wow, this is really...interesting? I've never read anything like it, so that's a good thing. :D This is really interesting... I can't wait for more... Interesting... I like that word almost as much as I like the word 'keen.' Heh heh... ^^ oh, and the title was awesome! Hugs... Luvs... ^.6

You simply must update this! The suspense is too much! I love how you've managed to keep them in character through all the bizarre things happening to them. Maybe Naruto will save Sasuke from drowning this time?

This is an excellent story, I can't wait to see more. ^^

--E.A.

Oh My God,
i'm speechless, seriously i can't even begin to
describe what i think about this fic OuO
it's just awesome! i loved it! hope you
really really really update soon 'cause what
a cliffhanger you let in the end >w

Last one, yosh!

Nice title… All you had to add was the words “for you” at the end. Hahaha, I’m joking. (^_~)
“Of course, that sucked, because then he realized the woman of his dreams was actually Sasuke.” Pfwahahahahahahaha! I love it! Poor Naruto, that must have been a shock to discover the truth about the “woman of his dreams”. Poor Sasuke too, whose face was mistaken with a girl’s. XD
“He was tempted to slap Sasuke’s cheek playfully but decided he might need his hand over the next 72 hours.” Hahaha, that was a smart decision, Naruto. (^_~)
A sky-blue door standing in the middle of nowhere which opens to reveal nothingness? Well, I can’t say I was expecting that. But somehow it reminds me of something, as if I had already seen that somewhere… Wasn’t there a painting or a book cover like that? Hm…
Wow. So now they are somewhere in a rainforest? I must admit there are more natural dangers there (snakes, alligators, evil monkeys, who knows XD) than in a North American forest, so the challenge is bigger. Moreover, Kakashi and Jiraiya probably set traps here and there. And it must be awfully hot. Ugh. I hope they brought bottles of water or something to drink…
Hahaha, the boys’ map made me laugh. How can they find their way with such a lame drawing? I bet Kakashi and Jiraiya were cackling michievously when they gave the map to the sleeping teenagers that morning. XD
“Sasuke stopped ahead of him, and Naruto made sure to stop this time because if he face-planted into one more person he was going to end up with a black eye or no eye at all. Maybe that's what had happened to Kakashi?” Hahaha! XD Somehow I doubt it…
Oh oh oh! Such a nice topic Naruto chose to talk about! Hehehe, it’s Sasuke’s turn to be taunted. “It was so fun getting on Sasuke’s nerves! It should be a national pastime so that everyone could enjoy it!” XD
Oh. Now that… that is really bad! They fell in a waterfall!? (o_o) Where is Sasuke? He couldn’t be hanging on a branch miraculously growing on the vertical side of the cliff, could he? … Well, the only good point in the situation is that the boys finally found water to drink… But I bet Naruto doesn’t care about that for the moment. Really, I hope nothing too bad happened to Sasuke. It’s still their first day there, so it wouldn’t be good if Sasuke had a broken arm or something like that…

Heh. What a cliffhanger. You sure know how to keep your readers eager for the next chapter! I know this fic is not on your “To Do” priority list but… I’ll wait! (^_~)

Take care, and see you next chapter!

Now chapter 9!

Hahaha, Naruto is not a morning person. (I don’t like early mornings either, so I understand perfectly.) Honestly, I think that Sasuke isn’t a morning person either, that he just acts like he doesn’t care about getting up really soon and walking outside when it’s really cold… The guy is a robot. XD
“He touched its deep brown bark as if telepathically wishing it a good morning.” Big trees have the same effect on me. They’re so old and impressive that you just have to touch them with respect. … Or maybe I’m simply crazy. XD
Poor Naruto. He tries to be friends with Sasuke but the brunet is not cooperative at all. “Now though… it felt like… if he could just get Sasuke to want to be his friend, that they could… do anything together.” Yeah, people are stronger when they have someone to fight for, but Sasuke doesn’t seem to understand that. Moreover, his habit of redirecting Naruto’s questions instead of answering them doesn’t help the boys to learn more about each other. Argh, Sasuke is so stubborn!
Hm, I wonder what Jiraiya and Kakashi told Sasuke when Naruto was sleeping… Everyone is so secretive!
Wait a minute… Naruto has to knock over a tree the size of a building!? Gosh. Good luck, Naruto. Still, poor tree… XD I wonder though who made the holes that were already there. Jiraiya? Minato? Who knows!
Huh, Sasuke thinks his brother is dead? (ô_Ô) Weird. Or maybe he knows that Itachi is alive, but he pretends that he doesn’t know? I must say it’s very confusing. Kakashi and Sasuke are both tight-lipped when it comes to important matters… Hahaha, they are going to race? XD Well, Sasuke sure is fast, but I doubt he will beat Kakashi… The magician must have some tricks up his sleeves. (^_~)
A survival training… It reminds me of the Forest of the Death, during the Chunnin Exam. Except this time… I don’t know, I feel it’s going to be really dangerous. After all, in the manga they had weapons and ninja techniques, and here they have nearly nothing to defend themselves. Only Naruto’s basic magic skills and Sasuke’s speed and intelligence. Oh well. The next chapter is just one click away. XD

