Of course I see things from both sides, the first being that all these characters are the way they are because they were written that way. Their personalities, their actions, and their behavior in general comes from Kishi. Everything that they we were, and are now, is because of him. However I can understand looking at everyone as if they were real people, hypothetically that is. If I do that, then I personally think that Sakura is a women with very poor judgement....very poor judgement. I haven't been pleased with her, especially with Gaiden, she really went down in my book, but I can't sit here and say she's a horrible person that I hate because of her actions, no matter how crappy they are, because lets face it, there are moments in all our lives were we haven't made the best choices, and while it's easy to say "Oh my god when will she learn," we ourselves are very capable of making the same mistakes over and over again in our own lives.
With that said I don't think Sakura was ever really a bad person from the beginning, a brat maybe, but never bad. She really grew as a person, and for the better, especially in Shippuden. She was actually really maturing, but once the war started she began to decline little by little. For whatever reason Sasuke does nothing but robe her of her own self respect. The strong woman that she's very capable of being crumbles whenever he's near. I know most everyone here agrees that if Naruto and Sakura were Bolt's parents he wouldn't be a brat, because Sakura wouldn't allow Naruto to neglect their child. She'd put a stop to it, and she'd also put Bolt in his place if he ever threw bratty fits in front of her. No sad looking Hinata moments if her son threw his sisters birthday cake on the floor.
However, when she's with Sasuke, Sakura becomes a shell of a person, and big issues, like Sasuke not being with his family for 12 years, is forgiven with, a family dinner, a family picture, a neglected kiss, and a forehead tap for his daughter. Sakura can be so pathetic, and it's sad to watch her interact with Sasuke, because each time she does we're guarantee that she'll messed up in one way or another. She becomes this drone that only has Sasuke on her mind. Which doesn't make any sense seeing that Sasuke hasn't been loving to her, there's no romance, no interaction, heck no communication between the two! It's easy to say that Salad was the product of a one night stand, a miracle child if you will, especially when you realize just how hard it is to get pregnant. In some ways Sakura acts like an abused woman. She just keeps taking emotional beatings over and over again, but her unwavering devotion to him never falters.
Which brings me to one of the many things Sakura has done that I was very disappointed in, and that was her looking for Sasuke while she was pregnant. She was a damn fool for doing that, she was being completely irresponsible and not thinking about what was really important, and that was her unborn child. It's almost as if she was banking on Sasuke not leaving her again if he saw that she was with child. Her searching for him was a desperate attempt for her to have a somewhat normal life with him. She wanted to be the happy house wife doting on her husband and child, and traveling for 9 freaking months to make that come true was sad. Doing that, keeping Salad in the dark, hiding her apparent friends photo with her own, allowing Sasuke to abandon them for 12 years, and permitting him to make her look like a damn love struck fool that was just denied a freaking kiss is just unbelievable.
All of these mistakes have just added to her horrible track record as of late. If she would have just thought things through she wouldn't be as hated as she is. Once she had Salad that should have been enough for her, she should have forgotten about Sasuke. She shouldn't have painted a picture of him to her daughter at all. No fake family photos, or Uchiha clan symbol. She should have been honest with Salad from the beginning. She could have easily told Salad that her father was someone she thought she knew as a child, but he was a damaged man, and he's on his own little journey to make amends for all his wrongs. Being honest with her daughter from the start would have stopped all the events in Gaiden from happening to begin with.
I mean one of Sakura's biggest jobs as a mother is too show her daughter what a healthy relationship looks like. Allowing her to see the mess, that is her being submissive towards Sasuke, is a major fail on her part. Would she want Salad to end up with someone like her father? Would a mother want that kind of treatment for her own daughter, no of course not, but for whatever reason Sakura doesn't seem to see things like that. So again I don't think she's a bad person, instead she's a poor shell of a women who's allowed a simple crush to turn into a toxic relationship that has left her as an emotional slave to a man who's only connection to her is through their daughter.
Edited by Konohakitten, 04 July 2015 - 01:41 AM.
