@Nefertieh:
There's a possibility that flashback might be linked to Naruto having a change of heart, but that completely contradicts everything the manga has shown us. There are many, many reasons to believe Naruto would not so easily fall for Hinata when his feelings for Sakura has persisted this long and that even after a 2-year timeskip, after her confession, Naruto still has not shown feelings for her. Kishimoto has also been working on this movie since two years ago and we've gotten so many NS moments instead of NH moments since then. 631 and 662-663 being the biggest example.
Authors do change their mind. I know that and this movie may be for NH becoming canon. But I'm not going to truly believe that when we so many supporting of the evidence of the opposite. I'm not going to base all my conclusions on a trailer that might've been corrupted and edited by bias SP and is simply a marketing tool. It's important to keep an open mind, but we can't be sure of anything until we see it ourselves.
As for the pairing drama, I know it's only natural before an end pair is canon. But Kishimoto has a tendency to utilize it too much that it genuinely effects believability and character image. 693, for example. Sakura confesses to Sasuke again, repeating history and regressing her development, to just make things look bleak. Then it's revealed it was platonic based on Kakashi's analysis, but doesn't really look that way and still dampened her character. Kishi took drama too far. If he could do that with Sakura despite her development than Naruto, then I absolutely no reason why he wouldn't toy with Hinata/NH too.
I know you don't particularly believe this all for shipping drama, but that doesn't mean more positive conclusions are out of equation either. All you're doing is focusing on the negative outcomes. You just seem awfully negative. :/ Now I'm not saying I'm right or anything, I consider how bad things seem, but I focus on the positive outcomes more because it makes no logical sense to the manga for Kishi to do something like this. And I hold on to what's logical and will believe in that until I have solid proof Kishimoto will do the opposite. NS has been built up this whole time. I'm certainly not going to ignore that based on a movie trailer/advertisements alone.
(I also apologize for the lack of quoting. I would if I could and I've pressed the quote button many times, but it never shows up for some reason when I post :/)
Edited by xxRomanceGirlxx, 02 November 2014 - 12:26 PM.