And here I thought the Hinata chapter, 469, AND 470 was bad...
This one actually took the cake and pie.
Actually I thought the reaction was way worse in 469, when we had all the lurking members that just wait for a chance to bash Sakura piled into that thread. Then had to take most of their bashing arguments back when 470 came out....
This one was mostly just the usual panic reactions of the less certain narusaku fans, with a NHer flamebaiting and a couple of Sakura bashers...
I'll repeat here what I said in the chapter threads about the ships:
Naruhina and Sasusaku are less than one sided, while narusaku is mutual. NH and SS are less than one sided now because Naruto has zero interest in Hinata, and Hinata is transitioning quite readily away from her crush and to seeing Naruto as an encouraging role model.
(Hinata does come out looking better emotionally wise in this chapter- but she had less to move on from- just her one sided crush- she can still view Naruto as a role model- and in fact has finally moved toward doing so in a constructive way now that she's let go of her romantic feelings. This was the first chapter I saw Hinata actually making constructive growth, her crush on Naruto held her back the same as Sakura's part 1 crush on Sasuke did, moreso in fact. Sakura grew despite her one sided crush, and as she grew her crush became less a happy thing for her, it was already causing her nothing but pain in the later part of part 1. While her slowly growing feelings toward Naruto even in part 1, gave her happiness and aided in her growth. )
Sasuke has zero interest in Sakura, except as one of the many people he wants to kill- and attempted to four times now, Naruto being first on his list. The memories of her feelings for Sasuke just makes her miserable and ashamed. Sounds pretty dead a ship to me. Sakura is romantically in love with Naruto, Sakura said so, Sai said so, Naruto doesn't disagree and in fact sees Sakura now in his mind looking at him with romantic love, and Kishimoto himself made the point blank statement to all Sakura bashers that Sakura was being completely truthful about being romantically in love with Naruto and believing that she had purged all her feelings for Sasuke- even team mate bonds. Knowing she still feels a connection to Sasuke, just makes her feel sick at heart. How does her romantic love for Naruto make her feel- Happy, flirtatious, blushing, safe and warm inside. Naruto loves Sakura, Sakura loves Naruto and both are aware of the other being as deeply in love with them as the other...
Now tell me, which one sounds like love. like a ship in full sail? Looks like Narusaku is the only one of those. Seriously, the only other ship that involves any of the main characters that has any evidence of mutual feelings is SasukexNaruto (and SasukexKarin) but Naruto is 100% het, so that ends that ship. Sasuke gives enough evidence to being bisexual with more inclination toward being gay (Karin is the only female he has ever shown the least attraction to--not that that worked out well for her!), and his love/hate feelings for Naruto definitely has romantic overtones- something Kishimoto even visually played out on one manga volume cover that looked like a shonen-ai cover with Sasuke thinking of Naruto with a sort of wistful/longing look on his face.
Dream you dream alone is only a dream, but dream we dream together is reality- Yoko Ono 1971
When you go to war, both sides lose totally- Yoko Ono
Remember, our hearts are one. Even when we are at war with each other, our hearts are always beating in unison- Yoko Ono 2009