The glass like structure rose into the sky, made with precision and beauty in mind. The structure was protected and extremely durable. It was one of the biggest land marks of the new era. People could see it from large distances as it was impossible to miss.
Planes and jets along with everything else like the ninja were not allowed to fly close to it. Flight was a rare thing in the past but it had become child work in these days. People could use the transformation jutsu to turn into an avian or just get wings to take flight. With the strength of the ninja, it was easy to break the chains of gravity and exit the planet. Aerial combat had become a norm and all students were taught how to fight in the air.
Asura and his group could fly with ease to their destination under a second but that was not the point. They walked into the terminal and had easy access to the services. Their group got into the elevator that could occupy hundreds of people and it rose into the skies. They didn't feel it move and the comfortable music played while they looked at the world through the glass that assisted in enjoying the view. You could zoom and change the sight however you wanted.
There was also the lift for large numbers of people or spaceships.
The journey was silent as Asura watched the scenery. He was taking in everything that his family loved and their achievements.
He enjoyed seeing these sights as they were truly beautiful and was a physical representation of the people's achievements.
As he watched the distance increase from the planet, he felt the connection with it. It seems he was naturally attuned to the planet and had a great desire to protect it.
'Come visit me, child.' Asura heard the voice that was gentle and loving. It gave him the feeling of his mother and he looked down at the planet.
'Miss Gaea' Asura thought but didn't receive any response. He knew it was her as it was the strong feeling of nature.
Asura was surprised by her approach but he felt like it was expected. All the immortals approached people with potential so it wasn't unexpected that it was his turn.
He had strong affinity to all elements and this strong connection to the planet, made him an ideal chosen.
It wasn't a bad choice and Gaea was a trustworthy ally. Naruto had told them to trust her like she was family and he would never say such words without meaning them.
It was decided that he will give her a visit. Gaea's temple wasn't far from Konoha and he could meet her there, though she could easily appear anywhere.
Gaea could just visit him in Konoha but this was the usual process and it gave him the option to come or not.
Just as he was wondering about how this contract would help him, there was notification on his communicator that was part of his emerald earrings.
It was a message from Chris, his fire vessel and the core of his chosen. Chris was from Land of Fire and just like the others was a chunin at the moment.
His passion was music so he led Shermie and Yashiro as a pop music group while the rest had their own things.
'Boss, your brothers are joining this year's battle. I was thinking of joining it since you said we should get serious.'
'Do it and have the others also participate in the tournaments.'
'Are we allowed to beat the young masters and mistress?' Chris asked with a curious emoji.
Asura looked at Shun sitting on his seat watching the scenery while thinking about something.
'Don't go easy on anyone, and win if you can.' Asura responded and walked towards the exit as they had arrived at the top.
They could see the planet from above and the sight would scare most people as they could see below their feet, and it looked like it was made from glass.
'Boss, are you going to visit our concert?'
'When is it?'
'Next month in Heuco Mundo'
'I will be there and gather the group on Monday.'
'Oooh, you are gonna enjoy it this time for sure. Can't we come today?'
'I have something important to deal with. I am giving you time to prepare, so take it. Also, I am engaged at the moment so take care.' Asura cut it off, he was communicating using his mind to type his messages while another part of his mind was thinking of his plans for Gaea.
It was the blessing of the skill parallel mind that allowed the user to divide their mind into multiple parts. It allowed the user to focus on countless tasks at the same time and full focus.
He continued to walk while many people moved around the area enjoying the view from above or looking into space and getting a good view.
Without much delay, the group entered the spaceship that was owned by the Uzumaki family. It was one of the models and the family owned a fleet.
It was a spaceship with mostly red color and white outlines. It had four boosters and was equipped with a barrier and bots along with lasers for combat as well. It was not a combat model but all models under the Uzumaki family were equipped with some offensive capabilities.
