Nicholas Wolfwood

Oh I wish I had the time to give this chapter the proper amount of bashing it deserves! It's still so unbelievably awful.

 

I just keep thinking...NS had to die for this crap?!? 

I suggest you simply remember NS for what it was before Kishi screwed it all to hell in the final few chapters and regulate everything that came afterwards as "expanded universe", "fan fiction" or "alternate reality". There are so many other great manga out there that can help you move on from Kishi's nightmare. 

ok this is becoming irritating How would SasukeXHinata and NarutoXSakura be a disaster ? it can never be explained at this current time of how it can become a disaster because these pairings never had a chance to come to fruition so therefore fans never had a chance to react to it.

 

If Naruto/Hinata and Sasuke/Sakura marriages divorce It wouldn't be a tragedy, It will also show the fans of NaruSaku and SasuHina that both Masashi Kishimoto and Studion Pierrot came to the realization of their mistake of even pairing Naruto/Hinata and Sasuke/Sakura as married couples which will tell us that they are looking to redeem themselves :) and that will show that they actually care how we feel about the manga making us feel wanted :) the fact that are catering to our wants or even hinting it means that we are of significant importance :) even if bringing NaruSaku and SasuHina fans back as a result of divorce doesn't return ALL NaruSaku/SasuHina fans it will bring back some, which means this is a Win Win situation for both NaruSaku/SasuHina fans and Kishimoto, We will get the pairing that we always wanted and Kishimoto will get yet another influx of fans and returning fans to read and buy his new manga which means more profit for him :)

 

 

So I fail to see a negative outcome with a divorce route with the new Boruto manga because the way I see it it will have more fans then Naruto currently does since there are only currently NaruHina/SasuSaku fans since most of the NaruSaku/SasuHina fans left honestly so at the moment mostly NaruHina/SasuSaku fans will be reading the Boruto manga so to expand on the fanbase Kishimoto and Studio Pierrot will have open new and old fanbases to squeeze as much profit as they can out of the new Boruto manga, No NaruHina and SasuSaku fans will not stop reading the Boruto manga when they see that Sasuke/Hinata and Naruto/Sakura are being shipped because it will actually keep them at the edges of their seats so because of that they will be constantly reading the new Boruto manga to see if their Beloved pairing will be broken apart and NaruSaku and SasuHina will also be at the edges of their seats constantly reading the manga seeing if their pairing finally comes true :) thats 4 fanbases added to read the Boruto manga instead of just the current 2 fanbases NaruHina/SasuSaku :) So because of this Kishimoto and Studio Pierrot will gain fans in addition to ones that they lost so I don't see an impending doom for the Boruto manga at the moment, And there are already hints that the divorce is set into motion from all the evidence from movie scenes/manga panels/Interviews i've provided :)

 

 

So what if Kishimoto and Studio Pierrot is baiting NaruSaku and SasuHina fans to read the new Boruto manga, You don't hear anything about them baiting KibaHina, NejiTenTen, and LeeSaku fans, So that means that we NaruSaku/SasuHina fans are of more importance and value to them so feel special! they are considering the concerns of our Pairing fanbase over the others!!


So what if the old NaruSaku fans left or moved on from the series, Naruto series has been on going and lasting for years, New people have been born into the world, A new age of Naruto fans has been brought into this world to see the most recent Part of the Naruto series (Boruto Naruto Next Generations) if the old NaruSaku fans left the Naruto series then a new wave of them can come to watch NarutoXSakura develop romance and thus a new age of NaruSaku fans have been born.


So therefore not only will the Boruto series bring more and new age NaruSaku fans to read the new Boruto manga it will also have some old NaruSaku fans return to the Naruto series to see if their favorite Pairing will finally come true in the manga series (Boruto Naruto Next Generations) which means profit from the new age of NaruSaku fans and from the old era of NaruSaku fans, so how will this be a disaster ?


