You know, after a while, a time comes when you get really (and I’m going to break my “no meanie language rule” promise I made to my mother; sorry, mom!) fucking annoyed by the blatant, self-serving, Fan-Fiction-al interpretations of Sakura’s scenes in which, as popular saying goes, Sasuke … Lord Almighty, attacked her!
Can you believe this foolish, crack-pot, bloody nutter of an Uchiha, attacking a perfectly harmless female bystander who was only taking a leisurely stroll back home from Ino’s shop, after buying some flowers? Unthinkable, inconceivable, disrespectful, and all the other cultured words you can possibly think of that Sakura-lovers, deep within their tortured hearts and souls and other places which I won’t name, can approve of, along with an arm-chair internet feminist’s seal of approval to go with it (imagine, I typed that with the heaviest British accent).
The inhumanity of it all! Sasuke sought her out in the comfort of her own village, attacked her with an intention to kill, and laughed while she cried big fat tears for loving him too much. This, ladies and gents, are what Greek Tragedies are made of. There is just only one itty-bitty problem: Is any of this canon? Fuck no!
As I explained in this post of mine, Sakura has … issues. Big ones. You can write a long essay on her issues and not find a single canon line that gushes about her in the same manner as her fans gush about her. So what is Sakura a victim of, her own stupidity or Sasuke’s aggression? Let’s find out as we go down the deepest rabbit hole that’s constructed out of the Fan-Fictions (and Tumblr armchair feminism) that thickly surround Sakura’s canon character.
Sakura’s status as a heroine bugs a lot of people when she’s made to stand in the same light as her male counter-parts, because … well, she falls ludicrously short in just about all departments; yes, intelligence, too, as she’s got no strategic feats that Sasuke’s don’t absurdly pummel into the ground without remorse. The difference is that big! Somewhat decently talented, she’s embellished by her zealous fan (-atics) with the sort of qualities she doesn’t even remotely possess in canon, qualities she was thought to have been truly robbed of. I’ve posted on these here, a post (Titled: Sakura never surpassed Tsunade at anything and was never a prodigy) that shows in-depth that Sakura isn’t even remotely prodigious, and her chakra control doesn’t come anywhere near Naruto’s, let alone Sasuke’s, whose chakra control, Ninjutsu skill and talent match the Sage of the Six Paths’. Let’s get over this, people. No need to feel down. Sakura doesn’t even remotely compare to Naruto and Sasuke, especially Sasuke, on any front. I’d give her book-smarts over Naruto, but that’s just about it.
So all the claims about her “chakra control” being some kind of go-to tool for her to magically mold Mokuton (’cause she was robbed), Bijuu chakra (robbed), Senjutsu chakra (robbed) that’s much heavier than regular chakra, any other elemental Jutsu (robbed), for which she possesses no talent whatsoever in canon, etc., doesn’t quite fit in with the canon manga, does it? Throwing it away with a childish statement, “ ’cause she was robbed!” doesn’t mean anything when Sakura’s not only explicitly shown to have decent chakra control–which is out-shined hilariously by Naruto, let alone Sasuke–precisely because of small reserves and small reserves only, but also that she’s utterly incapable of handling anything even slighter heavier or complex (shape and nature transformation and Senjutsu) in nature; so how would she have controlled Bijuu chakra, Senjutsu, and created complex chakra forms in canon, exactly, when she possessed neither the talent nor the body for it? To accomplish that, you’d have to create a completely different character that isn’t Sakura. The simplest explanation! Haven’t we all learned something today? Can we agree that Sakura can’t handle the Senjutsu, Bijuu and Jubi chakra, and the Sage’s chakra in any manner whatsoever as it’s heavy and pretty damned difficult to handle? Great!
Her fans clearly can’t seem to understand one very important thing: Sakura, a character from Naruto, is Kishimoto’s character, not anyone else’s; there’s no such thing as potential save for comical and imaginative and elaborate assumptions created by readers that didn’t come true (which invite their aggression); Sakura’s worth in the plot is what Kishimoto decides, not anyone else; and there’s no Alternate Universe (AU) Sakura that Kishimoto stole and wrote it as his own, an AU in which she was supposedly everything her fans imagined her to be. And that, ladies and gents, is all there’s to it. No matter how much it hurts an average female reader’s feelings, which are far too deeply associated with a cartoon for it to be considered sensible, Sakura’s value begins and ends with Naruto.
