To those who didn't wish to read the whole thing, there will be a TL;DR at the bottom.

I'm really so sorry that this isn't a long awaited update, but it is important. It's about regarding why I decided to make Lady Exorcist on hiatus. And this story is long overdue for an explanation.

Well, I had been receiving a number of PMs regarding this story to continue it. I know I didn't say much about this story-if at all, only that it was and is currently on a hiatus. I even at one point, discontinued it, but I felt bad and changed it to the hiatus again. I debated about posting an author note regarding the topic about Lady Exorcist and its predecessor, The Loveless (which is discontinued, permanently-just to inform everyone that may have thought otherwise).

I wrote multiple author notes, before trashing them, again and again. I couldn't figure out how to explain why I put this story on hiatus without spilling everything. So, this is the best I can do. For simplicity, I will refer The Loveless and Lady Exorcist as the Loveless saga if I wanted to talk about both of them.

I'm not going to lie to you, my dear readers. I loved the Loveless saga very much, even dreamed of finishing it, with a sequel in the plan, spinoffs, tumblr blog, and everything. I even sat down and managed to finish a good number of chapters and cleaned up the timeline for the Loveless. It was my very first fic that I took so seriously I was consumed by it for good few years since the coming out of Kuroshitsuji.

I think it was because of how much I loved Shippou's reversal role-going from a little boy Kagome in canon who cared for him like her brother/son, to someone who genuinely loved and cared for Kagome, who was also in some way, lost like his canon counterpart, in the Loveless saga. Plus, older Shippou being Sebastian's counterpart? Oh , yes! It was at then, a brilliant idea I had. That and I love Kuroshitsuji so very much that I considered it a perfect crossover with InuYasha. So, I tried my hand with it.

But, nowadays, as my writing skill improved, the less interested I became in this tale. I believe I was coming to realize that the entire plot was a clusterfunk of ridiculousness and most of those were much too heavy on the angst. Which isn't...too grand in the whole scheme of things.

Too much of one good thing can ruin everything, as the saying would go.

I recently reread Lady Exorcist at the beginning of 2016, as some sort of self-reflection, and I cannot even describe how badly I cringed at it. There was so much I wanted to fix!

So, I marked it as discontinued. I didn't want to be bothered with it anymore; my own self-critic had defeated me. And, someone came forward immediately after I did that, wanting to know why.

I was surprised, you know? I didn't expect anyone to still read one of my older works, but they did.

They loved it so much that seeing the word, discontinued, hurt them. I felt pretty bad about it. I told them I couldn't make any promise, but I will see what I can do. So, I reread the story again and changed the status to on hiatus, debating on what to do with it.

And then, I got more PMs following months after the first, and they were not from the same person previously. I had at least 3 or 4 different persons asking about it. Which was, by my standard, impressive-I don't really get a lot of PMs.

So, I brainstormed. I could see more potential in the story after another reread, but I'd have to start Lady Exorcist all over again. Or at least edit it very heavily, if not rewrite it completely and post it all in this story, replacing the old chapters (rather than posting it separately).

Only problem is, I already got several more fanfictions in the works, all are full length, including Ordinary, another Young JusticexInuYasha crossover story in the work (Help, I'm sinking on ConKag ship!) that I recently posted-Consequences, and several other potential concepts I'm still brainstorming on. I'm trying hard not to turn into one of many authors with countless incomplete fanfictions under their belts. I wanted to focus on finishing smallest numbers of posted works possible. I just happened to be slow at it, unfortunately.

So, I can and will try to resume working on Lady Exorcist again, but you may have to wait a long while to see the rewrite/update/what-have-you, I'm sorry to say. Writing is a hard job, when you put so much heart and effort in it down to the smallest details. But I love it, and I love my dear readers, so I will do what I can, to make everyone, including me, happy.

Thank you so very much for your patience and support! Please rest knowing that I will do my best to try again with the Loveless saga. So, for now, it is on indefinite hiatus, but I hope I can formulate a good plotline soon!

Kindest regards,
Phantom

TL;DR: I'm going to try to start over again from scratch, but you might have to wait a while. Love you, my dear readers!