On the one hand, I enjoy this story quite a lot. It's solidly written and flows well. On the other hand, the author has changed not only Naruto's circumstances, but his personality. Naruto is impulsive. Just because someone starts paying more attention to him doesn't mean that his basic personality traits are going to change.
ETA: I want to expand on my issues with this fic. My most basic problem is that the change in Naruto's character is too easy. I could buy that he would have an easy time improving his skills with the extra attention, since we've seen he's not afraid of hard work, but his approach to issues should be too ingrained at that age for him to suddenly stop his off-the-cuff responses. But suddenly, he's very controlled and thinking ahead in a way that should be foreign to him. Had we seen more struggles and reversions, I would be much happier with this story.
Mixed feelings
On the one hand, I enjoy this story quite a lot. It's solidly written and flows well. On the other hand, the author has changed not only Naruto's circumstances, but his personality. Naruto is impulsive. Just because someone starts paying more attention to him doesn't mean that his basic personality traits are going to change.
ETA: I want to expand on my issues with this fic. My most basic problem is that the change in Naruto's character is too easy. I could buy that he would have an easy time improving his skills with the extra attention, since we've seen he's not afraid of hard work, but his approach to issues should be too ingrained at that age for him to suddenly stop his off-the-cuff responses. But suddenly, he's very controlled and thinking ahead in a way that should be foreign to him. Had we seen more struggles and reversions, I would be much happier with this story.