Narratively, Sakura’s character offers no ideological views for her to be considered of even a tiny bit of value outside the story created by Kishimoto. Her behavior is so strongly tethered to Sasuke that, if you cut her out of the manga, Sasuke’s own arc loses nothing, not a piece of its value, while Sakura … drops out of the Chunin Examinations and is never heard from ever again. You don’t believe me? I explained it in this post: she tried to drop out several times from the Examinations, and unlike Sasuke (who was personally sought out by Orochimaru) and Naruto (who was trained by Jiraiya out of respect for his student, Minato), Sakura actually had to convince Tsunade to take her in as her apprentice; and Sakura only went to Tsunade when Sasuke left for good! In fact, she tried to withdraw from the Bell Test, before the Examinations ever took place! It’s all there in the aforementioned post; I’m not making this up. So if you take Sasuke out of the equation, Sakura with-draws from the Bell Test and disappears from the manga altogether.
In order to counter her unhealthy obsession with Sasuke, her fans shift the blame from the character itself to all manner of things: Sasuke, sexism, Kishimoto’s writing, Kishimoto himself, and God knows what else. They refuse to keep the blame on the character and go down that rabbit hole, often, a hole upon which Kishimoto stumbled and discovered everyone’s favorite Feminist-Icon, Sakura, which he obviously stole and ruined. To keep the argument to the manga, Sasuke appears to be their sole target of derision. All of Sakura’s personality flaws are blamed on Sasuke when, frankly, he didn’t want to be associated with her. Her romantic advances aren’t his fault. Her relentlessness isn’t his fault; however, all of this is deliberately ignored and the blame is shifted in various and creative ways to make sure that Sakura never shoulders her blame; and if that “notion” ever comes to pass, the posters themselves are declared misogynists. (That deep-seated Internalized Misogyny we all have; only the Sakura fangirls can sniff it out!)
The argument’s simple: why’s Sasuke not allowed to set boundaries for himself when Sakura’s allowed to leech onto others to maintain her self worth? Why’s it Sasuke’s responsibility to shoulder her behavioral issues? He isn’t her parent. He owes her no uplifting responses to boost her self-worth. She comes from a stable family. Why not confide in her own parents? (But she doesn’t talk about them at any point in the manga save literally two incidents, but here, I’ll bet most people will deflect the blame to Kishimot rather than accepting the fact that she’s just pitifully self-centered.) People act as if it’s somehow Sasuke’s moral obligation to entertain her whims when her issues directly contradict his own self-worth and his life’s goal, around which his entire life revolves.
The first incident that backs this up is when Sakura tries to quit the Bell Test at the detriment of Sasuke’s own self-worth. Naturally, he glares at her to set his own boundaries that she isn’t allowed to assume things about him and decide things that intimately concern his life:
She constantly flirts with him, and, naturally, it irritates him:
She accepts this, too; but it still takes Sasuke babying her into boosting her ego and making her come around:
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Otherwise, she’d have backed out of the Examinations … again! (She tried that several times throughout the course of the Examinations, actually.) It isn’t Sasuke’s responsibility to molly-coddle her and shield her from any remark that damages her self-worth. It’s ridiculous to expect this from a mere teammate, and a small boy at that, who’s got no connection to her save that they happen to work in the same cell (the cell actually breaks up as soon as Genins become Chunins). Did I mention the unshakable fact held by many a “illustrious” feminist here that it’s somehow Sasuke’s obligation to keep cheering her up and making sure that she doesn’t drop out; otherwise, he’s a scum-misogynist and an abuser who fucking nuked her little self-worth, don’tchya know? (In their eyes, Sasuke should be this all-purpose kid: a brother, father, mother, and cock-provider! If he flinches anywhere, he’s out to end women-kind–really!)
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I don’t understand: why is Sakura’s self-worth more important than Sasuke’s own boundaries and self-worth? Beyond self-projection from readers, I see no reason for Sasuke to indulge Sakura in any manner when she crosses the boundaries he’s set for her. Wouldn’t you be irritated if someone crossed the boundaries? I don’t know about you, but I’d be furious.
Then we have this Chunin Examinations’ incident that’s frequently used to belittle Sasuke:
Do people realize that Sasuke’s (rightful) irritation and subsequent anger and apathy towards Sakura (along with Naruto and Kakashi) follow a long series of incidents that started well before the Forest of Death? I’ve already highlighted quite a few of them before this, but let’s start with the point at which Orochimaru first appeared:
When Orochimaru first appeared, Sakura was nothing but a burden. She didn’t even help in figuring out the fact that both times, phony Naruto appeared. Sakura: “That was another phony Naruto!”
