Absolutely beautiful story.

This chapter made me cry. You wrote his pain and grief beautifully and well.

Oh, wow! I just finished reading this through and I'm so glad I found out about this work. Thank you, author in another NaruGaa fic who responded to a comment, and thank you random comment that mentioned this fanfic!
Thank you so much for sharing this. It's so well written and has such a good plot, I thoroughly enjoyed it - though I did get frustrated (mainly with Gaara) quite a few times, but I suppose that was part of the plan!
I really liked both parts of this story. AR nearly got me crying more than a couple of times (I'm pretty sure I did tear up at some points), and SBM provided a really sweet ending. Though I could say bittersweet, for the final parts regarding the fact that he did not remember and was, after all, a brand new Naruto that might not have followed the same steps had this all never happened really got my heart aching a little bit.
But I like how this is about the present being the most important part of our lives. I'm so glad you included this overview of their lives in the future and I'm so happy you opted to let my boys be happy together.
It's not easy to find many good works of fiction on this pairing, so, once again, thanks a lot for sharing your great work. I'll certainky take a look at your profile and look out for any other/future works on them you might produce (or have produced).
Congratulations on this great story!

This was such a beautiful story. I really loved how it is only shown from Gaara's perspective and I do love how they ended up together in the end, despite everything. I'm glad it was recommended to me.

That. Was. Pain.

Reading that story was the emotional equivalent of punching myself in the balls a hundred times. The angst went beyond legendary and into the "Who hurt you!?" level. Masterfully written as it was... my emotions are so raw now. I couldn't read much of it at a time, because the feelings were to visceral. But it was artfully written and masterfully executed. A magnificent work of literature, though one that should probably have a hefty set of warnings for emotional trauma. I applaud your work, and loik forward to reading more of your stories.

OH MY GOD. I knew this story seems familiar. I finally remember now that I read this on LJ years ago (though with different titles and characters) and it had been and still is one of my top favourite fics of all time. I don't even want to continue reading here again because I still remember feeling the pain of the characters from just recapitulating the story in my mind, even after all these years-it's just that good! If there are any hesitant people out there who are reading the reviews before deciding to read the story, I'm telling you right now that you are wasting your time hesitating when you could already be reading this amazing story right now. Read it. You will not regret it.

I cannot express with words how this made me feel. It was incredible beautifully written (as always is your writing) but also very sad and realistic. It was specially painful at times because my grandmother had Alzheimer's and I know first hand how difficult the situation is and specially painful when your own grandmother (who practically raised you) does not even recognize you. I really connected with Gaara this time, I know how it is to be frustrated and angry with the person for forgetting and for the seackness for taking that person, in addition to understanding the situation and coming to terms with it. Great, great story.

Really a beautiful story...I really liked how it ended. It was great to see things just from Gaaras point of view.

(I have already reviewed, so it won't let me through my account)

Hello, old writing peer.

I have somehow, after a very long hiatus, found myself back on . One of the first things I did was find this story so I could read it again. It was just as beautiful as the first time. I do hope you have gone on to use your brilliant talent elsewhere. It does seem to be, unfortunately, hard to find good stories to read within this fandom these days. Or perhaps, as I have grown older, my writing-style tastes have changed. I do believe this is probably up there with one of the best fics on the website, not just the Naruto fandom. And so, again, thank you for sharing this with us. I felt as emotional by the end as I did the first time I read it back in 2008 - 2010.

Ugawa
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That was a really good story, excellent writing.

I like how they are so awkward around each other, never wanting to admit there is something between them. It is sad what happens to Naruto, but then, they actually can start over.
I find it a shame that Gaara took so long to accept the "new" Naruto, when he already took long enough before. But that makes all the story, and I love how you describe his feelings, how he kind of fight against it but he can't really let go... I mean, it's Naruto after all!

But what I don't really understand is why Kankurou adn Temari don't like Naruto either? I mean, come on, he is the one who forgot everything and it's like they're mad at him?
How can that be, when he's the one who has to go through that?
I imagine it's because they're just aware of how Gaara suffered, and feel for him, but even in that case Gaara was not that nice with Naruto, instead of helping him to push him away.

It's confusing because I ask myself this, and at the same time I love evrything, how it evolves between them, particularly that this "new" Naruto is at the end totally in love, whereas before he was not totally sure about that.

And I really really like the fact that they stay together and get old together (if I understood the end right, they're both way older isn't it? )

Anyway, thanks for this lovely story, I enjoyed it a lot, Naruto and Gaara are so amazing together! 3

Beautiful. I have spent and entire day with this story, and it was worth every moment. I think your ending... was perfect. honest and true. this was a painful story about loss and acceptance, moving on and forging ahead... and I like that they were able to build something together. life is rarely certain, but it definitely can be rewarding... and I think this story gives a reader hope. I find hope to be a very powerful thing to create, and not many authors can pull it off. We'll done.

I was laughing and in tears and so in love with this beautiful, bittersweet story. Thank you for sharing, and I hope you write again. Your style is amazing :)

I loved the epilogue. Your Gaara is out of this world, and then ending was pretty perfect of me, despite being kind of sad in a way. You did an amazing job!

I loved it so much! Great characters, great Gaara POV, great story!

I know this story, it was actually written long ago for a Korean fandom (shinee),, because I was a fan before the owner deleted the story... is that you... Stella?