Is it the end? No.
This is only the beginning. So much left undone. So much more to be seen...
This was so beautiful. The ending really felt sudden, too soon, paced just right, a little sad, a little hopeful...
What didn't it feel like? Here I am sitting behind a computerscreen a few minutes before I hit the hay...writing my rambling thoughts down while I still feel these feelings. Your story was slow. It was detailed. It had those handful of lime chapters that were some of the hottest I've ever read. It had these heartfelt moments that outshone the most sincere of romantic or emotional stories. It had humor that made me laugh outloud, love and friendship that made me care...
As often as this faded from my mind only to return in force with the next snippet of a chapter, this story has been one of the most important ones in my life.
I can only hope that a sequel DOES come. And it has to have Naruto as the main protagonist again, of course. Not just a story in the same universe...but it feels like with this ending, you have set yourself for a long break. The first book in a series that might never hold a sequel...
I hope I'm wrong, but only because this rollercoaster of feelings must never end. It did, and it didn't. And it must never be so yet it is. Does that make sense? It doesn't? It shouldn't. But it does for me. Right now I am sleepy and spouting this nonsense, deliberately not going back to edit my words other than correct spelling mistakes (the ones I notice while I'm writing them.). Because with as much time and thought as you, Daneel, put into this story, you deserve to read my uncut feelings on this story. I'll be honest, those short chapters happening in the other world that was ending, I skipped over most of those. I couldn't care less. But everything that happened in the main world. All of that, I must have read it five or six times, excepting this last chapter. I'll probably read it all a dozen times more in my lifetime. Because while it's entire premise might seem so simple, a FANFICTION, it has surpassed it's source material by an order of magnitude.
So many OC's who are worthwhile.
It shouldn't work, but even as a fanfiction (and I hate to look down on one of my favorite forms of entertainment) this has all the feelings of one of the greats.
Good luck with your every future endeavours. May one of them be a sequel, and tell all of us should it ever come out. I guarantee you, even if it takes you five years to get started, there will be plenty of people waiting to read it. I amongst them.
Just please, don't let it be five years.