I rarely comment when I stop reading a story midway but I'm doing so now because I would have liked a heads up before starting this. So here goes: the storyline was interesting but I became more and more confused / uncomfortable with the brothels/prostitutes storyline and its increasing importance. Also I'm not a Kakashi fan by any means (ambivalent about him) but he was completely mischaracterised in this. I might have been able to continue but the kicker for me was the proffered threesome by one 10/11 yo to another. I get that in this story 12 yos can apparently be legally married off; this narrative choice still seemed truly bizarre. They remain underage!

Amazing book so far...
This reminds me of a very good pokemon book called PAL: The Dark Chronicles
Like with the whole lost boyfriend main female character plot device and trying to get them back, at any cost!

Oh this is wonderful. Ino as a medium to work through things is a fantastic idea. I'm glad you show naruto sakura relationships like they are and could be. Sakura knows less then nothing about him and irs a fantastic jumping off point to lean more . I look forward to reading

You highly underestimate the chakra needed for a kage bunshin.
When Naruto learnt the Kage no Bunshin, he had more chakra than the third hokage.
The technique divides the users chakra evenly among all clones.

I know I should be ridiculed for commenting on a chapter of such an old fic but...who are you to argue with the data book? I believe in an earlier chapter you stated that you aged her up so that Orochimaru would have had his team at the same time as Jiraiya and Tsunade... but where does it ever say that they have to take genin at the same time? Or that the genin would all be the same age group, or that they'd take a team, period? Tsunade never did, but people always give her a team anyway, same as they always make Kushina into a legendary swordsman and how Kurenai and Anko are bosom buddies despite never interacting much (or at all) in canon. Remove head from butt.

Okay, granted my past comments were . . . Unwarranted, this fic is OKAY. Not what I think it could be, not what it should be, the plot is amazing if flawed, as before stated. Seriously Anko? And how would Ino know that was what happened? And seriously I KNEW NARUTO WAS MINATO'S SON BEFORE THEY EVEN TOLD US BUT NO-ONE WOULD BELIEVE ME. So tell me why exactly does AN ENTIRE FUCKING ninja vilage not know? I suppose you can't really answer that no better tan I can, but it still irks my soul that a NINJA VILLAGE, AN ENTIRE VILLAGE OF THESE NIGGAS DOESN'T KNOW. Inuzuka should have smelled the similiarities. and seriously why sakura? And why does Ino have anything to do in this story line besides anooying the hell out of Sakura? Would I have to continue? I'm strongly considering it tbh.

The information is confidential, S rank secret. what's with this A-P shit. Look bruh I ain't gonna lie, you have the dedication, but you didn't think none of this story through. if it's a A-P mission shouldn't it be classified? You're directly contradicting yourself. In the manga ninjas state what happened specifically so people don't get a hold of the document. I have so many complaints. Seriously why the fuck did INO tell SAKURA. You, my dear friend did not think at all when righting this story, did you? Seriously THERE'S AN ENTIRE FUCKING LAW ABOUT NIGGAS NOT KNOWING ABOUT NARUTO BEING THE KYUUBI'S JUNCHUURIKI SO WHY THE FUCK IS TSUNADE NOT ASKING NARUTO HERSELF? AND DIDN'T NARUTO HEAL ALMOST DIRECTLY AFTER THE FIGHT? I can't bruh. I understand this is fanfiction but Tsunade would hae just asked him herself, instead of treating him like a enemy Shinobi, who's privacy needs to be invaded. there's a complete lack of trust here. And not only that, She would have trusted that Naruto did the right thing. Besides that also Naruto didn't LIKE Sakura that much, just LIKE he was not DEVOTED to her. But I digress; this is fanfiction and retards are allowed to write stupidity here.

Why didn't Kyuubi put them out? Weren't they scared of letting the mind-jumpers ( I for got the clan name) into Naruto's head BECAUSE of Kurama? I'm so fucking confused and mad at your inattentiveness. More confused as to how you let this happen and didn't revise it when you found it, and if no-one told youu it is just as much their fault. BUTT if this was purposely . . .I just remembered your authors note lol, sorry. Still annoyed though.

Why did Tsunade even consider the missin? Why are they prying innto Naruto's personal life? Why GAARA OF ALL PEOPLE shouldn't he understand privacy?
I'm confused af.

Raikiri was based off the Chidori, BUTT the Raikiri is literally the embodiment of destruction. Meaning that instead of that flimsy chakra electricity, it takes probably 5 times as much chakra element manipulation. Meaning that Raikiri is real electricity, or as close to it as possible, while compared to Raikiri, the Chidori is as far from it as possible.

I know I’m a late comer into your story but now that I’ve seen you place Anko as Naruto’s mother instead of Kushina, which is one of the reasons he was given Uzumaki as his last name in the manga, how are you going to explain how the Kyuubi escaped on Naruto’s birthday or who was the previous Jinchuriki and how the Kyuubi escaped in the first place.

Brings back so many memories. This was by far the most meticulous and carefully-crafted Narusaku fic when I first started reading Fanfiction. Back before the pairing filter was on this site I'd find Narusaku stuff by filtering Naruto and Sakura into the character search with the romance category, usually rated M because I liked lemons. When filtering 100k words in addition to that, this story and Hands of Destiny were the only two that existed. These days there's over a hundred fics with those same filters (and that's not counting stuff with the newer pairing filter), but back in ~2007 this stood out as the one with the most effort and maturity.

I don't know if we'll ever see an update again, but thank you for all of your effort.

I like the story but it would be nice if naruto wasn't obsessed with sakura I like the plot but the fact that he would rather die alone then date anyone else or even date someone else is going over board in my opinion

Lol i thought this was an interesting story in the beginning but as it goes on it just gets tedious and waaaaaay off base.

Great great work man! its been 4 years since you updated! I hope you finish this!