Anti Ending - Tumblr Posts
Kishimoto was pretty consistent towards drawing Sakura’s confessions to Sasuke and Sasuke’s reaction to Sakura. Sakura always whining or snotting it up. He always paid a lot of attention to drawing Sasuke, apparently his favourite character to draw.
The thing to notice here is Sasuke’s body language towards Sakura every time she confesses to him. Always the same.
Sasuke’s stance is always the same. His back to Sakura, telling her off in very straight terms over his shoulder. His expression towards her is always openly insulting, with either a glare or smirk. This is typically the body language for casual dismissal and feeling completely unthreatened. Shown towards someone unimportant and insignificant.
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It happens again:
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There:
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And again:
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It also happens when Kakashi is talking to him about Sakura’s confession, but Sasuke doesn’t give a flying fig about Kakashi either. Can’t even bother to turn back and acknowledge the sentiment of these highly emotionally charged words. And so :
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But when it comes to Naruto… :
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And….turn!
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Again :
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He would always acknowledge Naruto. No matter how overwhelmed, pissed off or angry he is, he would always listen to what Naruto has to say. He may not agree with Naruto, but he would make time. He would of course lie to himself that it doesn’t matter :
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But poor boy just can’t help himself :
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And there he goes again..
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He. Can’t. Help. It.
He wants to hear him out, no matter how much he might delude himself.
I keep hearing that Sasuke and Sakura’s dynamic was made to look bad in anime, but that in the manga they are pretty romantic.
Are they though? (Shakes head dejectedly..)
Anyway, Kishimoto knew what he was doing.