Chapter 11: The Coming Dusk
When Kurenai showed up in her team's training grounds with some slips of paper, she didn't miss the look on her student's faces. The look of determination was unmistakable, even in the ever-enigmatic Shino. The team took the slips of paper and stored them in their pouches thanking her. Kurenai couldn't help but fear for her team's fate. They may be very strong, but she knew that there was always someone stronger. She just hoped they'd survive. Unbeknownst to her, Naruto was having the same thoughts. He wasn't afraid for himself, he knew he could take on any gennin and just about any chuunin level opponent, but he feared for Hinata. Hinata wasn't afraid though. The time she had spent with Naruto had helped her improve her self-esteem and skills by leaps and bounds. She was confident and it showed. She wasn't overestimating herself though. Confidence is good, but brashness can get you killed. Shino... was Shino. No matter the circumstances he never showed more emotions than necessary, well when he was with anyone apart from his friends that is. With them he let some emotions show, even though he was having a hard time with them still.
Later that day, team 8 was wandering through the village, looking for something to do. In the end Naruto came across Konohamaru and his friends. Hinata and Shino knew them as well, since Naruto brought them over once during training. He had promised to teach them something so they went to the team's training grounds for some fun. Moegi instantly took to Hinata, seeing as Hinata was not only a beautiful kunoichi, but a very effective one as well. Udon's logic drew him towards Shino, but you could never tell with him. Konohamaru as always remained a fan of Naruto.
The Konohamaru Corps have been wandering Konoha in search of something to do, as they had already skipped the Academy. Coming across Naruto and his team they challenged them to a game of ninja, which Team 8 agreed happily to. Naruto chased down Konohamaru, making sure he wasn't moving too fast, otherwise the game would be meaningless, when he heard him cry in pain. Speeding up he turned the corner and saw Konohamaru held by a boy Naruto's age dressed in a black jumpsuit... with cat ears? And wearing make-up? Naruto shook the doubts of said person's masculinity and charged to save his friend. Less than a second later, he held the black dressed kid's wrist with his right hand ready to snap it, while his left hand had grabbed his neck and lifted him off the ground.
"Drop the kid. Now. Or I'll snap your wrist like twig. Got it teme?"
The make-up wearing boy let the child drop and jumped back. Naruto looked at Konohamaru to make sure he was ok. When he turned back, the other guy had taken that mummy thing off his back and placed it on the ground. He spoke arrogantly.
"Oh yeah? You might have surprised me there tree-hugger but we Suna shinobi aren't weak! I'll show you!"
Naruto looked bored, while the other guys apparent sister, yelled at the guy for revealing his secret weapon. Whatever it was. Naruto sped up again, this time taking out a kunai in each hand and went behind the arrogant boy, kunai placed on the side of the temple.
"I don't know what your secret weapon is, but if I stab my kunai in your temple it won't matter cat-boy. Besides the kid you held? He's the Hokage's grandson. Want to start a new Shinobi war baka? Or do you care more about stealing your sister's make-up?"
Said boy seemed to calm down a bit and let go of his bandaged item. Naruto made sure he had no way of getting it back before leaping over him and landing in front of the duo, facing them.
"Now since you are Suna shinobi, I expect to see your passes and reason of visit, even though I'm betting you're here for the Chuunin exams."
The black-dressed guy's sister, a girl with short blond hair and fan on her back took out her pass and showed it to Naruto. Behind Naruto landed the rest of his team, seemingly calm but if one could see, they were in a stance they could easily draw their weapons. Naruto looked at the pass before speaking again.
"Oi make-up boy, what about you? I'd like to see your pass too. Yours and your rather pissed off friend's. Yeah about you on the tree."
A red-headed boy shunshin'ed down from the tree and showed the pass, while the other one was claiming it was war-paint and not make-up. Naruto poked fun at the guy again.
"So you're going to war during the Chuunin Exams are you?" At this Naruto noticed the twitch of the team but chose not to speak about it. "You should learn manners though, like your sister and brother. Though I would honestly prefer your sister's manners. Don't want you getting that bloodthirsty now do we."
Meanwhile, inside Naruto's mind, Kyubi recognized the power of the Ichibi no Shukaku and warned Naruto of him. He also said Shukaku seemed ready to break out. As the team turned to leave, the red-haired, now known as Gaara, turned to Naruto and spoke in an extremely creepy monotone voice.
