What are you guys talking about, I expected to see some good NS theories and etc. ;D In Bleach there are two heroines Rukia and Orihime, at first Orihime had very little screen time and Rukia was the one to lead, then Orihime became center of the story and now they became background characters,lol. I still think Rukia makes much much better heroine than Orihime though. As for Hinata it's obvious that she is not heroine, she is support character that has little of importance, Ino gets more screen time than Hinata does.
I think everyone noticed that all team 7 members have someone who likes them. Lee->Sakura, Hinata->Naruto and the all hail Sasuke and his harem Karin/Ino/Sakura/Orochimaru/Naruto/Kishimoto->Sasuke. If you compare Lee's confession and Hinata's it's basically same thing, just like Naruto Sakura was very protective over Lee http://mangafox.me/m...06/c053/11.html she immediatly reacted to help Lee, also later she was very kind to him, but it doesn't mean she fallen for him. And also Lee gave Sakura a lesson, she thanked him for that, just like Hinata gave Naruto lesson, she gave him courage to fight, Lee gave Sakura courage to fight. I think the most important romance is within Team 7, like Tazuna I believe said "Love triangle?" that is basically what's going on in team 7 Sakura likes Sasuke,Naruto likes Sakura, Sasuke is neutral towards this topic, but there were moments where you could say Sasuke has something towards Sakura, when She hugged him in forest, in clinic Sasuke didn't reject her. Then everything changes in part 2, there is Karin who takes Sakura's role in his team and he seems to be aware of her, also she seems not to be fangirl that agrees with everything Sasuke does, like Sakura. To make this short Naruto and Sakura become closer and closer in story, so many times they were pointed out as "gf/bf", in shounen manga usually when such things are said it's obvious that they are going to be gf/bf in the end. Hints like that are common in both shonen and shoujo. ^_^ I made this too long