>not a naruto/sasuke friendship
Honestly, I don't think Kishi is capable of writing an actual organic friendship, I mean, the friendship between Naruto and Sasuke was the most important relationship during the whole of Shippuden, and even then I never bought it.
It just felt too forced, their entire friendship was preceeded by years of "rivalry" in the academy, where Sasuke was completely out of Naruto's league the entire time, and seemed at most slightly annoyed by Naruto, and at worst apathetic.
They only start to get along in Wave, but that was just training together, then Sasuke's near-death against Haku, where they became more friendly towards eachother, they still didn't have much, and the Chuunin Exam arc killed it as it was getting somewhat good, with Orochimaru's curse mark and the resulting jealousy.
The Sasuke Retrieval arc was decent enough by showing us some emotionl conflict as Sasuke fights Naruto, but it all just goes downhill from there.
Come Shippuden, Sasuke doesn't seem to give a shit about Naruto throughout all of it before he kills Itachi that is, at which point he decides on killing every leaf ninja and civilian, Naruto included, and then there's the mess that was the War arc, and suddenly they're super duper best friends whose bonds are unbreakable and shit.
Hell, I'm a literal faggot, and even I think their frindship sucks, and trying to interpret it as romance still doesn't fix it, because at the end of the series, while Naruto is a flawed, but still well intentioned, genuinely good and kind person, Sasuke is a complete bag of dicks, who shows almost no remorse for all of his crimes, and they still haven't had any moments where they seemed to actually relate until the very end, and at that point it's too late to care.
Also because Sasuke is worst boy, there's that too.