He knows deep down that Naruto is special to him, he adores Naruto privately, he had since before the genin days. At the end of vote 1, I think he realises it fully, his true feelings for Naruto. What do you think?

Wonderful Ask, Anon!!! 😍😍😍. 

[[Lengthy Post ahead]]

WHEN DID SASUKE REALIZED HIS TRUE FEELINGS FOR NARUTO?

I am damn sure, like 100%, the moment he realized his true feelings is when he thought he was going to die and recollected all the memories he shared with Naruto (including the Accidental Kiss and Roasting Sakura for insulting Naruto) for one Last Time in the Land of the Waves Arc.

You might be thinking now, "What makes you so sure?"

Well, Kishimoto just hammered into our faces in many plotlines.

Beacause every time I say I'm a sn shipper they keep saying that 'They're reincarnation brothers' or 'They have a brother bond' or 'kishimoto based them of him and his brother' what do you think?

The question of whether Naruto and Sasuke are "really brothers" touches on a aspect of the pseudo-incest trope prevalent in East Asian storytelling. When fans invoke the "brotherly bond" argument against romantic interpretations, they're actually identifying a well-established literary device that often serves as the foundation for romantic narratives rather than precluding them

Consider the numerous Shoujo romances where the main character develops romantic feelings for a sibling or guardian like figure. In Vampire Knight, both sibling and romantic feelings co-exist between Yuki and Kaname. Special A Class, Full Moon o Sagashite, Bunny Drop ( a particularly egregious example ) , Cherry Juice, Marmalade Boy : Each centers on step-sibling or guardian figures whose bonds, though initially framed as familial, develop into romance.

Pseudo-incest narratives explore romantic relationships between individuals who occupy familial positions but are not blood-related. The prevalence of this trope stems from Confucian family structures that emphasize hierarchical relationships, with narratives exploring what happens when these rigid lines are blurred by emotional attachment.

The sexualization of brotherly terms like "oppa" (Korean), "gege" (Chinese), and "oni-chan" (Japanese) in romantic contexts demonstrates how familial language becomes eroticized in East Asian media. These terms invoke the psychological comfort of being cared for by an older brother-like figure, which then transforms into romantic attraction.

This is one of the scenes that is used as an example of Naruto and Sasuke sharing a 'brother bond'

" I imagine... maybe that's what it's like to have a brother "

This statement is not incidental. For Naruto, an orphan lacking biological kin, Sasuke occupies the symbolic role of family. Sasuke’s departure produces visceral grief precisely because he embodies one of the only semblances of familial intimacy Naruto has ever known. Many would argue that Naruto does not know what having a brother feels like, which is true, but this only reinforces the projection: Naruto imposes the category of brotherhood onto Sasuke as a means of filling a void.

This does not imply incestuous desire. Rather, it follows the usage of the surrogate-brother-as-love-object trope. The framework allows the narrative to heighten emotional intimacy, stage betrayal in familial terms, and later transform the bond into something that transcends brotherhood. The conclusion of Part I derives its pathos from this construction: Sasuke, in choosing to leave, enacts loss upon Naruto. He experiences the collapse of his family, his most important bond shattered. By the end, however, this "brotherhood" ceases to define the relationship, which in turn makes space for the bond to be reinterpreted in more personal terms.

The Indra-Ashura reincarnation element serves multiple narrative purposes. By situating Naruto and Sasuke as chakra reincarnations of mythic brothers, Kishimoto simultaneously reinforces the motif of brotherhood and undermines it, since the characters ultimately reject their predetermined roles. This dual purpose situates them in a narrative of eternal conflict while also emphasizing their defiance of fate. In this sense, “brotherhood” functions not as a literal familial category, but as a narrative mechanism binding them, two halves of a whole.

Kishimoto’s broader body of work reveals his fascination with pseudo-incestuous dynamics. For instance, In Samurai 8, Ann explicitly compares her romantic interest, Hachimaru, to her brother and even projects him onto Hachimaru.

This demonstrates the same narrative device: the slippage between familial roles and romantic attachment. Thus, Naruto and Sasuke’s relationship should not be dismissed as uniquely ambiguous; rather, it is consistent with Kishimoto’s larger thematic interests.

Finally, regarding the oft-repeated claim that Kishimoto modeled Naruto and Sasuke on his own relationship with his brother, Kishimoto explains what he drew upon was the emotional resonance of shared suffering. He explicitly referred to the way friendship and by extension, bonds such as Naruto and Sasuke’s, resembled the mutual recognition of pain he experienced with his brother. He did not mean to equate Naruto and Sasuke's relationship to literal siblings, but to emphasize the intensity of empathy and shared struggle.

