A detailed analyses and explanation of Sasuke x Sakura relationship
I’ve been reading a lot of haters and crosstaggers saying that Sakura’s development was ruined, that SasuSaku had more negative than positive development, claiming that Sasuke is an abuser, posting Anti-SS on pro-SS posts and all this bullshit. I’m sick of this, and I’ll write a monologue based on manga facts to destroy all of your misinterpretations.
In the beginning of part 1, Sakura was just an annoying fangirl, like the others. She was just a 12 years old ordinary girl, that never had any bad experience neither knew the pain of loss. Sasuke, however, was a kind and loving boy that saw his entire clan being slaughtered in cold blood. Since the Uchiha massacre his behaviour changed drastically and he became a lost and broken person, and started to act like a cool cold hearted jackass to avoid making bonds with other people, because he was afraid to love again.
When they interacted for the first time, Sakura was mocking Naruto for being alone. She said he was LUCKY because he had no parents, she touched on Sasuke’s wound, because Sasuke also had no parents and felt empathy for Naruto. So, he was bothered by her attitude and called her annoying.
Sakura deserved this. In fact, it was a positive development for her character, because she used to treat Naruto badly, and after Sasuke deservedly called her annoying, she reconsidered her attitude towards Naruto and started to be more kind to him.
But even thinking of Sakura as an annoying person in the beginning, Sasuke always showed concern about her. During the bell’s test, when she fainted, Sasuke heard her scream and remained near her (losing his time) until she woke up.
During the Land of Waves arc, Sasuke also showed great concern for Sakura.
There’s another situation when Sasuke calls Sakura’s ninja skills worse than Naruto’s when she invites him for a date. We know that Sasuke always was a focused person, that pushes himself hard to become stronger, while Sakura just thought of dates and romance. Again, Sasuke is acting like Sakura’s driving force to become a better and stronger person. She always wanted Sasuke to acknowledge her (exatcly the same way Naruto always wanted Sasuke’s acknowledgement).
But then, Sasuke noticed that she was weird, regreted what he said and cheered her up. Since the beginning he was capable of reading well Sakura’s feelings.
Now, I will talk about the Forest of Death arc, maybe the most important arc for Sasuke and Sakura relationship. It was during the Chunin Exams that Sakura’s crush for Sasuke started to turn into true love. She stopped being a fangirl when she noticed his many flaws and that he was a broken boy that needed help. Sasuke also started to be even more overprotective over Sakura, hurting himself to save her and going mad when he saw how much she was wounded. Not to mention the fact that Sakura was the only one able to stop Sasuke when the curse seal dominated him. For sure this arc was the start of their bond.
After this arc, Sakura started to worry very much about Sasuke’s well being. She witnessed Orochimaru marking Sasuke and saying that he was going to abandon the village to seek power to achieve his revenge. Salura was the first one to sense that he was going to leave Konoha, because she knew he would do anything to achieve his revenge, but instead of abandon Sasuke because he was a problematic person, as the good and kind girl she is, she started wanting help him more and more.
And look, the first person that comes to Sasuke’s mind when the curse seal is about to dominate him.
Her feelings for him became an unwavering love, that later on faced harsh situations, but even so it endured. Sakura’s love for Sasuke can be compared to Naruto and Sasuke friendship: both Naruto and Sakura never gave up on Sasuke.
At this time, Sakura was already a dear and precious person to Sasuke (Sasuke himself said this). When they fought Gaara, Sasuke was ready to give his own life to make time for Naruto to save her. He compared Naruto and Sakura to his family. Sakura was so dear to him that when he told her that Naruto was the responsible for saving her and she turned to Naruto smiling to him, Sasuke became clearly jealous. He even reminded of her smile later and seemed to be sad because he wasn’t capable to save her. Not to mention that when she hugged him, he didn’t feel bothered, and we know that Sasuke doesn’t like physical contact. He feels unpleased by any other girl who touches him, except Sakura.
When Sasuke is about to leave the village, he thinks of Naruto AND Sakura. He was sad for leaving, but as he said, he would do anything for his revenge.
And finally, the famous confession scene. At this time, Sakura’s love for Sasuke already had grown to a very deep kind of love and she already knew that Sasuke was going to leave. This moment is the beginning of Sakura’s winter: Sasuke was ready to sink deep into darkness to achieve his revenge.and was wanting to sever his bonds with Naruto and Sakura. We all know that it was what led Sasuke to try to kill them later, he was ready to eliminate everything on his way.
