Red Faction

[sarcasm]

Because there's obviously a time limit for love,* and Sakura's time is up.

Also, love is first come, first serve, so Hinata has to get Naruto's love. **




* Except with Sakura and Sasuke. She can love him forever and ever and ever.

** Except with Naruto. Forget that he loved Sakura before Hinata even appeared.

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That is right. Perhaps a Western reader might interpret it like a friendly action... but a young Japanese teenager (the audience Naruto is primarily being written for) would interpret it like a blatant romantic gesture.

Moreover, she was holding him tightly, pressing her body against his, her cheek touching his and her free hand stroking his face and hair as she muttered "Thank you", keeping her eyes closed. It didn't look like a friendly hug to me, even if I was going to disregard the Japanese POV (and she later confessed she was in love with him).

I can't insert spoilers tag due to unknown reasons, so I warn my next paragraph contains spoilers for chapter 476 (which I haven't read, but I have perused spoilers in this thread).

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:roll:naruto fainted eh never said werw he wanted to go lol
and with hinata if it was going to happen it would have already

sorry for the spoiler











So Naruto has decided returning Konoha? Interesting. I am somewhat dissappointed because I thought he would make up his mind about Sasuke and how dealing with him. On the other hand, it looks like if he had got enough. And I can't blame him. Sakura had her breakdown moment back in chapter 452 and 458, and her let's-raise-pick-the-pieces-together-and-fight-back moment back in 459. Apparently is Naruto's turn for a breakdown before regaining his determination.

I agree with Twilight. Let's get cautious about Naruto's decision. It is possible he is going to nowhere or he changes his mind. Or maybe he wants finding Sakura first and talking her into forgetting about Sasuke and going back together. It would be an hilarious conversation: "Sakura-chan! You have convinced me! Let's stop searching Sasuke and returning to Fire Country! You don't need killing him!", "Oh, now YOU want me listening to you, forgetting about Sasuke and going back with you? And who has given my intentions away?").

I suppose NH fans will be going wild. They think Sakura has lied to Naruto and he has rejected her. And since he is wanting going home, I guess they believe it is a sign of he will talk to Hinata about her confession and figure out who his true love is.

Suuuuuuure. I already know this tune. It has afflicted my ears and affronted my common sense numerous times, and it has never played how they expected and hoped.

Regardless, I recommend caution and not jumping conclusions. Let's wait and see.

About the NH moment "happening" once Naruto returns to the village--yeah, I agree with everybody that I don't think that's gonna happen.

But who knows... maybe we'll get that speech bubble confirmation from ch 450. You know when Hinata was watching the NaruSaku hug and there was this "..." speech bubble?

She could still talk to Naruto, but in the direction of a NS outcome. She could tell him something like, "You love Sakura-san don't you? I think Sakura-san really loves you. Even I can see it." Or something along those lines (although not as cheesy as the way I put it obviously lmao)

Then we'd have:
1) the Naruto-Hinata talk that all the NH fans seemed to be still waiting for
2) Hinata being a pro-NaruSaku shipper (when all the NH/SS fans kept saying Naruto is a SS shipper and Sakura is a NH shipper)--that'd be such a huge twist lolol I won't lie I'll laugh at the irony.
3) NaruSaku development :3

Well... I doubt this, but again, who knows xP Kishimoto has never failed to surprise us before.