If there is anything to the pairing debates that gets old now and to me just does not cut it anymore, it has to be among these following:
1. Claiming the anime or fillers for additional development- sometimes others have tried the argument that because NaruSaku has the most in the manga, its legitimate for the others to use the anime or fillers as content. I just say no, no you cannot do that, that is not canon material, if any arguments use ep 166 of shippuden for NH, by right we in NS should be able to use the extended scenes during the rasenshuriken training or especially ep 235 of shippuden.
2. Comparing the romance or turnouts of other series that had a romance subplot too Naruto- this just does it in for me, how can the results of one series impact Naruto? Naruto does one thing one way while these other series did it another way. Someone seriously once tried to give the argument that SasuSaku was like Vegeta and Bulma despite the latter two only getting canon because of another character being created. Others have used stuff like Ranma or Shaman King and how the pairing stuff turned out there. I just say the only evidence that should be used is in the manga, the source material the author himself is showing, nothing else cuts it.
3. Naruto suddenly/secretly loving Hinata or same thing with Sasuke towards Sakura- if one thing is true in the series, emotions don't change offscreen. We usually always get some small duration of panels showing something. Even then, there is still just a big abstance of consistency for Naruto to just drop Sakura and start loving Hinata. Same with Sasuke, just no reason to suddenly love Sakura, it just would jumble a lot of the story.
4. Other media of Naruto as evidence to a pairing- One thing I mean is, events in the games or movies, if they have something, some think it means more progress for the pairing of their choice, all the movies are filler, they don't advance anything, they are just side adventures for Naruto and co. Some have said the short interaction with Naruto and AU Hinata and Sakura and AU Sasuke in RtN is more for those (even though it made NH and SS look worse if anything). Other stuff is like in the UNS games, a team up of Naruto and Hinata gives the team name "secret lovers" and this made many fans squeal in joy thinking NH was canon from the game. Yet the name is really just referring to how both of them have a secret crush, if anything this could have been used as a team name for just simply Naruto and Sakura or Naruto, Sakura, and Hinata together, that would have been perfect.
5. Old conceptions or Interviews- One of the biggest, some people say that because Hinata was intended to be on team 7 that makes NH instantly canon, others say that the interviews show what he intends to happen, this is not always true. Conceptions are just that, concepts, that does not mean they will make it in the final product. I mean Sasuke himself was not originally intended, rather he was created as one co-worker of Kishi's suggested creating a rival for Naruto, Sasuke began as a concept. Naruto was orginally going to be an actual fox demon rather than human, but then he decided to make Naruto human and give the fox character a seperate one, aka kurama. Interviews too, what he says back then can change, I mean in the 2008 interview he said he would do Sasuke, Kakashi, and then Sakura, he also said the "revelation to shock kakashi would come too" yet this was all the way back in 08, we just found the shock to kakashi last year. He even admitted to forgetting Sakura, so if anything Kushina and the 4th war arc delayed this. I mean he did Kakashi a bit with the obito reveal and now a good degree on Sakura, but it was not orginally intended for the long ordeal with Kushina and the confinement arc.
There are just too many obstacles for NH and too many holes in the SS ship right now. I mean even with the whole girlfriend NS moment being for humor, it still put the Sakura-Kushina event there and just why would it change, better what purpose does Minato need in order to talk too Hinata? What is the point? I mean last we saw Hinata she struggled to get one full 64 palms strike out, rather chapter 633 felt like filler with all the techniques of the others being revealed I mean I loved the team 10 human yo-yo but what did that chapter actually accomplish in the long run yet? Nothing save showing the new sannin deadlock summoning. Its like at this point either redoing the kushina parallel to Hinata would just rather be a "why even put that with Sakura in the first place?" It would have been better saved if revealed later or near the time Minato left. It would just make things more confusing in the long run. Like again so much focused on NS but now suddenly NH gets more importance? Thats the kind of thing that needs to be avoided, just makes the story look weaker overall. Same if Sasuke suddenly got love and happy feelings in him to say sorry and I love you to Sakura, that just breaks everything. Right at this point with the Sakura-Kushina parallel and her current distrust of Sasuke, its just too out of the realm of logic to get a troll moment for NS, I mean what is going to undermine or overtake the parallel if anything without the story? Yes there will be future interaction between Sakura and Sasuke and Naruto and Hinata, but to just disregard the parallel or some impact to occur on Sakura? No just no. Theres nothing right now nor any foreseeable reason why the parallel should change, from all we saw from Kushina, practically 95% of it just fits and falls onto Sakura, just too many reasons it fits. NS is top right now, nothing has hammered or changed it, I doubt it will. Still just too many unsolved events with Naruto and Sakura themselves. I just cannot see how SS is going to stay together after this coming event if it already looks negative and given how characters change, well Sakura is about to have one of her longest traits, her love for Sasuke impacted where it matters, given I highly think this is maturity time for her, she is not going to revert ever. Not to mention, what sense does it make for her to join or betray Naruto as some speculate especially after the land of iron and the coming event? No just no. SS has too many holes and NH still has not gotten around the parallel event. NS has the advantage for now, and even then the whole parallel unlocked a plethora of potential events to come forward, namely a forehead revisit, it sounds insane but all this stuff for NS is just lying there ready to be used and build up.
