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Me:

So, first of all, Sasuke had many opportunities to kill Naruto and yet he couldn’t, not because Naruto got his ass saved by someone else or because he defended himself, but because Sasuke wasn’t able to do so. He could’ve easily killed Naruto after their fight in Vote1, since Naruto was unconscious, but he refused to do it.

Then we have the people who compare Naruto and Sakura, and that’s where we get to the context. Comparing Sasuke trying to kill Naruto to trying to kill Sakura is dumb, because killing Naruto means something bigger to Sasuke, it has emotional baggage, as Sasuke himself explained:

Naruto was an obstacle to Sasuke’s loneliness, which means that killing Naruto would make him be alone; not Sakura, not anybody else. If Sakura was there and Naruto wasn’t, he would still be alone. If Sasuke killing Sakura meant something to him he would hesitate in killing her when he had the opportunity to do it (as he hesitated so many times with Naruto), but he didn’t. If Naruto wasn’t there on time to save her ass, she would be very much dead.

Let’s also remember that Sakura attacked him first. If she didn’t attack him, why would he bother? She couldn’t reach his heart. It wouldn’t mean anything special than killing anybody else who wasn’t Naruto.

And then there are the people who say “if Sakura wasn’t important to Sasuke, he would’ve killed her instead of putting her in a genjutsu”. Again people, context. This happens shortly before Sasuke reveals he needs to be alone to go on with his plan, and being alone means cutting Naruto out of his life. Killing Sakura in this very moment would make it about her as well, and it wasn’t, as it never was about her at all.

I noticed this while re-reading certain chapters:

Sakura assumed Ino liked Sasuke

Then she assumes Ino grew her hair out for Sasuke

Assumes every encouraging thing Ino told her was a lie

She assumes Ino is obsessed with her appearance even though not 2 hours ago in the forest of death:

She assumes Ino would cave when she said a ton of mean words to her

which oddly enough mirror the words Sasuke said to her, attacking Ino’s skill (and wtf does she mean Ino isn’t Sasuke’s type???? As if she knows what his type even is)

The same mean words that got HER depressed for 2 chapters

until Sasuke said something nice to her. 

Except it doesn’t work with Ino. Unlike Sakura, Ino never needed validation from others to have confidence in her own skills

as shown when she deliberately tricks Sakura into thinking she’s copying her and getting desperate 

and like an overconfident dumbass who never watches her surroundings, Sakura falls for it and gets trapped as Ino manipulates her chakra through her hair. 

And you’d think this would change as she got older

Oh No No No No

Even in Shipudden, Sakura grins at the thought of Ino being insulted by a guy she likes

when she knows damn well she doesn’t like it either, in fact the above proves that unlike Sakura, Ino doesn’t shut down with mean words, especially for a trained kunoichi who is supposed to be mentally strong. 

In fact: 

Wasn’t it Ino who watched her master die

And had to kill him 

Then lost her father

Yet was still mentally strong enough to connect the entire alliance AND their feelings especially Naruto’s? Something that we assume had never been done before?

And you Sakura?

You’re busy trying to get yourself killed 

to impress someone 

and as soon as that person insults you

you again shut down and consider yourself useless to the rest of the team and mission. 

in a similar vein to my last post 

This Psychic Is Aro/Ace And You Can’t Do Anything About It!

After 4 years

Chapter 2 vs Chapter 130

Since the last post I made was so depressing, 

here’s Zuko NOT being hurt…with friends!!