I understand about part 1 days but when looking back, honestly, it wasn't the worst that mankind ever seen. It's more like hard to believe Naruto moments for Sakura since she believed that Naruto was a jerk, which let's face it he was. I don't know, I have seen worse and it's a bit understandable since she's 12. If she was older like the current age or older, then well, it's not so easy to forgive. Oh well.
I do agree with you about the first impression is the last. This is author's challenge because if you plan to do something "risky" fans would hate him/her to the very end. It's sad but it can't be helped.
Partly yes , mostly , no . If you recall Kakashi's words ''Girl at that age think more about love than ninjustu'' and that was true since chasing after Sasuke was her ''goal'' to fix her insecurities ,or that is what she thought anyway . That Sasuke came first most of the time its correct , but her inner tsundere always liked Naruto despite her words in chapter 3 . And since then she began caring for him as equally as Sasuke, heck there times where Naruto was above Sasuke on her list like the first chuunin exam test .
That she was selfish , yep, i totally agree , she kind of begged SAsuke to stay for her and offered to leave the village despite the fact that Naruto saved her , well , she ''loves'' Sasuke so Naruto was left on the bench
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I wonder why kishi didn't make her thank Naruto or something after she heard the news from Sasuke ? Building on for later?
Well, that part with her ''love'' for Sasuke is the main reason 2/3 of the western fandom hates her , this part of her character has been nothing but detrimental ..
For me it was, and to get things worse there was, back and forth.
There are a lot of moments were Sakura "acknowledge" Naruto but then later completely dismiss like the Gaara part where she goes to thank Sasuke.
And many other moments.
Naruto's love for Sakura was unjustificable on part 1 because no matter what he did, Sakura only had eyes on Sasuke and all her affection was towards him, example everytime Naruto was at the hospital she was nowhere to be seen (take out the ending), meanwhile she was there feeding Sasuke, she even compete with Ino to be the first to visit Sasuke on the hospital.
Naruto got no love or affection from Sakura.
It only helped to Naruto's closed minded about why he thinks she only loves Sasuke, he always get surprised when she show affection to him, example feeding scene, he got totally surprised when she said she was going to feed him, the hug moment where he was pratically in shock, the "i love you" where totally caught him by surprise.
He believes he is not that(on the same level or higher than Sasuke) important to Sakura and still does because Sai downplayed Sakura's confession to look like she was doing that for Sasuke with words like "it's because she loves him too much that she wants to end it by herself and the ""she never planned to confess at first place"".
Edited by Dαrkrєrsŧ, 24 August 2013 - 07:34 PM.