Dimitrios3

Although that is the way I originally interpreted the scene, I am not so sure after re-watching the anime scenes.

I looked up the anime on the Viz website and there is a pause after the "huh", so it might or might not have been that there was someone else she liked other than Sasuke. Ino does seem surprised that Sakura likes Sasuke, though. Sakura also seems surprised (or at least acts that way) that Sasuke is popular, as well.

Ino's line that Sakura is hiding her feelings is not in the anime, though. In the anime she says, "She is just acting brave and romping around."

In the episode when Naruto comments on Sakura's hair being cut, Ino again brings up Sakura's bravado. The translation on Onemanga seems to be a little different. They both mean something similar, that she is hiding what she really feels. After looking at the anime scenes it does not look like Ino is referring to any of Sakura's romantic feelings, but in Sakura not looking weak or scared at the situations even though she is scared.


http://www.vizanime....sakura-blossoms
Approximately at 18:00 mark.

http://www.vizanime....-cruel-strength
Approximately at 2:40 mark.

http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/54/13/ and the next page.

I saw the anime 1st and thought the same thing as you did. I don't think the manga reads quite the same as what the anime did for that scene. I think the anime leaves it open to Sakura being a little more surprised that the other girls think it is Sasuke that she likes before she says, "How did you know?" The anime (as I remember and I may be wrong. It has been a while) has a slight pause after "huh", as if she is surprised when they say Sasuke. Then, she makes the decision that she likes the popular guy. ("How did you know")

What I have always looked at from that scene is Ino's quote, "She's just hiding her feelings." That is mentioned 2 or 3 times in flashbacks for the scene as well as after Sakura has cut her hair and Ino said the same quote.

http://www.onemanga.com/Naruto/57/06/ and the next page.