The way he squeezed her hand kinda bothered me tbh, but whatever..
Yeah me too, but whatever, the rest of the scene was so bland and emotionless, that it's not that bad.
If you notice he did that because he was charging himself up this is evident because at very next minute he lifts his other arm and forms a fist really there was nothing romantic in here from Naruto's side he didn't even bother to look at her but he went straight to charging himself up and Hinata , in the manga after this moment he also implies this so no worries really lol .
I prefer to not use an excuse, to me, he squeezed her hand, but as I said, who cares, he squeezed her hand, so what? It was a sign of affection during this sad event that is Neji's death. Because he has to get over his death, and Hinata helped him.
Yeah, but I think hand holding is something special in Japan :/ I might be mistaken I dunno.
Anyways, funny thing is I always waited for this part to be animated back when I was a NH fan but everything has changed now since I don't ship NH anymore.
I started watching and reading Naruto only last year actually lol
Indeed, japanese audience was disturbed by the handholding, japanese don't touche each other like american are always hugging each other. Handholding is significant but you know what....... CPR is way more significant, it's a kiss for them because their lips touched each other. NH handholding was disturbing for japanese fans, but CPR made them call NS canon. I saw the comments, 631 and 663 are confirming NS to be the end game to them. They were even calling the CPR "deep kisu" which made us have a good laugh on this site, I remember.