#like okay i understand with people like pain and obito who caused death and destruction on a large scale

[teamsasukes]

the naruto vs neji fight makes me laugh because:

naruto frames his win as a victory for "hard work" (as opposed to inborn talent) even though the only reason he turned the battle in his favour was due to his innate potent chakra reserves. neji may be a genius, but he also learned and mastered the hyuuga main house techniques through his own labour. neji is a closer representation of hard work than naruto will ever be (especially when it comes to this fight).

naruto goes "haven't you considered HINATA is suffering too" after hearing about how neji's dad died for the main house

realized how fucked up it was that neji refers to hinata with the suffix "sama." the only others who receive that level of deference are the kages and the sannin.

naruto seems more outraged at neji for reacting negatively to what’s been done to him and his father than hiashi or the hyuuga clan in general (because he, too, is an orphan boy and he alone gets to dictate how every other orphan in the series behaves, apparently)

naruto immediately shelves the issue of the hyuuga clan to be revised after he rises to the position of hokage.

naruto says to neji "you can change your destiny." myself and presumably all audience members assumed that meant neji would not die for a main house member exactly like his dad did.

and watching this fight for the first time i thought "great we'll get development on all these fronts for naruto and neji and the hyuuga plotline later on" and isn't that just hilarious

#(it's actually not funny at all) #hyuuga neji #uzumaki naruto #hyuuga clan #anti naruto #i guess #also another issue i have with the series #is that we never see naruto acknowledge that he shouldn't judge the way people respond to trauma #like okay i understand with people like pain and obito who caused death and destruction on a large scale #but remember INARI? he was like 6 or something bro and naruto just obliterated him #and the saddest part is it ties directly back to naruto himself because he's conditioned himself into thinking that he isn't entitled #to be upset about the way he grew up #and i wish we'd seen naruto allow himself to be sad! to be ANGRY!! #anyway this post isn't abt naruto's struggles but i think he couldve applied this epiphany back to ppl like neji or sasuke #i get naruto rly wants to be the maker of his own destiny but that doesn't mean he can't feel badly about the hand he was dealt #in fact i think that would have made his dreams of hokage much more mature in the long run. but alas #naruto meta