The girls held on to Benimaru and Natsu as they walked towards the spaceship hangar. It was haunting, terrifying beyond belief. They couldn't look down and just stared at the boys. They had never come to such heights even though they could fly and now suddenly here they were.
They were glad when the spaceship came in sight and Benimaru allowed them to run inside. It was a rare treat for the girls. They had seen these spaceships before and weren't ignorant of their ownership.
It was expected of the Uzumaki's to use their own transport and even the Uchiha brother could use the one owned by their family.
It was big enough to comfortably carry 100 people and it was very large. It had countless rooms and facilities.
It was something that the family utilized sometimes to enjoy a space adventure and visit the different colonies in the solar system.
It wasn't needed but the experience was different and allowed them to feel relaxed.
With the entrance of the boys, the system welcomed them and asked for instructions. Asura commanded it to fly to the moon colony after taking a trip to the mercury colony.
It was his way of improving the experience for the girls since the girls won't be following them. It was rare and always surprising for the people around him.
He was usually straightforward and didn't care for such things but sometimes he will just show gentleness that touched the heart of others.
The ship took off and the occupants didn't even feel any turbulence. They sat down in the lounge and enjoyed the view. All of them had eaten and weren't in the mood for drinks yet so it was just quiet adoration of nature while some checking over the social media for anything else.
They also checked the news to see if they missed anything.
The ship flew from the planet and towards the Mercury Colony where flame and such mutations had been taking place with the help of the researchers. It was similar to what was happening at the other end of the solar system where cold mutations were taking place with the usage of the current technology in the newborns.
The boys casually watched the scenery except Natsu who got busy with gaming while the girls were staring at everything.
Even though there wasn't much talking taking place but all their actions showed them a side most people would never see and they were are also enjoying new things with these people.
It was beyond their imagination that they had put all the bad things at the back of their mind. They couldn't believe that such a day would come and from the fact that Benimaru would hang around them meant they would get to know the others as well.
Girls that didn't have confidence to interact with such people had suddenly entered into the middle of the crowd of celebrities.
Leaving the girls aside, the ship moved without any issue and they didn't come across any threats. The defense systems were also not visible to the naked eye or even the other senses as stealth was applied for better results and only the forces involved could see through it for proper execution of plans.
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"Thanks for having us, see you at home." Benimaru said while giving a hug to Asura and kiss on the cheeks before walking away with his group once they arrived at their destination.
Watching him for a second, Asura walked out of the terminal with Shun and Byakuya as they arrived in the Moon Colony that was inside the moon and not at the top. The center had been hollowed out enough for the small population of few hundred thousand people to live. The area was big as a small country like Korea and the buildings were the old European style with clean streets.
There was enough greenery to go around. There was a body of water surrounding the land and there were mountains around it as well along with a large forest.
There was an artificial sun in the sky, and there was artificial sky as well.
There were four seasons like normal and there were sections on the moon for agriculture and production that was needed for the people.
There was the same gravity so that people didn't become weak and there was enough protection to keep people relaxed.
Giant Mechs were common on the colonies as the Mech pilots lived in space not on Earth. Toneri's palace was visible from any point as it was floating above the central point of the city.
People could fly to it and were allowed to enjoy the sight of the puppets created by their Mayor. Asura was a regular of this place and it was his second him since Toneri was his master in puppetry.
Puppetry was the other reason for his visit. Asura was interested in checking the Gundams piloted by the elites and improve his current giant puppet. Asura utilized robotic puppets that combined into a humanoid mech for maximum power. It was his go to fighting style unless his opponent could push through the puppets.
Everything was available in the Uzumaki state but it was better to get experience through interaction with different experts. Reading books written by them can cause some information to be lost or miss the readers mind.
Understanding brought by real life experience was much better especially since he could see it in action by the hands of the experts who might have improved their knowledge by now. There was also the fact that not everyone wrote a book or had their knowledge stored yet.
Knowledge of experts was stored by the state for others and they were compensated according to their contribution. This method was proposed by Ino who converted the memories of the people in to library when she entered the mental plain. From that she got the idea of making an actual library of memories of important people.
