awesome!

omg, this is such a wonderful story! I absolutely love the internal conflicts and the process of which she slowly overcomes them. Please update soon! ^^

Berts Bees. It 99.8% (or something like that) all natural products that are not tested on animals and the $$ goes towards perservation of wildlife and habitats. it is good stuff that i found works well. It is getting easier to find but over the years. Just thought it might help. They also have a website. Anyways love the story.

Excellent chapter. Actually an excellent story. Great job. I hope you finish it and not let it slip into oblivion like so many other stories from good fanfiction writers that start out good and then end up unfinished in 'a lake of shadowed stories'. No pun intended...just a sad smile :(

Remeber there is always hope and faith will help in getting someone back their life. Maybe not as carefree but stronger. I love this story.

This is purely constructive and I hope it causes no offense. That noted:

"Her cotton yukata was made of yellow silk..."

I just couldn't get past this sentence. If you're going to attempt to use overly flowery language, at least decide on one fabric per outfit. Which is it, a cotton yukata or a yellow silk one? Cotton didn't exist in medieval Japan, therefore I'm guessing it was either actually made from silk or it was really made from cotton and she brought it from the future.

Some Victorian novels were written as serials and authors were paid by the word. This is mainly why they used fifteen different multisyllabic adjectives to describe the subtle hues of the doorknobs in a room. Those authors had an excuse. They were paid by the word.

You're not being paid by the word. Keep it simple and you'll have a lot more readers.

I love this story and in the first chapter what is the title and artist for the song at the end? If you could tell me that would be great!
Thanks
Shigure-san
and please keep up this amazing story!

I FEEL AWFUL!!!! you were so awesome as to dedicate a chapter to me and I, being the slacker reader, didnt even realize this until today...i just wanted to say thank you. it makes me feel really good when people take notice of the things i have to say and it makes me write longer reviews. your story just amazes me. i sat down tonight and i read it again because im just weird like that...and im here to tell you now how utterly amazed i am. i mean you dont have a beta reader, yet you do better them most people who HAVE betas... you have a great plot line, one that could VERY VERY VERY easily become a/u yet you have somehow managed to keep your characters personalities as they should be. the only one i would say is off by much would be kagome, but if i was in her shoes i wouldnt be the person i am today so its an understandable new personality...i like how you give reason to your characters actions. when sesshoumaru starts to hum, there is reason behind it, when you have throw in a poem its well placed and fits well with the story....

i hope everything i just said made sense...sometimes i go off on tangents(its my downfall as a writer) im really enjoying the way this story is unfolding and as of right now i wouldnt change a thing!!!
KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!!
-brandi

wow, great story! i love it =) plz keep updating =D

update as soon as possible and i will rate this fanfic.

I am quite a fan of your work. This intrigues me. Although most may find InuYasha being at the forefront in this fic, I find it most important to have him there if he was not the one who raped her and tore her mind and life in two. He has always had a great respect for her and never wanted to her to be hurt, though his misguided love for Kikyou did indeed hurt her. He was her first love, crush and anyone who hasn't been hurt by their first in some way must be blessed because the heart and the mind is so new to the experience that it doesn't take but a small mistake to crush it. She knew full well of his deep devotion to Kikyou and knew this would make their relationship complicated,especially after numerous times seeing the two together. Her young heart still held hope even though the hurt run deep. The ultimate betrayal is to have the confession of love, the act of sex supposively sealing the confession to commitment and then having it rudely defiled to something unspeakable. I feel for all involved in this sad story and you are doing a marvelous job expressing the feelings of each involved. I know you will eventually get Kagome and Seehoumaru together after righting the wrong that destoyed her heart and mind. The healing HAS begun here and Sesshoumaru will have a better mate because he allowed her to make this step out of the darkness that this situation has caused even though this is out of his character to do so, it makes him the better man to give her the love and trust she needs to move forward. Please do continue as you have me so overwhelmed that I need an ending and not a rushed "everything makes sense now so let's move on" because rape does not just let you move on, you have to overcome this step by step so as not to turn bitter and think lease of who you are as she has done so for a year. Thanks for making this a great story. Lots of deep admiration...Tana

It seems like your chapters keep getting shorter and shorter! *Ray pouts* That is so not kewl! But other than that it is an awsome story so far! I liked the idea of an evil Kagome..... please, please e-mail me when you update! (Smart_girl46360@yahoo.com) P.S. I give you 5 gold stars *****! P.P.S. I love the poems! Especialy yours!

