This is lovely. So many words left unsaid, so much feelings kept hidden. They could have everything in their limited time but they didn't. That's the tragedy. That's the beauty of it all.

Oh my god, this is beautiful. This made me cry.

Thank you for capturing the devastation of war so heart-breakingly. Ino's never been expanded upon very well in my experience, either in canon or in fanfiction, so I really appreciated the depth of the level to which you've written her. Shikamaru, too - somehow he's always struck me to be the kind of person most easily affected by loss, and you've captured that weakness of him perfectly.

Once again, thank you for writing!

This is the best post war fanfiction I have read. It had me crying most of the time. Thank you for posting this. Everyone is always underestimating team ten, even with the help of Naruto and sasuke in the war there is a chance they wouldn't win if team ten had fallen. Just how you had shown it; shika left so the leaf fell because their was no one to tell them how to go about the war, there was no one like him, if ino died there would be no one to convey the message and if choji had died there would be no one to pull the team together and make them work. And the ending was just, was just... Argh, I have no words. It's so beautiful and painful. And I was crying and laughing at the same time.

Well that fucked me up. Kudos to you for making me cry! Beautifully written and absolutely gut wrenchingly phenomenal.

(First of all you should know that english is not my mother language, so please forgive my mistakes.)

It's hard to put in word my feelings right now, but I try to do my best. You know I am writing in my language (I'm from Hungary), and writing is not just a passion for me, but kind of like a mission. I always focus on the feels, the unspeakable words, the stories behind the evenings, because I think the feeling are the purposes of life and they are holds the most amazing stories. I absolutely didn't miss the exacst strategy or fighting details, your masterpiece was perfect in it's own way.

And... it's hard to express myself, not just because I think my english knowledge isn't enough for that, but because I think no words in this world can descirbe the perfection you just made here. I always interested about the feeling of the veteran people, and all the war stuffs in general. I guess this is a really hard and dangerous field of writing, because we have to be respectful for those people who lived thorught this hell in the real life too. And I think you accomplished the challenge perfectly. The words are beutiful, every feeling was real, and I could feel Ino's pain thought the whole story. It was truly beautiful and had a really important mission for all the hopeless, broken souls. And I can't even put in words how much I LOVED the Yamanak's motto. God, the whole thing was beautiful.

I'm so sorry if my rewiew is a pure chaos, but my feelings and my thoughts are still spinning in my head and soul. In the end of the lines there is one sentence what is up to my mind from thin novel: "If their story doesn't have a happy ending it does not meaning it shouldn't be told."

Both Shikamaru's and Ino's personality was amazing. I am a really big ShikaIno fan, but unfortunately so many writers just can't catch their real personalities, and I think there is nothing more scary than an OOC Shikamaru. Yes, of course that they were different from the original story but because of the circumstances it was necesarry, and it was truly beliavable that they become something like this under the weights of these events. I loved their different, deep and hard relationship, I loved Naruto, Kakashi... I just loved everything about this story. And the end... yeah, it wasn't a happy end, and my heart is breaking for Shikamaru, but for Ino it was just... beutiful, and it was like a deep breath for her.

I am sorry for the long and messy crap... It was one of the most beutiful, amazing and deep stories I have ever reed in the fanfiction area. Thank you very much. Thank you.

I have read this 4 times and each and every time I find a new part of the story that makes me cry (not that I don't cry again at the parts that already have). I was torn by the ending, there's always this silence that follows it and I just love it.

Literally cried towards the end, so much emotion. Amazing, spectacular job!

This was absolutely amazing. I don't think I've felt this much emotion in a long time. I was incredibly lucky to have stumbled upon this gem. Thank you so much for the good read.

Your story was incredible. I am full of tears in the end. My heart stoped beeting for the final. You are an amazing writter. I had to read it twice to taste every feeling described. A perfect story, every single word. OMG I can't stop crying!
I will wait for other master piece, hope you can writte another shikamaru/ino story. The way you describe feelings, scenarios,ideas is perfect, the narrative is perfection. Thank you, thank you for your talent.