It was a useful thing and a very dangerous thing, which was why the memories of most of the top rankers were not copied yet for security reasons.
Even Asura didn't know where the real library of memories exists as it was a secret and people had to apply for it at the Hokage Tower.
Moving on, the team toured the city at a comfortable pace while being greeted by the populace who invited them to join them for different activities. All of them were famous anywhere they went but in Konoha and the moon they were well known as these were their usual joints.
Walking the streets on the moon had a different experience as many people could be seen floating and flying around using skateboards or using the anti-gravity devices.
These were available on land as well but they were mostly used in the space colonies. Little academy students from the Moon Academy were playing around with those toys and rushed towards them.
It was a group of children led by a kid that was Asura's fan. The kid always rushed towards him when he was present and free.
Asura didn't shoo him away and found them amusing. Shun took the skateboard that flew towards him as the kid jumped towards Asura.
Asura caused him to float with telekinesis while Shun showed them some tricks. This was a normal routine to him as he liked to skate and would be usually be found with one when he wasn't hanging with the team.
Among the team he had the most modern hobbies while Asura and Byakuya were old fashioned and strict.
Shun was the silent type but not old fashioned. He just didn't like to speak pointlessly.
"Hey, how's my favorite prince doing?" Asura felt an arm around his neck and pushed the kid on to him. It was a friend from the Moon colony and one of the people he had come to meet.
Duo Maxwell was one of the elite pilots and one of the warriors protecting the peace of the world. He was a pretty boy type and was in his twenties. He was a jounin and one of the first people to join the march towards the new era. His powers weren't on the high but he specialized in creation and Mech battles.
He wore his hair in a thigh-length braid and a pair of dark jeans and a cassock-style shirt with a white turtleneck shirt underneath.
He had his shades above his hair and caught the kid.
Among the group he was the talkative one and the friendliest while the others were either too serious or just not fun enough.
"I am doing fine, how about you?" Asura kept on walking and forced them to keep up with him. He had already taken a glance at Duo and noticed no problems with him so he wasn't worried for him.
"I have been having sleeping issues. Your dad is a monster. Can you tell him to go easy on us or I might end up with a broken mind?" Duo put the kid down and gave him some cash to buy something while Asura brushed his hair and turned him around.
Duo's tone was dramatic as always, he just didn't like acting serious and found making fun of his issues a way to cope with all of them.
Asura knew what he meant as he had seen the practice once along with his siblings. It was beyond his imaginations as he had never seen such a chaotic battle and such destruction.
Everything around them was an obstacle that couldn't handle the battle and it disappeared once an attack hit the location. It was the battle that opened their mind clearly to the big world around them and all children got to see it but the other children only saw a video.
"Mother Ino will fix you up." Shun replied as he shook hands with duo and bumped into him.
"Man, you guys are just too insane so there was no point in complaining I guess. Though, I will definitely take up on your suggestions as Miss Ino is just so beautiful. I wish to worship it from up close." Duo put his arm around Shun and gave a wink to Byakuya.
"Keep those words out of your head Duo. Mother might end testing out new things on you." Asura didn't take offence as he knew that Duo wasn't making a lewd comment, he wouldn't dare. No one dared to look at them with the wrong eyes.
People were afraid of what Naruto would do to them and they all knew he was watching. Even though Ino was irresistible, no one ever dared to come closer because of her powers and because of Naruto.
Duo wasn't some stranger and already met all of the family many years ago. He was just a fan of Ino as he wore things from her brand and just appreciated beauty a lot in a clean manner.
He was also very active but he kept those thoughts away.
"Really, tell her my soul is ready for everything." Duo chuckled and let go of Shun as he walked closer to Asura.
"Enough joking, is there anything new?"
"Nothing yet, so you can relax your giant head. What about you, it seems you aren't here fun." Duo was 1.7 M tall while Asura had reached the height of 1.8 M. Asura had very adult features and a muscular body as it had reached its optimal shape.
