Quote:And she's stubbornly sticking to the idea because Kikuko-neechan decided it'd be funny to point out the impracticality of that arrangement in the most condescendingly obnoxious possible way, thereby leaving Little Sister determined to Prove Her Wrong - even more so after having everybody else in the family take -Kikuko's- side of the argument... At least until she reaches to point of being mad enough at Tenten that her subcon^H^H^H^H Inner Sakura backburners the entire question and sends her Kakashi's way.
Eh, everyone is entitle to a little stupidity when they're young. Also - her grasp of theory and the family specialty (at the academy level) of perfect chakra control is spot-on, but she's trying to stand out in a big family of higly effective ninja by being like the kind of kunoichi that's in the movies, who gets the guy by being a 'valued team mate' but still needing rescuing, but never breaks a nail or smudges her costume even at that darkest moment when she must endure a dank dungeon while her One True Love rescues her and pounds the badguy, or possibly the other way around. Sadly, she's going to have to accept that life isn't as slick as a movie, and the guy she's interested in will only regard a team mate who needs regular rescuing as a bother.
(I'm seeing this emotional scene where Sakura, having just had Round II with Tenten and still stinging from the chewing out Kakashi gave her over it, stomps up to Kikuko on the verge of tears and bites out something like 'You were right, okay? I was an idiot. Go ahead and laugh.' And Big Sis just sits there and stares, because she had -no clue- that Sakura had actually been that... involved? attached? something like that... with/in/to the issue. Because for her it was just a joke, but Sakura, between Teen Angst and the fact that she's always getting dismissed as the baby of the bunch, was genuinely hurt...)
I think I have a fairly good grasp of just how obnoxious elder siblings can be, seeing as I am one. Not perfect, since I don't have any myself, but fairly good.
Ja, -n
(And Sasuke ignores her because he's a twit. But we knew that.)
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"Yes, and it was glorious."