You didn't hurt yourself but you hurt me too, so thanks for that stabbing pain I have in my heart now.
The Nara family dynamics shouldn't have worked at all, Temari was too ambitious and headstrong to give up everything without any sort of bitterment and resentment it was a relationship that if realistic, would have blown up at some point. But LOL, glad its anime then I guess.

Amazing story! Heartbreaking though...

Lovely

Shikadai and Ino would be a great mother-son team!

oh please write more happy shikaino... this is tearing me apart from inside...

This is oh-so perfect! Thanks for writing it, somebody had to say it.

Beautiful and heartbreaking. These types of fics is exactly how i see their future, or why it is the way it is, Shikamaru marrying Temari, and Ino marrying Sai. They're sad because of what could've been just didn't. Anyways, great fic!

Because there will be no Ino-Shika-Cho if they end up together. (Ugly sobbing)

AMEN! this story hurts so beautifully. SHIKAINO FOREVER! Goodness gracious this is well written

Wow, I cried. ShikaIno is too beautiful and painful.

You broke my heart... How could you? It's so heartwrenching that I find it so accurate when you add it to the manga. It's not that I hate Temari but I've always thought that shikaino was meant for each other. But I think that Kishimoto must've done this so they could continue the tradition of ino-shika-chou. I can't even find a reason on how sai and ino fell inlove with each other :( Anyway, you did a pretty good job. The hell with the manga, I'll still ship shikaino 5ever

Oh my god.. My heart is so full of emotions right now. I also ship ShikaIno and the last chapter destroyed me. However, I can't stop believing that it should have been ShikaIno and it couldn't happen only because of the InoShikaCho combination. And it's ironic because their clans that are so close might have been the reason of this... It's a bless and a curse.
Your fanfiction is bittersweet and so beautiful, thank you for this awesome moment. ShikaIno is canon for us, and we will ship it forever and ever !

Oki dork friend... I loved how you still supported canon but put your own headcanon into it. And you didn't bash in canon: it's super true to the characters (I especially liked your definition of love according to the characters).
HEADCANON ACCEPTED

This was really wonderful. I kinda see how this would happen you know. Of course I wish the ending was different in the manga, but this was a good spin on it.

This was perfection /3 heartwrenching perfection...