Question for Naruto fans

[meganbmoore]

 So, I haven't followed Naruto in over a year, and I doubt I'll ever go back to it.  Not fond of Naruto himself, and I liked Sasuke initially, but that died off pretty well.  And...that was pretty much the whole series. That and fighting/power up sequences that put Bleach to shame.   Also, I could never figure out if the text or the fandom was harder on Sakura.  Maybe if it ever finishes.

But I do have a question regarding Jiraiya and Tsunade.  

So, I know Jiraiya is dead.  I'm largely unaffected by this because my main interest in him was Tsunade, which tends to happen a lot, with me, romantically or otherwise.  (That is, interest in a male character at least partly dependent on his relationship with a female character I like.  Yes, I remain a fandom freak in this regard.)

My main question is whether or not their full backstory has been revealed, and if they ever went beyond the obvious proto-Naruto/Sakura thing with them.  Because I always wondered if there was more to it than her being irritated with his Peeping Tom ways.

Comments

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links. I'll look at them at work tomorrow. (onemanga is horribly slow on this computer.)

Oh, trust me, I'm not trying to undermine either relationship, but there's a difference between someone you can talk to as an equal, and someone who, by default, is cast in a position of always wanting to keep you pleased.

There's a difference between not wanting to go through the pain again and deliberately removing yourself, and between not wanting to go through the pain again and not realizing that you're removing yourself. One is sympathetic, but they do it to themselves. The other is tragic because they don't realize they're adding to their own pain. Tsunade always struck me as the latter.

I always had the feeling that Jiraiya had had a real crush on her when they were younger that never went away, but that Tsunade never believed it was serious.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

There's a difference between not wanting to go through the pain again and deliberately removing yourself, and between not wanting to go through the pain again and not realizing that you're removing yourself. One is sympathetic, but they do it to themselves. The other is tragic because they don't realize they're adding to their own pain. Tsunade always struck me as the latter.

Tsunade's doing that latter. I HIGHLY doubt that she's self-analyzing enough to realize what she's doing, and I don't think she's aware that she has a second chance in love until it's too late.

I always had the feeling that Jiraiya had had a real crush on her when they were younger that never went away, but that Tsunade never believed it was serious.

Yep. That's how I always read it. With the addendum that I don't think that Tsunade realized how much she cared about Jiraiya until she lost him.