User blog comment:Pacifista15/Manga Critiques: Naruto/@comment-1774413-20110317230707/@comment-3119203-20110318014543

You have some great pints, but I will explain myself and my decisions:

In nearly every manga, the main characters have a lifelong dream that they work hard the entire time to obtain (greatest swordsman, hokage, pirate king, etc). sasuke's was established very early on to kill Itachi. All of the sudden, he achives it, and goes through his "severe emotional trauma." He had been preparing his entire life to do this, and he is now emotionally disturbed? Why? And Itachi had dedicated his entire life to protecting Konoha, and eventually died for that, and now sasuke wants to tear all of it down for the sake of his own selfish purposes and what he thinks Itachi may have wanted? sasuke and itachi hadnt even seen each other for years, and danzo, who knew both of them, commented on the differences between them. So how could sasuke have known that that was what Itachi wanted? Evidence shows, it probably wasnt! Itachi protected the village, and sasuke attacks it in the name of his brother? isnt that contradictory?

And the overall peace theme is kinda late in the game, and only in one arc. they only introduced it through a few main characters. And if sasuke is supposedly so driven, i am doubting that he will change back unless Itachi himself talks to him, and then I doubt that would work.

So anyway, you can believe whatever you want, but I think that the storyline is a flimsy cover-up for all of the action beneath.