Duo had to look up at him and seeing those purple mystic eyes, he was able to see that Asura was worried. Asura was on the list of the people with awareness of the issue so he knew what he might be feeling. Even he had been locked up inside his room when he had learned of the truth. It had felt like everything they had done was useless. There was just no point in working anymore.
They were doomed and no matter what they did it was pointless. There enemy could shape the whole galaxy to their wishes, how could they resist such power.
Only with the help of his friend who stood by his side and their leader who shouldered everyone's hope, did he find his way back into the light. He now had hope of victory even in such dark times. Their leader was invincible had he grew at such immense rate that there was nothing impossible for him.
Duo could lose hope in everyone and even himself but Naruto was Immortal.
"I need your help to upgrade my design. Can you give me some live performance of Deathscythe?" Asura gave a nod and walked through the different establishments and citizens without stop.
Deathscythe was the name of the Giant Mech made by the research facility for Duo. It was specialized to for his style and it had gone through multiple changes over the last five years to reach its current power.
It was one of the strong Mechs created.
"Whose gonna fight me?" Duo took out a coffee flavor sweet and threw it inside his waiting mouth while offering some to the others.
Byakuya took some as a sign of respect while Shun declined it since he didn't like coffee or milk tea.
Asura took one but Duo took it back and threw it towards his face. Asura was patient like always and just caught it with his eyes, letting it fly into his mouth.
"Why you always cheating? Catch it like this." Duo threw another one in the air and let it fall inside his mouth.
"I don't know how you can act like that at this age. The others must have abandoned you." Shun muttered as he shook his head and put on his wireless headphones that played Yodo's music. He followed Yodo, Miku, Chris, Ar, Blackpink, BTS, Nicki Minaj, Lorde, Avicii, Halsey and some more. His taste was diverse and he knew multiple languages so he enjoyed from all corners. But mostly went for upbeat songs that got him into the mood for action and some romantic songs these days.
He also loved hearing Naruto, Ino and Hinata sing. Right now he was listening to 16 shots.
"Because it's fun, why act serious for others. I enjoy this freedom, am I losing anything?" Duo walked while turned around and looking at Shun. He indicated with his hand if he had anything to add.
"See you got nothing, everyone has their style and this is mine. My bros got my back and they just got their own thing now so we split. All of them hanging with their girls so I gotta a step back. I was also on my way to my girl but I saw my little bros." Duo turned around and continued as they headed towards the Mech Hangar.
Byakuya nodded as those words did explain something's and it held some weight coming from Duo, instead of Natsu.
"Duo, pass me one." Byakuya asked in slightly formal tone as it was his way of speaking. He was the most serious person in the Uchiha sibling group and took after Sasuke the most.
"Now that's my guy." Duo threw one at him and one toward Shun and Asura.
This time Asura complied.
"We will fight you, so don't hold back." Asura answered his questions and almost caused him to faceplant.
Duo looked at him with wide eyes, "Dude, I will literally slaughter you in battle. I know your stats and no combination can help you here survive a single hit."
"Focus, he is right. We can't do it and it is pointless." Byakuya was surprised at his words as well. It was something that Natsu would utter but it was Asura saying absolute nonsense.
It was strange for him to make such a slip up.
Feeling Byakuya's hand on his shoulder, Asura realized his mistake. It had somehow slipped him and his intention really didn't make sense in this case as the power difference was too big for a good study at full power.
"I thought we could try full power to get some inspirations but then I realized there is no point since we never really learned anything when fighting the other adults at full power. Just adjust to our level as I want to a thorough study." Asura knew it wasn't a good excuse but he gave it. Duo must have understood while the other two wouldn't trust his words either. But he couldn't give the straight answer that his mind was completely in place yet.
"Don't worry, I got you covered. Let's go and see the power of the terror called Deathscythe." Duo smiled and expressed some excitement with a cheerful tone as he took flight and flew towards the Hangar which was in a space above the city.
