Unfortunately I think that if Kishi ever made another movie or short manga story aimed at making fans a bit happier, he would not change the romantic outcome or at least make it go to the point zero (open ending). He would focus on Team 7, we would get more Sakura screentime, we would see Taka and rookies play a bigger role, but romance? I imagine Kishi would stay even further from it than he was in the manga. Further than ever. He could even keep Hinata as Naruto's life choice, just never mention it loudly. After all all the rage I read in japanese comments seems to be directed at many things BUT the love choice per se. Yes, they don't understand why Hinata became so important and why she is portrayed as Naruto's main supporter and most important person, but they don't say things like "He should have ended with Sakura". They don't like how Naruto and Sakura's relationship was resolved, but they are not pushing Sakura into Naruto's lover role. With such an enormous ammount of rage directed towards the choice to make the movie about romance, I have the feeling Kishi would decide to stay away from any romance in an alternative ending (like the authors of Legend of Korra decided to abandon Korra x Mako x Asami after fandom's outburst of hate).
Please correct me, because I am reading Google translate and I don't red 2ch - I could miss something.
I would take Team 7 alternative ending any day over the crap we have now, but I wouldn't hope for canon NS even if an alternative was ever announced.
It would also be a smart choice not to declare NH void and not put NS forward, because Kishi and SP would risk loosing the last part of devoted fandom while not pleasing the hurt one enough.
Just like that I AM happy that japanese reactions are confirming that we read the manga right and that we are more than just ship-biased, but at the same time a see that we are not winning as NS much.
Edited by Alessa, 08 December 2014 - 08:35 PM.