This is the Author's Note all readers dread/hate, and for that, I apologize.

You all inspire, create, demand, deliver, receive and adore so many ideas that one writer cannot capture or develop them all. Unfortunately, such is the case with this story, and for that, I apologize once more. I promised too much, and delivered too little.

The original concept for this story was for Naruto Ironwood, son of the General (Super soldier, with a semblance that kept his body at the peak of human capabilities, both mentally and physically) to attend Beacon with hopes of escaping his father's shadow and the shadow of the Atlesian government. He would either make his way onto Team RWBY, work alone, basically something cliche and overdone.

The story that ruined the concept I had originally included crafting a...Avengers-sort of knock off. Nora as Thor, Shikamaru as Stark, Choji as Hulk, TenTen as DumDum Dugan, Shino as Ant-Man, Tayuya as Widow, and well, I'm sure you can guess who "Lucky", Hanabi and Kiba were...These heroes, Defenders of Remnant I would've eventually called them, would have fought against public scrutiny against Huntsmen/Huntresses, Grimm, Politics and more to do what was right.

Foes, I would have introduced include" Sasuke as Wonder Man (would turn good), Itachi as Vision (see Sasuke), Ultron as himself, a fem-Loki (we got fem-Thor in Nora), a mashup with the Guardians (oh yeah, they'd have come into play somehow), their foe the Accuser, and finally Fin Fang Foom.

The planned pairing was for Weiss and Naruto to eventually become involved. A hint or smidge of flirting Yang/unnerved Naruto as well as playing on the ever popular Pyrrha/Naruto would possibly have come into play. Yang would flirt half-seriously and Naruto would be lost to it, Yang eventually becoming Weiss' lone rival (inner drama for Team RWBY), while Naruto and Pyrrha become friends, confidants, whose relationship would be misinterpreted by the students (gossip).

While I personally feel that this story failed because I was too far lost in the lure of bringing forth Marvel characters with Naruto masks (and it is most likely true), some of you may feel otherwise. If that is the case...then I leave you with this.

Take these concepts and use them to make a story of your own. My permission is given to all for these ideas, for I own NONE of the characters, setting or plot, just the ideas that brought them together.

My one request, is that you acknowledge that - if the story you make does incorporate these ideas or morphs them or was inspired by them - they were originally mine. This failed story, this bastard of a brain child...I love it. Even though I cannot focus on it, it is my creation and part of my heart is in it. Please, I beg you, on hands and knees...acknowledge me as inspiration/originator, just once.

In fact, acknowledge all sources of your inspiration. Be it a writer on this site, in this Pit we call home, or if its someone you know, someone on television, or a thought/event that belongs to another...acknowledge the thing that inspires you, just once.

This is BonesBoy15, writer of The Pit, primarily focused on Naruto-crossovers, and I deem this story abandoned.

Never Give Up.

Thank you for reading.