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Wow people still talk about this pairing with assurance? NS needs a bullet to the head, it's a cult of denial washing in a sea of OOC fan made traits that degrade a girl to be the main characters posessive mommy and kitten hole. I really hate how creppy hentai otaku like sunahara makes misconceptionally leading porn of a pairing so far from any sexual beligerance that it creates a fantasy of two people enjoying a couple who doesn't have mutual feelings towards each other. NS is basically self projecting the protagonist as the boyfriend of a girl who's agressively bipolar and simply a insecure mess of a female lead who depends off of said protagonist for another angle with the rival romantically. Or maybe it's stopped being about the couple and more about boinking the girl who represents our deepest failures in trying to woo.

Hinata on the other hand, is pretty much what Naruto needs, a partner and a great idealist like he is, Sakura is pragmatic and fickle just like the other characters who oppose Naruto's philsophy, her logic and her basis of understanding concept make her less understanding of a vision Naruto seeks and will seek out. NS also unlike NH has no balance, charisma, trust or faith it's all smokes and mirrors. Sakura and Naruto have more panel time but they always never seek out each other for a personal conflict they hide there feelings and dwell on the past tense especially involving Sasuke. So it's like a one night stand for shot term couples.

I see the fans as fair though, I won't judge there preference in the couple but alot of fans think just because Naruto and Sakura are close and undoubtly one of the manga's best dynamics means they have to fall in love or force Sakura to fall in love with Naruto.