Board Thread:Naruto Gaiden/@comment-1018594-20150610113403/@comment-734582-20150614202344

Matako wrote:

Karin is not the American Psycho though. I'm somewhat hesitant to reply to this in light of plenty of threads of this very nature. But Karin already displayed that she would keep Sasuke's stuff. A piece of cloth with some DNA on it would be enough. Also, I don't ship anything of any kind (well, other than that Naruto-Sasuke in my mind would've made a lot of sense), and i don't care what others think about said shipping, or their motives. You clearly don't have any distrust over the situation, but i simply do. So, i'm simply being conservative over the whole thing.

The things that bother me most about the situation are:


 * ChouChou. Every reference to her quest of "finding her real father" gives me the suspicion that it's Kishimoto mocking us for doubting Sakura as the real mother (after all, her parentage is obvious, and established in 700).


 * The back and forth in the episodes. Naruto is surprised at the reveal, but he would've noticed pregnancy as i noted. I don't care about vague excuses: I am half a country from (busy!) friends and meet them *in person* more than once a year. They're also the new Sanin, so any rumor of pregnancy would be obvious, and any lack thereof in combination with suddenly appearing children would be extremely suspicous.


 * The entire circumstance of the reveal, with some vague sample from "probably" karin, with an apathetic and yet unsure Suigetsu. It smells like red herring all over. Sure, it's a clear strategy by Kishimoto to keep fans guessing, but until we have certainty i'm not gonna lean either way.

Lastly, what bothers me is that neither option makes sense, even though Karin's option gives some vague excuse and life lesson perhaps (a slight advantage over Sakura). I'm still of the opinion that we lack crucial information, because the situation right now is almost of Faulty Towers-style unnecessary drama over nothing. Karin being the mother raises ton of questions (she's not dead, so she could obviously care for her herself. nobody knows her face from the War so blending in should be easy. She can be pardoned for saving Ninja Lucifer since Sasuke's much worse crimes were too. etc), Sakura raises tons of questions (why the secrecy? why the confusion?). If it's a simple case of adoption, then *shocking reveal* just tell Sarada sakura's not her biological mother but Karin can't care for her.

'''TLDR: All my problems with the situation can thus be summarized with two short phrases:


 * why all the trouble?
 * Too many uncertainties'''

No matter how you put it though, Karin being the mother is a fact. Unless we get any kind of canon indicators that something could have gone wrong during the test, it remains a solid fact. I hate the argument itself, but here i go. Obito being dead was a fact until he turned out to be alive. I support the Wiki's stance (that is, reporting as-is from the Manga), but a fact is verifiable. Calling it a fact is a (acceptable) stretch in my opinion, calling it a "solid fact" is a step too far, and definitely not true. It's a fact that a dna test, with a sample that Suigetsu assumed was Karin's, yielded a match with Sarada. How far this goes to proving who's the real mother is hotly debated, but it's not a confirmation of anything. It's evidence on a pile of existing evidence, and right now Karin's pile is higher. To be Continued in the manga.