There is one other thing, I that has struck my curisitoy, one part the future of the NS stuff, the other just what will Naruto do next.
The first part is as I said, despite no actual NS moment, save a simple sign of sakura smiling and sheding a tear, though minor thats satisfatory, the deal I said is just how will this impact her moving forward, any development made is development that still needs to go forward. I mean even Hinata will get more development and her confession will be addressed, but in the wider scale, the NS stuff, its just again, how does the stuff we saw from her lead to another event, I mean we all saw the support sakura has put on naruto just within the last 30-40 chapters, she hasn't even given sasuke a notice since distrusting him. Just the thing people need to remember, as we didn't get the moment we wanted, this doesn't render the past development null or void, it just leaves it unaddressed until the next thing in sequence comes as it needs. I mean the Kushina stuff was unaddressed until 631 came and that was a riot, Naruto's view on Sakura was still the same, him still loving her and not being angry. Sakura changed from the land of iron thats for sure as well, I mean what looked intially bad for NS, well that was development, Sakura learned about Narutos burden and thats why the speech of 630 came out to what it was. Now with Sakura wanting Naruto to be hokage, that moment from 663, not even based on pairings its like development wise, how could anyone suspect she would side with Sasuke to be hokage after an event like this? This is a logical conclusion we can make.
The other part is, well, what got me thinking is the stuff naruto said he would do when the war was over, so does anyone suspect we may get something to hope for after this fight ends or some victory scene occurs for Naruto and Sasuke? I mean until we see what Naruto and Sasuke told they would do to Hagomoro, this remains to be seen. Likewise, well Naruto just came into save Guy, there will no doubt be some exchange of words before they fight. Obito is still involved in this too, even though Madara wants that Eye, Obito is going to have a dark situation in the coming chapters I mean Madara will get the rinnegan, otherwise there wont be a major fight unless madara can just heal even his own fractured skull. Who knows, we may get a short dialouge of Naruto thanking both Obito and Sakura next chapter before he fights, I mean hell, things can go millions of ways. Its wishful thinking but hey, its possible we expected something one week and then suddenly we get something unexpected the following. So for now, really nothing has changed but it can anytime before naruto and sasuke go right into fight madara to when they beat him. Naruto and Sakura still have development in other areas as well, I mean NS wasn't going to be canon yet even if we did get a moment, but what we did get, its satisfactory that we got a positive reaction from Sakura, not the reaction we hoped for or the way it could have gone, but its a start. Maybe the scene we expected would be better suited for say, before the final fight with sasuke or after it. But Naruto and Sakura's relationship is far from done and still has a few things that will come up for it. So theres still granted stuff to come in the future. It will play out in time. NS still has a lot coming for it. Who knows, there may be another one sooner than we think, just gotta keep a postivie look because, anytime I see that "build up thread" I just remember, theres no way in hell this won't turn out to something, it will lead to something and all this development will end at a meaningful point. Its not to be just suddenly stopped or to be subbed for something else, it will become something in the end.
I mean yeah, we wished it was one way, but it became another, but theres still a lot that can happen, some we can see others we cannot. NS still has the lead so while we didn't gain anything, we didn't nessessarily lose anything either so this chapter you can say was a neutral event, but we got a small smile/tear from sakura so thats something, not a moment but yeah she is glad he is okay, guess its like 1/5th of what we were hoping for. But there will be other NS moments, they can be anywhere from before naruto fights if he needs to break into talk no jutsu (maybe if the stuff he said to the sage for after the war involved stuff with Sakura), after madara is beaten, before he fights sasuke, and after the final fight, around the series conclusion. Not likely to happen soon but theres always a good chance for a NS moment to come during the victory of the war, before fighting sasuke, and obviously the end of the series. Theres still a lot to come and NS is still ahead of the others, I mean in some ways, not seeing a moment we wanted just makes me hope the next NS scene is what we hoped we would have gotten today. That scene we envisioned, it should come in some form in the future when theres a better moment for it. In time NS will go further, but hey, just how much further does it need to go before its canon? I mean SS isnt going anywhere and NH is still got issues to contend with, mainly those such as 631 which put a huge dividing gap between it and NS with just that issue again, I still find it ironic that many think NS cannot happen despite the only hint of the kushina foreshadow continuing just happening to fall on sakura and many suspect NH would still come. 631 was the major dividing factor to me and many others and we say thats still the hardest thing NH would need to overcome to even merit a chance of canon at this point. NS is still good, it will get more in time.
Edited by Inferno180, 09 April 2014 - 12:26 PM.