Ooh! That was FUN! I mean, it was kind of sad, but it was so well-written that it made it fun! :) YAY! Great fic!

I loved the realism in this piece. It is both uplifting and quietly tragic, but that's how love (and life) is, right?

This was amazing. one of my favorites.

This is so sweet. I love your writing!

This was sad, yet simply beautiful.

It portrays that we can never seem to get what we want or that we can't be happy like the way we always dream of - but we should be glad because something is there...

it's perfect, beautiful, heart-warming.

Brilliant :)

-zanibarr

That was a really good story! Ino and Shika would squabble, hahaha, that's what I love about them!
Oh, and I loved how you said "A bruised black and blue sky." It is just so full of imagery!

Unhealthy okaeri-tadaima fixation? Perish the thought. It's perfectly healthy, because it makes me extremely happy. And happy is healthy. And sharing is caring.

So... yeah.

Anyway. I always love SasuSaku marriage fics. Everyone is somehow able to put new spins on them and make them absolutely lovely. Like you~.

My favorite parts? First, how you used the phrase "surgically separating." Simply awesome. Then how it's neither a happy nor unhappy marriage.

"Sasuke-kun, I'm here, I'm here, are you here too?"

Favorite (fragment of a) line ever. Yeah. Yeah. :D

Then the entire paragraph about how Sasuke does smile at her. And then ittekimasu~! Asdfghjkl. Asdfgh-frickin'-jkl, woman.

After that, the bit about Naruto sending her husband to die. That was just, you know. Incredible and stuff. -nods-

And THEN the paragraph after that was my all-time favorite. With the okaeri-tadaima, and "You can stay," and his large dark eyes... WHY CAN'T I BE YOU?

Then, of course, the soup. Because soup makes everything better.

Yeah. So, okay. I'll go away now. Yeah.

(:

pfft, if this is what you call an unhealthy fixation, i'm glad you have it. xD

this is so amazingly beautiful and seriously, you are like. my role model for writing.

lovelovelove and i will read this over and over again until the words are carved into my heart, as creepy as that may sound.

YAY, you're writing again :)
I just love all of your work; honestly, you have to be one of the best, or THE BEST, SasuSaku writer on . The Blanket is lovely too.

just beautiful. ever so poetic and fluid; melancholy but filled with unexpected warm glow of being content with what one has and appreciating the little things.

You...you...HOW DO YOU CAPTURE THEIR CHARACTER SO WELL? ;-;
This was perfect, and your kaeri-tadaima fixation? Don't stop. Please. Seriously. xD
I'm just so, so, so happy that you're writing for this fandom again. *u*

you are such an amazing author. honestly. i love all of your sasusaku oneshots; the writing style and the plot, i love all of it.

i also love how realistic it is, in that i could actually imagine their marriage being this way. none of your characters are ooc, which always seems to be the case with your oneshots.

also, i really liked the following:

Sasuke-kun, I’m here, I’m here; why are you still so lonely? What am I doing wrong? What am I supposed to do? I don’t know how to fix you, Sasuke-kun, I don’t know how to make you happy, are you unhappy, are you still bleeding inside, Sasuke-kun, I’m here, I’m here, are you here too?

She wants to say: I’m here, Sasuke-kun. Look at me. Look at me.

i could really feel sakura's hopelessness and despair, if that makes any sense. i just love the way you convey her emotions.

i hope you continue writing, you're very talented - you could probably be an author for a career ;)

Very sad, but in a soft way. I mean, it's as much the portrait of a life - incomplete - as it is a marriage. You've made the two almost inseparable, at least, from Sakura's place. She's not static, per se - but her movements are restricted to Konoha (where, I presume, she sees Ino and Shikamaru and Hinata and Naruto) and her own home. Both of which are curiously devoid of people (besides her friends and husband, but then, I suppose that's the same with most of us. We fill places with faces we recognize, and everyone else is just a mass.)

I like the sentence fragments, and the repetition - they function like linguistic "echoes," if you will. They reverberate in the space you give this story, and compliment the - ugh, I don't want to use the word, but I will, because I have no other recourse - "emptiness" there is, for a while. Or at the very least, the lack of "completeness." It is a half-marriage, at least to me, if not Sakura.

But still, it's very human, and actually, very probably the most realistic outcome for them. :)

I love your work. I'll keep prompting you like an inconsiderate demon. ♥

YES! :D
I can completely see this happening for them. D'aw...
<3

This is beautiful. A perfect piece. Amazing job!