Love it. Love it love it love it.

EY's fanfic recommendations tend to be hit or miss, and this is definitely the former. Count me among your new regulars, can't wait to see more.

Tight. Clear. Action was 96% unconfusing.

I hope we get more back-story on the genin night and how Naruto was involved.

Search the word 'elderly', I recommend switching it with 'elder' or 'old'

Thanks for writing,

Jay

Oh, dear. Up to date already. Ah, well, I suppose I'll just have to wait. A very interesting story so far; I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it. About how many chapters do you imagine this story will end up being, by the way?

Fun chapter. Nice to see Sakura taking her first steps on the road to badassitude.

Let's see...she can't beat Izzie at straight up taijutsu, so that's out. If she makes eye contact she loses. And she doesn't have the chakra reserves to go head-to-head throwing flashy techniques around.

What she does have is perfect chakra control, excellent scroll capacity, and (most important) a scientific and creative mindset. Tactical options:

- Choose the ground, mine the entire place with exploding scrolls the day before. They would need to be the 'activate when my chakra touches you' type, not on a timer.

- Get someone else to throw in with her. She's a ninja; cheating IS technique. If she keeps Izzie busy while the other person punches her in the back of the head, that sounds fine.

- Set up distractions so she can get in a sucker punch when Izzie looks away momentarily.

- Throw some sand at Izzie, use chakra control to stick it on her, and then push the sand in, rupturing joints / opening blood vessels / abrading eyes. Izzie would need to break off in order to get to a healer ASAP. This might not be practical, since it seems she can't manipulate the sand from more than a few inches.

- Need to eliminate the advantage of those eyes. Izzie can probably break any genjutsu that Sakura can throw but what about an actual physical obscurement? Burn a huge pile of poison ivy so that a fire so there is semi-toxic smoke drifting over the whole field. Bring goggles and a breathmask so that the smoke isn't bothering you, but it will seriously mess up those lovely Sharingan eyes, and will fill Izzie's lungs with irritants (and, later, poison ivy blisters). Lure Izzie into the smoke so she can't see or breathe well. Set up the mines that she just walked on.

I'll be curious to see what she does.

Confusing, but very interesting. Looking forward to the rest of the story.

A slightly slower chapter - less thrilling action in this one, more character development. (Then again, I write entire chapters devoted to meetings so I got no kick coming.) I enjoyed the Hokage's speech, and the ceremony around it, and I'll look forward to seeing what the Great Waste-Up looks like next chapter. The mind boggles at what Naruto and Ino might have come up with between them.

I've always seen authors on here complaining about how difficult it is to write a good action scene that isn't too long. This one would make a good example for them to follow. Keep up the good work!

This appears to be the fic I was waiting for. A story that actually attempts to make sense of the Narutoverse, and appears to be doing a good job of it at that!

Epic story. Very much liking the AU aspects of it so far and looking forward to what Sakura might be doing with her sealing eventually - I'm getting the feeling it'll be groundbreaking with all the snippets of texts there are - though those could just be world-building I guess.

Look forward to seeing where this goes.

Great world building! I'm jealous and in awe. Consider this review a thank you note that is attached to the following favouriting of this story.

That...was epic. I like that a lot better than what actually happened in canon. Holding herself hostage? Bloody brilliant. I am so going to enjoy seeing this team working together.

Other thing: congratulations on the high quality of your writing. No spag errors to distract the reader, sentences flow, dialogue is clean and supports unique characterization for all characters. Well done.

So, you dumped emo-boy Sasuke for an OC named after one of the Sharingan techniques? Interesting.

I'm glad to see this from Sakura's POV. Most authors focus on Naruto, so the changeup is welcome. Also, without Sasuke in the picture to obsess over, your Sakura seems like a much nicer person. I'll be curious where she goes from here.

Oh wow. This is fantastic. I'm loving all the characters and the originality of everything. In particular, the Bell Test and charkra lore bits were great. It looks like the direction of the story is well planned out and I'm really looking forward to reading more.

Hm. Right off, I really like the premise.

Introduction part is basic and does its job well of establishing the basics of this version of the Nauto-verse, most of the changes quite welcome. The writing is fun and informative. The pacing is fast without ever seeming rushed.

One chapter in and Sakura is one of the most likeable characters I've seen in a long time. I was literally thinking to myself just the other day, "why can't we have more characters that earnestly want to do good without needing some tragic impetus for it?"

Sasuke being genderswapped is welcome. Sakura and Ino resultantly have no reason to feud: makes sense.

The changes regarding Naruto seem far less warranted though. What's the point of altering his standing in the village, or Sakura's attitude towards him? Altering Naruto's backstory in such a way would presumably drastically alter his character on a fundamental level, which sort of defeats the point of him being the character "Naruto." It's not a big deal that Sakura is less bratty, I suppose, but it still seems like a change that only exists so you don't have to deal with developing Sakura past that point in-story.

Ultimately, what determines whether or not this is a mistake, I think, is if you are still able to give the characters meaningful personal conflict in spite of the changes.

It's a promising start. Well written, with several nice touches throughout.