I donāt like this scene at all. There were so many things wrong with his character and words that I genuinely cannot call this character Sasuke Uchiha.
There was a time Sasuke wanted to kill his older brother for massacreing his clan. Few years later he learns that his Brother Itachi, was a puppet for Konoha. They orchestrated a plan to wipe the Uchiha out because they planned a coup due to being discriminated against and oppressed.
Due to all of those events and the information being told to Sasuke, he wanted revolution. He wanted to reform Konoha and the world to be better and less racist.
That is why he told everyone in the war that he wanted to be Hokage. He wanted to actually reform the village. He wanted the village to stop being fascist.
His vision was not warped. Not in the slightest. But the reason he thought it was warped is because of Naruto and everyone else.
Everyone from Konoha and Naruto were so warped by the Will of Fire that they couldnāt even let a genocide victim have his own thoughts and opinions that didnāt align with the Will of Fire.
Sasukeās revolution was so realistic. He was a genocide victim due to a fascist village, and then the kids who were warped by the fascist villages ideology then proceeded to chase and or try and kill him because he didnāt agree with it and wanted to change it.
Naruto and Sakura were never his friends. No matter how much they cared about him. Even their stans donāt understand Sasuke. Sakura and Naruto were constantly trying to change Sasukeās outlook on the village. They never even tried to understand him. Sasukeās clan, his people, his heritage and culture, were literally killed off and Naruto and Sakura only wanted him back in the village because they were fucking lonely.
Naruto can relate to Sasukeās loneliness. He canāt relate to his clan being killed of by his own brother. Sakura canāt relate to Sasuke at all either. And because neither of them can relate nor understand him being a genoicide victim, they tried and succeeded in changing him so they do.
The illusion of the Will of Fire dates back to the war between the Senju and Uchiha. Tobirama was warped by it to the point that he segregated and discriminated against the Uchiha. Hashirama was warped by it to the point he didnāt even try and stop Tobirama. Hiruzen was warped by it to the point that he literally let Danzo organize a plan that murdered almost every Uchiha.
Even some of the fucking Uchiha, were warped by it. Shisui, Kagami, Itachi. They never thought twice about the Will of Fire. Itachi and Shisui thought the fucking coup was bad, but murdering their people would be fine.
As long as everyone aligns with the damn ideology of the village, no one will get hurt or killed.
That is how bad Sasukeās view on the village is warped. That, is what Naruto did to him. He made him go back on his revolution, something that wouldāve helped Konoha and the world to stop letting racism, segregation, discrimination, and fascism against clans deemed unfit, unbalanced and dangerous, be gotten away with.
His own damn team, Taka were brainwashed to a point as well. Maybe not as bad as Sasuke, because I guarantee that if Sasuke gave them the word to start the revolution again, theyād be outa that village under a half an hour. But to the point they barely see anything wrong with it.
The people in Taka understood Sasuke.
Jugo was considered a monster, he destroyed villages and the people around him because of his uncontrollable rage due to his unique ability. After Orochimaru researches his clans ability, he then experimented on him.
Suigetsu wanted to have the title of the āSeven Ninja Swordsman Of The Mistā with his brother. His brother then died after becoming one, and after that Suigetsu became Orochimaruās experiment.
Karin was also a victim of a massacre. Her clan was massacred and she moved to the village of grass with her mother. After her mother died, she picked up her work and did whatever the people told her to do. Then the village she was living in was destroyed and burned down. After that, Orochimaru found her and she became a subordinate of him.
What Iām trying to say is, Team Taka can understand and connect to Sasuke on a few different levels. Naruto and Sakura couldnāt. They couldnāt understand what it meant to be a victim of a massacre, they couldnāt understand what it meant to be experimented on (even tho it was later, the curse seal was still a huge part of Sasuke for a long time). They literally couldnāt understand it.
Yes optimism is great. Iām glad Sasuke is more optimistic now. But pointing him towards the right path? He was doing what he thought was right, and most likely wouldāve been. He wanted to change the Ninja world for the better. Yeah he had anger in his heart, yeah he wanted to destroy Konoha, but what he actually wanted to do is reform it.
This is why I hate this scene so much. This is why I canāt consider Boruto Canon. Scenes like this are what make me hate Boruto.