The trio followed suit and took flight in different manners. Asura was simple and just flew like normal while Duo was leaving behind a trail of dark particles.
Byakuya was walking while Shun had wings of lava and ice that took him towards his goals.
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A.N Hope you enjoyed and comment.
I know that my writing isn't good but I hope that I get the message across. I hope that you can see what I am trying to convey. The personalities, the looks, the attitude, the world and the threat along with the emotions involved. I think most people seem to find boring but I have to write these slice of life interactions to show their character in a normal situation and it helps in exploring new places.
I just hope it gives some entertainment value.
I definitely feel that people are absolutely bored by now and the old readers want me to go back to the other stories. I just want to focus on one thing at a time now and this one is needed because I don't think I will care about Boruto afterwards. Writing about something I don't care has no value.
I have come to believe that people think I am a Hinata Fan, NaruHina. Let me be very clear, I think all female characters are useless and unneeded. I have never cared about the female characters because I wasn't given a reason to care.
In all my life there are few female characters I like, some are from my childhood because of nostalgia and design plus the fighting style. Those are Blue Mary and Leona from King of Fighters. Other than these characters I ended up liking Beatrice, Satella, Rem, Ram and Emilia from Rezero for their character itself unlike the above two.
There is also Yuno from Future Diary. Revy and Balalaika from Black Lagoon. Koko from Jormugandr. Shiro from Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka. Lily from Kuro no Maou. There are some more but among the many characters just one or two isn't really much.
These girls had style and strong character that I liked a lot.
Compare any of these girls with Shounen girls and you will see the huge difference. No girl in Naruto was worth caring for.
I like Konan's design and I like her powers but she is worthless as a character. I liked Hinata's design in the Last Movie. It is the best design in Naruto by far but as a character she is also worthless because nothing was built.
I mention many points in the story but these are points that the actual story didn't elaborate. Worthless means I don't care not that I hate the character. Hinata is hated for no reason, except the fact that those people watched filler scenes. Hinata doesn't stalk Naruto in the manga. She doesn't have fainting spells around him. She is only shy around him at the start and later when it comes to the talk about the relationship.
She was literally the strongest female character at the start of the series in the same age group and would have even beaten up Naruto and Sasuke. You have to remember that she could actually fight Neji when Naruto would have gotten one shotted.
Somehow people think she is weaker than Hanabi when the story literally shows us that she hesitates in the fight and doesn't take the chance. She has literally said that she loves Hanabi. People forget that she is forced to be weak by circumstances, which would have been arc if we had some focus. Hanabi would have ended up like Hizashi if Hinata beat her in battle. This ruined her spirit and she literally has a reason for her weak personality.
Hinata as a housewife and retired ninja beat Hanabi in her prime. This is literal canon from the novels that the anime decided not to animate because they somehow want to keep her as a weak damsel for some reason. Hiashi saying Hanabi is more talented has no bearing since the man didn't even realize that Hinata didn't want Hanabi to become a slave. He had lost all emotions by this point and completely forgotten that people could sacrifice themselves for others. The novel has said she is the strongest Hyuga and even in the last movie you can see that Hinata could fight more enemies than Hiashi.
I don't care for shipping and I don't know why people keep on shipping when they are reading an action manga. I didn't read Naruto for the romance so I didn't care what we got.
Kishimoto had already said that Hinata was going to be the wife from the start. It was planned and it shows in the manga. If you just pick up the manga, you will realize that Hinata only appears at critical moments and emotional moments.
Kishi was literally throwing it in the face. Though, the last movie approach was very dumb.
