Oh this is amazing. I love it!

I was a little iffy at the writing style first but after reading a few paragraphs, I adapted. It's interesting and fun.

Shisui's characterization is everything I imagined it to be (and ten million times more). And I couldn't stop laughing half way through. And it was great that after all those implications, you still managed to turn this into gen.

Honestly, this is one of the few works that I thoroughly enjoyed in a LONG time, and I think my plus fav. speaks for the other millions words that I can't cram into this review box. xD

~Lily

Aw, Shisui. Please tell me this isn't the canon in which he dies horribly by Itachi's hands.

This story is hilarious - I was laughing the whole way through. Shisui is just so wonderfully done; his lighthearted, goofy character is the perfect match for Itachi's stoic personality. You made him well rounded and absolutly lovable. I love his crush on Mikoto - it just seems so childlike (like when kids have a crush on their young elementary teacher) it just made me love him even more.

Poor Sasuke, I can imagine him being jealous of Shisui. He is so deprived of love I could see him going over the edge if he feels someone was stealing his beloved brother away.

And Itachi - loved how you gave him a human touch. Though he is cold (and sometimes terrifying), he still waits and keeps Shisui company in the hospital.

The writing style was very light and humorous - it helped you hear Shisui's voice more. Some of my fav lines were -

"Shisui grimaced, catching himself mid-metaphor. Fabulous. Not only was his sexuality now most certainly positively hanging in the balance, but in a three-day span he had managed to foster inappropriate thoughts about not just one but three members of his best friend’s family. What was next, Fugaku doing a striptease and seducing him in his wife’s apron?" (Oh my God, Fugaku in an apron?! I couldn't stop laughing at the thought of that).

And many more, but since you probasbly know this story so well, writing them all down would make it tedious for you to read. Great job!

Oh God, this is awesome! Love it. You are God.

M. I always love fics about Shisui in part just to see how author's characterize the guy who was Itachi's best friend. Yours is really well-written and funny!

I adore your characterization of Shisui. I've seen him as flamboyantly gay, dark and oppressive, sadistic and troubled, and tons more. But I really really love your clever goofball Shisui. Very tastefully done.

There's so much to comment on...I want to enthuse on and on! :)

Ok. I really like how you portrayed Shisui and Itachi's friendship and flirted with itasasu, itasui, and suisasu a bit, even though none of them turned out to be true. In the middle I was cocking a eyebrow at the extremely incestuous ways of the Uchiha clan, but it turned out really great what with Sasuke's little jealous lies and Itachi's firm stubbornness to be asexual ^^.

Shisui's adoration of Mikoto made me laugh. So...dirty and quite questionable, but you pulled it off with a healthy dose of lightness so I didn't find it creepy at all. It totally made part of your Shisui character, and I'm glad you included that. Although I was a little confused when you left the itasui misconception dangling at the end...poor Mikoto! XD

Shisui's early life seemed a lot like Naruto, Gaara, and Sasuke's with the staring and everything...a messed up childhood is something I see in many Shisui fics..but his dad almost cracks me up. (Is that mean...? :[) His trips across the country...dunno, it just seems kinda comical to me.
La, at least Shisui turned out nicely in spite of his hardships!

mm, I was confused by this part:

-x-
Shisui wasn’t -- well, he wasn’t Itachi. He wasn’t a prodigy, hadn’t been the best in his class, hadn’t had the most fortuitous of starts; at his birth, no one had come to mark him out for future greatness. But he was the best, and that was all that mattered.
-x-

So...if Itachi's the prodigy, how is Shisui the best?
Is this just Shisui thinking?

This phrase made me slow down to pronounce it and I love your little word combo: "scandalicious declaration". There were so many things that had be bursting out laughing, but I really loved that phrase!

And "Mamiya the Old Bag"... XD
I loved that personal touch of yours..it really characterized Shisui's light nature.

I really appreciated Kakashi's small part in the otherwise tense Hokage scene with Itachi. There were lots of would-be scary scenes in the story, but there was always something you included to make me laugh. That "obvious 180 turn" and Kakashi's shoving of "Trouble in Paradise" into Shisui's face...really, really great. Pure gold, for the lack of a less cliche expression!

