DAMN IT
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO DO THIS

Omg this story deserves more reviews! It's just soooooo beautiful, it's like my fourth time reading this and I still can't get over the ending and the beautiful wordplays, the plot twists! Ahhhh i'm crying...

I may be immature to say this but I hate it but at the same time I respect your story, thank you

You broke my heart...how dare you?!TT

WHAT THE HELL?! I didn't know I was getting myself into an angsty fic! P.S. amazing writing

The story is really engaging... couldn't stop and read all in one go...but idk ending is too angsty.. not complaining though... Gonna read this again when I get craving for angst..but today was not that day... anyway glad u took ur time for writing this.

Hello, this has left me emotionally damaged. How dare you. I am crying. This was amazing. I never want to read it again it hurt so much.

Dammit. You keep making me cry! This was absolutely beautiful, sad but beautiful. I understand how tou feel about Sasuke but still hoping that you'll come up with a sequel for this where it's not all that impossible for Sasuke yo have the best of both worlds.

Oh, and one more thing: the title. I have no idea what is the interpretation that you wanted for it, but to me it's like a statement that their love wasn't as strong as it should have been. That it lacked something, if both of them let go of each other this easily. Maybe they weren't ready for it? Who knows;)

Alright, let's put this in points, if not, what I have to say about this fic would come out as a mess:)
1) I liked it a lot. I don't think I've read something like this ever before, so thanks a lot for sharing.
2) I'm happy that you pictured Sakura as a capable young girl who doesn't need a backup whenever she does something. On the other hand she wasn't perfect, she made mistakes, but she was mature. Good job of not making her cannon-divergent but still attractive, admirable and likeable.
3) The idea of Naruto not remembering Sasuke - amazing for a SasuSaku fic. It really irritates me that in cannon everything is always about Naruto-Sasuke friendship and Sakura is just an addition. Now she finally got to be the most important person to Sasuke, as it should be if they're a couple.
4) You developed Sai, that's not something I see very often, I didn't expect that. I liked the way you formed him. He finally mattered. He cared for his team, he truly was a part of them with all those emotions he doesn't understand: happiness, attachment, jealousy, desperation. Putting him in the center of the plot at the end of the story was a nice move too. Good to know he did play a huge part in this mess. Good to know his reasons were great.
5) ...well, I hope you put more of Kakashi into it. He was absent most of the time, barely present when not necessary, always absent when necessary. I don't mean this fic would be better if he appeared more, it would be sure different, just now I wonder... What were his thoughts about Sasuke? Was he happy that he came back, even if for a while? Or maybe he didn't care that much because he'd already got used to his desertion and accepted it? He doesn't show his emotional state even once, so I can only make theories:D
6) Shikamaru-Sakura moments: unforgetable. The Idea of connecting them both by something like this, it really created an impression of them having a very special but unimposing friendly relationship. Even if in my opinion Shikamaru did move on after Asuma's dead, in this fic it was a good move. I appreciate that you put Into next to him. It was irrelevant for this fic for her to be helping him in any way, but still, you put her by his side. Small details make a deep story, it's a fact. If a fic is concentrated only on the main plot, it is never a noticeable story (spare one-shots, but it's totally different).
7) Naruto was sure upset that Sasuke didn't remember him. You didn't highlighted that too much though. Naruto was never the main character here. Was that intentional? If yes, I guess you wanted to manifest SasuSaku as much as you wanted:)
8) Sasuke: well, wow. sort of. There are a lot of things about him that you never put in words in this story, that you didn't write down - it was left for a reader to discover, to wonder about, to understand. The way you created SasuSaku: when he openly said that "I love you, but I can't hold back anyway". It shows that Sasuke is stable in his priorities about what's his goal (not that I support him here...). I liked the way Sakura dealt with it, somehow matching up to his decision. But I appreciated more that he was actually happy, even if for a moment. You showed it somewhere between the lines how hurt Sasuke was by his past - to hurt to move on. And the MOST amazing move you made: that despite many bonding moments between Sasuke and Naruto, Sasuke didn't just start to consider Naruto to be his best friend. It would be an easy way, but, like with many other things in here, you didn't take the obvious way, you didn't try to please cannon-lovers. You just let them be.
9) Thank you for not finishing it with a happy ending. Really, thank you. When I was in the middle of the story, I thought: he will get his memories later, there will be a mess and then he'll understand that he loves Sakura and maybe a happy ever after. Well, not that I desperately wanted it to be like this, it was more like a prediction. But then, somewhere in the last chapters, it wavered. The plot turned its direction to something bad and judging by how few chapters lasted for me to read, I thought: it's not gonna be a happy end. And it wasn't. Many people are afraid of bad ending, but I really appreciate stories where not everything is fine at the end. It's more realistic this way, especially in such stories like this one. The open ending, though, surprised me (but not in a negative way). It's possible to write a second part of this fic with the way you ended it.
10) One picky thing: there was a moment on SasuSaku mission when they met Jiraiya and Jiraiya stated he had never met Sasuke before. But... Either I remember bad, but wasn't he in the Hokage's office in the first chapter when Sasuke appeared in the village?
11) The most funny moment: "Kakashi-senpai, Naruto is pulling at Sasuke's hair" (Shikamaru) :'D and it made Shika look less mourning for a short moment.

Anyway, great job. I'm putting this in my favourites;)

Dear God! That hit me, hard! I absolutely love this story, absolute genius!

I did a double take at "Sasuke sniffles" because those two words just sound so wrong together lmao. That scene was funny!

This was actually awful. As in it took too long to get to the point and your anti-Sasuke behavior showed. I’m really disappointed I wasted my time reading this.

Honestly...I'm not quite sure I'm happy with the ending. Like, it doesn't feel complete, not without what Sasuke thinks about taking Sakura's memories, you know? Like I would love to see some sort of sequel one-shot or something, where in Sasuke just...realizes what he's lost and what he did to the girl who loved him unconditionally. Like that would be so intriguing and just, neat. :) Liked this anyways, because I honestly do think that there's always been something between Sasuke and Sakura, even if it's nothing, you know? Like there's just a heavy thrumming of something always hanging between them and it's so obvious sometimes that it makes me wonder why anyone questions their love for each other at all. :)

i love this story so much. but honestly i feel so sorry to sasuke that poor boy. but is it wrong for me to stil want they to end together like TT i dont know