Rurouni Kenshin Fan Fiction ❯ Light Behind Darkness ❯ The Unexpected Gets Expected ( Chapter 7 )
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Light Behind Darkness
Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin none of it the only thing I own is the fanfiction I am writing with the characters in it and my own characters.
Here are all of the signs you will need to remember.
*...*character is thinking
"..."character is speaking
=...=character is having a flashback
(...)used for Author Notes and time and places when they are named by the author also for when they speak telepathically.
Leokia: I want to thank everyone who has reviewed my fanfiction so far it makes me really happy to know that you actually like my fanfiction enough to read it and review me on it and tell me that you like it. It means a lot to me and I would have never kept writing this fanfiction if it wasn't for everyone who review. Also I am starting on chapter one of a fanfiction to Magic Knight Rayearth and if you like MKR then I hope you will read it as well when I finish chapter one and put it up on the site.
Okay here is the next chapter of my fanfiction and I hope you like it because this chapter may confuse you a bit and I am free to answer any question you will have on this next chapter.
Chapter: 9 The Unexpected Gets Expected
The four sat in the living room with Battousai and Fortello still fuming from being made sit down and for the fact that Battousai's sensei was making moves on his cousin and Fortello's sister. It had been almost an hour when Battousai looked over at Kaoru and said "its been an hour almost can we now go and kill him?!" Kaoru looked over at him with an angry expression on her face and said "No! Like I said before we are going to wait it out here! Besides if he is bound to come back here sooner or later because Fantasia will want him to! So stop being so damn stupid!"
Battousai was taken away by the forcefulness of Kaoru at the time. It excited him and kinda of scared him at the same time. So he just sat there and said nothing while Fortello on the other hand couldn't take Battousai's mate yelling at him anymore. "I'm leaving she is my sister and I don't care what any of you say!" "No, you’re not! Stay where you are just wait it out she is bound to come back here I know this much about her!" Kaoru said back to Fortello as he just stood there looking at them.
Fortello didn't care what Kaoru said he just pushed past her and walked out of the living room. Battousai was upset that he had pushed his Kaoru no one could push his Kaoru not even Fantasia's brother. Battousai stood up and Kaoru said "sit down Battousai!" Battousai looked at her and said "No! No one pushes you and gets away with it! I don't care who they are or the reason they do it!" Kaoru just looked at him. She knew what he was doing was nice but she couldn't allow him to hurt Fortello over her.
Meanwhile Hiko looked over at Fantasia who had fallen asleep where she was sitting when he brought her to his little home (looks like a shack to me but little house sounds better) and he walked over to her and picked her up and laid her on the futon. He knew she wouldn't wake because he remembered her as a child. He knew her parents and he felt really responsible when Battousai or Kenshin as he knows him killed her parents.
He knew that Battousai watched her grow and he taught Battousai so he also watched her grow up into the beautiful young women. Hiko was rather upset when she fell in love with Sora for the fact he had become quite taken with her. Hiko cared for her but he knew what he had to do to save Battousai and all the other vampires and her as well. He had to take her sister to Shishio. He knew that the deal was if one of the two daughters of Japalow the cat demon he may spare Battousai's life. Hiko didn't want to give him either of them because he knew about their power and how they could match the Battousai if they wanted too.
Shishio knew of Fantasia's power but no one but Fantasia knows about Kamilia's power. Hiko decided now would be a good time to go and find Kamilia. He left the house and what he didn't know was Fantasia was still awake. "Where is he going I wonder?" Fantasia got up and left the house but she decided the first place she would go is home. Fantasia ran off she knew she could find her way back home but she was more worried about Kamilia then Hiko.
Meanwhile Fortello was out looking for Fantasia and Kamilia. Fortello started looking in obvious places like the city because there she would more than likely be with Kamilia. It would be good if he knew exactly where Kamilia lived. So Fortello just decided to follow his instinct and his sense to find Kis of vampires and people. He walked along until he stopped because he sensed a huge Ki and at first he thought it was Battousai but then he realized it was his sister's Ki and turned around and went back to the mansion.
