It is one of the most beloved ninja anime ever to exist.
However, many fans also care a great deal about the relationship aspect of the anime.
After all, by the start ofBoruto,most of the main ninja are paired off and have children.
Fans have debated couplings for years, speculating who fits best together.
By the end, though, he seems to have changed his tune and become much softer towards her.
Eventually, byBoruto, they have married and have a daughter, Sarada Uchiha.
However, fans talk a lot about this coupling for more reasons than rooting for them.
Many also question the logic of their pairing.
After all, they have a lot of history, and not all of it is good.
Some were even surprised to see them marry at all.
Sasuke was a fan favorite anti-hero/rootable villain with little time to worry about romance.
Yet here he is, married to the girl who loved him for far longer than he deserved.
The idea of it sounds kind of romantic, so why do fans remain skeptical?
The two cherished their friendship.
However, as they aged, boys started to interest them.
This broke both girls' hearts and was an overreaction to the situation.
They didn’t need to lose their friendship over a boy.
However, during the Five Kage Summit Arc, she asks to join him.
At this point, he’s ended lives and done terrible things.
Her love for him eclipses her morals and beliefs.
Sakura wants to do good and help others, yet she was willing to forgo that for him.
That kind of devotion is unhealthy and shows how senseless her feelings for him were.
She was willing to give up who she was to be with him.
It’s hard to think any relationship can recover from that level of twisted.
By the end ofNaruto, Sasuke is the last surviving Uchiha clan member.
If he wants his family to live on, he has to produce children.
Sasuke, though, shows little to no interest in her.
His first serious interactions with her, when they first became Team 7, involve him calling her annoying.
For years, their relationship stays friendly at its best and antagonistic at its worst.
His focus becomes his revenge and his quest for power.
Sakura is irrelevant to all of that.
It makes little sense for that to be enough to constitute a marriage.
During this, they supposedly fall in love, have Sarada, and get married.
After Sarada’s birth, Sakura goes back to the village to raise her safely.
Other than thaT period, approximately a little less than a year, the couple is almost always apart.
It’s a detriment to his relationships with his wife and his daughter.
She only ever started to be kind to Naruto because he disliked her talking badly about him.
She also only ever tried to work on her abilities to show him that she was strong.
Her beliefs in becoming a good ninja were powerful, but they all warped to include Sasuke.
She only had long hair because she thought he’d like it.
This is the first and only time he shows any deeper affection towards Sakura.
Though their reconciliation is tender, their becoming a couple was terribly rushed.
They never got time to deal with these feelings.
Sakura just forgave him, and Sasuke just suddenly loved her.
Then they were married, had a kid, and that was that.
It barely made any sense to many fans.
Her husband often makes decisions that will harshly affect her without telling her.
For example, he keeps taking very long missions away from home without her input.
He refuses to let her come anywhere with him for a very long time.
Even if these decisions are meant to protect her, Sasuke stifles his wife’s individuality by making them.
This behavior hardly makes sense in a marriage.
First, she questions if Sasuke is her father because of his absence.
Eventually, she’s convinced of her parentage, but it’s still a startling issue.
Even in unique couplings, children don’t often question their parents so whole-heartedly.
It becomes a serious point of contention for Sarada.
Sasuke Attracts Admirers Despite His Cruel Indifference
More women than just Sakura loved the Uchiha heir.
The most important rivals were Ino and Karin.
Despite their devotion, Sasuke gave all three women the same treatment: cruel indifference.
He’s known to insult them, ignore them, and rebuff their advances.
This becomes more extreme, though, when noted that Sasuke has violently attacked both Karin and Sakura.
Yet both women still loved him.
Their level of devotion is absurd, particularly when it isn’t just one woman so attached to him.
It’s difficult to understand that they still adore him despite such terrible treatment.
Even years later, Karin still holds affection for him in theBorutoseries.
Sakura Forgetting What Sasuke Looks Like
When Sasuke is away, Sakura does struggle with missing him.
