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Going back to the canon that we care about (or were forced to sit through, at any rate), I have NS quiestioinis. What does it take for Sakura to stop feeling like a third wheel (given the context of that snow scene we don't necessarily love and then how she got KO'd at the end...)? And what does it take for her to convince Naruto that she's for real? That we can have nice things :')

Lol oh if we must.

To answer your first question? Do you want the meta answer or the in-story answer? Cos they're both different and the same but Imma be snarkier in one of them lol.

What would it take for Sakura to stop feeling like a third wheel?

Better fucking writing. Better utilisation of the main female character and less Kishi choking on Sasuke and the Uchiha's collective dick.

It's a recurring problem in the series from my perspective, too much focus on one character to the extreme detriment of the entire cast. Even Naruto's story suffers for it.

If less time had been spent on the truly convoluted story of the Uchiha we could have spent more time with the rest of the characters and given them more time to shine.

Sakura, in text, is the successor to Tsunade, she is certifiably a badass. She IS the equal to the boys and I will fight you right now if you don't think she could beat Sasuke 'I've never won a fight without caveats' Uchiha in a fight if she went all out.

The fact she is relegated to somehow not being their equal is bad writing at best and blatant sexism at worst. And yes, I will always be angry about it.

Now in the context of actual story?

Show her fighting alongside Naruto more and keeping pace. She could, we know she could. I would have put more scenes in where Naruto and Sakura fought as a team, trained as a team, worked as a team. Have them talk about things more like actual friends do.

Really cement that bond you know?

While I would still have the final fight between Naruto and Sasuke, because goddamn it if it isn't thematically necessary, I would have shown Sakura fighting like hell to catch up with them.

This would not be a Sakura who would stand back and let them have their pissing contest without trying to intervene. We saw that would be her approach in their Genin days after all.

And for your second and more lovely answer having question?

What does it take for her to convince Naruto she's for real?

Well in my works typically? A screamed confession, a hell of a kiss and then just hours of sex lol.

But I think the first one is the key part there. Sakura coming up to him all shy and bashful was very out of character, this is not a woman who is known for being demure, and we love her for it lol.

There should be screaming, tears, pleas for his stupid arse to fucking listen and 'oh my god why aren't you kissing me yet?!'s lol.

Girl is dramatic and it would be that which would make the dumbass that is Naruto Uzumaki to take her seriously lol.

Cos it'd be in character of her tsundere arse lol.

Thanks for asking!

All I'm seeing in these replies you're getting is a bunch of deflection from your original point. Nobody is talking about Orochimaru, Kabuto, or the other villians in Naruto. In this post Sasuke Uchiha is the one being discussed, not the rest of them, so it makes no sense to keep playing this "but what about so and so and what they did" game.

A criminal by definition is someone who has committed an unlawful act. Terrorism is the usage of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, usually for political reasons. The fact of the matter is that Sasuke meets the criteria of both those terms. He became a criminal of Konoha when he killed their acting Hokage Danzo. He became a terrorist of Konoha(and the shinobi world) when he affiliated himself with an organization that invaded their village and attempted to abduct their jinchuuriki. He further associated himself with terrorism when he attempted to kill Konoha's current kage(and the other kages), enslave the tailed beasts, and basically use his power to force Konoha(and the rest of the world) to succumb to his vision of what the world should be with no regard to any of their opinions on this matter.

Even if these acts of terror in the end remained only attempts thanks to Naruto, that's still considered punishable. Criminal attempt is a thing that you can be charged for, especially when the attempted crimes are such high level crimes as Sasuke's one. (Seriously, try a fraction of the things Sasuke did in real life and see where that lands you. Hope you have a blonde friend in high places and an angry alien mom you partly defeated to get you absolved of all your wrongdoings.) It is for these reasons that Sasuke was imprisoned for a time by Konoha, stop acting obtuse about this.

And before someone starts writing up some reply talking about the Uchiha Massacre and Konoha's part in it, just stop right there. You can acknowledge the horrors of the Uchiha Massacre and Konoha's role in it and still condemn what Sasuke did and was planning to do. A select few members of Konoha's government being implicit in an inhumane crime does not mean that there's an anything goes rule when it comes to crimes committed towards an entire village of people. Sasuke was wronged by Konoha in his past but he was also in the wrong for what he planned to do to Konoha in his future. He can be both a victim and an oppressor, it doesn't have to be one or the other.

So with all this being said, is there anyone who can explain to me what was so awful and unforgivable about Sasuke's imprisonment? It's not like it was some Greek mythology level of eternally cruel punishment. He was imprisoned for what couldn't be more than a few months and then released to do as he pleased, with a little admonishment also given by Kakashi. He then decided to go on that redemption journey, Konoha didn't make him. I don't even see what's so bad about the filler scene added in the anime. Sasuke is a powerful shinobi with some powerful dojutsu, it's only common sense that they'd try to restrict him. And we all know that if Sasuke wanted to he could break those restrictions easily. I'm just not seeing the outrage fandom is having for what is Sasuke essentially getting a time out.

Like, my pet annoyance with fans of Naruto and more in particular fans of Sasuke, is the whole ‘he didn’t deserve to be imprisoned’ thing.

You need to understand that even though the show concentrates on this very small group of ninja there are thousands of people in the Hidden Leaf.

What Sasuke does threatens all of them, including children. Saying he doesn’t deserve to be punished despite completely planning to destroy the village at some point, killing an active hokage and attempting to keep the entire world under his control whilst aiming to kill everyone powerful enough to stop him is fucking ridiculous.

I get he has reasons. Reasons are not excuses. To an average person in that world he posed a massive fucking threat to everybody and what do the officials do to stop this powerful, fucking God-like ninja who has only one true equal? Well, kinda just hope he’s going to keep his word about changing his mind,

tldr; Sasuke is a criminal, stop letting your love of him blind you to the fact that he is very dangerous and has done things that in the real world you don’t get away with because you ‘changed your mind’.

tldr; stop treating Sasuke like he’s your ~baby~ who can do no wrong and Konoha is evil for punishing him.