Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-9567825-20140906164559/@comment-1018594-20140909150244

Stop trying to defend Sasuke. Nobody's "hating" on him.

Let's say, for argument's sake, that he does come back to the village. Tsunade might want to forgive him, but you think the rest of the ninja world will? You know damn well the Raikage still wants to Lariat his head off for attacking Kumo and trying to capture B.

He's beyond redemption. Nobody's deifying Danzo here. He saw himself as the one one who could successfully bring peace to Konoha, and so he did any and everything he could to bring himself into the position to make it possible. And he did have some valid points: If Hiruzen had killed Orochimaru back when he was first found out, imagine how much conflict could have been avoided. When Tsunade sent out a messenger toad for Naruto, Danzo didn't kill it because he wanted to make Tsunade look weak as a Hokage: what if Naruto wasn't strong enough to beat Pain? They just handed Kurama to him on a silver platter.

Sasuke literally showed up about two hours ago and said "I'm gonna be Hokage and change the world so that everyone remembers the Uchiha's sacrifice". Any way you try to put it, it doesn't change the fact that he's an international criminal, and just like Obito, even if he did help save the world, a couple minutes of heroics won't make up for all the crimes and murders he's committed.