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[morgaine4]

Well Sakura's concern and compassion for Naruto couldn't be more shoved into our faces. Last time it happened was in the rescue Gaara arc, where we got countless scenes of worried Sakura. And at the end of it she put it into action, js.

 

I think we'll have the big NS moment at the end of this arc.

 

Oh, oh, oh!  When Chiyo advised Sakura to risk her life for someone who is worth it (meaning Naruto)...ohh, ohh, ohh...please let's gain some closure to Chiyo's advice.

[sushi.]

 

Oh, oh, oh!  When Chiyo advised Sakura to risk her life for someone who is worth it (meaning Naruto)...ohh, ohh, ohh...please let's gain some closure to Chiyo's advice.

Yes that's what I'm thinking too! Or what Yamato said. One of them has to happen, please. Maybe at the same time, because they are somewhat connected imo.

[Sakamaki Izayoi]

 

Oh, oh, oh!  When Chiyo advised Sakura to risk her life for someone who is worth it (meaning Naruto)...ohh, ohh, ohh...please let's gain some closure to Chiyo's advice.

That's one of the things that disappointed me on this arc, i think Chyo-baa and Sakura meeting should have happened on the arc.

 

Even then her advice echoed on part 2 on Sakura and it's connected with her desire to help Naruto.

But the fact that it happening would obvious canonize NS it's why make me think it's probably unlikely to happen.

Edited by Dαrkrєrsŧ, 06 October 2013 - 10:31 PM.

[morgaine4]

That's one of the things that disappointed me on this arc, i think Chyo-baa and Sakura meeting should have happened on the arc.

 

Even then her advice echoed on part 2 on Sakura and it's connected with her desire to help Naruto.

But the fact that it happening would obvious canonize NS it's why make me think it's probably unlikely to happen.

 

Sakura should have met with Chiyo and Sasori.  Chiyo became her mento, and Sasori was essentially TnJ'd by Sakura's actions.

[Fairy Tail Fantard]

GUYS! Stop talking kitten on NaruHina!

 

...

 

I'm sorry, but I had to XD

Edited by Fairy Tail Fantard, 06 October 2013 - 10:51 PM.

[Hiraishin]

I don't think Sasuke being there matters, I just want Minato to be present. Well..depends on what kind of moment we get. I like that we have both predicted tragic and sweet moments one of them is bound to happen, come on. XD

If Minato is there to see NaruSaku become canon I will scream and die of happiness.

[TouKen4Life3g]

If Minato is there to see NaruSaku become canon I will scream and die of happiness.

Even though he approves it already, yeah, that would be awesome. I'm just glad that he's alive (Edo) still to see anything more from Naruto, that will be saving the world, get cheers, and NS moment. I just got a gut feeling that there will be a NS moment in the end (of this battle/war).

[morgaine4]

Do you guys think NS can become a canonized couple before Sasuke's redemption?  I'm not sure.

 

I think we can have Sakura realize her feelings for Naruto and act on them, so that it's obvious that they'll become a couple, that we can even have Naruto and Sakura come to an unspoken understanding of where they stand, but I don't know if they'll become an official couple until after Naruto confesses, and I don't know if Naruto will take that step until after he's "brought Sasuke back to her."  Even though she let him off the hook for the promise (twice), and that that promise isn't a primary motivation for him to bring Sasuke back, I think it's still important to Naruto that he can keep his promises to her to be worthy to him, just like it's important to Sakura that she can be of some use to Naruto (and Sasuke to some degree).

[TouKen4Life3g]

Do you guys think NS can become a canonized couple before Sasuke's redemption?  I'm not sure.
 
I think we can have Sakura realize her feelings for Naruto and act on them, so that it's obvious that they'll become a couple, that we can even have Naruto and Sakura come to an unspoken understanding of where they stand, but I don't know if they'll become an official couple until after Naruto confesses, and I don't know if Naruto will take that step until after he's "brought Sasuke back to her."  Even though she let him off the hook for the promise (twice), and that that promise isn't a primary motivation for him to bring Sasuke back, I think it's still important to Naruto that he can keep his promises to her to be worthy to him, just like it's important to Sakura that she can be of some use to Naruto (and Sasuke to some degree).

