Ok, so since Gaiden is being animated this stupid argument has come up again so I feel the need to explain a few things.
First people are mocking Sakura for not being sure if Sasuke wore glasses or not. First of all, no on really knew Sasuke! To be honest his only real relationships as a child was his family. Yeah he ran into Naruto from time to time, but the two didn’t really start interacting until after the Uchiha massacre. On top of that Sakura and Ino both had crushes on him, but so did all the female population their age. He didn’t interact with any of them, only Sakura after they became a team together. We know Sasuke had bad eyes, and truthfully he probably should have had glasses. Remember when he was going blind? That’s why he took Itachi’s eyes. Sasuke left the village at the age of 12, he didn’t even really start interacting with the others until that age anyway! Then they didn’t really see him again until he was on the opposite side of them around the age of 16. After that he traveled a lot. So yeah, no one really could say for sure ‘Sasuke did/didn’t wear glasses when he was little’ because no one really knew him.
Secondly, we are back to the shitty father argument again.
So Sasuke left the village to originally see the world for himself. Sakura eventually went out to find him. At this point Sasuke had realized that team seven were always there for him, even when he didn’t realize it, and that Sakura truly did love him. He realized he had grown to love her to. When they traveled together they grew closer and eventually got married. They returned to the village to raise Sarada.
Then the issue with the stupid white zetsu’s reappear. Sasuke leaves the village for two reasons, both stated at some point or another! The first is because he is honestly the only person who can actually do this freaking mission. After all the shit they did to get peace Sasuke didn’t wan to see them all thrown into war all over again. If he was the only one who could do this mission to protect his family then he was going to do it.
The second reason was stated in the novels and the anime. It was even implied in the manga. Almost every situation with Sasuke was someone trying to use him to get to his eyes. Orochimaru, Obito, Madara...they all wanted his eyes. That threat of people coming after him for his eyes isn’t going to end now, especially that he has more powerful eyes. Just look at Shin. If he stayed in the village it would endanger the village and his family. It may hurt him to stay away, but it would hurt a hundred times more to loose Sakura or Sarada.
Then there is the argument that he is a horrible father for attacking Sarada in the tower. Do I really have to remind people that he was just ATTACKED by a boy around Sarada’s age wearing the Uchiha crest with the Sharingan eyes? Like really, he is in an isolated place that only Naruto should know about. He was attacked by people with his family crest and an ability that only his family should posses. He even sent word to Naruto and agreed to meet with him because Sasuke DOES NOT understand what is going on there.
All of a sudden a girl around the same age as the boy comes into the tower that NO ONE should know he is in, wearing the crest with the same eyes, looking for HIM! Of course hes’ not going to hesitate to attack! Especially because there was no doubt that Sarada would be back at home, with her mother, blissfully unaware that he was anywhere near the village.
Naruto, Sakura, and the entire village knew Sasukes’ stance on this issue. Sasuke was not going to endanger his family. He couldn’t. So he kept his contact with the village at a minimum. There was no reason for him to believe that Naruto would say ‘hey, Sasuke is in a bad situation right now and is being attacked by people who should not exist right now, you know what this situation could use? His daughter. Let’s drag her into this.’ He never imagined that Naruto would drag children into this.
To be fair Naruto didn’t, but even Naruto didn’t expect the girls to follow him. Now Shikamaru and Naruto each had a chance to eliminate this situation. However both of them knew what it was like to lose their fathers. They wanted Sarada and Sasuke to have that meeting. Naruto even felt guilty about putting Sasuke on the mission in the first place. So when they saw an opportunity to let the two meet, of course they both took it. If Sarada hadn’t followed Naruto, there was no way she would have been out there.
So yeah, the poor guy has been on high alert for years now, doing missions for all five kages if you read the novels. The enemy also seems to know him too, so he wouldn’t be surprised if they knew what his daughter looked like and made one of their own appear to be like her to get Sasuke to lower his guard. Yet Sasuke didn’t hesitate because there was NO REASON for Sarada to be there!
When he realized that it was actually his daughter he was stunned and horrified. She shouldn’t have been there, how dare Naruto drag her into it, why the hell did Naruto let her come, he just terrified her, this was not the way their first meeting should have gone. Those were probably all the thoughts that ran through his head.
So yeah, I don’t understand why Sasuke and Sakura are suddenly horrible parents. Sakura is working by herself to raise a daughter and run a hospital. Of course she’s having a hard time. Sasuke is working on a long mission, protecting the village and most importantly his family. I don’t see why that makes them bad parents!