P.S. Don’t worry about taking a long time to finish this story. It sure takes time for a relationship to develop, and I understand perfectly that you want to make it realistic - I want the same thing! (^_~) So you can be sure that I will wait faithfully and patiently for the next chapters. Take your time! I wouldn’t want you to be sick because you overexerted yourself…

Hello and Happy New Year to you! ...Yeah, I know I’m awfully late. Anyway, I wish you health, wealth, success and free time to relax and write fics! (^_~) I’m sorry I didn’t review sooner… I blame my incredibly busy schedule for that. But hey, there’ll be three reviews in a row! Isn’t it nice? (^_^) Let’s go with chapter 8!

Oh gosh, that just HAD to be Kakashi who transformed into Sasuke when he interrupted Naruto in the bathroom. He had strange reactions sometimes… and Sasuke would certainly not use Old Spice cologne. XD From there, I guessed that Kakashi also took Naruto’s appearance to find Sasuke in the bedroom. I must admit though that I was expecting Kakashi to appear soon, which can explain why I knew it was him. Anyway! I feel sorry for the poor Sasuke – Kakashi was such a pest! XD
“Ah, has anyone ever told you your eyes get a shade of red to them when you’re angry?” Sharingan! XD Sakura must wonder why it’s Naruto who answered Sasuke’s phone. Hopefully Kakashi didn’t have time to tell her what he intended to say… She would have had a heart attack!
Hehehe, Kakashi revealed his true appearance with a puff of smoke and a pop! And then there’s the arrival of the evil sisters! So many intense characters in one little room! (^_~)
Mah, of course Kakashi knows Itachi! Weren’t they both ANBUs at some time? …Oops, wrong story! XD But honestly, I can’t wait to know just how much Kakashi knows about Sasuke’s older brother, and how much he is willing to say about him… But most of all, I’m curious about how Kakashi can help Sasuke. Ah, the suspense! XD

Okay, Jiraiya’s part… You totally got me there. And here I thought something really bad had happened to him! The old man only drank too much sake in a strip bar! XD I only hope that Tsunade won’t discover what kind of research he did that night…

Hahahahahaha! XD Have I already told you that I LOVE to know what Naruto thinks? Honestly, the horse-in-a-coma comparison made me laugh really hard. It’s things like that that makes me really addicted to this story! (^_^) Kakashi said 6 a.m., didn’t he? I bet he won’t be there till 10 o’clock. XD So Sasuke gets to spend the night at Naruto’s. I wonder how many generations of witches have lived in this house… It must be well protected.

Now this was really strange… It seems Sasuke’s curse is something important for Akatsuki, but not for the reason I thought. They want to use Sasuke. But the curse is Naruto’s, right? How could the Akatsuki control Sasuke if it’s Naruto who put the curse on him? “The curse has taken root in his body, and soon he will lose control of himself.” Ah? Will he become a kind of obedient puppet or something? *ponders, ponders*

Well, I don’t know where this is going, but I can’t wait to see what happens next. Oh, by the way, it was nice to see the Akatsuki members. (^_^)

This is a very enjoyable and creative story. I'm always interested to see themes that have been exploited to the breaking point (in this case, the Naruto cast and magic) redone in a way that brings fresh plot and conflict, and you're doing a great job of that. I also like the way the characters are shaping up so far. I look forward to watching this story progress, and understanding the truth behind the mysteries you've given your readers. Best of luck.

REALLY good...Well written, i especially like the development of the relationship between Naruto and Sasuke, i guess all i can hope for now is that sasuke isn't dead and that there may be some yaoi involved one way or another...*cough*...But in all seriousness, a very enjoyable story that was pleasureable to read.

