Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26567684-20150821055736/@comment-26275777-20150906234500

Thekillman wrote: It does kind of help to be a good person.

Yes, but being a good person does not mean you are being a good parent. The arguments here are all for Sasuke being a good person. Leaving the village to protect it, etc. etc. are all things that a good person would do. It doesn't change the fact that he is (was?) a shitty parent. No matter how tight his excuse is, it doesn't change the fact that he literally was not there for her AT ALL for a decade. The worst example of this is when he's in Konoha when/shortly after Naruto becomes Hokage (they're at a 5 Kage summit in the flashback), which we know happened when their kids were definitely old enough to remember their parents. And he didn't stop for two minutes to see his daughter. Nice, Sasuke.