If that interview is true, fans from all sides are going to flip, Admitting Naruto being close to Sakura is a mislead is nothing more than admitting the entire manga was nothing more than a troll, He felt Naruto falling in love with Hinata needed to be explained? Well if the spoilers are to be beleived, he did a lousy job, it still doesn't explain WHY Naruto loves Hinata all it does is tell us he does. For a mangka or any creative person to deliberately go out of their way to troll their fans...sorry that's disgusting, this is meant to be a manga for young impressionable kids, this is the moral code they are supposed to grow up reading? Well kitten that, To take a precious moment when Kushina was saying her final dying words to her son just to troll the fans, is sickening, to create a mother with the charactor traits she has just for a troll?
Everytime Kishi opens his mouth in an interview it just appears he sounds like a bigger idiot, I bet he thinks he is selling the movie everytime he comes out with his comments, what he doesn't even seem to realise is that he's killing his manga every single time, fans are being told, I lied to you! You liked Kushina? Well she was just a troll, You liked Naruto and Sakura's closeness? That was troll! It's a nail in the coffin for him, no fan likes being told they were trolled, doesn't matter if you are a NaruHina, NaruSaku, or SasuSasu fan, this interview basically tells the NAruSaku fansthey were trolled, and it sells the other two that the reason their pairings got no development was because he'd rather troll a fandom than develop their story.
This is one of the most disgusting comment I have ever read from someone who created a story...It's no wonder he tried so hard to have everyone evil redeemed, he was justifying his own evil throug them.
I hope that this interview is false or atleast been taken heavily out of context, because if it's true, every single fan should be signing that Ban Naruto petition, we don't need that kind of trash being shown to our impressionable youth.
If NH needs more explanation (and, heck, SS, too), why not spend some of those 700 chapters developing them instead of taunting and trolling fans with NS?