At that night, Sasuke was clearly avoiding Sakura (probably because he was afraid to falter his resolve and he was in pain to leave her too). When she asked him if he remembered their first conversation, he said “No, I don’t remember that”. But he was lying, because soon after he called her annoying again.
And then, we have the “Thank you”. Sasuke was truly grateful to Sakura. And look at how he goes to her back to thank her. He was leaving once and for all to finally sink into darkness, so he couldn’t look at her eyes, he couldn’t respond her feelings. All he could say was a “thank you” to everything Sakura has done for him.
When Sasuke left, Sakura decided to become stronger to save him. Sakura was a very weak person in part 1, she wasn’t even capable to defend herself (Sasuke was the one responsible for always saving her), but in part 2 she became really strong. Again, Sasuke was acting as Sakura’s driving force. The fight she had against Sasori, for example, was motivated for her love for Sasuke and determination to find the love of her life. Sasuke, even if he has done a lot of shit, always was the main reason for Sakura’s development. That’s why I facepalm when I see a lot of supposed “Sakura’s fans” claiming that Sasuke ruins her development. Are you really serious? We read the same manga?
Now I will talk about the infamous Land of Iron moment. The scene when Sasuke tried to kill Sakura is very controversial and many people use it as an argument to prove that SasuSaku is an abusive relationship or to say that Sasuke never cared about Sakura and SS was an asspull.
But first, I want to talk about abusive relationships. I was a witness of a REAL abusive relationship (my grandmother was in a true abusive relationship). The people who claim that SasuSaku is an abusive relationship don’t even know the concept of abuse. An abusive person tries to take control over the partner by physical force or psychological torture. And Sasuke never injured physically Sakura, even if they tried to kill each other. He never tortured or manipulated her to take control over her. So please, stop saying bullshit.
At that time, Sakura was determined to kill Sasuke to stop him. She loves him so much that she was willing to kill Sasuke to avoid him to sink even more into darkness. And as we know, at that time, Sasuke was totally out of his own. The real Sasuke would never act like that and Kishimoto reinforces this idea by giving to us many panels where Sakura says “This isn’t the real Sasuke”, “The old Sasuke-kun would never do something like that”. Even Karin said that he wasn’t the same person anymore.
Sakura arrived there with a poisoned kunai to kill Sasuke. She tried to do it two times before he attacked her. If you are a dangerous criminal and your former comrade tries to stab you with a poisoned kunai, what would you do? Remain stopped? Not to mention the fact that Sasuke was crazy and blinded by his hatred.
Sakura wasn’t a defenseless victim. She put herself in risk when she tried to kill Sasuke.
In chapter 675, we have Kakashi reaffirming Sakura’s love for Sasuke. He said that her love changed (she was not a fangirl anymore) and stated that her goal was to save Sasuke from darkness.
In chapter 676, Sakura has the “wonderful” idea of attacking Madara alone. Sasuke showed himself worried along with Naruto (we can see the exclamation mark pointing to both of them) and rushed to save her. Sakura was impaled by Madara’s weapon and we see Sasuke pointing his sword to Sakura, so probably he was going to cut Madara’s weapon. But Madara’s invisible wall repelled them and they fell in different directions, what led Sakura to think that Sasuke didn’t care for her.
During the Infinite Tsukuyomi, Sakura asked Sasuke what was happening outside. He replies that she couldn’t do anything at the moment. I see many people saying “OMG he abused her, he called her useless!!!!!” First of all, where is the panel showing Sasuke saying “You’re useless”? He was being rude, it’s truth, but he was stating the true. During the war arc he was pretending to be an asshole with everybody.
In chapter 680, Sasuke said said that he just saved Kakashi and Sakura because they happened to be next Naruto. And we know it’s a complete bullshit.
Naruto notices that what Sasuke said was bullshit and remembered him the bridge scene (this chapter is a parallel to the bridge scene, it’s called “Once Again”, because once again Sasuke is giving an excuse for “accidentally” saving the others). Look at how his eyes were covered. When Sasuke is hiding his feelins or lying, Kishi always covers Sasuke’s eyes.
