it warms my heart how, at the end of naruto, instead of sasuke and sakura getting together right after he comes back to konoha, as a lot of shonen would do bc the guy is back and the girl still loves him, so they get married, he decides to have a journey of self healing first. i think it’s just so perfect and such a good message. he didn’t want to be with sakura without figuring himself out first, without making sure he was as free of his demons as he could be, and that he would be able to care for her and be good for her, like she always wanted to be for him. and how sakura understands and accepts it and just waits for him. it’s just really nice to see that after all the chaos they went through it wasn’t just ignored bc “she could fix him” or whatever shit, the both of them spent time growing and changing and understanding themselves better before they entered a relationship, and that’s why they worked so well together and got married so quickly after they got together again. blank period sasusaku has a perfect set up for a healthy and stable relationship, and I like how we have information enough to prove that, but at the same time a lot of space for fan speculations
