This is beautiful! I like the whole first meeting and imaginary friend bit. This really made me think. Hmmm, so is fuji real? Anyway, great story!

Haha.. I'm not going to be very constructive here, and just say 'beautiful'.

:))

Well written, as usual.

What a unique way of looking at this.

This was very endearing, very sweet, but very sad at the same time. I think the contrast between having a friend - an only friend - and acknowledging the fact that they're not physically real is a great way to depict many things, and the fact that you wrote this makes me almost happy, in a melancholy sort of way. Lovely character depiction; you have a good grasp on Ryoma, I think.

To me, there's this feeling of... I don't know... unease? While I was reading, I thought nothing of it, but when I reached the last line, it hit me. It felt like I was reading from a first-person point of view - I don't think I've ever read anything that felt quite like that. You have an admirable writing style.

Thanks for the read, I really enjoyed it.

- Gin for Tonic

FINNY-CHAN-SENPAI YOU CAN ACTUALLY WRITE AUTISM I LOVE YOU NOW.

I can never do that. XD stories of my characters who suffer from something are always snatched away by the NGs. DX

I love it. XD whee!

Kura

It was lovely, Melo-nee-chan-sama! :3 Although I was a bit confused at the beginning, but it was cleared up; the ending was so sweet! X3

"Remember me," His voice is playfully soft in Ryoma's ear. He kneels before him, hands placed affectionately on Ryoma's shoulders, "Ryo-ma-chan?"

"I'm not dumb, Syu-su-ke."

XD That was just simply cute! *squees* Don't put yourself down over this, it was really well written; definitely a lovely gift for Christmas! X33 *huggles!*

Happy New Year! :D

Crissy

_ May I say I am getting more and more jealous, the more I read of the Secret Santa fics? It seems like everyone (with the exception of yours truly who just spelled 'with' as 'iwth') is writing out such lovely fics, I just feel so inspired to write and write and write...:D (which might not be a good thing, but).

And no, I didn't know Ryoma suffered from autism, mainly because I simply don't know the signs at all, but I could tell he wasn't Ryoma himself, so that's good. XD And the bit where Rinko takes Ryoma out and everyone starts cooing over him - *squee* He's so cuute! *tackle glomps Ryoma* Ryo-ma-chan! Kya!

And then, and then, the last bit, "I'm not dumb, Syu-su-ke." Squee! I love the way that was written! Like the names were drawn out and all!

"Ryoma gives a lopsided half-smile - the very first smile in his life; shy, unconvincing, hardly a smile at all. But it doesn't matter." *tackle glomps you* I don't need to say what I'm feeling right now. XD

Thank you for writing! *huggles fic and Melo*

I love this! It's so, full of feelings. :) Lovely connection they have.

That's really interesting, but I'm a little confused. Have Syuusuke and Ryoma met only once?

Other than that, I really liked the atmosphere you created, it matched really well with the story, and I'm a sucker for anything that's relating to art so, this hit one of my happy spots.

I still think it's lovely. Even better now that I've read the whole thing. *huggles* I can't even explain how much I like this. It's just so pretty o