To my loyal readers

Hi everyone its me Yami. I would like to first apologies for my long absence without word. As most of you know my health has been pretty bad as I have kidney failure and have been undergoing dialysis for almost six years now.

I was looking better at one point and was on my way to better things but than covid hit and everything went down hill from there as things do and certain appointments and medical procedures were delayed.

Even now I'm still up and down with my illness, but some good news has come. I've been looking at undergoing a surgery to help get me towards the transplant list. But that surgery probably won't be until sometime next year since the original process was going to start in 2020 but covid pushed all my appointments for it back and only got it back on track after 2 years.

I have good news and bad news regarding Rise of the Whirling Tides. The first lot of bad news is THIS version I won't be continuing as I kind of lost where I was taking the story after not writing for so long, that and what with the revelations that has been released lately of the One-Piece world I have to adjust some of my ideas and theories, but will keep most.

The first lot of good news however is I am rewriting Rise of the Whirling Tides so look out for Version 2.0. I have been attempting a rewrite on and off for about two years now, sadly this is the next bad news, I have only just finished 4 chapters. So release will probably not be out for some time and when I do update it will be slow.

I will be keeping the original concept of Rise of the Whirling Tide, Naruto restarting the Shinobi are and making Uzushiogakure.

Anyway I hope everyone's been well. I will post again when I release the new version Rise of the Whirling Tides 2.0. Please look forward to it.

Kind Regards

Yami Hateshiginai