Can I be honest with you? About some cancellations?

Around 2013 I had a bunch of fics I just stopped working on. I want to continue them, but I just don't.

I'm afraid I've come to that point again. I feel like I have been at that point for a while but I don't want to be, so I fight and I fight it but...well, the months between updates have spoken for themselves.

If you're reading this then you are reading one to three of my stories that I've decided to be honest about and cancel for the foreseeable future:

The Dream

The Game Called Shogi

To Start a War

The last two have one thing in common. They're linked to that 2013 splurge. I was discovering Naruto pretty fast, getting into its arcs in a shorter period of time than most long-term fans. But those days of excitement and freshness are over. Especially in regards to those two stories.

The core of both of them is A Game of Shogi which I had started back then. It's been a long time and I've grown since then, degressed a bit on other ends but all in all...

I'm just done and ready to move on to other stories. And even that's hard to say with my lack of updates on even newer fics.

But I still want to aim for them at the very least, especially with a Boruto anime series just on the horizon at the close of Shippuden in April.

And not only that, like my latest It's the Fear, I've begun to aim for 4-5 chapters per stories. Going past that is just asking too much for me at this point in my life and at this point in the fandom.

Naruto is over. The next generation isn't. I hope to play with them some more in stories like Indomitable which I've been excited about for months but yet haven't finished the first chapter.

Again, that speaks to my lack of drive.

Listen, I'm sorry the most about To Start a War, and within the next six months or so, if I'm unable to get some inspiration for it again, I will post the plotline and its end for you guys at the very least. There's this fanfic I loved, was a huge source of inspiration, that got so close to the end but wasn't ever finished (Daybreak, and yes its SasuNaru but I still liked it) and it just KILLS me, even all these years later. I don't want to do that to you guys. So I will post what happens at the very least.

Again, I'm sorry to do this. I'll still try but that is no longer good enough and I want to be honest about that.

If you'd like to know what I'm ever working on or what I think will be updated next, please check out my profile. I will continually keep that up to date.

Finally, Menma's Story is not on the list. Why? I don't know. It just made it as did DruuunK Daddie$ and my recent stories which honestly...If She Had Screamed is a toughie...Might put it on the canceled, or rather hiatus list too.

I don't plan for crap like this to happen. It just does. It did. I've learned to keep to five chapters or so from now on.

I love you guys and I'm sorry. It's just the way it is. I will keep updating, it's just least likely to be the aforementioned.

As of now, here's what the list on my profile looks like:

PROGRESS STATUS (in order of priority):

NARUTO FICS

Seven Devils: The First (of Seven) (no chapter of this will be posted until I finish entire story beforehand)

Song to the Siren: Part 1: The Oracle

Indomitable Chapter 1: Meet the Konoha Torture and Interrogation Force!

If She Had Screamed Part 2: Kakashi and Babysitting Don't Mix (Title not final)

Menma's Story (A revamp and purging of Menma: Runaway) Chapter 1: The Planting of Seeds

The Game Called Shogi Turn 8: The Clock is Ticking

DruuunK D&ddieS: Ransom

To Start a War Episode 3: Welcome to the Sound

The Dream Part 6 Sweet Dreams

BATMAN FICS:

Baptism of Acid (A Harley X Bruce one-shot)