Board Thread:Versus Debates/@comment-32975078-20171026223245/@comment-734582-20171104104353

EquinoxWizard wrote: And if young sasuke saw his futere self, would he be just motionless with his jaw open? Or would he freak out? An interesting question, i missed this one earlier.

Quite frankly it would depend heavily on what state of Sasuke we're talking about. The most profound effect would be for pre-academy and Curse Seal Sasuke.

Young Sasuke was playing second fiddle to his brother, living during a political storm he had no idea of while he couldn't begin to understand how his parent and brother felt, and why they said what they said. We saw the profound effect it had on him: Comparisons to Itachi fed his insecurity and determination of power. He was strong for his age, way stronger than he got credit for but it was still nothing to Itachi. If he could see his older self, he'd know that his strength was True and that he would indeed become a fine and powerful shinobi. So it's pretty much a given that he'd avoid his fall to darkness and withstand Orochimaru's, Itachi's and Obito's influence and stay with Konoha. He'd almost certainly be the Shinobi he'd dreamed to be.

The flipside is Curse Seal Sasuke, who was obsessed with power and killing Itachi, who basically fell prey to everything described above: he was powerful for his age, but compared himself to his brother whose progress was just ridiculous by any standard. If he could've seen the power he had innately, he wouldn't have doubted to kill Naruto and almost certainly would've faced Itachi with the MS already in his eyes, the same insanity that took him in his MS form already deeply rooted. He'd go so far into the deep end that he would never be able to recover.