Posted 11 February 2010 - 02:43 AM
First off supporting a certain pairing is not really about winning or losing, it's about supporting a pairing which in your view is the best match. This applies to all fandoms, i.e. in Harry Potter there are allot of Harry/Hermione fans who still beleive in that fandom even though it's proved not to be the case, and they'll continue to support it (Personally don't understand that pairing, it's too similar to sibling relationships in my opinion.).
Sometimes the final pairing isn't always the best one, it's just the one the creater planned from the beginning and they'll stick to it no matter how little it makes. Other times they have to raise their hands in defeat and change the pairing to the one that makes more sense, (An example of this was in Dawson's Creek, the main pairing was always meant to be Dawson and Joey, but the side kick always had better chemistry with her and after they got together, and no matter how hard they tried they never managed to make Dawson and Joey's relationship as convincing, Pacey and Joey fans in the end.)
That said this war is far from over, Kishi's just playing mind games to get everyone really frustrated and yet keep everyone hooked (Though if he keeps concentrating on Sasuke I for one will move to some other Manga, haven't watched the TV show for almost a year and when I went back to it couple of weeks ago spoilers started so i'll wait till that's over before I decide to catch up.) He threw the Naru/Hina fans a bone then snatched it away then did the same with NaruSaku fans and now he's doing the same with SasuSaku, In a few weeks times we'll be back in the village with Kakashi as Hokage, Naruto training with Bee and Sakura...finally brushing up on her talent in Genjutsu from Kurenai....well that's what I am hoping, it's strange how it's always mentioned how Naruto sucks at Genjutsu and how Sakura was originally a Genjutsu type, that skill never got developed.
So as long as Sakura doesn't turn heel like this weeks chapter is leading (badly I might add) you to beleive, i'll keep on supporting the pairing, even if it isn't the final pairing, i'll just b*tch and moan about it how Kishi obviously doesn't know how to pair charactors together. Though judging from ohter relationships Naruto/Sakura make the most sense.
Besides who's to say any pairing will win, he might kill off everyone and have Naruto end up with TenTen.