During my first watch, I was guilty of thinking that Sasuke changed his mind rather abruptly during VOTE 2. I didn’t understand how he abandoned his revolution after one single fight. But on rewatch… damn. Kishi might be a terrorist, but he knew what he was doing with Naruto and Sasuke. (Panels attached for proof?)

Rather lengthy analysis of Naruto, Sasuke, and the foreshadowing for Sasuke's eventual redemption:

Also, I wanted to ask what do you think about Naruto and Sasura’s relationship nature. I mean, do you think he ever truly loved her? His speech in shippuden about his feelings for her seemed really genuine, but except that I don’t really see love in his behavior, more like a childish crush? I don’t buy what was said in The Last about him trying to hit on her only to win with Sasuke, it doesn’t really makes sense to me. Anyway, what is your opinion? Thanks for answering xo

hello anon, i’m fine.

naruto’s behaviour towards sakura and overall attraction to women is inconsistent. we can easily tell that he truly never had romantic feelings for her, but a crush is, in my opinion, debatable… and really a crush in the sense of “she’s cute, i like her” kind of thing, which is basically what we see when sakura is introduced

now what is interesting is that the last wasn’t wrong to show that maybe it was about sasuke, it just definitely wasn’t so naruto could compete with sasuke

“i feel like i finally understand why i like her” right after sakura said she wants to be acknowledged by sasuke because she likes him? really? we know that naruto wants to be acknowledged by everyone, that’s the core of his character, but in this context, this just seems kinda ambiguous… he doesn’t wanna win over sasuke, he just wants his acknowledgement. when you take naruto’s interactions with sasuke and sakura into consideration after this quote, as well his behaviour, you see that basically naruto mimics heterosexuality by pretending to like sakura, while actually focusing his attention on sasuke, he mistakes his feelings/attraction for sasuke for a rivalry at first and a friendship later. i’ll give you some examples.

he doesn’t have much tact to compliment sakura. i know this is what she wanted to hear, but i just find it so funny honestly.

there are also a few more moments involving sakura’s appearance and naruto, in which a) naruto says haku is prettier than her b) naruto says after two years that they haven’t seen each other that she looked the same even though it seems by her body language that she wanted to be complimented and c) when other people called sakura ugly and naruto didn’t even comment about it or tried to defend her. now let’s look at this

is there some need to defend sasuke’s honour or something? no one is even insulting sasuke here, just comparing him and sai. the japanese word naruto uses here can be used to compliment someone’s looks btw and he not only says it, but he emphasises it at the end. there’s pretty much a huge gap between “the cute girl” he’s supposed to like a lot and sasuke, who is above it.

how about when naruto is just doing absolutely nothing but thinking of sasuke

until he gets interrupted by sakura… so he says he was planning to go on a date with her. are you for real?

this one is even funnier… sakura is taking care of naruto after he hurt his arm with rasenshuriken. someone in love would surely be happy to be closer to your loved one while they are healing you, and it’s what it seems that naruto is gonna say

until you turn to the next page

he’s just really happy they are in this together… for sasuke. you really can’t make this shit up.

i’ve also pointed out that in the chapter in which sakura decides to fake confess to naruto and go after sasuke to kill him, sakura says “that fool’s got such a crush on me” about naruto, and yet the only appearance naruto makes in the same chapter is him lying down and pining over sasuke. yikes.

the only “narusaku” moment during war on naruto’s part is when minato asks naruto if sakura is his girlfriend to which he reacts like

it’s not only that this is comic relief and it just seems like he wants to look good in front of his father, because he already knows about his mom’s speech and wishes when his parents died, it’s also that he hesitates to answer it.

but when he’s saying goodbye and really referencing the whole speech topic by topic and talking about important things…

he deflects the subject. very convenient and smart of kishimoto when he’s not allowed to explicitly say what he wants to, such as homosexuality.

and of course, there’s the infamous fake confession

in which naruto basically looks annoyed... not the reaction of someone who is in love, i would say.

and the cherry on top

the promise he made to sakura hasn’t changed anything, he would act the same with or without it.

narusaku dead and buried.

those inconsistencies happen over and over and they always involve sasuke somehow… like i said, projecting his real feelings for sasuke onto sakura. now if you think he thought she was cute and all, i can give you the benefit of the doubt, but being in love with her? no way. naruto has never loved her like that, and i honestly can’t even tell that he loved as a friend either when he pretty much treats her the same way he treats his other konoha comrades: takes responsibility for everything and doesn’t let anyone get involved…

I read this, and I can tell from the “review” that the package was NOT shipped by a professional.

One: two inch tape. Professional establishments use three inch. It’s MUCH easier to seal boxes with, especially around the edges. Two inch is what you can buy from office depot or lowe’s. It’s fine for moving house, but it’s definitely not professional grade.