NaruSaku fans get what they desire, NaruSaku happening, Kishimoto and Studio pierrot getting what they want, Profit from a large fan base, it's win win situation for both sides


If you guys are true NaruSaku fans why are you against it happening ? "I wouldn't want NaruSaku happening from a divorce" why shouldn't it happen from a divorce ? Naruto will realize he married the wrong women and will move on from her, Sasuke will realize he married the wrong woman and will move on from her, isn't that what you NaruSaku fans desired ? for Naruto to toss Hinata to the side for Sakura ? thats what a divorce basically is tossing your Wife/Husband to the side in favor of a new partner, so you don't want Naruto to Divorce Hinata but your not ok with their marriage ? that makes 0 sense only NaruHina fans are content with Naruto and Hinata's marriage and I know you guys are NOT NaruHina fans

I'll say this once more:

Sasuke and Hinata as a couple has never been considered for plot for the anime and manga by both Studio Pierrot or Kishimoto so they have no way of knowing if they can Market the couple and make money off of it if they haven't presented it for the world to see, however with the direct similarities both Sasuke and Hinata share such as life experiences, liking the same foods, and similar combat abilities that shows that this Pairing is rich with potential, I highly doubt sharing similarities in life experiences to be basic, that is deeply emotional in both Sasuke and Hinata's cases and they would have a deep understanding and sympathy for both each other because they both know how it feels for what they both experienced :) 

 

 

Which is why someone should present the Idea of Sasuke and Hinata as a couple to both Kishimoto and Studio pierrot so that they can experiment with it, Such as not giving them a canon manga panel moment but first dedicating a special filler episode that features both Sasuke and Hinata together doesn't matter if they are working together or eating together just give them a moment together to see how fans will react and how they will like it so that Kishimoto and Studio Pierrot can see if the Idea of them being a couple or at least deep friends is canon worthy :)


You NaruSaku fans of NaruSaku forums may have lost your faith in Naruto and Sakura becoming a couple, But I am providing new hope! :) New journeys and Horizons await you in the new Boruto manga as I've shown :)

If you have read the original manga from beginning to end and cannot see how the character of Naruto has been perversely twisted into something he never was simply for the sake of fabricating a flimsy excuse for why Bolt is a petulant brat, then there is no point in trying to debate the issue. For me, NS was special because of who the characters were. Naruto and Sakura, both great characters who complimented each other so well, are shells of their former selves, so slapping them together for the sake of saying NS happened would be hollow and wildly unsatisfying. 

Through the slow-motion train wreck that was Gaiden to the full blown soap opera that is Boruto, Naruto is portrayed as an absentee father who would rather assign a clone to be with his family during his daughter’s birthday party than have the same clone filing paperwork and checking emails at the office, and for no compelling reason. Compare this behavior to his behavior and ideals from the original manga. They’re polar opposites. And for Naruto, the guy who grew up as an outcast without a family, to decide to divorce his wife and abandon his responsibilities because he “made a mistake”? Again,100% the opposite of Naruto’s original character.

Having Kishi admit he made a mistake when he paired NH and SS is unlikely. Not too long ago JK Rowling made a comment that she regretted pairing Hermione with Ron, and wished she would have paired her with Harry instead. Harry Potter fans lost their minds over it, and it was simply a comment and not a rewriting of the story. NH and SS fans would jeer at the pandering to NS fans. Long time NS fans would see it as Kishi trying to put a bandaid on a botched story. So who’s happy in the end?

I’m guessing there are NH and SS fans who are disappointed with the low quality of what their pairings became, and they may not care if the families broke up. But the majority probably don’t care how ridiculous the pairings are because to them it’s more important that they simply happened. Quality of story and character are not high priorities for them. If their pairings were broken up they wouldn’t be on the edge of their seats, they’d be furious and frothing at the mouth.

Trolling pairings is what Kishi excelled at for years in the original manga. On Naruto Forums the NS vs SS debates were venomous. But it kept people reading, and now the new author and artist may likely attempt the same strategy. The difference is that in the original manga the pairings were unmarried young people with no ties or baggage. That doesn’t hold true anymore.

Which leads me to the children in both families, which you completely neglected in your post. You fail to see the negative outcome to a divorce scenario because you are not looking at the complete picture. You argued that divorce is tossing aside one spouse in favor of another. Does Naruto toss aside his children as well, for the sake of a pairing? Bolt’s fascination with and admiration of Sasuke isn’t meant to imply he should be his son; it’s about building drama and tension between him and his father while maybe offering some redemption for Sasuke for all the things he’s done in the past. Bolt can’t even deal with his dad neglecting him in favor of his duties as Hokage. Having Naruto divorce Hinata, marry Sakura and raise Salad, Bolt’s own team mate, as his daughter would be outrageous. And where does Himawari fit into all this? Is she, and all the kids, supposed to be happy by this turn of events? Salad already endured trauma during the silly "who is my real mother" arc when she thought Karin could be her biological mother (more trolling). Now the father she just reconnected with is going to dump her mother and hook up with Hinata? Even if all the adults agreed that divorce was a viable option, it doesn’t work very well when there are so many kids involved. 

