The term "realism" is a tad warped in my opinion.
Some people use that as an excuse so when things do not turn out the way they hoped they have something to fall back on. It's fine for example to be realistic you will not come in 1st in a competition, but at the same time you are encouraged to be optimistic and still achieve/hope for the best, otherwise you'll only make yourself more sad/disappointed.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with some one ending up being wrong, especially about a shonen manga. We come to this forum to speculate about our favorite pairing. Nothing more than this.
Wrong or right, I will still like NarutoxSakura. Trust me, it won't be the end of my appreciation for its moments of my favorite pairing even if it does not become canon. I liked this pairing before part II, where there was virtually very few NarutoxSakura shippers, and those that were around were often harassed, mocked, and persecuted on the Naruto forums.
As many have said...Let's all continue to be optimistic and look forward to the big end of Naruto!
Yeah i remember the old days in part 1 when i used to be a hardcore SASUSAKU shipper. I always thought that Naruto just had a childish cruch on Sakura and that he was gonna grew out of it by the years. And to be honest the SS moments easily beated all the NS moments in part 1.
That was why i found it very amusing and stupid that there was people who thought that NS would happen.
But Naruto didn't grow out of his cruch over the years. No it only grew stronger and developed into a serious and mutual love, that Naruto would even at the point to let her be with a another man who she loves just as long she was happy. That's very deep as hell. And in part 2 when Saskue was out of the picture we could more see about Sakura's thoughts about Naruto and it was very usual to see them together than it was in part 1, and it was easiser to explore their realtionships.
And there was a hell of NS moments in the berginning part 2. It was just like BAMM, BAMM, BAMM! Another NS moments after the other.
Then it may have lessed a bit, but the NS moments as the hug, girlfriend comments by his dad, CPR, and the parralells made it worth the pantient.
Actually, i don't really know when and how i turned from a SS shipper into a NS shipper over the years. But i still think that NS wasn't a really opinion in part 1 but it had it's own pontential, which Kishi took use of it and made it blossom in part 2.
Edited by Helloemy, 27 October 2014 - 08:54 PM.