Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31492005-20180306150245/@comment-33731988-20180310105553

I don't ship SasuSaku, but I do know that it was genuine love. Love isn't always about blushing and fainting, it's also about commitment and fidelity. During everything that happened, Sakura continued to love Sasuke even when he tried to kill her. Sakura accepted him the way he was, his violence, his hatred, all of his dark sides and still loved him. Sure, she is always fangirling and being all like "Sasuke you're so cool!" but it's just another part of love. Even during part 1, when she was just a normal girl trying to be a kunoichi, she tried to protect Sasuke, even though she couldn't because she lacked skill and a proper family background. That is what I call genuine love. Sakura's constant beating of Naruto was supposed to be comic relief. If it was not, there wouldn't be any of the jaw-dropping and no pupils animations. In one of the after-credits, Sakura hits Naruto and sends him far away, about 370m or something. Did Kakashi yell at her and say "Sakura, you abusive child", he just said "That's a new record!". If it was meant to be serious, Kakashi would've done something about it, but he thought it was funny too. Sakura's fake confession was to stop Naruto from going after Sasuke so much. She didn't want to play with his feelings that way, she just needed a way to stop him from getting himself hurt. Remember after Naruto got beat up by Karui because he refused to sell out Sasuke, and when Sakura got the news, she was really hurt? Yeah, that's just Sakura attempting a white lie, but failed. I admire her efforts but they were all in vain.