I can see now why this story has so many reviews, and why more than a few are from people revisiting it. I loved everything about this. Just, everything. I don't know what I could say that hasn't been said 213 other times, and considering its age and the date you last updated anything, I don't know if you'll see this anyway. But if you ever do, just know that I am very glad to have found it after all this time. Perhaps some day in the future I too will be coming back to read it again.

Sad but beautiful in a way

Hey! So I'm not even sure if you even visit this website anymore (I know I don't haha), but I'm just popping by and saying that this has got to be one of the best breakdown fics I've ever read (it helps that I just had a pretty bad breakdown a few days ago.. haha oops) - but really. Jesus, whenever I wanna read something that has a real punch-to-the-gut type of heartbreaking emotion, I think of this piece, I'm not even kidding. And no joke, no other fic I've read can't compare - this fic just hits me where it hurts.. You know, the first time I read this was.. gosh, middle school at the earliest - and now I'm in college so I'm just... woah. I don't know, I'm just getting nostalgic for my middle school self all the while still amazed that this fic still hits as hard as it did back then. So, I don't know - if you still get notifications from this website, I hope this gives you a smile :)

This is brillaint. My headcannon was similar, which is why I like Sasuke a lot more that most people do. I wish Kishimoto had explored his psyche more.
And the vinegar scene, I wish this was cannon. This would make Naruto's drive for saving Sasuke so much more understandable.

This is so sweet and sad

I was expecting the chicken to be poisoned or something...

(I am author/user HawkofLight and I wanted to review this story again but it didn't let me when I was logged in since I had already reviewed it years before. I signed out and am reviewing as a guest to get around it.)

Years later after first reading this, I found myself looking through all my favorites and coming across your story again. It's around 4AM on a Saturday morning and I cannot stop crying after this re-read.

Thank you so much for giving us such a beautiful and moving one-shot; you have a gift. It was authors like you who truly made Naruto such a greater experience than it was during it's heyday beyond just the source material for me and made me appreciate my favorite character Sasuke even more so. I treasure this story.

I hope life is treating you well

Yea, and you know what that crack is called? A buttcrack.

I read this fic for the first time back in 2007, and it was one of those stories that stayed with me until now. I sometimes catch myself thinking about this fic whenever someone asks Naruto fic recs. I came back to re-reading this back in 2011 and still as thought provoking as it was when I first read it. Now I have a copy of it in my phone so I can read it from time to time.

I'm just absolutely in love with this, and thank you, thank you so much for writing it. :)

This is amazing. I feel like Sasuke's brokenness gets ignored a lot of the time. His pain is touched on, but mostly serves as a simple explanation of his rage in the story. We don't get to see things like Sasuke breaking down on his mother's birthday, and that makes it easy for people to dismiss the things Sasuke does as ego and selfishness and foolishness.

I love the idea of Naruto seeing behind the veil, and especially realizing that he can't actually heal Sasuke. I also love how this feels like a missing scene. Given that they act the same afterwards and never mention it, it's easy to imagine that this is part of the reason why Naruto understands Sasuke better than the others, and doesn't blame or give up on him.

This fic broke my heart in the best possible way. Thank you. I need to go find a tissue now...

I must say, as a published author, this is a beautiful piece of work. I hope you achieve all your dreams and have not totally left the fanfic community behind. You are only a child for so long, and to give up childish things is not how the greatest of things are accomplished.

Incredible for a one shot. Thumb up.

Idk how many times ive read this and everytime i love it more and more. Thank you for this amazing piece of art!

Beautiful... Simply beautiful...

noooo sasuke