In my opinion, there are two possibilities.

1) No, but she will realized she's in love with him before the final battle.
2) No.

Unless Kishi goes Gundam route, as in making it canon before the final battle, then I don't think so.

Edited by NaruSaku4Life3g, 06 October 2013 - 11:15 PM.

[sushi.]

I think there might be a little gap between Sakura realizing her feelings and the confessions/getting with Naruto.

Kind of like Winry realized she loved Ed, and then the final battle began and they barely had time to talk, much less about their feelings.

 

Lets say Sakura realizes she loves him by forehead kiss, and calls back on all their moments together. Then hell breaks loose aka Sasuke comes and fights Naruto. After that I have several predictions and can not choose a favourite.

Edited by sushi., 06 October 2013 - 11:19 PM.

[Inferno180]

I saw the commotion over Attack on Titan, I didn't ship anything in that nor avatar but this is actually a funny truth from me:

 

for some reason I only ever shipped anything in Naruto with NaruSaku to be honest.

 

I don't know, maybe its because it had a mold at first or because it was just integrated within the story. I mean Attack on Titan I didn't ship anything in this because well, Its more of a somber and dark setting story. Avatar, it was too predictable I mean seriously, Aang and Katara was too predictable, just too easy to spot from a mile away when the series moved to episode 30, more and more focused on Aang and Katara. Rather the only other obivous thing from the start was Zuko becoming a good guy, I told my friends this around the 3rd episode after seeing he had his own conflicts with his father and well when season 3 came around with the invasion, I just cocked my head saying "I told you this 3 years ago, was it that obvious a main rival like that with his own internal conflict would become good? It was just too predictable. Yeah they said i lost during the season 2 twist in which we thought he would side with aang but instead chose Azula.

 

Guess I only ever shipped NS because it was gradually woven into the story, mainly with the promise and kishi just put more stuff up there like Sakura discovering the nine tails, crying for finding out a jinchurki could die from a tailed beast removal, and the 4 tails incident. That followed by stuff like the hug and discovering Naruto loved her from Sai, it was the sub-romance plot that just kept coming forward and no matter how the fans debated it, the romantic subplot is predominantly Naruto and Sakura, cause well Hinatas for Naruto is just largely unaddressed and Sakura to Sasuke its gone off so long, its been both antagonistic for Sakura and nothing but a childish ideal at this point, hell kishi said years ago it was selfish, even with stuff like the attempted murder and 635 of her not trusting him, its really just going on about it being only an ideal now.

 

631 kinda gave a big indicator of things to come as well I mean just due to these factors:

1. Naruto had a selfless reason to not confess to Sakura, the promise, now it really just factors on Sasuke and Sakura in the end with the final fight. Also Sakura's maturity.

 

2. Sakura didn't have to go to the land of iron but this was obviously a story event to cause tension and be a dark time for team 7 yet it still had a light at the end of it. Naruto didn't make as long an issue from the fake confession, with 631 showing he likes the idea of Sakura being his girlfriend, well that's already an issue for 615 to have the need to try and stamp out.

 

3. Kushina was eerily similar to Sakura when first shown, the early interaction, the attitude, the physical feature they hated, Kushinas own find a girl like her foreshadow.

