no woman could ever make me feel the way sasuke does
Level of respect a class of teens I have to teach art to have for me when I walk in: 0%
Level of respect after I draw sasuke from memory on the whiteboard: beyond anything you could possibly imagine
he said what he said.
okay hear me out: Obito’s alive and goes on the Uchiha Repentance Road Trip with Sasuke. They kind of hate each other. Hilarity ensues.
oh my fuckin god im pissing myself at how unimpressed kakashi is rn
Couple of doodles - I was inspired by old samurai photos....and then I wanted to draw something dumb.
sasuke: what genjutsu is this??????
king rock lee putting them 100% organic free range grass fed Hands on him:
Sasuke trying to play it cool asking something so obvious like he doesn’t know the entirety of Naruto’s heart and he, his
sasuke thinking he has committed such unforgivable crimes. sasuke thinking he’s the only one who cares enough about his family to commit such crimes. he’s the only one who’s left. sasuke thinking his crimes make him susceptible to hatred. sasuke knowing his role as an avenger requires him to be hated - him being okay with this; thinking there’s no other way. sasuke being ready to take on the hatred of the entire world because they don’t understand and they’ll hate him and fuck all if they hate him; he’s an avenger.
BUT.
naruto saying “sasuke i understand what you did”. naruto saying “sasuke if you kill me i will have failed to save you from what the world has tried to do to you, so i’ll kill us both if it means you don’t succeed at being alone.” sasuke asking “what are you?” and naruto responding “i’m your friend” time and time again. naruto being the only one who understands. naruto being the only one who loves sasuke more than the world might hate him or see him as something unforgivable. naruto seeing sasuke only as sasuke and not as what the world might have tried to do to him.
AND THEN
sasuke saying. “i lost.” sasuke dying for naruto in spite of his own dream because it is the only way to say what he doesn’t have words for. sasuke saying “we’ve failed to die yet again” and being disappointed. naruto saying “don’t tell me it’s really heaven this time” before a sunrise with sasuke beside him. sasuke saying “i lost” because he realizes he will fail to be alone so long as naruto is alive. he will fail to be hated so long as naruto is alive. he will fail to be anything else but sasuke in naruto’s eyes.
every time they admit their faults or weaknesses or failures it is only to each other. they are the only two people in the world to understand each other as boys and not as jinchuuriki or uchiha/uzumaki or even as shinobi and that is the beauty to their bond. even after years without each other they approached each other with the same feelings they had when they were 12. their love and understanding of each other’s hearts literally transcends any existing bond in the manga and that’s why no one else can ever come close to what each one of them feels for the other.
i feel that so many people seem to take the basis of naruto and sasukes characterization and switch them…. i see too many people infer naruto is made of happiness and love while sasuke of hate and anger but i have always seen naruto as a character that is full of hatred and anger and he has to let go of that with the love of others. sasuke as a character is so full of love yet he has to follow that through with grief and anger and learn to bear others hatred.
naruto never really had the heaviness of love in his heart until he went through the process of controlling kuramas chakra and had to confront the hatred inside him. frankly it says it blatantly that he had always held hatred in his heart for the situation he was forced into and the way the village treated him because of it, until he was able to accept and move past that hatred and have love for kurama and his dad and the people of his village. so i genuinely don’t understand where this notion that naruto is just pure sunshine and happiness came from. sasukes whole story starts out with wanting revenge on his brother because he loves his family and his clan so much. it’s a constant clear notion that he hurts so bad from his brother’s betrayal because he loved his brother, and that his rage against konoha is because he loved his clan that konoha sanctioned a genocide of. it’s constantly stated that the uchiha hold intense love in their hearts.
it’s sasukes connection with the people around him that formed his love where it’s the lack of that connection that formed narutos hate…. the way they expressed their emotions is very different because they’re both in insanely different scenarios no matter how much they understand the others pain. narutos hatred makes him want to finally receive the love that the village never gave him, but sasukes love makes him want the village to experience the pain that they inflicted upon him and his clan… maybe sasuke expresses his love more negatively and maybe naruto expresses his hate more positively, but that doesn’t change the fact that sasukes actions came from a place of love and narutos actions came from hate. they just needed each other to balance the other out….
Naruto! Stop being such a sweetheart!! 🥲
they made sasuke pay in the end