She’s so ducking clueless here–both times, not once; the second Naruto is Orochimaru, by the way. Not to mention she got the parameters of the Chunin Examinations wrong at every single turn (I’d update this post to elaborate on it, as well). So much for Sakura being a so-called prodigy. Both of them were nothing but burdens to Sasuke in the Forest of Death.
So not only was she not a physical back-up, but she offered no strategic back-up, as well. Everything fell on Sasuke’s shoulders. It was Sasuke who had to think of a plan on-the-fly to save her life, repeatedly:
A minor digression, but Kakashi, a grown man, couldn’t think of a trick to overcome this, but Sasuke did and in the tenth part of a second:
Here are Kakashi’s Images: one and two.
I always find it a little laughable because Kakashi has never compared to Sasuke on any front, no matter how many times his fanboys screech otherwise (especially the Sakura fans that adore him as Sasuke’s pitiful-cock-replacement). Coming back to the point, Sasuke saves Sakura and they run away, and here’s where a very important point comes up: Naruto and Sakura became the cause of Sasuke’s misery that led him to abandon the village. How? Let’s look at these two scans: one and two.
These two are very important scans: Sakura not only notices that Sasuke’s “jumpy”, but she doesn’t offer any help whatsoever; and we also notice that because of being jumpy, Sasuke wasn’t able to sense properly as he’s trying to keep himself and a complete dead-weight alive. Now, why’s Sasuke jumpy? Well, we already saw above that Orochimaru’s constantly releasing his death-aura (that isn’t Genjutsu, by the way; Orochimaru, at no point in the manga, has never cast Genjutsu), and his target’s Sasuke specifically as proven through this image.
Why did Sasuke behave that way? Well, the serpent’s releasing Orochimaru’s aura as Orochimaru is literally inside the serpent: image.
This helps me make another important point: Orochimaru was travelling inside the snake! This is the point where my arguments on Sasuke’s distancing and apathy start to take shape because, as soon as Naruto appears, Naruto and Sakura both not only antagonize, belittle, and alienate Sasuke while he’s experiencing immense mental-stress, but Naruto also physically assaults him: one, two, three, and four.
Now, people are going to make the argument that Orochimaru said that he’d get them, anyway, regardless of Sasuke’s decision, but is it really that simple? No. We know for a fact that Sasuke, while recusing Sakura and literally carrying her around like a worthless dead-weight, managed to get away from Orochimaru and hide. It took a while for Orochimaru to find him by using Snakes to sense. Had Sakura and Naruto actually offered some kind of aid (fucking anything, in fact, rather than being immense pricks that deserved to be ditched in the forest), all of them could’ve, at least, managed to slip away till the point reinforcements didn’t show up (Anko was already about to head to the tower at that point and had deployed Anbu reinforcements to the Forest, too). They didn’t even let Sasuke try to have a chance at fleeing the guy! He was constantly thinking of ways to diffuse the situation: one, two, and three; however, no matter what he said (image one, two, and three), all of his pleas fell on deaf ears.
I find it ridiculous that this point is never brought up: Naruto and Sakura are literally the reason why another tragedy was added to Sasuke’s life–the curse mark–that made him relive his past tragedies; and, from there on, an entire cycle of self-loathing, miseries, and tragedies re-started for the poor boy who’s, as people conveniently keep forgetting, a 12-year-old child, who’s also a genocide victim: both of them were repeatedly calling him a coward!
One and two. Are these really heroic moments Naruto wankers laud as Sasuke being a “good” character, or are these moments of a child inflicting further self-destruction on himself for the teammates that … pretty much deserved to perish here? Sasuke’s performance (one, two, and three) is literally the reason why Orochimaru marked him in the first place. And whose fault is that? Sasuke’s? Or Naruto’s or Sakura’s who did nothing but make everything worse?
Seriously, Sasuke’s the one who’s a monster, an asshole, and a jerk when these two were demonizing him quite remorselessly in the presence of a foe that they had no hopes of matching?
Naruto did that when Sasuke lost to Lee:
To digress here a bit, not to mention Lee who’s somehow lauded for challenging and using a fatal jutsu on a junior who had no idea that Lee didn’t have a friendly match in mind? Even Gai called him out on it. What the heck?! Is it that he thirsts for Sakura’s pussy that he becomes more sympathizable and Sasuke doesn’t when he nearly killed a genocide victim? God, what a fucking asshole. I suppose, people can relate to being like Lee, a thirsting loafer, who only wanted to impress Sakura and settle his petty revenge against Neji. (I’m glad that he became irrelevant; and I don’t even mind this scene; sorry, I’ve never liked Lee, and his self-projecting fanboys are irritating as heck.)
