#this post was caused by a conversation with another tumblr user about people calling sakura creepy and obsessed

[iuri-kun]

I think a lot of people lose sight of the fact that at the beginning of Naruto Sakura is a 12-year-old (just like her teammates).

Her behavior towards boys and Sasuke in particular is very much on point for what actually happens to kids at that age (judging by my middle school years at least). It's okay for kids to be stupidly obvious and persistent when in love.

If she were an adult, her infatuation with Sasuke would have probably been short-lived. After all, reasonable adults stop pursuing relationships after being rejected.

But Sakura is a teenager experiencing her first love. She hasn't had the chance to learn from failed relationships and her standards are pretty low. So when Sasuke keeps ignoring and rejecting her it's easy for her to romanticize the situation anyway.

Even at the end of the series she's still only 17. And who on earth expects rational and level-headed choices from a 17-year-old?

As much as I wish Kishimoto would have given Sakura an arc of realising that she deserved more than what Sasuke had to offer her, there's a ton of real life examples of people proceeding to marry a person who's not all that interested but has a "why not" attitude. So I can't judge her for believing that Sasuke is going to make her happy.

#naruto #haruno sakura #this post was caused by a conversation with another tumblr user about people calling sakura creepy and obsessed #cut my girl sakura some slack she's literally a child #I don't ship sasusaku #keep that in mind before coming into my dm-s to discuss it #iuri: txt