I’m still furious they felt the need to put him in jail after everything too?? Like, how did that arrangement even go? “Yay, team 7 is all back together now! But we’re going to need a little more contrition from you, Sasuke. I know you just apologized to us and got your arm blown off, but into the jail cell you go” like okay great thanks naruto lmao. Even when getting “special treatment” for being naruto’s friend, he still gets fucked over

[[ Thankfully, the jail scene is not in any of the manga nor mentioned in any novel adaptations. But Naruto’s change of outfit, Kakashi actually being Rokudaime, and Sakura’s hair growth/outfit change does heavily imply it has been some time since the official end of the war. 

After all, rebuilding has to be done, and Konoha was full of pieces of the Tsukuyomi tree. 

In saying that, I wouldn’t doubt Sasuke was actually held somewhere while the case was being made for him by Naruto using Kakashi’s position as Rokudaime. Sasuke, now in defeat™ mode, didn’t fight any of this, he’s lost his fire, it’s been put out, he’s just gonna take what’s coming to him. I also wouldn’t doubt the other villages (Kumo, especially), made a heavy case to just kill Sasuke outright. Again, Sasuke wouldn’t fight it. Not anymore. 

Actually it’s pretty odd that the other villages chose to maintain an alliance w/ the Leaf after Naruto chose to keep Sasuke alive 8/ Especially since at least two of the novels focus on other people using Sasuke’s infamy to fuck shit up and have the blame land on Sasuke. ]]

(( There’s also the fact of the time it was going on with the war and the shape of Amegakure back then, plus he was in a way smart by choosing orphans much like how Orochimaru operates because the logic is “oh well who’s gonna miss them if they fuck up?” and like uminosclassroom said, favoritism is a heavy thing especially with konoha in that they didn’t blame Jiraiya for being apart of the problem, but rather blaming his students for turning out the way that he did. ))

[[ We also have to consider what Madi added, in that it’s likely most if not all of Konoha’s citizens and governing body don’t even know it was Jiraiya who tutored these students into shinobi. With the emphasis put on teams of students and their sensei within village circles, I have no doubt that the general act of training people outside your natural-born village is considered a huge taboo. ]]

[Taking into account how protective villages are of their own shinobi in general, it’s safe to say that he definitely broke laws teaching children of another village like that. Ofc he’s the Sandaime’s student, one of the Sannin, one of the War Heroes ™, so it’s safe to say those actions were either 1. never brought up after war 2. completely ignored. Or 3. No one even knows what he did.]

[[ I’m safely betting on #3, and that the only people who would possibly know about it are Tsunade and Orochimaru. My knowledge of the manga in this area is admittedly a bit rusty (since I put more of my focus in the itachi v Sasuke fight that comes after this) 

I am not sure, but I think Konan ends up telling Naruto that she and Nagato were Jiraiya’s students? And there’s no way Naruto is gonna think that Jiraiya’s a traitor for this, he just thinks Nagato got too caught up w/ hate and he just TNJ’d him anyways. ]]

nothing is really illegal if you’re in the Naruto’s Friends Club (unless you’re Sasuke, of course)

[[ Sasuke’s position is so weird because yes I’ll agree he got pardoned solely because Kakashi and Naruto made a case for it (I’d say Naruto more than Kakashi and Naruto pressing it had to be done and Kakashi had the official power to do it as Rokudaime) but the situation was skewed heavily against Sasuke to the point where Sasuke’s told to  be GRATEFUL for them doing this. For them making Sasuke look like he just went ~psycho~ but it’s fine we have him under control now he wont go crazy again uwu ]]

((They probably would have forgiven him on the basis that he did go ahead and try to kill them for his mistake and that Jiraiya is Tsunade’s old teammate. It seems like if you can get someone with influence to vouch for you, you can be forgiven for whatever you want.))

[[ Good o’l Leaf Favoritism™

Like– man I love Tobirama but the fact he invnted the Edo Tensei means he had to have subjects.

And more than half the jutsu this man is known for are forbidden. THE KAGE BUNSHIN IS A FORBIDDEN TECHNIQUE.

But it’s ok now Naruto uses it and so it’s cool. it’s fine. ]]