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Okay so I have been reading comments and come up with a few thought processes. Some say this is Hinata's character coming to a close and I thought to myself how can this be true? If it really was her character coming to close wouldn't it revolve NaruHina with it either being canon or Hinata accepting that she won't be with him? (
From what us fans want to believe is that her character ends with NH being canon or not. Sadly, this is Kishi's fault because he made her nothing more than pairing fodder.) This can be taken two ways in that if this Hinata's character coming to a close and NH is still not canon, then it will never be canon no matter what happens. This is going off the basis that even when many claimed that 615 was such a huge pro NaruHina moment, it seems to have fallen into nothing. It hasn't been brought up again lately and it has made no impact on NH at all. Just looking at Naruto himself confirms that this kind of interaction has not made Naruto see Hinata any differently. He still sees her as the same girl as he did before and thinks nothing more of it. I still think that chapter when he told her that she was strong on her own was the moment he denied her love, but this is just me.
Anyway, The other possible outcome is that this is forcing NH to come to pass, but wouldn't it be considered canon already if that were true? We at the NS agree that we know no pairing will become canon until the end, if Kishi ever picks one at all, but this works on NH side as well. For all the talk NH fans and some other fans say how important 615 and this chapter make, it hasn't made any pairing any more canon than the other and this we have to remember.
This chapter with Hinata standing on the field again ready to take another bullet is really starting to be cliche even for this manga. It is not heroic anymore and it is starting to lose its luster when basically everyone has taken a bullet for Naruto by now. So what else is new? If this is development for Hinata to be more than just pairing fodder I have to say to Kishi "Too little, too late." All this, as some have said, is coming out of no where and happening so fast it feels so forced. If this happened over the course of the manga even just in the beginning of part 2, then maybe this would have been more acceptable. Hinata fans will disagree with me, but then some are so blind to everything I am not sure if they understand even if I try to explain.
Again, I look to Naruto and his reaction. Even Sakura is taking a risk being next to him in the front lines so just because she is healing doesn't mean she isn't doing something important or not in danger. She is just as brave to care more about Naruto than herself and Hinata fans would say the same about Hinata right now as well. Just look at Naruto's reaction again...he doesn't see just Hinata or just Sakura. He sees everyone. He sees his friends risking their lives for him and he realizes that he is not alone. He saw this with Neji too.
We the fans do have one problem: We are so busy looking at what Sakura or Hinata do that we neglect to see Naruto's reaction. This chapter doesn't have Naruto saying "Oh wow, Hinata is so brave. She is so cool. I think I love her" or even "Sakura is so special risking so much for me." (
Although arguably, he has done stuff like the second part in the past, but we are just looking at now.) We the fans can think of everything and anything about any character, but I want to see what Naruto thinks more often. He is the only one whose thoughts really matter in the end of this pairing war. The impacts these characters make on Naruto matter and how he reacts to them create so much more than just what Hinata or Sakura does.
In mangapanda, it is translated as "Everyone..." on mangastream it is "You guys..." He is not just reacting to what one person does, he is reacting to what everyone is doing. Unless Naruto specifically reacts in such a way that applies that Naruto might be changing his feelings for Hinata, she can do anything and it won't matter. It has been shown that Sakura has been changing her feelings from Sasuke to Naruto and we can see where she changes. We can point them out. Can anyone point out the moment where Naruto might have been having second thoughts and change to Hinata? No. I can't think of one moment. Not even 615.
One problem that we still have is Kishimoto who is unwilling to close out any of the pairings at all. Although SS might as well be dead he still throws in those red herrings that imply otherwise. This gets on my nerves above all else to the point that I want to tell Kishi: "Pick something and stick with it. It's getting really boring and nerve racking every time you decide to tease like that."
As for some saying they wish to see Sakura take a bullet for Naruto for him to see how much she cares...I don't know if it will do it. Again, seeing how Kishi keeps wanting to NOT conclude any pairings yet he will make Naruto react in a way that is so ambiguous you won't know 100% even if he does do it. Same with 615 where Naruto focused more on Neji than Hinata.
This is all pairing teases in a nutshell and fan reactions.
Plus, if I may say, taking the bullet is getting very cliche in the manga. Like I said, so many have taken so many bullets for Naruto that it is getting tiresome. What else can Kishi do to make something like that more impactful? The only way I can see it working effectively is if it was in a way that really showed something. If Sakura stood in the middle of Naruto vs Sasuke fight to where she was willing to fight for Naruto, tell him she loves him, and then take the bullet would definitely be more impactful. Just taking the bullet itself is not enough anymore. Some will say this will be like a repeat to the Pain arc and while I would say "it is" there is one thing that makes it different: It is the single most important battle in Naruto's life and he is very close with both people. With the Pein arc he barely knew Hinata and knew nothing of Pein. We saw how he reacted to that, imagine the reaction he would at this one.
Great post.
Well, I just think the problem is that Hinata hasn't gotten developments until this arc, along with more Team 10, Lee, and so on. Pain Arc sets up for it, but it will be another 2 arcs of waiting. The point is that Kishi took a long time and thought to himself that he could close many characters' developments by having all in one arc, which is Hinata got 2 in here: the conclusion to Pain Arc action and the shining moment in the battlefield. To me, this chapter is just showing how Naruto's friends are still willing to protect him, even without Kyuubi's chakra, and with the addition of losing men in the alliance, they are still not giving up. That said the problem is that Naruto has to recover his health and Kyuubi's chakra, so to me, this is saying that these defense are about to get knocked out or killed, though for Hinata, knocked out. I feel like because of Sakura being close to Naruto, it's an excuse for everyone to be wiped out except these and just maybe a very few men, because when it comes to down it, Hinata and others are playing a wall for Naruto but if you destroy that wall, then you have Naruto/Sakura left standing, meaning Hinata is asking for danger as Naruto recovering. That's how I saw this chapter.
For the record, in my opinion, I always thought words against the enemy for his/her friends are more effective than taking a bullet, because taking a bullet is an action that you do it to protect your friend in danger, but again, it needs to be in the battlefield. When you talk back at the enemy who is trying to hurt your friend, I always find it effective because this can occur not only in battlefield, but in normal daily life situation. You're doing it to protect your friend's inner thoughts/feelings, and not it's not just his life/death situation. Funny, because when you get down to it, Hinata got no true involvement with the plot because she never really talk to the enemy that hurts him or even acknowledge it. Pain is like "Well, another one bite the dust" instead of like "Well, who do you hell you think you're talking to? Naruto can't win" In short, she never got connected with the enemy, just Naruto. While good, at least understand what you up against or acknowledge it. Sakura got involve because Naruto's feelings was being tackled by his enemies and she knows how much it hurts him. It's still funny how everyone is still thinking, "Thanks to these chakra, we survived" only to say, "Crap, we have no more. We protect him now!" Sakura just thought the possibility of what's doing to him in the long run and so far, it's happening quickly.
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