And I loved the dreamland...when it came up a second time, I thought it might be foreshadowing for some sort of face-off with Itachi leading to Shisui's death and a final, permanent trip to the dreamland, but I'm so happy that that didn't happen. You characterized it very well though..I could imagine the black water and the thick atmosphere, especially the part about it smelling like red. Smelling like a color...unusual, but I could breathe it in there :)

Ahh. So this was extremely well-written. I usually go for more dark, angsty poetic fare that makes me depressed for long stretches of time, but I enjoyed this fic so much! It's my favorite characterization of Shisui yet, and you did justice to so many other characters. Sasuke was adorable with his combination of childish violence with touches of creepiness - oh wait, I really liked a phrase you wrote, let me find it..
Got it: "Shisui smirked. Somewhere within those walls was a sulking, foul-tempered seven-year-old who was probably glaring at him in simmering rage with a side of premature homoerotic frustration at this very moment."
Bah, that made me laugh so hard!

*happy sigh* Oh, I really liked your Itachi too. Nice collection of seriousness and just general Itachi-ness. There was a part where Shisui reflected on his friendship with Itachi that really rung with me. It was something about how at times Itachi drove him crazy, but he was happy and at times flattered that of all the people Itachi could have chosen to be close to, Itachi had chosen him.

Some people idealize Itachi - making him scarily perfect, extremely powerful, and devastatingly beautiful...but I appreciated how you kinda...brought out those things, but never actually...mentioned them. Does that make sense? Like...you never actually described Sasuke as "cute", "annoying", or "jealous". You let his actions, his huge eyes, his ineffectual glares do all the talking. Kinda the same with Itachi. You didn't go out and tell us what Itachi is like, you let us see him interact with Shisui and "see" him for ourselves.

And as I've already enthused before, I love your characterization of Shisui. So clever, and quite bad-assly powerful...but I never got overwhelmed by that ninja side of him until the fight. It was like he was a normal teenager with a stoic best friend and a crush on the aforementioned friend's mom...who just happened to be an amazing ninja. :D

And I adored that ending. Spot-on PERFECT. Everything wasn't completely resolved (like Mikoto with her conception of her son being homosexual and all), but that last line was just dead-on. Here it is: "“Shisui-kun,” Mikoto’s voice rang out softly through the pleasant haze. “The nurses told me it was time for your sponge bath. Would you like it now, or would you rather I came back later?” Shisui felt his grin spread to astronomical proportions. **-kicking, life-saving, and now love-winning? All in a day’s work."

It made me feel that no matter how sucky his life would get in the future, Shisui was utterly, happily alive in that moment. A great moment to freeze and end the story with.

Great job on this fic. I confess, I have exams right now and I'm studying myself to death, but in a moment of weakness, I clicked on a link to read this. Boy am I happy that I did! It really made me laugh the most that I have in a few days, and it was a breath of fresh, crisp, mountain air in my stuffy little room hole ^^

So have a great day Quillslinger, and sorry if this review comes from nowhere! (I see you wrote this fic in...gah, 2007! ^^; 2 years ago!)
When I have the time, I'm definitely going to check out your other stuff. Angsty stuff might make me cry (*happy tears*), but I've found a potential treasure source of delight. Going to come back to you someday! (soon, I hope!) ^^/

That was epic. Little tiny hints of ItaShi, ShiSasu AND ItaSasu, Shisui's unrequited love for his best friend's mother, Sasuke's bratty self, Itachi and his deadpan..er, -ness, the general personality you came up with for Shisui...brilliant. I loved it to bits and pieces. XD

Oh my ** god I can't believe you wrote this. YOU ARE GOD! This is great, oh my god, I can't believe someone actually wrote something so twisted--and did it brilliantly! The pairings are still icky, though, but wow. :0

so random and funny and basically (took me 5 attempts to spell that reight) weird...but good definataly good.

i like it, has a nice sense of humor in it

Great story! I'm not into Uchihacest or yaoi, so it was nice that you flirted around the subject and had a bit of fun with it. :)

I really loved your characterization of Shisui. Smart, capable and outrageously goofy (for an Uchiha).

I love it.

beatiful! LOVE it. Ambiguity is one of your great skills. Please keep writing. thanks.

Shisui's character is freakin awesome.

This is brilliant: witty, well-characterized, tightly plotted. I love how Shisui thinks of himself as an adult but still acts so much like the fourteen-year-old he is . . . and Sasuke very much acts like a Lolita.

(Just think of this universe if Itachi hadn't killed his clan. ^^)

Livi