I like it, please continue.

Can I just say I love this story? I can't wait for you to update it, honestly. This story got me hooked on Thornshipping and Manipulashipping. REALLY! Anyways, I hope that your next update isn't too far in the future because I don't know how long I can wait to read more. :)

I love this story.

I freaking love this story. That is all.

Wow, that was depressing.

Despite being short, this was a very dense chapter! It took me a while to figure out where things left off from previous chapters, but after all that, I like this. Isis I like a lot. Despite how we're not supposed to like her character for siding against Marik, I think she seems motivated for saying and acting the way she is here. And the ending scene of this chapter is really nice. Aww relationship development! But Ch 9 is about the time when I'm like, hurry up already! This is Romance/Drama! But still, everything will come across much nicer if you take your time with Anzu and company. I don't know how much of this is concrit, but as always I enjoyed reading this, and will get around to reviewing your other story, promise! :)

I read this once before but I needed to take a step back so this review wouldn't be all fangirl-ish.

I like the way you have Isis here. Anzu went there thinking that she'd hate her and I, as a reader, thought I would hate her, too. But she's just another person and as you pointed out, a bit of insight to a persons mind can change things :) Isis isn't evil, she just loves her brother.

I think I've told you this before but I still love the way the characters and the story progresses! It feels like all the elements you introduced in the first chapter are there but they've grown into something the characters couldn't have predicted. It feels believable. I don't think that even Marik (with all his observation skills) saw all of it coming. When he went to talk to Anzu that day in the park, did he know that they'd come to trust each other? Doubtful.
In other words, you are excellent at making feelings sneak up on people.
Poor Malik, though. I hope he doesn't get too much angst from how Marik "ruins" his "chances" with Anzu...

There were some small things that caught my eye in this chapter. They're mostly typos, though.

"if that’s you’re interpretation of his character" Typo! "She screaming inside," A missing word!

This one is not a mistake, necessarily, but something in the way it was said bothered me: "The females rose to their feet" Yeah... We all now Isis and Anzu are females and as far as we know, they're the only ones in the room. It just felt unnecessary to me to say that they're females.

Oh and hey! As much as I love the way you write Marik, it struck me as odd (when I stopped to think about it) that he's such a passive observer. In the manga and anime, it seems that he's always doing things. Trying to kill the people that get in his way and not really having a specific goal like most of the other characters do. Marik wants to kill stuff and cause general suffering. He does observe but it's to, well, help him kill stuff and cause general suffering. Though, I suppose that when he's no longer in the position to do those things, there wouldn't be much more for him to do than to observe...

Huh. I guess I just answered my own unasked question by writing about it. Annoying whenever that happens... I was hoping I could grill you about it, heh.

Anyway, I look forward to the next chapter already!

Finally! I've been waiting so long for you to update... And I don't even review! But not because I don't feel like it. I just feel that this story is so great that you wouldn't need more praise, but constructive criticism instead, to help you out. But I Am in LOVE with this story! you are such a great writer, seriously :)

Wow. Now, you know, I don't know if I should be happy or sad when you update, since you always see to be sick. D:

Regardless, awesome chapter! Anzu just seems to keep getting cracked more and more. Isis, too, is not as... Villianeous that I expected.

BUT DON'T SEND THEM BACK!! D:!!

Update... When you're healthy, please. XD

Cool

The chapter made sense to me :3 it's good to see Isis is'nt heartless and evil or something.

Awsome chapter, hope you update again soon :3

I just noticed how you discontinued Widow's Kiss because some people who had it on Alert/Favorites weren't reviewing. I can sort of see where you're coming from (though I have to say I can't understand why you're so offended over such a thing) but it sounds too close to blackmailing reviews from the readers so I removed the story from Alert and decided not to touch it again. With this one though... The want to see Fingerprints continue is greater than... my principle or whatever so I'm choking on my pride long enough to write this. I was going to wait until I had something more profound to say but... heh.

I like what you've done with Marik's character here. It's too easy to find stories that have him so ooc that it's difficult to enjoy the story. I haven't found anything that would bother me enough to remember now in him in this story, though, so nice job I guess :) I never thought I could enjoy the pairing (the one-sided MalikAnzu or the MarikAnzu) but the way you have it work is... It's not the romance that comes first, but the characters and their respective personalities and that's difficult to find in fanfiction (in the romance/drama genre, especially). Maybe I'm just getting too old to read romance that's mostly written by 16-year-olds and consist mostly of making out scenes xD (I sure hope you're not sixteen because then the joke won't work and will turn offensive 0.o)

It took Anzu a good few chapters to get to the Ishtar house but I can't bring myself to mind. I don't think there was anything "extra" in between point A and point B that could be removed to make things move faster (and I find that slow works, in this case at least). But maybe I'm just liking the drama and Marik+Anzu interaction too much to remain unbiased enough to notice such things.

The only thing in the fic that bothers me right now is that I can't find anything to point out to you and complain about. I feel like I'm not helping any by praising (part of the reason why I haven't reviewed). Though if I get really nitpick-y... Why is Anzu's mother's name Sakura? I can't remember if you said that it was her canon name or if you made it up (and if that is her name in the manga, ignore my next comment). Sakura is such a used name for female characters in fanfiction/manga/anime so a character named *that* just makes me die a little inside xD Though that could be just me.

That's about it. Gagging out pride now. Air!

nice going

Wow 0.0 normally pairings with Anzu are done awfully, but this one is very, very good so far :3 I hope you update again soon.

This chapter was amazingly good!!
Marik is obviousely bringing trouble! he's awesome and the moment was tense!
I am so impatient to read the rest! ;) I will be waiting with expectation