Naruto got to work as soon as his eyes fluttered open, as he had every day since they embarked on their task. While he improved leaps and bounds since he used attempted the Rasengan on Itachi, there was much left to refine. He headed off into the woods after breakfast instead of practicing around town to concentrate entirely on perfecting the jutsu. Tree after tree was felled by the power of his swirly-death-ball. One would get the impression a rude logger vented his frustration on the forest, if it weren't for the fallen trunks left behind. He bought packed meals to bring with him over wasting time by going back to eat in Tanzaku.

"No way in hell am I going to lose against some old bitch who gave up decades ago!" He concentrated chakra into his left palm and frowned as the skin tore open. "Ah fuck." Dispelling the jutsu, he pulled a bandage roll from his belt and began wrapping himself up.

"You do realize I can heal you and regularly do so overnight, right?"

His eyes narrowed. "I don't want your help, so stop it."

"Always so stubborn. The latter is a consequence of this seal. My leaking chakra is especially potent when it comes to your wounds."

"I still don't get it. Are we meant to share the same pool of chakra, or am I supposed to absorb you or something?" He broke off the bandage, put the roll back in his belt, and created another Rasengan to ram into a tree.

"This seal is meant to weaken over time and does so the more chakra I give. In comparison to the previous two, it's weak."

"So it's intentional, right? Only the Shinigami can seal you away."

"Yes. It seems meant to incentivize me towards giving you my chakra. Eventually, it'd grow to the point of breaking. That disgusting snake gnat accelerated the process, and your father reversed it."

He scoffed. "Wouldn't have to put in a failsafe if he didn't have it designed like that."

"I didn't know such a thing was possible. If he could appear in your subconscious mind, perhaps Kushina could as well."

"My…" His latest swirly-death-ball dissipated in his hand.

"She, despite understanding your predicament more than anyone else, is likely to try and convince you to abandon your path. "

His gaze hardened and wavered. "It's far too late to change my mind, but I'm not sure how I would react to seeing her." Lips quivering, he swallowed a lump in his throat. "I mean, it's my mom."

"Don't you dare return to your pathetic, needy self. I've already seen the same happen with her after she met your father. And you know how that ended."

"Asshole!" He slammed a swirling chakra ball into another tree trunk, felling it in a single blow. "I'm not going to! I just…" Memory of what the creature promised if he brought up the Old Sage made him shake his head. "Really want to meet her."

"After your meeting with your father turned out so well?"

"How the fuck would you know how that went?! You weren't there!"

"Obviously by the mood you were in after you woke up, and the fact he told you the truth."

"Well…" He formed a Rasengan in his bandaged right palm. "I was probably going to wake up in a shitty mood whether he told me the truth or not."

"How does that change anything?"

"It doesn't." He forced the ball into a bigger, sterner tree.

"I already told you what Kushina was like: just imagine yourself but female and with long red hair without the whiskers."

Rolling his eyes, he groaned. "It's not the same." He froze at a disturbing thought. "That...includes my libido right?" The silence unsettled the contents of his stomach. "Oh no." He gagged. "Why did I ask that?!"

"As a being incapable of ever understanding your disgust towards this subject, all I can do is laugh at the strangeness of it." The Nine-Tails punctuated its statement by following through with snickering.

"Do you want me to bring up the Old Sage?!"

The laughing stopped. "Don't you dare or I will tell you what she did to your father."

"Sh–" He leaned over and vomited out his breakfast.

"...Really?"

Taking his bandage roll from his belt, he wiped his mouth with the absorbent cloth. "Just because I never had a family doesn't mean the idea of my parents doing it doesn't gross me out!" He tore the part he used off, flung the dirty scrap aside, and returned the roll to his belt.

"How else would they have made you? We are both aware the stork story is a lie."

"They used it at the orphanage to convince kids it wasn't because their parents were dead or didn't want them, I know." He created another imperfect Rasengan.

"Why did you go there again despite having your own home?"

"I thought we were the same until you told me the truth." He scowled before toppling the tree he already damaged. "But they weren't any different too: looking down on me just like those bitches they wanted to be their real mommies."

"You know better now. They can be united in death by your hand. Bastards, orphans, deadbeats, and the fallen."

Naruto blinked. "A thought just occurred to me." He chuckled somewhat nervously. "So souls exist, right?"

"Did you not know that already?"

