Please don't spread this on to other websites. I don't want other fandoms using this as ammunition to attack our fandom. Thank you.
If you are on tumblr, you may recall that back when the trailer for The Last first hit, a handful of NaruSaku fans started an unexplained movement where they would post (രᴗര๑) and nothing more. After what has happened in the canon, I feel partially responsible for getting hopes up and would like to offer an explanation.
A select group of NaruSaku fans who participate in a Skype group, myself included, were informed of some leaked information about the movie. It came from an official source, which I will refer to as X. We decided it would be best to keep the information to ourselves to protect the person who shared it with us, because X was very close to breaking its contract, and our group actually wasn’t supposed to know about it. For this reason, I cannot disclose who X is.
I know that a lot of you will feel skeptical about this, but I can assure you that X is a legitimate source. Long before it was announced that Hinata would even be in the movie, X predicted that she would play a very large role. As you will read, X also confirmed that we would see Naruto start his own family weeks before Naruto ended.
Here is the information we gathered from X’s leak:
1) The Lover-Nin’s confession to Sakura (in which she thinks of Sasuke after the Lover Nin says “If it’s a guy you love, he must be great!”) was made strategically by Kishimoto, and would be used in a future story.
We thought this meant that Sakura actually likes someone other than Sasuke, because she doesn’t think of Sasuke until after the lover-nin mentions that whoever she liked must be a great guy. We figured that when she revealed her feelings for Naruto, she would remember this scene, confirming that she had fallen in love with Naruto long before. That's a strategic way of using that moment, and it could also be used in a future story because they would be together.
2) Hopes of seeing Naruto with a son would come true.
Of course, since we thought that Sakura would reveal that she has feelings for Naruto, we thought that the epilogue might show that they start a family together.
3) Naruto will marry a tender woman.
We thought this was a reference to the “Even the roughest woman is tender to the guy she loves” speech by Shikamaru’s father. Sakura fit that description.
4) Sakura will always love Sasuke.
A girl supposedly never forgets about her first love, right? We thought that’s what X meant. She would ultimately move on from Sasuke, but always love him.
5) There will be a call back to Chapter 3.
The bench scene happens in Chapter 3. We thought it meant Naruto would confess.
Now the one I really want you guys to pay attention to is this...
6) Sakura being engaged or married will be a core part of the movie.
Due to the previous assumptions, we thought this meant Naruto and Sakura were already going to be married, engaged, or that Naruto would try to find the courage to ask Sakura to marry him in the movie (proposing with the necklace), and he would ultimately get that encouragement from Hinata (moment in the movie where he flashes puppy eyes at her.)
So as you can see, the information seemed to indicate a NaruSaku ending. Of course, we were all very excited about this, but the rest of the fandom was really down because of all of the NH in the trailer. In order to bring hopes back up without spreading this information throughout the fandom, we created (രᴗര๑). We wanted to assure everyone that everything would turn out just fine. They just had to endure all of the NH marketing until the end (hah).
Given the way that the final chapter of Naruto turned out, we’ve come to accept that the information was actually pointing to NH and SS all along.
1) There has been no mention of the Lover Nin chapter yet, but if it is brought up in the movie or the spin off, it will likely be used to reaffirm Sakura’s love for Sasuke.
2) Naruto has been shown with a family. They are Hinata, Himawari, and Bolt.
3) The tender woman who Naruto married ended up being Hinata.
4) Sakura clearly never stopped loving Sasuke romantically in the end.
5) If there is a call back to Chapter 3, it may mean a confession from Naruto, but he will ultimately be rejected because he’s married to Hinata in the epilogue. Or because there is a new generation, it could mean that the reference to chapter 3 has to do with the new teams being established, as that is the first time we see Team Seven.
6) There is a chance that Sakura is already engaged or married in the movie, and it will be to Sasuke – not Naruto.
I’m sharing this information with you because I care. I don’t want you guys to fool yourselves into believing that The Last will somehow cancel out the last two chapters and make NaruSaku canon. It won’t. Most of what X predicted has already come true and it hasn’t been in our favor. My advice is to spare your feelings from being hurt and avoid the movie altogether.
