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2. Naruto hasn't let go of Sakura, but he doesn't seriously advance on her either. It's obvious he still loves her and probably always will, just like Jiraiya. But he won't actually advance on her because he believes she's in love with Sasuke. Letting go and not advancing on are 2 different things.
3. There's nothing wrong with comparing NaruSaku to other pairings. Sakura is a tsundere and Naruto is a cliche manga hero. There are many said characters in many mangas with similar dynamics that they have. Not only does this person contradict themselves right after saying that, other pairing shippers compare Hinata to other characters like ChiChi much more often.
4. I don't think it's so much of "opposites attract" as it is actual comparability and actually interacting with the person the characters fall in love with. Minato not only saved Kushina from kidnappers, he was also the only man at that point to compliment her hair, which she felt really bad about. Of course, we haven't seen their other interactions, but when Kushina said, "This is the first argument you've ever won", it shows that they are an actual couple. They have their ups and downs, arguments and make ups, otherwise, not a fantasy couple that has no development whatsoever yet already love each other.
5. 540 did not show that Sakura only loves Sasuke. Think of it this way. Your mother comes up to you and says, "You're such a good student. You could never get a bad grade on a test could you?" What's the first thing you're going to think about? One of your bad test scores that your mother probably doesn't know about. Just like how Sasuke is a love interest of Sakura's that that love-nin probably didn't know about. We don't know much about Sakura's thought process when it comes to Sasuke other than brief images of him occasionally or vague statements that don't really prove or disprove anything. But it does add to the tension.
6. Naruto's goals are to become Hokage and make everyone recognize him, surpass all his previous sensei's and his parents, and lastly, return Sasuke.
But it's not too far fetched to say he will also surpass Jiraiya who was never able to get the girl he loved. It think it's been hinted at enough Just like the Naruto is going to bring back Sasuke when Jiraiya couldn't bring back Orochimaru foreshadowing.
And making "Get Sakura!" as a goal sounds.... shallow. If it happens it happens because they interacted like normal people, not some kind of checklist Naruto has plastered on his wall. He might have done that kind of silly thing when he was younger, but his goals are much more real now and Sakura is rightly not on the list. She's not a 'goal' to be accomplished.
7. Shounen doesn't need romance, but if Kishi was going into the no romance direction, there wouldn't be love triangle after love triangle. He has developed NaruSaku already, so in his manga, development is most likely required unless it is 2 minor characters getting together. But heck, even Asuma and Kurenai had little hints and nudges.
8. Hinata is nothing like Minato other than the calmness. She extremely lacks that when around Naruto anyway. Minato has always been confident in his abilities as a ninja, which is proven when he announced he would be Hokage during academy, unlike Hinata who considered herself a huge failure and Naruto one as well. Naruto and Kushina are alike, but that's a given. Naruto inherited his father's hair and eyes and his mother's face and personality. Sakura's personality isn't exactly like Kushina's persay, but they still are tsundere women, had a similar childhood of teasing, and have the instinct to punch first, talk later. XD The usual comical gag.
9. This could be argued for both sides, but I reject it a bit at the same time. She said, "Find someone like me, not a weird one" or something highly similar. Can love be classified as weird? If so, I think the stalkerish character that watches the person she loves suffer from loneliness for years would be considered a weird lover.
10. Sakura is obviously conflicted just from her facial expression. I already explained before on how she'll think of the bad one before the good one, and we never actually read/hear what Sakura is thinking during this moment. We can't make too many assumptions about it other than Sakura feels conflicted/bad for loving/having loved Sasuke.
11. Sakura broke the POAL because it was hurting more than helping. Naruto was doing too much just to bring Sasuke back for her. I think this person has forgotten the 4 tails incident when she cried after realizing how much Naruto was hurting himself just to keep his promise to her. I'm positive this realization has been festering inside for a while. Sakura made her proclamation when Naruto wasn't in control, he didn't hear it, and I don't remember it ever being brought up again.
12. We don't really know this, Naruto never denied Sakura loving him, he denied Sakura not caring/loving Sasuke. Naruto can be dense, but I have a feeling he at least has a clue now that Sakura has some feelings for him. Enough that she went on a dangerous mission all on her own to try and kill Sasuke because she didn't want Naruto to do it anymore.
13. Uh.... *doesn't remember this*
14. Pairing development can be positive or negative, it's still development. Not everyone gets along perfectly, and a couple is more realistic if they have up and down. Again, I refer to Kushina mentioning the arguments her and Minato had.
15. Sasuke does not love Sakura and never did. Naruto was more of Sasuke's friend than Sakura was. Both of them were finally starting to break through his revenge scheme and become true friends and strong teammates until the events that we all already know about. Sasuke cared about Sakura and Naruto at one point in time, but he doesn't right now. Added onto that, Sasuke is practically asexual. And I don't want to hear the "restore my clan" excuse. He was obviously going to do that when he was older. He was 12 when he said that for gods sake.
16. I don' t think Sakura actually wants to BE with Sasuke, but she probably still does love him.
17. Naruto's feelings are obviously serious unless you call training and nearly killing himself multiple times with Kyuubi chakra just to bring back Sasuke for the POAL, rejecting Jiraiya's warning to leave Sasuke be, setting his life goal when he was 12 years old to get Sasuke back for Sakura, and standing back and withholding his love proclamation for Sakura just because he feels he hasn't completed his promise to her just silly flirting. Flirting sure is getting more dangerous these days.
18. At least he didn't say "Hinata deserves him". You know, I really hate the term "deserves" used in any pairing argument. Characters and people don't "deserve" one another, they work it out and are actually together and then they become a pair.
19. If proclaiming that a minor character with little panel time and nearly faints every time she see's her crush is THE one who will get with the main character isn't called speculation....
Kakashi reads perverted books all day and I think he still blushed at that scene. It obviously meant something.
Sakura wasn't a medic that day, she wash just hanging out with Naruto and decided to help him out. It might not have been completely romantic, but it was very touching and obviously a bit out of the norm or not something normally done between friends judging by Naruto's reaction.
The Yamato scene is obvious. Not even going to touch that one. He was upset because she lied at the beginning of her confession. Everyone she knows knows that she still likes and cares for Sasuke in someway. Starting off with a lie is not a good way to confess to someone, even if you do love them. It was probably a bit of a mistake, but no one is perfect.
If I hugged my actual brother that way, it'd be considered incest.
My brother has never broken his arm or anything, but I haven't fed him or anyone else unless they were infants. I also do not confess romantic love to my brother. That is also incest.Right now, what could Sasuke possibly do to make Sakura happy? Stab her a few times until she says she likes it? -not really- Honestly, I feel Sasuke is like some unreachable goal. You think you really want it, but you slowly realize it's not what you want and it's no good to continue wanting it. I feel Sakura is about in that stage right now, the slowly realizing it's no good to continue wanting it.
Edited by kirabook, 20 May 2012 - 04:56 AM.
