I finished rereading Naruto.

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The whole damn thing. Am not doing that again. I think it shows how much I miss this fandom, that I'm willing to trudge through 550 chapters of horrifying source material just to be up-to-date. >.>

I do have actual, vaguely coherent, humanish things to say. But first:

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Hoping no one would notice would make him even more stupid than not understanding all the aspects of his own creation would ^^; Rule number 1: if there is something that an author misses/is not aware of about his own story, there will be at least one fan who will notice it.

I might be wrong, but I think that Kakashi didn't react, because Sasuke wasn't the first kid he's met who would say such a thing. If he got a first group of potential students short after the war, I'm ready to bet that at least one of those kids said something about revenge. The question is how seriously you can take such claims. Just because somebody claims they will kill a certain person, it does not necessarily mean that they will manage to do it. In a sense of actually killing somebody I mean. Saying and doing are two completely different things. Sasue proved it to himself when he tried to kill Naruto before going to Orochimaru. (And as Kishi based the world of historical Japan... If "Blade of the Immortal" doesn't exaggerate things, then back in the time revenge related stuff was really popular... popular enough to have a law or something along these lines that required to report the revenge plan to the officials so that they could be legally acknowledged and somewhat legal. Then you could get as much revenge as you wanted. So revenge is not as alien concept to Japanese as it might seem to us.)
No teacher can at once say what will become of their own students. Kakashi is not an exception. Just by looking at Sasuke he couldn't predict what kind of progress the boy would make. At best he could only get a vogue impression that one of his students might cause some trouble. Nothing more. I guess that's what his "let's talk about self" thing was for. It was a part of the test as well. What his potential students said and how they did it could give him some clues about what kind of kids he would deal with.

Sasuke is slowly sliding into our reality it seems :P He tries to posses you XD

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popular enough to have a law or something along these lines that required to report the revenge plan to the officials so that they could be legally acknowledged and somewhat legal. Then you could get as much revenge as you wanted.

If Konoha had something like that, I think it probably would have made the process easier. I mean, the revenge itself isn't the problem per se; there's no reason for most people within Konoha to be upset about it if Itachi died. It's more that it would seem a lot more likely that Sasuke would hurt himself or some third party, instead of actually getting revenge on Itachi.

I guess it just seems like, given the high opportunity for risk involved, you would want to be a lot more careful than most of the people in this series (not just Kakashi in particular) seem to be. Especially given how much trouble missing-nins cause for their villages in this series. You would think people would want to be as careful as possible, to prevent that from happening.

Sasuke is slowly sliding into our reality it seems :P He tries to posses you XD

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. D: D: D: D: D:

We're all screwed, then.

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Just think how convenient it would be for some people to use revenge as something that ties other people to them. They provide avengers with all means needed, employ them for some super secret stuff of dubious legality and keep deluding them with promises of some future revenge... It would be convenient even from Konoha's point of view. They would have a lot people interested in doing certain stuff without necessity to force them to do that. Like having Sasuke go after Itachi to kill him. Or some other man to go after the other missing-nin. And if avengers die along way? Well, shinobi are only tools, aren't they? /*sarcasm But what I mainly want to say is that people obsessed with revenge might be easier to manipulate. Just promise them they will be given a chance to get their revenge one day and they will do everything for you to get that chance :/ (Just look at Sasuke now -.-;) Unless they got wiser along the way and simply forget about their revenge.

It's Kishi that is more screwed actually :P Who do you think is on the top of Sasuke's personal "to kill" list here? Obviously the man behind the plot!

If we were to apply logic to this series, I fear that the series would stop making any sense at all.