Sakura Mocked Naruto For Being An Orphan!
I’ve debated many anti-Sakura fans over the years, and there are a few arguments against her that seem to be so common and often said by those who dislike her, that I’ve decided to rebuttal the most common ones with my own knowledge on the stories events. I’m starting with one that has been bothering me for a while.
The argument is that Sakura mocked Naruto for having no family in Chapter 3, when she was speaking to Sasuke about Naruto’s behavior. Reading back on this scene, I’ve found that it was really taken out of context.
This scene starts with Sakura speaking in regard to Naruto’s behavior. She talks about how Naruto just keeps causing fights with Sasuke, and she goes on to say that Naruto hasn’t had a normal childhood, hence why he is able to do whatever he wants and cause trouble, because he doesn’t have parents to tell him what to do. Sakura speaks about how lucky Naruto was, being all alone, without parental restrictions, and if it were her doing the things he did, she’d never be able to get away with it. These are not the words of someone who is mocking a person for their situation.
If anything, she is speaking as if his situation was fortunate. You don’t go around calling someone’s situation lucky, if your intention is to mock them; which incidentally, wasn’t the point of this scene at all. The scene was not about her mocking Naruto, as Sakura thought he had a childhood that allowed him to do whatever he wanted, with no parental restrictions, and that someone like her would never be able to do this kind of stuff.
Rather, this scene was portraying one thing: Sakura did not understand the pain of loneliness.
At that time, she had only considered the benefits of him being without authority figures in his life. Based on her thoughts about Naruto in this case, it is reasonable to believe that she likely never considered that because Naruto didn’t have parents, he would be lonely.
This scene was supposed to show the audience, Sakura’s ignorance to the pain of Naruto’s loneliness, and her arrogance to believe that she knew about his situation so well, that she could say these words as if it were the truth. Sasuke himself grew annoyed at her for this and speaks on it himself.
“All alone….the feeling of a parent yelling at you, is nowhere near what he feels…”
Sasuke is telling her that her idea that Naruto is at all fortunate to not have parents to tell him what to do or yelling at you, is nothing like what Naruto is going through. Naruto is all alone. He doesn’t have anyone to tell him what to do, but he also doesn’t have anyone by his side, or to care about him.
It’s a loss that Sakura hadn’t ever really considered, nor understood, because she herself has a family and cannot relate, therefore she never looked outside her own perspective. He calls her annoying for her words and walks away.
This scene is again referenced in chapter 181, where Sakura thinks back to that time, when Sasuke got mad at her for her words. And when he’s preparing to leave, she speaks about how he taught her about the pain of loneliness.
“Sasuke, do you plan on being alone again? You were the one who told me about the pain of loneliness! Right now, I feel that pain!”
Like several other character development moments when it comes to Sakura and her relationship with her teammates, this particular scene was called back from chapter 3, and that scene where Sakura supposedly “mocked” Naruto.
But in fact, it was the beginning of Sakura’s journey to understanding the pain of loneliness. And she had begun to by the end of Part I and throughout Part II. That’s what the scene was about.
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