"What is your name Konoha shinobi?"
"I am Uzumaki Naruto. For now at least. We'll see each other again in the Chuunin Exams... brother tanuki." The last part whispered so low that only someone with very highly attuned senses would pick up. Gaara's eyes widened a fraction before glaring at Naruto and unleashing his entire KI. Naruto on the other hand looked... bored and unleashed his own.
Gaara's eyes widened and he grasped his head. "Next time I see you, you will die... fox." Immidiately the Suna team left with a quick shunshin.
Naruto looked at his team and told them to meet him at their training ground. When they left, Naruto went to the Hokage's office, jumping in from the window.
"Hokage-sama... there is something we must discuss. Secure this room please."
Sarutobi knew that if Naruto called him Hokage something was bad. Quickly he secured the room.
"Jiji... the team from Suna... they have a jinchuuriki. Worse... his seal doesn't seem to be holding up very well. Me and Kyubi could help but we'll need help subduing him long enough. But that's not the most frightening thing. The suna team reacted when I accused them of preparing for a war. It was faint but I saw and smelled it."
"Naruto-kun, is it not possible that you misread the signs?"
"No sir. I know what I smell and I smelled fear. I'm afraid it will happen sometime during the Chuunin exams... possibly in the last part."
"I see. I will ask Jiraiya-kun to come here if that's ok with you?"
"Oh whoop-de-doo I'll get to see my long lost godfather. Yeah bring him here, I wanna ask him exactly why he left me here to rot, the asshole. Anyway there's something else. You know I've spent a lot of time with seals right? Well I made a breakthrough of sorts and completed a few of my father's arrays. Or well more than a few but that's beside the point. The point is I have already used my seals and arrays on some things, improving them beyond recognition. Mostly my team's weapons. Ji-san, I offer the same to you. Let me use my father's and mine knowledge to help you. Suna won't come along, they'll have allies. It quite possible that we'll have trouble and you'll have to fight. I don't want anyone killing my ji-san. Please let me help as little as I can."
"Naruto-kun my armor's already improved and has served me for a long time."
"Yeah but noone other than me has the knowledge of seals that I do. Please jiji, trust me on this. If you want you can come see what I've made for everyone and then decide."
"Very well Naruto-kun, very well, I'll come. But keep in mind I've met your dad and Jiraiya."
"Oh I know. And that's exactly the point. Dad would have completed the arrays, no doubt about that. But he never got the time for it. I completed them in his stead. That's the thing really. They are dad's works, its just that I finished it."
Sandaime sighed before going with Naruto to Team 8's training grounds. The kid may be a genius but he was still a long way from his father. Or so the Third believed. Needless to say, his beliefs shattered violently when he saw the arrays Naruto had utilized. Grumpily he accepted Naruto's skills and allowed Naruto to get the old man's armor and work on it. While Naruto left to get the armor to his home and start working on it, the old man explained everything to the team. Everyone seemed apprehencive. For once even Anko and Zabuza didn't seem happy to be killing someone. War is the absolute worst thing that can ever happen.
Naruto took the armor and went to his apartment. After sorting out each and every little piece, he spread them out, made some clones and began his inspection. Finding the seals, he analyzed and copied them to his sealing book. After that he sent a clone to one of the few stores he could buy safely from and told the owner and blacksmith that he'd need his services. Another clone went to the Sandaime to tell him to meet up in said blacksmith's forge. Once there, Naruto came in carrying scrolls with the schematics of both the Hokage's old armor and the new one he had started designing. Getting some warm sake and dango, the three men sat down and initiated a discussion that lasted well into the night on the specs of the new armor. Highest quality steel, chakra conductive fibers, deer skin leather, you ask it you have it. At Naruto's request the forgemaster got some good quality steel and heated it up. Naruto went over it, got a kunai out and smirked. What happened next shocked both men in the forge. Naruto used his kunai to slit the arterie on his left hand from elbow to wrist, whispered "Let's do this Kybi" and let his blood flow into the molten metal.
The forgemaster went to stop him but was himself stopped by the Sandaime. Naruto grit his teeth as his blood flowed into the metal and Kyubi channeled his youkai through said blood. The metal itself then began glowing a blood-red color before heating up even more. Now the metal was a molten white hot but a red overglow from the youkai remained. Naruto's wound sealed itself in seconds and he turned to the Hokage.
