Don't get me wrong Inferno I agree with everything you just said SS is dead that's for sure but what I have problem is the way he's going with Sakura's resolution and this set up possibly leaving SS alone (though I doubt it since I think Naruto the original went to look for Sasuke) . I mean how much more does it needs for Sakura to get it to come to the conclusion ? Why does it needed for her to be alone with him for her to get it , when we had countless of panels with Sasuke interacting with her already ? This does nothing but make Sakura look ridiculous every interaction she has with him her character suffer tremendously this the problem and this only hurts her character and NS in the long way . It also doesn't help by giving SS a moment alone when even NS hasn't had that and they are supposed to be the final paring not to mention how Sasuke possibly acknowledging her first also reflects bad on NS since Naruto should be the one to do that since he loves her but he still hasn't and there have been so many opportunities for that to happen .
Let say Sasuke acknowledges her now and apologize to her like some people say in here and after this she just lets go . This would have been fine if Sakura has already shown that she has reached that conclusion to let go of him , but Personally for me right now this doesn't make any sense that by doing this she will let go of him when countless of murder attempts and insult said in her face weren't enough for here to come to the conclusion . I mean how is exactly Sasuke doing that should prompt her to finally let go of him in fact it should do the opposite that makes more sense then what people are implying with this kind of set up .
Kishi right now is trolling hard and I don't like the set up that he has done but I will still wait to see where is this going it may be a T7 one but for now it stinks .
The main issue to SS has and always has been Sasuke himself, simply because he has not loved anyone nor been associated with any story elements involving this type of stuff save his family for well, main story reasons and his own character. I still just go by the fact that this is dramatic suspense because theres no content or results in Sakura still loving Sasuke, thats my reasoning, its one case kishi has built NS so much its no question that they have the biggest boy-girl relationship in the series, its the most dynamic and most active on screen. Its the only pairing where Sakura, who herself will determine the outcome of this whole romance subplot, has actually returned a good portion of mutuality to naruto, I mean again its stuff like one case Kishi is not only developed NS the most, but in the deal with even hinting an end pairing, at that back in 504 was just a means of well theres more or less going to be an end one and 631 was just part of that hint. Its still an almost too good to be true type deal to have one chapter years before with kushina saying find a girl like me and then just last year we got Minato saying that Sakura was just like Kushina. Its literally almost too good to be true.
The other deal is, even in this whole mess of a romance subplot with what SS just has with Sakura for now and Hinatas infrequentness, if kishi is serious on SS and/or NH, its been a lackluster job, I mean he didnt need to write 631 the way he did, he could have left hinata around more, he didnt have to keep her in the dirt or trap her in the genjutsu, he himself had so many opportunities to write the story differently, its almost at this point ironic that why even hint things leaning more on NS if the other 2 are just going to come? This doesn't make sense, its all on that old anti-ns argument of it just being comic relief or a red herring when the main plot itself does nothing and I mean virtually nothing to the point of showing more than just simple "love" in the deals of SS and NH, hell even in a filler when Sakura was running to take care of sasuke, she reflected on herself and said she didnt remember how, when, or why she fell in love with sasuke and that was a filler by all means, I mean even for as dumb as 166 was with Hinata, they were able to pump buttloads of filler into a backstory for why she came to like naruto as non-canon as this story was, why couldnt they you know make a reason for sakura?
When the confrontation comes, should it be resolution or just a simple talk, I doubt it would be just sakura suddenly going back to him, it would really just be a case of then why bother with this whole negativity shtick? Even this late with Sakura herself still having this negativity view despite still caring for him as a friend/comrade in much the same ways naruto has for all these years, it leads one to ask well how can this somehow suddenly become positive after so many notions and events that say the opposite? I mean NH has its issues with many things hinting NS and Hinata being infrequent, but SS has so much more, I mean it was gone for more than half the manga, it was just a running streak of disappointment and turmoil, it was so bad that you got its own fans trying to make something positive out of the land of iron or the recent events even when Sasuke himself was letting them fall to their deaths and admitted he didnt save her and kakashi on purpose.
The point is well yes its to ask, why sakura? why kishi why do you still have her like this? Well he doesn't hate characters nor put something to torment them, but to think that all of this would occur with sakura currently just not having a good standing with him, again not trusting him, am I or many others supposed to suspect that Kishi is just going to flip things to be good and ideal in the next few chapters and just somehow have made this a case of testing or seeing how much sakura's love could endure? This whole deal would just even contradict the whole point of things and just make it go well why were you making it so negative? Besides wouldn't it already have endured with 675 if it somehow became more love? But saying this again adds even more holes!
