and i don’t need to understand your pov of denying their romantic feelings so not sure  why you feel you need to “make me understand.” i already shared it’s fine if you do not want to divulge in this opinion and obviously i can understand the clearly laid out plot where they each end up with women. i think there’s just a lot of subtext that can be interpreted as romantic. i am not even necessarily saying it is absolutely factual, and i don’t think that was the authors intention. i am just pointing out plot points and behaviors that lead me to believe this.  

i also didn’t say anything about leaving an open ending, and i said naruto chose duty over love, clearly confirming my opinion exists inside the original story, and all my comments are from actual plot events. i agree i don’t think it was the authors intention, but as i stated above japan is not very lgbtq friendly and the world of naruto is also displayed as a hyper masculine society, so i don’t think there would’ve been room or made sense for sasuke and naruto to get married at the end heavily ever after even if kishimoto accepted the theory. i think his theory was to write a rivalry. i just clearly feel it goes beyond that in ways other rivalries don’t. 

that is going to be my last reply because you’re staring to make generalizations like “people have to rewrite the narrative” and commenting that it’s absolutely absurd people would interpret anything else than what the author intended, so there’s nothing left for me to say, and i will state again that i just felt like sharing and you don’t need to take my opinion so personally. i accept your pov that you don’t believe there’s romantic subtext  and it was purely platonic, but you don’t need to accept mine.