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[naruto_han]

i guess i have kinda always been one. i always root for the underdog to get the girl he wants. i also thought in my head that there is no other girl in this story that can keep that idiot in line

[catsi563]

i guess i have kinda always been one. i always root for the underdog to get the girl he wants. i also thought in my head that there is no other girl in this story that can keep that idiot in line

Thia is true and more importantly then that. Shes the only one who could keep up with him. His energy hsi power hed leave any other gal in the naruverse in the dust. Sakura has her own accomplishments and her own position as one of the new Sannin to keep her even with Naruto, and Sasuke for tha matter.

Shes the only gal that wont get overwhelmed by the future hokage and the one that well most likey be standing by his side instead of behind him.

As one of my fave stories once said. " If they were scared of him, imagine how scared they be of the one person who could make him whimper with a crack of her knuckles and a glare." paraphrased slightly but you get the point.

Edited by catsi563, 01 March 2008 - 05:29 PM.

[Saku-chan]

Well then found this site by punching in NaruSaku on google.com.

XDDDDDDDDDDDDD I did the same thing!

[Codus N]

I was a NaruHina fan at first but after the 4tail incident I switched to Narusaku

[roninmedia]

I cheer for the underdog/main character to get the girl he wants. It's my staple of being a shounen fan. I've only hated one such underdog/main character pairing in all my shounen readings and that was in Suzuka.

[catsi563]

Its awesome how we all cheer for the udnerdog an in this case the hero of the story to get the girl fo his dreams.

What makes it even more awesome though is that Theirs No suprise in this relationship. It doesnt sneak up on us and jump out and go BOO!! like others do.

Its also not a relationship for relationships sake. This has been a slowly and steadilly developed relationship from the virtual beginning of the manga.

When this happens. it well not be a suprise to anyone.

[Broken Figurine]

It's funny, I always knew it was likely to happen, and I always thought it cute. I too, as someone said, like it when the guy is crushing on the girl more, so I tend to be a lot nicer to those sort of pairing possibilities. I was a big Inuyasha obsessor when I started Naruto, and I was mostly into the fandom for the previous at the time, debating the big Kikyo vs Kagome issues and yaddy yadda XD I hadn't really gone into the Naruto fandom, I was watching the Dub on tv with no outside influences determining my opinion. I admit, I was and still am a fan of SasuSaku. It's not plausable, I know that, but at the beginning it could really go either way for Sakura. SasuSaku was the 'hot' pairing, and I was sort of cheering the poor girl on in her unrequited love, while at the same time giggling and rooting Naruto's attempts to woo a shrew.

One thing was for certain, Sakura was my type of girl. I liked her since the very beggining, she was that comical girl who made you wonder what the expectation were for ninjas, since she definitely didn't seem like one. She was real, and the whole 'crush and be crushed on' issue was very real too. SasuSaku was more put out there, more in your face for me you could say. NaruSaku was the developing love and I saw it. I consider Sasuke and Naruto both mains, so it felt logical to me that she was to end up with either. Hinata though? That one really shocked me when I entered the fandom finally, reading fanfiction and looking up comments.

I think I realized I really supported it when I was talking to Hinta enthusiasts and Sakura bashers, and one of them brought up how Naruto was getting abused by the witch Sakura and that for sure he'd end up with Hinata. I sat there in front of my computer screen frowning, and a thought passed by my head that there was no way Naruto was going to end up with any other girl than Sakura. I went on a little rant, and before I knew it I was defending all the reasons why Sakura was compatible with Naruto and how it was obvious he liked her and not Hinata. Then, a person said, "You're a NaruSaku shipper aren't you?" and I was all n00bish and was like... "...And that is? o.o;" So that's how I realized what I was, but until I found this site from a friend, I thought I was the only person in the fandom who believed NaruSaku would happen. My friend surprised me by telling me she was a NaruSaku shipper too (I was like... YAYZ I KNEW I WASN'T CRAZY) and was linked to here ^^

So, in short, I was a shipper since the very, very beginning, but hey, if Naruto decides to go with Ino or some other chick, I wouldn't be TOTALLY against Sakura with Sasuke (though it makes me twitch, cry, and despair because there goes such a beautiful and canon pairing to dust ;_; ) SO IT WON'T HAPPEN, NARUSAKU OTP =P

^w^

[Melancholy Vixen]

I used to like both NaruSaku and NaruHina, but the more the series progressed, the more I realized how NaruHina was just impossible and too random. I really don't understand why it's so popular...

Where exactly, it was probably the "Promise of a lifetime" thing, I agree. He never made that to Hinata. X3

[hiro_kun]

naruhina is so popular cause of damn fanart and other FAN made things

[Melancholy Vixen]

naruhina is so popular cause of damn fanart and other FAN made things

Mostly... But I'm really curious as to where it all started out. Hinata has a crush on Naruto! That's fine and dandly, but Naruto hardly knows she exists.

How did that become, like, the most popular couple of all time with that little of ANYTHING. Fans are weird.

In all fairness, SasuNaru has a much greater chance than NaruHina. =_=

Edited by GobiKitsune, 19 March 2008 - 03:02 AM.

