I have said before, Hinata still has her role and will have her closure, I mean its not like NS will just occur without loose ends being tied up, but the deal is we have 2 situations with Sakura and Hinata showcasing their concern for naruto. As we have seen with Sakura, she has healed him, gave the speech about not letting naruto do it all alone, advocated to naruto that she would fight and not sit back, unleashed her power to assist the team, summoned katsuyu to aid the injured, healed shikamaru (along with Naruto and tsunade, this was a team effort), and now we have this situation. As for Hinata well, we had 615 but its only come up again in 633 and not as much, sadly the rest of the time we have seen hinata since sasuke came back, its been one part naruto kun this and that on repeat and the other part she was recently a pair of bonoculars for sakura to check on naruto and sasuke.
Really, its just that, on HInatas side, the confession is still unresloved and with 615 having more or less concluded, the deal is we have these moments with hinata but it seems everytime she is appearing now, its something minor and not really needed for the long run, even in this chapter i feel her just looking at narutos condition and crying would have been enough rather than the trip. Its like Kishi is stored stuff with Hinata but really doesnt intend to use it. I mean its like he could have used it to further NH but with more NS events incoming, its like he has put a slight sliver of NH potential but then puts in obsticles like 631 with the Sakura-Kushina stuff and Naruto STILL loving Sakura, along with Sakura not trusting Sasuke, and now Sakura joining Gaara to save naruto, rather in these events, he didnt need to insert them but there is still just a really confusing factor here, why would he be so bent on NH just to deliberailty put stuff emphasiizing NS, espcially when stuff like the sole fact of Naruto STILL LOVING SAKURA is still there and the kushina foreshadow being built on is even gone forward with sakura, not hinata. Thats what I mean, starting with 631 and the events following it, a huge wedge was driven between NS having more potnetial and NH on the backside with 3 very very hard obsticles to overcome in a very short time period but it cannot right now because they are in a battle and at this point, sakura is with naruto for many reasons, as friends, teammates, for development, reminiesint of the material from the kazekage rescue arc, even sakura talking with minato is within reason, if sakura and minato have a short but insightful conversaion about naruto, well I dont know what to say at this point, Sakura got to talk with minato again and hinata still hasnt even met narutos dad.
However this doesnt kill Hinata's purpose, really its at this point, Hinata's only direct role is well, sadly pairing fodder, she would be reduced to the convinently placed pairing character and not just pairing fans opposed to NH, but many fans in general would not like this display, its because of that lack of use and development with hinata herself and the fact there was so much invested in other characters like neji and for many hoping sakura would die, that would just be bad. If NH came at this point, its just a nightmare for story stuff when it would have incurred this:
-Neji offed for little to no reason on her end, his death was if anything critical for naruto but not like jiraya
-If Sakura was offed, it would be bad to have occured killing not only neji, a complex well developed major character, it would be killing the heroine so a minor character like hinata would have her most predicatble convinently placed purpose to happen.
-It would be only because Hinata hoped for it, it would literally be a slap in the face of Naruto's efforts for sakura and to a degree, even sasuke, it wouldnt be team 7 without sakura.
-Its hard to imagine sakura not present at the final battle, seriously I just cannot imagine hinata there in place of sakura, the main issue is cause sasuke and hinata dont even virtually exist in the same area, they never talk to each other once or even have notions of their plotlines intersect in anyway shape or form.
-It really reduces hinatas role as one of the most underdeveloped spare side token characters. Really if you would look back at the series after it ended if NH did occur at this point, all you would need to tell your friends or newcomers to the series is, her only role is to love naruto, thats it, she is not important overall to the story, she was only made as a conventional token character to be with the hero in the end. Thats not as good as say Jiraya who was made to seek peace and train a savior, or shikamaru who was lazy but smart and became one of the most critical characters in the series, or sai a once emotionless socially awkward soldier who learned to reforge his human emotions by spending time with team 7, even tsunade who was once an alcoholic gambler who feared blood but had her faith rekindled and took up a leadership role that was enduring in the whole series and came to make a once weak ninja like sakura into one of the strongest in the world. Seriously hinata wouldnt have any of these notabilities on her, all you would need to know is that "her love came true because she hoped and managed to just throw herself in front of the hero twice despite no real development."
