Hmm, i'm starting with Loophole, and so far it seems very IC, but I can't shake the few niggling problems I have with her premises, such as "wait what is Sakura STUPID to ask for help about Sasuke from ITACHI Sasuke will NEVER forgive her -- wait what, Itachi ACCEPTED?" and the Itachi > Kisame violence due to Kisame doing stupid things. I don't know why, but it bugs me a bit. Kisame isn't stupid, and they're partners, not master and lackey. ;_; I'll have to wait a bit to see if the rest of her fic overcomes that.

Hopefully there will be an explanation of Itachi's train of thought, because while I can see him jumping at the occasion not to go blind anymore, I don't see him interfering with Sasuke's path -- hopefully he was just lying his ass off and never intended to do it... hmm. But then I just started the fic, so maybe it fixes that. The rest is very good, though ^^

I'll check the other one when I have the time, thank you very much for the links. ^__^