I just read your responses to my past reviews (and my reviews) and I'm horribly embarrased by my blathering. I really hope my reviewing skills have improved, especially seeing how long I'm putting off my own writing to review instead. ^^'
But don't feel like I'm forcing myself to review, I enjoy ever review I give, even the embarrasing ones, and I always want to give a review to something I've read, especially the good stories and the good authors.

Now, I liked this piece, I thought the imagery was incredble, the metaphors, everything I've associated with your past works, it showed here agian. But as for the actual story... I both liked and disliked it. I liked the idea and think you did a good job with it, but I sort of feel it lacked the emotion I usually feel from your stories. Maybe that's 'cause I'm sort of rushing (I'm using TONFA as procrastination right now) but I feel like you could have put a bit more feeling and emotion in it.
Other than that, I really enjoyed reading it. Again, I felt it had a bittersweet element in there that made the story all the better.

Author's Response: I'm sorry to reply to you so late, but ever since I read your review, I have been deeply troubled because I didn't know how to respond to this. In fact, I still don't... but I don't want to seem like a jerk and not respond to you at all. I'll do my best at replying to this and hope that I can somehow get my point across without seeming too stubborn or boastful, so here I go.rnrnI'm extremely biased about this story because it was actually quite personal to me. I can't quite explain why, but it just is for some reason. I can neither explain to you why this is so personal to me nor explain to you why there is an apparent lack of emotions in this story. Maybe the reason is because I started this off in Naruto's point of view (but my beta said that it was too OOC) before I swapped it to Sakura's. It might be that, while it was too emotional for Naruto, it was too emotionless for Sakura. While it's a half-baked idea and reason, it's the only thing I can think up of right now.rnrnOr maybe it's because I had wanted a sort of detached, reminiscent feeling to it. Maybe Sakura is only looking back on the things that she saw years and years ago and retelling them in a fashion that isn't connected to herself. I can't be sure, and I really wished I could tell you just what went wrong in this story, but I hope that it won't bother you too much. (But let me just say that I, as the writer, is allowed to worry and fuss over this as much as I would like to.)rnrnAs usual, thank you for your continual support! I really appreciate it.

wow...this was amazing. i ncr seen such describtion and i just flabergasts me. bravo!

Author's Response: Thank you very much! I'm glad that you liked this.