I was just going through your stories and realized that every one of your hitsugaya fics are amoung my favorites. Endurance, resilliance, fortitude, insufficient all of them are amazing and i just read them all over again I hope you right more Hitsugaya fictions you write him as how i see him and think he is capable of overcoming anything. :D awesome job!!

Between this fic and Endurance, the best Hitsu-centered genfic I have yet to read.

I love the attention to the little details - the ones most authours won't even think about, let alone take the time to research and intigrate into their story. The interaction between Hitsugaya and Matsumoto was wonderful, and the other characters were also very well written - I especially like how you portrayed Hyourinmaru and Yamamoto. There were some minor technical mistakes, but nothing that distracted from the flow of the reading.

All-in-all, a very pleasurable read that had my eyes glued to the screen for several hours.

'It took Renji a moment to realize that Hitsugaya hadn't even released his shikai.

Holy fucking hell.'

Know what? That was the first thing I thought as well.

Button eyes are adorable. Needs Moar.

Yeah, that's really all of anything interesting I have to say for this chapter. xD;; Sorry ^^; I love how so many writers give Matsumoto little handicraft abilities (even if they aren't perfect ones...xP)

But the fact that it came from her is so adorable I can't even describe it. Even though she never treats him like a kid to his face professionally, and doesn't even really think of him as one, this comes in as such a child's gift and yet one given with love and the best intentions. It's a slap in the face and an "I love you"(in whatever way) all at once. It's adorable. And they way it is described--so simple, and yet those few descriptions give it such character...I can see it immediately, and strongly. Woo hoo!
(Specifically, the lines, "...but its uneven seams and button eyes telling to its homemade quality" and "button eyes stared back at him."
I'm glad you didn't describe anymore detail than that; it was unnecessary and I got an incredible image on my own. Great descretion there, and writing too! Keep that up! :OO

While this is a very long chapter, and I feel I should say something to more points of it, I thought that that was great and deserves a frickin' award. Hitsu is also so in-character in that whole scene. That's one of your shining scenes, I think, oddly enough. ^_~

Also, I think you write medical stuff pretty well! I've gotten very good mental images, and things are described in-depth enough but are not cluttered. Good job! The particular wounds you decided on for him are grizzly too, appropriate for a crow character, too, and I really like it. x) I hope that doesn't make me too awful of a fan. ^^;...

And I love the little bit of Unohana's old-soul-ness has a little bit of fun at Hitsugaya's expense. "Young one" ...It never gets old to me, how much fun it is to watch her call him that, for good reason, and get away with it, every. single. time... ah. *happy sigh*

I find it very interesting, how Unohana says "thank you" rather than "I'm glad." A Japanese, and Japanese feudal thing for sure, but I'm not sure if it was referring to something else or just being...not overtly emotional per personal feelings. What do you think? :O

Two thumbs up! Only one more chapter, go, go!

To the next.
~Ganimyde

[wow, I hope I didn't lurk for the rest of this story... That would be awkward. What a week, that I can't even remember. whoops. Sorry, if that is... xo]

A hah, painting yamamoto as the bad guy/force. Always a good tactic to rely on; the authors of the movies and anime certainly seem to do this without hesitation. It fits all right, and in this particular story, it really seems to work well. I feel fear, I feel worry--I feel that I want to know more!

The blacksmith thing is kind of interesting. It's...not really an exciting thing but it's not simple and pathetic like the 'fishing village' might be (meaning that in a good way--a simple and pathetically insignificant life taken away being cruel and all). I'm interested to see how the blacksmithing thing turns out...I do, after all, always imagine a really strong brute of a person being a blacksmith, which is the entire opposite of how Toushirou is. And all the elements involving black, which is opposite as well. So I'll see...