And also, in chapter 698 Sasuke admits that he has always considered Team 7 as a second family. It proves that Sasuke saved Kakashi and Sakura because he cares for them, because he considers them as part of his “second family”.
In chapter 685, Sasuke is again the main reason for Sakura development. She took the spotlight in this chapter, her love for him led Sakura to be amazing like this (the same way she was when she fought Sasori). She gave all of the chakra she accumulated for years to save her man and screamed like crazy in desperation to save him. In part 1 Sasuke was the main responsible for saving Sakura in almost all the missions they had, but now Sakura is the one who saves his ass.And in the end, he held her against his body, exchanged looks with her and thanked her (and Obito).
Let’s go to Sakura’s second confession. Sakura remembered the “Thank you”. She knew it meant something.
And again Sasuke says “You’re annoying”. He remembered everything and wanted her to know this. Look at his sad smile in this panel. Probably he was regreting what he was going to do next.
After Sakura fainted, Kakashi starts to explain how much Sakura wanted to save Sasuke from darkness and said that she loved him so much that it was breaking her heart. The first thing that comes to his mind is his family. Sasuke loved them so much that when he lost them, he became this broken person that is afraid to love again and pushes away those dear to him. Sakura reminds him of his family.
About the genjutsu, it was indeed a harsh genjutsu. But in chapter 694 we discovered Sasuke’s intentions.
Sasuke wanted everybody to hate him. To achieve his goal, he couldn’t have any bond neither accept Sakura’s love. It kinda explains why he cast that genjutsu showing him kiling her. It wasn’t because he hates her or he didn’t care for her. It also explains why he was acting like a jerk to Team 7, pretending not to care for Kakashi and Sakura and being sassy to them all.
Finally, after Naruto beated Sasuke to put sense into him, he apologized. I see many people saying “How could Sakura forgive him with a simple ‘sorry’ after all he did?”. Considering that is Sasuke who is apologizing, considering the look in his eyes while apologizing and the fact that he didn’t apologize to Naruto (and he did 10 times worse to Naruto) but even though Naruto forgave him, I don’t know why people are complaining. He finally recognized that he was wrong all this time, he is redeemed now, Naruto helped him to find his place in the world. Now Sasuke will stop to push away the ones precious to him and will accept Naruto’s friendship and Sakura’s love.
Then, we have a huge time skip, considering that Kakashi’s face is already carved in the stone and Sakura’s hair is longer. Sasuke and Sakura seemed to be very comfortable around each other, what makes me think that they spent a lot of time together during the time skip. And many people are saying that her character development was ruined because she asked Sasuke to go with him. I would like to ask you: why it ruins her character development? She loves him, they already resolved their issues, so what’s the problem?
Sasuke pokes her forehead and says he will see her when he comes back. This gesture is very signifcant to him, Itachi used to do this to show affection for Sasuke and now Sasuke does the same gesture to Sakura. And then he thank her again, but unlike the first time he left, he was looking to her eyes. He doesn’t have a reason to push her away, he isn’t afraid to show affection and love anymore. Now he can accept her love into his life.
The truth is that SasuSaku was meant to happen since the very beginning. Sakura’s driving force always was her love for Sasuke, he was the main reason for her development, so I can’t stand when people say that her love for Sasuke ruins all of her development. The reason why I like this pairing so much is because it’s a story about an ordinary girl that falls in love with a broken boy who went through many cruel things in life and because of this he sunk deep into darkness. This fact led the girl to become stronger on her own, because this girl hasn’t any kekkei genkai, isn’t from any noble clan, neither got any power up. Her love endured and surpassed all the bad things she went through. She did amazing things to save the boy she loves, and even so people still saying that it ruins her character development. About Sasuke, he always cared for Sakura, and it’s undeniable. He started to create a bond with her during the Forest of Death arc, but he couldn’t allow it grow to love. He had a priority: his revenge. The Uchihas are known to have a strong power of love, but when they lose the ones they love, this strong love turns into an even stronger hatred. Sasuke himself stated that he had to sever his bonds to achieve his goal. But in the end, his eyes were finally opened by Naruto and the Indra’s curse was broken, he became able to accept love again. Hagoromo’s words became true: “…because I’m praying that this time it will be hate that transforms into love…”.
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