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.” 😭😭