Ok just caught up with 10 pages again...
Ok, heres where i stand with the love triangle
*Warning* this ain't going to be a nice post...
Where do i begin to vent my rage...hmmm ok lets start here.
Sakura STILL romantically loves Sasuke even after everything he has done to her. So.... this is the thing that rustles my jimmies the most. I just.. can't fathom how... furious i am with her.
How??? how can she still feel anything for him at this stage?
To me it seems that she puts her Romantic hots above Naruto true selfless love which quite frankly should land her in death row. Yes i say hots because that's all it really is, she has no connection so to speak with him outside her idealism. It's almost like Sasuke is just a prize to show off.
This leads me on to my next point, the "choice" that many of us believe she will have to make... CHOICE??
Dafuq??? so it's generally believed she might still choose Sasuke?? how will this work? let alone show us that Sakura is a herione??? After everything Naruto has done for her she still thinks Sasuke would be the better choice??? due to his outer appearances???
Yes - i am aware that Sakura did try to learn what Sasuke was like underneath but she failed in this utterly.
So, if NS is to happen there can't really be a compromise when it comes to how she feels about both of them. Naruto will never accept Sakura if she still has any lingering feelings for Sasuke. Which basically means its going to be a "all or nothing" scenario. It can't really play out like it did in Dragon Quest because Naruto has shown that he will never accept Sakura if she still has feelings for Sasuke (the lie to yourself thing). So Sakura is going to either have to justify choosing Sasuke IF they can redeem him
OR completely snuff out her lingering feelings for Sasuke and show Naruto she holds nothing for Sasuke anymore and loves him.
How Sakura can Romantically love Sasuke after all he's done so easily really shows her immaturity. She has shown to have some romantic feelings for Naruto so it's not impossible for her to develop romantic feelings if she isn't already for Naruto. Naruto is ATM far more powerful then Sasuke is and i would say he would defeat Sasuke with little struggle.
Last thing, if Sakura bases her romance on appearances then does Naruto really look unattractive??? IMO if i were a girl and lined them both up i would seriously choose Naruto for looks over Sasuke. Yes he's kinda dopey but if we base it on looks then he's quite attractive (physically)
Could anyone justify how SS could work???? honestly i think that they SHOULD get together just so she can learn how incompatable they are to each other and then realize who really is the person she loves/needs. Naruto is practiaccly her soulmate, they know each other inside out and are very similar in every way, complementing each others strengths/ weaknesses (Heaven and earth)
I sometimes think " You know what, you really don't deserve Naruto at all"
So... Rage vent 100% complete
Apologies if i upset anyone but this is how i feel. I might of missed some points as i'm improvising as i go.
@Hauntedcake there is an easy explaination for Sakura still loving Sasuke, its a manga, people are not going to be realistic otherwise Obito himself would not have been such a cliche villian going coo-coo crazy need to blow up the world type mentality after Rin died. Instead if he was real, he would have just let Madara rot in his pit. If he was realistic, he could have waited, even to see why kakashi killed Rin, in fact if the reason is something anti-climactic it would have just made Obito one big douche who jumped to conclusions.
Anyways yeah Sakura not loving Sasuke can become true later on. Why does she still love him though despite it being meaningless? For a few story reasons:
-Its part of the drama of the story and part of her character, because this is the earilest mentality we see her with, obviously its going to be her biggest mental change, dropping Sasuke.
-Its for her own development and maturity, Sakura cannot just switch over to Naruto, that would be bad even its what we want. Sakura needs to get over Sasuke and to love Naruto, she needs some gradual progress to realize her feelings for Naruto, some event could build on what we saw from chp 540, 615 could have possibliy done this too. For Sakura to fall for Naruto, she needs to realize her feelings but also come to terms and acceptance of it. Naruto would need to see her open, mature, and honest feelings. If Sakura puts her faith and feelings in Naruto and shows how honest and accepting of him she is, even supporting him over both Sasuke and herself, he could be accepting. Naruto can be accepting of Sakura and would go with it only if it is what she truely wanted, if he is the thing that brought her joy then he could go with that. Sakura needs to mature in a good pace, being open with Naruto, possibly even apolozging and confronting him about his feelings for her can be the trigger to make all their development come full circle.
-Sasuke is a mental obsitcle for Sakura, Sasuke was her ideal guy, good looking, talented, and smart. Yet he was a complete kitten and now is a full on revenge driven physcopath last Naruto and Sakura saw him. He mellowed out since Itachi but that remains, Sasuke is only impacted by Naruto and Itachi, he cared for Sakura as a comrade nothing more, but then attempted to kill her later for nothing she ever did. Naruto shares pain with Sakura and Sasuke but Sakura only shares it with naruto, not them both. Basically Sakura and Sasuke are only connected by being from team 7, other than that Sakura has not been impactful on Sasuke, Sasuke has on Sakura however due to her ideals and preceptions of him. She still sees him as when they were younger but part of Sakura's development is maturing and like Naruto accepting that things change but they can still do their best to try and bring about better resolutions. Naruto resolves to give team 7 a good ending, Sakura putting her faith in Naruto is part of her maturity. She can forgive Sasuke but as far as loving her, that defeats the purpose. Its a matter of her realizing who was there for her and who she herself stood by.