
"Arigato," he said calmly before leaving. The crate was heavier than he had expected, but it was no problem for Kakashi to carry, even if it was putting a strain on his back. He sighed and realized that he was as far away from the Hokage Tower and he could have gotten without running into Gai, so he turned around and hoped that the green spandex man would come nowhere near Konoha until he had delivered the package. After ten minutes, Kakashi felt an ominous wind blow through the air and he knew what it was.
"Kakashi! My greatest rival!" the green spandex man yelled. Kakashi sighed again and kept walking until Gai had caught up. "What are you doing, rival? I thought Tsunade-sama had told you to rest!"
"Maaa, did you say something?" he asked a few minutes later.
"KAKASHI!! I ADMIRE YOUR HIP-NESS!" Gai yelled, striking a pose with fire burning in his eyes. Kakashi sighed and sweatdropped.
"Gai," he said, drawing the ninja's attention, "I need to go to Tsunade's office, can't we do this some other time?" Kakashi asked and he became slightly embarrassed for his 'rival' when Gai struck yet another pose and gave Kakashi a thumbs-up.
"Wonderful idea, Kakashi!" Gai yelled and fell into step beside Kakashi.
"I didn't even offer for you to walk with me," Kakashi mumbled to himself since Gai was going off on a rant about youthfulness again.
Note: Well guys, I hope you all enjoyed it. HUGE shoutout to AnimeOtaku31821, my beta. I had my first cases of writer's block throughout this chapter. Boy, they really suck. Still, she managed to put up with me and help me through it. She also gave me a few ideas for the next chapter.
Anyway, the fight was the hardest thing to write, and the get my mind off of it, I threw in the little Kakashi parts. Clever, eh? Another cliffie end... sortta. It's in there at least.
Happy late Easter! Well, that's why I'm putting this up early. I was going to put it up Easter, but my computer kind of died a little. Plus, I'm in a happy mood and this is done, so here it is!
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