Agreed.I've posted similar thoughts on this forum many times. The thing I don't get is why so many people fail to realize the seriousness of the situation in which Sakura confessed.She had just come away from her conversation with Sai, after which she realized she had "been getting it wrong" and she didn't want to "make any more mistakes."So.... Not getting it wrong anymore and not making additional makes means going out of your way to lie to your friend and teammate -- who you just found out is in love with you?Sakura went all the way to the Land of Iron to confront Naruto -- in front of a lot of people -- told Naruto that she loves him, tried to seal the deal with a hug, and then proceeded to have a very personal discussion with him about her feelings for him as well as her misplaced feelings for Sasuke.Kakashi, Yamato, Sai, Lee, and Kiba -- even Akamuru -- heard everything Naruto and Sakura said to each other. If Naruto had jumped into her arms, was she planning to later say she didn't mean it? That she was kidding? That by "love" she meant sisterly love, and that she had only said it because his life was in danger?Was she prepared to sacrifice her credibility with all those witnesses and admit that it had all been a lie, and that she had used Naruto's feelings for her just to save his life? Please.Even if she didn't know how to let go of Sasuke in that moment -- even if she still had feelings for him and didn't know what they meant because of who he had become -- she still chose Naruto, and knew she was making a public commitment to him. She knew what she was doing.In #540 we saw that the reality of what Sasuke had become was cemented in Sakura's heart, but it still made her feel bad that she had loved him as long as she had and that it had hurt Naruto so much.Then we get Minato's questioning if she's Naruto's girlfriend, which Naruto confirms and Sakura does not deny.Then we get Kakashi confirming that Sakura will always care about Sasuke, but that her feelings are on a whole other level.For readers to be conflating these things as hints of SS is mind-boggling.Kishimoto has admitted that he likes to write the dialogue in a way that makes it vague -- to keep people guessing -- but there's only one underlying truth that makes sense. Sakura chose Naruto way back when Sai talked to her, and Naruto was more open to accepting Sakura's feelings after Sai talked to him.Sai is a yenta, but good thing he is. Otherwise Naruto and Sakura would still be floundering.
The way I see it, its pretty much exactly as Graveinimage said
interviewer - "What are her feelings towards Sasuke?"
Kishi - "Sasuke?....What about Sasuke?"
She stopped having romantic feelings for him a while ago and what happened in LOI was her discarding her romantic ties to him but not giving up on him entirely (which is what Naruto giving her hope by the end was supposed to be about) The anime even goes out of its way to be even more direct about this "I couldn't fight the one I used to love" therefore further proving that she was being honest with the confession.
Ofcourse what makes it confusing is Naruto saying she's lying and Sai referring to Sasuke as "the one she loves" as opposed to "the one she cares about" or even "someone she loves".
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as there won't be real kiss in manga 
