What are you talking about?
Sakura apparently TRULY loved Sasuke the whole time. She never lied about LOVING him. Not once. She did not fake LOVING SASUKE to make anyone jealous. She didn't convince everyone of a LIE, she did not stand on a moral high-ground saying that she hated liars WHILE LYING or any bullsh** like that.
who did that again? oh yes, NARUTO. while he berated her in-front of all their companions and pretended to be hurt when infact he had no feelings towards her to warrant being hurt by a "false confession."
So how are they on the same level?
Oh right, they aren't.
Where in canon are Sakura's feelings for Sasuke stated to be out of rivalry? why is that she can't have had a CRUSH on him that TURNED to love, meanwhile Naruto's is never declared to be such a thing, its just stated that "You only loved me out a rivalry." which he seems to consent to being true. There is no "yea but...It turned into more." as we have with sakura.
Naruto feelings were "fake" according to canon but also according to canon, Sakura had feelings for both Naruto and Sasuke at one time or another. So ultimately she becomes a VICTIM of two faced, fake ass Naruto.
The double standard is obvious and ridiculous? no your attempts to place them on equal footing is whats ridiculous. Naruto is a scumbag who played with the feelings of others, he LIED to everyone and sold them on that lie. He will always be the lowest of the low for that.
Earlier, in response to tricksie:
And herein lies the problem — if you accept that the ending scenario, which confirms that Sakura never moved on from Sasuke...then you also have to accept that Naruto only was attracted to Sakura because of his rivalry in the first place.
According to the ending, Sakura never once feels bad for Naruto's 'unrequited love' — because, according to the ending, she knew it wasn't love, and love for her, at all. It was all about his feelings for Sasuke. She literally just laughs it off. And he goes along without blinking and eye. Shifting his affections, apparently in that moment, once and for all to Hinata.
The problem with blaming Sakura for never moving on from Sasuke is that if you do, you must, in the same breath, admit that it didn't matter anyway: Naruto didn't love her to begin with. And she knew it all along. So there was nothing for her to move on to.
The problem with what you said though is that if you accept all the things that you mentioned, you also need to accept the fact that Sakura didn't ever love Sasuke in the first place either, and that she "loved" Sasuke the same way that Naruto loved her, out of a rivalry with Ino. This is hypocritical of sakura in two ways:
1.) She laughed his affections off for loving her in the same way that she loved Sasuke, but her line "a girls feelings can't change" implies that her feelings grew into something more, yet she neglects to see that Naruto may have been jealous at first, but that could have grown into something more
2.)she was quick to declare Naruto never loved her and berated him for it, but if Sakura's love for Sasuke was borne the same way that Naruto loved Sakura, then Sakura needn't have moved on at all, because there was nothing to move on from, as she never loved Sasuke at all.
The problem is people are so quick to slam Naruto, yet they give sakura a free pass knowing full well that her love for Sasuke is the same as what Naruto's was retconed to be. Not only that, but they're hypocritical enough to say that Naruto never loved her, but Sakura loves Sasuke, and that Naruto's feelings couldn't progress into something more, while hers could. Not only that, but people forget that of the two scenarios, the only one with canon evidence to support then statement "love borne from rivalry" is Sakura, not Naruto. They're quick to call Naruto a scumbag, but Sakura is immune to it even though she did the same thing. The only difference between Naruto and Sakura is that she succeeded in her motivation to beat Ino. That's it.
If you accept that Sakura, who loved Sasuke to beat Ino, developed real feelings towards Sasuke, then you must also accept the fact that Naruto did the same. Keep in mind that the quote was never "all this time you only ever loved me to beat Sasuke". To say that Naruto's feelings couldn't develop into something more while Sakura's could is ridiculous and a double standard.
Sakura lied to Naruto, and he had every right to call her on it. The way he did it was wrong, but he had every right to tell her. Sakura had the nerve to play love guru and say that Naruto wasn't worth Hinata's time. Not only that, she admitted to helping Hinata not for Hinata, but to get Naruto off her back.
