Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26320097-20150423120614/@comment-24357950-20150628073824

BigBadBruin343 wrote: I think it would be awful writing if Karin is the mother. I mean it would make Sasuke just an awful person. I mean having an illegitimate child of any kind and dumping it on his wife and up and leaving for 12 or so years is a dick move. And it makes Karin look like a bad mother, for just letting Sasuke take the kid and have it raised by another woman. And I've heard some people say that she wouldn't want to raise the kid around Orochimaru but she wouldn't have to, I'm sure Kakashi and/or Naruto would grant her asylum if she wanted it. It doesn't make sense, why would Sasuke want a child from a woman who stole his bloody and sweaty clothes and wanted to lick him and the middle of a battle? That doesn't make sense... at all. Also don't you think it was convenient that Karin just so happened not to be at the hideout they stopped at? Or that Sarada isn't spending any time with Sasuke who could answer said questions? It's like what Suigetsu said: "there's no way Sasuke is that big of a scumbag!" I'm sorry, are we having the same conversation? We've been at this point already. I'll say it again: Just because Sarada is not Sakura's biological daughter, it doesn't make her an illegitamate child. We don't know the circumstances. No one says Sasuke cheated and no one says it wasn't also according to Sakura's wish. And again, he already tried to kill Sakura and said he didn't give a damn about her. If that didn't already make him an awful person, I don't know how cheating would. We're talking about Sasuke. And Karin might also still be a mere donor, nothing more nothing less. If you come up with those ominous scenarios, of course it's going to make Sasuke look bad. But let's go with the other very well possible scenario that Sakura is infertile and Karin helped with that. Doesn't make Sasuke an awful person now, does it? And even if it is as you said, it's not bad writing. That is good writing, because characters making mistakes and having flaws like a real human being, that is authentic. Writing is not about making the characters look as good as possible.

And still, Sasuke never knew of Karin's little obsessions. She was at most a bit touchy-feely around him, but there was nothing else that he noticed. Everything else happened behind his back, not to mention that it was never that much of a bother to him that he could never be sexually attracted to her. Though I personally still believe there was no actual sexual interaction between them.

Karin is a jailer by the way. She didn't work personally with Orochimaru in Shippuuden either. I just had to check that in the manga again, but as seen in chapter 348 the hideout she works in is an island Sasuke and Suigetsu had to travel to first.