At least not realistically. As we learned from Kishi, there is always Asspull no Jutsu.

I’m not trying to dissuade anyone from reading the manga and enjoying it as they see fit. Please feel free to do so. But I have no enthusiasm for a second-hand, highly manipulated version of a pairing that I love so much. 

 

Because of this speculation that has strong hints and evidence to support it's legitimacy, THERE IS A HIGH CHANCE THAT NARUSAKU AND SASUHINA WILL HAPPEN IN THE BORUTO MANGA!!!


I'm hyped up for it    

Are there really people out there setting themselves up for disappointment again? (I will admit that the picture of Naruto and Sakura at the bottom of your post is nostalgic, but only because they're exhibiting their personalities from the original manga.)

I don't know how much control the new writer/artist have over the Boruto manga, but I'd be shocked if Kishi would allow both Naruto and Sakura to end their marriages. It would be bad enough if there were no kids involved, but there are three. Arguing that Bolt should be with Hinata and Sasuke while Salad should be with Naruto and Sakura is bizarre enough, but there's still Himawari to account for. And if you think Bolt is an emotional wreck now, imagine if his paternal father completely abandoned him and his mother in order to marry an old flame and raise her child as his own? Can you say, "resentment to the point of murder?"

Having the families split would be a disaster at this point, and I can't imagine Kishi being willing to sacrifice the larger audiences of NH/SS for the smaller audience of NS. Not to mention that Naruto and Sakura aren't even remotely the same people they were in the original manga. Things being as they are, I can't say that I'd want to see NS happen now. Kishi had his opportunity in the original manga. He blew it, badly. Time to move on.

I didn’t read Naruto because of NaruSaku. I read it because I loved Naruto as a character. And the reason I loved NaruSaku was because I loved the characters of Naruto and Sakura, and they complimented each other so well. Boruto possesses none of the qualities that made me love Naruto. Naruto had legitimate reasons for his behavior while Boruto’s sole source of "grief" is a contrived, perverse manipulation of Naruto’s character as an absentee father for the sake of a plot device. I can’t entirely blame Kodachi since Kishi is the one who shat this train wreck into existence.

Sarada is the product of a loveless union that is so forced that it’s both comedic and tragic. She’s brought nothing new to the table and already her flimsy character is propped up with the crutch of —wait for it—wanting to be hokage. Could anyone possibly care less? 

Perhaps BoruSara is a poorly conceived, quarter-assed attempt of extending an olive branch to NaruSaku fans. It doesn’t work for me. NaruSaku was special and the kind of relationship that grows organically; it can’t be replicated in a futile attempt to capture lightning in a bottle for the second time. Sorry, but one-dimensional cardboard characters devoid of original personality and charm simply do not appeal to me and never will. I know there are people out there who enjoy mindless repetition for the comforting sense of familiarity, but I’m not one of them. I won’t read the Boruto manga and I won’t watch the kitten movies. Kishi butchered the characters that I loved, so please just bury them and leave them in peace. 

I didn’t even know Boruto was a manga until yesterday. I was caught up on my other manga and felt nostalgic for Naruto (before it completely went off the rails and became a parody of itself) and stumbled upon Boruto during a google search. Still having a bitter taste in my mouth from the train wreck ending that Naruto suffered from, I browsed through Boruto with exceedingly low expectations.

The manga did not disappoint. It was horrific.

Naruto Gaiden was the first time I read solely for the purpose of laughing at characters that I used to adore. The storyline was an infantile soap opera. Sakura and Naruto were absurd caricatures of their former selves. Sakura was reduced to the lowest common denominator of the fan girl that she was in part one. Naruto had transformed into something far worse, and something that his personality would never have allowed him to become. Sasuke was just what he always was; self-absorbed to the point of not even knowing his own daughter by sight. I thought maybe Boruto might reverse this trend of buffoonery but it instead capitalizes and underscores it.

Naruto achieved his dream. He brought a tentative peace to the ninja world and became Hokage. He has a family. His life should be mostly ideal, but an ideal life creates a problem for the character of Boruto. A boy growing up in a caring household as the son of one of the most powerful shinobi in history has no drama to feed off of. There must be a rift somewhere or Boruto can’t have the same defiant and rebellious characteristics that his father did as a child. And lord knows this manga is only capable of repeating the same tired cycles with each coming generation, as illustrated at the beginning of chapter one with Boruto fighting a death match with a one time friend.

