Oh my God! I was thinking about "The Pact" the entire time I was reading this chapter. That book is truly amazing!
This fic is really well-written, by the way.

wasn't it raining earlier in the day, prior to this chapters ending? then they would have been sitting on wet ground in the park. weeping willows don't provide all that great rain resistance.

Oh wow... I don't think any ItaSaku fic has ever made me laugh, cry, scream, or pace nervously so much in my life. This was absolutely amazing and I loved it. So perfect. I know find myself craving a fic where Sasuke figures out the Itachi!Massacre thing before their fight and the two of them return to Konoha... Lol hmm... this will be an interesting search. In any case, this was absolutely amazing and I look forward to reading it over and over again. Thank you very much for writing this.

I LOVE your story (bet you hear that a lot). Keep writing with awesome-ness!

probably the best itasaku fanfics ive ever read. I hope you never give up writing as you are very good...Hn...

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Interesting.. done in present tense. I don't see that in many stories anymore. Please remember to stay true to this tense throughout the chapters as I've seen a few mistakes..

~ Sandi

Absolutely beautiful story! I started it this morning and couldn't get myself to stop reading. The characterization and development was done flawlessly. :)

sorry to say this..but your words of "she doesn't knows" or "he doesn't knows" in more than one sentence and in more than one paragraph is really infuriating at times.

i have to state out one last thing...the thought of sakura having sex and wanting to get pregnant at the age of 16...is just...disturbing. because she's probably one year younger than me and it's not really an appropriate age to have sex with a man who is 5 years older. but i guess in 'their' world. everything is way different. :) but still.. the appropriare age you could've set them up was 19 and 24...

hmm...after finding out that you've never read the manga before..it seems logic enough to me why sometimes your story is so confusing. for example, ninjas can detect any sort of flare in chakra. even when sakura was escaping from chakra ropes using chakta scapels. itachi could detect that. and too, detect each other's presence using chakra. and the shisui thing was really disturbing in the beginning. but it seems ok now..sighs. other than that, i really admire that eventhough itachi's character here is a little OOC but i can conclude it could be his true emotions within.. great job in plotting. but i think there are some gramatical faults in too many sentences. and sometimes a confuse in whom the paragrpah is coming from whose POV.

eww...i knew itachi had a lover before he killed his family..but SHISUI?! HE'S A FREAKING MALE COUSIN! OMG...that was a horrible image!

i love this! :)
great writing, and keep it up.
hopefully you'll write even more great fanfics.
honestly, the story didnt end the way i imagined but its still a happy ending so i love it.
i would understand itachis not wanting his kids to ever kill someone thus the civilian thing but i thought his children would at least in the arts of a ninja, but just wont be a shinobi.
write more great stories :)!!

KK heres a really quick review assuming that you probably wont read it considering that this is like 2 years old... and youve probably got a life by now...
Okay so awsome story, im gonna be up till like 1:00 reading this... I have school tomorrow. SChool needs to go die in a hole. Anyways Thank you and ja ne!
~ ja ne! ^.~

Awesome fic. The only downside to this for me would be the whole mistake on Shinsui, but at least you did a decent job of covering it. And I'm glad that Itachi stopped comparing Sakura to her in the end, too.

The chapter on the coup against Danzo was superb! Cheesy as it might sound to say this, the part where Team Seven killed Danzo together and later spent on the roof top was totally heart warming and practically made me melt and go 'aw'. That was way awesome. I think it would be my favourite part of the whole story hands down. I adore touching, non-romantic moments like those. You know, the whole reconciliation and victory.

Also, the whole scene at the Akatsuki base for Madara's murder was excellent. Loved the tension and the way you wrote it. That would be my second favourite part, though it is almost as amazing as my favourite one.

(This is a rather long review... And I also loved how you inserted humour at appropriate points. Including the use of brackets here and there.)

I'm also really happy about the way you developed the relationship between Itachi and Sakura. You didn't rush it through or gear up the story entirely for sex, like some fics do, but you also included a much more meaningful plotline. That earns my respect, and in my opinion, that's what makes a good, winning fic stand out.

I loved this story, you did an excellent job on writing it. I think this was probably the best fic I've read so far. You covered so many important aspects and themes. There was drama, romance, angst, the importance of home, family and friends... Action... You had it all in there, even a little bit of horror and darkness. You are great, no doubt about it. (:

I'm surprised to see that there are not more missing nins from Konoha or a resistance movement.

"... the only two things in the world that she absolutely cannot stand are when people insult Naruto, which is something Itachi has done already, ...", Sakura is hypocrite, she insults and hits Naruto for the most stupid things as daily basics.