Yes! Welcome back! I read this twice in a week already, enjoyed it so much! There's definitely a more mature prowse in your writing. Loved it. Concise and meaningful in how you describe different characters' emotions and settings. Looking forward to your next series - really liking it so far! 

I love all of your work, I have read them multiple times and this one will be no different. I look forward to any more stories that you have laying around.

This was amazing! I was thoroughly hooked and binged the whole thing while sleep deprived and taking care of my newborn and toddler ???? Not too smart I'll admit but hey, I'll sleep when I'm dead! Thank you so much for sharing! I know I'm being greedy by asking about what happened after? It was an awesome ending, but I'm just wondering if Sess and Kagome decided to make them babies, yadidamean?? Lol but seriously, thank you for this! I sincerely hope you will come back and write more Sesskag because your writing is just... *chef's kiss* 10/10 would hit, as the kids say. I hope life is grand and if it isn't, I hope you have enough wine and/or snacks to help you cope! Cheers ??

Let me just start off with a THANK YOU. This story is incredible. So very well written and just beautifully done. The concept was so original. Please please please never stop writing. If you publish an action romance please let us all know because you're writing is amazing

This story was beautifully written. I would love to read more from you!

Me encantan tus historia. Bien contadas

OMG!  Your back!  And with a bang!    Holi shit!   Sorry im completely fangirling right now.  Damn ive missed you.   Ive been jonesing and i always go back to your old stuff to  get t a fix. 

I was balling my eyes out with this one.

This was perfect!  I loved everything about it. 

Kagome has become stronger woman, she was always to under rated in the show which was always a pity, and using the kiss with inu yasha to start her journey was as ingenious as her kiss with Sesshoumaru to come full circle. 

Like Sango we want all the juicy details. ; )

P.S. I hope your dating life will be as beautiful as all of your creations.  

Take care 

Your story was absolutely amazing. I'm glad to hear that you were able to pick up where you would lift off where many authors get stumped. I really do hope that you do a small sequel or maybe a one-off to this to give more emphasis on the relationship developing between the two main characters. I hope to see more writings from you soon. You really are good at it.

Welcome back Shadow! 

This was such a pleasure to read. The storytelling was vivid and the emotions were gripping. My only request is a Tengu hunting sequel and a steamy continuation of the last scene. Life has been very hard for me the past two years and I suffered another setback last week, but this little golden nugget has put me in a good mood after a long while. 

It is my own belief that a writer puts little parts of their soul in their works and your soul, my dear, is empathetic, beautiful and downright sexy. 

I always read anything you put out and shall forever look for more. Thank you for sharing your art. 

Oh Shadow,

it's so good that you are back to writing and to read a new story of you after all these years of silence.  And what a nice plot and the story full of nice surprises. That it was completed and ready to be explored made my weekend! As a reader from the start of all your stories let me tell you : they are still my favorites. 
Thank you so much and may we hope for further in the future.

 Stardust 

I very much enjoyed this story, but I want to see more! How does the talk with Sanyo go? Does that stupid lord cause trouble when he "talks to the emperor"? Do sesshomaru and Kagome actually mate?? These open endings kill me!!!

A lovely story. I admit I was confused and frustrated often while reading due to a dying curiosity of where the build up was leading to or what the verbal dodging was all about. Well played there. You endeavored to deliver a complex plot and you did it dashingly. I hope you continue writing.

Aw, willfully obtuse kagome.  i'm so glad she came around ;)

I'm so happy you finished this story.  it was so sweet and thoughtful, and i feel very grateful to you for sharing it!  You've written some of my favorite fics, many that i've read several times over the last 15 or so years, so when i saw you had a whole new story for us, I about fell out of my chair.  I still have you in my alerts, so when you popped up in my email i was very excited!

I love their banter here.  The back and forth, the dancing, bamf kagome, funny/pervy sango and miroku, and good old insightful, honerable, naughty a-hole dog himself.  working together, fighting together, taking care of each other... you write these two so well, and i just love seeing how you make them play off each other.  its always a treat, and i will always be here for it!  Also, gotta give a nod to Assassin's Seduction, its so hilarious and hot, which isn't always an easy balance to make lol.  But you killed it!

anyway, thanks again!  amazing to see you, glad you are well, hope to see you again!  can't gush enough <3  don't be a stranger.

PS:  oh, and i never call out typos in fics, but this one was so amazingly hilarious that i woke my husband up i was laughing so hard:

"It was like he was peeing into her very soul."  your words, not mine lololol  i friggin died.  okay, that's all!

what an awesome fight scene.  kagome is such a badass!

you are the master of climactic kisses. i can't wait to see how it ends <3

Drunk Sesshoumaru!!  You're checking all my boxes here lol.

How he is so scary and so adorable all at once?  My husband is just obnoxious when he drinks XD

Sweet LORD!  That dance scene!!!

The dancing, the banter, the climactic end to the party... I have no words, I'm sorry.

Love me a hot dance scene, what can I say? 

favorite chapter so far.  11/10.  

Sesshoumaru is so cryptic.  I love that she can trip him up lol.

Him really considering her honesty about killing men and youkai...

F.Y.I... I loved their banter lol.

I always wondered about his clothes.  i like this explaination.

It is very beautiful

I really like this story. The open end just added to it's charm. The characters were them but matured and yet different but the same. As I matured myself I started to see some of the immaturity and toxicity of Inuyasha and Kagome's relationship and started to think that she deserved to be more than a shadow of a woman died. Sesshoumaru was one that changed most as a person and yet remained dignified, learned from his mistakes. I don't think that Rin was the right choice for him because of the hero worship and the father figure role that he played, the author's decision was just a obvious choice.