Fantasia was running back to the mansion when she ran into someone. "Ouch what was that!" Fantasia said as she fell down. She looked up to see what she it and she saw Fortello. "Who are you?" Fantasia said very confused and angry. Fortello looked up and said "Fantasia is it really you?" "yes my name is Fantasia but your not helping me by not telling me who you are!" "I am your brother Fortello. Do you not remember me?" Fortello said upset that his own sister would not remember her. Fantasia said "my brother I thought you were dead!" Fantasia said running up to him and hugging him.
"So you do remember me?" "Yes I remember you how could I forget you." "But how come you thought I was dead?" "Because I couldn't find you after our house was destoryed and our parents were killed. I thought me and Kamilia were the only ones to survive." Fantasia said now in tears. Fortello hugged her and said "it is all right we are together again." Fantasia hugged him back and she looked up at him and said "I have missed you so much." Fortello said "I have missed you as well. I looked everywhere for you and Kamilia and now that I have found you I can finally see my other sister."
"Oh yeah Kamilia that is why I was going back to the mansion I need to find Kenshin!" Fantasia said in a rush and Fortello looked at her and said "who is Kenshin?" Fantasia turned to him and said "Kenshin you know our cousin?" Fortello said "our cousin is Battousai." "Yes he is his real name is Kenshin." Fantasia said. Fortello was a little confused he thought that their cousin's name was Battousai he didn't know that he had a different name. "How do you know his name is Kenshin?" Fortello said very confused at this point.
"Because I know more about him than he wants to think. I found a lot out from Hiko and of course I have heard a lot from him as well." "Oh okay well I guess that answers my question." "Good now lets get going I need to go back to the mansion if I am correct Kamilia is there." Fantasia said as she started walking away from Fortello. "What do you mean she is at the mansion?" Fortello said confused once again. "I asked a favor from one of my friends even though he doesn't act like it I know he is." Fantasia said turning to her brother who didn’t know just looked at her but agreed with her and walked up to her to so he wouldn't be following her back to the mansion.
Meanwhile, back at the mansion. "Why did you bring me here?" Kamilia said as she couldn't see who had taken her from her house or where they had brought her all she knew was that they had stopped running with her. "I brought you here as a favor for your sister." The mysterious person said. Kamilia knew the voice though and she said "Aoshi is that you where did you bring me to and why am I here?" Aoshi took the blindfold off of her and said "you ask too many questions but they will all be answered soon enough." Kamilia said "I would like for them to be answered now!" Aoshi said "Battousai will answer them as soon as he gets up here."
"Kenshin better get up here now or I am going to start hurting some vampires!" Kamilia said now angry that her questions weren't getting answered. "Call him Battousai you know he doesn't like to be called by the other name." Aoshi said trying to calm her down. "I don't care what he likes being called him better get up her before I call him a stupid asshole who thinks he is better than everyone else." Kamilia said now more angry that he still was helping her.
Meanwhile, downstairs Battousai, Kaoru, and Misao were waiting on some kind of news about Fantasia. "Do you think Fortello will do anything stupid once he finds Fantasia and Hiko?" Kaoru said to Battousai hoping he would know the answer. "I don't know but if he is anything like Fantasia yeah he will." Battousai said back a little upset that Fortello had still pushed his Kaoru. Kaoru said "oh do you really think he is that much like his sister." Battousai said "yes I believe he is a lot like his sister and him pushing you to find her proved it."
Kaoru smiled a bit at how he cared for her so much that he would keep thinking about a petty thing such as someone pushing her and he didn't even push her that hard it was more like a shove not a push. "I hope we find out soon if he found her or not." Kaoru said a little worried. About that time the door opened and Fantasia and Fortello walked in. Kaoru ran up and hugged her and said "are you all right? We were worried about you!" Fantasia said "yes I am fine and there was nothing to worry about." As she pushed Kaoru off of her. Battousai understood Fantasia pushing Kaoru he knew she wasn't one for hugging.
Battousai looked at Fantasia and said "so when did you and my sensei get together and how long have you known him?" Fantasia looked at him confused and said "First of all I am not with Hiko and secondly I have known him about as long as you and you know that Kenshin!" Battousai said "You know you're not suppose to call me that and yeah I did know that you knew him a long time but I didn't know he had any feelings for you!" "Why not Kenshin because you are upset because of all the people you killed huh?! Does it make you feel you can use your own name and have people call you by the name they fear most?! Does it make you feel better that people fear you because of what you are called by?!
