Point taken! Well...self harm does fit into her character. Otherwise she won't love Sasuke after all the stuff he pulled out XD Angst is good at times, ya know? XD
I always thought Kishi dragged out Sakura's love for Sasuke for some big climax or something, so I never tried to make sense of it. When you are developing a character a certain way, not for the sake of the character, but for the sake of the plot, it isn't worth pondering about it.
If Kishi was planning to make SS the real deal tho, I thought he'd at least put some light on it. She could've tried to understand him, but then she pulled that "If you love me Sasuke, stop this!" crap. She just made it all about her again. :/ And there was no purpose of that genjutsu murder in the end either, it was just pure cruelty. Even in the midst of Sasuke's "darkness", his love for Naruto always peeked through. His love for Sakura didn't, until he was "saved". ugh, such weak storytelling. Trying to analyze this kitten feels like an insult to all of us. I'll just remember the characters I came to love, the characters in the ending can hardly come of as bad impersonators lmao. I'd just forget about them. x)