I've been rereading this since I first read it when I was 12 and this still hits the right spots. Still makes me laugh, make me smile and obviously, the ending still made me sob my heart out. This was truly THE DeiSaku fic of all time, thank you Wyntermute!

This fic is so beautiful. The way u wrote Deisaku, Sakura would actually make a great pairing with Deidara in canon, just perfect.

You look like a girl."

She passed out.

"…WHAT THE FUCK?"

Isso foi tããããão lindo. Você me fez chorar tanto. Obrigado por escrever esta história. Vai ficar no meu coração por muito, muito tempo.

I love to reread this story. It was bittersweet, it was lovely, it was REAL. As much as I ached for them to actually be together this end always made sense. You really took advantage of their circumstances and made them feel real. I get excited everytime I read this :)

Heeey! I want just to say that i liked a lot your story and i think you surprised pretty well the personalities of our protagonists. Thank you for your time writing this story! Take care of you! Have a good life!

This was sooo beautiful. It's so hard to find well-written fics for a pairing as rare as DeiSaku, but you totally blew it out of the park. The banter, the clever quips, the raw descriptive detail, and the beautifully described wintry scenery - the mental images were always just so perfect. I absolutely loved the way you wrote Deidara - sweet and soft and dorky but desperately trying to keep up the "dangerous S-rank criminal" look. Like he'd much sooner dunk his head under ice cold water than talk about *feelings.* I LOVED your version of him. It just melded with Sakura too well, and made for so many adorably awkward situations.

The humor was hilarious, the drama was just enough, and the angst was actually painful. You have an incredible talent with developing relationships - not too fast, realistically, and with the perfect amount of tension. It never felt artificial and you didn't gloss over the slower, more fragile parts of their relationship. They had to work to tolerate each other's presence, and then had to become friends before anything further could happen. I feel like that's something many authors forget about. It made their interactions so much more precious, and real. By the time I binged all the way to the end, Sakura's eventual reluctance to let Deidara go really resonated with me.

Thank you for this work of art. I love how authentic you made your characters feel and how beautiful of a ride this has been. I snorted, laughed, cried, and groaned all along with them. This was a really refreshing take on DeiSaku.

this is my first time I have read this! the build up from enemy to lovers is one of the favorites I have seen on here, chapter 15 shredded my heartI only wish I could've had more of their reunion but that is just me being greedy, lol. thank you so much for completing this, definitely one of my favoites

AMAZING!

Idk,but ur story ...i can't move on :') actually we want more

Hey there, I’ve probably read this fanfic 3-4 times already because it was my ultimate favorite in my youth and still is. Right now it’s been about maybe 7-8 years since my last read. I’ve gotta say I still cried and I still get the burning chest pains I felt years ago! I wish this fic could get animated I just love it so much. The story-telling and build-up was riveting from beginning to end. I just wanna say thanks so much for writing such a masterpiece that will forever stay with me. I look forward to enjoying this again in the future! Xoxo

I read it again :3 wish it had a sequel

finally finished the last chapter and I admit this is the best deisaku story ever ... it's really amazing from the development of the story even their respective characters don't ooc, what a story that makes perfect sense, and I'm proud to find this fanfic, you deserve it ! thanks again for this amazing fanfic ...

Hey, I know it's been years and hopefully you've moved on to bigger and better things, but I wanted to just say how much this fic meant to me as a kid. I kind of fell off the DeiSaku shipping as I got older, but this fic has always stayed with me (yes I was probably too young to read it at the time, oops). I still find reading it to be one of my fondest memories about fics, and still always name my animal crossing towns Cien (I hope that's okay, I did it as a kid because I loved it so much and it kind of stuck)

I hope you're well 3 and I hope it brings you some comfort to know your fic really touched my heart. It's lived in my mind rent free for over a decade.

So cute