Heres my reasoning i posted this in the debate thread so i posted here again.
I have to say this just to get it off my mind I think kishimoto did a horrible job in building up his pairings heres the reason why.. kishi never had a pairing in mind to begin with. Theres an interview that kishi says that he only made the pairing drama up just to sympathize with the characters did he have any idea that he made hinata way to sympathetic along with naruto? Hence the reason why we have huge NH fanbase along with SS we have to deal with everyday. Not only that but, he also gave hinata a role in pein arc and used her example of love towards pein and put her in a spotlight while sakura did nothing but heal fodder nin, however in the end sakura still got the upperhand in the end of that arc by hugging him and naruto never commented on hinatas romantic confession every again. Maybe he will in the future but,he will most likely fried-zone her for good. Heck even hinata faded back into the shadows until chapters leading up to 615 naruto somehow complements hinata for standing up for pein not only that but during 615 naruto told her that shes the one thats always by his side and thanked her meanwhile sakura got a background treatment again. And now in the recovery chapter naruto dosen't even thank sakura for saving his life and just leaves ,but still considers sakura to be somewhat of a girlfriend without any emotional conflict of possibly falling in love with someone else Wow just wow something about this feels like its a cheap way to make ns canon that it bothers me. I just don't know. Whatever happened to those days when naruto looked at sakura and told her that he was all right or something not only that but ns itself used to get big panel time as well. Well my answer is kishi just doing this just to keep the other pairing relevent and im not to pleased by the way he does it does he have to ruin sakuras reputation by doing so along with putting more negativity towards ns as a pairing and suck the excitement out of ns?
This is my another reason why im starting to become indifferent towards pairings these days they do not go anywhere no matter how much the screentime that said pairing gets with big moments. The only thing im expecting is more pairing pandering hinata to naruto moment only to get friendzoned big time, sakura to naruto moment few moments for this pairing that isn't concrete to make it canon, cutaway parallels that kishi thinks is enough for ns as a pairing which is not to me, and karin to sasuke moments as for ss i do not know maybe kishi could revist it just to add more unnecessary drama.
I will say this though the only pairing kishi did not screw up is sasunaru this pairing seems far more believable than any other pairing kishi has made when you have obsessing over sasuke the entire manga heck he went kyubbi over him with detailed flashbacks, (sorry hinata you are not that special to him your just a dear friend that got hurt in front of you and he only complements you because his just a nice guy and nothing more) he literary puts sasuke on top over anyone else in this manga And sasuke is his first priority he can not do anything unless sasuke gets saved first. I would not be surprised if this manga ended with sasuke and naruto having a moment before the manga closes.
Finally going back to the pairing stuff I guess this is the reason why its really getting harder get hinata out of my mind whenever i think about ns im always reminded that kishi gave to much emphasis to hinata back in the pein arc and in the war arc. Especially the pein arc i just can't get over the hollow eyed look when shes lieing on the ground saying naruto kun everytime she get screentime. Maybe that's another reason why i find hinata to be frustrating and annoying these days to she gets big emphasis saying naruto kun all the time and when she fails she gets extra panels of her sad face and tunnelvisoness and yet again this is reminding me of the pein arc all over again plus there's no reason to give character development if the characters can not develop properly. I just can not imagine her being a clan leader if her priority is her love interest its not looking good for someone who has to care for her clan someday.
He could have done so much more on sakura and ns but i guess messing/misleading with the popular pairing like nh and ss is more important than putting effort into the pairing, that kishi most likely wants to make canon which is ns. Also putting more effort into sasunaru with interactions and panel time makes it even more bitter for me.
Im sure im not only one that feels this way? I would like hear your opinions!
Oh and i think phantom critiqued kishi's handling of love triangle to I would love to hear your opinion to!
one last thing hopefully with kishi's next project mario he will learn his mistakes from the naruto manga. Like do not create another love interest if you never intended that love interest to get together with a certain character and please no bromance that over shadows the female love interest.Then,make the female lead that kishi actually likes have a good backstory with something to be sympathetic, good characterization and consistent enough to help the main lead character thats all.