Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24098614-20140411233703/@comment-5832352-20140416145955

Generally isn't more about crimes and punishment? Sasuke's known crimes - Defecting from his village - Assaulting shinobi from various villages (notable Leaf shinobi and Killer B) - Accomplice in Orochimaru's experiments - Attacking the Leaders of 6 nations at a summit - Killing Danzo

- Defection - that is an internal matter to the Hidden Leaf. They would determine what is considered "appropriate". If the Kage considers his punishment has been served, then the rest of the military will need to go with it. nothing says individuals need to be happy with it. - Assualt cases - most of the seen fights were against Kakashi, Naruto, Sakura, Sai, and Yamato. Most of them are also wanting him back. Killer B's attitudes ... he'd probably shrug it off. - Attacking the leaders - probably a mixed bag. seeing as most of his crimes were against the Leaf, they would probably consider his punishment an internal matter to the Leaf and simply suggest something appropriate be done. however, the Raikage did lose an arm in his fight. - we do not know how involved Sasuke was involved with the warped experiments done on people, other than a few instances of rounding up escaped prisoners. it is likely there is few left who knew any level of involvement, and since Orochimaru was resurrected, he could always just say Sasuke was never involved and no 1 would know if it was truth or lie. - killing Danzo - probably the most justified killing in the storyline, but he was the appointed leader of the Leaf at the time.

I don't see a good scenario for Sasuke. The easiest solution is death fighting for the greater good. Getting killed by Madara or self sacrifice sort of thing. This lets every character deal with him in their own way without getting into messy politics. Another would be banishment and Persona non Grata in every region. He would not be welcome anywhere and would always have the "if you ever set foot in, we will execute/imprison you". It would be a way of avoiding issues and allow Sasuke to spend the rest of his life finding his own way. Maybe even going back to reform the Hidden Sound or Pain's/Obito's Akatski (sp?).