My thoughts on Hinata's words in chap 573

[MinatoXNaruto]

Originally Posted by Night Blade852

See now that's the thing. We don't know if it was an actual lie or not. Yes she lied partly, but we don't know her true feelings yet. It's starting to look like she has mostly gotten over Sasuke now. And seriously, for all you people out there that think Sakura is pairing fodder...please pay more attention, because I don't know what in God's name that makes Hinata.

Sakura has the most development out of every female in the manga...possibly the only one that has development, but I'm not sure on that one. Compare part one Sakura to part two Sakura. Quite a bit of development for a character...especially if you're not really interested in you female characters like Kishi has said before. Sakura goes from an annoying, squeeky little fangirl and matures into a real Kunoichi. Second best medical ninja in the village, super human strenth, smart, good with hand-to-hand combat. Now take that development and compare it to all of the other females in the entire manga...especially Tenten and Hinata. No other woman compares to Sakura's development.

Sakura also has the most development on the romantic side of the manga. Sakura at first hated Naruto, and now she's proud to call him a friend. She was willing to risk her life TWICE to help Naruto. She had given up on Sasuke a total of three times but Naruto got her back in line. Which is not the Sakura I know from part ones.

Who was Sakura more worried about when Naruto and Sasuke ran at eachother again? Who was she more worried about when Shikamaru told her they were going to kill Sasuke? Was it her who cried over the topic? No. It wasn't. The only person who Sakura was worried about was Naruto the entire time. Now that's character development....come to think of it she might actually have the MOST development. But I'm not gonna put my money on that.

EEESH!! Sorry about the rant. It's just Sakura was my favorite character and don't like it if she's bashed or something...shutting up now...

Hey, let's not forget that she still DOESN'T know who to save FIRST between Naruto and Sasuke. That's some great character development there....all for nothing

[Night Blade852]

Originally Posted by MinatoXNaruto

Hey, let's not forget that she still DOESN'T know who to save FIRST between Naruto and Sasuke. That's some great character development there....all for nothing

That was filler bro. That never happened in the manga. I would've lost respect a long ass time ago if it were actually manga. But I honestly don't care who wins =)

[Kekkei genkai]

Why are you making this thread, comming up with huge arugments and responses and whenever someone disagrees with you, you bring up the fact that you have no time for naruto anymore?

[Night Blade852]

Originally Posted by Kekkei genkai

Why are you making this thread, comming up with huge arugments and responses and whenever someone disagrees with you, you bring up the fact that you have no time for naruto anymore?

Well excuse me for being bored and not having much else to do! Wasn't aware that I couldn't just talk to people. And no, I don't care anymore. Is there a problem?

[Godaime Kazekage]

Originally Posted by Lari18

I'll tackled this bit by bit .


But that doesn't guarantee Naruto will give her a positive answer.
True.


Is that all you have to say about this? Not being sarcastic here, I am honestly curious if this is ALL you have to say.

Sakura could be in love with both Naruto and Sasuke.
My point here is that when asked who she loves-after her confession to Naruto. It shows Sasuke NOT Naruto or both of them. A few pages later in the same chapter there is a panel taking up about a half a page where Hinata states that she wants to protect Naruto at all costs.


*cough* friendship*cough*. Naruto's a nice guy. When he sees a friends who is down in the dumps he cheers them up. Nothing out of the ordinary about him cheering up Hinata so I don't understand how that is so special.
It in itself isn't that special, however Kishi played up Naruto saving Hinata as a bigger deal than saving Sakura. The save panel was much larger and they have a multi-page conversation afterwards in which it's revealed that they can understand each other just by looking into each other's eyes. A theme that Kishi finds important as evidenced by Naruto, Sasuke, and Gaara.


That's the ONLY way you see it happening? I feel the need to point out that Naruto hasn't been shown given Hinata any special thoughts/treatment that makes her different from his other friends. Again the eyes ^^ and his statement in part one that he likes people like her. (Yes, this could be taken as friendship, but at least we know he likes her).

He's been known to love Sakura since Part 1 and hasn't done anything to show that that has changed.
Ummm-the confession. He flat out denied her, and he hasn't shown anything romantic towards her after Hinata's confession. Also saying he was in love with her is a bit of a reach, my interpretation was that he had a crush on her which evolved into a deep, trusting brother/sister like relationship as he got to know her better and realized that she would always love Sasuke. Shown when he leaves the hospital room to let her be alone with Sasuke in Part 1 and then later when he denies her confession. The reason he even liked Sakura in the first place was because she kept trying so hard to be recognized by Sasuke...hmmm, who else keeps trying hard for someone to recognize them??


Sorry if I'm making the wrong accusation here but it kind of looks like you're sideshipping SasuSaku for the sake of NaruHina. Just saying...
I'm not saying that SasuSaku is gonna happen-probably not-I mean Sasuke even tried to kill her. Just that Sakura still loves Sasuke.

But it won't be a 180 because there has been plenty of build-up to NaruSaku. It's certainly plausible that she's in love with both and is just conflicted.
The fact remains though that she has never been shown to openly say she likes Naruto romantically (confession was fake-multiple characters stated that) and Naruto hasn't shown any recent romantic feelings toward Sakura. On the other hand Hinata definitely 100% wants to be with Naruto and his feelings about her are unknown.


And...? If Naruto doesn't love Hinata back should Sakura still step down? I mean, it's not like Hinata will suffer a breakdown if she finds out Naruto won't return her feelings. She'll suck it up, move on, and be happy for him like a good friend should. True. But it would still put Sakura in an unfavorable light, and we all know she already has enough haters.

Besides two little things here.
1) When Sakura realizes Hinata loved Naruto she wasn't smiling.
2) Sakura knew Hinata loved Naruto and still told him she loved him anyway.

If NaruHina really had a sure chance, then Sakura would know before anybody. And yet, she found it okay to confess to Naruto. So I don't think Naruto's feelings for Hinata go beyond friendship.
Why would Sakura be smiling when healing Hinata after she almost died, and the village is in shatters, and Naruto is in berserk Kyuubi mode?
She told Naruto she loved him because she was trying to protect him-honorable, but probably a stupid move. And yes, people were mad at her for doing that.

In green.

[Guntherock]

YAY, DISCUSSION!!!...am i a bit late?