"To be honest, I never thought about it at all. My father sold his to the Shinigami to seal you away and is fighting for eternity in its stomach… Does that mean Hell is real?"

"Are you going to give up if I say yes?"

His eyes widened. "It is?!"

"I cannot die, so I wouldn't know. Please don't tell me you're going to give up off some fear of eternal damnation given by a divine being. In all my years, I have only met one that can be called a god, and the Old Sage would not condemn you."

"Even though I'm almost willing to kill even children?" He raised an eyebrow.

"Almost?"

"I can do it if I get mad enough, but honestly, it's kind of fucked up."

"Without their parents, they're as good as dead anyway. You should kill them all. In fact, you should kill them first. Set everyone off balance and into a rage so their deaths are all the sweeter for you and bitter for them."

"Hardcore." He hummed. "But why wouldn't the Sage condemn me?"

"The Old Sage's time was as bloody as any other. Quelling conflict only sparked it in other ways. He was neither for vengeance nor forgiveness. Taking vengeance on a murderer was little different than taking vengeance for an unintentional slight. Forgiveness for murder and an unintentional slight as well. That which is ill is encouraged. While he would advise you to simply go your separate ways, he would understand."

"He'd just disapprove?"

"Yes. Don't misunderstand though. If you are not the Leaf's reckoning, it would likely be some other child they harmed without thinking. He would disapprove of their actions as well, but he would understand them too.

Creating a Rasengan in one hand, he stroked his chin with the other. "Then he'd only really approve of everyone moving on?"

"After understanding what illness they encouraged, yes. The Old Sage detested ignorance. Really, I think, deep down, he would approve of your vengeance somewhat."

"Sure you're not saying that to justify your own stake in it?" He toppled another tree.

"Oh no; I take full responsibility for the death and carnage awaiting that cesspool. My vengeance will not be denied. I will see all Uchiha die, the ignorant villagers die, and everyone who ever thought me their tool die. Nearly a hundred years stuck in humans. My crime? Falling prey to Madara Uchiha's disgusting genjutsu. They will suffer for not leaving me be, as all others have."

"Now I see where the Sage is coming from." He smirked at the gathering of chakra in his hand. "That'll just make everyone else try to seal you away."

"You've already said something among those lines before. Are you changing your mind?"

His smirk twisted into a grin while he destroyed another of nature's majestic larches. "Fuck no!" Admiring his handiwork, his hands balled into fists. "We want the same thing. Just leave it to me."

The Nine-Tailed Fox was more than happy to hear the third confirmation of its jailer's intentions. Of all humans to ever exist, he was probably its second favorite. His demeanor during and after the first coma reminded him much of the first. Their goals were aligned, their attitudes were the same, and he was beginning to remind it a lot of itself after the second coma. None of the irony was lost to it: its attempts to mentally destroy the child through interacting with him only made him stronger and more admirable in its eyes. Really, things couldn't have turned out better for the Tailed Beast.

As the days passed by, the two Sannin and the other assistant, albeit reluctantly, checked up on the progress of the delinquent. There were times they noticed he was talking to someone that wasn't there. His tone was casual, as if it was normal to him, and sometimes there were bursts of frustration. The ever growing lack of trees was making spying difficult for them, not that he didn't already know they were near. Both medical ninja classified it as possible mental instability brought about by some profound trauma. Jiraiya just thought the kid was lonely.

The boy's natural stamina failed him on the end of the sixth day, near a week's worth of nonstop training taking their toll at last. Tsunade and Shizune, after some debate, carried him back to his rented apartment. One found the source of his seemingly limitless amount of money and felt like they were going to win the bet in spite of his monumental progress, which was a bad sign. Still, the last of the Senju knocked her assistant unconscious after already drugging her old ally not long before.

Saying he was confused when he woke up would be accurate yet still an understatement. "What the hell?" Slipping out of bed, he raised an eyebrow at the woman. "Uh?" He began nudging her with his foot. "Wake up!"

Her eyes shot open. "Oh no!" Picking herself up, she took several deep breaths. "What day is today?!"

"Monday, obviously."

"You're healed already?" She raised an eyebrow at his complete lack of exhaustion.

"I wasn't out of chakra or anything." He raised his own brow. "Why were you sleeping in my place?"

Shizune slid open the window. "Stay here!" She planted a foot on the fire escape and widened her eyes when she moved herself out. "Why are you…" Drifting off, realization struck her mind.

