Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31492005-20180306150245/@comment-33731988-20180410042020

One-sided or not, it's called fidelity. Sasuke was just not in his right mind. Remember in one episode Sasuke asked Naruto to give Sakura a message, saying that he's sorry for everything. Which means, that he regrets everything he ever did to Sakura, and that shows that he has feelings of love for her. In fact, I haven't seen him say thank you to anyone else but Sakura.

You're right, Sakura didn't get enough of the spotlight that she deserved. Kishimoto said so himself that he's not good with writing female characters. Sakura's hulk smash punches are not lame at all. Remember that time when the ten-tails army attacked and Sakura had already mastered her Byakugou Seal? She practically destroyed the whole thing and Naruto was scared out of his life! In fact, according to databooks and interviews, Sakura is the strongest kunoichi, second to Kaguya. This is not me speaking, this is the freaking databooks. I think she even surpassed Tsunade in terms of strength and healing. Also, Sakura's falling into the background was because of Kishimoto not being able to decide between Hinata or Sakura being the heroine.

And plus, you can't really just judge one character by what they do wrong. Just like you can't judge a person by their faults alone. At least she knew eventually that she had almost nothing and needed to gain something to be able to fight.