This idea that he fell into the love he already had for Hinata is so laughable. He thought she was weird. He didn't really know how to talk to her or what her deal was so he mostly didn't talk to her. He did not have an understanding of what her behavior meant and probably thought it meant she didn't really like talking to him. He probably avoided her most of the time. He fought Neji on her behalf because it was so abhorrent to his core values, NOT because he had an attachment to Hinata. The failure speech is literally going to be the ONLY thing he thinks about when he thinks about her. Compared to what he had with Sakura that is nothing at all.
Characters that would be happier if Naruto and Sakura were together:
Naruto
Sakura
Sasuke (probably, he could be with Karin who would travel with him and support him more than Sakura. Plus he'd be happy for his two friends. I really like thinking of Sasuke as really caring about his friends. I don't like to think that he would just accept Sakura's unhappiness in the canon. I really want to think that he wouldn't.)
Karin herself (gets to be with Sasuke)
Kakashi
Iruka
Tsunade
Jiraiya
Ino (I doubt she likes seeing her friend being miserable)
Sakura's parents
Minato and Kushina
Obito would think it was awesome
Sarada (could be with both parents)
Gaara (would be happy that his friend was happy)
Shikamaru, Konohamaru, other friends of Naruto and Sakura (same reason)
Rock Lee (probably doesn't like seeing Sakura being miserable and same reason)
Sai (obvious)
There are probably others.
Characters that would be happier if Naruto and Hinata were together:
Hinata
Edited by DrK, 25 October 2017 - 08:46 PM.