"As you know Jiji, Kyubi's not sealed in my gut any more. He's in my blood. Literally. You see blood is the life-giving essense and quite a few more things. Things that give it enough power to contain the strongest of the tailed beasts. Sinse Kyubi is contained in my own blood, I let it flow into the metal, by extension letting Kyubi's power flow into the molten metal. Higurashi-san, I would request a Katana be made from this metal and then to be allowed to test it. Under no circumstances are you to channel your chakra into this metal or even hold it for an extended time. Neither Kyubi nor I have the slightest idea what will happen with Kyubi's youkai. I'll be here every second of the forging to make sure everything's calm. After all I made sure not to channel more than I can handle."
Naruto then spent a few hours explaining everything to the poor blacksmith and calming him down. After everything was explained though, the man couldn't wait to start the forging of the blade. After all, how many smiths could claim to have made weapons empowered by a demon? That is not to say he wasn't carefull or hasty. He knew the dangers, but when Naruto presented them as a challenge and a chance to be remembered he took it.
Naruto and the weaponsmith worked tirelessly over the blade, Naruto took some time to even learn a few things on weaponsmithing. Sure nothing serious but he could tell if a weapon had a serious problem now as well as how to fix some of them. It was an interesting art he surmised, one that required not only strength but also knowledge, patience and an eye for details. It is a pity indeed that the fruits of this art will always hurt someone.
It took a day and a half but the day was finally complete. Naruto wanted to test it but instead chose to seal it in a scroll for now. After all the Chuunin Exams were the very next day, team 8 had to make sure they were ready for it. Naruto had spent a bit of time using his clones to find out about the rest of the teams, well Konoha's teams that is, since he couldn't find the other teams without raising suspicion. He was surprised to find that the other rookie teams would actually attempt to pass the exams, though he wasn't surprised to find out that they had nowhere near the training his team did. For a moment he considered that the jounin senseis were somehow competing with each other through their gennin. That was a foolish thought right?
The team got to the building they'd be examined in quite early, wanting to scout out the place and prepare as much as possible. Climbing up the stairs, team F.E.A.R. ignored the 'chuunin' guarding the door and simply went to the third floor. Once inside the examination room, Shino determined that they would be tested in some sort of written test so Naruto made sure to disperse some Kage Bunshin around the class, some sticking to the ceiling, others disguised in the floor. Shino sent some of his bugs on his teammates making sure he could communicate with them.
Soon the room filled with shinobi. Most were from Konoha, others from the five great shinobi nations and yet others from smaller lands like Kusa. Once the rest of the rookie teams came in, team 8 wasted some time in playful banter. Well most of them as Sasuke and Sakura were still angry at them, each for his own reasons. It came as no surprise to the team that when a genin named Kabuto offered info on other Shinobi Sasuke wanted to learn everything on Naruto. Naruto's stats though did surprise them though.
"Naruto... Ah here he is. Uzumaki Naruto, teammates Hyuga Hinata and Aburame Shino... wow this guy's good. Ninjutsu and genjutsu skills unknown but considering the team's sensei he should be good. High chuunin to low jounin taijutsu, expert in seals, average chakra control but his reserves easily rival any pair of Kage. Mission list 40 D-ranks, 2 C-ranks, 1 B-rank and 1 A-rank. Not to mention his team performed above average in nearly all of them. His team must be real good if they can do this. It says here he posseses abilities noone else can use and a previously unseen summoning contract. He's definitely Chuunin material, maybe even jounin!"
Sasuke was pissed off by the fact that he didn't learn much about Naruto's abilities, apart from the summoning contract that is. Angered he marched to an interested Naruto to acquire it. He was an Uchiha after all. He deserved it much more than this no-name orphan brat.
"Dobe, give me your summoning contract." Naruto simply ignored Sasuke for the very simple reason that his name wasn't 'Dobe'. Instead Naruto focused his entire attention on Kabuto. Something seemed off. Not just the info he had was classified, but also something... else. It was familiar and yet not so... Naruto tried in vain to remember what it was while Sasuke was trying to get his attention. In the end Sasuke did get his attention, if in the wrong way. Sasuke pushed Naruto back in an attempt to intimidate him with his Uchiha superiority. Of course when his hands fell on the unmovable wall that was Naruto, he failed to even budge him and fell backwards himself. Naruto just looked semi-surprised at Sasuke.
