(2/5/13) Update: I'm sorry, it really doesn't seem that I can pick this fic back up easily at all. The plot's scattered all over the place and now that I've started editing one chapter, it's a domino effect - I also have to edit the others, and that scrambles the details into a mess. I love, love this idea - this AU world with fem!Tsuna and all of her relations with the other characters (albeit altered) I've written. I love the idea of Tsuna and Hibari being close when they were children. I'm enchanted with the idea of Hibari giving Tsuna an unforgettable lesson.

But that's not enough to continue when there's just so much missing and so much I have to change. I hate discontinuing and deleting my fics when they've grown so much, but I think I will have to discontinue this one. Or, at least, post it as a new fic (because I love this fic so much, I think I'll definitely borrow some scenes from here...maybe). I'm meshing some ideas together right now - I've had various 18fem!27 AU's in mind, and they all deviate a little from Entwined Hearts. I know I'll bore you with talking about my life, but I am just entirely too busy sometimes. When I make time to write I want it to be because I want to write, not because I'm trying to bandage up a wounded fic with a terminal disease.

So please accept my deepest apologies. There really isn't anything I can do to make up for the disappointment. Even I didn't know where this fic was going - I knew the background, the beginning, some scenes I wanted to write, and the end. I had planned to follow the canon plotline and just flesh it out with details and fill it up with 1827 fluff, but I quickly grew bored of that. It was just too time-consuming. However, I'll try to tell you everything I know about where I planned this fic to go.

Following chapter six, when Hibari jumps off the roof with Tsuna, Tsuna hyperventilates. She passes out before Hibari swings his grappling hook (from his tonfa) and latches on to the building to stop their fall. When Hibari brings back Tsuna to her house (he knows her address because duh, he's the head of the Discipline Committee and he knows every one of the students' addresses), Gokudera opens the door and sees Tsuna unconscious. She has to be held back by Yamamoto because she flips out. When Tsuna wakes up, Fuuta was supposed to be sitting at the foot of her bed in his "mode."

Then after that I was going to introduce the VARIA...but Tsuna is a very, very important person. To eliminate risks/danger/drag assassins off Tsuna's trail, Giotto & co. leave Tsuna. Tsuna spends most of her time trying to find them with her guardians' (they eventually gather around her) help. Along the way 1827's relationship develops, and I suppose I was going to throw in one or two major arguments between the two before solving them. They make up, find Giotto & co. , and idk, the future unravels? Haha, I barely know anything more than you guys ^^"

I want to let each and every one of you know how much I appreciate your comments. It's true that I write because I love to, but I also get a lot of ideas from this site. The people are so nice here and I chuckle at a lot of the reviews I receive. All of them make me feel warm inside - writing, to me, is to get your ideas across. I can get my ideas across to the people on this site and see on which parts I can improve. I can share my thoughts and create entirely new worlds.

Ah...as an (Asian) American, I feel that there is a lack of "farewell gestures" I can do. So.../bows like a Japanese? (I'm sure not just the Japanese culture includes bowing, but they're just the most prominent). Thank you for supporting this fic. If I ever write another 18!fem27 - which I surely will, hopefully very soon - I hope you will come by and comment on that fic as well. :') Thank you all so much!

(11/29/12) It's been forever since I put this fiction on hiatus. I felt bad since I kept on getting reviews for it... and people were actually expecting an update. Recently I got some inspiration to change some of the scenes around. I got stuck because I realized all I was basically doing was putting the canon plot into words with little room for romantic development (which, I also basically managed to slaughter). I looked back and read my chapters—lord, I had issues with tense change. This feels like the time I decided to revise Idol Obsession's earlier chapters and then got overwhelmed with the number of mistakes I made _

Bottom line: I'm picking up this fic again. Since I have to juggle it with all my other ongoing fictions, it might take a while before the next chapter is up. Also, I'm making major plot changes—does anyone remember that really bad melodramatic scene where the Primo Generation left Tsuna and Reborn shoots her with a bullet and yeah yeah yeah don't want to be reminded of that particular moment of horrific writing *-*. So, they're not going to be ghosts anymore. They're just going to abandon Tsuna. Well, they'll come back...but they have to leave for a good reason first. This will only impact chapter 3 majorly. There will just be small details changed in other chapters. Wish me luck, I just keep pouring more and more stuff in my schedule *-*

Also it seems that fem!Squalo is winning. So be it ;D