And so the
one time that Hinata pulls a kamikaze move out of thin air, while randomly yelling her love at the top of her lungs, is reason enough for Sakura to suddenly start thinking "that Hinata does
so much for Naruto, whereas because I haven't pulled a suicidal stunt while proclaiming my undying love, I'm suddenly not worthy enough for Naruto?"
Because that's the general idea that I seem to be getting here from these posts.
That Hinata suicidal/screaming love proclomations = worthy of Naruto suddenly
While Sakura who has stood by Naruto's side, even though she hasn't confessed her love for him
yet = not worthy
Uhm... Huh? I tried rereading the posts but I don't get that feel at all.
While I can't speak for other people, I never stated that Sakura thinks Hinata's stunt made her suddenly worthy of Naruto while Sakura suddenly becomes unworthy. There really isn't any talk of worthiness or lack thereof at all. Naruto isn't a prize. He's free to be in love with whoever he feels for and being worthy or not has nothing to do with it. If Sakura actually start thinking like that, this OTP will suddenly disappear from my list of pairings because that's just a douchy thing to do.
What I
was trying to say though was that Sakura already has deep-rooted insecurities regarding her capabilities to be helpful to Naruto. And Hinata succeeding in helping Naruto while Sakura is already feeling this way compounded her sense of worthlessness. It doesn't
have to be Hinata because it's not
about Hinata. It's about Naruto and how other people succeed in helping him while she's there thinking she can't. It's about Sakura being too hard on herself, maginalizing the things she's done and amplifying the things she couldn't do.
It's about Sakura as a character, as well as her relationship with Naruto. Romance wasn't the focus at all.
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I understand that Sakura herself may think that she hasn't done enough, but that she isn't so insecure as to think that she hasn't done anything at all for him, in all the years that they've known each other and fought for each other.
I don't know. Sakura has always been a very,
very insecure person to me. Ino gave her confidence, but just like Sasuke was to Naruto, Ino was also a source of inferiority for Sakura. If Inner Sakura is anything to go by, Sakura has had to surpress a part of her because she thought she could fit in better with the persona she was outwardly portraying, meaning she had thought before that the person she was does not fit into whatever mold she thinks is the norm. It was so convincing even Ino bought it and was surprised to see a tough, determined, fiery personality under all that whimpering facade Sakura used to portray. Obviously, she's change. She's more confident, more secure in her sense of self. But given her doubts and deprecating view regarding being helpful to Naruto, I'm inclined to think she's not all that over being the insecure little girl she was. Less insecure than before, but not completely free of it.
Sakura line was, "I can only do the
littlest things for Naruto." It's not that she thinks she hasn't done anything for him at all. It's just that her sense of self-worth is on the low side of the scale and to people like that,
anything they do is inconsequential. Whereas to Naruto, her mere presence is already a comfort, Sakura is honing in on the fact that Naruto is a jinchuuriki and she cannot change that. That he allowed himself to be consumed so thoroughly to be powerful enough to bring Sasuke back and she was no help at all. That the Akatsuki is after him and she's not powerful enough to fight against them. The things she does that she consider "little" are actually a big help to Naruto but she doesn't see it that way. Which is why she marginalizes them and focus on what she couldn't/failed to do.