Way too many good posts to respond to and like but...
Omg i am starting to really loath this series... 
I know, right? I never thought I'd see the day where I looked back on my time reading Naruto with such disgust.
If it was all about Sasuke, why couldn't Masashi, oh I don't know, make a f-ing SEPARATE series for him?!!! That can give him more money and stuff.
Exactly. If you like Sasuke better, then come out and make a freaking story about HIM. Don't sell us a Part 1 about Naruto, his dreams, his goals, and his development only to pull the rug out from under him and give everything to the rat bastard, Sasuke.
Wow. What a terrible thing to say about your main character. To literally call him a plot device, not a plot driver. Naruto's single purpose was to bring Sasuke back? Not only did Kishi ruin Naruto's character, he just said that he wasn't the main character anymore. This man is the epitome of a disgrace. He should be more than ashamed as a writer, I absolutely will never touch a work by him again. He destroyed an entire series, characters included, due to stupidity. I hope SP is proud, they turned a once good series into a burning pile of horse kitten, and not even the writer cares.
I'll just stick to fanfic where Naruto is the main character, Sakura is the heroine, both of their characters are intact and resemble my Naruto and Sakura, where Hinata is as irrelevant as she always was, where Sasuke gets his ass whooped like he deserves and is not the focus of the story, as he never should have been. Both he and Hinata destroyed this manga, what a disgrace.
This series was never about what Naruto struggled to achieve, it was about Sasuke attaining what he neither earned nor deserved.

it really does make sense now. it would explain why we have sasuke narrating in the end instead of naruto. so not only do we have confirmation of sakura not being the heroine, we now have confirmation of naruto not being the protagonist.
sasuke shippuden 
Yup. This is why Sasuke gets the closing lines. It explains why the Uchiha get all the backstory. And it explains why all the ills of the Uchiha are constantly justified and explained away.
Someone else said it, but this MC garbage hurts more than anything else.
Edited by Narufan85, 21 December 2014 - 10:39 PM.