She’s still crying, but it’s subsided a little bit since being picked up by Itachi. She snuggles closer to him, tucking her head against his shoulder. “They keep sayin’ my forehead is too big an’ making fun of me.” They being the other academy students.

Children were such silly people. Making fun of and scolding others for traits they couldn’t control. In hindsight, she has it a little easier than he had… being threatened for his birthright. 

Then again, Itachi was never truly that upset by the threats.

“They’ll see how wrong they are in the future.” It’ll be fine.

Lol, do you think Sasuke shipped himself with anyone in canon?

[[ Sasuke X Justice OTP.
(If you want to go further back, it was Sasuke x Vengeance.)

However, I don’t think he “shipped” himself with anyone when talking about an actual person, and assuming shipping means a romantic/sexual relationship. That kind of stuff simply wasn’t on his mind and was completely unimportant, since he was so heavily obsessed with his goal of killing Itachi, or getting revenge for Itachi later. Romance was forced on him. ]]

“I…think I’m in love?”

Arranged marriage AU starter sentences

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So soon… They’ve only known each other a few months.

He tries to sort his feelings for her. It’s a mistake to compare them to how he feels about Sasuke, but it’s really the only other type of love he feels. But they aren’t negative at all, at least. He is quite fond of her. She is patient with him.

“It’s okay to be unsure.” He comforts.

“I don’t want to marry you at all, the person I love is someone else.”

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He wishes he could say the same… he can only agree with the first half. Not only is his bride to be a woman all the way from Amegakure, part of a treaty to forge peace between his village and theirs… but she’s so much older than him. 

“Delicate decisions require sacrifice.” Something he’s very familiar with. 

“I won’t stop you from seeing your loved one.” He can offer this, at least… 

do you think sasuke made a good decision to leave konoha just before the timeskip?

[[ This has been sitting in my inbox for almost a month and I just keep meaning to answer it, lskdfjlksdjf. I am here now.

Of course, this question is slightly objective. It could mean a good decision (for himself), a good decision (for others), and so on. For the sake of this ask, I’m going to assume you mean, did Sasuke make a good decision for himself to leave the village before the timeskip. 

And my answer is yes.

Although the story did make it clear it was actually healthy for Sasuke at the time to stay with Team 7 and slowly give up on wanting to kill Itachi, that all falls apart very, very quickly. Sasuke is still having trouble controlling his curse seal, Itachi’s returned and made a complete fool out of Sasuke, his inferiority/superiority complex with Naruto is rearing its head, and Kakashi, the closest thing he had to a parental figure, has suddenly turned on him and demanded Sasuke completely give up his goal or he won’t train him (Hypocrite– since Kakashi’s known this was his goal since the beginning of the series).

Then the Sound 4, a group of people all with Curse Seals, show up and completely wipe the floor with him. All it serves to do is show Sasuke how weak he truly is at this time. Kakashi has already been pushing Sasuke extremely hard, going as far as to break him out of the hospital to train, something seen as a positive sign of determination.

And where did that get Sasuke? Nowhere. He still got his ass kicked, so clearly he needs a teacher who is not Kakashi, because Kakashi is not cutting it and has already threatened to stop training him completely. Kakashi is useless to him now. 

And through all this, Sasuke doesn’t really want to hurt Naruto and Sakura. He leaves because he’s not getting the training he needs, and because he needs to cut Naruto and Sakura off. For their protection. If they won’t chase after him, he won’t do anything. 

Of course, if you want the POV of the village, or of the rest of T7, none of those people will think Sasuke leaving was a good idea/decision. But Sasuke needed to move forward, and he’d reached a point in time where staying at the village meant stagnating. ]]