Sasuke and Gaara do share a lot of similarities in their attitude. They are broody and emo, believing that no one understands them. Until Naruto came along that is, and that's where you see the differences. Gaara practically leaps onto the chance of making friends and having people that understand him. He seems to have come out with a better outlook on life. Sasuke on the other hand seems to not want people to understand him, and pretty much does everything possible to push them away. Despite the fact that they're his friends and he he does like them, he still betrays them. It's a selfish act that hurts them and really riles me up about his character. And I can get into a big long discussion about that all by itself.
Now that you mention it, I can see how her last line could mean many things. I took it as one last jab at Sasuke for killing her father.
I do wonder about the kid though, from what I got when reading it sounded like she just brought out the ability several years sooner than what would be usual. I thought that would actually be a benifit to the kid, babies have a much better survival instinct than adults and would thus learn how to shut the Sharingan off to avoid dying. I have no doubt that the kid wouldn't be wuite rightin the head because of it though. Seems to be pretty much par for the course with the Uchiha.
The Shika killing Sasuke scene really wouldn't be as interesting as it sounds. Shika wouldn't be able to fight him head-on and win. I've only read one fic with that fight scene that I believed, and Shika had to sacrafice himself to do it. What I have in mind for it is kinda sneaky and not really very satisfying for the revenge thing, but it would be one of the few ways Shika could win.
Hey, nothing like having to work on something else to make the plot bunnies for another fandom grow. XD
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Sigh. Only too true .
Hm, now to go through and carefully respond to your review, rather than actually doing work.
Sasuke's betrayal really, really gets to me, as well. I honestly don't think that he should be allowed to redeem himself in the eyes of Naruto after that. However, friendship, like love is blind, they say. Still, I wish there weren't so many similarites between my favorite character, and a character who I wish would just do the decent thing and spontaneously combust.
You see, what I like about Gaara is that he's trying to understand normal healthy human interaction/relationships. You know he is. But he doesn't quite get it immediately. When he comes just in time to deus ex machina Kimimaro vs. Lee sure he's reformed, and knows that his psychopathic tendancies were wrong. Yet he can't understand Kimi's devotion to Orochimaru, or Lee's bond with Gai. However, it's obvious that he wishes he could understand. This is great, as it means that his character is growing, instead of bam insti-good guy.
Heh. This is fun. I could discourse on Gaara for a couple of days before turuning my attention to other worthy characters. Hmm. Who next? Lee?
Well, there is only so much one can talk. And speaking of Lee, your "Amazing Green Beast" Drabble rather touched off a few evil ideas for some one shots. .
As for that kid (you can see that I'm trying to stay on vague topic), well, there are a lot of possibilities there. You never know, her mucking around with his BLL could have given it to him early, or just given him the look of the eyes, but no actual power until later. There's so much one could do with that kid, as I tried to leave him a blank as slate as possible. He's definitely interesting material for a possible fan fic somewhere down the line if I ever feel like getting off my butt and writting it. Or I could just deed him over to another writter and say: Have fun. Or nothing might ever happen to him. You never know.
And yes, it would have to be a back door sneak tactic to kill Sasuke. And to be fair, the dramatic revenge thing isn't Shika's style. It's more like you do the job that you have to, and make certain that as few people are hurt as possible. If that means shuriken-ing the guy in the stomach while he's drunk then that's what it is. You do the job, and you do it professionally -- even if you can't help that slight feel of satisfaction when it's finished. That's just a bonus, and it wil;l be outweighed by the mourning of his friends, who are your friends too.
Err, heh, heh. Looks like I slipped into a little writting there myself. Oh well. ^^;
~ IWCT