ms_archer17

Mine too, perfect example of a western reader that doesn't understand how to read manga. It's what makes visiting forums so exasperating to me sometimes. Sakura is just thinking how colossally wrong her crush on Sasuke was. Memories of feelings are powerful things in manga, and in Kishimoto's even moreso than usual. That guy doesn't know he brought to the surface bad stuff Sakura is working through. Sakura thought she had banished even the memory of her feelings for Sasuke. Anyone old enough to have had even a past friendship with someone who betrayed them, turning out to be a very different person than you thought they were, (Or for us adults another situation- a coworker that at first seemed decent enough, but turned out to be a very hurtful person...) should be able to immediately relate to what Sakura is sorting through. You say to yourself that you are over and done with them, but it's not that simple, you've suffered harsh psychological damage, recovering from that isn't simple, and it's that much harder if you have some happy memories of them...

NHer needs to reread chapter 469-70. Naruto says Sakura was "lying to herself" not outright lying. No one says Sakura is lying about being in love with Naruto, not even Naruto, in fact Naruto is accepting of her being in love with him by chapter 470, he just thinks she is still fangirling over Sasuke as well. Sai makes it clear that's it's memories of her feelings about Sasuke that Naruto is sensing, that who brings joy to her heart is Naruto. Kishimoto said point blank Sakura was being 100% truthful about being in love with Naruto and believing that she had banished even the memories of feelings for Sasuke from her heart. Like I said above, the later isn't so easy to do. One only has to look at the Sanin. Tsunade never had any kind of attraction to Orochimaru at all- and came to dislike and distrust him long before Hiruzen and Jiraiya did. Tsunade says she "never liked or trusted" Orochimaru, but she was in the same denial Sakura was about her memories of her feelings. Tsunade never really had to face her denial like Sakura did, but when Orochimaru was killed it was obvious the team mate bond was still there concerning him for both Tsunade and Jiraiya, and in her last conversation with Jiraiya it was Tsunade who brings up a fond memory of Orochimaru and themselves as Genin. This is after years and years and with much less emotionally entangled feelings connected to it.

Sakura is feeling deeply ashamed, thinking her powerful memories of feelings means something is seriously wrong with her, memories of old feelings of love are especially painful and hard to work through, she may even think with self-loathing that she still harbors feelings for someone who never liked her, someone who has turned into someone basically completely consumed by the darkest evil, Kakashi's comments to her certainly didn't help alleviate her anxiety, he really should have been clearer, but Kakashi has his own intense bonds to his old favorite student- his threat was empty and Sasuke knew it even before Kakashi uselessly tried to reason with a person willingly embracing a very violent psychosis. That's why Sasuke was completely contemptuous to Kakashi. Note, he wasn't that way to either Naruto or Sakura. Sakura he knew was a threat, if not now, she was very close to being able to kill him to protect Naruto, save the world, and save Sasuke from himself- like a rabid dog . Naruto though, was the only one Sasuke actually listened to, the only one who did get through to him.

Sakura has chosen Naruto and loves him with all her heart entirely separate from what she's sorting through about Sasuke