Sasuke needs to stop neglecting his family or come up with a better excuse to do so
Sasuke leaving the village all of the time and not contacting his family for over a decade so that no one attacks his family to get to him is so stupid. At first glance it seems nice that he cares so much, but if you actually think about it, it just doesn’t hold up.
I can see how a letter getting intercepted could be a concern, but I feel like there are ways around it. You can seal the letter shut. You can make the letter coded. You can be purposefully vague. You can teleport it or yourself. You can send it with a shadow clone. You can just send a shadow clone to talk to your family.
If Sasuke is so paranoid of people finding out about his family that he refuses to contact them, why does Sakura and Sarada use the Uchiha name and symbol? Sasuke is known worldwide as the last Uchiha. I don’t think coming to the conclusion that the grown woman that looks nothing like an Uchiha and her daughter that does, who both use the Uchiha name and crest, being the wife and daughter of Sasuke is difficult. Shouldn’t they both be using the Haruno name and symbol?
Who is Sasuke so scared of anyway? He claims that his wife isn’t weak and he knows that Naruto's stuck in the village as Hokage, isn’t he confident they can protect themselves? Does he think Sakura would be neglectful of their daughter? Does he think Naruto would be neglectful of the village? Also, why is Sasuke, seemingly, under the impression that if Sakura and Sarada were attacked or kidnapped, he wouldn’t be able to deal with the situation? He is the second most powerful shinobi in history and he knows it. Maybe he’s worried about Otsutsuki, but Sarada was at least born and old enough to have memories with her father by the time Sasuke had any reason to believe Otsutsuki were a risk. Why wasn’t he at home before that?
I’d like to add that Sasuke also hasn’t been characterized as paranoid or even overprotective before this, so this decision is out of character not only for his sudden disinterest in his family, but also for him abandoning his family because of the risk of them being hurt. If this is all caused by the situation being different because of his feelings or whatever, then why doesn’t the Gaiden or Boruto manga make it clear? If you argue that Sasuke’s feelings are different, then you’re also saying that Kishimoto expects his audience to write his story for him.
If the risk of his family being hurt bothers him so much, why does he have a family to begin with? He never interacts with them, so it isn’t for emotional support provided by or to him. He’s never in Konoha, so it’s not so he has somewhere nice to return to. I doubt it’s for tax benefits. If it’s for his lineage, then why not donate sperm or be in an uncommitted relationship?
Even if this entire excuse made any sense, Sasuke would still be so shitty for abandoning his (potentially pregnant) wife and child in the village before having to be dragged back over a decade later. He comes across as so neglectful and Sakura comes across as having lost all of her self respect because she not only puts up with it, but she actively defends him. Is Sasuke even paying child support?
I don’t know if I’m angrier at Sasuke for leaving, SasuSaku fans for defending or even romanticizing this, or Kishimoto for writing this.
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Extremely dumb worldbuilding idea
The world is 1) Flat and 2) A gigantic clock face
The 'minute' hand comes about every thousand years, razing the surface world with apocalypse and forcing the survivors to rebuild
The 'hour' hand comes about every, obviously, 60-thousand years, and upturns the world like a gigantic rototiller, killing everyone but unearthing ancient things
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I also can't believe we got not one but TWO dumb fakeout deaths in one issue and one was a person falling into a lazarus pit. You know. The thing you usually put a dead person in to REVIVE THEM.
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