Hey everyone.

I know it's been a while. I bet you're wondering about why it is that I took so long to update this story. There are a few reasons that I did. Basically it all boils down to this. If I were to break my idea for the story as a whole into different books, the last chapter I released a couple years ago would have been the end of the first section. If there would have been a place to stop at least for a moment, it would have been there. Since the end of that however I have hit a bit of a snag. Not in ideas or anything like that. My ideas are for the story have not gone away. The problem I have encountered lately with this story is that my quality of writing for the future chapters has gone down drastically. One thing I pride myself on is that every chapter I have released is something I am proud of. Something that I feel is of at least pretty good quality. Unfortunately, my recent writing has regressed dramatically to the point to where I do not feel good about continuing this story.

Don't panic however. I do have a plan. As I felt that the end of where I wrote this is a solid temporary ending point for the story. I have decided on a different route that will assure a quality ending. If you were to split this up into books of a series, Tanebi would be considered the complete and finished book 1. I am satisfied with that. So I will leave part 1 up. If anyone here who truly loves this story wants to pick this up and write a sequel to this fanfic, please give me a PM.

I want to thank all 145 of you who subscribed to this story, all 155 of you who favorite this, and the 200 some odd people who gave me help to at least finish the first part. Writing a work of over 116,000 words even in a fanfic is something I never really thought I could have the focus to do. I really couldn't have done this without you guys. Special thanks to you too Catsi. You saved this story on a number of occasions.

With that said. Thank all of you for finishing Tanebi with me. Hopefully someone does pick this thing up so you all can see how this thing ends.