Lol man did you even read the manga? Sakura obviously had some complicated feelings for Naruto, it wasn't only friendship as stated by the third databook, a lot of characters and also her actions, mainly in the early part of the shippuden series. However she also had feelings for sasuke since part 1 that never went away, ultimately kishis final decision was to ignore Sakuras developed feelings for Naruto and bring back sakura fangirl from pt1You can be in denial all you want, don't shoot the messenger. A lot misinterpret contexts and scenes to fit your pairing agendas, and I can assure Sakura was getting no closer to Naruto as a friend as Kakashi or Bee was. Sure she has shown concern and cried and defended his honor, but she was never growing love like feelings for him. And over all, Hinata showed more affection towards Naruto and saved his life as much as Sakura has only she put her life on the line for his more than Sakura has.
Sakura has a romanatic tie to both characters, but her romance and feelings with Sasuke move with the plot and progressed her own character, while NS has stayed the same comedic one sided tease since it was introduced and wasn't used for plot development or narrative.
Naruto was smart to move on, Hinata assured his fate of being alone and a failure was over and her life was his. She has pushed Naruto to maturity and conviction twice when he was in a funk, and has stayed by his side all this time, his own words.
I would even deal with ss if it was not written by completely butchering her character
Naruto-- hinata moments most of the time were hinata -->naruto related, naruto doesn't love her, the manga never gave any indication to it... And thats why you have the last movie
Just to deal with naruto falling for Hinata
Edited by Nar123, 09 November 2014 - 01:21 AM.