SOMETIMES I GET REALLY PARANOID AND START TO THINK LIKE??
WHAT IF IT REALLY WAS ALL SOME PERFECTLY EXECUTED PLAN BY KISHIMOTO? LIKE, YOU LOOK BACK AND THERES SOOOOOOO MANY ANTI-SASUSAKU, ANTI-NARUHINA HINTS, YOU KNOW? LIKE, HOW COULD IT JUST BE COINCIDENTAL???
What if Kishimoto is just trying to tell us something?? those of us who really, truly understood Naruto, the characters and the plots and all the twists and turns.
I cant get over the bullshit with Obito. Like, you cannot convince me kishimoto honestly believed anyone gave TWO SHITS ABOUT OBITO AND YET HE FUCKING WASTED 8 GODDAM CHAPTERS GIVING OBITO HIS REDEMPTION AND LIKE?? WHY? NO ONE CARED. THAT CHAPTER SPACE COULD HAVE BEEN SPENT ON SASUSAKU OR NARUHINA DEVELOPMENT IF THAT SHIT WAS SO IMPORTANT TO THE ENDING? WHICH IT APPARENTLY WAS?
and like?
he barely gave Naruto and Sasuke’s relationship an ending at all? like i know some of you guys still like the ending that happened but i fucking hate it, its so disappointing, like omg. they fought and then we see some stuff from sasukes pov but its not anything that makes like? sense? in the grand scheme of the story? and by switching to sasukes pov at the end you totally lose NARUTO (HEY, YOU KNOW, THE UH, MAIN. FUCKING. CHARACTER. PRECIOUS BALL OF SUNSHINE, HEARD OF HIM? TTEBAYO?) and HIS feelings and thoughts at the end and then youre left just feeling unsatisfied like? did it REALLY end if we dont know how Naruto feels about how everything played out? AND WAS THAT INTENTIONAL?? ARE WE SUPPOSED TO TAKE THAT AS AN INVITATION TO SEARCH FOR BETTER ANSWERS, MORE ANSWERS? AND BY SEARCHING ARE WE NOT SUPPOSED TO REREAD AND REWATCH AND COME TO THE ONLY CONCLUSION THAT MAKES SENSE?
THAT NARUTO AND SASUKE ARE IN LOVE, HAVE BEEN IN LOVE THE ENTIRE MANGA BUT CANNOT BE TOGETHER AND THEREFORE THEY (AND YOU, US, THE READERS) ARE LEFT UNSATISFIED BY THE END? THEY ARE PUT INTO RELATIONSHIPS THEY VERY CLEARLY DONT FEEL AS STRONGLY ABOUT AS THEY FEEL ABOUT EACH OTHER?
ARE WE NOT SUPPOSED TO ASSUME THESE THINGS, AS RATIONAL (somewhat), INVESTED FANS WHO NOT ONLY SPENT YEARS FOLLOWING THESE CHARACTERS BUT TAKE THE TIME TO THINK AND OVERTHINK THE REASONS BEHIND WHY ALL THESE CHARACTERS DO AND THINK THE WAY THEY DO??
Are we, the few who read and interpret the text as scholars instead of simply accepting what we’re given at face-value, supposed to see the truth in the convoluted, twisting and turning, ever-changing 699 chapters of Naruto? And if so, are we then put upon to fight for our cause, to share our knowledge and spread the gospel of the Hidden Truth of SasuNaru?
And if so, who is supposed to listen? And what are we to gain from the spreading this Truth? We, ourselves, will never gain real enlightenment and inner-peace because we will never be able to believe in our heart of hearts that WE’RE not the crazy ones. Because maybe we are, and we really were never supposed to look underneath the underneath, no matter how many hints we think we’ve found, clues and questions and illuminati-esque theories.
AND ITS SO FRUSTRATING BECAUSE YOU TRY SO HARD TO JUST SEE IT AS ALL THOSE OTHER PEOPLE DO, AS IT WAS PUT DOWN ON PAPER, BUT IT FEELS LIKE THEY ARE LOOKING AT IT THROUGH CRYSTAL-CLEAR WATER AND YOU’RE LOOKING AT IT THROUGH A KALEIDOSCOPE. BECAUSE EVERYTHING SEEMS WRONG, NO MATTER HOW YOU TRY, AND YOU TRY AND TRY TO KEEP IT SIMPLE BUT YOU NOTICE THINGS AND THEY NAG AT THE BACK OF YOUR MIND UNTIL YOU LIE AWAKE IN BED AND THINK ABOUT THEM FOR HOURS, ARGUING WITH YOURSELF ABOUT HOW WORDS AND SMILES COULD BE INTERPRETED AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU’RE SUPPOSED TO INTERPRET THEM THE WAY IT FEELS LIKE YOU ARE!!!
And then I just give up and flush it from my mind, leave it for another day. Because theres no use being paranoid and over-analyzing clues and hints that may or may not be… only one person knows the truth, and if the hints and clues are real, not just in your head like shadows in the corner of your eye as youre walking down the street, its likely that that truth will never be revealed for sure.
But that doesnt mean ill stop thinking about it completely and it doesnt mean i wont share my theories or read others’ ideas, because there IS a slim, maybe, maybe, maaaaybe chance that I’m not paranoid, and everything is much more complex than I could even begin to imagine.
Long Live SasuNaru.