anybody feel as sorry for Sakura-Chan as I do? She's in a loveless marriage where she has to cut Karin's head off her body just she could stick her head on the picture to make it seem like she got some sort of connection with Sasuke. Her own "daughter" already knows that whatever Sasuke and her has got going on is false down to the wire. According to Sakura-Chan's own words, Sasuke seems like he constantly denies any type of intimacy that she wants to have, And on top of it, it's obvious she's just taking care of another woman's daughter anyways. She always looks stressed out. It seems to me that anytime she sees Naruto around she suddenly has a smile on her face like that one moment with her and Ino at the table. The genjutsu needs to be revealed already, getting tired of seeing Naruto and Sakura-Chan suffer so much without each other; I even feel sorry for Sasuke at times for being forced into this.
I swear I initially thought the same, that this has to be a genjutsu otherwise it makes zero sense.
Of course I feel bad for her. HELL, I FEEL BAD FOR ALL CHARACTERS.
Sasuke is forced into an intimacy he doesn't want, Sakura is forced to beg for affection, Naruto runs away from his marriage, Hinata suddenly is only a housewife with newly acquired 'scary mamma mode', so on and so forth.
Like, the first time when I saw Sarada I thought that she is Karin's artificial daughter with Sasuke (I'm actually doing a plot like this on my own AU which I hope I'll start writing next year cuz as of now I am plotting it), and she's being hidden for some reason of the plot (i know in my plot why, but idk this one), and the best way to do it is say that it's Sakura's and Sasuke's daughter because Sakura comes from a civillian family rather than a well known Uzumaki which would mean chakra pool combination that gets them rinnegan.
Otherwise I see no logical explanantion.
But if it were to be like that, the story would be focused i think on this aspect more. Instead the story is focused on Boruto, so no, I don't think it's grand scale genjutsu. I think it's just how things are in Naruto now...
Though don't get me wrong, I'd laugh my ass out if it were to be proven to be genjutsu in the end.
But there are some mechanics of the symbolism that don't fit.
And trust me, I know what I'm talking about cuz I myself am building an AU that follows the events of 699 and I've found a lot of symbolism that would fit something else, not this though.
Even Boruto and his newly acquired eye power... something's sketchy. I'd fit better the NaruSaku symbolism than NaruHina tbh given some symbolism I found and I know they inspiration from.
But they did like they always do - take from Sakura and give to Hinata. So then here we are...
I don't think it's honestly a genjutsu. I think it's just the goddamned skewed reality which doesn't take the actual characters into consideration and that's all.
Edited by Chatte, 01 October 2020 - 03:37 PM.