I spent the past 3 days binge reading this story and oh how I love it. I know it's unlikely to ever be finished, but it really is a work of art and you deserve to know that. Some things are a bit dated, such as using the R slur, but the story is no less fantastic.
I don't know if you'll ever see this, but I want you to know that in a lot of ways I connected with both Joey and Kaiba on a personal level. Both the fear of letting someone in and the desperation to be needed, valued, and loved really got to me.
It was both heartbreaking and painfully realistic to see Joey hesitating to leave a bad situation. It's so much harder to leave a monster when they're not explicitly cruel.
I really wish I could make sure you saw this, but the social's you provided are all either inactive or gone.
This story is so amazing!!! I am begging you to continue, so please please please continue!!!
I love your story so much it just saddens me that there is no more after chapter 27...I hope one day you continue if not I'm sol.
I really like how you don't rush things and how they slowly happen on their own. I don't feel like the story drags and that excites me as most stories I come across are short and to the point or dragged out like Inuyasha (to the point where I forget the plot altogether until 2,935 chapters later when it's "back on track")! Keep up your pace! I can't wait to see how Seto really felt about everything. Jou realized it was even better than he imagined. I'm wondering if Kaiba felt the same or not.
Can't wait for the next chapter! Keep up the great work! ^_^
~ChibiRinni
I'm also just as skeptical as Jou when it comes to his and Kitamura's "relationship". It's nice that he took Jou shopping and whatnot, along with showing some boyfriend like tendencies but I am still unsure if its real or some ulterior motives involved besides sex. I just wish Seto would stop being an ass and take what's rightfully his. I don't want Jou developing any real feelings for Kitamura just because of Kaiba's stubbornness.
I think I had a heart attack at the part where Kaiba pretended to be charming, while they were waiting for Mokuba at the festival. It was so exciting and funny, but all because that sort of scene was used sparingly and well timed.
I like Jou's train of though, it flows so naturally. Although, I get excited sometimes and when someone speaks, I get impatient and wonder 'omg what is so-and-so's reply!?' and skip to the next paragraph to read a sentence of dialouge. Then I go back and re-read the paragraph again properly without skipping. I do that a lot when a story is just so riveting.
I love this story as is, and await the next chapter. <3 thank you for sharing this work.