Good job on the feelings and suffering! You portrayed the emotions well. I was really fighting back tears. I'm glad your stories have a happy ending, and I like the last chapters you put in after what you said was the end. Actually, when you said it was the end, it wasn't to me. I felt there was not really quite a conclusion, so I'm glad you put in the chapters where they have some time to be together.

Did Oishi decide to change schools so they could be together? I can understand the pain of departures, but I don't think Kikumaru would be so stupid to act that way at the airport and think Oishi wouldn't return. I also don't think the Golden Pair would be so clingy to have to be together every minute of the day, 24/7.

I also don't think Kikumaru would be so dumb to not think about the future or that things won't change. Even if he did, his parents would have talked with him about it. Besides, for someone so social and optimistic, and changing so much, he wouldn't be affected so badly. He would still be interacting with new people and think that Oishi would return. I guess you did all this so there would be a story.

I'm not saying your stories are bad, or that anything you wrote is stupid. I'm just describing what I think. Well, it could be that I just don't get along with sad stuff.

Though I thought the feelings and reactions were exaggerated, I can understand the pain of departure. I felt a lot of pain when I was graduating from high school because I would miss everyone. However, soon after I started college, the pain seemed gone, and I was having a good time. Unfortunately, when my 3rd year in college started, I was miserable. I missed my old friends from the previous 2 years, and just couldn't get close to the new people. Well, things eventually got better at the end.

I'm glad you didn't do the anime or mange ending thing. That is still too painful for me to read and watch. It's good to read about the 3rd years after Seigaku.

I like how you also brought Fuji into this. It would be good if you also write about him and Captain Tezuka.

aww im glad that their together... GOLDEN PAIR together 4EVA NYA.

Ah.. that was a good story! Made me teary at some points. Good job!

This was an amazing story. A lovely pick-me-up kinda story that is wonderful for starting the day on a good note. ~nod~ ^^ I really think you did a wonderful job of keeping all of them in character. In the first few chapters when Eiji kept trying to reassure himself of everything, it really felt like Eiji thoughts were just THERE and even when they seemed jumbled and confused, you still made them make sense in a way that is seems it should only make sense within our own minds with our own complex thoughts. The only one thing I have to say is that I don't think you ever wrote Oishi officially saying to Eiji that he was going to be staying and not going back... Other than that, a wonderful. The ending was just perfect I think to where it ends but still leaves it open for the reader to know and think that there is a continuation of their relationship and story.. but most definately with the sense that it is a happy relationship from here forth. :)

This story was kinda angsty..but i lurve the ending!! another thumbs up for you, gal!!

WHE!!

Okay, that's it. I'm cursed to forever read your stories late at night. What was the time difference between my last review of "A Perfect Kiss" and this one? Took me that long to finish all this, but I HAD to read it straight through.

This new take on Eiji was interesting. This is definitely an original because of his perspective. I wouldn't call it OoC perse, just a different view, and I liked that, because it wasn't the run-of-the-mill kinda fic you would expect. GP is just so damn fluffy that it's hard to find a way for it to be angsty, and I thought you did that well. The other characters were perfect, and I loved them dearly. Oishi's POV especially made me happy, probably because it was more straight-forward and logical. Eiji's POV fit him well too, being rather disjointed and irregular, just like it would be in that kind of situation. Made it harder to read, but that was excellent for me. It's what made me stay up to this ungodly hour reading, you see.

So yeah, I could keep fangirling about this fic for a while, but I'm determined to read all of you three's fics (Liz, KY, and you). Though you did a long Eiji/Oishi one. I wonder how THAT will play out...Hm...

Anyway, excellent work! In case everything I said before became horribly muddled in my inability to communicate at this late hour...

So cute! I love it!

OMG! This fic just made me cry! And that was only the first chapter! I'm in love with your writing. It's descriptive and well thought out. Well, off to the next chapter!

> _ < I feel so bad now! It took me three or so months to get around to reading the last chapter. Well, congrats on a job well done. I found that this story was one of the ones that I read and can't get out of my head the next day. Which is exactly what happened (helps that I work a job that requires no actual brain power, so I had 8 hours to think on it). I still plan on doing some fanart. ;) at some point, anyway. This also made a fanfic idea of my own pop into my head. I haven't written fanfiction in such a long time... anyway, I'm looking forward to your other stories :D

Lazzie

An utterly beautiful fic. I'm relatively new to PoT fandom, but my friend has me well acquainted with the GP. ^__^ You conveyed the emotions so well throughout the fic. I had to stop myself from crying several times. Also, great job on Oishi's POV. You said that you were having trouble relating, and you overcame that obstacle with excellent results. I'm definitely looking forward to reading some of your other works. Keep up the good work!

Sincerely,
Koryu

Yay a happy ending! GP fics MUST have happy endings because... you know... it wouldn't be GP if there wasn't a happy ending! (Makes about as much sense as Eiji does, so I figured it'd work) ^^ Such a cute utterly sweet fic... =)

Dude, that story was totally awesome! I found it today and just got completely hooked. Awesome work!

Wow. This is an amazing story...Hmm. I hope it all works out...somehow...

Grrf. Oishi sucks. If I was Eiji I'd be with Fuji because of that. =P Keep up the great work.

gratuitous? nononono. this chapter was completely and totally necessary--imperative to the plot, even. even though eiji and oishi are back together in chap 6, there's so much unresolved between them that chapter 7 is extremely necessary. it'd be too abrupt if you ended at six.

anyway, i loved this story. boy, do you know your stuff. the emotions in this story are so complex and realistic, and the stuff eiji was going through in the early chapters, and even with hideaki...completely realistic. all his feelings really rang true, even when they didn't make much sense even to him. and despite what you say, i think you characterize oishi incredibly well. in fact, even though i'm a huge eiji fan, i think the oishi sections were my favorite.

love the drama, love the angst, love the emotion--just in general love this fic. great work.