#also i think sasuke's dislike of sakura's crush behavior could've helped her realize it's better to be herself
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evilkitten3 · 10 months ago
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#shout out to @Obihoe cause this started as a tag comment on one of your posts that got WAY too out of hand. just like old times lol#team 7#haruno sakura#sakura haruno#sasuke uchiha#team crackhead#naruto#naruto uzumaki#sasusaku#doesn't have to be but like. Yeah#for the record no disrespect to my boys Naruto n Kakashi I love them dearly. but like. they got their issues. that's half the fun of team 7#And Sakura has her problems with Sasuke too!! But her problems have nothing to do with understand him or his motivations or his personhood#and more to do with. Well. her absolute dogshit empathy. Emotionally disregulated ass.#'if you leave me I'll feel just like you did when your parents died' My beloved. Iconic. Great line. No notes. She's really just still so#inexperienced and naive that means she can explain and predict and KNOW him and his actions but still not empathize. She can say shit#like that with a straight face because she's never FELT loss like this before (except that minute she thought he was dead on the bridge)#so she can't imagine a worse pain. Just assumes it can't GET worse because she has no emotional concept of 'worse'. so it must be the same#she's literally the only person with a chance of convincing Sasuke to take her with him to Orochimaru because he's SASUKE of course she#knows all the right pressure points and keywords and concerns and stuff that she needs to convince him.#she's literally playing a little diolouge tree game with him. And maybe even winning up until that line! it's the dealbreaker
all of this!!! pre-shippuden sakura might've been crazy obsessed with sasuke but she also Understood him on a very strange level. like i think one of the biggest missed opportunities in the series was letting them have more bro moments bc sakura absolutely could've been sasuke's bestie
An interesting little fun thing with team 7 is that you assume that Sakura's gonna, like, woobify and simplify Sasuke by putting him on a pedastal,cause her goal is centered around him and shes a 12 y/o fangirl so like of course her understanding of him is skewed cause she doesnt see him as a person, just an object of affection, right? She's can't get Sasuke, can't imprint on and/or traumabond with him like Naruto and Kakashi do. They don't see him with rose tinted glasses, because they've lived through their own Horrors and empathize with Sasuke's experience.
......right?
WRONG lmao!! They have too many ghosts!! Naruto's single-minded codependent ass won't get out of his own way long enough to see Sasuke for who he actually is, only able to empathize with the parts of his trauma Naruto relates to and not really capable of understanding him outside of the context of himself (because Sasuke is. His other half). And Kakashi is far too jaded to be fair to him!! He can't decide if Sasuke is gonna end up as a mini-him or a mini-Obito or maybe a mini-Itachi, but either way he ALSO is too traumatized to see Sasuke AS SASUKE.
meanehile SAKURA'S autistic ass may have dogshit empathy, but you know what she does have? A special interest in sasuke. Nothing better to do then give herself a degree in Uchihaisms. She can write character studies about him. she can read his soul. Whenever she says something about him she is right. Every fucking time! She is RIGHT!!!!
'sasuke would NOT compliment me this directly or explicitly express worry unprompted, especially if it gets in the way of his goals' correct.
'Sasuke shouldn't hide that curse on his neck its not healthy BUT if I tell anyone about it he'll never trust me again, which might be even more dangerous for him then the curse mark. Like he can probably handle the curse mark but no one else can stop him from ripping peoples arms off.' correct.
Speaking of! 'Sasuke would not hurt me even when he seems to be...possessed? whatever the only way to knock him out of it is to present myself as Alive and thus something to be protected rather then something to be avenged, because he gets really stuck in his own head about revenge' CORRECT
'hey so um. like. Sasuke's gonna leave Konoha. I'm not sure anything can stop him at this point and honestly I'm kinda starting to doubt anything should, so the only thing I could possibly do to help him at this point is ALSO defect.' CORRECT!!!!
#naruto#uchiha sasuke#haruno sakura#i honestly could've shipped it pre-shippuden#i think it's really interesting that in naruto classic sakura was the one who understood sasuke and naruto didn't#but then it switched completely in shippuden#and. it still worked and was really fun and all but. idk i feel like it was better when naruto honestly didn't get him#something something looking underneath the underneath etc#can you imagine if sasuke had been like. on painkillers when he woke up in the hospital#imagine him lying in bed completely stoned next to sakura#and just accidentally saying something like#''i really wish you didn't have such an annoying crush on me you're like the best friend i've ever had in my life''#like would this have changed anything probably not#but it would've been very funny#i also think if sakura had gone with him she might've grown out of her crush#but. idk i guess after the sasori fight kishimoto decided she didn't get to be like a person anymore#the weird semi love triangle in classic was part annoying part hilarious#also i think sasuke's dislike of sakura's crush behavior could've helped her realize it's better to be herself#like she tries so hard to fit into a specific role that she manifests an inner fury strong enough to physically chuck ino out of her head#and sasuke actually LIKES the real her. the smartass little know-it-all with a temper and a mean streak#not like. LIKE like but. y'know#kinda another part of how sakura's character did an uno reverse in shippuden#don't get me wrong i love the whole confession scene with ''i don't like people who lie to themselves''#but pre-shippuden sakura was lying to EVERYBODY all the time. she was terrified of people knowing who she was#but sasuke saw the real her and liked her and i think that really could've gone somewhere#i love shippuden sakura but classic sakura is also wonderful#i really wish kishimoto had cared more about the girls
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