Naruto was starved and physically abused? Leave it to NBers to post garbage.
No offense, but your first paragraph is literally laughable. It's Naruto's own fault for caring that People should value and notice him. You fault Sasuke that he didn't value people he shouldn't have over his family and entire clan, yet you mourn over Naruto's socialization troubles? I would not even take a euphemistic stance here and outright state the sheer stupidity of this idea.
Naruto had Iruka as a father figure from his childhood days. Sasuke's entire family was slaughtered in cold blood, and that too by his own brother. Do you have any idea what it would do to a child to walk in on a scene of human shambles, bloodied streets, corpses of his kith and kin, his parents murdered heinously ... only to find his brother at the heart of this misery? But no, Naruto couldn't make friends. How utterly horrible for him. Let's all weep for his trouble in making peers and trying to desperately grab attention, because he so loved being centre stage.
Who did a seven year old child have to relate to? Who did he have to watch over him? No one. It's pretty damn sickening that people on this forum value and uphold merits of friendship in a higher regard than familial ties. It's the epitome of idiocy.
It was Naruto's own choice to value and cater to people's opinions of him. It's no one fault but his own. Itachi - the revered psychotic nut-job this base heartily cherishes - had a choice. He chose to inflict misery on Sasuke and murder his own people who held nothing but respect for him. He was nothing but a treacherous man, and his suffering was his own doing. I have no idea why people even bring Itachi into this. Sasuke had no choice in what befell him, these people did. Itachi deserved whatever happened to him, twenty fold for betraying his people and family, who still loved him even as they drew their last breaths.
Kakashi faced practically nothing compared to Sasuke and the Hidden Rain children. He had an easy life by comparison. In fact Kakashi himself stated that Sasuke was a 'a victim of that era', thus stating that his pain was far greater than his. People like to glorify this guy anyway they can, but this just ridiculous. The guy had a breezy life. He also had plenty of support, which by your own admission obviously makes such a colossal and awesome difference in ones life.
Gaara chose to stay with an abusive father. His suffering should be shouldered by him as well. But even he had a caretaker till he tried to kill him when he was about 7 or 8. Sasuke chose to liberate himself. That is what intelligent people do. Leave the places that cause them misery. By God, this base ...