Now I don't really care for which girl he ended up with except for Sakura. I would have preferred Shion from the movie. That girl had cool powers. I just like cool things if we are not going to get much personality. Talking about personality, even Naruto doesn't have any so complaining about Hinata isn't going to make sense. Outside of Naruto wanting to be Hokage and him liking ramen, there is nothing about Naruto. There are no scenes with him thinking about Hokage mantel and what he will actually do, nothing. There are no scenes of him just chilling with people and enjoying a hobby. Anime scenes are filler and they have no bearing. They literally showed Naruto having friends as a kid in the anime when the manga clearly states that he was alone from the beginning. He literally just became friends with Shika and the gang during and after the chunin exam so why how could he be friends with them before that. The anime could have really expanded properly but they are too lazy and never even tried to fill in properly what Kishimoto didn't do because of constraints. If you are going to make filler, at least keep in mind the actual story.
Why not Sakura?
Most Sakura fans seem to forget that Naruto never really had a reason to like her. Go back and give me reason why he liked her. You will see that there is none. The manga starts with him stating that he likes Sakura and she looks beautiful.
Let's be honest those words made me gag. Sakura's design from the start to Shippuden has never been good. Hinata was okay in Naruto, cute type, but very bad looking in Shippuden. That's why I just look at fan art for all characters when I am writing because most Shounen characters look meh to shit.
Naruto's appearance was average from the start to the finish. The drawing was really lazy and they didn't even draw muscles on him.
Sakura always looked like a guy. You have to be looking at fan art to make her look good. Having a boyish appearance puts her below average. She looked good in Last and Boruto while Hinata was downgraded in Boruto but she still looks okay.
Ino has looked best among the group from start to finish. She looks stunning in the Last.
So, Naruto's reason for liking Sakura was never given. Not even once, so his love was just liking the outward appearance.
Now Sakura fan say that logically he should have ended with her because he liked her and he always liked her.
Talking about logic, Naruto should have hated Sakura. Take a step back and revisit the start to realize how terrible a person Sakura really was.
Sakura is not from a normal family. She is from a ninja family, both her parents are ninja. She was best friends with Ino who saved her from bullying but she broke up that friendship because she liked Sasuke.
Just this friendship breaking makes her a trash person. Ino was the person that gave her confidence and helped her with everything. In return, Sakura threw away the friendship for a boy.
Seriously think about that and tell me you think that's a good quality. She is supposed to be smart remember that.
Sakura also showed very vain qualities. Her judgment was always about appearance. She didn't like Lee because he didn't look good.
Now for something direct, Sakura has said to his face that she hates him more than anything. She has said that he was lucky that his parents were dead. She really believed that.
She has not even once cared for his life at the start of the series and didn't care if he died in the chunin exam, but cared because they would also fail.
She did feel some care after the Orochimaru battle and her hair cut scene.
She didn't even care about cheering for him while even Ino did it.
She didn't even trust him a little bit. Remember the Gaara battle, she said he was lying and Sasuke beat him. Sasuke had to tell her that Naruto beat Gaara.
Obviously there are more vicious comments off screen that can be assumed from her attitude on screen. She also had the tendency to be physically violent with him. I am not talking about the gags from the anime, those are typical for anime.
Even in the Sasuke retrieval, Sakura cared more for Sasuke than she did for Naruto or the others. She said she would go with him, so really Sakura only cared for Sasuke in that arc and didn't even think about the danger to the others.
So unless you are a delusional simp and masochist, Sakura's way of dealing with Naruto should have made him dislike her to the extreme. She didn't give him a single reason to like her before Shippuden. So there goes NaruSaku making a lick of sense.
As for the useless Sakura meme, that has an actual reason that fans seem to ignore. Sakura is a main character like Sasuke and Kakashi with Naruto at the head.
I don't know about others but when I think of Sakura as useless it has to do with the fact that she doesn't compare to her colleagues. Sakura cannot be compared to lower side characters since they don't have much screen time while she does. Sakura is present in almost all arcs and gets screen time.
The people around her make her useless. She has nothing unique to add and the finale of the story put the nail in the coffin.
In battles she doesn't even contribute most of the time and someone else could have replaced her. In Shippuden at the start everyone had some expectations and I also liked the battle with Sasori but after this it went downhill.
