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Basically, in the same way we see what may happen to Sakura if Naruhina or SasuSaku occurred, what would an honest fate be for Hinata for Naruto and Sakura to be together, we know the reasons and possibilities for Naruto and Sakura and those against Naruto and Hinata but still something needs to happen with Hinata, she cannot be left still loving Naruto in this case.
I'm asking this question because even though she is a minor character with minimal accomplishments and her contributions and development in the story have been rushed and crammed for most purposes, people still enjoy her in unhealthy proportions especially in the non-canon sector.
Now this question struck me as interesting because Hinata has a lot to do in order to suddenly become more important and just insert herself into Naruto's priorities and suddenly be more important than Sakura. Obviously right now we do not know where Kishi will go, he can make Hinata marry Shikamaru for anything, but even in this current state, its going to take much more than hand holding for 5 secs, some motivational speech, deflecting one attack from the ten tails (rather than do any effort like the Nara and Amachiki clans) and fixing a dislocated shoulder to suddenly give her a high role of importance, yes we are all sick of these times when Hinata literally just "Springs Up" into the action and gets put on a high pedistal, I mean if character development had meters, many of them we see aside from team 7 (sai and yamato included) have had significant development, I mean team 10, Gaara, Tsunade, Bee, Lee, Itachi, and so on have had steady and stable development. These guys were in at least 2 or more situations and displayed the development they needed when faced with issues around their characters yet Hinata just comes in once every 50 chapters or so and suddenly just shoots up all at once with less consistency and gradual development.
But why I am asking this is because even after playing UNS3 and one of 2 major request events in the game, it means nothing pairing wise or by its difficulty but obviously Hinata's character cannot just vanish into the background like most of us want her to at times. Yes we are sick of being force fed Hinata and want to see our heroes (and one current anti-hero) the members of team 7. But what I am saying is, from UNS3 this one event though its non-canon fanservice, Kishi needs to stash Hinata somewhere for final development if he sticks to Sakura (because he should
).In my opinion, I see what many others have thought of, if NaruSaku occurs, it does retain the story, no damage, Sakura matures over Sasuke, comes to terms with her feelings for Naruto, Naruto knows she means it this time, Sasuke returns but as their friend, Sakura is happy he fulfilled the promise and both Naruto and Sakura feel comfortable with each other, such an easy way to sum it up and it has no damage to the story, we can see Sakura getting over Sasuke in the near future if she really can overcome her idealistic crush.
As for Hinata, she forges her own path (finally she becomes an independent character only in the last 10th of the story!) Not literally taking the quit chasing you line, but if Hinata should have learned anything by now, its that she needs her own sense of development away from Naruto. Sakura developed in her own way a few times without Naruto and even gave him stuff to grow on in return. Hinata is easily summed up as a one way leech for character development, she cannot do anything without Naruto, that's what we see Hinata needing to do. Not to mention does she still not understand how Naruto feels about Sakura, even his issues with Sasuke?
This is why NaruHina fans get a bit annoying a times saying Hinata's confession and Sakura's confession opened the path to NaruHina and killed NaruSaku, if it did, it would again be too easy, short, convenient, not a relation built on time, experience, and mutual growth. Also again too much story damage and throwing out logic when it comes to how Naruto treats Sakura (by no longer loving her or forgiving her) yet still treats others who have done so much harm and damage like Nagato, Gaara, and even Kurama like all they did was nothing. Again from another post, he is okay being friendly and forgiving once deadly and ruthless people who did some of the worst and most evil stuff in the series yet won't forgive Sakura, one of his friends for a simple lie. Yeah kitten logic according to most anti-NaruSaku fans.
Even if NaruSaku did not become canon, all Kishi would have proven is that Naruto and Sakura have a better mutual friendship than Naruto and Hinata being in love with each other. So all the majority of development and interaction would only advocate friendship and minimal interaction and hardly any accomplishments and screentime together advocates lovers for life? Its a story yes, but even Kishi needs to keep his characters believeable and rational, not just suddenly going from loving one person (for many plot reasons) to loving another who only had their own goals to focus on rather than trying to do something for the main character. Again Hinata has done practially nothing for Naruto but take a hit and slap him, we know Sakura did more, a lot more.
I say Hinata needs to find something to believe in besides Naruto, just because she said to hold his hand well guess what, it happened so now maybe can she quit stalking him? One other person said many NH fans said that moment was the biggest and that it could have essentially killed itself, you cannot top what is the biggest. We have seen Sakura in a few moments but going from the 4 tails, standing over Sasuke's leaving again, hugging Naruto, and being saved from Sasuke, we have seen Sakura get more events each time and they have displayed much more. I don't think her concern at the 4 tails or being rescued and concerned for Naruto in the eventual fight would be the high marks, we have more to see. Naruto and Sakura will interact again when the focus again is reduced to team 7 not the full war.
Hinata is a side character, if she had her high moment then she is finished, just sticking around till the end of the series. Kishi needs to let her realize to have her own path, not following on Naruto's (seriously following the same path as someone else in my opinion is the cheapest way of making some romance in any series). It would be hard for NH to top itself as one person said, so if it could top itself, would it be able to do it in a way that it still does not elevate Hinata to an area of importance she should not enter? I highly doubt it, if they do manage it, its going to start ruining the importance of Naruto, Team 7, Obito, and those more central to the conflict. Hinata has no purpose here and should never enter it in a million years.
What are some fates you can think of that make sense for Hinata if NaruSaku happened?
