I love your writing style and voice. It's beautiful. It feels both very real and yet very dreamlike at the same time. Makes me think of Kate Chopin.

And then...?

C'mon, continue please?

at first I thought it will become one of those boring story, then I try to give it a shot, I read first chapter and 'whoa', I continue to read second chap and 'whoa whoa', then I read the rest of the chap and 'whoa whoa whoa AWESOME' lol. It's really interesting. The way you describe each character and their emotional mind somehow manage to pull me in the story.

I just cannot believe, that you have left this story incomplete. As I cannot believe that I haven't found and read this story earlier.

All the emotions for this story. All of them. Depressed Ichigo over a Rukia-situation has always been like a drug for me. And this story... My God, THIS story...!

But your cliffhanger is worse than Kubo's xD I don't know what I must do to make you continue this story (beg,cry,homicide,suicide etc) but I would anything. Literally, anything.

very good, I like the way you eat each chapter, I like the role played in this fanfic Isshin,

Please post the next chapter soon.

I like this:

""Ichigo," he says, "He's a sword without a sheath. A sword without a sheath is a sword that lives in fear of hurting others. You became his sheath, Rukia. When you came, you became his sheath and he changed. He changed into the man he would have surely become if Masaki had never left.""

is very fantastic and true!

a great story!

hope to see an update soon! _

A big positive of a hiatus during a story, is that I have the pleasure to re-read everything and remember why I loved it so much in the first place. Very sweet and very sad, but hopefully something of a happy ending will come about. I'm that kind of optimist xD good luck, great writing!

This story is extraordinarily well written. Probably the best one I've ever read.

The premise is terribly self-indulgent though. Ichigo is so overwrought by Rukia's departure that he's barely able to commit to fleeting assignations and has to occasionally stand the ignominy of a jarringly pious Isshin. Thankfully Ichigo isn't alone in his hellfire, as he managed to drag Orihime and subsequently Ishida down to revel alongside. Rukia left more scorched earth than Sherman did in his march to the Pacific.

But wait, it wasn't her at all. It was Ichigo. All tertiary characters should converge on his position to lay fault. Consuming all by drowning in self-pity because his famous ability to forge forward was cramped not due his lack of will, but Rukia's pervasive, suffocating omnipresence that left Ichigo lobotomized. I don't mind if you want to cast yourself in the role of Rukia, but the narcissism by proxy involved to believe that one decision by her necessitated the destruction of three equally strong characters in turn is just so depressing. Give Ichigo, Orihime and Ishida some credit. Just because Rukia left doesn't mean they were cast adrift. No one's that important. And they'll never be that lost. Ichigo can get over it. And Rukia should get over herself.

Ugh still makes me want to cry.

Just.

Gah.

Everyone of your stories are sob stories A -shakesfist-

But it's still beautifully written

Please update sooner than this time? XD

-Alendra

oh... so sad...

i wonder.

its so great that you updated please write more because its so good!

Isshin was portrayed wonderfully. You brought forth the fact that he's not just some crazy guy that randomly attacks his son; that he's trying to be the best father he can be, and lives on for his family.

You've described Orihime's feelings so well here. My favorite line was:

"The snow globe that encased her fantasy world had finally shattered and the broken glass glinted like precious diamonds before they cut into her skin and stained her world crimson."

Absolutely stunning.

I must admit: Isshin kicks serious arse.

Honestly, you write that guy wonderfully. You give him a great amount of depth, but still keep him fantastically in character.

Beautiful, wonderful stuff.

~ Se-chan

This... is utterly beautiful and utterly devestating... that said, I am completely in LOVE with it... simply amazing work here, please keep the chapters rolling!