Lee announces it to both of them in this Image that Sasuke’s the last member of his clan. It isn’t as if Naruto didn’t know.
(And Neji and his team knew that Sasuke was a junior. We even see Sakura commenting on that, so it’s not like Lee didn’t know.)
Coming back to the argument, Sakura, too, made fun of all orphans, including Sasuke, for which he’d hit back at her:
Naruto’s literally making fun of a genocide victim; however, it’s Sasuke who’s a monster when he hits back at both of them. Imagine that! It isn’t as if a boy who’s experienced an unthinkable tragedy would grow sick of them all, little by little, till one day he’d simply sever the ties that hold him back, bring him grief, and deny him his self-wroth. It’s almost as if … that would be the natural course of events for any individual, fictional or otherwise.
Both of them didn’t stop there as, despite Sasuke telling off Naruto, he lunged at Orochimaru and got his chakra sealed off. And Sakura, instead of playing it smart (her fans keep deluding themselves of her “genius” that can’t be located at any point in the manga) doubled-down on it and poked fun at Sasuke.
I’m sorry–should I spare any sympathy for these two? These aren’t just stupid decisions; these are decisions that nearly killed Sasuke as the Cursed Marks (CM) have a one-in-ten survival rate:
It also puts the CM wielder in such an immense pain that Anko thinks that it’s a miracle that Sasuke’s still alive: Image.
The right decision for Sasuke should’ve been to run; however, yet again, he’s guilt-tripped into “protecting his comrades, yo!” at the expense of his own stability, life, and safety. Even Orochimaru can see that Sasuke was throwing his life away for revenge: image!
No one should be asked to lift such a burden, especially not a child that’s been through a tragedy as profound as genocide. And every time, as you can see, Itachi comes into the picture. When he’s shamed, he reverts back to the same night when he wasn’t able to do a thing. How do I know this? I know it because of this:
See? Sasuke’s being mentally tormented by the images of the genocide; and that immediately follows when he’s repeatedly called a coward by the likes of his so-called friends.
This can be seen here and here, and here, here and here against Sound Four more explicitly as Sasuke starts shaking immediately when he suffers from defeat. He becomes more aggressive, and he reacts immediately to even the odds (even though he’s injured and recovering against the Sound Four, but he doesn’t care; he’s defeated, but he has to prove himself because, if he doesn’t what’s his life’s purpose?) as it isn’t just humiliation; it’s the kind of humiliation that reminds him of the genocide. This isn’t just arrogance: it’s arrogance rooted in a failure that cost him his whole clan. This is “survival’s guilt” that keeps re-surfacing over and over again. And the CM-Nightmare shows that and connects every image quite effectively.
How is this not emotional abuse? Sasuke striking back at Sakura, after being pushed to the limit of patience, is seen as emotional abuse from his end, but how’s it not repulsive emotional abuse from Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi’s end? Is there any other type of emotional abuse that I don’t know of?
When Naruto, Sakura, and Kakashi are criticized, people have plenty of absolutely petty excuses for their characters’ repugnant behaviors that not only demand censure but also derision from the target of their abuse: Naruto was lonely (Sasuke isn’t?); Sakura’s just a child (Sasuke isn’t?); Kakashi faced tragedies, so he doesn’t know any better–cut him some slack (Sasuke faced a genocide, which is the greatest crime against people, and Kakashi’s more than twice Sasuke’s age; he’s twenty-five at the start of the manga; he’s not a child)? Why’s Sasuke shown no such courtesy? Why’s the context deliberately thrown away to malign him?
We’re shown repeatedly that the CM’s heavy on Sasuke’s psyche and body as it causes physical and mental pain; and Sasuke’s constantly shown to be in a state of pain as it erodes the body, literally: Image 1 and image 2.
So does it come as a shock that he’d be angered in response to physical pain and his team’s sociopathic apathy to his misery? No. Sakura’s repeatedly seen trying to poke her nose in his business when she couldn’t offer any help when it was needed. No, she made the situation worse: one, two, and three. He even lays it out for the readers here, but I suppose, like Sakura, all that context before and after it doesn’t seem to matter to people and none of it manages to quite sink in. (Oh, look, he’s making Sakura cry! What an abuser!)
