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 Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:37 pm
SasukeUchihaismyman Wow...I already support it and that essay brought tears to my eyes. I'll tell you now, Trusty, that is not an easy thing to do. I absolutly love how you quoted Haku at the end! :3
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:30 pm
Wow... I wish i had enough time to write a SasuSaku essay...
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:38 pm
Byakugan_Hyuuga Wow... I wish i had enough time to write a SasuSaku essay...
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 10:24 pm
O.O I wish I could write that well..I suck at writing essays.
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Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:24 am
Thank you! But Im sure that your good, you just need a topic that you are good at writing. I couldnt believe that I wrote that well. I bet my English teacher would strangle me if he saw how good I wrote that. Lolx.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:18 am
Okay, here goes.
Two Roads, One Destination: A Sasuke x Sakura Essay
A small girl comes out of her shell, finding a crush on the cutest boy in her age group, and falling for him. Then by a stroke of luck, years later, ends up being placed on a team with him, but to her dismay, another disappointment - he still sees her as an annoying little girl who follows him around. After enduring mission after mission and protecting the ones on their team, they begin to feel more like friends and less like "Boy Meets Fangirl." The girl’s crush molds into more than a like, and blossoming into love. This boy, having had a horrible past, wants nothing more than revenge and can’t see past his hate and anger, leaves one night, leaving everyone and everything he ever knew behind, in hope for the power to kill the one person that he hates most in his life.
Even if everyone sees this as shallow, the girl loves him for who he is, and not because of how cool this boy may seem, but the way he makes her feel. After she expresses her love to the boy, hoping that telling him her feelings will make him stay, he thanks her for her kindness then knocked her out, gently laying her on a nearby bench in hopes she doesn’t yell for someone to find him leaving. Upon waking, she finds a cold empty feeling in her heart, the feeling that she lost something so precious to her that it’s almost unbearable. This pain make the girl strong, in hope that she can bring back, by force if necessary, the boy that she loves with all her heart and soul. This girl with such strength is Haruno Sakura, this love that she lost, this heart wrenched boy who is so caught in his revenge is Uchiha Sasuke.
There are many factors that go into this story of a love so full of angst that it’s almost unbearable. The maturity of this love is broken down to its simplest state to where the couple seems inevitable. Naruto is a story based on theme. The main theme of the story is reaching goals. Naruto’s main goal is to become an acknowledged ninja and become the greatest hokage ever. Sasuke’s main goal, as stated, is to restore his clan, but first he has to kill Itachi. Haruno Sakura’s goal is to be the one to get Sasuke. Ever since she was a child that has been her goal, and now it’s to bring him back. Whether or not it’s stated, Sakura’s life is based on Sasuke. From the beginning, we see that Sakura has what seems to be an unhealthy infatuation with Sasuke, and for the most part, Sasuke ignores it, or tells her to buzz off and he doesn’t have time for this. What seems like a cruel gesture is probably one of the best things he could have done for her. By him telling her that she was annoying, he made her a more bearable person, to his standards. For the most part, just them interacting made them grow closer together. As Naruto, the main character has his goals and for the most part, works on his goals in his off time alone. While it gives Sasuke and Sakura more time to get to know each other on more of a person basis.
The first example of this change seems to start during their first real mission in the Wave Country. Sasuke’s Sharingan awakens which gives him the ability to fight Haku. But to a disappointment, Haku gets the best of Sasuke and “kills” him. After Naruto beat Haku and his Ice mirrors fall, Sakura sees Sasuke dead to her eyes. This horrific sight sends her into hysterics and burst into tears, crying over what seemed to be her dead comrade. Being that she hadn’t dealt much with death in her life, even the thought of the boy that she has been crushing on since she was a kid killed her. But to her surprise he wakes up. Haku, the boy that only wanted to make Zabuza happy, couldn’t bring himself to kill someone. And some so precious to Naruto, upon waking up he feels Sakura and hears her crying. When she looks at him, she breaks into a relief of happiness hugging him, being said to be the beginning of her crush formulating into love.
