My point about NH was really that their interaction is for development sake, whether it's for Naruto or Hinata. I'm not trying to be biased but I don't recall any normal conversation in a daily life. If I see one with her and Naruto talking in the beginning of a arc, then it's ok. But the problem is that there's none. NS has daily life conversation like when Sakura and Sai bumps to Naruto and talk, or how they are just eating ramen after Immortal arc. It's just natural. That's what I'm saying.
I agree completely - I think the closest they get to talking just for the sake of talking was when Hinata told Naruto that it was good to be working with him, and Naruto have her a smile and an affirmative in response right before the find Itachi mission, but it was both insignificant and is dwarfed by the casual interactions between Naruto and Sakura (which is much less formal and comfortable back and forth normally).
QUOTE
I agree with you about Sakura. I always said this but think about it. Technically, Sakura's friendship level hits the peak by the end of part 1, same level as K11. So why continuing developing her relationship with Naruto further in part 2? It hit the peak already, so the only level left is love. Kishi could just leave her out after Rescue Gaara arc if he saw her as secondary, but there's more to this than people thought. Hug wasn't necessary in terms of story, neither as feeding and Sai and Yamato's comment. So why? That's a question that will be answered towards the end.
Yep - Sakura trusted Naruto completely, realized that he understood her and was always there for her all by the end of part one. To me, part one was about establishing a strong basis of friendship between Naruto and Sakura (as well as establishing Naruto's love for Sakura, and the rest of the love triangle/quad), while part two (where he said he actually wanted to try and emphasize romance) was about building towards reciprocation from Sakura's side (i.e. building Sakura's friendship into romantic feelings).
Others claim the moments were just red herrings, disproven as romantic moments on Sakura's part by the summit and 540, but they forget that NaruSaku is the only pairing that ever got such hints of mutual romantic affection. It seems rather ludicrous that Kishi would give hints of reciprocation for the "red herring", and focus on that pairing's relationship, over the actual pairing(s), which received little focus and no hints of reciprocation in comparison.
Whereas if you flip the argument, it makes perfect sense that the pairings with zero hints of reciprocation and not nearly as much focus overall are were there to bring suspense to the romance subplot and to serve as character development for the girls, as well as plot devices in certain instances.
Just kidding. Well, I guess it was misunderstanding on my part. Oh well, it doesn't excuse that they denied the fact the movie is made by Kishi. Also, NS hasn't been trolled by Kishi at all, unless you count the teasing. There's no indication that said Naruto/Sakura will remain friends forever and no more feelings. The confession could be a troll, but there's many reasons that really put in questions, so it's in pending. SS got trolled multple times in the manga that I lost count. NH, so far, got trolled that Naruto still loves Sakura and still didnt bring up her confession at all. Of course, the movie made it worse but let's not go there.
I don't see the confession as trolling either. Kishi specifically stated that the main theme of the manga is bonds, specifically, the
"resulting complications and....difficult relationships." The confession was a
complication in the NaruSaku relationship, meant to test the strength of their bond, and prevail over. Complicated is the best word to describe 469 and 470 - it wasn't straightforward - it was meant to be a speed bump in the road, not a dead end.
If it was, the romantic possibilities of their relationship would have clearly been ended there, but they weren't. Nothing has been resolved from that scenario yet, its simply being pushed off for a later date. Once the issues brought up at the summit are breached between them, I think that conversation will lead down the path to the pairing's final resolution.
QUOTE
The movie is straightforward when it comes to the situation like Sakura's dreams are wrong to begin with and she only asking for reality check yet ironically in fantasy. Again, the beginning of the movie shows the downside of both Naruto and Sakura through their argument. So in the end, it pays off greatly for both of them.
Agreed - the movie shows the friction in the relationship at the beginning, and works through it and resolves it by the movie's end. To a lesser extent than the summit, the argument they had at the beginning of the movie is Kishi depicting a complication in their relationship, and showing that their bond is strong enough to hold strong and true despite that.
I think both of them learned that fantasy is no substitute for reality, and you need to be appreciative of what you really have. The important thing, I think, is that
they helped each other in learning that message.
It's kinda funny after all since movie 4 sakura did not had any importance on a movie on "Lost Tower" chapter "A movie to forget" ->she only appear to say naruto crying and then she makes a joke on the ending, on movie 5 "Blood Failure" -> it can be anyone but that pink girl was not sakura for sure, she didnt show any sign of emotion on that movie it was WTF dude naruto had a hole on his chest this is not normal.
Yeah, it was pretty sad how minimal of a role Sakura got in those two movies. But at least she showed up, and showed care for Naruto in both of them (though I agree,
ALL of their reactions to Naruto getting stabbed through and lying bleeding on the ground wasn't believable - they were off rounding off the fodder prisoners while Naruto is bleeding out on the ground, not showing any concern until after they finish the fight and even then its minimal.
As NaruSaku4Life said, it would have been preferable to keep Sakura's reaction from the novel in, as it fits her characterization better, but it is what it is.
Blood Prison all together didn't make much sense (I mean, Naruto and Ryuuzetsu both had a huge chunk of their
spine missing, not to mention a bunch of internal organs and their lungs, and yet they were either fighting, or walking around for a good while afterwards
)