To follow up my other comment, the pacing isn't that bad in this chapter. Things kept moving and it wasn't as long (though nothing wrong with long). Not bad. :)

*off to next chapter*

Hi! Sorry this isn't going to be any better of a review than just a note here and there, but I see what you said in your notes I was wondering about how Renji says toward the beginning of the chapter at Ichigo that "we die. That's it." You've mentioned that you edited that stuff to make it sound like they get reencarnated rather than just go off into nothing, but that didn't come across there, to me. (Just to let you know. :) ) I wonder if having him say something like, "We die. That's it: off to the next life, memories gone." might help? maybe? .o.

Just a thought. can't wait to read the next part. I do like that you write so much adventure so much. I did feel the writing was perhaps slowed down too much by scenes with Rukia or Matsumoto, where they didn't go anywhere (meaning, nothing was accomplished for plot). It's okay to have reactions, obviously, but they were pretty much the same reaction several times over. But that's just my opinion, I don't want to seem like I'm yelling at you or something. 9,9

For another question on continuity, I've always wondered about this whole "everyone crashes on a couch" theory. I would imagine seireitei wouldn't have western-style couches per se, nor desks, really. Are there some in cannon that I've forgotten about? A note here and there about "the weird modern furniture that was ten times better than seireitei's any day, however" might be a nice touch to the world differences, if you're interested. *Shrug* have at it, if it's something interesting to you.

Yeah, like I said before, sorry I don't have more "nice things" to say. xD; I like the story just fine and am still reading it to the point of being unhealthy for me, how's that sound? xP I like to give advice with stories I like... :33 the whole idea of the prev. life interests me (and isn't done very well often, if at all)...and now this new twist with Gin is making me chuckle evilly every fifteen seconds or so. Must know...but I wonder if the pacing will let us get to that in the next chapter... Hm, we'll see I guess. ^_~

yours,
Ganimyde

This was a great story. I can hardly wait to read the next part of the "arc." Hitsugaya is my favorite character in the series, so I love to read fics that focus on him and how kick-ass he is.

Hoping you'll update soon,
The Swordsman

I really don't know what to say... I'm kind of sad that it's over, it's a great story. And yes, we all know that Renji isn't going to go around pissing Hitsugaya off anymore for a very, very long time XD

Wow! This is so cool! You have got to continue to another arc! Looking forward to it!

Seireitei means "Court of Pure Souls"

"If that was the case, did it really take a full-blown deity to hold the young captain back?"

okay, just because of that single line i'll never forgive you if you don't continue with this arc. i read all of this one tonight, and the first one last night (no comment on how i stayed awake at work, because i really have no idea how i did it...) and i have to praise you; it's excellent. well thought out, well researched, well written. and i do mean it with the research. i research anything i write, but i think that including me, i can count on three fingers the number of fic writers who put this much effort into their research. kudos.

please write more. you'll condemn me to suffering eternal angsty pangs of need if you don't.

~cd

it's good you "upgraded" Hitsugaya. He's my favorite character but i often get the feeling he's not that strong of a captain.
Maybe that's because we don't know many of the other captains' skills. However, the mystery is not so strong around Hitsugaya because the anime tends to give him more scenes. It's just like Rukia. The fillers made her so weak.
I'm happy they're giving more scene to Hitsugaya but i'm afraid that'll turn out to damage his image.

incredibly complex plot XD
Wow. Something possessing Hitsugaya? Why? Aizen's plan?
In fact, i don't understand anything about Hitsugaya as Kazuki. ^^'
The review only get here now because i was too absorbed by you fic :P
I don't know what to say. I like the fic very much but i don't know what comment i can give.
:)

That was awesome. I honestly don't even remember when I put this on alert, but then I got an e-mail that said there was a new chapter. I was confused for a bit, so I had to re-read the whole story to make myself remember what was going on, an I'm glad I did.
I loved it. Absolutely. Fucking. Loved. It.
You rock!

I love it. =)And I can't wait for the next book part of this series(?).
I love it. I'll say it again, I love it.
I love the storyline, the in depth translation of characters, the mystery, the inter action and most of all, I definitely love the Hitsugaya Toushiro.
Thank you.