I've seen a few fanfics where everything is due to the curse seal messing with his head, but then they generally have a helpful, repentant Kyuubi no Kitsune (or a Naruto that fused with ... usually, 'her') remove it and everything is rosy and Sasuke and Naruto go off to have manbabies. Oh and Itchi and Snekey are messily killed but it's not really described because blood is icky, you know?
If only some ome who writes intelligently would take up the notion ... Ah well, since That Uchiha Brat is Kishimoto's favorite character, I'd say we have even odds of it being the official explanation, and some arc-quest-goal method of removing, controlling, or permanently containing the curse seal the meabs of his redemption.
This as opposed to dying like the sulky brat he is, which wiould be my first choice with canon Sasuke. I've seen an avatar pic of Chibi Sasuke holding out a hand with the caption, "Power please!" which about sums up my impression of him as shown.
(Takes a deep breath) Well, maybe the results of this little stay in Heartless Snake Hotel will serve as the kick in the ass that makes him realise he needs to change his approach.
Oh, and you forgot another disincentive to his haviung continued to run away with the freak show, though to be fair it would have taken a bit more perception and thinking than just about anyone uses (and this despite Kakashi's harping on looking underneath the underneath!): When he got into the curse seal EZ-Bake jar, he was with the Sound's Four Gatekeepers, all of whom also had a fully awakened seal. When he left it with his own seal complete, ALL OF THEM WERE GONE, and Naruto and Lee were there and had only minor injuries against yet another level two seal equipped guy. He knew that practically every Konoha chuunin and jouninn were out on missions, so if two genin were there chasing him that should have confirmed there were no other nins to send - and the Sound plowed through the returning team on their way out. The fact that his fellow Leaf genin could either eliminate or at least draw off the elite four from Sound should have been a sign that maybe this whole training-under-snakehips thing wasn't all it was craced up to be... and at that point, his seal was completed, he could have gone anywhere even if not back with the Orange Wonder to seek new styles and jutsu.
- CD Just take a walk down Treason Street to/Heartless Snake Hotel, a-we-he-hell/I'm burnin' for vengeance baby/a' burnin' for vengeance baby/I swore that my brother's gonna dieThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
If only some ome who writes intelligently would take up the notion ... Ah well, since That Uchiha Brat is Kishimoto's favorite character, I'd say we have even odds of it being the official explanation, and some arc-quest-goal method of removing, controlling, or permanently containing the curse seal the meabs of his redemption.
This as opposed to dying like the sulky brat he is, which wiould be my first choice with canon Sasuke. I've seen an avatar pic of Chibi Sasuke holding out a hand with the caption, "Power please!" which about sums up my impression of him as shown.
(Takes a deep breath) Well, maybe the results of this little stay in Heartless Snake Hotel will serve as the kick in the ass that makes him realise he needs to change his approach.
Oh, and you forgot another disincentive to his haviung continued to run away with the freak show, though to be fair it would have taken a bit more perception and thinking than just about anyone uses (and this despite Kakashi's harping on looking underneath the underneath!): When he got into the curse seal EZ-Bake jar, he was with the Sound's Four Gatekeepers, all of whom also had a fully awakened seal. When he left it with his own seal complete, ALL OF THEM WERE GONE, and Naruto and Lee were there and had only minor injuries against yet another level two seal equipped guy. He knew that practically every Konoha chuunin and jouninn were out on missions, so if two genin were there chasing him that should have confirmed there were no other nins to send - and the Sound plowed through the returning team on their way out. The fact that his fellow Leaf genin could either eliminate or at least draw off the elite four from Sound should have been a sign that maybe this whole training-under-snakehips thing wasn't all it was craced up to be... and at that point, his seal was completed, he could have gone anywhere even if not back with the Orange Wonder to seek new styles and jutsu.
- CD Just take a walk down Treason Street to/Heartless Snake Hotel, a-we-he-hell/I'm burnin' for vengeance baby/a' burnin' for vengeance baby/I swore that my brother's gonna dieThat which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows