I love it! It's brilliant the way you make the psychological into something tangible. The ending line "I'm dead" is the perfect concluding tie-in for that association! And this isn't even out of character for Eiri since this is pretty much his implied state of mind through out the manga!

However! Why did you have to bring up the sleep stages, REM sleep and even sleep spindles?! It completely reminds me that I have a psych midterm coming up and that I shouldn't be procrastinating~ T_T mrgh.

Listen, YOU WILL NOT SCRAP THIS! I love your Yuki because I completely agree with your openion of him, and I love this story becauce...*sigh* I'm ashamed to admit I cried. I cried for Yuki and Shuichi and how heartbreakingly amazing they are when you write them.

Dark. Brilliant. Meaningfull. Great job.

its bout time i found some one who doesnt think Yuki is a Bastard! -.-' every thinks he is and it gets very annoying after awhile. you have write more the ansty was gordious and that dream was freaky!

What a freaky dream. >< Thank goodness Shuichi was there to wake him up.

Please write more soon. The angst was wonderful.

~firedraygon97

Wow! I really like this! I have only good things to say about this piece. Please write more!

Wow, I'm very impressed!

You really made me feel for Yuki, something that happens not so much in a fic.
I do hope you maybe want to continue this, I am looking forward to it!

i agree with you. i think yuki does feel and think that way. i can say this because i can somewhat relate to him. i'm forever black eyed too. love this! i'm fond of angsty fics (maybe because my life's full of angst too) i love everything you've written so far. please write more, ne? *^____^* chiizu!

Hm, my opinion will be the same as the other (earlier) reviewers, I think ...

Yes, I can understand the way Yuki behaves. Just like u said that he's not an ** by choice. He's got difficult times and he's coping with it everyday. No one could say that he's a bastard for that.

I like the way you presented the story, even though it's very dark and angsty.

But ... I don't really get the ending part. Why Yuki thinks that he's dead?
If he means that his heart/soul is dead, or something like that ... then he wouldn't be capable of taking someone else into his life, would he?
In fact, he did, he let Shuichi comes into his life, didn't he?

Well, that's all from me. This is the longest review I've ever written ^_^ Please bear it ^_^
Cheers~

First off, I want to say, Thank you. Finally, someone agrees that Yuki is not a jerk! He has layers, like any other person. So thank you for that. Second, I really liked this. It made me cry though. But it was really good. I think you should keep it up, maybe write more or something? At least write more gravi stuff ne? ^^V Oh, and I agree with you about Setsuna too...^__^V
Keep it up babe ~.^
Nevs ^-^

...Thank you, pyne. This is exactly how I've always seen Yuki, I never understood why everyone thought him such an intentional bastard... This is, fantastic. Even better then The Language of Love. You...Are my idol. Keep writing.

I would keep it up if I were you. I like it, especial the "What's the difference?" part. Very chilling angsty line. Utterly cool. ^_^

Wow. I really love this!! It's so... ^_^;; I don't know. But I love it. I do know that the mood was spoiled by a younger sibling singing the lyrics in an opera voice (note to self: Keep fanfics away from little kids)