Quote Originally Posted by rockmanj
I hope this really is trolling...

I'm just going to bring up one very salient point about the missing-nin thing.

Ninja villages do not want their secrets getting out, because they do not want other countries knowing of them. So, usually when a ninja goes missing, they put a hit out on them so that they don't give up the village secrets. Now, in Sasuke's case this goes double, as he is the last known natural Sharingan user, which would be of great value to opposing nations if it was acquired. This is the prime reason that Sasuke is a criminal in the Naruto world (in Konoha's eyes), and Tracking down missing-nin is one of the jobs of ANBU
if tracking down missing nins is so important, then why wasn't Orochimaru and Itachi killed sooner?

plus, he only became a missing nin to kill another missing ninja. if the death of ninja who "betray" they're village is so important, then shouldn't he get some credit for killing two of konoha's most powerful missing nins?

Orochimaru went to war with the village, and Sasuke killed him. and he gets nothing at all for doing that? he gets nothing for killing the man who killed the 3rd hokage?

the only reason he should be regarded as a criminal is because of his attack on Killabee. Which is only viewed as a bad thing because Killabee decided to run away from his village after the failed attempt. if he had gone back to the cloud-kage, and been like "yeah, akatsuki attacked me, but i'm too strong" then i doubt this whole meeting would have ever come about.