#manipulated sasuke

[elysium-mons]

Sasuke being such a misunderstood character when they call him a psycho, but he has being canonically called gentle, kind and pure by the author.

[why-are-you-still-awake]

Naruto boys w/ a partner w/ family issues

A/n: i am back from the dead, I wrote this in light of somethings that have been happening recently. I hope this is okay, it’s rushed :/

Characters: Sasuke, Naruto, Gaara

Warning/content: mentions of toxic families, emotional abuse, past parental neglect. Did I miss anything?

Sasuke Uchiha

❀ Sasuke knew that you didn’t have the best family, he didn’t enjoy the off-handed comments they’d make about you, be it something about your appearance or job he just didn’t like how they often ridiculed everything about you. ❀

❀ He saw how their unappreciated comments made an impact in your daily life no matter how hard you tried to deny it. He was never good with feelings and words but he wanted to make sure you felt loved in light of everything.

❀ He would always try to help undo the mental indoctrination that was forced on you. He is the embodiment of actions speak louder than words and will always show how much he cares about you, giving you a safe and stable place to turn to. Oh and don’t be afraid, he refuses to let your family treat you badly in his presence. ❀

Naruto Uzumaki

❀ Naruto never enjoyed how your family treated you, even when he was around, they’d verbally berate you for things that weren’t your fault, make backhanded comments about your appearance. Even at your insistence that everything was fine, he always got visibly bothered whenever that’d say things to you. ❀

❀ He tried to get you out of your house as much as possible, even if it meant insisting you stay the night at his place. He felt you were much safer with him, he didn’t deny his protective nature when questioned about his persistence by you. He experienced the same emotional abuse growing up from villagers that you’re receiving from your family. ❀

❀ It got to the point when Naruto couldn’t help himself anymore and made a offhand comment after your parents insulted you about something and that got you kicked out because their fragile egos couldn’t take when they were wrong. Naruto felt bad about what happened but was happy you were at least kinda out of that situation.❀

Gaara

❀ Gaara was well aware of your past and how your parents treated you, he sympathized with you and understood how you felt. He never wanted you to feel unsafe with him. He wanted to be your safe space just like how you were his. It took awhile to open up to him about the neglect you faced growing up but it got easier over time. ❀

❀ Your safety and wellbeing is the utmost importance to him, he’d never do anything to sacrifice it. Your parents have definitely tried to reach out despite your insistence to leave you alone. They have narcissistic tendencies and now want to come back into your life and play victim now that you’re with the Kazekage but Gaara won’t allow it. ❀

❀ He makes sure you’re comfortable at all times and has zero tolerance for anyone making you uncomfortable. He tries to take preventive measures to ensure that you’re always at ease but if something were to happen to possibly trigger past trauma, he’d always be there to make sure you’re okay and help you calm down. ❀

A/n: my sincerest apologies again for not posting an actual post in 2 weeks, I’ve been very unmotivated and overall not feeling my greatest but I am back from the dead and you’re to expect some consistent posting for the next week or two, thank you for your patience. Love u <333

@ssailormoonn

[team7-headquarter]

[sasukeless]

i hate when ppl make sakura sasuke’s bff like that’s not karin’s job

[penguinsayswhat]

Good Morning!

Today we're thinking about how Itachi's Sasuke Management Plan was always controlling him through genjutsu, and what that means about Sasuke's lack of free will through the entire series.

[amazegallery]

» Capas entregues no blog DesireDesign Post: 05/10/24

Aqui eu quero agradecer a duas pessoas: @kankuroplease for the permission to use they fanart 🫶 e a @hyeincoversn pela ajuda com a iluminação na capa, obrigado de novo, diva.

[mwantstossleep]

Stop saying "Killua vs Sasuke" and "They would hate each other" as if Sasuke wouldn't have THE BIGGEST crush on Killua.

12-year-old Sasuke is looking at this super powerful, cool guy his age, who could easily kill most high-ranking shinobi, and he's absolutely lost. Whipped.

Killua doesn't know what's going on, he's just chilling and sometimes this emo boy comes to talk to him in the most awkward way possible before he runs away and Killua just stands there like "Huh???🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️🧍‍♂️"

[uzumakiheart]

itachi’s entire arc is just him being like “i did it all because i love you” while being stained with his family’s blood and standing over the dead bodies of his entire clan. i did it all for love…… i spared u for love. it’s such a villain narrative but nobody is willing to think of itachi as a villain because he poked sasuke’s forehead when they were children. smartest fandom ever

[sinnbaddie]

I know it’s more to do with Kishimoto’s lack of interest in expanding her character, but I can’t help but think how easy Sakura gave up on Sasuke.

Naruto was always adamant that he was going to save him, Kakashi struggled against saving Sasuke and fulfilling his shinobi duties however he never fully let himself believe Sasuke was gone.

Sakura initially is against Sasuke being any type of villain and like Naruto, is adamant in saving him. She then finds out about him being a member of the akatsuki and her faith waivers to the point where she thinks she needs to kill him because he’s a danger to the village and went through with trying to kill him as well.

It created another layer of misunderstanding from Sakura’s view of Sasuke. If she felt grounded in her love, and really believed her love was enough to change him and save him then she wouldn’t have lost faith then tried killing him.

It’s another reason why their romantic relationship doesn’t work but it does make their platonic relationship and Sakura as a character more complex

[xheartpages]

Sometimes when I'm making myself sad I like to think about the fact that for the entirety of part one Naruto and over half of Shippuden, the only Sasuke that we know is a Sasuke that has been manipulated by someone to do what they want him to do / be a weapon on their behalf.