"Alright, what's the bi–" He peaked his head out to squint at the sorry state of his 'master.'

Jiraiya, shambling on the roof tile, groaned. "Tsunade drugged me… Can't use my chakra, body stings, and can't even hold chopsticks."

"Some legendary ninja you are, simping dumbass." The boy slid out to stand on the platform.

"Why do you keep saying that?!" He shook his head. "She's a medical specialist among medical specialists: a tasteless, odorless drug that works against ninjas on my caliber isn't beneath her skill set." Steadying himself with the fire escape railing, he glanced at his teammate's assistant. "What did Orochimaru offer her?"

"I wanted to put my faith in Lady Tsunade, but… Orochimaru offered to bring Dan and Nawaki back to life."

Naruto scoffed. "That's impossible." He glanced from her dour face to the Sannin's solemn one. "...Are you fucking kidding me?"

"When Anko came back with details of all his projects, one stood out the most: Impure World Reincarnation Summoning." Jiraiya grimaced.

"If anyone could do it or try something so insane, it would be Orochimaru." Shizune looked down. "I wish he was lying, but neither of us could see signs of it in his state."

"Well… I don't really know what to say about that." Naruto hummed. "That's honestly kind of awesome." He rolled his eyes at the looks he got. "I'm sorry; can either of you bring back the dead!?"

"The Old Sage could."

"Oh, shut up." He blinked at the realization he said that aloud.

Shizune looked to the direction of the fallen castle. "Now is not the time for a schizophrenic episode! We have to go!" She took off, jumping from rooftop to rooftop.

Jiraiya, albeit clumsily, followed after. "Right!"

"Skitsuwhatnow?" Naruto joined in the pursuit.

There would be a battle all participants would remember for the rest of their lives.

Not many would nor could blame the sole female member of the Sannin for being tempted by her old teammate's offer. It was one thing to lose a loved one to old age or natural causes and another for them to die in war. She watched her lover bleed to death with the hope of surviving as his last voiced thoughts. Her little brother's last moments were either blissful ignorance or agonizing pain thanks to the explosive trap mutilating him beyond recognition. Even if it was for a brief moment, she wanted to comfort them both and feel their warmth again.

"Your answer?" Orochimaru stared her down from more than several feet away.

"I will heal your arms." Her eyes steeled. "In exchange, you leave the village alone."

He almost laughed. "Deal." Holding out his soul-ripped arms, he began walking forward. A grin spread across his face as they closed the distance. The glee he felt was all too visible in his being when they were a foot away from each other. It died when shooting bones sent them jumping back. "Really, Princess Tsunade?!"

Kimimaro jumped from the top of the solid wall between them. "I have been the subject of Healing Ninjutsu enough times to know that wasn't made with the intention to heal."

"I was actually going to revive those two. I even promised to spare the Leaf Village." He would've pouted if he weren't in so much pain.

Tsunade scoffed. "We both know that's a lie." Tears emerged from her eyes. "I was so happy when you said you'd bring them back... hen I realized how much of an idiot I was." She laughed. "That perverted brat is such a cheeky little shit! He saw right through me: I was given the dream they died fighting for, and I spat on it because I was too weak." Her gaze met his. "All things die, but the warmth they left behind lingers."

"Then the deal is off." He glared at her, slit pupils far narrower than usual. "I have no choice but to force you to heal me."

Kimimaro grabbed his lord and jumped before she could smash them with her descending heel, demolishing their surroundings instead. "She's going to be a troublesome opponent, Lord Orochimaru. Stay behind me."

"I hardly have any choice in the matter with these arms." He obeyed.

"This terrain is disadvantageous."

"Rather even with your abilities."

"Forgive me, Lord Orochimaru." He turned and jumped into the woods, master following suit. "I meant a fight may attract her assistant and Jiraiya." He hummed while he chuckled. "A boy suiting the description of your vessel was with him."

His chuckling turned into full cackling. "This is turning into a lovely day!"

They leapt from the claustrophobic stretch of dirt before the ruined castle to the woods. While maintaining an even pace to neither lose nor get caught by her, a rocky hill came into sight. Movement restrictions would be minimal yet the stone formations could be used for cover. It was not ideal, but it would do.

