Board Thread:Episode Discussions/@comment-1251315-20161006111632/@comment-1512913-20161010145520

There's no BS. Even though the children and teachers were nice to Sasuke, the goverment had their eyes on him, with Danzo even considering murdering Sasuke in the better case, or worse, recruit him into Root and brainwash like other orphans. The only reason no attack on Sasuke from the government happened is because of Itachi, who knew inside information that he would have leaked if they even as much as lifted a finger against Sasuke.

Second, Sasuke was indeed chasing Naruto in a way. Sasuke wanted to be like Naruto, he was just denying it to himself and running away from it, for many reasons:
 * he didn't want to put his friends into harm's way
 * he was stubborn and ashamed to admit that he was secretly envious of a local idiot, ego
 * he was focused on revenge

It's sad how so many people don't truly understand Sasuke's personality/character at all, he is well written and makes sense for the most part. The only time he didn't make sense was when he for a moment turned psycho during the Kage Summit, that really was unexplained.