Two: no edge tape. Just seal your edges, people. UPS basically plays soccer with your packages. Even the light ones, just on principal, give them the structural support you can offer.

Three: centered label. Looks pretty on a package, sure, but it makes it very likely that the label will be covered up when the box is sitting in a stack or a pile, and that increases the chance that it will be manhandled to get to that label or even potentially mis-scanned or missed altogether in a stack. Label the SIDE of the box if at all possible! And put it to the side if you can’t! Visibility!

One: two inch tape. Professional establishments use three inch.

Nope. For packages I see, two inch packing tape is the norm. Today I had one package with three-inch water-activated reinforced paper tape and one (from Uline) with 2.75" packing tape. Everything else used 2" packing tape. Yes, it's exactly the same kind of stuff that you can get at Office Depot or Lowe's, and people use it because it gets the job done.

Two: no edge tape.

Not uncommon for small, light packages. I just don't see box failures on packages under a pound where more tape would have helped. Where I do see failures is overloaded boxes, thirty pounds and up, where the corrugate simply ripped, and no amount of tape would have saved the package.

PSA: please don't fill an 8x8x6 single-wall box with machine screws and expect it to arrive intact. Fastenal, I'm looking at you.

Three: centered label.

Label on top is standard. I had only one box today with the label on the side, and all the rest on top.

Looks pretty on a package, sure, but it makes it very likely that the label will be covered up when the box is sitting in a stack or a pile, and that increases the chance that it will be manhandled

Your package will get manhandled, regardless of where you put the label. Plan on it.

to get to that label or even potentially mis-scanned or missed altogether in a stack. Label the SIDE of the box if at all possible!

Heck no! I expect labels to be on top and that's the first place I look for them. If it's on the side, that's potentially four other places I have to look, which is a pain in the ass when I'm busy. And I'm always busy.

UPS, incidentally, says you should put the label on the largest surface. For the packages I get, that's usually the top.

Someone who has shipped too many boxes would comment on whether the box was new or reused,

Okay, that's legit. I do see a fair number of reused boxes.

whether there was any special hazmat (mostly lithium-ion battery) labeling

Hazmats aren't common enough to mention it every time when there isn't one present. (My hazmats are usually solvents or paint, and that's not something I get every day.)

the condition of the package post shipping

Not usually noteworthy. My internal monolog (which is what the above fanciful review is based on) doesn't bother to mention it unless something unusual happened to the box.

whether or not the weight of the package matched the stated weight on the label

Although I ship just as many packages as I receive, if not more, it never would have occurred to me to check. And I don't have a scale in the receiving department, so it would be guesswork anyway.

AND they’d have commented on the two-inch packing tape.

Which everyone uses. There's not much need to comment when it's far and away the most common type of tape.

and then.

along comes galinda. who - after spending an entire night attempting to give her a makeover - settles on: ‘actually, you’re perfect just the way you are. i wouldn’t change a thing. except maybe to tuck a little piece of myself in with you, just there.’

and i just think that’s neat.

yes, on the one hand, there is the very real, very sad foreshadowing of that song.

but on the other hand, elphaba does actually get quite a few of those wishes met, in a very real way. it's just that she gets them met by g(a)linda, not the wizard. (obviously.)

the most obvious one relates to what i already mentioned re: popular.

he'll say to me 'i see who you truly are a girl on whom i can rely.'

'why miss elphaba, you're beautiful' isn't just about elphaba being beautiful (although she is, and galinda does mean that). it's also about galinda seeing elphaba as a real person for once. not a disappointment (frexspar), an embarrassment (nessa), a nuisance (the rest of shiz), or a pawn (morrible). just elphaba, just a girl. and a beautiful, wonderful one at that.

once i'm with the wizard my whole life will change 'cause once you're with the wizard no one thinks you're strange

this is exactly what happens at the oz dust. once galinda stands up for her, elphaba's not an outcast anymore. and not just that night, but for the rest of the girls' time at shiz. by the time elphie is getting ready to leave on the train, the whole school came out to say good-bye and cheer her on.

all it took was one person who had social capital to spend aligning with elphaba, and then entire student body is willing to change their view of her. (that, it's worth noting, is galinda's real superpower, and it's why she doesn't need magic to be a witch).

and this gift or this curse i have inside maybe at last i'll know why when we are hand in hand

this is what happens during one short day, right before everything goes wrong. the girls are running around the city – hand in hand. both are feeling free for the first time from the expectations that confine them back at shiz, and for the first time it seems that real good is going to come from elphaba's abilities. that everything leading up to this point will all make sense for once. but she does it with glinda, not with the wizard.

Definitely one of Obito's sexiest moments. Good for him.

