He's trying very hard to brute force NH. All the NH developments all comes from Hinata, a support character, suddenly sticking her butt into the middle of highly improbable situations. The plot is just not realistic.
Although, we have to blame ourselves somewhat for reading a shounen manga as a romance novel.
It seems like some of you needed to slapped like Naruto to be reminded of your own ways.
We ship because we like NaruSaku, not because it is a betting competition versus NH/SS. (tbh the odds were so never that good for us imo). So many of us have gathered here and across many communities for so long because we loved this couple. Some of you have been dedicated to it for so incredibly long (look at your reg dates) It doesn't really matter what turns out to be canon, we will still always love NaruSaku and that will mean more to us than anything.
That aside, so NH got a good moment. So what. It doesn't mean that a NS moment is never coming. There is nothing definitive to declare anything canon yet. Have some faith, some hope. And some Valium.
It's okay to be on the "losing" ship, but as long as we're on it, we might as well as take this journey to the bitter end. Never throw in the towel. Fight on, NaruSaku!