Sasuke's Character

Posted by "Jordan Harley Maessen" with a long summary of Sasuke's life story and his reasons.

This is what he said, "okay I just recently watched Naruto vs Sasuke, Sasuke vs Itachi (both fights) vs Danzo, vs Kage and Sasuke and Itachi vs Kabuto. and I gotta get a little something off my chest; (this will include manga development as well so sorry for spoiling anime only viewers of the series) I really love Sasuke's character and his development from the entire series becuz when episode/chapter 1 was shown we had a one sided hatred towards Itachi for murdering the Uchiha Clan, as did Sasuke. now he devoted his life to finding and killing Itachi but not much was shown until Itachi and Kisame entered the Leaf Village. upon meeting him he immediately went in for the kill with a Chidori but was easily beaten by Itachi and was no match for him. over time he began changing, the Sasuke we knew kept growing stronger but only becuz of the Curse Mark, and once he couldn't take it, he decided to take Orochimaru's offer of power and Naruto failed to stop him. now in Shippuden he was pretty much a rogue, he killed Orochimaru, formed the team Hebi, (Snake) and decided to finally go after Itachi. and during that fight we get alot of details about what happened on Itachi's side during the Uchiha massacre but not much...after Sasuke "killed" Itachi, Tobi later exposed the whole truth on why Itachi did what he did, becuz of Danzo and to avoid the Leaf and Uchiha going to war. now he also told Sasuke that Itachi wanted to be rogue as the Third decided it was the best option for those moments of peace to continue as it were and realizing this, Sasuke understood that Itachi was hated by the Leaf but didn't know why. he asked Tobi to tell him everything, so he obliged and told Sasuke that Itachi still held great love for the Leaf and wanted to protect it from the outside as well but was placed the burden of being an SS-Class rogue criminal and still considered himself a Leaf Shinobi. Sasuke understood that and started gaining new respect for him and felt the need to defend his brother after death, however didn't understand the way he still held respect, so obtaining the Mangekyou Sharingan and naming his team, Taka (Bird and joined the Akatsuki) he set out for his new goal; destroying the Leaf in the honor of his older brother while at the same time carrying out the Akatsuki's mission, taking the Tailed Beasts, as his first target was Bee and he went to the Kage Summit to kill Danzo and became an SS-Class rogue criminal in the process. now Danzo blatantly told Sasuke lies about Itachi and revealed the one truth, which Tobi also told Sasuke, so it became useless as they fought...no after Danzo was killed, then he fought Kakashi and told Naruto to stop chasing after him but Naruto wouldn't listen so he left and didn't get much time until the war so until then he laid low. then he and Itachi fought Kabuto and after they stopped him Itachi FINALLY told him everything, and we as the fans FINALLY got Itachi's TRUE POV of the massacre. and not only did he do it to protect the Leaf and Sasuke (which when Tobi told him him he thought was selfish to do lol) but after Itachi told him everything, he came to Sasuke before the Reanimation Jutsu wore off, telling him that even though he kept his life a secret from his little brother, the one truth that had always remained was Itachi saying "I can impart you this one truth. From here on out, no matter what you do with your life, and with what I've told you...I will love you always." and he truly did despite the one-sided hatred in the first series, and up until the fight. now Sasuke having a change of heart, entered the war to fight Obito and Madara, declaring he'll become Hokage! so after all that, and defeating Kaguya with Naruto, he then decided for himself he was going to become the next Hokage and explained why..."The world we know today is full of war, hatred, and bloodshed. If I were to become the Hokage I'd make the perfect world where none of that exists! Tsuki No Me was flawed becuz it was a forced Jutsu, however I will MAKE the world better MYSELF. I will make the Shinobi world my brother so rightfully wanted, come to reality! My Revolution starts now!" which is a complete 180 from what his views on "destroying the Leaf for his brother's sake." were, I mean he wants to help himself, help the entire Shinobi world for his brother, except he still wants to destroy the Leaf for what they did. but in the end after he and Naruto were on the ground, they had time to finally talk it out like best friends, and he ultimately decided to rethink his goals and accepted his life as it was, and finally forgave not only himself but the Leaf as well, and came to terms with the fact that he is not alone becuz he's got a friends and he's always had a second family in Team 7. then he meets Naruto later telling him he still won't come back, but only until he truly finds what it is he needs to do, but he accepted Naruto's offer, taking the Leaf headband that Naruto had kept and went off on his own redemption journey. in life ur forced to make decisions that others may disagree with, however u always have to consider the other side of things and not just ur own, u will become so selfish if u don't include others. honestly one of my favorite character developments in Naruto and any other anime, he's my top 3 favorite characters becuz of this. 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