Replying before I go read More Sins Than Condemnation--any comments it'd inspire are probably best there.
The violence-or-nothing mindset, in fact, is the main reason I say Sasuke's not much of a ninja; he's in a poorer position to switch tactics, though, in What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed) than he was before he left Konoha. If nothing else, he was really good at burning bridges, and ought to be glad he was not entirely successful. I do agree that Iruka would be aware of such--he does work at the Academy, and seems even in the manga to have a position of responsibility and influence within in. In fact, all the jobs he's seen in would require some degree or other of political sensitivity and awareness. (Even when assigning D-ranked missions to genin teams, there'd have to be times when politics--which clan Does Not Like which--would become important.)
I suspect that of those three, Sakura would be the one to drop hints successfully to Sasuke--and she'd probably be doing it to Naruto, too. Any hints Kakashi would drop to his students, Sakura would be most likely to pick up (and she would be needing them only as a clear sign of official support) & I suspect Iruka would have probably have tried to start work on it while he himself was still an instructor at the Academy.
Honestly? I'd love to see an AU branching off from before Sasuke's bridge-burning rampage of a departure from Konoha, since one of the questions long ago raised to me was why the Third wouldn't have opted to, once Team 7 was experienced enough, find them a series of missions that would keep them from staying too long in Konoha...
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Re: Really long comment, pt2
Date: 2010-06-11 06:42 pm (UTC)The violence-or-nothing mindset, in fact, is the main reason I say Sasuke's not much of a ninja; he's in a poorer position to switch tactics, though, in What Isn't Broken (Can Still Be Fixed) than he was before he left Konoha. If nothing else, he was really good at burning bridges, and ought to be glad he was not entirely successful. I do agree that Iruka would be aware of such--he does work at the Academy, and seems even in the manga to have a position of responsibility and influence within in. In fact, all the jobs he's seen in would require some degree or other of political sensitivity and awareness. (Even when assigning D-ranked missions to genin teams, there'd have to be times when politics--which clan Does Not Like which--would become important.)
I suspect that of those three, Sakura would be the one to drop hints successfully to Sasuke--and she'd probably be doing it to Naruto, too. Any hints Kakashi would drop to his students, Sakura would be most likely to pick up (and she would be needing them only as a clear sign of official support) & I suspect Iruka would have probably have tried to start work on it while he himself was still an instructor at the Academy.
Honestly? I'd love to see an AU branching off from before Sasuke's bridge-burning rampage of a departure from Konoha, since one of the questions long ago raised to me was why the Third wouldn't have opted to, once Team 7 was experienced enough, find them a series of missions that would keep them from staying too long in Konoha...