Enter the painfully contrived storyline of Naruto as a neglectful father; a man so consumed with governing the village and nullifying threats that he can’t even make time to be with his family on his daughter’s birthday. A man with god-like power who could muster a thousand shadow clones to parcel out his work so he could spend some quality time at home; but instead sends a clone to be with his family. Naruto wouldn’t do this. He isn’t that guy but he has to be in order for the premise of this poorly conceived plot device to “work”. 

To add insult to injury, the artwork is abominable. Ikemoto is not a great illustrator, but Kishi’s character design for an older Naruto is appalling and outright criminal. His concentration-camp style haircut is as far removed as humanly possible from the free spirit Naruto possessed throughout most of the original manga. His god-like powers of healing once used on Kakashi and Gai are apparently long gone as he continues to have bandages wrapped around his arm. (Likely a miserable attempt to add a “cool” factor to his character design.) His half length cape just looks half-assed.

Sakura looks like a beast. I’d blame Ikemoto except for the fact that she looked atrocious in Gaiden. I don’t know when all ability was lost to render her in the beautiful manner she was during the early chapters of Naruto part 2, but her destruction is complete. Physically, mentally and emotionally, she has been reduced to something not worth appearing in the manga at all. Rest in peace, Sakura-chan.

Otaku fanboys who worshiped Hinata’s magnificent and curvaceous physique must be deeply mourning the tragic loss of her ample breasts. Perhaps it was due to a lack of attention from Naruto, but the once voluptuous twins have apparently deflated and fled. The formerly proud princess of the Hyuuga clan is now reduced to a flat-chested, stay-at-home mother taking selfies with the kids because absentee father Naruto can’t be bothered to hang around long enough to hold the camera.

Sasuke looks ridiculous. Perhaps the experiments Orochimaru performed on him years ago are finally catching up to him. As in the original manga, Kodachi feels the need to have characters tell the reader how “cool” he is. It’s a crutch. If I must constantly be told he’s “cool”, then he probably isn’t. If he was, I’d know it without being told. 

Boruto, Salad and the rest were drawn poorly in Gaiden. Nothing has changed here. Salad’s proclamations of wanting to be Hokage carry no weight. The declaration of wanting to be Hokage lost its charm about the time when a flashback Obito claimed it was his goal in life. Nobody cares any more. If you want it, shut up and earn it. But again, repetitiveness is the hallmark of this manga and Naruto in general.

Will there be a spark between Boruto and Salad? Will Salad be pursuing him as a love interest in a sad and vain attempt to pacify disenfranchised NS fans? It probably doesn’t matter. By the time Sasuke finishes molesting him as his disciple, Boruto won’t have any interest in girls. (You can’t live for years with a pedophile like Orochimaru and not have it negatively affect you or your sexual proclivities.)

By the end of Naruto, Kishi had made me not care about characters that I used to love. As a result I certainly don’t care about their progeny. Multiply that indifference with a weak and contrived storyline and substandard art, and there really is no reason to delve any further into this. Unless, as with Gaiden, it's just for a good laugh.

Although I knew that anything was possible, I fully expected NS to happen. Through the majority of part 2 the development and the story was quite nicely done. But when the author is willing to sacrifice the integrity of the story for a “gotcha” ending, whether to force a surprise on the readers at the expense of credibility or to satisfy a particular fanbase, then all bets are off.

The saddest part was that the author himself took characters I had held dear for years and utterly obliterated them in a clumsy and heavy handed attempt to create an unexpected ending. Mission accomplished, but this is a textbook example of winning a battle but losing the war. For me, Naruto is the poster child for failed manga.

As a result, I have zero interest in reading anything else Kishi writes. He made me no longer care for characters I used to love; why would I possibly care about their continuing story or their progeny? The recent character description of Sakura saying that she was born an elite ninja made me wonder if Kishi has even read his own manga. The disparity between what was originally written and how it’s being reinterpreted and retconned is truly embarrassing and outright laughable.

The bright side is that I’ve found a number of other manga that I enjoy very much, but I’ll always bear in mind that at any moment the author may Kishi the hell out of the story for the sake of a cheap ploy. It’ll keep me from becoming too emotionally invested. Once burned; twice learned, as they say.


