#boruto 170

"Rokudaime, whenever you appear with that look on your face... I know that you're going to ask for something troublesome."

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OK but this scene tho.. It’s just so so so so heartbreaking.

Why is Sakura so worried of Sarada compared to the other ‘moms’?

It’s because Sakura knew exactly just how hard and cruel Sasuke’s life was. She knew what Sasuke had to endure and experience in order to achieve the  power or the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. She knew just how painful it was to lost someone precious to her. She was one of the Team 7 and she knew first-hand all the pain they all had to go under in order to achieve what they have now.

Being a mom to an Uchiha gaves her double the pressure compared to other moms. There are a lot of ‘what-ifs’, and Sakura as a non-Sharingan user won’t be able to help her child directly in the future. Sasuke and Sarada being the last of the Uchiha clan also gave her anxiety. If Sarada were to have her Mangekyo Sharingan activated, does that mean her husband has to sacrifice his eyes? or even worse, his life?

As a mother, you wouldn’t want your child to suffer. Naruto and Sasuke being the leader of the village was to ensure their children safety and happiness. If Sarada were to gain the Mangekyo Sharingan in the future, does that mean that their goal to have a better future was not attainable?

Of course this conversation will definitely show up sooner or later. When Sarada knew the truth behind the Uchiha clan? Will she react calmly or will she eventually despise the village like Sasuke did? No matter how old you are, you will not be completely ready to know that your whole clan was killed by your father’s brother, even if it was for a greater good. 

Does that mean only Sakura is worried about Sarada? No. Sasuke is just as worried as Sakura. Their opinions are affected by their childhood, Sakura growing up in a non-shinobi family and Sasuke growing up in a shinobi family. That is also why Ino and Hinata are ‘calmer’, both of them was also from a shinobi family. In a shinobi household, you are required to train hard in order to survive or to continue the household’s legacy especially for those who had ‘special’ bloodline. So for them (Sasuka, Ino, Hinata), their kids wanting to be stronger seems normal because that was what they had to endure in the past. Its different from Sakura who grew up in a non-shinobi family, there is less expectation for sure.

Sakura is not useless and definitely not wanting Sarada to be useless. As a mother, she is not ready to see her child experiencing the bitter truth of the world. Being a shinobi, death is something inevitable. No mother is ready for it no matter how 'well-prepared’ they are.

Note. Looking at the conversation between Sakura and Sasuke was really heartbreaking for me. I do wish the conversation is animated with ‘more warmth’ between them. Seeing both of them in an argument just breaks my heart, and the Sharingan topic is still so sensitive for both of them :(

I’ve had this in my mind for a while now, but after episode 170, this just has to be brought up:

Why does Konoha send children on dangerous missions? I get and wholly support the catch-the-cat -kind of missions that genins got during the Naruto series, but what about all the life threatening stuff? In Kakashi’s childhood it was unavoidable; there was a war and a shortage of shinobi. In Naruto’s childhood things were calmer, but there was always a threath of war. But now? The alliance holds strong and while there’s trouble every now and then, do the children really need to fight like this? I mean, I’d get it if there was really no other options, but what about the mothers? How about sending them to the dangerous missions instead? I can accept that Sakura’s no longer in the field ‘cause she’s needed at the hospital, but Hinata? Ino? Karui? Freaking Temari, whose wind style is supposed to be second only to Naruto?

Ino has her flower shop and she helps out with intelligence gathering from time to time, but Hinata, Karui and, I repeat, Temari, seem to be housewives. Housewives! Now, there’d be nothing wrong with that if they themselves weren’t shinobi, but the fact if that they are, war veterans even, yet what do these war veterans do? Take care of the house while their 12 year olds risk their lives at their jobs!

I can understand them taking time off during pregnancy (duh), as well as early infancy to take care of the baby and let their bodies recover from the pregnancies, but after that? What stops them from going back to work instead of sending little kids to battle?

Two things:

One is that the kids need to gather experience in case there ever will be tougher times ahead. I get that, but shouldn’t they gather it at a little slower, a little safer, pace, especially when there are resources for it?

The other thing is that it’s simply a Japanese thing, so the authors probably don’t think it’s weird. As in, in Japan it’s very common for a woman to leave the workforce once she gets married, not to mention after she gets kids, so the writers probably see it as a logical thing to do in Naruto, too. The fact that all the important, non-married kunoichi (Ten Ten, Shizune, Hanabi, Kurotsuchi etc.) work, while the married ones don’t, supports this theory, and that’s just fucked up.

It’s like “Hey let’s put these kids in terrible danger! Huh? Put their trained, war veteran mothers in the field instead of them? We can’t! They’re married women, that’s unnatural!”