so beautiful.

This was so beautiful and touching.

This is beautiful. The parts about the leaves turning toward the sun and how Jiraiya does it again in the end are amazing.

Wow. Awesome. Beautiful. Well-written. Perfect.
Good job!

Beautiful! I really enjoyed reading this, particularly the strength of Jiraiya's emotions and how he can't fight his nature. Wonderful description of the Yondaime as well.

Wow, I really enjoyed this! :D I really liked the analogy between leaves and the sun between Jiraiya and Minato, and then between Jiraiya and Naruto. That was really original, or at least as far as I've read. But I think it is. ^_^ The flow was nice too, the structure, the pace of the story... It was really nice. :) Thanks for the nice read!

Nicely done! I enjoyed the metaphor of leaves turning to the sun. It was a nice way to weave the story together. Lol. I keep picturing Naruto's head poking up from behind a hill or something like a sunrise. Haha. Your story had a that sorta slow but deliberate feel to it. Sad, but not drowning in it, with some warmth in it...just like warm sunshine. :-) Good job.

This was beautiful and incredibly heartbreaking all at the same time. The ending was kind of bittersweet, and happy, and still somehow really very sad. I'm all teary and wibbly now.

(It's caitlin-chan from LJ, BTW. Hi! ::waves::)

Really powerful. And a perfect parallel! (Sun and leaves and such I mean.) This is going straight to my favorites list.

Breathtaking. Absolutely brilliant.

Oh. This was amazing. Just brilliant

a nice metaphor for the events of the Naruto manga.

Just as the Leaf Nins of the previous generation turned to Minato for leadership, so do the Rookie Nine and Gai's team is led by Naruto!

i really like your approach of JIRAIYA'S side of the death of Minato (who, should still be alive -_-'') and i love how you wrote it.
its so discriptive and stuff. i want your skillz. XD

Brilliant fic! I love the parallel between Minato and Naruto and I feel so sad for Jiraiya...

Aww...I really did love the wording you used here. It's really nice and good, and I love how everything flows from one end to the other. The emotions you instill is very nice as well.

Good fic!