#lee naruto and gaara faced discrimination for what set them apart

[evilkitten3]

bet

totally normal brotherly interaction

and then again four years later

in shippuden, kakashi explicitly states that what sasuke went through was entirely bc of itachi's bs

(thanks to @therecexz for the images; i would've linked directly to you but people on tumblr don't like clicking links, so sorry about that)

counting the time in shippuden, that's three separate times itachi has done this– once when sasuke was eight, once when he was twelve/thirteen, and once when he was sixteen. that's a helluva a lot of psychological trauma to go through in your formative years

itachi couldn't bring himself to kill sasuke. he had absolutely no problem beating the shit out of him and torturing him psychologically.

look, i don't hate itachi and i'm not even a particularly big sasuke fan– they're both fun characters, frankly, i think kishimoto wasted too much time trying to make their relationship #dramatic and not enough time showing itachi post-resurrection realizing how badly he'd fucked up (dw he has a secret magic bird he made naruto throw up and that makes everything ok i guess. sure the bird's purpose was to brainwash the little brother he traumatized but w/e)

honestly it all could've worked if the ending had been anything remotely close to satisfactory but g-d forbid we challenge the status quo

[proudpoe]

#naruto#naruto shippuden#uchiha family fuckery#don't come at me about naruto lore dude that's not a fight you wanna pick#i feel like people forget that whenever itachi was showing up pre-shippuden kishimoto made sure we knew why sasuke hated him#this guy was a BASTARD bastard#itachi was the king of needless dickery and putting the fear of g-d into everyone he came across#that's why it was such a wham moment when sasuke finally finished him off and suddenly he was all smiles and forehead pokes#i remember reading that chapter over and over bc i was so freaking baffled by what just happened#in itachi's very questionable defense he never intended sasuke learn the truth#he just sorta. hoped no one ever mentioned it#despite the fact that there were many MANY people who were fully aware and could benefit from saying something#he turned his brother into a pretty easily aimed rage bomb and obito took about five and a half seconds to point it straight at konoha#sasuke made some shit choices for sure but literally all of that was itachi's fault#and itachi's a victim too to be clear there's no thirteen-year-old who should ever be asked to kill anyone much less their whole family#but that's the thing about naruto– every single character is a victim of a deeply broken system that requires child soldiers to function#sasuke hinata and neji experienced deeply fucked up abusive childhoods due to ninja shit#lee naruto and gaara faced discrimination for what set them apart#all of the kids were thrown into ninja business with very minimal training to what was necessary#in the land of waves arc kirigakure is mentioned as being exceptionally brutal in forcing its kids to fight to the death#this is followed immediately by an arc in which every village sends their kids to a big tournament in which they are free to kill each othe#some are even encouraged#while some non-participants express distaste at the actions of certain individual contenders (most notably gaara)#none of them ever stop to go ''hey maybe this is on us actually''#every character in naruto is placed under absolutely ridiculous expectations and all of them break under it#naruto is a tragedy; the author just kinda forgot about that#abuse tw#torture tw#blood tw#death tw

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