After this, Sakura begins to mellow out on her fangirl feelings. You can tell that she still overly obsesses over him, but not as loud as before, and mostly in front of Ino. Sasuke starts to treat Sakura like a true shinobi, and respects her as a friend, as well. He begins to trust her as well as Naruto. By my views, the Wave Arc brought Team 7 together. At the beginning of the Chuunin Exams, Kakashi challenges Iruka’s presumption that his former students aren’t ready for the exams. By this, he puts each one through a series of tests. Sasuke’s more to his known weakness, Naruto for his weakness, and for Sakura to hers. Sakura was set up by Iruka that Sasuke wanted to walk with her, and then running into a ninja. Sasuke pushing Sakura back and trying to take the ninja on, and within a few moments, Sasuke is covered in Kunais. Sakura runs over, as seen in the Wave Arc and starts crying. Sakura then starts laughing, surprising the ninja, then states that Sasuke wouldn’t even think about asking her to be go walking with her, let alone stand time, showing that she even knew that his feelings weren’t at the time of romantic, walking through the cheap Genjutsu. Then when the team showed up together, Sakura walked up and didn’t even make a fangirl-ish gesture towards Sasuke, leaving him with the thought, “What’s with that? She’s different.” Leaving that, he has noticed her for the fact that her fighting has made her a less annoying person by his standards.
I believe that we really see the change in Sasuke during the scenes in The Forest of Death. When the emotions and stamina of Team 7 are really pushed to the brink, Orochimaru makes his entrance and reveals his true purpose is to take Sasuke Uchiha. He attacks him by biting him on the neck, leaving a weird mark on his neck. The power of this brought him to a point of pain to where he was holding Sakura’s hand and ends up passing out falling on to her. Naruto, as well falls into unconsciousness, leaving Sakura alone to take care of them. Taking shelter she does her best to stay awake and take care of both her unconscious team mates. As the three Sound Genin take the position they inform Sakura to leave Sasuke to them. Sakura stands up and defends them on her own, especially after Rock Lee failed to stand up to the Sound nin.
This leaves Sakura becoming badly hurt and the Sound Ninja Kin, grabbing her by her long hair - it was public knowledge she and Ino and many other girls grew their hair out because Sasuke rumors were that he liked long-haired girls. If that’s true, it’s never known. The most prized thing she has is her hair. Sakura, in tears, then pulls out a kunai, cutting the hair that held her back. Signifying the start of her growth, Sasuke then wakes up to a beaten and bruised Sakura, and demands who did that to her with no other concern for anyone other than Sakura, showing that he was deeply affected by what happened. With the strange chakra circling around him he takes Zaku’s arms and breaks them. Horrified, Sakura watches Sasuke start leaving to attack the others. She hated to see him like that, knowing it wasn’t the real him. Sakura stands up and runs wrapping herself around him in a hug, him looking back with an enraged look in his eyes, seeing the tears of terror that are streaming from her face, that then made the curse retract. Sasuke then falling to the ground, Sakura at his side once again and him staring at his hand and shaking in terror of what he has done.
After that, he goes on to see Sakura really starting to care, so much that she almost risked the team to inform the examiners about the odd mark that Sasuke had wrapped around him. He then informed her that nothing could stop him from what he was doing and she didn’t understand why he was taking the exam, which showed that he did care about her opinions, and comparing that to when they first met, he could care less about what she had to say, let alone do. This growth shows a drastic change in both of their characters from the beginning of the story to where they are now. Sakura has let everyone know that she isn’t weak - she won’t be the damsel and when it comes to her fighting she won’t let her emotions for Sasuke cloud her judgment, and by that, it shows Sasuke showing respect for her.
After the Chuunin Exams, Sakura is left at a standstill. She can ultimately tell that Sasuke is broken between staying and seeking the power that he has once felt. The power that made it seem like his goal was possible. Sakura is scared for what is going on. She doesn’t know if he is going to be okay, or if he is just falling apart. And when the Sound Four appear, talking about how Orochimaru would like to train him, she gets scared for an unknown reason. And then that night, he prepares to leave, Sakura realizing what he was about to do as she walked home.
This leads to the well-known “Thank You” scene. She stops and tries to get him to stay by saying things that she hoped would make him stay. When she sees that it’s failing, she opens her heart and spill out all her guts on him, everything. She tells him her deepest feelings, and hopes that shouting that she loves him more than anything would make him stay, showing that he did have someone. Someone that really cares for him, not how cool he is, but him as a human being, his life, his health, and his future, in hope that he will stay, she says that she would help KILL someone for him. She would leave with him, everything she ever loved and knew behind. Sasuke had no intention of knocking her out at first, no matter what people say of how “cold” it was. In fact, if Sakura didn’t threaten to scream he wouldn’t have had to do it. He had to go, so he appears behind her, and the last thing he says is “Thank You.” Those two words have been said to mean many that he was thanking her for her feelings, for opening up, for actually loving him. Though, he can't even fathom being in love at the moment, he has to complete his goal in life, and he couldn’t just take her along, because by taking her along, he would be endangering her, and he cares too much for her to let her do that. And by knocking her out, he stopped her from blocking, in his mind, the only chance for him to gain the power to destroy Itachi.
