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ive seen a lot of like…discourse? About Sasuhina as a ship and a lot of it revolves around how they could have possibly began interacting in canon but this is where I feel it’s important to emphasize that Kishimoto SET UP a lot of things for development (characters, arcs, politics) and didn’t follow through on the actual development part of it. Logically, yes, if I take the current canon, sasuhina barely interact and would be considered a crackship. But if I took the characters?? They’re both the children of the main families of their respective clans, the BIGGEST most POWERFUL clans of Konoha. Their parents some of the most influential people in the land of fire. It’s just plain stupid to have them not have any childhood history, even if it’s just glances or physically being at the same political events. There would be some semblance of acknowledgement between them. They would have watched each other in more private or intimate settings; like political discussions over tea or things of that nature. Kishimoto just didn’t want to develop their interactions, just like how he barely developed Hinata as a character. So much is focused on the main three that a lot of other interactions are pushed to the side or almost completely disregarded. The development of Team 8 as a whole is pretty much the lowest; team 10 had a lot of time to develop with the entire Asuma and Shikamaru Arc and then just in general with their team formation and clans being integral in the war. Team 8’s characters personalities and development were put on the back burner; we don’t see a lot of interaction between Ino and Hinata or Tenten and Hinata. But these friendships are seen as completely okay to infer from offscreen interactions simply because they’re all girls, although they’ve barely been see to interact in canon as well. I just think that the argument “they barely talk in canon” is stupid because you HAVE to realize the lack of development for most of Kishimotos characters and arcs as a WHOLE and just see that a lot of crack ships aren’t necessarily as shallow as “they look good together aesthetically” I might delete this late but I’ve been going through the sasuhina tag and I just can’t do this 😭😭 if Kishimoto had just like made a character map, Hinata and sasuke would defo be friends in some capacity. She was CONSTANTLY training. CONSTANTLY. She never chased him??? That had to have caught his eye, if only for partner assignments when he didn’t want a girl clinging to his arm like GUYS COME ON PUT ON UR THINKING CAPS FOR A SEC