Btw when was this interview ?
Seiyuu: “Sakura had always been worried about Naruto, but her actions towards Naruto seem to have a different feel from before, she seems very anxious about Naruto…How does she feel about Sasuke-kun?”
Kishimoto: “As for Sakura… Sasuke… what about Sasuke? Naruto is close and she worries about Naruto as well, but as expected, she [loves] Sasuke.”
Seiyuu: “Because of this, she acted quite haughty towards that guy. She used Naruto’s love for her and told him she loved him.”
Kishimoto: "On the contrary…. I felt like depicting an honest girl, with a surprisingly stubborn impression. So… she became such a character, but… well… from here on, maybe I should draw her showing a bit more spirit. I figured I had placed her in a heroine-like situation, but from the readers I was told harshly that she wasn’t heroine-ish at all. Perhaps I should depict her a bit more like a heroine, because you say ‘Hinata Hinata.’ I say ‘She’s not Hinata.’”
Seiyuu: "When I first saw her hugging Naruto, my heart beat throbbed a bit."
Kishimoto: "Well, an unpleasant person is an unpleasant person, but the feeling I was trying to depict is that you could say ‘After this, [my opinion of her] has gone up a bit… yeah.’"
I get the sense, given this interview, Sakura’s expressions, the Databook (Sakura "doesn’t know how she feels" about Naruto and he "makes her heart beat faster"), and the rationale Sakura had behind deciding to kill Sasuke that Sakura cares about Naruto at least as much as Hinata does, and the chances of her being in love with him (in addition to Sasuke) at this point are quite high.
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Edited by theunburnt, 10 August 2014 - 06:45 AM.