GAAAHHHH!!! It just doesn't make sense for SS to happen, it's just fail all around, so much freaking fail.
Sakura's negative feelings are the only thing that sustains SS. Why would people think that such a situation is to be yearned for? I just don't get it. I understand the aesthetics of SS, the cool stoic guy with the every girl, but it feels like people just focus on the surface of it all instead of reading the story and understanding the reality that's being told.
At this point I think people just hope that SS would work out somehow, that some magical plot device will make Sasuke fall for Sakura. People just don't ask themselves what's the point of Sasuke and Sakura being together? They just want them together because it their preference.
Everything in the story points towards NS, and Sakura's feelings for Sasuke are there to bring doubt drama into the story. It's the same thing with Sasuke not wanting to accept Naruto as a brother, it bring drama into the relationship between Naruto and Sasuke. Why don't people get that simplicity?
It irritating to witness how people sacrifice the storytelling in exchange of wanting a pairing to happen because that's how you like it in your fantasies. In all of Part 1 I couldn't care less if romance happened or not, but slowly I began to notice how Naruto kept growing in Sakura's eyes. Even then I didn't focus on it much but then comes Part 2 and we jump start with Sakura flirting with Naruto. After that it's one moment after the other that brings them closer together.
I didn't start liking NS because I thought they looked cute or because I could relate to it. I can't relate to any of those messy unrequited loves. The reason I liked it and want it to happen is because it's the one that fits story wise. The story builds up to putting them together, and it's meant to build up the audience to root for them to be together. It baffles me how such a monumental amount of people don't pick up on that, and to make matters worse they actually insult the way it's been so nicely built.
It the same as those people that kept insulting the ones that kept saying Tobi was Obito. They insulted, insulted and insulted to no end. Came up with theories of Tobi being this guy or that guy, and preached them as if they were smarter then anyone else when the reality was anything but.
All of that things with NH and SS are misdirection, and ironically since so many people already believe that NH is canon and that SS it's on the way it makes the misdirection even more obvious. Kishi isn't even trying hard with this one. It's the moment when you think things are going one way that they end up going the other way. It's precisely because it seems that Sakura won't get over Sasuke that we'll witness her indeed getting over her feelings for him.
Sakura is the one with changing feelings so she's the one that we're supposed to look at for what she chooses. Naruto and Sasuke are static with the way they see Sakura, with Naruto loving her and Sasuke just being a teammate. Sakura's theme is about the maturity of her heart, that's not something that should be given to either Naruto or Sasuke. They already have plenty of other things to develop to also be taking Sakura's plot points as well.
Naruto is busy saving the world and trying to find the answer for peace, while Sasuke is busy trying to find the meaning of his existence and how he'll react to the shinobi world. They have bigger things to deal with then searching their hearts for new feelings for girls that they haven't even spent a significant amount of time with. Sakura on the other hand doesn't have such big responsibilities like those two, therefore can be focused on regarding the matters of her heart and how her feelings change.
The development of romantic feelings is costume made for Sakura and yet some fans want to take that away from her and pile it up in the already great amount of issues that Naruto and Sasuke have to face? Get real.
I'll be honest, making Naruto not loving Sakura goes so much against the story as would be Naruto not wanting to be Hokage anymore.
What if Minato is the one to push Sakura towards naruto? The parallel could be that spark to ignite her change.
Everyone will hear about Minato, but again who learned the majority of stuff from Naruto first?
-His loneliness?
-His burdens?
-His feelings?
-The nine tails?
-The akasuti after him?
etc,
The majority of this all falls back to Sakura. If anything, Sakura even understood a bit of what Naruto had to deal with all the way back in chapter 3, after Sasuke told her she was annoying, she at least made an effort to be nicer to Naruto. Overtime this is what made her development and growth with Naruto so much better, she only saw him as annoying but later saw him as a friend, and this late has faith in him and tries to help him in anyway she can, it took Sakura herself to tell this to everyone. All hinata understood about Naruto was how people doubted him and underestimated him, that was it. Yet again, it was Sakura who experienced the stuff with Naruto and early as the chunin exams was willing to do stuff for him on her own (giving up the test to support his dream of hokage and to take the flak from Sasuke if needed). But people somehow expect Hinata to magically know everything about Naruto, so when did Hinata exactly find out about the 9 tails and understand its power? When did she ever find out about Sasuke? Haters act as if the 469 confession, 540, and 615 just means an open invitation to Hinata, claiming she is great yet never mentioning how she served practically little to no purpose over 332 chapters. From the end of Naruto's fight with neji to the moment she is defends him from pain, what relevance did Hinata have on the story? She has no purpose in part 1 beyond the chunin exams. In part 2 she only reappears for a small reintro and has a minor role in the Itachi pursuit arc, but we could also count this with Sakura too, yet more important on both Naruto and Sakura cause they failed to get Sasuke again.
The one who knows naruto is sakura, not hinata. If anyone knows Naruto better than Sakura, it would have to be Kurama, he is literally inside Naruto and knows everything he himself ever experienced. Its funny again how both Sakura knows what Naruto is capable of and yet Kurama had to see it again and again before they became friends. this is the main key of NS, its how both Naruto and Sakura go through so much together and still are very close. I mean just looking at this chapter, like how Naruto knew Sakura's reasons in the land of iron event, Sakura herself was speaking
exactly what naruto thought. He read her back then, she read him this time. Its simple
at this point Naruto and Sakura understand each other perfectly, to speak and know what the other will say in the situation, without the need to reaffirm it, they know each other better than anyone else. Its all because of everything they experienced together, they went through so many ups and downs they know the support they give each other, this is why NS still exists and can happen, because they have great faith, concern, care, and support for one another no matter what happens.
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