Why don't you give up your whole Battousai act and act like the person I know you can! I know there is more to you than a blood thirsty killer Kenshin I know this much and so does Kaoru now show it to her!" Fantasia said screaming at the top of her lungs. She was so angry at him. Battousai just looked at her she was so angry at him right now she was in tears and she was the only other person besides Kaoru he didn't want to see cry.
"Fantasia it is all right I am sorry for ever thinking you had anything to do with my sensei. Don't cry because you are angry at me for thinking such a thing and you are right I do have a lot to show and tell Kaoru about myself and I see I can't hide if from her any more." Kenshin said as he turned to Kaoru. She smiled at him and said "I will love you no matter what your past is or what your name is I still love you and will always love you." Kenshin actually smiled and kissed her.
Kamilia came running down the stairs followed by Aoshi. "Stop I told you to stay upstairs in the room until Battousai came to tell you what is going on." Aoshi said. "No my sister is here and she will tell me what is going on! I don't need my so-called cousin to do that! " Kamilia said as she got down the steps to Fantasia and saw Fortello standing by her. "Who is that Fantasia?" Kamilia said a little confused. Fantasia said "Kamilia this is our brother Fortello." Kamilia looked at him and she realized it was him and she started to hug him and tell him how much she missed him.
About that time the door opened again and Hiko walked in. "So your plan worked, I am glad I could be a part of it Fantasia." Hiko said to her as he walked up to Kenshin. "Wait you had this all planned out but how?" Kenshin said confused. Hiko said "hen she was up in her room stupid apprentice." Fantasia said "when I was up in my room I told him to meet me on the way to town so we could conduct my plan. Which was to throw everyone off by him taking me and then Aoshi could go get my sister to bring her back her before anyone went looking for her. Then Hiko was to go and make sure she wasn't still at the apartment when Shishio and his group were to show and kidnap her."
Kenshin said "wait how come I only knew about Aoshi going to get your sister?" "Because I wanted the other part to be a surprise for you and everyone else, I knew you wouldn't think of me loving someone other than Sora and I won't and Sora well he is still alive that much I know." Fantasia said sending a shocked looked onto everyone's faces. "What are you talking about?" "Sora talked to me when I was at Hiko's while I was sleeping or while he thought or was suppose to think I was sleeping."
Kenshin and the others looked at her and then they went to the room where he had stuck Sora's body for now and opened it and Sora stood there and said "Hey I was waiting for you to open the door I had already opened the coffin." Fantasia ran up and hugged him and he said "Hey long time no see I am glad I got to you in time to make sure you were all right." Sora said kissing her. Kenshin said "but we thought you were dead how were you able to look dead without being dead?" Sora said "easy I was the best in my class for acting dead in school." Kenshin and the others started laughing. Fantasia held onto him like he was going to leave her agin.
"I am sorry for tricking you like that but I wanted to make sure you could go on without me if I ever did leave you." Sora said and Fantasia said "I know you wouldn't want to leave me and I am glad you did do it because I would probably have never been able to survive without you if I had never lost you once." She kissed him again.
Well there is chapter 9 now if there aren’t a lot of twists in there then I don't know what a lot is. I hope you still read and review my fanfiction and like it even though there are a lot of twists in it.
Preview for next chapter: "So they have gotten both of the girls and Battousai thinks he is the strongest and can keep both of them safe. Just wait Battousai I will get your little family and then what will you do?"
Sora: Yay I am back in the fanfiction I am so happy ^_^.
Leokia: See Sora everything worked out for you.
Sora: Yeah it did didn't it.
Fortello: Yeah but Leokia your forgetting something you haven't told anyone about me yet besides I am Fantasia and Kamilia's brother.
Leokia: Right Fortello is Fantasia and Kamilia's younger brother he was about three when Battousai killed their parents but he still remembers it because he thought he had lost everything that day. His age is unknown but he is a little younger than Kamilia. He has white hair and orange eyes. He is known for wearing orange and white outfits.
Please submit a review and if you have any questions just ask in the review and I will try to answer it if I can. I hope that you like it and you will read the next chapter which I am going to start on soon. Sorry it is short but I have had a lot of writer's block with this chapter and I haven't had too much time to write it with school and all and they are getting really big on this homework stuff I have had homework like almost every night so sorry to everyone who waited for this chapter. I am so sorry it took me so long to write it but I promise it won't take me this long to write the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Rurouni Kenshin none of it the only thing I own is the fanfiction I am writing with the characters in it and my own characters.