"Oi teme what are you doing there?"
"I've been talking to you dobe! Give me your summoning contract!"
"No." A simple answer that should suffice for anyone. But of course Uchiha Sasuke was not just anyone.
"I said give it to me. I am an elite Uchiha and I deserve it more than a no-name orphan like you." The room almost froze from the killer intent. Hinata and Shino glanced at each other mouthing 'Idiot.'
"So Sasuke... you consider yourself to be an elite Uchiha huh... so what exactly prevents me from taking whatever makes you an Uchiha? Listen here you piece of shit, I don't care who your parents were, frankly I don't care if you go slit your wrists over not getting my summoning contract you retarded emo brat. But. If you insult my family one more time I'm going to maul you. Got it asshole?" To punctuate his remark Naruto shoved Sasuke. Hard. As a result Sasuke went flying back to the wall and hit it, causing spider web-like cracks to appear. Sasuke fell to the ground with an 'oof'. Sakura tried to punch Naruto for hitting her Sasuke-kun. She almost did it too. Almost, as in Hinata intercepted the blow with one of her own. A jyuken strike that paralyzed Sakura's right arm. Remembering just who were against her Sakura actually realized she couldn't do anything and went back to treating her fallen dark haired prince.
Naruto barely payed attention at the examiner when he came in. He knew his clones would let him know what was needed. Instead he was focused on finding out why Kabuto was so suspicious. Naruto closed his eyes and began a basic meditation, clearing his mind. It took him a bit but he remembered; Kabuto's scent was that of a snake! But how... he wasn't a vet and such a scent could only be acquired after a long time of association with snakes. That left only two options;either he was Anko's secret student or... he was Orochimaru's servant. Naruto's eyes widened when he reached that conclusion. Quickly he got all the answers from his disappearing clones and used Shino's insect allies to transmit a message of urgency. Now he only had to get to Anko and maybe Ibiki. After all Ibiki worked with Anko so he could possibly help.
Ibiki smirked, the gennin were mostly ready to run off screaming like little girls. Oh scaring these rookies was fun. It was time for the final nail on the coffin. Clearing his throat he spoke again.
"Alright maggots its time for the last question. Now here are some new rules. You can choose to take it or not." Predictably someone blew up.
"What the heck do you mean we can choose to take it or not? Of course we will!" Ibiki chuckled darkly, something he had perfected with hours upon hours of mental torture.
"Simple. If you don't take it, you will walk out and try again next time. If you do try it though and you fail... you will remain gennin FOREVER!"
"That's impossible! There are some amongst us that have taken it before!"
"Tough luck that this year I am the proctor! You can choose to give this one up and try next year or try your luck and stay stuck forever!"
Ibiki watched with satisfaction as his words made many teams leave. Weaklings he surmised, not the guts to be chuunin, the guts to go knee-deep in shit and come on top. Then something happened that he didn't foresee; the Uzumaki raised his hand. 'Wait what?' Thought Ibiki. Uzumaki never gave up!
Naruto had enough of these cowards. Time to show them the real meaning of guts. He raised his hand and watched the proctors. As one was ready to call his number, he smacked his hand on the table. Hard. The desk cracked under the strength.
"Like hell we'll give up! So what if we remain gennin forever! We'll complete our dreams as gennin! We don't need anything else damnit! My dream is to become strong and rank doesn't matter in the slightest. If I have to be, I'll be the first S-ranked gennin! So bring it on teme! I didn't chicken out against Zabuza, there's no way in hell I'm gonna chicken out against a piece of shit interrogator like yourself! Feh, a drunk Konohamaru is more scary than you so I call bullshit on you! So bring it! Gimme your best shot and I'll beat you to the ground!"
Ibiki laughed his ass on the inside. Brat's a born leader. His little stunt gave courage back to the people inside. He waited a bit and saw that they got over their fear.
"Alright maggots! Its time to tell you... that you pass." And cue and explosion of 'what's and 'why's. Waiting a bit for them to calm down, he explained the meaning. Then the Uzumaki interferred again.