 

4. For 469 being "the death of NS" it was just too strange how in all that time there was neither a manga chapter nor even an anime filler of Naruto building his relation with Hinata. Rather the only NH thing was 615 and that's just kinda bad neji had to die for a story arc of the hygua and naruto ending with Hinata getting minor development. What was stranger was proclaimed "death" only 12 chapters beforehand we found out why Naruto couldn't confess to Sakura and then a little after 469, we got Kushina revealed and she was really similar. Seriously no one found this suspicious? Either kishi was lazy or all those similarities and similar scenes (Naruto saving Sakura from Sasuke and Minato saving Kushina from Kurama controlled by Obito) yeah I don't think Kishi is just being lazy otherwise he could have seriously made Kushina more Hinata tempered and given her a similar past with like a cousin issue, seriously if kishi wanted to he could have designed Kushina like that, if he did they yeah the claims of NH to Kushina would be viable but not in this universe, this reality Kishi modeled Kushina after Sakura.

 

5. 631 making that parallel and basically showing Naruto still loves Sakura, seriously if 615 didn't do it for NH, then what are we looking for in NH at this point? 635 is an indicator Sakura could change from Sasuke. I mean its just character development. Minato himself stating the similarity, he knew his wife, its a story, you cannot throw any arguments of "Minato only knew Naruto for 5 minutes compared to Hinata who knew him for a few years" sorry doesn't work like that, Minato was present with Kushina at death, he knew her, he sees Sakura like Kushina then thats it. It doesn't even matter if Naruto is compared to Kushina, this doesn't change the simple fact that Sakura is still the only girl compared to Kushina in any canonical form, its the only notion of Kushinas foreshadow to date, so nothing has changed here even with people crying saying Sakura is no longer like Kushina, I mean she said find a girl like her. Sakura is still the only girl canonically compared, heck the only person outside Naruto's family compared to any other parent of his. Yet people overlook or ignore his simple fact, its that simple as a cause for potential canon.

 

6. Basically the most important and simple reason of all, more frequent screentime, seriously the more something is shown or noted the more likely its going to come to past. Naruto and Sakura getting together hints have been frequent, much more than Hinata, so what are we to expect? Hinata rushes in? The red herring argument means nothing, otherwise if it did come true at this point, why so much focus on NS and not on NH? That just makes no sense.

 

7. Simple character development, seriously look at Sakura compared to Hinata, much as people rip on Sakura, Hinata is still the one lurking around phase 1 crush mode idolizing and hoping to be with the one she loves. Sakura has changed, her relation with Naruto has been more dynamic, went from hate to tolerance to friendship to best of friends, wouldn't be suprised if her relation with him ended in love. Not to mention just look at the dyamic range of change, its major for NS while its just remained more or less the same with NH, yeah Naruto thinks better of Hinata but what has truely shifted? Hinata displayed a bit more boldness on her own until Minato showed up, now we just have her speaking Naruto's name only again. I mean at this point with this much change between Naruto and Sakura and Naruto and Hinata just being still hardly advanced, what are we looking at? Naruto to suddenly not love Sakura? Minato to relabel Hinata like Kushina? Its done so far deep with NS that NH has been unused for so long, it would just rather seem wrong to use it now, I mean why after all these years? To troll us? That is just so stupid and makes both NS and NH just seem even worse off, NS at least would benefit from a great developed relation, NH would just be so undeveloped and just too convivent as a pairing at this point, Hinata would just be ultimately a token fodder character for a pairing. and fans want that? Why not have given Hinata more time? Why not used her more? Why do fans at this point just want it when Hinata as a character has been so limited and unused that this should somehow override everything with NS this late? This far in? Yeah we had a story twist before, Itachi being a defender of the leaf, that only added to make things more antagonistic to Sasuke and eventually team 7, that worked for all intents and purposes, but this same idealoloy on the pairings? No just no, it makes no sense at this point. Far as I'm concerned, its either NS or nothing because its simplely just that, its been the most character development and interaction out of any boy-girl relation in the series. It doesn't matter what fans try to breakdown or degrade, depending on the fillers, saying 631 was a joke, Naruto doesn't have to listen to Kushina, NS is like Kushina Kushina, using different dialouge such as "don't fall for the first who comes your way" trying to say girlfriend not as lover but as a girl who is a friend, seriously, this has all just reached the point of words I would like to describe here but for the sake of this fourm I cannot and will refrain from it and go on by saying I am explaining it in this long sentence just to describe how I would describe it. I'll just leave it at, no dice for these arguments, because seriously we could have simply gotten more from Hinata in development, Kushina could have been designed like Hinata, Minato could have just said friend, but none of that matters, none of those arguments against NS are holding as much evidence anymore. There was a time when NS was unlikely that was after 469 but since nothing ever came for NH and after 615 resolved nothing for NH where 631 made a chaotic reaction, well what are we to expect at this point? Nothing ever came forward for NH, at this point its most likely going to be simply addressed or even bypassed in all respects. This just again goes all the way back to character development. Naruto has had so much with Sakura and vice versa. Its like NS has it all and NH has hardly anything and SS is about to sink. What are we to honestly look for in NH? NS has a lot of clues and hints, lots more frequency, lots more development. Its easier to think at this point, it would honestly be worse if NS didn't become canon at this point with so much focus detailed on it. If anything, if it didn't happen it would be a giant middle finger to Naruto and a missed chance of good ending development for Sakura, basically running a full circle development opportunity for her. I just don't see this happening at this point, to me and many of us, its NS or nothing. So much focus was invested on it and not the others, so why anything else at this point?