HAPPY NEW YEAR! i didn't know whether I had your e-mail and all ready sent you this or not!! so yeah have a great year and enjpy yourself totally!!

lotsa love and fangirling
Taka

Heyy
I've read all your stories so far, and I love each one of them.
Huumm, it's not that you have to put yaoi in everything that you write, but I really think that it would be very interesting if Naruto starts liking Sasuke instead of Sakura xD
Also, even if LIT2 does have SasuSaku, I'm looking forward to it anyway.
I've been waiting so long !!

Hope you're not all stressed with your work

I'm using up another review to respond because... well, because you disabled PMs to escape your stalk- er, fangirls, and rather than respect your wishes, I'm gonna respond anyway, so hah! (and for real, if you feel like pming me a better way to respond, that'd be cool. one-sided conversations suck. :p (and if not, that's cool too. i can understand the want for privacy. this is just... awkward though. :p))

As for naruto needing to prove himself... yeah, i guess, but it doesn't really need to be anything big, tbh. I mean, there was that moment in the manga where sasuke was like, "Naruto, I want to fight you too." -- that was the definitive moment where sasuke "recognized" naruto, and yeah, it happened after the snake incident in the chuunin exams, but i don't really think that's what triggered him saying that. I don't think there *was* any one moment that triggered an "oh yeah, naruto is badass now" reaction on sasuke's part. sasuke's very intelligent and very observant though, and i think he recognized naruto's strength much earlier than that, even if he wasn't willing to admit it out loud (although he did hint it to sakura once or twice).

Right, so, in your story, you have a couple of things leading to that as well. first, the ice incident. naruto made a fool out of himself (at least in his mind), but i get the impression that sasuke knows more about magic than he lets on (he'd have to, being itachi's brother), and maybe he recognized that technique as way more high-level than even naruto knew. (i mean, naruto doesn't know or care how hard a technique is -- he just does it anyway. but sasuke might've been impressed that naruto mastered it in such a short time, even if he did nearly kill himself doing it). Then there's the fact that sasuke witnessed naruto training until sheer exhaustion twice -- once with the ice thing and once with jiraiya's tree cutting thing. well, he saw the results, not the actual training, but it probably made him realize (along with naruto's openness) just how dedicated naruto is to getting stronger. so those two things are probably enough for sasuke to realize that naruto's not *just* a "clumsy idiot." :p

So for naruto saving sasuke... nah, I don't think it's needed. not yet, anyway. I guess it'd be an easy way to make them bond, but it'd probably move the story on better to have him NOT save him -- i mean, naruto will get even more frustrated because he's not able to save sasuke yet again, and because it was really his inattention that got them into that situation.

that's if you want to parallel the manga though. meh. i dunno. the story's light-ish now, yeah, but so was the manga early on. i was just randomly re-reading some early chapters, like right before the chuunin exams, and i'd forgotten... i mean, everyone remembers the significant stuff like the tree-climbing and haku... but i'd forgotten about how easy their bantering was. sometimes it feels like the fanfic community just made it up, but it's all there -- it barely needed to be exaggerated, it was so clear. and I don't know why I'm saying this, other than the fact that it feels like you're trying to recreate the mood of the early manga, and I desperately miss that. And of course the angst is yet to come, but you can't have angst without the sweetness and lightness first. It's just meaningless without the "aww, but look how happy they were back then. why can't they just go back to the way things were?" reaction. But yeah, bring on the angst and the unhappy, depressing ending. Because that'll be what people connect to, and that'll be what make people think the story is "deep." (and, i'm guessing, you'll probably be able to get more emotionally involved in the story at that point too). Everyone's freaking miserable. It's better that we all commiserate together.

And, ah, that reminds me... Itachi. *sigh* I LOVE Itachi too. Such a fantastically complex character, and I don't think his story (or character) was given nearly enough justice in the manga. Or in fanfic either, for that matter. don't think I've ever read a fanfic with an Itachi that was close to being realistic. but sasunaru fics are probably the wrong place to look for a realistic itachi. He's usually relegated to being either completely comical or or completely nice or completely evil & sadistic (those are fun too though xD), but 9 times out of 10, he doesn't have a tenth of the depth he should have. I don't blame them though -- must be nearly impossible to get itachi's character down when we're given almost nothing canon to go by. But if you find a way to insert some reference to Itachi's conversation with Naruto (you know the one, right?), I'll love you forever.

have i confessed my love to you lately? because it is deep and vast XD you're writing is like heroin. makes me giggly and fiercely addicted

-stalker anonymous

Whoa! I loved this chapter it was funny and very entertaining. I love how descriptive this chapter was. I love how you wrote sasuke and naruto falling from the ledge. I could visualize everything perfectly. This story is getting so exciting. I'm bummed about the cliffhanger. but I can't wait for the next chapter! plz update soon.!

