Wow, 14 pages for a single chapter. That was a long read

Time to join the fun.
It was a fine chapter, I think. Honestly I didn't see any clues that Neji will die, so, it was shocking nonetheless. At least his death is a fitting conclusion to his character. Though I personally think the better message to the readers (which is youth by large), is for him to stay long enough and patch the issues in Hyuuga clan. Too bad that path is gone now --based on the current fact, though there is a possibility for resurrection, as much as I hate it. Well, Neji Hyuuga, you'll be remembered.
I personally think that if and only if there'll be more deaths from the younger generation to protect Naruto. It'll make the possibility for Naruto to die in exchange to bring back his comrades' lives would be even plausible. Sorry. Somehow I love the idea of Naruto make the ultimate sacrifice. Lol. Either that, or somehow he'll go back to the past to fix the root cause of hatred cycle. Anything that position him as the one making ultimate sacrifice will do ;p lol.
I don't really worried about the NH "moment" (if you consider it as a moment). Part of it because I've prepared myself to read chunks of SS and NH moments, before it concludes to NS (cross-fingers). Also, as stated by others, the focus is on Neji bond towards Naruto. It also make an act of sacrificing one's life for Naruto is what others would do as well, not exclusively for Hinata or Sakura or whoever.
The other camp, of course, can take the panel as a 'proof'. Which is fine. But we also need to be aware that so far, the so called comments which support NH comes from Kiba and Neji. Which by large, hardly interacts or knows Naruto on the romance department. Logically they would know Hinata more (as a teammates or cousin). But, they are not on the same level as Sai, Yamato, Tsunade, or Kakashi in terms of understanding Naruto, particularly in romance department (I'm not saying that these characters are pairing fodders). Those who know Naruto better haven't made any comments about Hinata or any comments which support NH. Which means, I think Kishi is still not going to NH direction. But of course, I'm not Koshi and I might be wrong.lol.
Embrace yourself for yet another SS or NH 'moments'. Just bare with it and enjoy the show

Well i dont want naruto to make the ultimate sacrifice because naruto already suffered enough, his parents sacrified their lives in order to naruto live, i think he deserve a happy ending not sacrificing himself without achieving the things he desired it's bad.
The one here that will sacrifice himself could be sasuke.
In this current arc we see that obito could crush the alliance army with a bijuu bomb if he want but looks like he wants to bring despair on naruto, in other words naruto will have time to use "talk no jutsu" and convert obito, i hate the ressurrection stuff on the series but he will bring neji back.
What i think that kishi is not on NH direction is the fact that he's giving hinata development but he's not giving a development of Naruto>>Hinata, like he did with Sakura(this development is not done yet), i never see Naruto blushing or having special feelings for hinata.
Edited by Dαrkrєrsŧ, 19 December 2012 - 02:36 PM.