Here are all of the signs you will need to remember.
*...*character is thinking
"..."character is speaking
=...=character is having a flashback
(...)used for Author Notes and time and places when they are named by the author also for when they speak telepathically.
Leokia: I want to thank everyone who has reviewed my fanfiction so far it makes me really happy to know that you actually like my fanfiction enough to read it and review me on it and tell me that you like it. It means a lot to me and I would have never kept writing this fanfiction if it wasn't for everyone who review. Also I am starting on chapter one of a fanfiction to Magic Knight Rayearth and if you like MKR then I hope you will read it as well when I finish chapter one and put it up on the site.
Okay here is the next chapter of my fanfiction and I hope you like it because this chapter may confuse you a bit and I am free to answer any question you will have on this next chapter.
Chapter: 9 The Unexpected Gets Expected
The four sat in the living room with Battousai and Fortello still fuming from being made sit down and for the fact that Battousai's sensei was making moves on his cousin and Fortello's sister. It had been almost an hour when Battousai looked over at Kaoru and said "its been an hour almost can we now go and kill him?!" Kaoru looked over at him with an angry expression on her face and said "No! Like I said before we are going to wait it out here! Besides if he is bound to come back here sooner or later because Fantasia will want him to! So stop being so damn stupid!"
Battousai was taken away by the forcefulness of Kaoru at the time. It excited him and kinda of scared him at the same time. So he just sat there and said nothing while Fortello on the other hand couldn't take Battousai's mate yelling at him anymore. "I'm leaving she is my sister and I don't care what any of you say!" "No, you’re not! Stay where you are just wait it out she is bound to come back here I know this much about her!" Kaoru said back to Fortello as he just stood there looking at them.
Fortello didn't care what Kaoru said he just pushed past her and walked out of the living room. Battousai was upset that he had pushed his Kaoru no one could push his Kaoru not even Fantasia's brother. Battousai stood up and Kaoru said "sit down Battousai!" Battousai looked at her and said "No! No one pushes you and gets away with it! I don't care who they are or the reason they do it!" Kaoru just looked at him. She knew what he was doing was nice but she couldn't allow him to hurt Fortello over her.
Meanwhile Hiko looked over at Fantasia who had fallen asleep where she was sitting when he brought her to his little home (looks like a shack to me but little house sounds better) and he walked over to her and picked her up and laid her on the futon. He knew she wouldn't wake because he remembered her as a child. He knew her parents and he felt really responsible when Battousai or Kenshin as he knows him killed her parents.
He knew that Battousai watched her grow and he taught Battousai so he also watched her grow up into the beautiful young women. Hiko was rather upset when she fell in love with Sora for the fact he had become quite taken with her. Hiko cared for her but he knew what he had to do to save Battousai and all the other vampires and her as well. He had to take her sister to Shishio. He knew that the deal was if one of the two daughters of Japalow the cat demon he may spare Battousai's life. Hiko didn't want to give him either of them because he knew about their power and how they could match the Battousai if they wanted too.
Shishio knew of Fantasia's power but no one but Fantasia knows about Kamilia's power. Hiko decided now would be a good time to go and find Kamilia. He left the house and what he didn't know was Fantasia was still awake. "Where is he going I wonder?" Fantasia got up and left the house but she decided the first place she would go is home. Fantasia ran off she knew she could find her way back home but she was more worried about Kamilia then Hiko.
Meanwhile Fortello was out looking for Fantasia and Kamilia. Fortello started looking in obvious places like the city because there she would more than likely be with Kamilia. It would be good if he knew exactly where Kamilia lived. So Fortello just decided to follow his instinct and his sense to find Kis of vampires and people. He walked along until he stopped because he sensed a huge Ki and at first he thought it was Battousai but then he realized it was his sister's Ki and turned around and went back to the mansion.
Fantasia was running back to the mansion when she ran into someone. "Ouch what was that!" Fantasia said as she fell down. She looked up to see what she it and she saw Fortello. "Who are you?" Fantasia said very confused and angry. Fortello looked up and said "Fantasia is it really you?" "yes my name is Fantasia but your not helping me by not telling me who you are!" "I am your brother Fortello. Do you not remember me?" Fortello said upset that his own sister would not remember her. Fantasia said "my brother I thought you were dead!" Fantasia said running up to him and hugging him.