Calling this abuse from Sasuke’s end is … absurd, comical, and ridiculous. You’d have to have the reading comprehension of a cock to reach this conclusion when you’re deliberately throwing away every incident that actually led to Sasuke saying that.
Then comes that infamous “apples tossing” incident that’s often over-used under “domestic abuse” headings and that makes me … laugh quite a lot, actually, as it’s so damn tone-deaf that I find it absurd that anyone that possesses the intellectual capacity above that of a small, misguided, foolish girl could venture that. It’s that absurd. It’s as if her fans latch onto that one panel and throw away all the other details that surround it: it’s called context, ladies and gents; use it once every blue moon if it isn’t too hard a task for you.
The problem with this again is the blame-shifting from Sakura to Sasuke to absolve her of any wrong-doing. Well, is it like that? The issue with Sakura, and her fans, is that she doesn’t take the hint. When Sasuke wakes up from a coma, he’s utterly devastated from having viewed his clan’s complete and brutal slaughter at the hands of his own brother … millions of times. Yes, millions, ’cause Itachi (but he loves Sasuke so very much and is a well-written character!) decided to place Sasuke under Tsukuyomi for twenty-four hours! Can you imagine the kind of toll it’d take on someone’s psyche? You can’t because it’s beyond hyperbolic. It’s inconceivable to even measure the depth of the psychological fracture it’d cause to someone’s mind. Sasuke nearly died in the coma, and had it not been for Tsunade, he may very well could have.
People focus on the fact that he aggressively tossed aside the apples (they even demand an apology from Sasuke for this; my God!), but they don’t see the kind of mental anguish that he experienced. It’s highlighted by the fact that his mind keeps reeling from the humiliation Itachi put him through:
Sasuke’s visibly grimacing from playing the same loop over and over and over again in his head: Itachi brutally assaulted him, broke his ribs and wrist, and locked him up in a painful Tsukuyomi for two whole days! My goodness! You don’t think that he’d be filled with nothing but rage after this? People in real life get furious over far less. I mean, come on! There’s unreasonable and then there’s this. I wouldn’t even call this unreasonable. It’s beyond idiotic to assume that Sasuke wouldn’t react aggressively after this after the kind of trauma, which an average person can’t even fathom, he experienced … again at Itachi’s hand. And this time, the punishment was increased thousand-fold as the whole scene had an audience!
And look at that question mark. He clearly looked in immense pain, but Sakura’s so self-absored that she doesn’t even notice. Is it so hard to imagine that Sasuke would be fed up of her antics (or any of his cell-mates’ antics) by this point? No.
Then Naruto shows up, and filled with abject anger, humiliation, and lack of self-worth, he quickly challenges Naruto to a battle, hoping that that’ll re-assert some of the control that he’d lost. Heck, any control to keep him from spiraling further out-of-control as he’s on the brink of self-destruction at this point!
Sasuke doesn’t care that he’s still recovering; and he doesn’t care if he’d died. That’s how shamed he feels!
The humiliation Itachi put him through is constantly on his mind, and the only way to regain self-control, a bit of respite from the heinously cruel mental torture, is to re-assert his boundaries and his own self-worth. (Honestly, I can’t believe anyone would sympathize with Itachi after this; this is beyond sickening; in fact, it’s wantonly revolting; I can’t imagine any sensible person justifying any of this man’s actions; they’re utterly heinous!).
Keeping all of this in mind, is it shocking that he tossed away her apples? No. I can’t imagine people, who still have their wits about them, discarding the entire context surrounding that scene and cherry-picking to pour more gasoline into the fires that make up Sakura’s supposed (Fan-Fiction-al) victimization at Sasuke’s hands, which to this day, I remain oblivious to.
It occurred to no sensible person that all of this would simply keep adding onto Sasuke’s dissatisfaction with and anger at his cell-mates? Or that he wouldn’t re-think his time at Leaf when he’s being antagonized at every damn turn by every single member of his Cell, including Kakashi, who tied Sasuke to a fucking tree and told him that he’s got a sob-story, too, so Sasuke needs to chill with the genocide, you know (’cause genocide and his parent’s suicide are totes the same thing; every fucking tragedy’s equal; all tragedies matter, you fucking Kakashi-gate-keepers!)? Yo, I lost some people, and I’m still Leaf’s cock-sucker. You can be, too, Sasuke! There’s no shame in being a Leaf’s cock-sucker. It’s never too late to be a Leaf’s cock-sucker, amiright? (One, two, and three).