By his desertion, he opened both Naruto and Sakura to be strong. Naruto couldn’t bring Sasuke back, and since then, he has been beating himself up for it, and thinks that he failed Sakura, and now he is compensating for it. Sakura on the other hand, decides to get stronger to help Naruto bring him back. She wants to show him that she can. She became strong not only for herself, but for Sasuke so she can bring him back.
Post time-skip, when Sai first enters the series it is seen that the emotional wounds are still fresh from his leaving. After insulting Sasuke, Sakura begins to hold a personal grudge towards him though it is lessened when she learns more about him.
Moments aren’t the only factors that play into the relationship on Sakura and Sasuke’s going canon. It’s the facts. Other couples just don’t work like Sasuke and Sakura - this couple is probably one of the most canon of them all. And by canon, for all of you who are wondering, are a thought, or pairing, closest to the main story or that will be played in.
Other couples such as Naruto and Sakura just wouldn’t be as possible. For those who are wondering why, it’s because if Sakura doesn't work out, there is always Hinata. Not that Naruto even notices her right now, but Hinata has been in love with Naruto since he was a child. And those in themselves show moments. The relationship between Sakura and Naruto has grown, or at least matured, but there are no solid clues really revealing these feelings are romantic, and from a certain point of view, it seems more sibling feelings her way towards Naruto, a family relationship. But that just isn’t the only reason; another is leading back to the main theme, the reaching of goals. Sakura’s goal has always been Sasuke, and if she didn’t reach that goal it would throw off the whole story line. Sasuke’s goal in life is to not just kill Itachi, but to restore his clan. And the only girl that he could even begin to think about would be Sakura. Someone that truly cares for him, wants to be with him, loves him for him, even after he leaves, even with all his faults, she loves him, and that would lead to the decision of Sakura.
This leads to the trust factor in this relationship. This started when Sasuke opened up in one of the first episodes and manga chapters, he tells Sakura about his family, something he probably hasn’t done openly since it happened. Showing that he did indeed trust her, she later she throws herself in front of Sasuke during the Gaara vs. Team 7 fight. She threw herself in danger for him. For a silly crush that wouldn’t go canon, it’s a sign that she’d rather him live then him die and her knowing that she could have done something. Something a girl in love would do. And with that, I believe that that may have opened Sasuke’s eyes a bit, that he could really trust her, she would jump in front of anything for him without a second thought.
There is also the Naruto factor of this. Naruto openly says that he knows that she loves him. He acknowledges it. It's seen with the moment where Sakura hugs Sasuke after he is awoken from a coma by Tsunade, wherein he only looks on with a sad smile. And finally we see that he accepts her feelings when he promises her that he was going to bring him back. "Sakura-chan likes Sasuke very much," he said. "Don't worry, I'm bringing Sasuke back!" (ep 110.) The likeliness of NaruSaku happening is very slim by standards of reason, Naruto is a loyal person and with Sasuke’s absence, he wouldn’t move in on Sakura when he knows how she feels about him. They might go on casual dates, but face the facts, friends eat dinner together, friends walk together and friends spend a lot of time together. The relationship is all in the eyes of the beholder. And the relationship perspective is not just on Naruto - there is Lee, too. Masashi Kishimoto, the creator of this manga, is very into symbolism when he writes, and in the forest of death Lee drops leaves and says that if he can pick up all the leaves he will win Sakura over. Lee was never able to get the final leaf, symbolizing that maybe Sakura is his first love but will move on soon enough.
Sasuke himself would have his goals shattered by this couple not going canon. If Kishi were to pair Sakura with someone else, who would Sasuke turn to? Naruto is going to bring him back, the series is called Naruto and that makes the story about him. This Arc is called ‘The Sasuke Retrieval Arc’ for a reason, because Naruto is going to bring him back - its his goal, he wouldn’t have trained for two and a half years in vain. Kishimoto wouldn’t do that to the main character - it's unreasonable. Sakura is the only female he trusts in full, the only one that he could turn to, and by pairing her with someone else, it would break Sasuke’s goal of reviving his clan. And as said before, the theme of Naruto is achieving one’s goals.
The boy and girl leading a journey of love in this rocky road of life are put through many challenges, dangers, threats, and tests. But love is never easy. Yes, they are very different, but two magnets of the same charge won’t attract, just repel, but someone with certain faults complimented with someone who has their faults as a strength will bring the Yin and Yang together. In this case, Sakura and Sasuke are the most likely to go canon. There are no claims seeing as Kishimoto-san dodges the romance question each time it's asked. There are no definites, though he does admit that he hasn’t given thought to the romance all that is seen comes naturally as he is writing. Though, at this point in time, it hasn’t been proved, there is more then enough evidence to support this pairing in full.
