So yeah all thought part one since her death nothing that big would change at all this is how pointless Hinata is in the manga and the whole of Naruto as you kill her off in her fight with Neji nothing changes at all.
Well you could argue that if Neji kills her then Neji's character arc would have to change drastically. But Neji himself is not very important either.
Actually that's very interesting. If Neji kills her then Naruto would have to move on knowing that he couldn't save her and as a result that he couldn't save everyone. There is his experience with Haku but Haku was an enemy at first and Haku also chose to die... While Hinata was a relative innocent.
Also Sakura and likely others were aware enough to understand that Hinata was only fighting due to Naruto egging her on. So he would end up understanding that her death was actually his fault.
This could make him less likely to feel like he could save EVERYONE and there's a real chance he ends up killing Gaara (which ironically would mean Neji would die anyway)... And people might disagree with this, but if he kills Gaara, I think it's actually quite likely that he kills Sasuke (at VOTE1 or later)...
I think his attitude would be that if he couldn't save Gaara, the one person who suffered like him (in fact far worse), he would see himself as entirely incapable of saving Sasuke and possibly see him as not even deserving of the effort.
And then Sakura probably wouldn't fall in love with him... But I guess that didn't happen anyway!
Or maybe something else would happen. But I think it would make a big difference if Neji kills her at any rate... Since his idealism would have actually CAUSED her death. You could definitely remove her or have her die after that arc (in some way that is not Naruto's fault) and it probably wouldn't really do anything.
Edited by DrK, 05 February 2020 - 10:10 PM.