Wow, I was not expecting a lot that was in that chapter. You would believe Kishimoto has a grudge against Sakura to keep putting her through this kind of thing. However, we know he defended her when English fans gave her a hard time for the confession at an event. Then, you ask yourself why is he making her suffer like this. As a ninja, her specialty lies in healing. However, before she decided to become a medic out of a desire to be helpful, she wanted to stand with the boys essentially. However, even at this point, she hasn't reached that goal or any of her goals. She's what we would call a failure hero, or heroine in this case, because she rarely succeeded in anything that was important. Things she did accomplish was with help from other people. Saving Naruto from death and rescuing Sasuke both required Obito's help. Other than that, she's never succeeded in anything else major. She just does little things, and while Yamato said that it's not what you do, but the feelings you put into them that count, she has yet to be satisfied with just that.
So again, why does Kishimoto keep putting her through this pain if there's no grudge involved? All I know for sure is that this can't be it for her. There's no point to her character if she never succeeds at anything that she can feel very proud of. She may not participate in the long-awaited Naruto vs. Sasuke, but that doesn't mean she won't play a major role while the conflict is going on. Kishimoto even said that he would focus on Sakura next after Kakashi. Well, Kakashi's character arc is done now. How will she play a major role at this stage? Who knows, but really, she can't just be left out like this. It would be such a disappointment and a further disservice to her character if she does nothing. I hope it is something very big to compensate for all the crap she's been put through. Honestly, I care about her character more than the Naruto vs. Sasuke fight, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
What Kishi working on Sakura...... Yeah when he gets a brain cell or two, but face it it would have been better if she was never made to save her from all this hate, its just sad to me really she is the second female character to be credited simple to be hated the other being Flay Allster from Gundam seed to girls who are just used to be Sh** on by the writer who made them.
I know many will say its not true but sadly the proof was in the chapter Kishi does hate Sakura. He wants us all to hate her and when it come down to it, like Flay he will kill her or worse so really for Sakura death would be far better for Sakura right now then all the BS she is getting.
Its sad Kishi went out of his way to make every single one fo his pairings unlikeable before resolving them.....I mean jesus we were so close to a near perfect score than Kishi had to go and do this.
Because NH is the true end game I mean why else would he do all this and never had one bad moment for them, even in the pain arc Naruto was pissed and more concerned for Hinata,