By the way you all talk...and the logic you all proclaim, then to you no pairing is real anymore.
NaruSaku would apparently have Naruto be the "back-up plan."
Not necessarily. If and only if Kishimoto does the whole bench scene realization that's popular in NaruSaku fics, then no. Instead, she discovers that Naruto has been the one she's pining after the whole time. However, that doesn't seem likely. Because if you'll recall Sakura in this chapter, she wasn't thinking back to the bench scene; she was thinking back to Sasuke telling her thankyou before he left. In fact, she NEVER thinks back to the bench scene. So yeah, Naruto is more or less the rebound guy. And even then, she'd still be pining after Sasuke . . . even if he blew up the village. Still, I simply don't believe Kishi has the balls to go through with ANY pairing at this point. Shiptease folks. I hate to say it, but it looks like that's all we were chasing after for 700 chapters; and its made Kishi milk the Naruto cash cow dry.
Edited by ThroughWithLove, 27 September 2014 - 03:38 PM.