You know, it had never occurred to me that it might occur to Sasuke to be deliberately bad at anything Konoha assigns him -- I suppose being deep in his POV automatically blocked off that option, the same way Sasuke walls off a lot of other things. He's very singled-minded. *pets him* And if he's going to be a scary teacher (because there's no way on earth he could be a fluffy one), he is at the least going to be effective at it.
I think Naruto needs people to stand up to him and tell him when he's taking too much on himself and/or generally being stupid. He especially needs that because people who feel bad about ignoring or mistreating him previously are likely to go a little overboard in being kind now. Sakura can see where he's going wrong, but her instinct is to try smoothing things over. (Well, okay, her instinct is to blow up and then smooth things over, but that's still not offering a proper challenge.) Sasuke, on the other hand, would not be caught dead playing nice with anyone. *wry*
I am glad you liked how Sakura and Sasuke interacted in my story. I wanted to make them friends in a way they didn't seem to manage in megyal's original story, because I hate the idea of Team 7 broken and therefore her ties to the boys are as important to me as their tie to each other. But of course I couldn't go anywhere romantic with their renewed friendship since NaruSasu was megyal's underlying ship, and one is not supposed to change ships in a remix. (Actually, it was harder to make Naruto and Sasuke be romantic at all than to stop Sakura from being romantic with either of them. Romance is really not my strong point.)
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You know, it had never occurred to me that it might occur to Sasuke to be deliberately bad at anything Konoha assigns him -- I suppose being deep in his POV automatically blocked off that option, the same way Sasuke walls off a lot of other things. He's very singled-minded. *pets him* And if he's going to be a scary teacher (because there's no way on earth he could be a fluffy one), he is at the least going to be effective at it.
I think Naruto needs people to stand up to him and tell him when he's taking too much on himself and/or generally being stupid. He especially needs that because people who feel bad about ignoring or mistreating him previously are likely to go a little overboard in being kind now. Sakura can see where he's going wrong, but her instinct is to try smoothing things over. (Well, okay, her instinct is to blow up and then smooth things over, but that's still not offering a proper challenge.) Sasuke, on the other hand, would not be caught dead playing nice with anyone. *wry*
I am glad you liked how Sakura and Sasuke interacted in my story. I wanted to make them friends in a way they didn't seem to manage in
Anyway, thanks for the review!