Author's Note: First and foremost, I want to thank all my ASI readers for their unwavering patience during ridiculous rewrite after tiresome rewrite after annoying rewrite of this fic since January of 2007, and I truly am surprised that any subscriber reading this right now has stuck around this long. I really do appreciate it.

This being said, I have chosen to take this story into a completely different direction, and in order to allow any veteran readers to review on the new early chapters, I will be republishing this story. I would have uploaded the chapters here, but what my readers have previously reviewed on will not be the same material whatsoever once it has changed, and this would be misleading to new readers who are looking over reviews to verify the content of this fic.

What inspired me to change was that I believed my OC felt too much like the generic female anime archetype of the 'complete moron', so I changed her character and her history around to make her a bit more original. I also felt this plot lacked originality and substance, and that it needed a dramatic switching up of events to keep itself interesting; this way, I will be able to achieve my initial goal of making everyone in the Naruto series integral to the plot much easier, and faster. This is, irrefutably, my final revision.

Thank you all again for your time and dedication, and for those who are still with me, I hope you come to find our journey worth it.

- Alice