[tora-the-cat]

one of the funniest things about Itachi and Sasuke is that they are BOTH so 'I love it when people play mind games with me. I will kill us both <3' coded likkkke!!

His FATHER spent Itachi's whole life grooming him to lead a coup and become the first Uchiha Hokage, and Itachi spent every second he could undermining that and then eventually has no choice but to kill him! Danzo (and Hiruzen) backed Itachi into a corner and made him do the unthinkable, so Itachi made a 10 year plan for his own death and fully intended to murder Danzo if he ever tried to pull some shit with Sauske village be damned, and THEN Sasuke finding out about the whole situaiton IS what killed Danzo in the end, and it WASN'T EVEN PART OF ITACHI'S PLAN!! Obito got so angry at this 6 year old for being an optimist and a pacifist that he killed his teammates and then actively assisted the kid in an ethnic cleansing to break Itachi's spirit and make him an ideal pawn for the Akatsuki, and Itachi just! Got super depressed (again, 10 year death plan) and hated his guts and starts dissociating whenever Obito talks!! He delays the Akatsuki's plans by years because Obito is now nervous to directly attack Konoha while Itachi's still breathing! and he's STILL spying for Konoha and Obito is either willfully ignorant because he thinks Itachi is a lame party pooper or too scared to do anything about it!!

And Sasuke???? SASUKE!!! Spends his ENTIRE LIFE under the thumb of people who think they know him and how to manipulate him and are wrong EVERY TIME! Orochimaru thinks his thirst for power is so all consuming that he doesn't care about himself or anything else outside of killing Itachi and is thus incapable of independant scheming or betrayal, and he gets KILLED FOR IT! Obito makes the SAME damn mistake he made with Itachi and underestimates Sasuke because he thinks that he's so broken by his brother's fate that he's suseptible to any and all suggestion, and Sasuke doesn't give a FUCK about ANYTHING besides his own plans anymore, and is absolutely just going to do whatever he thinks is right until it inevitably kills him, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised it Obito was on his hitlist- and, at the end of the day, Obito DOES end up dead!! Gaara tries to empathize but is still learning empathy so instead Sasuke just feels like his LITERAL GENOCIDE is being trivialized, and ALMOST dies for it! Danzo assumes he's just another corrupted wayward Uchiha, and gets KILLED FOR IT! Kakashi thinks that Sasuke is Just Like Him For Real and thus he knows that Sasuke is beyond saving and must die, and gets ALMOST killed for it and then proven WRONG!! Literally ALL of the fucking HOKAGE try to plea for Konoha's legitimacy and lie like DOGS using all of their politician plays of why Sasuke should Stop, and he calls bullshit on all of it anyway! Sasuke spent his entire young life getting passed around like a hot potatoe between men projecting their own trauma onto him and convincing themselves that they know his every move because they once were him, but NO ONE has EVER been doing it like Sasuke and none of them accounted for the fact that he's so scared of everything and full of love and never wrong and not afraid of death or any of them and they've been dead since Sasuke decided they were annoying!!

Naruto and Sakura were only able to get through to him at ALL because Naruto lacks the decorum to be manipulative and thus Sasuke can engage with his bullheaded arguments without feeling actively hunted (like he HAS BEEN his WHOLE LIFE) and Sakura actually DOES understand him and his motivations and his soul in it's entirety because she spent their adolescence studying him like a bug, so she can meet him EXACTLY where he's at. The only person in the world who ever successfully manipulated Sasuke was Itachi, which makes sense considering he mastered the art of it FIRST!!

[boo-cool-robot]

it's kind of funny that I finished my Naruto read going "oh my god....Naruto and Sasuke are in love....." but it turns out I don't really like most SNS fan content and all my fic reading time is spent on epics about Sakura getting good at punching stuff or Itachi being a little weirdo

[kcuf-ad]

If I was Sakura, I would simply never want to date Naruto's ass in a million years. Why?

Because on two occasions, he tried to kiss her without her consent, and the first one is where he beat up a dude that hadn't done anything to him, tie him up, transform into him all for one kiss.

Fuck Naruto.

If I was Sakura and Naruto was the last human alive, I would let all of humanity fall.

[everyitachi]

[sasukeless]

a fundamental thing people ignore about itachi is that his goals arent just making hate the only thing in sasuke’s mind but he also means for sasuke to center his life around HIM. its actually more twisted everyones gives him credit for. he didnt just told sasuke to hate and chase him, he manipulated him to kiII sasuke’s best friend. this puts sasuke in a position where sasuke had to choose to either commit and kill his best friend which would’ve had sasuke feel like he’s no different of itachi (since in sasuke still thinks itachi killed his best friend for power) or do what he ultimately tried to do which is put distance between himself and others leaving itachi as he only person he has left even if he hates him. and as if this was not enough when itachi comes back and realizes immediately that sasuke has managed to actually form a close relationship to the point he goes running to face him when itachi goes after naruto, itachi’s first instinct is to torture sasuke and reminded him of the hatred and of him, remind him he’s still out there forcing sasuke to push everyone away again and once again put all his focus on itachi. itachi himself has nothing or no one left besides sasuke and he’s very much aware of this fact but it seems like—consciously or unconsciously—he also wants to be the only thing in sasuke’s life

[maxinemartinsdrill]

on some level I am always thinking about sakura lying to Naruto and telling him she was in love with him. literally made me who I am today