Yes, I too wonder if that is going to come back to haunt NS fans. They may very well write Sakura as downplaying her feelings for Naruto in favor of Sasuke, and then saying Hinata is so good, she deserves Naruto. It becomes a way to give Sakura what she supposedly wants, while at the same time putting her down. It makes Sakura look like the fickle girl who would string Naruto along, and makes Hinata look like innocent.
I figure, in the novel, they are either going to skip over Sakura's feelings toward Naruto just like they've dropped feelings for her without a second glance. Or they are going to have her weighing the two against each other and choosing Sasuke because she's loved him the longest, and paralleling that with Hinata's love for Naruto.
From the tone of the movie, Sakura saying that she and Hinata have to help each other, I have a sinking feeling it's going to be some version of the latter.
Espcially since we know that Sakura was the only one who was actually bullied. Not Hinata, the clan princess. Sakura was bullied, and Naruto was sad and alone. And we know Sakura recognized/acknowledged Naruto when they were children. She is shown in the manga as being concerned for him when he was fighting Sasuke, even as everyone else continued to cheer Sasuke on. She is the only one who looks worried.
They took the backstory that should have been Sakura and Naruto's and awarded it to Hinata instead, making it completely unbelievable that the princess of the most powerful clan in Konoha would be left by herself and bullied. This backstory would have brought Naruto and Sakura's heaven-and-earth relationship full circle.
Sakura was the one who was bullied because of her forehead. Naruto was the one who instigated the bench scene where he points out that her forehead is the thing he notices about her, that it's beautiful and he would like to kiss it. This means that he knew enough about her to know she was teased for it. And she changes in that moment by feeling ok about it, even loved for it. This all parallels Kushina and Minato's relationship with the one thing she is self-conscious about being the one thing Minato loves most about her.
It was never supposed to be NH. The childhood connection was set up for Naruto and Sakura, and reinforced over and over again through the course of their lives. In the end, it was just awarded to Hinata instead.
No wonder Kishimoto looks depressed in all the pictures. He knows he gave his story away.