Sakura literally did nothing when they encountered Orochimaru and could only cry when they met Sasuke.
She just acted scared and did nothing. Kakashi would have done so much more here and even Yamato did something.
Pain battle, she sat there and tried to heal people instead of going for combat. She is a combat medic not a normal medic. Those people would have all died if the battle was lost so what was she trying to do at the back and act like a cheerleader for.
When Naruto was captured by Pain, she literally stood there and did nothing. Like what the heck? This is a shining moment for Hinata and it actually shows that Sakura doesn't really care much for Naruto. Her fear of Pain stopped all thoughts of participation in the battle.
If Hinata had not interfered, Naruto would have been taken and the story would have ended. People forget that Hinata looking like she died was the reason for his berserk state and if Sakura hadn't acted like coward then she would have been the reason.
This shows who cares and who doesn't.
Sakura at this stage showed that she didn't even care about him as a brother or best friend level. I mean that dude is definitely finished and you are just gaping.
In the war, she was literally useless. I can't believe Kishi flat out made her useless in the war. Everything Sakura did in the war was also done by the fodder ninja. Her participation barely did anything. Her saving Naruto could have been replaced by any medic.
She couldn't fight any of the villains in the war. I mean that is really laughable and I think this is the reason why people call her useless. Kakashi got so much done. Naruto fought most of the battles and so did Sasuke while not even a battle for Sakura.
She just became a joke when she said that she had now caught up with them. I always crack up remembering that scene.
Now that doesn't mean I hate her, I just don't care for her just like all the other characters. Sakura could have been something if she used poisons, if she actually used chakra scalpel fighting style to destroy the nervous system and using her medic powers to cause body problems. This would have shown her knowledge and skill but all she got was brute strength that made her look stupid.
In the war arc, Naruto's healing ability showed that he was supreme. It meant that Sakura had nothing to add to the group at all. Naruto was physically stronger than her and could heal, he could buff everyone. What was Sakura's role in the team? There you go, now you know why people consider her useless.
Female characters can't be taken seriously even when they are close to the main character. They can just be counted as side characters. This is the problem with Shounen. Novels and seinin stories don't have this problem most of the time. One Piece did it well as Nami had good character arc and has her role so does Robin.
I just think Sakura should have done better and what we got was just terrible. In my other story Path of the Overlord, I will try to show what I mean and even in this story you will see Sakura doing some good stuff. In this story she is doing more important things than all her canon career.
I don't like Naruto either. He has every quality that I dislike. He is stupid, naïve, narrow minded, emotional, short sighted and uncreative as heck.
I like Neji from the beginning and I also liked Sasuke before he was butchered. Neji's fighting style was just too cool and I like his design. His cold and aloof personality is good. It doesn't mean these two are my fav either. I don't have any in Naruto because all these characters lack some qualities that would make me actually like them.
I write Naruto because he does have parts that make him ideal for what I want. He has a good heart. He is an empath. He has the goal of saving the world and being a world leader, so it goes well with what I want to write.
Throughout the manga, Naruto was changing and slowly he was shaping into someone I would like but sadly that hit a full stop because Kishi decided to retire. What we got was an abomination and even more unrealistic than Kid Naruto, and Kid Naruto was unrealistic as heck.
I just don't understand why Kishi would decide to finish up the story at the war arc. It literally doesn't make sense when that is the point when Naruto's real goal starts taking shape. The war could have been the 70% point or even the half way point. Kishi could have kept on going like One Piece and everyone would have loved it. I just don't understand why he stopped and decided to try something else.
Naruto was only going up in popularity, not declining. It could have become something memorable and the only Shounen long series with a hero that actually matured on screen and achieved such a big goal.
Naruto literally ended up being the only mc whose goal was never completed on screen and never will. His dream will burn with him and never come true, that is the truth because somehow the writers think weak bandits and weak humans have a choice against a force that can erase them with a wave of their hands.