Wasn't that the chapter when kishi slowly started to hit the reset button? Sakura was acting like her 12 year old meanwhile naruto just stands there while sakura get mentally abused and not caring much which is very very occ of him. Oh and kakashi defending ss in the worst way as possible.
Yeah that's the one. Sakura was completely reset as a character in that chapter, so she amounted to nothing throughout the entire 700 chapter story. And yeah Kakashi was being really OOC in that chapter. It seemed like everyone was except Sasuke, at least until the ending where we find out what he said to Sakura in 693 was just him lying even though he's supposed to be blunt and honest.
Idk, sometimes I think that certain ppl care more about NS on the site. I understand ppl have different opinions and everything but what delivered the coup de grace for me in 693 was how it just ruined Sakura's character.
After that I knew it was over. Sure perhaps NS would still have happened but since the beginning of the series Sasuke has been Sakura's achilles heel. Whenever he was gone her true character shown through and she was amazing, but as soon as he came back she regressed. It still makes me angry every time I think about how she just went and groveled at his feet despite all of the horrible things he put her through.
It was then that Naruto as a story was ruined and its morals corrupted.
Yeah you're right, Sasuke has always been Sakura's greatest weakness as a character so it's absolutely ridiculous that SS actually happened. I agree that 693 really was the death of her character, though that chapter was also a sign that the ending wasn't going to be just bad or disappointing but insulting and even disgusting.