[It takes a strong person to persevere and keep trying.
Sasuke has to read those words a few times and it takes a great deal of restraint to keep himself from telling Flynn he's wrong. He didn't keep trying, he didn't persevere; he fell apart, he broke and pushed away, he let himself give in to every flaw in his character and was anything but strong.
Is it deceiving him to keep it to himself? To not disclose his true colors as a murderer who nearly destroyed the shinobi world because persevering was just too much? Naruto was the strong one. Sasuke had just been fortunate enough that he'd saved him from his own weakness. Everything he did now was simply to make sure that Naruto's sacrifices hadn't been in vain.
But he has a chance here to not be seen as the insane criminal that so many people still looked to him as back home. There's something freeing in that, too. Maybe that feeling means he learned nothing from his redemption mission. Or maybe he's just... tired. ]
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Sasuke has to read those words a few times and it takes a great deal of restraint to keep himself from telling Flynn he's wrong. He didn't keep trying, he didn't persevere; he fell apart, he broke and pushed away, he let himself give in to every flaw in his character and was anything but strong.
Is it deceiving him to keep it to himself? To not disclose his true colors as a murderer who nearly destroyed the shinobi world because persevering was just too much? Naruto was the strong one. Sasuke had just been fortunate enough that he'd saved him from his own weakness. Everything he did now was simply to make sure that Naruto's sacrifices hadn't been in vain.
But he has a chance here to not be seen as the insane criminal that so many people still looked to him as back home. There's something freeing in that, too. Maybe that feeling means he learned nothing from his redemption mission. Or maybe he's just... tired. ]
Maybe.
The words you said are fine.