I'm that person who will protect Sakura. Admitting he faults is a right thing to do, but only when someone is listing her faults, this post is not doing that.
If you want people who can admit her faults to be welcome, then state her faults, not your opinions that are cannonicaly incorrect.
1) Naruto is definitely the obsessed one, Sakura does think about Sasuke, but Narutos whole personality in Shippuuden is Sasuke (the only exceptions are Naruto saving Gaara and His fight against Pain with Jiraya in mind).
Sakura went to learn under Tsunade - She thinks about Naruto and Sasuke.
Naruto went to train with Jiraya - He wants to be stronger to bring Sasuke back.
Sakura is learning medical ninjutsu - She wanted to help Naruto and Sasuke.
Naruto is learning Rasenshuriken - He thinks about how his chakra nature fits Sasukes.
Sakura is fighting with Sasori - She wants Chiyo to take the antidote (even if that means her death so she wouldn't see Sasuke ever again, but she doesn't care)
Naruto - "I can't die yet, I need to help Sasuke".
Sasuke is going crazy (attacking 5 kages) - Sakura wants to kill him, Naruto is thinking that it's fine.
Sasuke comes back to help during war - Sakura is skeptical, Naruto is overjoyed.
They were both his friends, so yes, they both risk their life to save Sasuke, but if you want to pick who is the obsessed one - it's not Sakura.
2. Sakura is 100% better developed as a character than both Naruto and Sasuke.
(I did a separate post about Sakura and her development so I'm gonna try to not repeat myself)
Both Naruto and Sasuke are the same people they were at the beginning (Naruto is only smarter and Sasukes goals changed).
Naruto - "I'm never going back on my word, that's my ninja way", who when people he cares about get hurt - goes into Kurama mode, he never gives up and has talk no jutsu. He was introduced as such and he ended up the same. I think that he even got a huge downgrade, because at the beginning we were made to believe he was an underdog, but then we learned he was born to a Hokage and a genius Uzumaki, he is a reincarnation of a God and 90% of his power ups are thanks to Kurama.
Sasuke - "I wanna kill my brother", who is obsessed with his goal and the price of achieving that goal is irrelevant. He is a genius, that Naruro follows, a bit emo, emotionally distant and unstable. That's again, Sasuke from first episodes/chapters and all throughout Shippuuden. His main character development happens at the end of his last battle against Naruto and lasted like 2 chapters. He (again) gets a bit of a downgrade (not as much as Naruto, we had known that he was born special) when he turns from good to evil, to good to evil to good again. He's a good Konoha ninja, but then goes to Orochimaru, but He never kills except for 2 high rank criminals - Orochimaru that killed 3rd Hokage and an Akatsuki member Itachi, but then He joined the Akatsuki, but then He helped during war and wanted to be a hokage, but then He is the main antagonist, but then talk no jutsu and He is good again. It's like there was no consistency with his character.
Those two were introduced as the same people as they ended up, only older and stronger.
And I mean it with no hate to those characters whatsoever, I love them, but since first arc to the last one, they were the same people. That's not character development.
A noone, without a clan, annoying girl, with a crush on popular guy. A girl who didn't like to get dirty, cared only about her looks and thinking she is just as strong as everyone else. Is it the same person as she ended up as? No, not at all, and that's a character development!
She went from being weak with no aspiration and resources (no clan, no special jutsu, nothing) to one of the strongest kunoichi and best healers.
A girl that as main job had standing back was in the front lines against Akatsuki. A girl that was always crying and getting protected, protects and saves people life without any consideration for her own. A girl who couldn't qualify to finals of chunnin exams is punching a God.
And her development started at the beginning and was consistent throughout the whole series.
From "I wanna be pretty and skinny" to "I don't care about how I look, hair, face everything is irrelevant I NEED TO PROTECT MY FRIENDS".
From "who cares about other people's feelings" to caring about Narutos (then) impossible dream and visiting Lee in the hospital.
From "please protect me" to "I'll protect you".
From "I know I'm stronger than Naruto and overall wow-me" to "I need to BECAME strong, I need to train, I have a lot of work to even help Naruto".
From "Wow Sasuke you are to cool, f Naruto" to "DONT YOU DARE BE RUDE TO NARUTO, SASUKE" and later "I'll save Sasuke for you, don't hurt yourself Naruto" and later to "I'll kill Sasuke, to save Naruto from getting hurt".
That's character development, from noone to someone, not from someone great to someone great (like Sasuke) or from someone we didn't know was great to someone we know is great (like Naruto).
If you want to say that in terms of strength she looks faint in comparison to Naruto and Sasuke - sure, but in terms of character development - Sakura had more.
3. It's a hypocrisy to say "Naruto wanted to help Sasuke" and "Sakura was here for romance" when we know FROM MANGA that it's false.
Did she love him? Yes, but she didn't want to make Sasuke hers, she wanted to save him from darkness just like Naruto, and that's a manga fact.
4. "It still remains that he (Sasuke) obviously was uncomfortable with majority of their (Sasuke and sakura) previous interactions".
No, wrong. At the beginning sure, they were all uncomfortable with each other, whole team 7 was uncomfortable.
If you want to put it that way then Sasuke was very uncomfortable with Naruto. He felt very uncomfortable to ask Naruto a simple question, he was very uncomfortable with Naruto becoming stronger, he was very uncomfortable with Naruto overall, because Naruto was loud and they didn't know each other.
Look he is blushing and getting annoyed, wow, so uncomfortable and?
Sure, Sasuke called Sakura annoying 3 times (rightfully so), and called Naruto a "moron" or "idiot" countless of times, and? That's who Sasuke was and who he is today. You only treat it differently because Sakura got sad after and had dramatic reactions to it, but because Naruto only got mad, you are fine with it. Would "you are annoying" make you this mad if Sakura got mad at Sasuke instead of sad? No, because you all have no reactions to Naruto when that happens.
5. Naruto and Sasuke "had a blooming genuine bond"
And you don't see a "blooming bond" between Sasuke and Sakura, right?
Because there is no difference between this:
No difference at all, sure.
"I don't ever want to watch those dear to me die before my eyes again".
Sure, Sasuke doesn't care about her, he never said that she is important to him, never happened, especially not in manga, right? Sure....
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So, is Sakura a perfect person? No, she has flaws and she did many stupid things, sure.
If you want to get mad at her, get mad at her for things she did wrong, not for things that she cannonicaly did good.
And I will probably make a post about things I dislike in Sakura, because she is not a perfect person and she did f up many times, but things that that person is listing are not any of them 🤷♀️
And obviously no hate to that person, because everyone has a right to their opinions, but false narrative is not a opinion, it's misinformation 🤷♀️
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