Kimimaro blocked his opponent's view of his master with his own body. Seeing and hearing her panting, he charged. One hit would annihilate him, but he was more than confidant in his abilities. He planted a foot down, stopping himself from running into a certain-death palm, and kicked. There wasn't enough reach for his leg to connect with hers but enough for a spike of bone shooting from the heel of his foot to tear through her hamstrings.

Tsunade froze and nearly dropped at the sight of blood on his protruding bone. "Wha–" The sensation of the same spike impaling her right forearm interrupted her. Falling back from the lack of full leg support along with her own fear, she couldn't fight back against his onslaught.

Leaving the spike in her, he pulled back his leg and jumped with his other, emitting a heel bone for each foot. He kicked them into her lower legs, shot a bone out for each of his palms, stabbed her right upper arm, and drove the other into her left forearm. He left them in her too. Pushing two blades out of his knees and one from his right elbow, he rammed the knee bones into her thighs while hammering the elbow through her left upper arm in his descent before planting his feet on the ground and jumping back.

Her vision shifted from the white blur of the strange boy and Orochimaru lurking from a safe distance to the blue sky. She blinked before glancing from bone spike to bone spike propping her up. It reminded her of pinned insects unfortunate enough to catch the attention of beings far beyond their capacity to escape, much less fight. "…Who the hell are you?'

"If I could feel my arms, I would applaud you, Kimimaro!" Orochimaru cackled. "You should've accepted the deal, Princess Tsunade!" He began shambling over.

"I'll nev–" She froze at the sight of blood oozing from the spikes.

"Aww! There, there! Just heal my arms, and this will all be over with." He stopped by the side of his minion.

"I… I…" She froze as the boy pricked open a finger with a slight bone protrusion and held it in front of her face. "S-S-Stop it!"

Orochimaru's eyes sparked with gleeful malice. "All you need to do is heal my arms." To his confusion, his ally grabbed him and jumped away.

Shizune appeared by her helpless mistress' side while Naruto and his 'master' stared them down. "Lady Tsunade!" She let go of Tonton to examine the bone spokes.

"Long time no see, Jiraiya!" Orochimaru's eyes drifted to the glaring boy in orange. "And you brought the phenomenal Tailed Beast-slayer Naruto Uzumaki!" He smirked as he blushed at his praise. "Has he told you the truth about your parents yet?"

The Toad Sage's eyes narrowed at his old teammate. "Don't listen to him!"

"Both of you, shut the fuck up!" Naruto stomped towards him. "I came here to kill you!"

Kimimaro stepped forward. "That's not going to happen."

Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Who the fuck are you?" He shrugged. "Never mind, I'm just gonna kill you too."

"He can create and jut out bones from anywhere on his body!" Tsunade cried. "Taijutsu is suicide!"

He parted his lips for a cocky remark only to squint at the older boy protruding bone spikes from his arms. "What the fuck?"

"Shizune," Jiraiya said, "take care of Tsunade." He glanced from his apprentice to his would-be opponent. "Be careful with him." Focusing on the other Sannin, he scowled. "I'll take care of Orochimaru." He spared the assistant one last look. "Do you have anything to help with my body?"

She, trying to free her mistress, shook her head. "If I don't know what it is and it's been in you for over a day, I can't help."

"Ah fuck." He bit into his thumb.

Kimimaro stepped back, forced back most of his bones, cut open his pricked finger, ran the blood over the tattoo on his master's blackened forearm, and thrusted his palms against the ground the same time the Sannin did.

Two giant snakes appeared, one carrying the duo, and one regular-sized toad poofed into existence where the Toad Sage slammed his hand.

"Are you fucking kidding me!?" Naruto pointed at the small toad in a coat while Jiraiya gaped at his failure. "This is why I didn't want to learn the Summoning Jutsu!"

He winced. "I can't help it! I'm drugged!"

"Yo, my name is Gamakichi," the toad said.

"No one fucking asked!" Naruto glared up at the serpents, aggravated by their true summoner's mocking laughter.

Orochimaru grinned. "I'll take Jiraiya; don't damage Naruto fatally."

"Understood." Kimimaro jumped off the snake before the two prepared to launch themselves at their enemies.

Naruto took out a shuriken, blew on to it, and threw the wind chakra infused metal diagonally at the spare aiming for him. "Never again." Jumping out the way, he avoided the splitting summon as well as the blood that erupted from the dividing halves. He smirked at his handiwork and glared at his approaching foe. "I think I've heard about you 'murder bone' people."

