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[psycho666]

Hey, ok so i don't know if theres already a post on this but whatever. When did you first start supporting NaruSaku? What triggered it? Like was it a fanfic, a picture, an amv? And did you support any other couples before that? If so, which ones?

For me, i first started supporting NaruSaku after an Amv i saw about them, i figured they'd make a really cute couple, based on what i saw, i don't really remember what song was in the Amv and i don't really remember the amv itself, but i do remember that i started liking NaruSaku after that.

I did support other couples before that, and they were, obviously, NaruHina and SasuSaku, see for me, Naruto was sort of like the first time that i really got into anime, before that i read mangas occaisionally, but i didn't really know what it was or anything. So when i supported NaruHina and SasuSaku it wasn't really how we think of supporting couples, it was more like i thought they were just the couples in the story, ya know, everyone else around me liked those couples, so i thought it was like a done deal. That's when i got introduced to Fandom and realized that pairings and couples, at least for this anime, was actually a huge debate thing, that there are hundreds and probably thousands maybe millions(idk) of fans out there that all have different opinions on the matter that even the craziest pairings in the world (ex. GaixSaku) could happen, we just don't kno. Now i'm not saying i take pairings seriously at all, i mean, really when i think about it, i could really care less about what pairings actually happen, if any do at all.

Okay, we sort of steered off topic there i think but please tell me when you started supporting NaruSaku and what triggered it and all that jazz, i'd really like to hear your stories on this matter

[Tsunade]

Ash-chan's (Sharingank) Words On a Page and the rest of her fics.

[Vyse]

I loved Hinata up to the point where she actually started to be a regular character (chunin exam), so I was a NaruHina shipper. I also liked Sasuke up to that point, which lead to me liking SakuSasu as well for some reason... but I didn't really care. So it was because of... I think it was Desaix and his "Training for the Job" that got me into NaruSaku.. I must have read that story a gazillion times. So now that I don't care much for Hinata or Sasuke (don't mind the characters, but can't stand them in pairings) I chose the one I want to happen in canon Naruto as well... NaruAnko... or was it NaruSaku? Well, one of them for sure!

[Blayze]

It was pretty much episode... what was it?... eight, I think. Guess the scene and you get a cookie.

[psycho666]

ohh, i know when something happened to Naruto, he gets knocked down or something, and Sakura screams out "Naruto!" all worried and stuff.

Or, no, wait, it's when Naruto get's up and gains some guts, and tells Sasuke his plan, and Sakura starts to blush and says "Whats..This feeling?" or something like judging from teh subtitles

[True]

When Naruto was about to be killed by Gaara's sand of doom and he all of a sudden summoned Gamabunta and said "I'll protect Sakura-chan at all costs!!!"

I was like damn, he really likes this girl!

[Manda]

It was pretty much episode... what was it?... eight, I think. Guess the scene and you get a cookie.

Haha, it was the scene against Zabuza, and Sakura blushes for Naruto, right?

"What... whats this feeling? Naruto is so..."

I really love that scene. I still re-read it from time to time, actually. I really love how Sakura slowly begins to realize what an amazing guy Naruto is. >w<


Anyway, to be on topic... I actually kind of supported the idea of Naruto and Sakura together from the start, because I'm all for main boy/main girl relationships. It's a cliche that I grew up with, so it really means a lot to me. But it really wasn't my OTP at the time - I was just joking with the idea of them together. I thought it was completely hilarious how Naruto would say something stupid and Sakura would beat the r0xorzZ out of him. xDD But I layed off pairings in the beginning anyway, because at the time I was heavily enjoying the action instead. Some of my friends were trying to convince me to like SasuSaku, but I was never that desperate to pair anyone up. Besides, I'm the type to like the GUY crushing on the girl than the other way around. It was also around the Zabuza arc, obviously, that I began to like the pairing. I thought it was cute how Sakura blushed for Naruto when he was standing up to Zabuza.

And, part II was obviously too much for me to handle, especially around chapter 297. I thought it was just adorable how Sakura seemed helpless around Naruto, and how she said she could only do the smallest things for him. Then Yamato comments and says, "It's not about how big or small... its how you feel for him that counts." <3 I read that chapter more than a hundred times, its probably my favorite chapter to date. >w< When I kept reading and re-reading the manga, I fell in love with NaruSaku more and more, and realized they have this incredible spark, an amazing chemistry, and a beautiful working ethic. <3 And I just love their firey interaction. And thus, I became a NaruSaku shipper. It's my biggest OTP now actually~.

[Denim88]

Wow, when did I first start liking NaruSaku??? Hm...wow, um, that's a toughy actually. I think it was when I started getting into the pairing. I'll be honest right now, the reason I got into Naruto started when I watched the episode with Zabuza vs. Kakashi while escorting Tazuna. If I hadn't seen that awesome episode, I don't know what would have been the case for me...well, now I'm getting off topic. I guess I owe my liking for NaruSaku to the fact that I read some really nice fanfics, and I was like, "Hey, this guy's actually kind of cool. He's not giving up on her, is he?" Then to make things even better, I started reading the mangas, and I loved the interaction between our favorite blond and pink haired shinobi. So, after I started wikipedia-ing everything, I read more and more about the series, watched episodes, and was like, "Okay, if he doesn't get the girl, I'm going to flip. He deserves her!"
Then a couple years pass, and low and behold, Shippuden came around. I became an hardcore NaruSaku fan at the point where I saw her talking to Naruto (and later send him flying into the ground). It was classic, the whole overly-aggressive girl beating up on our clueless hero. Anyway, the pairing seemed to hold so much potential that I had supported it from the beginning. Mind you, I started watching the series a bit late in the game, so I had some catching up to do. In the end, I saw the whole situation with Sakura after Naruto goes to his fourth tail state, and I knew something was there...