[Sakamaki Izayoi]

Do you guys think NS can become a canonized couple before Sasuke's redemption?  I'm not sure.

 

I think we can have Sakura realize her feelings for Naruto and act on them, so that it's obvious that they'll become a couple, that we can even have Naruto and Sakura come to an unspoken understanding of where they stand, but I don't know if they'll become an official couple until after Naruto confesses, and I don't know if Naruto will take that step until after he's "brought Sasuke back to her."  Even though she let him off the hook for the promise (twice), and that that promise isn't a primary motivation for him to bring Sasuke back, I think it's still important to Naruto that he can keep his promises to her to be worthy to him, just like it's important to Sakura that she can be of some use to Naruto (and Sasuke to some degree).

The fact that great chances of happening before Sasuke's redemption is that the other pairing of the love triangle was literally demonized.

SS is being seemed as a regression for Sakura's character the fact is that i cant think how much longer kishi will hide Sakura's feelings and even then the romance subplot is a great part of Sakura's character, i know that something like she being strong and even the Tsunade thing is important to her character but romance seems to be more important to Sakura's character, her character is literally about love since she was introduced.
And even then what people expect the most from Sakura is more pairing moments NS.

 

I just think that okay that he can resolve that after Sasuke's redeemption but unlike other series the SS is heavily demonized and i wish Sakura would have a special focus on this romance matter rather than be resolved off-panel to make it canon.

All the SS things were resolved and the rest is now only up to Sakura to realize that she's in love with Naruto or fall in love with him with the second being most likely as the story progresses and she witnessing Naruto's growth and heroism right before her eyes.

Edited by Dαrkrєrsŧ, 06 October 2013 - 11:40 PM.

[rocci]

NS is canon since chapter 3, the other pairing "consider" canon by shipper since chunnin exam arc.

[BlueStarSaber]

I saw the commotion over Attack on Titan, I didn't ship anything in that nor avatar but this is actually a funny truth from me:

 

for some reason I only ever shipped anything in Naruto with NaruSaku to be honest.

 

I don't know, maybe its because it had a mold at first or because it was just integrated within the story. I mean Attack on Titan I didn't ship anything in this because well, Its more of a somber and dark setting story. Avatar, it was too predictable I mean seriously, Aang and Katara was too predictable, just too easy to spot from a mile away when the series moved to episode 30, more and more focused on Aang and Katara. Rather the only other obivous thing from the start was Zuko becoming a good guy, I told my friends this around the 3rd episode after seeing he had his own conflicts with his father and well when season 3 came around with the invasion, I just cocked my head saying "I told you this 3 years ago, was it that obvious a main rival like that with his own internal conflict would become good? It was just too predictable. Yeah they said i lost during the season 2 twist in which we thought he would side with aang but instead chose Azula.