"I am Kimimaro: the vestige of the Kaguya Clan. You are one of the last living Uzumaki of the Uzumaki Clan, not the village. Lord Orochimaru was not lying about your parentage."

"All he did was bring it up. I've known everyone's been lying to me about them since I was a kid. He didn't tell me jackshit."

"Wouldn't you like to know who they are?"

He averted his eyes, feigning doubt. "It doesn't matter…" Bringing his fingers together, he spawned a dozen clones. "Fuck him up!"

Kimimaro kept his eyes focused on the main line while a quarter of their ranks moved into his blind spot. Darting forward, he warped and shot out the bones of his ribs, forming a defensive and offensive armor. Three of the clones were turned to smoke while the rest backed off. "You should've listened to Tsunade."

Naruto checked his nails while his clones made clones of their own. "I was just prodding you." He smirked when they grabbed one. "I mean, you do know how I beat the One-Tail, right?" Mirthful laughter left his lips when they threw it.

He glanced at the clone, realized something was wrong, and activated the curse mark on his chest. It exploded in contact with him, forcing him into the ground. Several more followed, taking turns jumping into the ever-growing crater around him. His ears were ringing, but he was still alive thanks to extending his enhanced bones into an uneven dome around his body.

The rest of his clones dispelled themselves after a victory cheer. "Done and done!" He looked to where the women were and saw Shizune soothing a shaking, snake-blood-covered Tsunade. "Oh, come on!" From the corner of his eye, he saw Jiraiya with quill-like hair fending off a long-necked, bitey Orochimaru some ways from a snake submerged in what looked like mud. "Aren't you guys supposed to be legendary ninja?!" Footsteps from the blast-zone drew his attention.

"You are a powerful foe." Kimimaro, dark-skinned and bony-tailed, walked out of the crater. "Even if I were trying to kill you, I am not sure if my victory would be possible."

"…Cursed Seal of Heaven?"

"Cursed Seal of Earth," he corrected. "Just as powerful as the Cursed Seal of Heaven." His lips pursed. "This is your last chance. I do not wish to harm you anymore than is necessary, but I will be incapable of holding back like this."

Naruto steeled his gaze and brought his fingers together. "Are you watching, granny?!" As his four clones took off, he concentrated chakra into the palm of his bandaged hand. "I'm about to win our bet!"

Kimimaro shot his finger bones into the clones only for them to shed blood rather than disappear. "Decoys? Grapplers?" His eyes narrowed. "Genjutsu." Putting his fingers together, he formed the tiger seal to disrupt his chakra flow. He frowned when they attempted to restrict him and scrunched his face in confusion as his protruding ribs impaled them. "What is this?!"

Perfected swirly-death-ball in hand, Naruto charged his enemy. "Rasengan!" His clones grinned and dispelled in that moment, blinding their target. The dense, rotating sphere of chakra broke apart all natural energy enhanced bone in its way. An immense feeling of satisfaction washed over him when he felt it rip into his foe's center.

The last of the Kaguya's eyes widened. His lower ribs were shattered, his upper intestine was ruptured, his stomach was pulverized, and a portion of his liver was shredded in an instant. With a choked gasp, the rotation sent him spiraling back into one of the rock formations. He was surely dying then if he wasn't already before.

Tsunade stared at the victorious boy's back. She could see the resemblance more than clearly. What shocked her most was his victory against a foe she wasn't sure, even without rust, she could beat. He believed in himself while she couldn't do the same for herself, the same person Nawaki and Dan would've died for. A simple child, however vulgar, was behaving in a more dignified manner than her.

"Come on, granny!" Naruto turned to her, grinning. "Can't you keep up with me?!" From the corner of his eye, he saw the young bone man rise. "I'm stubborn too, but I'm pretty sure you should be dead after that!"

Kimimaro's mouth was pried open by two hands. Like a snake shedding its skin, another Kimimaro pushed itself out of the deflating remains of the previous one. He walked towards him and stretched his new body. "In all my life, you are the first person to push me to this extent. You have my admiration and respect."

He frowned. "Should've figured you had something like that up your sleeve. I'm not one to jerk off my enemies; you're probably the strongest person I've ever fought. If it weren't for that cursed seal, I think I might actually like you." Another Rasengan formed in his palm. "This time I'll aim for your head."

