That is simply touching. Your ending made me tear up a little lol. Good effort.

That was...amazing
*dries her eyes in the background*

Hehe, I saw this on your LJ, but I'm going to bother you here at as well! XD *cue evil laughter* Meh, you know, I think the 20_truths LJ community is dead; I didn't even bother putting in a request for Gaara because I saw that everyone else was being ignored. So I just grabbed him and ran. ^_~ Hehehe... fear my awesome ninja skills, right? *grin* Hah, anyway, I enjoyed these 20 facts on Naruto quite a bit, although it seems like by the end, he's alone? It sounds to me as if he doesn't have any children or grandchildren of his own... In one of the sentences, I had thought perhaps he ended up with Hinata (heh, sorry for being such a rabid romance lover), but the very last sentence makes me think that I was probably looking too hard. XD That's cool, albeit I do hope Naruto didn't die alone. That would be too sad... the one thing he probably wanted the least. D= But I am sure he's never truly alone, is he, because he's the Hokage and considers the entire village to be his family. Or something like that. ^_^ Okay, I think I need to stop babbling now - talk to you later!

Hello there! I finally made it- I apologize for the wait. I would have reviewed this morning, but unfortunately, my brain activity is at an all-time low at 5:00am. So instead I’ll get to hopping, now.

Okay, first of all. You mentioned your summaries perhaps being a point that may (or may not) discourage people to read your fic. Here’s what you’ve got:

[20 things on Naruto's life. For some, the road begins in Konoha. For Naruto, that's where the road ends. Written in the style of LJ's 20truths community. Gen, character studyish. Timeskip spoilers. [Are warnings still needed for those?]]

Okay. First of all, I would keep most of the actual summary- “Naruto’s life… For some, the road begins in Konoha, but for Naruto, that is where the road ends.”

I probably would NOT put anything about the style it’s written in, or that it’s a gen fic. Why? Those things tend to confuse people who are newer and/or don’t understand what they mean. (Especially the part about LJ… some people might think that only LJ people should be reading it.)

So, perhaps, [Naruto’s life… For some, the road begins in Konoha, but for Naruto, that is where the road ends. [Character Study]]

(And you could put the part about spoilers in there, too. [Timeskip spoilers])

The “Are warnings still needed for those?” part might give people the wrong idea about your fic- maybe they’ll think that you put author notes in the middle of the story or something. Ask that question at the beginning of the story if you’re worried about whether or not you have to do it. (That isn’t supposed to sound snarky, by the way. =) )

Okay, next! You’ve been around longer than I have on this site. Whoa!

And… oh! You mentioned in your profile that you can’t figure out how to fix the squished formatting? Here is what I do.

I don’t know what you write in, but I write in Microsoft Word 20. (Two-thousand, if the review cuts off the zeros, as it is prone to do.)

I go into Documents, upload my fic. Then I go to edit it. (Click the edit button.) So much of this stuff is newer on this site, and while it’s great… it’s just…different. I’m not used to having a choice! Haha!

Okay. You can add a page-break by clicking on the little dash thing – okay?

The formatting of this fic, right away, is…well, it’s not a turn-off, really. But it’s awkward to look at, at first, and it probably turned a few people off. (What I’m talking about is the numberings, and the period that sits above every number.) What I would do is put a page break there instead, or put a blank line (space) between the period and the number.

(So it would look like this:

5. “Blahblahblah”

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6. “Blahblahblah.”)

(I hope that turned out right, if not, though, email me about it, and I’ll explain there instead.)

Okay, now I have wrist braces on, so forgive any mistakes you may find in the review. Gah, they hurt so bad. Carpal tunnel is the suck. Seriously.

I liked number one. I think the way you wrote it was just great. I feel sorry for Naruto already, haha. I loved three, four, and five. Iruka was my favorite character in the manga/anime (I’ve seen more of the manga, though I own the first two seasons of the anime already…just haven’t seen them).

[Naruto is twenty-one when he discovers he will become the Rokudaime Hokage, and Tsunade gave him the best gift possible.]

Something about that sentence seems off to me. I think it’s because of “is”, “will”, and then you have “gave”. Perhaps, “Naruto is twenty-one when he discovers he will become the Rokudaiame Hokage- Tsunade gave him the best gift possible”, and if not, you could change “gave” to “give”, since all the other words are in present-tense. =)

[as the full extent of how much he loved his friends washed him.]

I think you meant “washed over him”, right?

All said and done, I think it was really good! It was definitely interesting, and I enjoyed reading it. But yeah, as for the formatting, either use pagebreaks between numbers, or a blank line after those periods, because it looks really weird. Hm…

Keep up the good work, and continue writing! ^_^

Cheers,
-Manna

PS. Also, I loved the title. =)