"Of course, that sucked, because then he realized the woman of his dreams was actually Sasuke."

That made me chuckle. xD I put off reading this fic for a while, but it is near-bliss to be able to read 10 chapters (of *any* of your stories) all at once. I know this is kinda a new style for you, but I think you're doing an excellent job with the plot. Even though it's somewhat paralleling the manga, it's still been really suspenseful, and I still don't know exactly where you're going with it (that's a good thing). I'm really curious as to what you're going to do with Itachi actually, but I'm sure that whatever you do, you'll be able to explain it in a way that's more satisfying than the manga. (god, how i would kill for an itachi gaiden, or a story that shows certain manga events from itachi's pov).

Anyway, I really like the way you've been developing Naruto and Sasuke and their relationship. Sasuke seems kinda like a grown-up version of pre-timeskip Sasuke, if that makes any sense. I mean, in this story he didn't develop into the complete prick he is currently in the manga. Instead, like pre-timeskip sasuke, he's intensely private, fiercely independent, and scared to trust anyone. And at the same time, scared to lose anyone new (him saving naruto here reminded me of the haku fight, obviously -- "my body moved on its own") That's the sasuke I fell in love with -- excellent job on the characterization.

I can see what you mean about needing to take it slow and building their entire relationship within 3 weeks, but it seems to be going easier due to naruto's "curse" of not being able to lie to him (very unique idea, btw. i'm waiting for the time when sasuke might take advantage of that, in a good or bad way. kekeke). I think it's also being helped by the fact that naruto's a lot more open to both himself and to sasuke about wanting to help sasuke than he was in the manga pretimeskip. I still think that this is perfectly in character though. His openness comes with maturity, and I think we saw a bit more of that from him recently in the manga.

The only thing they really need to bring their relationship up to speed is some kind of shouting match, ala VotE, where Sasuke is really able to get his feelings out, because right now Naruto still has no clue what's going on in Sasuke's head.

Anyway, hope you don't mind the long, rambling 10-chapter review. :p Yay for evil cliffhangers! Looking forward to the rest.

Well, I had opened the review page when I started reading, You now, so I wouldn't lose nothing, and I had aproximately 20 characters when I kind pushed the review button again. And losed it all. Cool.

Anyway, I think I began the first review saying something about not having read the book you mentionet, but recognizing this: '“Why so serious?” Naruto asked through a malevolent grin.' 'Cause every human being next to a computer or cine saw this movie. I loled hard here.

Then, I read this one: 'Naruto stretched his arms above his head and yawned, not feeling competitive enough at this time in the morning to fight for control.' And said something like, here, Sasuke, your seme-time is in the early mornings; every other hour of the day Naruto is going to show tantrums and you'll have to fight him for dominance. And he'll say in your face that you're a prettier bishie.

But then again: 'Great, well, if Sasuke thought he was going to be in charge of this little scavenger hunt then he was gravely mistaken.' I take back what I said, Sasuke, you're going to have problems all the time because Naruto is an all-day person. Whatever he says or thinks.

I haven't watched Twiligt Zone, but I read this one lol: '“I guess we’re not in Kansas anymore.”' LOL, and Sasuke is the dog. But the dog was cuter? Nah.

And then, and then, WHEN is Naru-chan going to NOT make things WORSE? 'Cause he pretty much wronged since the very first chapter. Sasuke is going to kill him in the near future if things stay like this, ne?

(I got the title, HA! I knew you wouldn't be obvious =D).

Ne, answering some of the things you said me in you reply ('cause I couldn't send it to you by FF for some reason): waiting for the Jedi quotes ftw; Chuunin Shiken streghting bonds and all, I WANT A MOUTH TO MOUTH OR ELSE =D; and I'm waiting foward for the various results of this training, it's going to be so very interesting.

And to finish it: this is a very light (well, lighter than the others) story, fun to read, I love it! So keep writing, we will keep reading and awwing it \o/