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[sowell]

Title: When the house falls down (14/14)
Author: sowell
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Language, violence, character death, general lack of hearts and rainbows, um....melodrama? Also, spoilers up through manga issue 418, both in fic and author's notes. Cheerfully ignores everything post-418, which is rapidly rendering this fic AU. Possible spoilers for later

Comments

[sowell]

you've really brought me back to the Naruto fandom full-throttle (I was kind of, actually pretty close to leaving)

Yay! That's so nice to hear. Fic can keep me in a fandom YEARS after canon has stopped interesting me.

Itachi's last words were very memorable, and I loved how you described him.

I think - stripped of all the circumstances he had to deal with - that Itachi probably would have been a pretty good guy.

And it made me glad that Sasuke showed respect and gratitude towards her.

The Sakura-Sasuke scene was sort of a replay of their scene in the first chapter, but with a lot more gentleness between them. I like that he can express things to her that he wouldn't to anyone else, including Naruto.

Regarding Kakashi...he's probably my favorite individual character. He's manipulative, but not mean. And Kakashi basically WAS Sasuke when he was younger. He was cold and arrogant and totally self-centered. So I think he understands Sasuke better than anyone, and can actually assess his character with a clear head. I love Kakashi too much as well. :)

All those little details of Naruto losing his patience, Sasuke wanting to deny that he'd ever forgive the elders, Kakashi spilling his glass “accidentally” and Sakura setting everything right made me laugh.

I figured it was sort of a foregone conclusion at that point - for the characters and for the readers - that Sasuke would be forgiven. So I could have some fun with it. :)

It touched me a lot; a lot more than any kissing scenes or eternal proclamations of “I love you” would have done. I just know that in this story at least, things between them can only change for the better.

That's EXACTLY the feeling I was hoping to leave people with. I tend to leave my fics somewhat open-ended, so I didn't want to shove them into a relationship. But I wanted people to see that they were going to be all right.

the rebuilding thing with the children, and how it symbolised the rebuilding of Naruto and Sasuke's friendship was quite something

Thanks! That's my favorite paragraph in the fic, and where I took the title from. :)

Thank you so much for the thoughtful review. All your reviews, really, have been awesome, and I found myself looking forward to them every time I posted a chapter. Thanks again!

[youkohiei_fan]

I read the first two or three chapters around a month or more ago and had forgotten all about this fic and earlier today rediscovered it so after several hours I have to say I'm at a loss of words at how to describe this story.
It's everything any Naruto fan could ever ask for in a fic which such a intriguing plot and beautiful resolution it's sad to see it end.
This is the kind of fic I've been waiting to read again and after months of having mediocre fic and other hits and misses I'm ecstatic to have have found this. ^_^
Truly this is one of the best Naruto fics I've ever read (And I've been reading them for a few years now) and not just for the SasuNaru, but just everything about it. It's overwhelming and emotional and just brilliant. Definitely adding this to my memories. Again a masterpiece if there ever was one and I look forward to reading your other fics as well.

[sowell]

Thanks! I'm glad you came back to it.

Truly this is one of the best Naruto fics I've ever read (And I've been reading them for a few years now) and not just for the SasuNaru, but just everything about it.

Thank you so much! That's a crazy nice compliment. I have some other Naruto fic in my memories, and I just posted a one-shot follow up to this yesterday. Enjoy!

[youkohiei_fan]

Thank you, I'll be sure to check them out. ^_^