I reread them pretty often, so I decided to make this

All of them are posted by @kuromantic, so thanks!

Please note that this post will only be updated, not reblogged, so you will need to click on the original post if you do reblog.

I will also reblog to announce a new update.

This week:

Fukurodani’s Big Eater

Last Chapter:

The National Team’s Photo Shoot

Next chapter: In two weeks! Oikawa is next!

Chapter 1: Akaashi Predicts (Almost) Everything

Chapter 1.5: Akaashi Hosts a Bokuto Pop Quiz

Chapter 2: Kenma the Champion

Chapter 3: Ushijima, Spirit Destroyer

Chapter 4: Kita (Almost) Never Laughs

Chapter 5: The Association Drinks A Lot

Chapter 6: Mika is Sick of Volleyball

Chapter 7: Hana Puts Up With Way Too Much

Chapter 8: Nakashima Has Too Many Fans

Chapter 9: Aone Keeps Too Many Secrets

Chapter 10: Oikawa Gets a Translator

Chapter 11: Tora Tries to Get a Manager

Chapter 12: Tendou Makes Manga

Chapter 13: The Managers Make Food

Chapter 14: The Miyas’ Bodyswap

Chapter 15: Aone and Yachi

Chapter 16: Seijoh Washed Ashore

Chapter 17: The Coaches

Chapter 18: Bokuto and the Principal’s Office

Chapter 19: Let’s All Become Hyakuzawa

Chapter 20: The Cats and Snow

Chapter 21: (No One Wants) Oikawa as a Youtuber

Chapter 22: Terushima Tries to Get a Job

Chapter 23: The Karasuno Neighborhood Meeting

Chapter 24: Isekai Shiratori

Chapter 25: Kanoka’s Delinquent Love

Chapter 26: Bokuto and Kiryuu’s Interview

Chapter 27: Tanaka and Nishinoya’s Exams

Chapter 28: Ukai and Saeko’s Meeting from Hell

Chapter 29: Seijoh Plays Cards

Chapter 30: Yachi’s Presents

Chapter 31: Kuroo VS Daishou

Chapter 32: Inarizaki’s Fortune Strips

Chapter 33: Taketora’s Youtube Debut

Chapter 34: Futakuchi and some kids

Chapter 35: Yachi’s Valentine

Chapter 35.5: Haikyuu Folktales- Oikawa-Taro

Chapter 36: Tendou the.. Kappa?

Chapter 37: Suzumeda’s Diet

Chapter 38: Sakusa’s Problem

Chapter 39: Ougiminami Recruiting

Chapter 40: Nekoma Plays Online Games!

Chapter 41: Oikawa Tries and Gets Tamed

Chapter 42: Karasuno Lottery

Chapter 43: Sakura with Yachi’s mom

Chapter 44: Android Aone

Chapter 45: Go Go Michimiya!

Chapter 46: Fukurodani Eating Contest

Chapter 47: Shiratorizawa Flower Fairy

Chapter 48: Shimada Mart Advertising

Chapter 49: Seijoh Goes Fishing

Chapter 50: Inarizaki’s Comedy Routines

Chapter 51: A Couple’s First Beach Date

Chapter 52: Kuro(o) the Kitten

Chapter 52.5: Haikyuubu Extra Sketches

Chapter 53: Ushijima’s (Virtual) Reality

Chapter 53.5: Extra Sketches 2

Chapter 54: Akaashi and Udai

Chapter 54.5: Extra Sketches 3

Chapter 55: Hirugami’s Pokémon

Chapter 56: Survive the Drive!

Chapter 57: Oikawa’s Trip Abroad

Chapter 58: Daichi the Diplomat

Chapter 59: A Terrifying Apartment

Chapter 60: Kenma and Volleyball

Chapter 61: Tendou’s Double

Chapter 62: Inarizaki’s Spring Clean

Chapter 63: The Grand King

Chapter 64: Daichi Can’t Catch a Break

Chapter 65: The Aone Army

Chapter 66: Kiyoko’s Avant-Garde Art

Chapter 67: Tanaka and The Monkeys

Chapter 68: The Murder Of Bokuto

Chapter 69: Asahi and Nishinoya’s Globe Trot

Chapter 70: Shiratorizawa’s Hay Fever

Chapter 71: Kuroo’s Demonic Hair

Chapter 72: The Switching Twins

Chapter 73: Aone’s Problem

Chapter 74: Bokuto the Magician

Chapter 75: Seijoh’s Day At the Beach

Chapter 76: Ushijima Turned Into A Baby

Chapter 77: Karasuno Shopping Avenue’s Test of Courage

Chapter 78: Kuroo Tries Social Media

Chapter 79: The National Team’s Photo Shoot