Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24098614-20140910222248/@comment-3048523-20140913110658

There are many ways to read the story of the manga and one of them is the clash between Naruto and Sasuke as the outcome of the curse of hatred perpetrated from Hagoromo's legacy (and in particular between his sons Ashura and Indra which chakra is inside Naruto and Sasuke), the topic that appear to be the main focus in this final fight between the two boys.

So far the collaboration's way of Hagoromo and Indra is never been able to hit the hearts of Ashura and his legacy: Naruto and Sasuke are called to overcome the previous generations in a very personal way, being able to overcome just this rivalry that is always been present between their ancestors and that in part contributed to shape the world in its current form.

If Naruto and Sasuke will not be able to live peacefully and to collaboratoe for creating a better world (for example with Sasuke's death), then both of them would have failed (a further failure could be compare Naruto's unability to save Sasuke with what already happened before to Hashirama, Jiraya and Kakashi with their respective close friends).

About the Uchiha, like said by Tobirama and Hashirama, all of them were truly passionate toward the persons and the things that they really loved. In the story we saw the Uchiha do terrible things but always with in mind what they considered a greater good for more poeple, from Itachi killing the clan for the good of the village and the peace, to Madara genuinely believing that the Moon's Eye is the solution for saving the mankind. Shisui is maybe the only Uchiha that is not guilty of any faults, but from Itachi's words appear clear that in his place Izuna would have acted exactly in the same way. Even the same Uchiha planning the coup d'etat is never been a quest for a greater power but a "need" for a people that felt to be oppressed (of course this is completely far from justifying it).

The same fact that Sasuke now is acting for building a better world gives evidence of it: he passed from a destruction for getting revenge for the Uchiha, to a greater good that involve the building of a better world for everyone (he talked of "us" with Kakashi, Sakura and Naruto, apparently the Uchiha are not more the priority for him).

The talking with Itachi and the Hokage wasn't meaningless, Sasuke was able to make a step further and to reach a great status of mind wishing for building a better world that will not involve the faults of the previous generations, from selfishness to selflessness. The problem is that, how it was foreshadowed since his return on the battlefield, he is mistaking the way to achieve it, wishing to use the strenght for imposing a revolution. In the first part Naruto fought him trying to make realize in him the importance of the bonds in Konoha, a second family for Sasuke after the loss of his natural one. Now to that it's added also the mind status of Indra, the belief that it's possible to bring the peace acting alone with just the personal strenght. Sasuke's lack of importance for the comrades evolved in something more general that involve the shinobi system, just as done before of him from Madara and Obito.

However all Sasuke's expressions in the last chapter while looking/talking with Naruto made clear like he is unable to appear completely indifferent to the old friend and so to the bonds of the comrades. Like already stated by Hagoromo (and indirectly from Black Zetsu) Naruto is not a common successor of Indra, his presence will be able to make the difference with Sasuke, in opposition to Hashirama that was unable to save Madara.