I know some people are still going on and on about this, but I want some of you take a step back, take a deep breathe, and just listen for one moment. Or don't. The choice is yours.
For as long as we can remember we have debated over this manga time and time again. Everyday it felt like we knew or we understood something only to be thrown into a loop. We get discouraged because we were wrong or in some cases happy because we were right, but some here are acting like you already know exactly how the manga will end and it won't be satisfactory. How would you know? At this point, maybe nothing will satisfy you. It could even be exactly what you want to happen and it won't be good enough, but that cannot be changed. Some of you are just as stubborn as Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke are. Unwilling to look at anything different for whatever reason. If anything, we are just like them because we want this "ideal reality" and "perfect image" to come to life, but nothing ever works out the way you want it. Doesn't mean you won't get what you want.
@Pepsi
I want to ask you something truthfully. In what way could this all be fixed? If you could take over Kishimoto's body, how would you fix this manga to better suit what you deem is worthy of what the goals you are after? This isn't some challenge to prove you're wrong or anything, but rather I am just curious. You preach that everything is broken, but never do you really provide any way that it could be fixed. It's like people who want gun laws or gun control. They want it to happen, but they never really have an answer about going about doing it. So, I am curious, how would you do it? And how would you feel if people thought your idea was terrible or thinking you were out of your mind?
I am tired of trying to convince people to "like" Sakura because they never will. For whatever reason, they can never like her. So why bother trying to convince them? I want to stop caring about them. I still think Sakura is an amazing girl. She just has problems that is her weakness. Even I have such problems that I am trying to overcome and still haven't. To you, maybe my problems could be easily solvable, but to me they haunt me day in and day out to the point that I want a release from them. I realized that what I need is someone to help me...to remind me who I truly am. In a way, I know what Sakura is going through and maybe perhaps she knows she is in love [with Sasuke], but at the same time she doesn't want to be. Insanity? Well, the human mind and heart are complicated things. If we could explain them, then we would solve the greatest mysteries of all.
I know a way to make NS an amazing thing. I know how it can become canon and not be seen as a "silver medal," but....Sakura has to "die" first. She has to kill off who she was before and be reborn into something new. Something far more powerful. Something wonderful and amazing. I am hoping this is what is going to happen. For Naruto, it is the same way and for Sasuke as well. They need to "die" and be "reborn." Renovatio.
@LadyGT
You have high hopes for the manga ahead. Maybe like some you were hurt by what happened, but at the same time you saw something else. Something that some are not seeing. I think I see it too or I believe I do. I have no way to explain to others how our views can be seen. It is like trying to explain god to an atheist. Sometimes they just have to learn for themselves if they ever do.
I tried so hard to see this manga, to read it, and even to understand it, but I am not sure if I can unless I know exactly what Kishimoto is thinking. I do try though and while there are times of just wanting to give up, there are others times of wanting to know more. To maybe somewhat relate it to my own life and my own views. I can't understand everything though and other times I completely disagree with it outright. I am not sure if it is me being stubborn or misunderstanding or maybe I am the one correct and the manga is wrong. I have no way to tell that at all. All I can do is watch like an observer and hoping this "world" plays out to something beautiful and amazing.
I can't pretend anymore to think that I am smarter than Kishimoto and know exactly what is good for this manga. I can't pretend that I know exactly what is going to happen and spout out things that maybe in themselves is insanity. I don't want to do that anymore because I feel like I am missing out in what it means to truly "see" things. This chapter was a huge wake up to me and maybe it was for the best. This chapter might be the most powerful chapter in the entire series, because it is not just meant to open the characters eyes, but maybe open our eyes as well. Most of the fandom are rather...tunnel visioned in their views. It's not bad, but it is not good either. It just is. In a way, I kind of feel sorry for Naruto and Sakura because it is like they want others to understand them while at the same time not be seen as insane for what they see or if they do have their own demons, maybe want to be rid of them. It is meant to hold them back and they have to release it any way they can. This was Sakura's way of releasing those demons so that she can truly be free of it all. Now Naruto has to break free.
I thought about this chapter in reflection of my own life and I had to laugh. I am just like Sakura. Even though I love another with all my heart, I still can not rid myself of a past love and it haunts me to this very day. I am hoping one day to release those demons because it feels like I am tearing myself apart. Like I can't live my life cause it is holding me back. I don't know truly if this is what Sakura feels, but that's what I feel when I read this chapter one more time. I felt like someone trying to break the chains of their prison and trying so hard to find release. You don't want to face it, but you know you have to. It turns us into bad things, but we have to defeat it for our own freedom.
The girl that I am in love with now...I feel free when I see her and I have to wonder if Sakura feels the same looking at Naruto.
Even now, my words seem like madness and probably people will find weirdness in reading all of this, but I just wanted to spill my heart on the page. There is always this state of mind I have where I have no fear, no shame, and no weight to me and for some reason I am in that state of mind right now.
Kishimoto....he has surprised us on many occasions. The only thing I know for certain is that he will surprise us again. I want to see that cherry blossom bloom one more time.
hooray for the silver medal 
Women love a man who can finish second.
Edited by James S Cassidy, 29 September 2014 - 10:09 AM.
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. i hope ramen isnt that busy today 
and they like doing it as we all know .lol . 