Unfortunately for her, he’s away far more often than he’s not.
It’s so she doesn’t forget what he looks like.
His appearance was a huge part of why she first became interested in him.
For her not to remember that only clues fans in on how ridiculously long Sasuke stays away from home.
This comes to the extreme that when running into his 12-year-old daughter, he doesn’t recognize her.
Sasuke simply says nothing to her about it.
While 12 years apart takes a toll, Sakura and Sasuke should be nowhere near this disjointed as parents.
They could at least trade pictures and give each other updates.
After all, it was something dear to him from before he lost his family.
However, his use of the gesture with his own family is overstated.
The head-poke has become his only go-to sign of affection.
A cute head-poke doesn’t replace the years he chose to not be with his family.
Sasuke’s Cool Reactions to Sakura’s Confessions
Sakura confesses her feelings to Sasuke twice.
Once, when he first tries to leave and join Orochimaru.
The second is during the Fourth Shinobi War, to encourage him to stay.
Her confessions are always said in desperation, trying to protect him or get him to stay.
Sakura pours out her heart to him.
Sasuke, however, often reacts to them coolly or with malice.
The first one he reacted to by calling her annoying.
The second time, he calls her annoying again and then literally crushes her heart with his hand.
This behavior makes sense with his personality, but hardly hers.
Otherwise, they seem instead like friends with marriage and a kid.
This hardly matches up with the deep levels of affection Sakura feels for Sasuke.
Sasuke remains with Orochimaru, but Sakura and Naruto reunite after two years apart.
The two rekindle their friendship and recreate Team 7 with Sai.
Without Sasuke, Sakura spends most of her time with Naruto.
She knows his feelings for her and knows she doesn’t reciprocate them but does it anyway.
While he’s protecting their village, he is neglecting his wife and daughter.
However, Sasuke doesn’t even do that.
After all, he must be sending word back to Naruto about missions.
This communication issue comes to a head duringa moment inSakura’s Hidden Novel.
There are rumors circulating that Sasuke could be evil again.
She wants to defend him, but she has to be honest that she doesn’t know.
She hasn’t heard enough of him to answer the question honestly.
Sakura’s Initial Obsession With Sasuke
Sakura started loving Sasuke when she was a little girl.
The crush sprang from his looks and his abilities.
She saw how he was in class and became infatuated.
Young Sakura even keeps her appearance how she thinks he might like it, not how she’d prefer.
But her love for him did begin as obsessive, possessive, and nonsensical.
Her friend mentions that she knows this is where the Uchiha couple had their first date.
Embarrassed, Sakura says it was only two and a half minutes.
However, she admits the place brings back fond memories of him.
The place clearly means a lot to her, just because she was there with Sasuke.
Yet, their first date barely lasted a few bits of dialogue.
Sasuke never seems to grow a romantic side, though and remains distant as ever.
The question isn’t even from some rival or enemy - it’s from her frustrated and confused daughter.
However, she clearly is, and it shows how fragile her connection sometimes is with Sasuke.
Sasuke Never Puts Sakura First
ThroughoutNaruto, Sakura puts Sasuke before everything.
On the opposite end, Sasuke never puts Sakura first.
Though, it seems to be the way they have decided to do things.
After the Fourth Shinobi War, Sasuke leaves town to atone for his sins.
The first time, he tells Sakura thank you and says he will come back home.
Off-screen, he comes back to visit and this time Sakura joins his journeys.
Especially when, later, he only leaves her all over again.
He had committed heinous crimes against others, including attacks, theft, deception, and taking lives.
Despite this, though, Sakura loves him.
Even though it comes true, that belief is senseless.
When he was knee-deep in his quest for power, no one mattered but him and his brother.
Neither of his two closest friends, Naruto or Sakura, would be allowed to get in his way.
If her love for him hadn’t shattered before, that moment should have done it.
However, the couple married regardless.
True love conquers even purposefully endangering a partner’s life, it seems.
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