[PhantomCat]

Fanart or fiction maybe both I don't know but they were so cut, funny and I love them. I think I was about to support NaruHina but I end up liking NaruSaku better. Then Amv was just the icy on the cake, also the first episode of Shippuen ( don't know if I spelled it right) shows Sakura blushing.

As I read the manga it all makes since to me.

I like NaruSaku way to much!

Edited by Ally, 19 March 2008 - 03:38 AM.

[shiroihato]

I started out a SasuSaku/NaruHina fan. It was a combination of factors that made me change my mind.

First off, I was a dub watcher, so while every one else was off reading shippuuden manga and trying to get through fillers, I was watching the Naruto vs. Gaara arc. (At least, I think that's what they were doing...shippuuden wasn't an anime yet, right?) I watched those episodes over and over, because I had little else to do. Finally it struck me, "Hey! He must really care for her to go through all of that!". I almost wavered, but then the SasuSaku/NaruHina part of my brain shut the line of thinking down.

Not too long after, I found Ciardha's "Rain or Shine", Chapter Three, the wedding chapter, while looking for a new SasuSaku fic. And I found myself liking it after I finished, and NaruSaku setiments started kind of growing in the back of my mind.


Later that same week, I was on my cell phone, looking for pics of Sakura, when I accidently clicked (or what ever) on this link. It was a manga picture of her crying, and it lead me to a forum of.... SAKURA BASHERS!!!

Anwho, they were all "This picture reminds me of why I hate Sakura- she cries all the time, and she has no right to, she's a b****, ECT". That got me angry, but then I found somebody defending her. Nevermind it was a NaruSaku shipper, they weren't bashing her, so I decided to pay attention to what they were saying. And they not only defended Sakura, but her relationship with Naruto as well, opening me up to a completely new perspective.

A naruhina shipper posted next, saying her really didn't care for it at all, but he did give a link to Mizura's NaruSaku Manifesto. I read it and, decided, "You know what. I like NaruSaku now. Deal with it."

I told my friends as much as well.

[j4hz]

Hi!

[FamoKrishina]

Back when I first got into Naruto, I started out a NaruHina fan. Back then, I hadn't really heard of the concept of "shipping" and fandom, I just thought that Naruto should get together with Hinata since it seemed like she had such a huge crush on him, and I thought that Naruto would grow to like her more as the series went on. As for NaruSaku, I wrote it off because Sakura seemed too obsessed with Sasuke, and I thought of Naruto's crush on her as just that: a childish crush that he would grow out of. (Boy, was I ever wrong, lol.) Plus, I admit that I did not care in the least for Sakura during Part 1. She annoyed the heck out of me.

Then I began watching the Shippuden anime (I hadn't read the manga at all yet.) Once I saw how much Sakura had grown and changed over the timeskip, I stopped hating her and even gained a new respect for her. The fact that she had grown in this way somehow made her past self seem more tolerable. However, I was still a blind NaruHina supporter.

Then came the day that I saw a comic on DeviantArt arguing against NaruHina and defending NaruSaku. For the first time I realized the flaws in NaruHina and how it really wasn't very likely. The comic also mentioned hints towards Sakura developing feelings for Naruto. When I finally got around to reading the Part 2 manga chapters, I saw what the person who made the comic meant. By this point, I had given up NaruHina and believed NaruSaku was the most likely pairing. And yet, I still didn't really like the pairing, just believed in it.

Then I read the NaruSaku Manifesto. That essay gave me a new liking for both Naruto and Sakura as characters, as well as the relationship they share. It was hard for me to believe I had missed all those little things when I had first run through the anime. And so, a new NaruSaku shipper was born.

[dragonflyx11]

since chapter 3. i was like wow, he knew exactly what she dreamed of hearing word for word, how does he not deserve her? i actually like crack parings the most, but narusaku is definitly top on my list for something i want to really happen.

[Simusar]

while i liked narusaku over sasusaku and naruhina from the beginning, i thought that SS and NH would happen. that is up until the point where sasuke left, and the retrieval mission failed. at that point i didn't think that sasusaku could logically happen w/o some serious character changes that could have potentially ruined the story. once i saw sakura's reaction to naruto's PoaLT, i knew she could never just go back to sasuke so easily. so that was the point where i thought that it stood more of a chance then the other two.

(imo naruhina needs sasusaku to happen first, otherwise NH can't happen)

[kristi94narusaku]

I supported them after the 5 episode i always (didnt like sasuke) but liked naruto and sakura it was kinda crazy to watch sakura hanging around sasuke so much and after the episode when naruto saved sakura i knew it was ment to be ...Xd

[Naruto s_gurl_sakura]

Well I dont really know.Ever since naruto first came out in america I guess.Cuz I was watching some kind of crap I cant remember.It was in september 2005 and was about 8:24pm.I changed the channel to cartoon network.I saw that naruto was on and started watching it for the first time.I liked it so I watched the new episode.then I saw that they were going to play the episodes all over again starting from #1 and I was so happy.I saw episode 3 and boom.I became a narusaku fan.I really Liked sakura from the first time I saw her.Then I became exactly like her except for the sasuke part.I hated sasuke.I also saw how much naruto loved her by watching the episodes carefuly for clues.(I dont know how I remember all this.)Then I found my self here.Total Narusaku #1 fan freak.lolz.

Edited by Naruto s_gurl_sakura, 14 May 2008 - 02:05 AM.