it had cute moments here and there, but overall it was a bad chapter with what we learned about the ss family and naruto. now let me start by saying that i kinda enjoyed the interactions between bolt and naruto when they were playing tag, but i wish the real naruto would be doing that with him instead of his clone. i mean, how busy must a kage be during peaceful times?
and now for sarada, who i feel bad for because i can relate to her so much. coming into this series i thought sasuke was at least in village during the birth of sarada, but man was i wrong. like what was kishi thinking having her own father walk out on her like that. does this have to do with sasuke still repenting? i mean, how long does he have to repent to see his precious daughter? also, i said this many times already, but when in the hell did money become an issue in this series? now we have sakura who's a single parent struggling financially? really? i guess kishi decided that money would only become an issue to create more drama in the ss household. and on top of it all, sakura is coming down with an illness due to the stress. another surprise i found in this chapter is that sakura has always been fainting. its like kishi is transferring hinata's traits to sakura, but at the expense of her health.
but what i found funny was the blatant ooc in this chapter.
first off i want to address naruto. throughout this story we constantly see naruto going out of his way to help people who are suffering, because their suffering is his own. we constantly see naruto claim he wants to protect konoha. we see that naruto strives to be the best hokage because he puts the people first, even taking on their burden. as the hokage, it's their responsibility to look out for the citizens of the city that he governs. with the title comes some obligations, it's why the people elected you because they see you sticking up for them. they see that you genuinely care for them. now sakura, who is his teammate, one of his closest friends, and one of the people who rescued naruto "from the hell of being alone", is not only struggling financially, but has to raise a child alone. as the hokage, he should not stand for this. sakura may have lost her ways and dug herself in this situation, but that should not matter to naruto because he will look past that and try to get best out of you. hell, he was able to look past the mistakes of obito and the village for what they've done to him, and tried to help them out. so is it wrong for me to say that he would look past how sakura ended up in the situation she's in, and just try to help her much like he did with the villagers and obito, especially considering now that he's in a position of power? also, his best friend, the same guy he spent majority of the series trying to bring him back home, is gone for 12 years. not only that, he left a daughter behind for the mother to raise on her own. naruto should be absolutely furious! he'd be issuing a hunt for sasuke to come home and take responsibility. this naruto is so ooc that it's hurts.
now speaking of sakura. now sarada may have been rude with the way she was addressing her mother, because if i were to ever talk to my mom that way i would immediately get my ass whooped lol. but sarada brought up good points in their conversation. why doesn't she remember if sasuke worse glasses or not? i mean it's no secret that sakura loves the way sasuke looks, so shouldn't one think that she would absolutely remember how he looks. now i want to talk about the way she responded to sarada, more specifically let's start with that nasty temper she had. sakura is one of the strongest medics in the world, did kishi honestly think it would be a good idea see her display her strength out of a frustration to her own 12 year old daughter? i mean come on, we have panels of sakura giving food to an orphan, and we have sakura treating a little kid's injury and being gentle towards her. look at this adorable kitten:
but that's all gone now. you'd think if she was this kind to a random little girl, she would show the same gentleness if not more to her own damn daughter. thanks a lot kishi for taking away the best thing that i loved about sakura. also, sakura says to sarada that sasuke will be home soon, but how long is soon? today? tomorrow? or 12 years? this can't be the first time that sakura has assured sarada of sasuke's homecoming. but the biggest wtf moment of the chapter was the ending. you mean to tell me that sakura has been using a different photo of sasuke to fill in the family photo? kishi must be on some acid trip to be doing this. i'm really curious as to why sakura would go this far to fake a family photo. i'm sure detective sarada will get to the bottom of this lol.
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