 

Guess I only ever shipped NS because it was gradually woven into the story, mainly with the promise and kishi just put more stuff up there like Sakura discovering the nine tails, crying for finding out a jinchurki could die from a tailed beast removal, and the 4 tails incident. That followed by stuff like the hug and discovering Naruto loved her from Sai, it was the sub-romance plot that just kept coming forward and no matter how the fans debated it, the romantic subplot is predominantly Naruto and Sakura, cause well Hinatas for Naruto is just largely unaddressed and Sakura to Sasuke its gone off so long, its been both antagonistic for Sakura and nothing but a childish ideal at this point, hell kishi said years ago it was selfish, even with stuff like the attempted murder and 635 of her not trusting him, its really just going on about it being only an ideal now.

 

631 kinda gave a big indicator of things to come as well I mean just due to these factors:

1. Naruto had a selfless reason to not confess to Sakura, the promise, now it really just factors on Sasuke and Sakura in the end with the final fight. Also Sakura's maturity.

 

2. Sakura didn't have to go to the land of iron but this was obviously a story event to cause tension and be a dark time for team 7 yet it still had a light at the end of it. Naruto didn't make as long an issue from the fake confession, with 631 showing he likes the idea of Sakura being his girlfriend, well that's already an issue for 615 to have the need to try and stamp out.

 

3. Kushina was eerily similar to Sakura when first shown, the early interaction, the attitude, the physical feature they hated, Kushinas own find a girl like her foreshadow.

 

4. For 469 being "the death of NS" it was just too strange how in all that time there was neither a manga chapter nor even an anime filler of Naruto building his relation with Hinata. Rather the only NH thing was 615 and that's just kinda bad neji had to die for a story arc of the hygua and naruto ending with Hinata getting minor development. What was stranger was proclaimed "death" only 12 chapters beforehand we found out why Naruto couldn't confess to Sakura and then a little after 469, we got Kushina revealed and she was really similar. Seriously no one found this suspicious? Either kishi was lazy or all those similarities and similar scenes (Naruto saving Sakura from Sasuke and Minato saving Kushina from Kurama controlled by Obito) yeah I don't think Kishi is just being lazy otherwise he could have seriously made Kushina more Hinata tempered and given her a similar past with like a cousin issue, seriously if kishi wanted to he could have designed Kushina like that, if he did they yeah the claims of NH to Kushina would be viable but not in this universe, this reality Kishi modeled Kushina after Sakura.

 

5. 631 making that parallel and basically showing Naruto still loves Sakura, seriously if 615 didn't do it for NH, then what are we looking for in NH at this point? 635 is an indicator Sakura could change from Sasuke. I mean its just character development. Minato himself stating the similarity, he knew his wife, its a story, you cannot throw any arguments of "Minato only knew Naruto for 5 minutes compared to Hinata who knew him for a few years" sorry doesn't work like that, Minato was present with Kushina at death, he knew her, he sees Sakura like Kushina then thats it. It doesn't even matter if Naruto is compared to Kushina, this doesn't change the simple fact that Sakura is still the only girl compared to Kushina in any canonical form, its the only notion of Kushinas foreshadow to date, so nothing has changed here even with people crying saying Sakura is no longer like Kushina, I mean she said find a girl like her. Sakura is still the only girl canonically compared, heck the only person outside Naruto's family compared to any other parent of his. Yet people overlook or ignore his simple fact, its that simple as a cause for potential canon.

 

6. Basically the most important and simple reason of all, more frequent screentime, seriously the more something is shown or noted the more likely its going to come to past. Naruto and Sakura getting together hints have been frequent, much more than Hinata, so what are we to expect? Hinata rushes in? The red herring argument means nothing, otherwise if it did come true at this point, why so much focus on NS and not on NH? That just makes no sense.

