Hoo boy. *rolls up sleeves*
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It would actually be ironic if Sakura was the one to contribute to the NaruHina ship in the end- I'd silently laugh at some of the BS NaruSaku shippers ( some of them actually have valid points, but others have the most ridiculous proof and arugments EVER).
As opposed to the NaruHina camp, whose ironclad, impenetrable "proof" consists of a completely one-sided crush that has NEVER been reciprocated, and scenes from sh*tty filler episodes that have zero basis in canon. Next.
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I would think Sakura would think NaruHina would be really cute, and she may actually them hook up.
I would think Sakura is too busy worrying about Sasuke going evil and Naruto getting killed by Kyuubi to worry about such trivial matters.
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So these next couple of chapters will be interesting if a SakuNaruHina love triangle begins to form...
Yes, if Hinata had even the tiniest iota of relevance to the current story arc, which she does not. Even on the off, off, off, off chance that Team 8 backs up Team Yamato on their next excursion, Naruto has FAR more pressing concerns than hooking up with a stalkerish epileptic girl he has barely interacted with in his entire life.
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Exactly. I think a lot of fans are totally dismissing all the facts and hints that were laid down in part 1 and saying "Well, that was 2.5 years ago, the kids were silly back then".
No, they were KIDS back then. Who in the hell has the exact same personality, likes and dislikes, and CRUSHES at age 15 that they had at age 12? I certainly didn't. In adolescence, three years is a damned long time. When I was 12, I wore baggy jeans, listened to gangsta rap and crushed on a dumb jock. When I was 15, I wore fishnets and feather boas and sat on a goth boy's lap in the schoolyard. Guess what? It's called GROWING UP. And believe it or not, change is a by-product of that.
Sakura, Naruto, and Sasuke are not the same people they were pre-timeskip. Hinata apparently is, but that's because she has virtually no relevance in the greater scheme of things--she can afford to stay a one-note character.
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It would be an insult to Sakura's character to fall out of love with Sasuke.
It would be an insult to Sakura's character for her to keep mooning after a boy who has made it
adamantly clear she has no place in his life (and oh yeah, also kind of tried to
kill her) as if she were still some idiot twelve-year-old incapable of growth or change.
I'm unable to grasp why Sakura can't simply want to bring Sasuke, her friend and teammate and inspiration, home without some dopey romantic attachment involved on her behalf.
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But then Sasuke, her love left her...and that's when she gained motivation. The strength of her love drove her motivation to become strong enough to rescue him.
And of course, Naruto's failure to retrieve Sasuke and his promise to her in the face of said failure had aaaaabsolutely no bearing on this whatsoever. Because it's not like Sakura has ever drawn strength or inspiration from Naruto, ever. Oh, wait.
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Plus, imagine how guilty Naruto would feel if he ended up with Sakura. He knows that she was, and probably still is, in love with Sasuke, and would not stoop to stealing his best friend's girl.
Please refresh my memory as to when Sakura was ever "Sasuke's girl" aside from in her own deluded intimacy-seeker mind.
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I also think Naruto has been kind of self-conscious about the new attention Sakura has been showing him- he almost seems uncomfortable, as if she is invading his space.
Are we even reading the same manga here?
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In this desperate time, the last thing Naruto needs is to have the girl who once loved his best friend only have eyes for him when he is trying to save that best friend.
The one thing Naruto needs more than ANYTHING right now is Sakura. Her strength, her support, her mad healing skillz, her friendship--and if it comes down to love, that too.
The kyuubi's seal is weakening, and Naruto is dangerously close to breaking. What he needs most is the support from those he's closest to, those he cares about the most--but let's do a brief roll call of those folk, shall we:
- Iruka - back in Konoha, busy with his own duties
- Kakashi - back in Konoha, laid up recovering from his last tango in Sunagakure
- Jiraiya - preoccupied with Akatsuki surveillance
- Sasuke - gone to the bad side and didn't leave a note, has effectively cut his friendship with Naruto in two (which he may have done to avoid killing him later, and yet most recently seemed to have no qualms about trying to cut Naruto's ass down with a giant f***ing SWORD)
Hmm, who does that leave? Sakura. His constant, his backup, really the only thing he can absolutely count on now.
The NaruHina Self-Delusion Squad can fantasize all they want about how Hinata will be the one to "share his pain" and "shoulder his burden," despite the fact she doesn't know kitten about his pain, his life, his feelings toward Sasuke, his burden of being human tupperware for an annihilation-happy demon that could very well KILL him. And yet she's so qualified to serve as the sympathetic shoulder, not the girl who has been by his side since day f***ing one as a genin and knows him better than anybody (except perhaps Jiraiya).
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If NaruHina was going to happen, it would've began in part 1. And I'm not talking about Naruto starting to respect Hinata in part 1, I'm talking about the base hints of him actually being in love with her.
Which are not there.
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(So, what do I win, Aethos?
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