Concentrating his bones over his arm, he bent his knees for his next strike. "I apologize, Lord Orochimaru. I might have to fatally injure Naruto Uzumaki." He prepared to take off when Shizune blew needles at him. "First." He launched himself, bone drill forward, to impale her.

Tsunade nudged her aside and was run-through in her stead. "No." The diamond on her forehead glowed purple as black marks spread from it across her face. "As the Fifth Hokage of the Leaf Village!" She broke off the drill and the Kaguya's entire arm before forming the tiger seal. "I will fight for their sake!" Marks following suit, her near-bisecting wound evaporated when she forced the bone drill out.

"Well, well!" Orochimaru ended the deadlock between himself and Jiraiya to better examine her, Kimimaro jumping to his side in case of threats. "It seem I'm not the only one inventing new jutsu."

She gave a brief description of it to rub in his face. "I'll never die in battle." Running her thumb through her forearm, she began going through the hand seals just as Jiraiya did the same, thumb still having enough blood.

"Manda, Lord Orochimaru." Kimimaro slid his thumb across some of the blood that splattered on him when his arm was wrenched and dabbed it on his master's tattoo.

Naruto stared as a colossal toad, a colossal slug, and a colossal snake stared each other down. "...Holy shit!"

"I am far bigger."

"Not now!"

The side-kicks could only watch a battle just one of them could probably take part in. Tsunade's slug spit acid at the snake, but he dodged and coiled around her. Jiraiya's toad tried to cut the snake's head in two for him to catch it with his mouth. The snake was left alone by the slug dividing into many smaller ones. The toad spat oil, which Jiraiya ignited into a massive fireball that could've fazed Shukaku. When the snake emerged from the ground unharmed, Tsunade rammed the toad's massive blade through the snake's mouth on her own. Orochimaru tried to extend his neck and stab her with a mouth sword only to get punched away.

Naruto rushed over to find him, half his face someone else's, sinking into the ground alongside a normal-looking, one-armed Kimimaro. "Hey!"

"I thought you despised the village." Orochimaru smiled at the flash of red in his eyes. "Ah, we want the same thing!" He let his lips linger above the surface for a moment. "We are kindred spirits, you and I." Without a trace, he vanished with his loyal subject.

Jiraiya walked over and put a hand on the boy's shoulder. "Don't let his words get to you."

"Yeah, yeah; I'm just some ungrateful fucking orphan the Fourth stuffed a Tailed Beast in. I should be thanking everyone for the scraps of attention they give me and apologize for taking their beloved Hokage from them." He smirked as his body wavered. Shadow Clones were composed of a person's divided chakra. They typically dispersed when hit because sustaining injuries consumed that chakra and transferred the experience back to their user. While he held on until the end of the battle, the shock of getting his entire body stabbed by dozens of sharp bones multiplied by four finally got to him.

Tsunade, withered and literally showing her age, was almost relieved when he collapsed before seeing her. "Shizune?!" She cried out, voice wavering. "He might need your help!" Taking off her necklace, she walked over, knelt down, and tied it around his neck. "You won."

The Sannin Reunion, the Three-Way Deadlock, ended with no clear winner or loser. No one died, but no one got what they really wanted. A new Hokage, albeit somewhat reluctantly, was to take the mantle, Orochimaru's cure and treatment alluded him, Kimimaro continued to serve his purpose, Naruto won a necklace he didn't care for to prove a point he already did, Shizune would be grateful for a time until saddled with paperwork, and Jiraiya was still Jiraiya. It was an insane battle regardless.

AN: I was going to prolong the battle with Kimimaro by having them try and outmatch each other with taijutsu, but this is freaking Kimimaro we're talking about: his kekkai genkai dabs all over the Hyuga Clan's. Trying to brawl with him is trying to brawl with a human-sized super porcupine. Satisfied regardless though.

The physicality of Shadow Clones has always been confusing to me, so his tactic against Kimimaro is my explanation for why they're not always durable. Very effective in select scenarios, which is why Naruto's never used them like that until now.

You know what's coming next. It's really fitting and tragic this is where things will start slowing down, but I've got other things I want/need to do. I'm still going to update. Expect a break of four days rather than two between chapters. If you think I'm being overdramatic, I can't blame you. Just feels like a long time to me after keeping at this one-two days streak for almost two months.

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