@bold, you must be joking. There is more canon evidence that Sakura wanted Sasuke to beat Ino than Naruto wanting to beat Sasuke. The entirety of part one is an example of that. In fact, there is zero evidence to suggest that Naruto loved Sakura because of Sasuke within the original source material.
I am well within my rights to set them on equal footing as they are guilty of the same exact thing. Naruto apparently wanted Sakura to beat Sasuke, Sakura wanted Sasuke to beat Ino. You want to say that Naruto played with her feelings, I can say she did the same, which is fact. Hell, if I wanted to, I could also say that she played with his life, as she promised to actually help him, and in the end, did nothing but cry on her knees while he went off to potentially die, and then forget he existed as soon as Sasuke's johnson came into sight.
So yes, it is a massive double standard for you to sit here and slam Naruto, yet defend Sakura over the exact same thing. We're not bashing Sakura mindlessly, we're bringing up legitimate points about her. Stop acting like she's above reproach. Its not like were saying shes a terrible person because her breasts arent big enough, were saying she is a terrible person because she is, just as Naruto is, just as Sasuke is, just as Ino is, just as Obito is, just as Kakashi is, just as Hiruzen is, just as Madara is, just as Itachi is, just as Fugaku is, etc.
She is a terrible person, just as everyone else in this series is. End of story.
Whether Sakura knew Ino liked Sasuke or not is irrelevant. Sakura did not love Sasuke because of her rivalry with Ino. If she did, why does she continue loving him even though Ino already has a child with Sai?
Sakura and Ino's fight wasn't about getting Sasuke's kitten, it was about Sakura surpassing Ino and proving herself to be her equal. I think Sasuke was just an excuse, because Ino and Sakura weren't talking about who "won" him when they both woke up after the fight. Instead they became friends again and Sakura continued to like Sasuke. The one who could be argued about liking Sasuke only over a rivalry would be Ino, who deliberately flirted with him in front of Sakura just to make her mad. Sakura never did any such thing.
So all the times in Shippuden that Sakura cried over Sasuke was only because she was thinking about beating Ino? Ino did not appear in Sakura's head when Sakura felt guilty about being in love with Sasuke, when she confessed her love to Sasuke again in 693, or when she blushed when Sasuke poked her on the forehead. It was only in Part 1 that Sakura competed with Ino for Sasuke's affections, the same way Naruto competed with Sasuke in order to get Sakura's love (except that according to canon, he kept doing it all through Shippuden)
How is Ino a disgusting person for moving onto Sai? Sure he looks like Sasuke but who cares. Maybe it's not Sasuke himself Ino liked but just dark mysterious types.
Sasuke want just excuse, whenever they were in the same room, the first thing that happened was they'd get into a cat fight about Sasuke.
Sakura didn't spend time crying in shippuden because of Sasuke, she cried because he wasn't turning out to be what she wanted him to be. Sakura never, not one canon time, thought about what Sasuke wanted, only what she wanted from him, the same as Hinata in regards to Naruto. She only ever thought about herself in regards to Sasuke, she never, ever loved him. When it came to him, only she mattered. That's why NS was truly the best ship, because they wanted the other to be happy, even if it cost them. Sakura's "love" for Sasuke was not love, it was a shallow and selfish obsession, where she self-inserted her into his life, when he clearly didn't want her there. She forced herself on him at every turn, when he never wanted her and never wanted to hear from her, 693 proves that.
Like I said, InoSai is only indicative of Ino moving on and maturing into someone that isn't a scumbag as a function of NS, as it shows that Ino moved on while Sasuke was single and available, not while he was taken. As it is now, Ino is a disgusting person because she settled for Sai because of the canon fact remarked by both Sakura and Ino, that he looks like Sasuke. She's self-inserted herself into Sasuke's pants via Sai, and its truly sad.