Nothing will ever stop the "debating". People always look for loop holes to explain why this or that happened the way that it did, and when they can't find any in the chapter itself, they make them up. Look at #631. We have:
1) Minato assuming Sakura to be Naruto's girlfriend.
2) Naruto agreeing that she's "more or less" his girlfriend.
3) Sakura not denying any of it.
4) Confirmation of the Sakura/Kushina parallel from Minato.
Even though we believe this is evidence enough of Kishimoto's intentions, there are those that argue against it.
1) Minato doesn't know Naruto on a personal level, so he doesn't know about his feelings for Hinata.
2) Naruto meant "girl friend", as in a friend that happens to be female, not girlfriend.
3) Sakura hits Naruto right after he says it because she doesn't agree.
4) Parallels mean nothing.
Of course, we do the same thing with NaruHina and SasuSaku moments. Fans of NH felt that #615 was concrete evidence of Naruto's love for Hinata, but most of us here found other ways to explain the reason why that interaction happened.
We all take different things away from each chapter, so this never ending fight will just keep going back and forth. Two characters could share a kiss on panel and there would still be arguments made that one character is confused, or they haven't had a chance to respond to so-and-so's confession yet, or it was just platonic, so on and so forth...
If anything, I can see this ship war worsening whenever the final pairing(s) are revealed. We're going to start seeing arguments like this: "Naruto and Sakura will break up eventually because she abuses him so much", or "Naruto's feelings for Sakura will eventually come between his relationship with Hinata", or "Sakura won't stay in a loveless marriage. Once she sees how Sasuke really is, she'll leave him." The speculation will never die.
Wait , if the context , verbiage, narrative doesn't show that Naruto reciprocates Hinatas ROMANTIC feelings how are they to tell the opposite ? The moment was romantic just for Hinata Naruto was there just to fill the moment like a fodder ..
Naruto is oblivious to all HInata did all of her actions remained unanswered, they are influencing characteristics in the heroes that don't flow in the manga just to make up arguments ..
Minato is Kishi in disguise.
Naruto knows pretty well what is he talking about , just because he doesn't answer Hinata's feelings doesn't mean that he has no idea what is going on.. another excuse
Sakura hits Naruto because he embarrassed her typical tsundere moment
Oh ,so now all of a sudden parallels don't matter? Weren't they clinging to that idea the whole time?
Well , those moments are the red herring , just a throw away they lack cohesiveness and consistency.
All i see are evasive maneuvers nothing more .
Abuses him .. pfft this is the worst argument ever . Its called Comic relief , but lets ignore that because Hinata got friend zoned . Hinata is irrelevant , side characters don't get that much of attention ... huh..
After the ''war' is over i see those kind of fan fictions all over .. They are jealous , that the conclusion.
Edited by Psychox, 19 September 2013 - 08:06 PM.