What I was saying before, Hinata's still got a purpose but she remains unpredictable at this point because kishi isnt leading us or giving us a stable idea of where her actions and effects could lead, yes maybe something neji related could pop up but when its neji related its making 615 more about neji, not the hand holding which was the thing invoking NH. Even then it still doesnt overcome the issues NS throws into blockade NH. NH has so much development needed and so much little time remaining rather remaining opportunity. Hinata tripping and missing the sand cloud, yeah that really hinders the progress of NH even more, I mean what will happen next? In all contexts, a NS moment can occur cause sakura is with naruto. After that? Most likely going to naruto and sasuke recovered and returning to fight madara, not NH development chance.
We have no idea where kishi intends to take hinata, if he did go the pure most predictable hinata ends with naruto, yeah as I said, not good. Hinata's ending as I said it to be something respectful, it would have to address stuff like the confession in a way like she talks with naruto or sakura (if sakura does in fact turn to naruto and hinata gets wind of this) rather than have a dumb rivals in love type deal, it would most likely be her confronting naruto but having some closure if anything and being happy for him. She cannot change who he loves, if she could at least be happy for naruto, thats better at least then her being a fodder pairing character. Really at this point with more obsticiles coming up for NH, really I see NH as the friendship pairing, not the love one. If NS is going by the kushina foreshadow, logically it would already have won, Naruto still loving sakura and not changing those feelings would still be the big issue if theres nothing to make naruto turn nor should there be something that prevents this to incur SS by risking undermining sakuras development or making sasuke completely out of character if he did love sakura. Really Hinata's most stable ending I could say would just be her becoming clan head but also being happy and a longtime comrade of naruto.
Besides, i say NS mainly because that relation started rocky but changed and became the most dynamic, not like NH which was neutral at first but became well only positive. NS started as negative with sakura hating narutos guts but she came to tolerate, accept, trust, and care a lot for him. Really just seeing the early panel of her saying naruto is annoying to the present with her about to cry over naruto approaching death. Yeah the dynamic change between these times is much stronger and impactful than say naruto calling hinata a wierdo and her being shy to the results of 615 just showing thankfulness if anything.
615 didnt make me smile for hinata, it made me cry for neji. Hinata held narutos hand and that was that, why did naruto do it besides chakra transfer? At this point I say its best because of thanking and confiding hinata over nejis death. But that last panel in 662, yes Im crying at the situation for Naruto and Sasuke and how Sakura and Karin respectively are reacting to it, Karin is sheding waterfalls of concern, Sakura is trying to remain strong but is about to break out, that one panel you can tell more than any she is about to cry more than ever, more than when she thought haku killed sasuke, more than when both naruto and sauske were knocked out, more than when sasuke was berserk with the curse seal, more than when he ran away, more than when she found out about the jinchurki extraction (which could pop up in a flashback with the current situation), more than when she saw the 4 tails, more than when they failed to save sasuke, more than when she found out he joined the akaskuti and nearly killed her, more than what sai revealed to her, and learning about the aspect of naruto and sasuke dying if they faced each other. In all these situations sakura cried over the thought or possibility of losing someone or about how these actions caused really negative things, how naruto was cursed on his side despite being the innocent one and on sasukes its been his bad jerk actions on the world. But this time Sakura is experiencing for the first time, the real possibility of losing someone she truely cares about, in her own efforts to try and save him too. The sakura who hated narutos guts has long died, this sakura is the grown one who cares for naruto and is about ready to cry because she cannot bear the thought of him really dying. Sakura has cried a lot in the series, but shes cried because she cares. In this situation, these tears are the strongest she will ever shed. Hinata has her purpose but if anything its not the forefront we see with NS and its too far away at this point to do anything. Hinata will have her ending but NH will be there, but only as friendship it seems with each passing chapter when we get more on NS. NS will more than likely come in the end with all the development and hints, NH as friendship. For NH to be love, its way too far behind and the time for developing it has long passed, theres only so much left that could be done with it, really it should just end in a way that doesnt reduce hinata to nothing or make her suffer as a fodder character, if anything as I said, resolving the confession and having closure maturity and behing happy for naruto loving sakura is one thing that can make her ending good.
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I'll be interested to see what happens A: When Sakura finds out how all this happened. B: When Naruto "dies" (That is if he dies) Will she try and use the resurrection jutsu (and with what energy?)? C: How she reacts when Naruto is brought back to life (EEEEK! I CAN'T WAIT) If Kishi blatantly ignores Sakura after putting her directly involved with Naruto's end of care I will freak out. (and not in my present giddy way.)