 

When the movie is released, they also going to reveal a oneshot chapter about Naruto`s inauguration as the seventh Hokage.  Here`s a first scan

 

 

Looks like Naruto and Hinata are having breakfast

I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of this one shot, Kishi retcons the story so that Sasuke is Hokage. That, or Naruto only becomes Hokage because the village asks Sasuke first but he declines so he can get the hell away from his family.

As for the scan, I can read a little bit of what Naruto is saying in his close up panel in the middle of the page. He says, "I see you cut your hair short like I asked you to, but I also asked you to dye it pink. Why the delay-tebayo?" In the next panel Hinata responds by stuttering something about the hair stylist being out of pink dye, and that she'll get it taken care of as soon as possible. I sense that this is going to be an awkward story.

Why should I expect anything less from Kishimoto.

Because you sure can't expect anything more.

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Assuming the translation is correct, Kishi essentially said that he deliberately avoided writing a reason for Sakura to like Sasuke because he couldn't think of a legitimate one. He's basically left with:

1) She likes him because he's the most popular guy in school

2) She likes him because he's (according to every female character who ever crossed his path) "hot"

And my favorite reason:

3) She likes him because Ino likes him and she's pursuing him to spite Ino

Sakura is doing exactly what she accuses Naruto of doing in The Last, chasing after somebody in an act of competition with a rival.  But thanks to retcon no jutsu, we know that Naruto is so stupid that he can't differentiate the feeling of love for a person from the love of a cup of ramen. Thus Sakura's unreasonable and inexplicable addiction (Kishi's own description) to Sasuke is now "true love" while Naruto only "liked" Sakura to spite Sasuke... who never gave a damn about her in the first place. In fact, considering he's never been able to think of a valid reason for Sakura to like Sasuke, how in the world could he hope to explain how a guy who never showed any affection for her in 698 chapters out of a 700 chapter story is supposed to suddenly fall in love with and marry her?

Ironically, with the silly flashback scene where Sasuke rescued a young Karin in the Forest of Death, Karin has a more legitimate reason for being in love with Sasuke than Sakura does.

And everybody wonders why Gaiden was such a train wreck...

 

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Sakura's full body. A bold/aggressive fashion, showing her belly-button. If you look at the Uchiha crest on her back, you are filled with a deep emotion.

 

I don't know if Kishi is the one who wrote the description or just some lackey, but it's a perfect example of how Kishi writes his story. He has to tell you what you're supposed to feel about everything, especially the married couples. "If you look at the Uchiha crest on her back, you are filled with a deep emotion." It's like a jedi mind trick for those dull enough to fall for it. Seeing that crest on her back will only fill me with the urge to vomit.

Yeah lmao he is indeed everywhere

He can probably dedicate the time to it because he doesn't have a life.

 

Sasuke is flawless. He's the kind of father I want to be some day

Just stay as far away from your family as physically possible and show your wife and child no affection (short of what amounts to a pat on the head) and your goal will be achieved!

 

I'm not buying it. I really can't get why people would even want NS to be canon after this whole fiasco. I sure don't.

Exactly. If becoming canon meant that Kishi would have "resolved" NS the way he did NH and SS, then no thanks. What happened to their individual characters was depressing enough.

Careful ... someone might take screenshot of this word and then post it "SOMEWHERE". And then said "Look this guy said NH and SS are retards", and then war started before you know it things get ugly.

Too late. Things have been ugly for years.

Ok so what was the purpose of Gaiden? No seriously what was the purpose behind it?
Because the plot of it is: "Who's my mommy?" that's really it. And for what 8 or 9 (not sure when exactly it started) chapters out of it, it continues with this plot. Only to end all the drama of "Sakura's my mommy. Oh no Karin's my mommy. I hate Sakura. Naruto you're a liar." with a comical relief between Karin and Suigetsu.    Thus turning the entire thing into a joke.

The purpose of Gaiden was twofold:

1) $$$

2) An attempt to foster interest in the characters in order to promote Burrito's upcoming movie.

But if you believe the plot is Sarada wondering who her mom is, then you've fallen victim to another of Kishi's masterful plot twists. Sarada's story was actually a red herring. The real story was about Chou Chou's emotional journey to find her real father, since a rotund Chouji certainly couldn't be related to her. After asking every male she met if he was her dad (and reiterating to the reader how amazing Sasuke is) she returned home to find a thin Chouji, whom she immediately accepted as her father. The moral is that she sought to find the truth externally when she should have searched internally... that and the shallowness of judging people by their appearance is an acceptable form of behavior. Another important life lesson from Kishi-sama.

