I keep on thinking about that first initial draft of Sasuke and Naruto meeting: Sasuke saving Naruto from bullies and hinting that he acknowledges him as ninja.
Because if you put everything after: him feeding Naruto against the rules, them training 1/2
reading old forums and finding out so many ppl were genuinely weirded out that naruto didnt gaf about sasuke’s ���evil actions” omfg they wanted naruto to give up on him so bad meanwhile naruto was like “none of u are laying a finger on HIM.” 😭😭