 

7. Simple character development, seriously look at Sakura compared to Hinata, much as people rip on Sakura, Hinata is still the one lurking around phase 1 crush mode idolizing and hoping to be with the one she loves. Sakura has changed, her relation with Naruto has been more dynamic, went from hate to tolerance to friendship to best of friends, wouldn't be suprised if her relation with him ended in love. Not to mention just look at the dyamic range of change, its major for NS while its just remained more or less the same with NH, yeah Naruto thinks better of Hinata but what has truely shifted? Hinata displayed a bit more boldness on her own until Minato showed up, now we just have her speaking Naruto's name only again. I mean at this point with this much change between Naruto and Sakura and Naruto and Hinata just being still hardly advanced, what are we looking at? Naruto to suddenly not love Sakura? Minato to relabel Hinata like Kushina? Its done so far deep with NS that NH has been unused for so long, it would just rather seem wrong to use it now, I mean why after all these years? To troll us? That is just so stupid and makes both NS and NH just seem even worse off, NS at least would benefit from a great developed relation, NH would just be so undeveloped and just too convivent as a pairing at this point, Hinata would just be ultimately a token fodder character for a pairing. and fans want that? Why not have given Hinata more time? Why not used her more? Why do fans at this point just want it when Hinata as a character has been so limited and unused that this should somehow override everything with NS this late? This far in? Yeah we had a story twist before, Itachi being a defender of the leaf, that only added to make things more antagonistic to Sasuke and eventually team 7, that worked for all intents and purposes, but this same idealoloy on the pairings? No just no, it makes no sense at this point. Far as I'm concerned, its either NS or nothing because its simplely just that, its been the most character development and interaction out of any boy-girl relation in the series. It doesn't matter what fans try to breakdown or degrade, depending on the fillers, saying 631 was a joke, Naruto doesn't have to listen to Kushina, NS is like Kushina Kushina, using different dialouge such as "don't fall for the first who comes your way" trying to say girlfriend not as lover but as a girl who is a friend, seriously, this has all just reached the point of words I would like to describe here but for the sake of this fourm I cannot and will refrain from it and go on by saying I am explaining it in this long sentence just to describe how I would describe it. I'll just leave it at, no dice for these arguments, because seriously we could have simply gotten more from Hinata in development, Kushina could have been designed like Hinata, Minato could have just said friend, but none of that matters, none of those arguments against NS are holding as much evidence anymore. There was a time when NS was unlikely that was after 469 but since nothing ever came for NH and after 615 resolved nothing for NH where 631 made a chaotic reaction, well what are we to expect at this point? Nothing ever came forward for NH, at this point its most likely going to be simply addressed or even bypassed in all respects. This just again goes all the way back to character development. Naruto has had so much with Sakura and vice versa. Its like NS has it all and NH has hardly anything and SS is about to sink. What are we to honestly look for in NH? NS has a lot of clues and hints, lots more frequency, lots more development. Its easier to think at this point, it would honestly be worse if NS didn't become canon at this point with so much focus detailed on it. If anything, if it didn't happen it would be a giant middle finger to Naruto and a missed chance of good ending development for Sakura, basically running a full circle development opportunity for her. I just don't see this happening at this point, to me and many of us, its NS or nothing. So much focus was invested on it and not the others, so why anything else at this point?

 

Huh I was wondering how you became a NaruSaku fan, only Naruto wow.

[sushi.]

NS is canon since chapter 3, the other pairing "consider" canon by shipper since chunnin exam arc.

What is canon to you, rocci?

[morgaine4]

Honestly, while this might be unlikely, I'd prefer for Sakura to realize her feelings before the bench scene from chapter 3 is 'closed,' it would be poignant if Sakura realized she loves Naruto based off of their development and relationship, despite "the fact" (in her mind) that Sasuke was the first person to compliment her forehead...then only to find out it was Naruto all along.  And also, when the forehead scene is given closure, and Sakura finds out it was Naruto, I want her to be pretty annoyed that he tricked her, and yeah...I'd want her to smack him.  LOL.