I'm sure it did for the SS fans.

 

They just can't resist the romantic chemistry that Sasuke and Sakura have.

I guess they subscribe to the idiom "absence makes the heart grow fonder". Nothing says "I love you" like complete abandonment.

There is a video on Youtube by forneverworld theorizing that Naruto would kick the bucket in Boruto   

 

The thumbnail looks like Naruto saying "I entrust him to you" First Sasuke took Sakura from Naruto and now Naruto probably is gonna give his son to his love.

The problem Kishi would have with having Naruto die and leave Burrito in Sasuke's care is that it only makes Sasuke look good because he'll be taking care of his dead friend's son. He would want Sasuke to look great, so what is more likely is that Naruto will turn evil and try to destroy Konoha. Sasuke will have to vanquish him in order to save the very village that endorsed the extermination of his clan (watta guy!). In the process he'll use TnJ to convince Naruto to turn away from evil, thus redeeming his friend. But alas, it will be too late as Naruto will already be mortally wounded by the vastly superior Sasuke, and even though Sakura will arrive on the scene at the last minute she won't even notice Naruto lying on the ground bleeding because Sasuke is in the same panel and she only has eyes for him. Thus Naruto entrusts his son, and probably entire family, to Sasuke. The grateful villagers remove Naruto's image from the kage shrine and replace is with a carving of Sasuke, and bestow upon him the title of Emperor Lord Sasuke the Wonderful. Konoha is also renamed Sasukohona. Sasuke then leaves the village on a pilgrimage of atonement, abandoning his own family and the one Naruto entrusted to him, but everybody loves him and thinks he's great anyway. The end.

The joke about Sakura having Salad with the clone of Sasuke sounds like the most logical option now.

I'm thinking Naruto did his chapter 3 Sasuke henge one last time...

 

QFT "All Uzumakis are red herrings!" ... Awesome rant

Hence the red hair. Kishi is so clever!

I feel so warm and fuzzy inside! I was going to invest a great deal of money into some writing classes, but thanks to Kishi's master class in storytelling I no longer need to. I've learned that the objective is to spend nearly 700 chapters developing a red herring in minute detail and then breaking it to pieces and "revealing" the truth within the course of one chapter. It doesn't matter if it's rushed, forced, nonsensical, laughable, devoid of reason, totally implausible or outright absurd. The point is having that "gotcha" moment when the reader realizes they've wasted hours, days, weeks or even years of their lives by reading a trite piece of contrived garbage. As for all the secrecy regarding lack of birth records, why Sarada wears glasses while Sakura and Sasuke don't, why Sakura would rather fly into a rage and destroy her home in front of her child rather than simply explaining the benign and outright boring truth and why Karin was the one to keep the umbilical cord rather than Sakura... well, sweep it all under the rug kids, 'cuz Kishi doesn't have any answers either.

As for Karin's comment, "I just wanted Sasuke to be happy"... yes, I totally got that feeling from reading the original manga. Her creepy obsession with him and overt sexual advances of course lead me to the obvious conclusion that all she wanted was Sasuke to find happiness, even if it was with another woman. Retcon No Jutsu in action.

To anyone who felt inclined to believe that Karin was the mother because "it would make Naruto's talk with Sarada about bonds and feelings completely meaningless", did you really think that a guy who discarded fifteen years and almost 700 chapters of story for a pitiful attempt at a surprise ending would hesitate for an instant in throwing away a paltry nine chapters? Only this time there was no surprise, because Kishi is the boy who cried wolf one too many times and now nobody falls for anything he writes. The more "evidence" that Karin was the biological mother that was revealed, the more I knew that it was going to be Sakura without a doubt. Well, that and I knew that Kishi would never give Sasuke anything less than a happy ending, even if it meant tying him to a woman he clearly doesn't give a yank for; hence no hug, no kiss and not even a lousy forehead poke for our pathetic, pink-haired emotional punching bag. There's always the solitude of abandoning his family for the freedom of a life on the road. And Sakura will always be home waiting for his return, if there is one, because she's a good a loyal door mat–er–wife. And Sarada will pass one life milestone after another without her "cool" (Thanks Chou Chou, for carrying on the Kishi tradition of having every female who encounters Sasuke tell the reader how uber awesome he is) absentee father around. True love is inspiring!

On the bright side, Naruto now has dozens, if not hundreds, of little Shins that he can spend time with in order to avoid any meaningful contact with his own children. :)