Posted 06 July 2013 - 02:17 AM
As I see it, 631 was a major point for ns, no questions asked, the whole foreshadow began with Kushina, it came again with minato towards sakura seeing Kushina in her. These things are written for a reason. Sasusaku, it's obviously got the main problem with how negative it's been on sakura and how one sided it has remained, it's been the primary source of dramatic struggle for sakura since the end of part 1. As I see it the importance of sasusaku this whole time has been dramatic material for sakura and naruto and the strain on both of them, for sakura it's being caught between the actions of the two, for naruto it's trying to fulfill the promise and her happiness. What seems to be a realistic outcome IMO though is that, it's the struggle of sasusaku that ends and gives both naruto and sakura newfound strentgth, aka SS leads to ns because of the development. It's one part they overcome the struggle of Sasuke together but also gain that happiness and acceptance of each other. Basically for naruto trying to fulfill Sakura's happiness, it's not unreal to think that he himself becomes her happiness. As for nh, it remains unclear what hinata herself will do and is an issue for stuff like naruto still proclaiming sakura as his gf and still loving her if nh wanted to even become canon. The biggest issues with nh are still just that, lack of screentime, development, consistency, and even correlation with the main plot involving Sasuke. Nh mainly happened on the side, it's one thing for it to develop even in minor points but does not help when it just occurs once every 50 plus chapters and there is still more just focusing on ns.
Even with 615 and now stuff like 631 and 635 just bolstering ns and shaking up SS and leaving nh up in the air, ns still has all the matter las laid out, not even needing the parallels but even the. The sakura Kushina ordeal just gives much more reason for it, it's not a moment the sakura Kushina thing as mentioned before, it's a foreshadow element and it means something, its written for a reason, even then for those that do not believe it, it's simply the only thing word for word building on kushinas own words with minato and the whole she is like Kushina etc, its simply Kishi telling the reader, that perhaps there is some stuff similar thing between sakura and Kushina, perhaps Kushina is that girl. Even there is no use trying to fabricate things like Kushina Kushina relations not working or hinata being like either hinata or minato if we never even get a notion of her being like others. It's undeniable proof that naruto has been compared to both his parents and sakura to Kushina, even then naruto being like both his parents, his minato ness works with Sakura's kushinaness. Even then the minato poriton is dominant though due to so many other reasons we all know by now.
Nh has too many problems, still, hinata cannot just get a free pass and even then, where is the notion of narutos feelings being romantic, or when did he exactly start loving her? Just too many issues, if nh wanted to occur logically at this point, it would be hard, only one arc left and even then you cannot make a whole love story in the end in a short bunch of chapters out of nearly no reason. Nh can only occur reasonably if sakura were to be independent, SS is out of the question just because it would harm Sakura's development and put Sasuke ooc. Nh either happens alone or not at all. At this point, it has too many issues, there is just too much stacked against it, remember writing is like a contract, what an author writes, it's in a way the binding contract of what they can do with their story. Because Kishi chose to use sakura towards Kushina, it means something. Obviously there is a focus right now, to change that means things become unusual. Furthermore what reason would there be to have minato suddenly associate a likeness of himself to hinata when nothing has been done before? There have been many many attributes of naruto and sakura towards other characters, but none for hinata. In the case of ns the minato one in naruto and sakura one in Kushina, yea that is a big factor but even then the development of ns still serves the most important parts, advancement and mutual growth off and for each other.
Just a side question, for what reasons do some of you think minato is considered the domaint parallel trait in naruto? For many reasons I think, it's the whole aspect of what naruto does and who he is, not the personality or how he acts.
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Oh yeah Sasuke will definitely drop his goals and just do nothing, yep totally it. 