 

Inferno 180, great post!  You know what annoys me about the discussions about the parallels?  I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Sakura doesn't parallel Kushina, NS doesn't parallel MK, it's the other way around.  Kushina and MK were developed in such a way so that they would be direct parallels for Sakura and NS.  The fact is, Sakura will be the only non-Uzumaki female to be paralleled to Kushina (unless the female being paralleled to Kushina is also being paralleled to Sakura), because Kushina was developed to do so.  Another current-generation female can't be paralleled to Kushina in the same way, because Kushina was developed specifically to parallel Sakura, any time NH, SS or any other pairing tries to fit their paring into this parallel it doesn't work, the key won't fit, the puzzle pieces don't fit together.  I'm lazy, I don't want to type it out, so I'll link to my LAP again.

 

Kushina and MK parallel Sakura and NS, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!

[sushi.]

I agree. Another parallel that will be messed up with NH is Rin. Because naturally NH will think Hinata is Naruto's "Rin". But Rin is already paralleled to Sakura in terms of the team parallels. it's not confirmed, but I think it's there just like Kushina's parallel was there way before it was confirmed.

 

Paralleling Sakrua with Rin in the romance aspect too will make the story more whole. But adding with yet another person in the puzzle will create loopholes and it will only be a mess.

[rocci]

@sushi
Kishi tell us in chapter 3 that Sakura is naruto love interest, in battle manga especially in weekly shonen jump when author do that he practically tell us "the reader" that NS is canon, the question is when and how they will become canon.

[sushi.]

@sushi
Kishi tell us in chapter 3 that Sakura is naruto love interest, in battle manga especially in weekly shonen jump when author do that he practically tell us "the reader" that NS is canon, the question is when and how they will become canon.

That does not answer my question. I was asking for your definition, what you think being canon means.

 

PS; You're also saying they're canon and not canon at the same time.

[Sakamaki Izayoi]

Honestly, while this might be unlikely, I'd prefer for Sakura to realize her feelings before the bench scene from chapter 3 is 'closed,' it would be poignant if Sakura realized she loves Naruto based off of their development and relationship, despite "the fact" (in her mind) that Sasuke was the first person to compliment her forehead...then only to find out it was Naruto all along.  And also, when the forehead scene is given closure, and Sakura finds out it was Naruto, I want her to be pretty annoyed that he tricked her, and yeah...I'd want her to smack him.  LOL.

 

Inferno 180, great post!  You know what annoys me about the discussions about the parallels?  I've said it before, and I'll say it again, Sakura doesn't parallel Kushina, NS doesn't parallel MK, it's the other way around.  Kushina and MK were developed in such a way so that they would be direct parallels for Sakura and NS.  The fact is, Sakura will be the only non-Uzumaki female to be paralleled to Kushina (unless the female being paralleled to Kushina is also being paralleled to Sakura), because Kushina was developed to do so.  Another current-generation female can't be paralleled to Kushina in the same way, because Kushina was developed specifically to parallel Sakura, any time NH, SS or any other pairing tries to fit their paring into this parallel it doesn't work, the key won't fit, the puzzle pieces don't fit together.  I'm lazy, I don't want to type it out, so I'll link to my LAP again.

 

Kushina and MK parallel Sakura and NS, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!

I honestly would feel like an idiot and i will doubt about Sakura's intelligence.
I mean the "Sasuke" who complimented her was all lovey dovey towards her and someome who was in love with her then suddenly the real Sasuke shows up and it's cold and wasnt the same lovey dovey as before.

He doesnt touch on that scene before and worse completely ignore her existence.

 

I feel she might know it was Naruto the reason is that back then she believe he only annoyed her and i think that she thought that Naruto didnt complimented her but rather was mocking her.

I just cant buy that the whole bench scene is what makes her cling to SS because it would already been bought by now and more importantly and it was kinda obvious it wasnt the real Sasuke.