"Scarface there's right. You don't have the guts to go on, choose another job. Brats like most of you think that being a shinobi is all about rescuing pretty princesses and daimyos. Well news flash bitches. It ain't. Its a cold hard, harsh world where you will have to kill because someone has money. Understand this brats. The color of your life isn't emo-black nor tree-hugging-green. Its red. Blood red. If you don't have the guts to go head first in a mission then don't even think about going on in this exam, 'cause I suspect next round will have killing. And lots of it. Those of you that can't stomach it go farm or something. Go hunt Tora or whatever boring D-rank mission you want. Leave the real missions for the real shinobi, those that will risk life and limb for their country."
Ibiki was officially impressed. The brat knew what he was talking about, he could see it in his eyes. The eyes of someone who fought and overcame an impossibly strong opponent through sheer willpower. Heh the brat was interesting. No wonder Anko spoke so highly of him. Speaking of Anko... she was late. Well late for Anko he surmised as he finished his part of the exams.
Suddenly a huge Zanbatou came through the window, breaking it and throwing glass shards everywhere. The Zanbatou itself got stuck in the blackboard and on it appeared a shirtless man. Those that had anything to do with Bingo Books recognised and most shivered. The rest were scared shitless out of the sheer presense of the man. The bloodthirst that was obvious even as he didn't project it outwards. Zabuza looked at the gennin behind him and smirked wickedly.
"Oh you left quite the bunch of them scarface. You loosing your edge in your old age? Meh, its fine, all the more blood to be spilled in the next round." A feral grin etched itself on Zabuza's face. "I'll cut them down by half in the second round anyway." A deep dark chuckle, worthy of Orochimaru's best reverbrated on the walls, shaking most of the would-be gennin. Most of them already wondering if they were going to die or something. "Alright you brats, follow me into training ground 44 over there." Zabuza pointed in the distance at a forest patch. "You have 10 minutes to get there so MOVE IT!" The final words finally got the gennin moving. Zabuza saw Naruto's smirk and smirked back, it was going to be fun.
As everyone, sans Zabuza and Ibiki, filed out of the room, Naruto stayed behind. Approaching them he spoke quickly, knowing he had little time.
"Ibiki, I apologize for the words I spoke before, but I needed the extra competition in the next part, otherwise I might end up fighting some people, that for reasons of closeness I wouldn't raise a hand against. Not to mention the Uchiha's pink team-mate was ready to run off screaming, robbing me of an opportunity to put the brat back into his place. However, this isn't important. The important thing is... Yakushi Kabuto smells of snakes. Not the occasional, pet-like smell either. I'm talking deeply engraved, snake and blood smell. That means that he's gotta be near them a lot. Or... near someone with snakes. Someone like Anko... or Orochimaru. I fear Kabuto will betray us. Tell Anko and Sandaime. One more thing... tell the old man to get my damnable godfather here ASAP. There's a small chance the snake bastard's here and we'll need him. No I'm not telling you who my godfather is. You'll learn in the third part. Just like the rest of Konoha. It's gonna be fun I promise. See you later, Ibiki, Zabuza." With these rather troubling news, Naruto shunshin'ed away in a a small wind tornado.
Naruto arrived at Training grounds 44, in time to see Zabuza shunshin in as well. He and Anko both explained the exams. Naruto and his team had a hard time not facepalming with the sheer foolishness some of their fellow gennin displayed. And they were supposed to be the finest batch in a long time too! How pathetic would the rest be?
Naruto and co. signed the papers and got their scroll. Shino made clones out of his insects and everyone got one of them. The real scroll was sealed in Shino's coat. In the small frame of time given, the team strategized a bit, choosing to head for the tower first, if possible taking out another team. If not, they'd lay in wait for one to come to them. They were condident enough they could take just about anyone, even Kabuto's experienced team. Naruto however warned his team of the possible presence of Orochimaru. Damn bastard knew how to hide though so Naruto couldn't fish him out.
Naruto's team burst into the forest, too fast for any animal to even perceive, Naruto taking point with his heat-sight in use, ready to flush out any trapper, Hinata behind him, Byakugan blazing and Shino last, insects around him making a ingh-imperceptible sphere of protection and detection. The team had long since found out the great power of an Aburame, they could defend and attack at the same time, switching modes wordlessly and seamlessly, turning an offencive move into a defencive, confounding the opponent, pinning and draining them. Not to mention they could go on as long as they had insects, their chakra increasing instead of decreasing in combat. Naruto chuckled, Haku had had a nasty surprise when Shino started using his insect allies. If the boy could do that to his crush, Naruto didn't even want to consider what he'd do to someone hurting said crush.
