People are never happy... *sigh* If "Sasuke-kun" is going to be the focus of the discussion, then I think I'll stay away from here this week. This chapter was supposed to be all about Sakura proving herself, and we should be happy about that.
I find it really disheartening to see so many instead pointing their fingers at one panel. A panel that has nothing to do with the chapter itself. It gets right under my skin too, because the last thing this chapter was supposed to be about was pairings. It's about Team 7, and Sakura finally being able to stand proudly beside her other two teammates. Please, please, please, please, please don't take that moment away from her over pairings. Please.
We already know that Sakura loves Sasuke. We already knew that some SasuSaku was on it's way. We also know that she has feelings for Naruto. We've established this over the past ten+ years. So stop.
I hope that this doesn't happen again next week, because frankly, I'm tired of having to defend any positive moments for Sakura, Naruto, and NaruSaku from my own fandom.
Hey. It's a good thing we have Like Posts now, because this deserves my entire 5 Likes weekly limit.
So, just because she was saved by Sasuke, it means that it's automatically a pairing moment? This is more the case of the people saying that putting down Sakura as still being characterized by her Part 1, fangirl moment.
Think about it from her point of view, here's this criminal, one of her former best friends, one that's not shown an ounce of remorse, show up out of the blue and together with her other best friend, they act as if nothing bad has happened between them. She's elated that things are back to normal again, even if it's temporary. I've always thought that, despite her anger at Sasuke at what he's done to Naruto, she also wants Team 7 reunited again. She's just better at putting that aside to try and kill Sasuke compared to Naruto