"So you do remember me?" "Yes I remember you how could I forget you." "But how come you thought I was dead?" "Because I couldn't find you after our house was destoryed and our parents were killed. I thought me and Kamilia were the only ones to survive." Fantasia said now in tears. Fortello hugged her and said "it is all right we are together again." Fantasia hugged him back and she looked up at him and said "I have missed you so much." Fortello said "I have missed you as well. I looked everywhere for you and Kamilia and now that I have found you I can finally see my other sister."
"Oh yeah Kamilia that is why I was going back to the mansion I need to find Kenshin!" Fantasia said in a rush and Fortello looked at her and said "who is Kenshin?" Fantasia turned to him and said "Kenshin you know our cousin?" Fortello said "our cousin is Battousai." "Yes he is his real name is Kenshin." Fantasia said. Fortello was a little confused he thought that their cousin's name was Battousai he didn't know that he had a different name. "How do you know his name is Kenshin?" Fortello said very confused at this point.
"Because I know more about him than he wants to think. I found a lot out from Hiko and of course I have heard a lot from him as well." "Oh okay well I guess that answers my question." "Good now lets get going I need to go back to the mansion if I am correct Kamilia is there." Fantasia said as she started walking away from Fortello. "What do you mean she is at the mansion?" Fortello said confused once again. "I asked a favor from one of my friends even though he doesn't act like it I know he is." Fantasia said turning to her brother who didn’t know just looked at her but agreed with her and walked up to her to so he wouldn't be following her back to the mansion.
Meanwhile, back at the mansion. "Why did you bring me here?" Kamilia said as she couldn't see who had taken her from her house or where they had brought her all she knew was that they had stopped running with her. "I brought you here as a favor for your sister." The mysterious person said. Kamilia knew the voice though and she said "Aoshi is that you where did you bring me to and why am I here?" Aoshi took the blindfold off of her and said "you ask too many questions but they will all be answered soon enough." Kamilia said "I would like for them to be answered now!" Aoshi said "Battousai will answer them as soon as he gets up here."
"Kenshin better get up here now or I am going to start hurting some vampires!" Kamilia said now angry that her questions weren't getting answered. "Call him Battousai you know he doesn't like to be called by the other name." Aoshi said trying to calm her down. "I don't care what he likes being called him better get up her before I call him a stupid asshole who thinks he is better than everyone else." Kamilia said now more angry that he still was helping her.
Meanwhile, downstairs Battousai, Kaoru, and Misao were waiting on some kind of news about Fantasia. "Do you think Fortello will do anything stupid once he finds Fantasia and Hiko?" Kaoru said to Battousai hoping he would know the answer. "I don't know but if he is anything like Fantasia yeah he will." Battousai said back a little upset that Fortello had still pushed his Kaoru. Kaoru said "oh do you really think he is that much like his sister." Battousai said "yes I believe he is a lot like his sister and him pushing you to find her proved it."
Kaoru smiled a bit at how he cared for her so much that he would keep thinking about a petty thing such as someone pushing her and he didn't even push her that hard it was more like a shove not a push. "I hope we find out soon if he found her or not." Kaoru said a little worried. About that time the door opened and Fantasia and Fortello walked in. Kaoru ran up and hugged her and said "are you all right? We were worried about you!" Fantasia said "yes I am fine and there was nothing to worry about." As she pushed Kaoru off of her. Battousai understood Fantasia pushing Kaoru he knew she wasn't one for hugging.
Battousai looked at Fantasia and said "so when did you and my sensei get together and how long have you known him?" Fantasia looked at him confused and said "First of all I am not with Hiko and secondly I have known him about as long as you and you know that Kenshin!" Battousai said "You know you're not suppose to call me that and yeah I did know that you knew him a long time but I didn't know he had any feelings for you!" "Why not Kenshin because you are upset because of all the people you killed huh?! Does it make you feel you can use your own name and have people call you by the name they fear most?! Does it make you feel better that people fear you because of what you are called by?!