To conclude this essay, Sasuke and Sakura have the most possibility of going canon due to the already full details that have been built up in Part I of the series. What is next is up to Kishimoto-san to fulfill, but leading away from this couple seem to have been a waste of a plot build up in Part I, and utterly ending the goals of each main character in vain.
"To have a precious someone to protect will you become truly strong."
-Haku
Written by: --The Trusty Sidekick—
With special thanks to: i m o g e n, tenshinohana-chan, PeacefulLight, Brittney-chan, Kairi.nin, and SasukeUchihaismyman
Dedicated to: Sincerely Yours: Sasuke x Sakura.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:21 pm
o.o -tear comes to eye- Its.. beautiful! I can't believe how well you put the entire thing together! <3
.__. This has GOT to be put somewhere where those NaruSaku fans can get a good look at their competition. >>
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 1:29 pm
--The Trusty Sidekick-- SasukeUchihaismyman Wow...I already support it and that essay brought tears to my eyes. I'll tell you now, Trusty, that is not an easy thing to do. I absolutly love how you quoted Haku at the end! :3 I'm positive somebody in the guild will come up with an idea so that's possible.I agree with Brittney-chan, those NaruSaku-ers should get a load of this! Haku was wise for somebody so young. I was really surprised at how fast you wrote it too.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:55 pm
While that was wonderfully written, I doubt most anti-SasuSaku fans/NaruSaku-tards will take the time to read the whole thing. :/
Still, it's a great essay to have on display.
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:43 pm
Kairi.nin While that was wonderfully written, I doubt most anti-SasuSaku fans/NaruSaku-tards will take the time to read the whole thing. :/
Still, it's a great essay to have on display. True. -sighs- If only we could find them and glue their butts to a chair in front of the computer, place tap over their eyes and make them read it.><
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Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 5:17 pm
Great essays!! I love them all!! SasuSaku
SasuSaku...it has a lovely ring to it, doesn't it? Sasuke and Sakura, from what I heard, is the most popular couple in the popular series, Naruto. (Not including SasuNaru!) But why are they such a great couple? Is it they just look good together? Are they destined for each other? What? Well, this is what goes on about SasuSaku from my perspective...
In the beginning of the series, Sakura was just like any other fangirl in the series. She just had a silly little crush on Sasuke because we was so "cool" and "good looking." But ever since they were set in the same team (I know, it's like destiny, huh?), Sakura becomes more developed and mature emotionally. After all, she cut her own hair in order to save Sasuke and Naruto (ok, mostly Sasuke) from death. This shows that she would risk her outer appearance for her peers (again, mostly Sasuke). She also deals with friends and family, such as Ino and her rivalry with her for Sasuke, in the story, so she has a lot of emotionally social problems. But overall, Sakura is a cheerful and cute girl with family and friends. She has a "pink" aura and personality.
Now Sasuke, on the other hand, is exactly the opposite (except for the fact that obviously he is a boy and she is a girl). Sasuke's life is and was nothing but sadness. His clan was wiped out by his bother, Itachi, who is now out to kill Sasuke. Because of that, Sasuke is cold and anti-social. He has a "blue" personality, or as some call it, "emo" (no offense). Sakura's cheerful "pink" balances with Sasuke's cold and anti-social "blue," which makes a good start to the coupling.
Throughout the series, Sakura's little crush becomes more and more, and Sasuke slightly becomes more friendly towards his teammates...sort of. There are also little hints between Sasuke and Sakura, such as the one time where Sasuke wakes up with the cursed seal demanding to know who hurt Sakura, then almost killing the enemies because of it. A couple minutes afterwards, he tries to leave with the curse, but got back his senses after Sakura unexpectedly (sort of) embraced Sasuke from behind, begging him and crying for him to not leave and to wake up. And who could forget episdoe 109? The famous episode whom which Sasuke finally acknowledges Sakura's feelings for him and thanks her for it. That episode touched every SasuSaku fan's hearts. Even though the result was Sasuke knocking Sakura out and leaving her on a bench, just so he could run away in peace without her begging him not to leave, the point is that Sasuke accepts her and is grateful for what she had done for him.