Now...I silently wait...hoping for one of them to come to terms with each other...preferably Sakura beating Naruto in because she's having difficulty telling him how much she cares.

[Illjwamh]

"Support" isn't really the right word for me. I just see it as a given. I've thought as much ever since Sakura and Sasuke were introduced, really. During the bell test, when Sakura was hiding and found herself impressed with Naruto's ability despite her previous behavior toward him I thought (rather cynically, in truth), 'Well, I can see where this is going to end up.'


I've read a lot of shounen manga.

[Terrace]

When I first heard about what episode three would entail on Toonami, the 'host' said, "Naruto gets new teammates. A pretty girl, and a pretty serious rival." The instant I heard the phrase pretty girl, I thought Naruto should hook up with her. Later on, as I watched more episodes, and read some manga chapters, I became a shipper of NaruSaku fairly quickly, but never really believed.

Then I read Training for the Job, by desaix.



I became a full-blown shipper from that moment forward.

[Vespar]

Right there.

[Daidoji_Tangen]

Me?

Well, my first introduction was this anime my best friend was telling me about. Full Metal Alchmeist good? We'll see.

Well, he was right and I enjoyed it. When I first saw Sakura and Sasuke I thought Naruto and Sakura would be together (main guy/main girl). But that ended REAL quick when I saw a rerun with Hinata in it.

To me it made everything clear cut. NaruHina and SasuSaku and everyone would be happy.

And I became a big fan of NaruHina. But some things always bothered me.

I couldn't really see them together as they currently were. But no matter. Hinata did want to change after all.

Also, there were some major NaruSaku moments that seemed off to me. Sasuke's remarks to Sakura about Naruto saving her from Gaara. Returning from getting Tsunade in the hospital. The Promise of a Lifetime. These all suggested a deep feeling for Sakura on Naruto's part. But I ignored it. I had my NaruHina blinders on.

I should point out this before I got into forums so I was never forced to look into the logic of NaruHina, nor what the certain scenes (like the ones I listed above) truely were showing. Also, I watched the Sub and didn't know what was filler and what wasn't.

But then I started reading the manga. And I got to Shippuden, it was too much for my blinders to stay on. Their first meeting, Naruto's confession* which is in fact the only confession he has ever made about the Kyuubi, Chiyo's talk of the Junchuuriki. And the final nail in the coffin was when Sakura ran at Kyuubi Naruto.

Those were the two panels that turned me into a NaruSaku fan. It truely shows how deep her feelings really run.

After that, I couldn't not be a NaruSaku fan. Then I found forums and started debating. Being forced to really look at the evidence of NaruHina and NaruSaku made me even more certain I made the right choice to switch. Not only because it is more likely, but because it is really deeper and more beautiful than the rather generic NaruHina (not saying the idea is generic, just what Kishimoto has done with compared to the depth of NaruSaku).

Then I found Mizura's essay which only helped me love NaruSaku even more.

*I want to point out Naruto's confession was spoiled for me. I read a NaruHina fanfic who spoiled that Naruto had confessed to her, but the way she explained it and presented it in her version (which was fully understood not to be how it happened in the manga, but the reaction was the "same") made it seem like Sakura had a hard time accepting the Kyuubi in him.

So, when I read the actual manga, I realized that's not why she was silent, but instead reflecting on the hard life Naruto has lived. Because of that, out of the early Part II scenes, this one was probaly one of the bigger ones that started getting me to see the light because the actual evidence didn't jive with the NaruHina "interruptation." Though I was still a fan at that point, and simply considered her a bad fan fic writer (she was).

This did however kinda ruin the certainity of NaruHina for me.

[Heavens Wrath]

Chapter 3 (henge scene) is what made me find it cute.

I didn't actively support it until the PoaL though. That's really what set it in stone for me.

[Chidori Mistress]

Chapter 3 (henge scene) is what made me find it cute.

I didn't actively support it until the PoaL though. That's really what set it in stone for me.

Same here.

[No WhereMan]

You know its funny I've been such a supporter for so long that I'm honestly having trouble remembering when i first started to support them. Originally, I started watching the Anime through the suggestion of a friend of mine, like many other people.

From the first episode I took to the character Naruto, but for couple of episodes when you first get introduced to Sakura, I originally didn't think much of her. She was loud, annoying and violent like many of the other anime girl cliches. But Naruto liked her and I could tell she was never gonna get Sasuke, because he was too absorbed in his own little world. But then the Chunnin Exam episodes came and the episode when Sakura cut her hair and her match against Ino, really changed my opinion on Sakura to one of my favorite female cast members.

But I think the moment I became an official Naru/Saku supporter was Sasuke's leaving Sakura and Naruto's promise of a lifetime to her. Sasuke's leaving cemented for me that he had no intentions what so ever to Sakura and Naruto's promise told me how much he truly cared for her.

Part 2, has just been gravy for me, because its been showing that purhaps she's fallen for him too.

[blindeye]

Mizura's essay completely won me over.

[Illjwamh]

There was an essay done on this?


And, if I may be so bold, what the hell is "PoaL"?

[True]

There was an essay done on this?
And, if I may be so bold, what the hell is "PoaL"?

PoaL - Promise of a Lifetime!

When the Sasuke retrieval arc started and Nartuo promised to bring back Sasuke

[Keyes]

I dont remember. I really dug into the Narusaku walk when i read Mizura's NaruSaku Manefesto. I was on line line of who he should be with up until i read this. I was utterly convinced it would be NaruSaku

[Illjwamh]

PoaL - Promise of a Lifetime!

Riiiiight, right right right.


SAfE. (Stupid abbreviations for everything).