It isn’t as if Kakashi’s so-called tragedies (blown well out of proportion by his fanboys as his father chose his own fate, and Kakashi never bothered to visit his grave his entire life; but, I suppose, the little tragi-comics people keep drawing compensate for that through the creation of narratives that stab self-parody repeatedly; Obito, who Kakashi knew for few months tops, died in the line of duty; and so did Rin) don’t compare to genocide: the worst crime against humanity! It was Kakashi’s choice to cling onto the people he barely knew and discard his own father in the process. Have you realized that this guy’s never talked about his mother (save the conversation started by his father in the afterlife)? Not even once? Yet I doubt that he was able to pass his daily stool without weeping for Obito every other hour. It’s … laughable. Really, it isn’t my fault that the characters you people keep fainting over don’t make a lick of sense, and, on closer inspection, unintentionally look like ludicrous clowns whose entire purpose in the narrative is entirely meaningless. (The “I wear a mask to hide my pain!” is a trite cliche that barks up the right tree of high-school dorm-room emo-club; don’t you people feel any shame in calling this “good writing”? Probably not.)
I’m sorry, but I will play Oppression Olympics here, because Genocide compels me to. I don’t care if it injures your well-held “I-Fanboy-this!” obligatory sob-story-dial-up antics; but it’s just a fact: you can’t compare mass-slaughters to suicides. Why are people on Tumblr so fucking laughable? It isn’t as if Kakashi ever did anything against that; no, he rolled around in the same system that brought him grief. I’ve said more on this here, so I’d stop.
Then we have the rejections. Again, context! You can’t toss it aside and play the victimization game at the cost of Sasuke’s valuable characterization. The first one comes after the Sound Four defeat Sasuke and he finally decides to join Orochimaru as he isn’t gaining anything from Leaf: Image 1
And Sound Four, as expected, tempt Sasuke by speaking of Itachi: Image 2
Sasuke even thinks of him while he’s fighting back against his vengeance and Itachi before the Sound Four show up and further humiliated him: Image 3
Sakura begins the conversation on the wrong foot. She starts by taking about her feelings, as usual, and ignoring Sasuke’s worth as an individual in the process:
Sasuke tries his level-best to push her back, but in a typical Sakura fashion, she continues to be completely bull-headed. Keep this in mind that this happens after the above “apples tossing” incident and everything I’ve spoken of, so Sakura should’ve used a small bit of cognitive-empathy, heck even emotional-empathy, to understand Sasuke; however, it doesn’t seem like she’s interested in his life beyond her own presence in it (or her Tolkien Quest for his penis).
And she doesn’t back-off. No, she keeps tossing her head at a wall with completely repugnant remarks that center on her equating her life’s loneliness with the genocide Sasuke faced:
I find this part utterly detestable. There’s no parallel between her loneliness (which is by choice) and that of a Genocide Victim’s loneliness. These two circumstances are completely incomparable as Sasuke had to live in the same compound where his whole clan was slaughtered. The whole thing’s so profoundly repulsive from her end that it’s unfathomable to me how anyone can find this adorable on any front. Her attitude’s irrevocably repugnant here. It’s even worse than when she made fun of Naruto for being an “out of control” orphan. Then in lieu of stopping, she goes off into this long confession of love and tells him that if he can’t stay, he should take her with him ’cause she doesn’t want to live here without him:
This straight-up disgusts Sasuke, as it should, as she’s asking a victim of genocide to stop his life-goals for her whims, validations, and obsessions:
He’s basically saying, “you make me sick!” as this dialogue’s a direct reference to this one below where she poked fun at orphans (she didn’t even know during this bottom Image that Sauske was an orphan, too, which shows that she never bothered to know anything about him when several kids in the class knew that Sasuke was an orphan):
You can’t consider the “you’d never change!” without the “you make me sick!” and the context that intimately links them. It’s being willfully obtuse for no reason save to peddle a petty agenda.
When he doesn’t respond positively, she … becomes increasingly aggressive:
As always, her confessions are morbidly self-centered. There’s not a single laudable side to them. They’re about her and her self-worth. Why shift the blame on Sasuke, and if you can’t do that, shift it onto Kishimoto when you can simply accept the fact that that’s how her character is written? Kishimoto himself has called her selfish towards, obsessed with, and addicted to Sasuke plenty of times. It’s simple. There’s nothing complicated about this statement that Sakura’s an aggressively selfish individual who wants her desires to outweigh Sasuke’s. She’s … completely tone-deaf and I find her fans to work in the same vein; as like her, they can’t seem to grasp the gravity of Sasuke’s tragedy and the obsession that surrounds it.
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