Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-4271790-20141008103341/@comment-8284722-20141015183430

That's not the point I'm trying to make. We all know Naruto isn't giving up on Sasuke. And I wholeheartedly want that bond to be repaired (if it isn't pretty much every Naruto fan is going to explode). But that doesn't mean that the bond will be repaired in the last moments of Sasuke's life. In fact, you mentioned Obito, and that happened to be only a few minutes before Obito got killed. Same thing for Nagato; sure Pain had wiped out everyone and everything Naruto had ever come to love, and he was able to repair that bond, but Nagato still died right afterwards. Who's to say that the same won't happen to Sasuke?

I'd also like to bring up another theme in the series: ending the cycle of hatred. That's the whole point of Naruto's journey in the end - love overcoming hatred. And there is pretty much only one being that truly has that hatred anymore - Sasuke. Sure villains like Kabuto are still alive, but with Sasuke the last of the Uchiha (who are the very embodiment of hatred), the cycle of hatred will pretty much end with his death.