Sorry should have probably posted these thing here instead of that other topic.
Haven't been on in awhile. My impressions of This...what ever this side story wants to call it self.
So the first chapter is about Salad. She has an outfit the looks like Sakura's but she acts like Sasuke. There is some blue haired boy that look like he's friend with Bolt. Most likely he's going to be there teammate. Is he Karin and Suigetsu's child?...please no. So the story is everyone about to graduate and become ninja and Salad wonders what that means and what is a ninja. Also Everyone is hanging out with their dad's except her. even Bolt is playing tag with Naruto. I guess kishi got enough complaints about people don't like Naruto being and neglectful dad he drop it so Bolt now just wants to suppress his sh*tty Old Man because why not.
Wait So Salad has NEVER seen her father once... that mean Sasuke has been in the village for TWELVE YEARS!!!! so in this chapter Salad ask her mother some basic question about her father. Did her wear glasses when he was young answer no Sakura's answer I don't know. *bangs head against wall* Then she proceeds to ask question about thing we been asking for months. I'll skip them since people most likely already pointed them out. Sakura can't answer them get really frustrated and smashes the ground in front of her daughter to silence her (great parenting). Which ends up destroying their house cause Sakura to faint cause she hasn't finish paying it off. More Character derailment for her from Shizune. And then finally Salad finds out that the family photo of her Mother and her Father isn't of her mother and father but a picture of team taka and Sakura just putting a picture of herself in front of Karin. That is some creepy kitten.
This is a fine chapter if you don't care about Sakura or Sasuke. I'm not sure what Kishi is doing now is he intentionally trying to piss of the last part of his fan base that actually willingly pays for anything? I can't imagine SS would be happy about there ship being... well this. Honestly i get this feeling of bitterness from the manga. i indifferent from it but i get the feeling who ever wrote this is really bitter about having to write this.
Well After a day of think about the Gaiden, and not reading anyone thoughts of it. Well other than when I was on here for an hour or so. Here are the two possible reasons for why kishi went with this story. Bitterness or Ratings.
What I'm talking about bitterness is the main meat of this chapter is the interaction/argument between Salad and Sakura as well as her family issues. In chapter 700 it sounded like Sasuke did visit every once and awhile and Sakura was content to wait for him to return because there is love between them. Here he hasn't been back in 12 years, and when Salad brings up several questions such as is Sakura even married to Sasuke. Sakura has a violent reaction. Which come off that even she has doubts about the love between them. Not only that but the fact that the chapter ends with the question is Salad really Sakura's daughter. The answer is yes since she did raise her but is she her biological mother? All does is piss off the SS fans since they now have read further chapter to see if Salad is Sakura or Karin’s daughter. So it possible that Kishi knows how much people do not care about this Gaiden. He knows now that what SP and his editors convinced him to do was a bad idea, and has basically destroyed his reputation, Naruto popularity, and the fan base love for the story. And the only two groups that love the ending is nH and SS fans people they told him were the majority fan base and would financially support the series, which they aren't. So why should he bother to make them happy? So instead he has taken all the negative implications one could make about SS relationship (Sasuke is never home, Sakura desperately trying to convince herself Sasuke loves them and will be back soon, Salad lack a father figure, she looks more the Karin’s daughter than Sakura’s, and so on) and put them to the extreme to upset the SS fans. And to upset the nH fans since they will accept any crap (they did love the Last) the only thing he can really do is just not show Hinata in any scenes.
The second possible reason is ratings. Think about out of the children who have come out of the ending who has the most fan art about them…other than Shinachiku? Salad. So why not make this Gaiden about her? No one liked that plot point of Naruto was a neglectful parent so remove that, and no one was really that interested in Bolt other than nH, but then what should this story be about then? Well he already got the neglectful father set up for both Naruto and Sasuke (dropped for Naruto) but that isn't that interesting he needs something to draw in the readers. Some sort of spice like a mystery. Well by this point he has probably received numerous letters that tell him no one believes that Salad is Sakura daughter and she look like Karin. So why not make that question the mystery of the story? It either going to be answered in that next chapter or so if people don’t talk about it or it going to be strung along for the rest of the Gaiden in hopes that people will keep reading to find out.