welcome back! i hope everything is alright!

Lovely updates, and I am WAITING for Kags and Sesh to get back together :)

Who words is she reading?  I wonder if perhaps it is Sessh words written under a different name.

Welcome back, I pray that everything with your mother is well.  Loved the update and the chapter. I wonder what Araki role in her life be?  I see two possible things happening.  First, I fear Araki my want more then a friendship with the Miko and with a child involve there will be more the. Just two hurt.  And withey're not confronting her issues this is no bueno.   But there is the other scenario I see as a possibility, Araki becomes the father figure that Kagome never had and helps her to come to terms with her issues.   I guess we will have to wait and see what happens!  >^.^<

Welcome back! <3

Amazing like always! Almost every morning I would check my e-mail for an update from this story, but as a nursing student I totally understand real life coming first. So happy to see you back, and I hope your mother is feeling better!

She cowardly ran from one male to step into another potential situation that will end up involving the same issue.  An issue of the heart.  Araki and his daughter were already fond of her and this will only draw them in more.  When she finally removes her blinders and realizes she's making friends with another male that will want more than friendship, this time it will involve a child that will end up being hurt if she runs again.

I'm sorry but I just don't like her much anymore because she's not willing to face the real cause behind her commitment problem and it's hurting those around her and will continue to do so.  It's damaging her more than she realizes.  I may be wrong but I think it will take a good, long talk with Inuyasha.  First he would somehow have to realize what the problem is and the reason for it.  I think it would be good therapy for them both to get the past and her old pain out in the open for them to finally clear the air and free her heart.  No, I don't believe she's still in love with him, but she carries the scars of how he mistreated her heart to the point that she now associates all the old pain and commitment as one and the same.  As long as she continues to run, she'll never open her heart to anyone.  You can also run mentally, not just physically.

Welcome back! I pray that you mother is well.

I love the easy of bringing us back into the story. A very sweet chapter.

glad your family is better and feeling better!! nice job and hope things work good in the end and great story as usuall!! keep up the great work!!

If Kagome forgets about why she's in Sapporo doesn't that mean that she's not solving anything? 

Yay more updates coming up! I hope one will be about how Sesshy is taking all of this. 

**sighs**  Wow what an amazing coincidence to run into that pair in another city...so many opportunities to get thrown off by the subtle twists over the previous chapters, so long in between updates, but then again, it is worth the wait.  I think it was posted only moments ago and I voraciously read it as if starved.  Still love this story, could you tell?  Looking forward to your next update!  ^.^

Please update! I really want to know what happens will they get back together!

WHERE. 

DID. 

YOU.

GO!

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I'm such a visual person, and my imagination has a way of twisting me into whatever I read. This was an emotional rollercoaster. Just when you think you're safe you get tossed around. lol. I loved it though! Deffinitely looking forward to the next update!

UPDATE ALREADY!!!!!! why so late?? 

First of all, I love love love this story! Second of all, I'm heartbroken, because I didn't realize it wasn't complete, as I selected it through the awards page, being that you won best romance, and I'm a sucker for the sappy stuff. I thought 55 was the last chapter, and was uber sad about the way it was ending before I checked the status. Normally, I won't read incomplete stories because I hate waiting for updates and keeping up with what's already happened, but this story has me addicted, and I absolutely cannot wait for your next update. 

Gah! This chapter is going to make ME all weepy! LoL I have to keep thinking about that hint you dropped a few chapters ago and the potential it promises. My brain keeps going a million different directions trying to figure out what you're going to do with it. I cannot wait to find out what happens. Hopefully, I'm not making something more of it than it is or I'll disappoint myself. With my luck you'll go the one way I don't anticipate. But that's good! I can't read mysteries because I always figure them out way ahead of time. I love when authors surprise me, as long as they are enough hints along the way so that the surprise is believable when it finally arrives.

So, from the other reviews, it doesn't look like anyone else has picked up on that hint. Unless they are lurking. That's making me crazy too because I SO want to blab. I'm terrible at keeping things to myself. Just a warning in case I do lose it and reveal the connection in a future review! 

*sighs* I get this way with songs instead of books. I'm a re-reader so if I did this with books I don't think I could bear it. Songs though... there's something so visceral about sound... there's still entire albums I love that I can't listen to because of what I associate with them.  Hopefully, Kagome does better than I did. Then again... I keep waiting for the day I have to stop reading this because it reminds me so much of my own best friend (in eerily similar ways), and that is... difficult. I think that's why I love this story so much. That I can read this and remember him and it doesn't make me sad, even though it feels like it should. I feel guilty about that sometimes.

Maybe it's that this story feels SO authentic, and I love that too. I've been browsing the other reviews and there's so much negativity towards Kagome right now and I don't know how you can stand it, because it's really annoying me. I have no idea why I'm getting so offended, and I'm notoriously difficult to offend. For one thing, Sesshoumaru avoided her too for a while and everyone seems to have forgotten that, but because he's got that Edward Cullen thing going on, Mr. Perfect can do no wrong (and I'm really sorry about comparing him to Edward, but I don't know how else to explain it succinctly), but Kagome gets thrashed. It's a double-standard and it makes me crazy.

The only way I can rationalize it is that people who have never best friend of the opposite gender just don't get it (and without going any further into TMI-land than I already have, like Kagome, my best friend was WAY prettier than me too). These types of friendships are fragile things and they rely on a very delicate balance. If one person upsets that, then things tend to go really bad, really fast, no matter how perfect things seem to be initially. So again, I really appreciate the realism, and that you're not taking the easy path with Kagome and Sesshoumaru here.

I completely get everything that's going on with Kagome right now, although in this aspect of the situation (the running and avoiding bit), I identify more with Sesshoumaru. I could no more hate Kagome than I could have hated my own best friend. 

lol gotta love the little brother sometimes.

Well that was nice brother sister bonding. It might be embarassing but its a new perspective on things. I just wonder if Kagome is going to make use of it. I can't wait to see what happens next, maybe Sesshoumaru's own talk with family :)