Sorry about that, I guess my shonen manga experience is pretty limited. The first manga I really followed was Dragonball (Z) and that sort of took that line of thinking to the extreme. I mean people blew each other's heads off, but I don't recall any major kiss scenes, other than Goku and Chi-Chi's wedding. But I might be wrong about that too. I just feel Naruto is so action-oriented, an extended kiss scene like we all hope for might be a little much. At least not until the epilogue.

Agreed, there are way too many like that. But then again I recently read a SasuSaku fic where it did the opposite. It was more, um, perverted (

But, yeah, this thread is getting a little explicit, sorry for bringing this sort of thing up again.