Why don't you give up your whole Battousai act and act like the person I know you can! I know there is more to you than a blood thirsty killer Kenshin I know this much and so does Kaoru now show it to her!" Fantasia said screaming at the top of her lungs. She was so angry at him. Battousai just looked at her she was so angry at him right now she was in tears and she was the only other person besides Kaoru he didn't want to see cry.
"Fantasia it is all right I am sorry for ever thinking you had anything to do with my sensei. Don't cry because you are angry at me for thinking such a thing and you are right I do have a lot to show and tell Kaoru about myself and I see I can't hide if from her any more." Kenshin said as he turned to Kaoru. She smiled at him and said "I will love you no matter what your past is or what your name is I still love you and will always love you." Kenshin actually smiled and kissed her.
Kamilia came running down the stairs followed by Aoshi. "Stop I told you to stay upstairs in the room until Battousai came to tell you what is going on." Aoshi said. "No my sister is here and she will tell me what is going on! I don't need my so-called cousin to do that! " Kamilia said as she got down the steps to Fantasia and saw Fortello standing by her. "Who is that Fantasia?" Kamilia said a little confused. Fantasia said "Kamilia this is our brother Fortello." Kamilia looked at him and she realized it was him and she started to hug him and tell him how much she missed him.
About that time the door opened again and Hiko walked in. "So your plan worked, I am glad I could be a part of it Fantasia." Hiko said to her as he walked up to Kenshin. "Wait you had this all planned out but how?" Kenshin said confused. Hiko said "hen she was up in her room stupid apprentice." Fantasia said "when I was up in my room I told him to meet me on the way to town so we could conduct my plan. Which was to throw everyone off by him taking me and then Aoshi could go get my sister to bring her back her before anyone went looking for her. Then Hiko was to go and make sure she wasn't still at the apartment when Shishio and his group were to show and kidnap her."
Kenshin said "wait how come I only knew about Aoshi going to get your sister?" "Because I wanted the other part to be a surprise for you and everyone else, I knew you wouldn't think of me loving someone other than Sora and I won't and Sora well he is still alive that much I know." Fantasia said sending a shocked looked onto everyone's faces. "What are you talking about?" "Sora talked to me when I was at Hiko's while I was sleeping or while he thought or was suppose to think I was sleeping."
Kenshin and the others looked at her and then they went to the room where he had stuck Sora's body for now and opened it and Sora stood there and said "Hey I was waiting for you to open the door I had already opened the coffin." Fantasia ran up and hugged him and he said "Hey long time no see I am glad I got to you in time to make sure you were all right." Sora said kissing her. Kenshin said "but we thought you were dead how were you able to look dead without being dead?" Sora said "easy I was the best in my class for acting dead in school." Kenshin and the others started laughing. Fantasia held onto him like he was going to leave her agin.
"I am sorry for tricking you like that but I wanted to make sure you could go on without me if I ever did leave you." Sora said and Fantasia said "I know you wouldn't want to leave me and I am glad you did do it because I would probably have never been able to survive without you if I had never lost you once." She kissed him again.
Well there is chapter 9 now if there aren’t a lot of twists in there then I don't know what a lot is. I hope you still read and review my fanfiction and like it even though there are a lot of twists in it.
Preview for next chapter: "So they have gotten both of the girls and Battousai thinks he is the strongest and can keep both of them safe. Just wait Battousai I will get your little family and then what will you do?"
Sora: Yay I am back in the fanfiction I am so happy ^_^.
Leokia: See Sora everything worked out for you.
Sora: Yeah it did didn't it.
Fortello: Yeah but Leokia your forgetting something you haven't told anyone about me yet besides I am Fantasia and Kamilia's brother.
Leokia: Right Fortello is Fantasia and Kamilia's younger brother he was about three when Battousai killed their parents but he still remembers it because he thought he had lost everything that day. His age is unknown but he is a little younger than Kamilia. He has white hair and orange eyes. He is known for wearing orange and white outfits.
Please submit a review and if you have any questions just ask in the review and I will try to answer it if I can. I hope that you like it and you will read the next chapter which I am going to start on soon. Sorry it is short but I have had a lot of writer's block with this chapter and I haven't had too much time to write it with school and all and they are getting really big on this homework stuff I have had homework like almost every night so sorry to everyone who waited for this chapter. I am so sorry it took me so long to write it but I promise it won't take me this long to write the next chapter.