You are one of the best people to write from Naoto's POV. I know this story is old, but I love it. You dug deeper and made those feelings real. I also love how Kanji approached Naoto about it. The way you write Seta is great. This piece is seriously wonderful. Thank you for your time and effort.

Something about 5 a.m is just right for a little angst, especially when it's so well portrayed. The mind takes surprising turns when placed under stress- and I dearly wish Naoto had been stressed enough in the game to go running into Kanji's arms! Saying that implies that I would love for them to be canon, but after reading this fic, I would be quite annoyed to see Kanji/Naoto go any way but the way you depict you. There's a master for every pairing, and I think you are the Kanji/Naoto god, m'dear.

Poor, poor Naoto. Abusing her body like that so she can try and convince herself she's a boy, even worse than in the game/anime itself. Just... poor, poor Naoto.

Kanji is such a sweetie though, and it does feel good when Kanji decides to see her and tell her how he feels, to try and help her. Another good piece my man!

okay, i'm coming back to review this story after relaxing for a little while, because i was quite literally in tears by the end. i happen to be genderfluid between female and neutral, and female-bodied. i match up about half the time, and the rest is horrid, so pretty much everything you wrote is how i feel at my worst in terms of dysphoria. (especially naoto feeling unable to ask others to continue using male pronouns. pretty sure that was when the tears started to well up.)

while i can't speak for others, both those who experience dysphoria and those who don't, i think you did a fabulous and more-than-slightly heartbreaking job of writing how it feels. i don't know what else to say (i don't think there's much else to say once you admit to crying over something), but i think maybe "thank you for writing something so painfully beautiful" might work.

I. Love. This. I absolutely love it! I'm so impressed by your use of the dichotomy theme with Naoto - all of your stories feature such an interesting depth with her gender and how it impacts her relationships with others, especially kindred spirit Kanji.

Thank you so much, what a wonderful eloquent piece you have here!

I do not know why but of all persona 4 fics I love Kanji x Naoto the most, even more you my dear friend write thous in the best quality on this site(or any other), so I was overjoyed to read one more of these from you, as you and your fics are indeed awesome as they get, so please keep the great work going XD

*hugs* that made me cry in the end, like happy-sad-alls-good cry...

i dunno what the hell you were talking about, this is more then acceptable, and another take on what 'could be' that none of us know about... i loved it, its cute, and i like the end best because it describes what i've probably said a billion times to you Zero, they're opposites in the most perfect, and match evenly, Kanji can't decide what he wants, and Naoto can't decide what she is, so they fit, perfectly, and i actually like more that you left it ambigous, yes they finally... (read as: FINALLY! in super bold with underlines and italics...) admit 'something' to each other and 'kinda' accept it, or at least for the moment it is accepted, and all is at peace... for the moment (emphasis here) since we all know only chaos will continue on from here...

i'm actually slightly glad you turns down the idea of 'physically' fixing herself, because it seems to me, that while in the beginning she knew it as black and white, her daytime self and her nighttime self, i got the impression that as we progressed, by the end even she didn't know what 'Naoto' was, he's a she and she's a he, it both is and isn't, there was no black and white anymore no nighttime daytime, simply was and wasn't, both at the same time, so essentially she started, probably due to the proxy of having her birth gender revealed, started to subconsciously accept 'it' while still clinging, rather adamantly and in such a stubborn way that only 'Naoto Shirogane' freakin' can, to the idea that 'Naoto is male' when the reality is 'she' isn't... at least not completely physically...

its weird but can also accept the anorexia thing, because ironically, what Naoto-kun apparently doesn't' realize, is that most anorexia actually develops in females namely because it is an inground genetic imperitive that activates in the presence of a disturbing situation, namely if the female is completely uncomfortable in her home situation (Ie: abuse, more mental then physical in most cases, stress, ubrupt changes in life, etc. etc.) she may forgo eating as a simple 'reaction' to the 'stress' without real consideration... because science says its evolutionary... (the only reason i can fathom is that a sickly female would be left behind, therefore she can leave the 'clan' and find something else to make her situation more appealing... or something) so the fact that she slips into this awefully... 'female' response actually made me giggle, just slightly, more because of the irony, and not that i actually find anorexia funny... i don't actually...

so yes, there is much for me to analyze here Zero, but i think i'll leave it at that :3

loved it, as always...

till next *Salute-waves* Sayounara, Zero!

-Ikasury