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Then Naruto goes further: when Sasuke is peacefully eating, he ambushes him, ties him up, tapes his mouth, and uses a transformation jutsu to pretend to be Sasuke just to mingle with Sakura, who has a crush on sasuke. They almost end up kissing before Naruto’s diarrhea ruins the moment.

And even that wasn’t enough. Afterwards, he’s planning to make Sakura hate Sasuke. Who knows what obnoxious stunt he has in mind. After all this bully behavior Naruto pulled, what does Sasuke do?

He frees himself, runs into Sakura, and has to listen to the “orphans are lucky” talk from her. Even after all that, Sasuke defends Naruto from Sakura’s insults and calls her out on her remarks. When he meets Naruto again, he treats that stunt as a silly prank. He doesn’t antagonize him, doesn’t scold him, doesn’t hold grudges. He just lets it go without beating Naruto’s ass, even though Naruto deserved the same energy back.

This is Genin Sasuke: kind, patient and mature kid even when dealing with petty, jealous, early-stage Naruto. Sasuke was always considerate toward Naruto, even when Naruto instigated fights and then took Sasuke’s reactions as some kind of personal defeat. Naruto, meanwhile, hated Sasuke for reasons as shallow as “he’s cool and popular” and would twist any situation to make himself feel justified. Sound familiar? The people who relate to Naruto hate Sasuke for the same lame reasons, the “cool popular guy who stole your middle school crush” shittick, but they paint Sasuke as some kind of evil bad guy to justify their petty feelings.

Fandom spaces conveniently ignore these moments to paint Sasuke as the bully bad boy and Naruto as a perfect, nothing-can-do-wrong baby. Fans who relate to Naruto see his behavior as understandable. After all, they always wanted to get back at the popular guy who “stole” their crush’s attention. Because in their minds, losers being losers is always someone else’s fault usually the person they’re secretly jealous of.