Wow, and the fallout is still going... XD
I'm not surprised to hear many NaruHinas are claiming those things, Vixen and Aethos (welcome back, Aethos
). I acknowledge that Hinata has feelings for Naruto, and her confession has confirmed them. However, NaruHina is still very much onesided - it's been Hinata doing all the running so to speak. There has never been any hint of Naruto reciprocating her feelings, all he has done is acknowledge Hinata as a friend.
That line of "Naruto being a (censored) if he doesn't get with Hinata" reminds me of what some SasuSaku fans said after Part 1 and Chapter 245. Basically, they said "Sakura would be a (censored) if she were to love someone else".
Of course, we know it takes two to tango. A relationship will only work if both people feel the same way about each other. It doesn't matter how strongly someone feels love for another person, if that person doesn't feel the same way. Sakura loved Sasuke, but was rejected. It's only natural for Sakura to get over her heartbreak and find someone else in her heart. That's what happens in real life. Hinata has confessed to Naruto, but Naruto has never shown any romantic hints for her in the entire manga. He saw her as this "weird girl", then as a friend. It would be wrong for Naruto to get with Hinata (if she lives) for any reason other than genuine love. Genuine love on his part is also unlikely as Kishimoto has never bothered hinting towards during all those years of inking the Naruto manga.
Honestly I just hope this blows up in their face. Literary wise I hate this developoment. I mean if Hinata's confession had been handled better, and by that I mean she would have had to have been far more developed as a character. Then I would have found it believable, and it wouldn't make me rage so hard.
But these last two chapters have seemed like something straight out of a badly written fanfic by a nine year old with the user name "NARUHINA4EVER55" and the fact that people are eating this up and calling it GOOD development disgusts me greatly. It's basically like NaruHina is so UNDERDEVELOPED that people will just take what they can get, and honestly I find that shameful. They should have wanted better than this not just for Hinata but for NaruHina. Personally I think someone closer to Naruto like Iruka or Konohamaru should have been the sacrifice, and Hinata's confession could have come at some other point in time, but that's just me.
In any case I've been banned from NF again for the same reason as last time. Being too mean to the NaruHina fans by having an opposing view. Oh well least I'm not angry about it this time.