I don't think she saw him older ( correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember it) espacially when he was training for the Rasen-shuriken...now THAT was sexy

Actually Tsunade's words to Sakura clues you in that Sakura was spending some time watching Naruto's training. Sakura tries to make it sound "professional" by just telling Tsunade what Kakashi told her about how it was going, but that reveals she was out there watching, since they spent all day and night out there. Heh, even the animators picked up on this and made those filler scenes. (back when they were doing Naruto and Sakura filler scenes that actually worked with canon, and showed how Sakura's feelings were consciously acting out her romantic feelings for Naruto. They stopped doing that immediately after that- they actually downplayed her rather overt invitation in the manga when she attempted to feed him at Ichiraku's. In the manga she looks at Naruto with "bedroom eyes" as she offers to feed him, has her hand in a fist directed toward Sai when Naruto is yelling at him for "ruining the atmosphere" and she has a "hand caught in the cookie jar" look on her face and reaction when Kakashi walks in and in a teasing tone asks what's going on. (Even though at the point Kakashi walks in it's no longer obvious what Sakura had almost succeeded in doing) Heh, Sakura was so overt there that it even broke through Naruto's POAL wall of denial momentarily. (Don't know how well Naruto would have eaten that meal with Sakura moved in so close that her breasts would have rubbed against him with every movement

Sakura might have had to render medical treatment!)
As for the mixed bathing scene at this point- hmm I think very willing inappropriate things would happen, Sakura is interested, Naruto is interested, Sakura knows Naruto is deeply in love with her, Naruto knows Sakura is deeply in love with him. And as I pointed out Sakura was ready to do something that overt with Naruto in public way back in chapter 343. For her at this point, unless they directly say something to her Sakura isn't really even paying attention that she's doing these things in public, her mind is only on expressing her feelings for Naruto- thus the romantic embrace in front of the whole village in chapter 450, and the confession to Naruto in front of an audience in 469-70. )
Edited by ciardha, 12 December 2010 - 07:43 PM.
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