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As for Sasuke, he saw Sakura as nothing more than a nuisance before the Chunin Exam, and cheering her up once doesnt make them close. He might have begun caring more about her when he was protecting her in the Forest of Death, and later on against Gaara, but just growing a soft spot for someone you protect doesnt actually make you friends with them, and it certainly doesnt mean youre in love with them. Some people say he was pissed off when he found her beaten up by Orochimarus Sound goons, but he was really just high off the power from the Curse Mark and wanted an excuse to beat someone up. It was the Curse Mark that was affecting his emotions; he wouldnt have gone on a rampage just from seeing Sakura hurt if he were his usual self, which is the entire reason Sakura is upset to see him like this. He wasnt being himself, and that was due to the mark. Furthermore, most people would be upset to some extent to find a teammate beaten up, especially in an exam where them dying would result in your failure; that doesnt make you close friends with them. And its not like the Sound goons just tried to kill Sakura; they were also trying to kill him, and obviously youre not going to be happy to see people who are after your life. They were enemies to the whole Team 7, and it was a no brainer that Sakura was defending Naruto and Sasuke while they were unconscious as they were vulnerable. So, of course Sasuke would be mad to see people who tried killing him when he was unconscious; he wasnt specifically mad over Sakura at all.

It is true that Sakura was able to bring him back to his senses when she hugs him and begs for him to stop, which is proof that he cared for her to some extent. But all this amounts to is just him having a soft spot for her, which doesnt actually suggest any actual friendship; in Sasukes mind, Sakura is just this fragile, weak girl who cant defend herself and is easily scared. He didnt want to scare her further because he took pity on her for being a fucking crybaby. Its not even like he was even doing anything wrong here, anyway; the Sound fodder he was fighting deserved to get their asses beaten, and I mean badly because they were scum. Frankly, suddenly being embraced by someone who is crying like a bitch and begging for you not to beat the shit out of someone else would make most people change their minds about beating someone up, regardless of how close they are to the person begging them to stop; the resulting awkwardness would kill the mood. For fucks sake, just because you stop someone from killing people doesnt make you friends with them. Calming someone down doesnt make you friends with them.

And when Sakura shows concern over his Curse Mark and tearfully begs him to drop out from the exam when they enter the preliminaries, hes back to telling her off because he wants to stay and fight strong people; however Sasuke may care for Sakura, his quest for power is more important to him. Their whole dynamic is just that Sakura is an annoying little crybaby who never stops worrying about Sasuke, who only ever puts up with her because theyre teammates and he pities her; nonetheless, he still considers her a nuisance and someone who holds him back, which is why he tells her off, and why he eventually abandons her. More than anything else, Sasuke cares about becoming strong so he can kill Itachi; if he respects anyone, its only those he considers strong like Naruto, Neji, Lee, Gaara, Haku, Kakashi, Guy, etc. Sakura, on the other hand, is not someone he respects; he looks down at her for being weak and not understanding any of the pain hes been through. He only feels morally obligated to protect her and occasionally be kind because theyre teammates; looking out for a weaker teammate and taking pity on them because you dont want to sadden or scare them does not make you friends with them.

Then, after the prelims, Sasuke and Sakura dont see each other for a whole month as hes busy training for the finals; no relationship progress. Then, the fight with Gaara; Sasuke says here that he considers Naruto and Sakura to be his precious comrades, even likening them to his own family you know, the family that Itachi killed, but LMAO its a bullshit scene because Sasuke did not actually see them like his real family AT ALL; people dont become your family just because theyre on the same team as you for a little while (literally less than a year), especially when youre choosing to keep away from them and not open up to them the way real friends do. He cares about avenging his dead family and clan more than anything else; Team 7 could never replace them. They only risk their lives to protect each other because thats their duty as Leaf ninja; theyre still not anything close to a real family. Sasuke considers them his precious comrades in the sense that theyre his teammates and fellow ninja of the same village, but they are not his family, nor are they much of actual friends if at all. Ninja of the same allegiance protect and die for each other because that is simply their code; that doesnt make them family, that doesnt make them lovers and that doesnt make them actual friends. They are just soldiers who are trained to protect each other for the sake of their village.