Hello Everyone:

You may or may not know but the last chapter I posted about Sachiko and Yumi was stolen.

Yes, stolen.

I can't begin to tell you what that feels like to have something you have nurtured and put the effort into just taken from you by simple copy/paste and changing names around.

Right now I don't want to write, I don't want to continue, and all I want to do is take down everything to keep it – once again – to myself.

I want to thank the people who let me know about the plagiarism of this writer and while I am not a huge fan of "Naming and Shaming"…

KENSHINS MATE you took something from me and destroyed it. All of the writers here at work hard and try their best to write what is in their hearts and minds. For you to take THE MOST important scene in my fanfic and simply put the names of your fanfic in their stead is disgusting.

Perhaps it's my anger and disgust talking right now but it's just shattered something in me.

Thank you everyone for your support.

We'll see how the writing goes…

UPDATE Jan 25, 2011:

I want to thank everyone for their support, reviews, PM's, everything. The shock of this incident really did shake me and make me question a lot of things but, dear readers; you were right in so many things.

If I stop – they win. Simple as that.

The more I thought about that the more I realized that yes, it wouldn't be fair to those who have stood next to me since the beginning, but it also wouldn't be fair to Sachiko and Yumi. They've worked hard in their own ways, there will still be a struggle, but can't be simply left where they are.

I know a lot of people didn't see the original chapter but when I received a PM about needing to read their chapter and why at first I thought it wasn't anything serious. So I went to where the PM told me to (a big thank you to you btw) and…I was just shocked. It was reading my own chapter with the characters of Mai HiME with a few edits to make it coincide with that anime's universe. I then read the reviews, it wasn't just the person who PM'ed me that saw the similarities, and when I checked to see what kinds of stories this person read – mine was there.

I haven't seen that anime yet (I know bad me) so I pretty much read the fanfiction to anime/manga I know. I never would have looked at this authors story in a million years. I took the only actions I could immediately do – I PM'd the author (still waiting on a reply), reported the abuse to FanFiction . net with links and screenshots, and then went on to be consoled by my Wife.

But to answer everyone's questions about a few things:

KENSHINS MATE (now TextGirl)'s story Terms of Endearment took down the chapter that was mine but then changed his/her name and posted the chapter back up. I went to read chapter 26 to see if it was still mine and I can say that short of it being two women and it being a love scene that is the only similarities we have now. Granted there are a few other writing techniques that are similar to how I write but it was nothing compared to the original chapter 26 I read.

My thoughts on this is that if the chapter truly was the authors they wouldn't have taken it down, changed their name, or put up the handy 'second draft' they had available. An author stands by their work, just as any other craftsman, and this person didn't stand by what they wrote. I also understand that everyone who writes has similarities, I accept this, but those points should stay at that – points – not an entire work.

The Author's Notes are rather…intense…about this situation and I apologize for the words said there against the community of FanFiction . net as well as those who have supported me.

When I saw that it only reinforced what I have to do – the show must go on.

*bows to everyone* Thank you for everything; I will do my best to not let you down!