OMG OT3! <3

The relationship among Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura is one that I have loved from the beginning of the series. I adore and value this relationship a lot, mainly because I approve of any aspect of their positive-inclined relationship, be it friendship or romantic relationship. Eve might look like a nerd to you, but she actually frequently wishes the cliché fairytale will come true and that she'll have 2 precious friends like Sakura does. That was what caught me to the series in the first place.

Honestly speaking, I find it hard to like Sakura initially with her Sasuke-disease syndrome and how bad she treated Naruto. Naruto loves Sakura, Sakura loves Sasuke, Sasuke hates everyone. Such vicious cycle is what I find intriguing about this relationship.

Even though many people have complained about how Kishimoto-sensei is bad at coming up with storyline, I beg to differ because I actually see how this relationship is growing progressively over time. If you follow the manga/anime closely, you would realise how they got closer instead of being the individualistic person they used to be. How Sakura grew to care for Naruto and changed her attitude from obsession to care for Saske; How Naruto started considering Sakura's needs and cared for her despite for her feelings towards Sasuke and how Naruto regarded Sasuke as his brother. The most interesting part is still how Sasuke eventually regarded both Naruto and Sakura as his precious friends who gave him the love he needed.

The degree of fan-ness for this relationship escalated especially after I caved in and joined the ever-growing NaruSaku fandom (because Sasuke is such a bad ass). Fanfictions and fanarts do not help one bit, really, especially since Kishimoto-sensei seldom draw them together. It's either Naruto & Sakura, or Naruto & Sasuke. There are even fewer scans of Sasuke and Sakura together.

Shoot me if you want, I even grew to disapprove of the relationship between Naruto and Hinata just because of this threesome. SasuNaru even became my first ‘approved' shounen-ai. Before NaruSakuSasu, I was totally against the idea of yaoi. Over time, SasuSaku, my most favourite anime couple even had to give way to this threesome. Previously, whenever I tried to come up with a SasuSaku story plot, I felt something was missing if Naruto was not in it, so it still ended up being a threesome.

My final stand is that, I love NaruSasuSaku more than any other fandom pairings. There are just many twists in this relationship that make it so exciting and yet frustrating at the same time. We all know the cliché-ness. Naruto loves Sakura, Sakura loves Sasuke, Sasuke probably love the both of them (How can Kishimoto actually left out Sakura during the Naruto & Sasuke part!!). Shippuuden gives Naruto a chance with that little ‘Have you not realized your feelings for Naruto'. So many different ships combination with just these 3 characters. It's REALLY frustrating to see how it would turn out in the end.

Sadly though, I don't think threesome is ever possible in a Shounen series like Naruto. Still, as long as Kishimoto sensei doesn't kill off any of them and pair Sakura with either Naruto or Sasuke and during the wedding either one of them get to be their best man, I am not complaining.

oh, by the way

Some of this is taken from my application for this subject. Reading it again made me feel awkward how I actually could write such a sappy, boring and lame application. I am still in awe that I was actually given the chance to take care of this fnalisting.