Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26567684-20150821055736/@comment-26275777-20150907004611

Lilyxflower wrote: But remember, Sakura said that Sasuke has been on an important mission for many years, like a decade according to the Boruto Movie novel, which led me to believe the meeting occurred when Sarada was a toddler (like 1 or 2, given that she's 11 now).

Nope. Naruto was Hokage at the meeting. We saw when Naruto became Hokage. Boruto (and by extension Sarada) was definitely not a toddler. In fact, it's completely possible and even likely that the summit at the end of chapter 700 is the one where Sasuke tells the Kages about the Kaguya threat.

I agree that the mission was not a full excuse to explain away his absence and he should've kept some contact with his daughter. But because of his reputation as a powerful shinobi, Sasuke could easily attract enemies and his daughter would be an obvious target.

In other words, he both is bad at parenting and doesn't trust anyone to help him do it. He thinks that Naruto of people isn't enough to protect his daughter from whoever would choose to target her. Never mind that it's because of his shitty no-contact policy that she leaves Konoha and ends up in danger, or that it's kind of obvious that she's his daughter already (hmmm, I wonder where this girl called Sarada Uchiha could've come from...).

but all that really matters is that he loves his daughter

No, no, a thousand times no. I always hear this coming from people who've had more or less perfect family lives and therefore don't understand that love means nothing when it isn't backed up with action, that love can be every bit as toxic as hatred. Hell, Itachi loved Sasuke but look how much he wrecked his life.

But yes, Sasuke did get better during Gaiden and hopefully now with the Otsutsuki threat dealt with he'll be home for good. Or they can all travel together, that would be cool too. That's why I put in "was" for him being a bad parent.