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Happy to see this chapter up. Sorry it had to fight with you get get done. Hopefully, those 3 don't fight so bad next time you write about them ... you did a GREAT JOB!!! Your writing is still the best and you are keeping up with the story very well, at least to me. Thank you for the time you put into, and put up with, this story. /hug to you and your muse (don't let the chapters that fight get to either of you)

I love your portrayal of these three in this story. Other than the main pairing of Kisuke and Ichigo, these are the three i love reading about the most in this story. Thanks alot of the update. Happy Writing.

~Daydreamer

AUUUUGGGGHHHH! I can't beleive you left off there...I have been waiting forever to see these three get together! I'm really hoping and begging that you give us a lemon for these three on the next update. Please! Anyway. I was very happy to see that you'd updated. I look forward to this story so much. You are very talented, and it's a real pleasure to be able to read your work! Thanks for all your hard work.

First off: *hugs you* How are you love? Sent you a couple emails, did you get them?

I review now. *nods*

I knew I was going to love this chapter the instant I read this: It was Grimmjow or at least Jyuushiro assumed it was the Arrancar. The creature looming in the courtyard bore only the faintest of resemblances to the former Espada. A fall of blue hair cascaded down his back like a mane, the color the only thing to link it to Grimmjow.

At some point they had both gone and fallen in love with this foolish kitten. And who wouldn't? For such smart men, it took them forever to figure out how they felt.

"Now we just have to break the news about getting a kitty to Nanao," chuckled Shunsui. LMAO! Oh Shunsui.

This is the first time leaving a review for you. I find I usually don't have the eloquence to convey exactly what I want to say, especially when it's for one of the best things I've ever read. So I bring you a gift to seduce your muse with, an offering to stimulate your creative processes when you're getting so close to the end and it feels a little harder to get out on the page. I understand that part, I am in the process of writing an epic and the just the storymapping is difficult at times. :) I offer you themes on your pairings and a theme that I feel encompasses the way I feel when I read this story.


A Shadow of What Was: Musical Themes

Kisuke/Ichigo: I have two songs in mind. Both these songs fit in both feeling and lyric.
'Taking You Home' Don Henley
'This Never Happened Before' Paul MacCartney

Renji/Ishida: This is a personal favorite of mine and I find it fits them. For me, anyway...Hope you agree.
'Crash Into Me' Dave Matthews Band

Byakuya/Ulquiorra: This song is more of a feeling than a literal interpretation.
'#1 Crush' Garbage

Toushiro/Karin: Both of them are analytical and beautiful. This song is too.
'1.618' BT

Ryuuken/Rukia: This fits both lyrically and feeling.
'Simply Being Loved: Somnambulist' BT

Shunsui/Grimmjow/Jushiro: I heard this last nite and it made me think of them.
'High Enough' Damn Yankees

Overall Theme: This piece emcompasses life to me. Much like your story, it builds and compounds until there is a breaking point. Then it blows into a beautiful chaos.
'The Antikythera Mechanism' BT


There you have it. I have made this into a playlist over at youtube. Bear in mind that the videos may not fit, but I was going for the music in them. I already know I'm a little crazy, but its the good kind and that's ok. Hopefully you can agree with me and get the same feeling when you listen. http://www.youtube.com/mandalee1013

You have another new reader! I have read "epics" before but have become wary of longer unfinished fics in case they're abandoned. But I read and loved your other stories and was intrigued by this one so finally gave in. Just please keep your promise to not abandon it! I'm hooked now! I didn't read it in one sitting - I read it in two. XD I know it should be taken in moderation, and I tried, but it's like having a good book, getting sucked into the story and unable to put it down. Which is why I prefer finished fics, then I can read it all at once, but now I've caught up I'll content myself with looking forward eagerly to updates.

Grimmjow and the way he is with Kisuke in this is adorable, I hope Shunsui and Jyuushiro are able to remain unscathed long enough when he finds them for him to figure out what they want and accept it. He deserves some love! And you actually made me like Ichimaru in this! Normally I just find him creepy. But now you've got me hoping he can somehow be redeemed as well, and perhaps even somehow end up with Kira and Matsumoto (though I don't know if that would be too much to hope for . . .)

Loving all the pairings in this, I'm an unusual pairings fan myself so this fic is all kinds of fun, even the het pairings are wonderful. And now the Vaizard have been thrown into the mix! Will we see more of them or are there enough characters and pairings rolling around in this beast already?

Looking forward to more, whatever happens! *Offers your muse cookies and some nice furry handcuffs to go with the whip* ^__^

*hems and haws about the how Yuzu says hear instead of here*

Ignore that, I just like being able to use hem and haw. Kisuke sounds so much better, and you make me feel so bad for Ichigo. I like what you did with Yuzu's voice; it's so fitting!

*grins* I love subtext, because it's such a truly powerful tool, especially when used well, and I adore how you use it.

And they were going to push back. Ichigo might have been one of the strongest men in Soul Society, but he had nothing on the two of them when it came to sheer stubbornness. *snerk* Poor Ichi.

Karin had never heard of a voice laced with reiatsu before, never heard of anyone infusing their words with power. In fact, she wouldn't have thought it possible if she hadn't heard and felt it for herself. Holy fucking hell! the Kurosaki clan is going to end up being granted noble status in Soul Society for their sheer fucking strength! *gawks at Yuzu some more*

*giggles her ass off over the phone call and Ishida's smug announcement before he handed over the phone* OMG, I love those boys. *happy sigh* Ichi is beginning to heal, the relationship between him and Kisuke is beginning to get on track, Bya and Ulqui are good. *another happy sigh* I have mentioned how much I adore you right?

PLEASE UPDATE SOON!! i want to see how the dinner goes! i loved this chapter! i love you!
ASOTA

Hmmm. Now why do I get this picture of Yuzu being in the Fourth when she crosses over? Excellent as always, darling.