Its not that Sakura is stupid or just loving a shadow and its not like she suddenly goes to naruto if he mentions the forehead stuff so that "kind" sasuke she thought she meant was actually naruto himself. The real problem is just kishi himself with his writing, it was one thing to say something like he made people think naruto got over sakura when he didnt but its just the way he did things, he couldnt have sakura go loving naruto after the land of iron so soon after the fake confession but she did in fact change further in response to both naruto and sasuke after these events. He let Hinata in without much to do because of her confession so she has always been at the side, the other deal was when NS "died" then kushinas foreshadow came up and many would have taken this as, why would NS be dead if it was being hinted? You don't hint story elements that are no longer in motion. Yet 631 came out to what it was and many other pairing fans flipped.
My point is, in the time since the land of iron, things just got even more unlikely for SS as kishi keeps displaying it and to suddenly turn it around to have been "what we once thought was right was wrong" this just makes things seem even more pathetic when there was no build up or response, there has not been much even saying sasuke is just sorry or willing to admit it, I mean he apologized to karin but not sakura? Is sakura just that kind to let it go? This makes it just like part 1 again just being almost like this whole deal of antagonism on sakura never even occured like all the attempted killings and disrgard towards her makes sakura either just too freaking generous or just otherwise stupid in her love and its a situation that just makes the whole love in this manga beyond retarded, it makes it absurd
Sakuras development is still in motion I mean stuff like wanting to know sasukes current dream and otherwise there has been stuff like her wanting naruto to become hokage, but what are we to expect then? She suddenly just sticks to sasuke? There are hundreds of more reasons to question SS than to anticipate it because no matter how one puts it could come, it makes more sense to just make many more counter arguments at this point because there are just too many problems with SS, it goes against so much and does so many unneeded things to their characters, its a total mess.
On SS theres hardly any content, any story reason, any need, for it to somehow end on a positive note as love when sasuke himself has been just not even critical to a love trait and its just been a negative attribute on sakura, its not something she sticks with simply "because she hoped" thats just stupid, its something she needs to confirm to herself, a trait or trail she must face and overcome, to think kishi would do this whole manga to never change her from this at least once, it makes the romance subplot in this even more absurd than the classic disney movie crap that tries to resolve romance within 20 minutes always under some good ideals. The difference is those disney movies get their stuff done because they are only like an hour to 90 minute movies, what we are reading is a whole series thats gone on for 15 years about now and for a portion of a subplot thats been minimal to the story, for something that has been portrayed as a negative impact upon the heroine no less, there is just no foreseeable reason or way that SS sticks around till the end at this point. Its something sakura should otherwise overcome or its just complete forgone development. I mean is one part an ending for team 7 being the opposite of how they introduced themselves? Naruto being hokage, sasuke having a new family (or whatever with his new dream) while sakura, who started out loving sasuke and hating naruto ends being just friends with sasuke but loving naruto? This could be a complete character resolution and end to what original started and introduced us to team 7.
The resolution will come but Sakura simply isnt going to be the same around sasuke ever again and it doesn't make sense or have any purpose to make it go back to that. Again she can be his friend, forgive him, and respet him as a comrade but part of this story is characters getting maturity and while many of the other major characters like gaara, shikamaru, and tsuande all gained development, mainly in the war, it just leads another to question why all these characters somehow changed and their biggest starting traits all turned around to something benefical, gaara is no longer a bloodlusting monster, he is a person with many friends and sought to protect others, not kill them. Shikamaru is no longer lazy, he is an active and constantly prepared shinobi, tsuande feared blood and had no clousre with Dan, yet everything turned around for her. Sakura not having her longest held trait not changing, espcially because she is the heroine, this trait never having changed in some way or reverting to the same basic style as in part 1 where she just loved sasuke here and there, it would be almost a travisty, like why is she, a main no less, among those who didnt get a resolution? Thats the point, sakura is developing and changing and to do this, it requires some events to make sense out of the events to bring SS as love to an end, to mature over it, I mean part of this whole deal that actually makes sense is Sakura learning real love, having it realized, not just forcing herself to love another or just realizing it on ideals, it needs to be something that she herself realizes and moves on from, like does she find herself supporting and thinking more of naruto or sasuke? After so many events like the 4 tails event put out a small question of how does she feel about naruto, this is the basis of why I feel sakura will eventually get that period where she moves away from sasuke towards naruto, something that makes the deal fully mutual, not based on ideals and simple basic love like SS and NH began with.
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and the one who got stabbed was a clone . then the real naruto is in another dimension no doubt . .kakashi still in the ice with narutos clones . . thats how i saw the chapter . and a bout ss / i totally agree with otaru
