To me SS has been dead since chapter 3 ever since Sasuke called Sakura annoying. So I have nothing to worry about. SS is like a corpse that Kishi keeps stabbing when its been dead for so long.
You know, I was thinking about something after looking at some fan art picturing NaruHina and SasuSaku...
Sakura's love for Sasuke was the ONLY one to be different from other loves from the start, because she wasn't alone to love him.
All the girls were loving him because he was cool.
Sakura's love was the ONLY one which wasn't serious in the beginning.
I know she was really into it, but to me, it was just a young girl weakness.
I've been just like this, and when I think about it now, I would never want to be with the guys I fell in "love" when I was young because they were "cool".
Sakura's "love" for Sasuke was bound to change from the start.
On the contrary, Naruto's love for her is really deep and strong since the beginning. This is pure dedication. Where Sakura's feelings for Sasuke were driven by despair IMO. She wanted to be acknowledged by him. This is not love. She was suffering from a lack of self esteem, and wanted acknowledgement from the alpha cool male. This is just like Hinata's feelings for Naruto: self esteem issue, and she wanted to be acknowledged by Naruto too. Well she has been. This helped her to stand for herself in battle. And she's now friendzoned.
Well Sakura is much more stronger than Hinata, because she elevated herself above all this without Sasuke's acknowledgement. Naruto has something to do with it also.
Naruto's love for Sakura is the more touching love in all of this manga. He has been so selfless, so dedicated... and even when he was so young he has been so sensitive, dealing with it. Really, I would do anything to have a man like this in my life.
Naruto will never love anyone else.
It's not even possible.
It will always be Sakura, or else it would crush his character.
Some people claims his feeling are changing for Hinata. I disagree so much with this. He has NO PROBLEM AT ALL to address to Hinata and talk with her about deep things. To me, this is proof he has NO ROMANTIC FEELINGS for her.
Remember how it's hard for him to address to Sakura about deep things, about his feeling for her ? He even not authorise himself to talk to her about it. He never told her the truth about the bench scene, he never sold himself to her, never forced her to love him. All this is because he has so strong feelings for her that it's difficult for him to talk about.
He will never answer positively to Hinata's love for him, and I think she knows that pretty well, because she smiled at his hug with Sakura. Also, he already responded to her about what she did in the Pain arc IMO. When he told her she was strong and all, while thinking about it. And that was it. He acknowledged her. This is what she always wanted. This will never go further.
Sakura, on the other hand, it's more difficult for him, because strong feelings are involved.
Edited by Otaru, 24 April 2014 - 04:01 PM.