Very nice fic.. Characters seem to flip drastically from one emotion to another. But please.. no ses.kag.inu fic >. Because in the end it turns out to be more inu.kag than any thing else.

Very nice. I find it difficult to believe you don't have a beta. Your story is done extremely well and you have only a couple of misspellings. Your grammar is very good. Your plot development is excellent and your characterizations sound. You made a comment in an A/N about angst, but in a story based around a rape angst is appropriate. It doesn't do to trivialize it, and you didn't. You could end it here you know. I would think it would be hard to keep it at this level and if you dial it down you negate the impact of the rape. Much as I like this story and as pleased as I would be to continue reading it I think a continuation would be better as a sequel. Whatever you decide, thank you for the great story. It's just lovely.

omg...this is an amazing!!! story... i dont think i've ever read one quite like it. the plotline isnt original at its core, but your writing and how you develop the plotline is compleatly your own -=applauds=- i cant wait for your next update -=giggles=-

oh...and one thing...well make that 2....
a) in chapter i believe 4 you describe a miko outfit and say tabi are clogs or something to that effect. i just wanted to let you know that tabi are the socks...not the flipflop type shoes (the ones that are more formal with the split heal are called geta, which i believe is what you were refering to)...i make that mistake all the time and get yelled at by my friends -=giggles=-

and b) i'd LOVE to be your beta if you havn't picked one already

Whoa. I love that story so much ^-^ It's so pretty! Angsty.. A little, but still awesome all the way!
Oh, and if you like, I'll beta you, if you still need one!

i hate inuyasha...i dont know why...but i really do...to me it almost seems as if u prefer inuyasha and kagome together rather then her and sesshou. i dunno. i could be imagining things, i tend to do that something...
anyway, update soon!
-brandi

So Far I like this story, It gives great detail but for some reason, you don't give great detail in the sex scenes...Your choice in words are amazing. Even if there are, a very few, typos here and there.

What I came here for though is to see if you can send me when this story is up dated like one of my friends does on here, it reallly helps so I don't have to go looking for it all the time.

Thanks for your time!
^_^

Love,

Sesshomaru's loveing twin sister,

Sesshy-Sama

Loved it keep up the good work, Update soon

this story is really good. but being the huge sessho/kag fan that i am i dont like how you let kagome go with inuyasha. sesshoumaru and kagome needed to be together. in ur story sesshoumaru doesnt have a dominating enough personality. the real sesshoumaru wouldnt just step aside...but i doubt he would force her to come with him. for so long kagome thought inuyasha had raped her. i, myself, would NOT just all of a sudden jump into his arms and everything would be all hunky-dory. in fact i would still go to sesshoumaru because he is like a safety net. inuyasha is more of a lose cannon. (if that makes sense)
dont get me wrong...ur story is awesome!!! and i cannot wait for ur next update
-brandi

OoOo. Bad Kikyo, Bad! I'm on the edge of my seat waiting to find out what happened. This is such an interesting story! Update soon.

This is really very sophisticated writing. I felt her rage. I hope you choose to continue writing this story; it's verrrry good.

OMG...this is definately one of the best fics I've read in a long time. Update soon.

This chapter was just so.....awesome.Update soon por fava that's please

This story is really good so far. I like the 3rd chapter with the flashback as it helps to understand why she can't forgive Inu Yasha.

I used to be obsessed and still am a little bit with Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I pretty much know everything about it. I also used to have a crush on James Marsters or Spike. I just thought it was so wierd when you mentioned that and I had to tell you. lol. Keep going and good job!!

This is interesting...
Keep up the good work. I can't wait for your next update!

This story was just so.. awesome. It was written beautifully. Although after Kagome leaves it starts over again at the begining. Other than that keep up the good work. Please update soon.