So this afternoon I started feeling bad; the ending finally got to me. I'm getting over it slowly, but steadily, though. However, I decided to tell my sister, who's one year older than me (we're both on our early twenties) about the ending of Naruto. She used to follow Naruto a few years ago, but stopped, yet even until now she stayed as an avid NaruHina, ShikaTema, and SaiSaku shipper. When she heard NH and ST happened, she jumped of excitement and she was a taken aback by SS and a little bit surprised by SaiIno. However, when I explained how everything happened from 699 to the end of 700, she was happy she stopped following Naruto and started calling kitten and fanservice. She hated everything, from NH's kids having whiskers and not having Byakugan (she was especially surprised by this, since she remembered Hinata was the heiress of the Hyuuga Clan... a fact which Kishi seems to have forgotten after Part 2 began) to Naruto and Sasuke being bad parents, especially Naruto, after hearing his dialogue with Bolt... oh, she also hated all the names and looks of the characters, especially Salad's look-alike to Karin.
If my sister and I agree on this, let me tell you there has to be a great number people pissed at the ending. Or there will be... at least I hope there will be. I mean, the Naruto fandom can't be mostly composed of idiots.
The story pointed to NS as endgame, the last two chapters were a mess: characters OOC, ignoring years of development; nothing about the aftermath of the war is explained; several characters didn't even appear in the last two chapters, e.g., Yamato, important character in Part II/Shippuuden; Orochimaru, the goddamned main villain of Part I; Taka, Sasuke's team in Part II/Shippuuden; the epilogue was absolutely terrible. MRW I read 699-700: