I certainly have to agree with your words on Naruto; he's not going to suddenly decide that he needs something from Sakura. And I love Sakura, and NaruSaku too. I do think that Sakura has been shown to use Naruto's feelings a little bit to her advantage, though. I would never go as far as to call her a cocktease (also, nobody except Jiraiya in Naruto even thinks about sex) and I certainly don't think that Sakura is a cunt or anything close. Of course it was a long time ago when Sakura begged Naruto to bring Sasuke back (and she even tried to tell Naruto that he didn't need to do that anymore, which made me VERY happy with her) but more recently(ish) when she was left to make her own plan, and decided to kill Sasuke, it involved trying to convince Naruto that she was in love with him instead of Sasuke, and that was a bit of a step in the wrong direction, in my opinion. Though I (NaruSasu shipper that I am) do actually understand Sakura's motives for wanting to kill Sasuke, however ill-conceived. Well, I suppose that the only reason I would have to not want someone kill Sasuke is my blind faith in Naruto (that it would be nice to see Sakura develop, although it may be counterproductive to her growth as a ninja.)

And to your comment

"Tangentially, I don't get why so many narusaku fics can only happen if Sasuke is dead, evil, or doesn't matter to either of them. I should finish reading Shade of the Leaf, it started out pretty okay about the way it treated Sasuke."

on someone else's post, I think that's just lazy writing. It would be much, much more difficult to actually have to DEAL with that issue, instead of just making it a non-issue.

Woo. Sorry for the lengthy rant. Apparently I don't get to talk about this enough...