Now, as I mentioned earlier, Sasuke has a brother who wiped out the Uchiha Clan, and now wants to kill him. So now Sasuke's goal is to avenge the Uchiha clan and kill Itachi. But what would happen after he did that, if he did that? Well, I'm not entirely sure if this is true, but Sasuke mentioned in the manag that after he finishes his revenge, he plans to restore his clan. Revive his clan, eh? This is my favorite part.
How do you make a family? Well...when a girl and a boy love each other very much, they decide to...oh, you get the idea. So now, Sasuke needs a female to give birth to and restore his family, in other words, a wife. And the only girl he actually knows is, surprisingly, Sakura! Dun dun dun...but people are also fans of Sakura with other boys. So what would happen if there wasn't any SasuSaku (gasp) and Sakura married other men? (Even more gasps) Let's see what my little mind has to say about predictions. (Brace yourself, this might be a little bit offensive...if that's the case...then I'm sorry.)
Sakura and Naruto: Okay, this couple first came into my mind because Naruto has a huge crush on Sakura in the series. So if they were to marry, Naruto would probably be really happy. Their children would be fun, happy, hyper, and someone you wouldn't want to mess with. Naruto would probably even teach his older sons how to use the Oiroke no Jutsu (Sexy Jutsu). But that would make Sakura angry. But wait, what about Hinata? Oh yeah! In the second series, Naruto gives up on Sakura and might go to Hinata! So yes, Naruto and Sakura aren't very positive because Naruto has Hinata, and Sakura just doesn't like him that way.
Sakura and Sai: This couple is somewhat okay. There are mild hints in the Naruto time-skip series that Sai likes Sakura. Their children, some of them might become gay. Sorry to say, but Sai seems like a great uke.
Sakura and Gaara: Okay, this is my second favorite pairing (SasuSaku still owns all). Yeah, this couple is a little bit wierd and awkward. The children would have a mixture of light red to dark pink hair. Some of them would probably be great fans of Green Day! The sons would be good rockers, punks, and emos, whle the daughters would be cheerful, cute, happy, and scary as hell...maybe even some of them have the same "eyeliner" like Gaara.
Sakura and Lee: This pairing is also possible because Lee, like Naruto, also fell for Sakura's charms. Their children would probably be extremely strong and excellent in self defense, so molestors and kidnappers, watch out! but Sasuke is still by himself, so no help there.
Sakura and Shino: Kids will be pests. Get it? Pests, bugs? Oh...nevermind.
Sakura and Neji: I've heard of fans who like this pairing, so it's not new to me. Let's see, Sakura and HInata would be related, along with Naruto, hehe. Sokme of their children will might have the "Hyuuga Eyes" with no pupils. I can see it now, poor little Neji Junior crying and complaining to mommy Sakura that everyone at daycare is making fun of his eyes and calling him names. Cute, but no banana.
Sakura and Kiba: Not much to say here, except dogs. A lot of dogs. Dogs running and pooping everywhere.
Sakura and Itachi: OK, what? I have seen something like this before in fanart and in my dreams, but that's it. Some people say that this is another way to restore the Uchiha Clan, but Itachi was the one who wiped it out, I doubt that he wants to restore it again. So forget about this pairing getting married, no way, nu-uh, negatori, NYET!
And don't start saying things that Sasuke should go to Naruto. Male pregnancies only exist in my perverted little head, not in real life!
Ok, so the list of who Sakura can be with is endless, but have you noticed that in my predictions, SASUKE IS STILL SINGLE! And the Uchiha Clan is still...not. So how is Sasuke supposed to restore it if Sakura goes off with someone else?
What have we learned? So Sakura and Sasuke do not know each very well, but Sasuke does know her more than anyone else, and Sakura cares for Sasuke more than anyone else. And I doubt that Sasuke would go up to a random girl and say something like "hey, you're hot, wanna bare my children?" No, that's Miroku's job, and he's not even in the anime so forget about that.
So basically, Sasuke needs a girl to revive his clan, and he knows only one female, Sakura. So the conclusion, the whole point to SasuSaku and this essay...SasuSaku is what it is not because it's just an opinion, but from what I see and think, Sakura is Sasuke's only hope!
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 1:44 am
KK, if Trusty doesn't object to it, I'll put this up on resource now. Maybe we can also put this on our thread too. The SasuSaku thread outside our guild, I mean.
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Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:39 am
No objections. I like it very much. And that would be nice as well to get others to see it. Thank you Tenshinohana-chan.
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Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:07 pm
3nodding Get some views on the awesome essay we have here in the guild. ^-^
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Posted: Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:56 pm
Well - it's done. I've finally put it up on the Resource. And the Resource is almost done.
Just one more teensy-weensy thing: the interviews. I'm going to be needing help with that.
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