Running through the forest, Naruto raised his hand, causing his team to land next to him on a branch. Using the silent communication they had come up with before, basing it off the ANBU's own, Naruto pointed ahead.
"Three targets, trap, I trigger. Acceptable?"
"Negative, sneak and destroy, silently. Use clone to bait, circle and attack. Pincer target." Shino responded. Yeah their silent communication might be a bit lacking, but it got the job done.
As per plan, Naruto made three clones, henge'd as his team and they went around their enemies. Hinata's Byakugan and Shino's allies finding them with ease. Naruto used skills he had honed with hours of running away from ANBU, sneaking past them into their HQ and in training excercises by Anko to sneak around them. Hinata used similar abilities, only she used chakra, making sure though to hide it by mixing it with the ambient chakra,effectively blending in with the forest around her. Shino used the help of his tiny allies to mute all sounds, as well as his own talent in the area to sneak and complete the pincer manouevre. After all their targets were completely focused on the approaching clones, the sounds of the forest masking the sounds of the approaching team.
Naruto struck first, his hand forming a crane's beak with his fingers (sounds kinda fruity but I assure you, it hurts like a bitch), and used it to strike at the other person's temple. Lightly. Very, very lightly, as even a normal person could kill with this strike and Naruto was anything but a normal person (again I'm serious, a properly formed crane's beak can break a bone with very little exhertion, I've seen it shatter bricks easily). Hinata went for a silent but powerful gentle fist strike on the back of her target's neck and knocked him out. Shino for his part, rammed a kunai butt into his targets temple. Three soft thuds echo'ed and three targets went down. Shino found a second heaven scroll and passed it to Hinata, making a second fake scroll for his team.
Second scroll in place, Naruto and his team sped up again and went ahead. In a matter of hours they came across their second encounter, taking the other team in a similar way, this time acquiring the earth scroll they needed. Shino took that scroll as well, seeing as he was the team member to get the least injured in a fight, therefore having less chances of having the seal ruined and the scroll inside destroyed.
Meanwhile in the Forest of Death, team 9 a.k.a. Ino, Shikamaru and Chouji were treated to the gruesome sight of Gaara squeezing the life out of an Ame nin.
At the same time a feminine looking man, or was it masculine-looking woman, sank his teeth on Sasuke's neck, causing him to black out in pain.
Outside the training grounds, Anko was being restrained by Zabuza and Ibiki, hell bent on charging inside and killing Orochimaru. It was until Zabuza spoke to her that she calmed down.
"What the heck is wrong with you woman? You charge in there and Orochimaru's gonna kill you. Then the gaki is going to go nuts and attack Orochimaru, dieing in the process! He's tough alright, but not that tough yet! Let the bastard go Anko and Hokage will take care of the pedophile. Don't you always say revenge is a dish best served cold? So calm the fuck down!"
When Anko was sufficiently calm, the group informed the Hokage who changed the test's goal. Those that reached the tower would pass anyway, regardless of scrolls. Now the Hokage could wait and hope. Wait for Jiraiya, the perverted writer, wait for Orochimaru, his fallen apprentice, wait for Naruto, his adopted grandson. Maybe even wait for Shinigami, his passing postponed for a long time the war-weary Hokage surmised.
Back inside the forest of death, team 8 came to a stop as a lone figure emerged from the shadows of the trees. The feeling of death heavy on the wind, the presence of that person alone screaming fear into the minds and hearts of the three gennin. The person walked forward, revealing long, slick black hair, pale face and yellow, slit eyes. The person then spoke in a sickeningly sweet, obviously mocking voice.
"Well, well Naruto-kun, we meet at last. I wanted to meet you for a long, long time, see how good you really are my dear boy."
Naruto tensed, his chakra flow sped up and his breathing deepened with hate. One word escaped his lips, one word that terrified his team-mates more than anything else.
"Oro... chimaru..."
The figure chuckled, a dark mirthless laugh that sent chills down the spines of the gennin... Orochimaru took a step forward...
A/N: I know I know, you hate cliffies, well so do I. This way at least I'll be able to focus on the fight completely. Don't ya worry, have I let you down? I hope not that much heh.
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