Glad to see this thread very active today. Well, at least compare to other days. You guys do bring a good point. I don't know, I don't think Kishi was really serious with Hinata's character. Didn't he made her to balance out the whole team members style. Besides, she is hardly in an arc. She's hardly there. It's funny because anime had many opportunities to place in one. But nope. Why do I say that? I don't know. Ask them when they did Immortal Arc. Seriously, that arc has little to none NaruSaku moments. It was more of Naruto's new technique and Team 10 (mostly Shikamaru). But when the studio got to the arc, they went all happy with it. Am I complaining? Hell no.
I do love the whole Sakura is watching him to get stronger and surpassing the odd, even when they both felt down. Gotta love Naruto collecting Sakura's notes. It's like stamp collection.
Again, if Hinata's romance is serious, why not put in more to it. Why anime didn't give her more time with Naruto? Why have her as a third wheel, even in that 3-tails arc? Again, look at what they done to Immortal Arc. Canon arc no less. That's says a lot. I know, I know, it's filler. BUT! That doesn't mean we shouldn't let it slide so easy. Again, anime studio loves to push on a paring, especially the OTP one. Look at Bleach, I lost count on how many they done IchiRuki. So yeah, there's something that they felt confident. Maybe we are so sidetracked with this "pairing war". I don't know.
Yeah, it makes you wonder why the anime studio decides to pad things with Narusaku moments, rather than Naruhina moments if Naruhina is suppose to be the end game. It is as if they are saying that Naruto and Sakura's bond may actually be.....
important! 
BUT, I don't think we're also taking consideration of the Naruhina moments that they also show, including the OPs and EDs (I know there's more than one). Granted, of what I looked up it seems to show mostly (if not, ONLY) Hinata>>>>Naruto. But than again, episode 235, which contains one of my favorite moments and lines in the entire anime, was entirely Naruto>>>>>>>Sakura (Sakura wasn't even really in that episode). Yet I count that a moment for us, because 1) it showed Naruto was still in love with Sakura, which should have been obvious still, but the story has the lack of showing Naruto's feeling for Sakura often (well, at least compared to Sakura's feelings for Sasuke and Hinata's feelings for Naruto), 2) it showed that Naruto is doing a very noble thing by putting Sakura's feelings before his, which is incredibly sweet and romantic in my opinion, 3) it made the Narusaku parallel with Jiratsu even more obvious, and 4) one of the episode's themes was that being in love means that you care about one an others happiness, or, to be more specific of what that episode showed, when the
guy is willing to do everything to make sure the woman he loves is happy. Pretty much that episode was telling us that Naruto's love for Sakura is not only still there, but is actually true love (well, at least on his part). I doubt any of the other fillers showed anything like that for Naruhina and Sasusaku.
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because it would make him look well..for him to say that about hinata is just ..well..wrong ( not that i mind 
) and SP: i know that this is totally off topic 
(sry) but i keep seeing people talking about this scene were sai tricks sakura into admitting that she admires naruto while both of them are watching him training in the rain i dont want a link or anything ,just want to know what sai told her
