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SASUKARIN FYSK: LAP FYSK: POINTERS SASUKE'S CHARACTER THE BOND
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I think, Sasuke only has a soft side toward Karin. can u explain it? sorry for the bad English.
No worries about your English, anon! You got your message across perfectly fine :D Thank you for the lovely question!
And (no surprise here) I wholeheartedly agree with you; given everything we have seen so far, I do think Sasuke (unconsciously) has a soft spot for Karin, and it’s noticeable in different ways.
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The easiest way to notice is by mere virtue of how lenient Sasuke is with her in contrast to other people; take Suigetsu for example, when he complains about Taka’s plan of action, Sasuke bluntly tells him that if he doesn’t like it, he can go home. But when Karin is the one to outright diss Sasuke’s plan, he doesn’t tell her such a thing.
In fact, Sasuke lets Karin berate him, question his leadership, yell at him, insult him, etc - he takes it all in stride without a single call of attention to her nor a single complaint. He doesn’t even get annoyed at her. And it’s not like he ignores her, either; he simply lets her be and address him in any way she sees fit. And it’s not like Sasuke doesn’t have a temper; he does. It just seems he happens to be surprisingly patient and permissive when it comes to Karin’s “not easy to handle” headstrong attitude.
Same-wise, he also indulges her when it comes to Suigetsu, be it by taking her side of the argument, letting her retaliate to his insults or by playing along with her schemes - like when she tricked Suigetsu into going the wrong way and Sasuke, aside from asking her why she tricked Suigetsu, didn’t ask her to cooperate with him.
Sasuke is partial to Karin, something even Obito pointed out by saying that he specifically chose her as his favorite.
Which takes me to Sasuke’s acknowledgment. Sasuke openly gives Karin his acknowledgment; be it of her powers and capabilities, or of her help. While Sasuke is often nonchalant at best and dismissive at worst when others help him, Sasuke did not hesitate to show his appreciation to Karin when she saved him in 412. Likewise, through statements like “I need you“ and ”You watch my back”, he doesn’t hold back from admitting just how highly he values her assistance and how highly he rates her as a shinobi and as a teammate.
And to follow that trend, we now have that Sasuke is also capable of humbling himself to her by admitting that he was in the wrong about something. By apologizing to Karin, Sasuke actually showed regret and repentance; which are things that Sasuke usually keeps to himself even when he does feel them since he is - as we all know - pretty arrogant and self-centered. To make this even more poignant, not a handful of chapters later we have Sasuke outright saying that he doesn’t care to try to make amends with Konoha because he “doesn’t care what they think about him”. So by apologizing to Karin, Kishi is basically implying that Sasuke does care about what Karin thinks of him.
That on one hand.
On the other, we have that Sasuke’s reactions towards her stand out on their own because Karin manages to bring out sides of him that he doesn’t usually showcase.
The apology is a prime example of this. But then there are humorous things like this nervous expression:
Which was a first. Or this gentle, full-toothed smile, which was also a first:
Or these adorably confused expressions, which are a rarity concerning female’s feelings towards him:
OR this desperate expression - which is one he has rarely sported for someone else’s well-being throughout Part II:
^ This expression right here is even more important because, at that point, Sasuke had already started to be affected by the Uchiha’s “curse of darkness”, so to speak. And it’s even more important because as we know thanks to Tobirama’s words, an Uchiha’s sharingan reacts to the strong feelings that losing someone they feel a deep love for evokes in them. And Sasuke’s Sharingan did react when he almost lost Karin: he awakened a whole new power for her and her alone.
So, using Tobirama’s wording: Sasuke harbors strong feelings for Karin, regardless of their nature.
And… I think I just got sidetracked lol but the point is: yes! As far as I’m concerned, Sasuke does have a soft spot for Karin~
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