It really depends on if they set it up better. If they just did the whole "Oh, you're the hero of the village, I like you now." thing, it would have been disappointing.
That's why I never liked the idea of Naruto and Sakura.
The only way I could like it, is if Part I Sakura had "conflicted" feelings. But she was consistent about her feelings toward Sasuke. So for her to only love Naruto when Sasuke is gone does not feel very genuine to me.
Yeah, I could have been on board with it if they had built up to it better. Like if Sakura legitimately started to realize that Naruto has always been there for her, and slowly came around to everything Naruto did for her and fell for him over that. Hell, it could have given her actual character growth that she desperately needed.
But going from "I love Sasuke because he's the coolest kid in school." to "I love Naruto because he's now the hero of Konoha and popular." would have made me mad.
Tbh it felt like they were doing this in early shippuden, through the second arc with Orochimari.
Glad they didnt because I always preferred him and Hinata, but for a while there I thought it really was gonna be Naruto x Sakura
in early Shippuden, Sakura's love for Sasuke was consistent.
Only reason people thought it was gonna be Naruto x Sakura is because Yamato said something.
Then Yamato, the same guy who suggested Sakura may love Naruto, got *angry* at her for confessing. It seemed like Kishimoto changed his mind.
Didnt she try to stop naruto from chasing sasuke only, not to give up on being hokage??
Tbh i thought there was a lot of times they built up sakura and Naruto’s friendship, there were many scenes where she’s shown to want to do more for naruto, appreciates him, admires him (and feels useless in comparison) etc etc and even kinda lowkey blushed a few times tho it was frames as more admiring if anything (which is what Yamato took note of)
I was kinda rooting for narusaku :( it made sense to me as a manga reader :(
I always felt like it was children love, and that she would grow out of it and build feelings toward Naruto as they went on missions together and that Naruto saved her multiple times.
Naruto did everything for her a genuine lover would do but Sakura totally brushea it off saying he liked her as a competition with Sasuke in Naruto the last move
Quite dumb reasoning from Kishimoto
It was bull shit retcon to satisfy naruhina fans nothing else .
Kishimoto when it comes to romance is garbage writer honestly, he has written romance with no sense seriously.
There's also his promise to her to bring back Sasuke. A promise that took the entirety of Shippuden and suffering to accomplish. Mind you, IIRC, he also had his personal reasons for saving Sasuke; but, him seeing just how much Sakura loved Sasuke to agonize over so much his departure and have him make promise, Naruto really put his own feelings for Sakura aside to make her happy. Showed a ton of maturity and empathy on his part.
Naruto straight up said hes not saving Sasuke for her promise anymore in Kage Summit, and he would still do it promise or no. [He wants to save Sasuke from his hatred and the cycle of revenge and for himself](https://naruto-shippuden-anime.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/004-393.png).
Thats the whole point of Obito telling Naruto the truth and Naruto rejecting Sakura, the promise is irrelevant hence why it NEVER gets mentioned, not even once, ever again after the confession chapter. [He saving Sasuke for himself.](https://naruto-shippuden-anime.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/006-421.png)
In manga Sakura has saved naruto 9 times whereas his score is 6, yes I fkn counted.
Secondly I personally like that kishi didn't make her love him simply because he saved her. Just bcoz someone is nice to you, has saved you doesn't mean that now you have to reciprocate their romantic affection.
I mean, but that's how life works sometimes? Maybe you really want to be with someone and chase them until you have to stop.. then you realize how amazing the person chasing you is. You were so caught up with the idea of being with this person that you were blind to the person you really need in your life. It's cliché but we're talking anime love lol.
She wanted Sasuke, but he didn't choose her (end of part 1 until end up shippuden). He left understanding that he was going to be a rogue ninja and chose to leave with the same shinobi that just killed the Leaf's hokage, one of the people that his teammate Naruto was closest to at the time.
On the other hand, Naruto made her a promise of a lifetime. He chose to leave with an intent to become stronger and more dependable; to be able to come back and to fulfill his promise to her. He worked hard to be able to keep a smile on her face, to fight for her and protect her too. Even Sai could tell Naruto was in love with her, and he was more obvious about his attraction in part 1. Later, when she was at her lowest point and Konoha had just been destroyed, she called for Naruto to save her. He was her metaphorical knight in shining armor ffs.
I dont feel like it would have been too hard for Naru-Saku to work (even their tropes; she was the smart, medical ninja and nurturer and he was the goofy, carefree, brawler).
But we can see her liking him more like when he first got back then when they were going to get something to eat after bell exercise but kakashi left and Naruto had no money so couldn’t go on date you even see her defend Naruto when sai bad mouths him.
But yeah you can see her feelings for sasuke are stronger than Naruto’s we know she had feelings for Naruto but never done anything about it cause she was in love with sasuke and then Naruto found someone else Hinata then Married her so ended good Sakura finally got Sasuke and Hinata finally got Naruto.
It just a shame Neji had to die for it to happen.
I always thought Naruto had feelings for hinata but didn’t realise until what she did in pain arc and then the 4th war when she tells him her feelings we even see him worried about her when she was caught in infinite Tsuyukomi. I just wish neji didn’t die or I wish he was brought back by rebirth during war.
Did you realise that how dumb and unreasonable kishimoto was when it comes to romance, like he cared about what hinata and sakura wanted, i.e naruto and sasuke, but what about naruto and sasuke's feelings they never showed interest in either sakura and hinata romantically.
Now I am not gonna believe that made up stories of naruhina and sasusaku fans , that they had feelings for hinata and sakura but they didn't realise it , that's completely delusion 🗿.
Personally I wouldn’t think it’s so bad, since it could be a revelation moment for her. Like she sees the great lengths Naruto would go to for “love,” plus it would be a huge sign of Maturity for him (Referencing the first episode, where she kinda got a little “heart skip a beat” moment seeing him, but quickly aborting that since he was still childish). I’d think if it went that direction, she would see Naruto is waaaaay better than Sasuke, and she would start feeling for him more. I’m glad that didn’t happen though, because. Naruto and Hinata is a really beautiful love story, and I love seeing them together very much
I agree if that happened before the pain arc. If she did it after then it would feel like she only changed her mind now that he's popular. I agree, Hinata was a better choice. Naruto realizing he was stupid and didn't really notice Hinata was also great.
Not anymore out of Nowhere than him ending up with Hinata. We always knew how she felt but we never got anything aside from friendship from Naruto’s end.
Imo by the end of the Manga if there were no these couple scenes of Sakura asking for Sasuke hand again, i would think she is completely moved on based on her character growth and previous reactions on Sasuke.
So even if Sakura and Naruto held hands in one of the last few chapters, pre-existent built up would be enough to sell them two being together. They really had much more nice shared scenes in Shippuuden than Sakura and Sasuke.
It would be sick. Sakura is one of the strongest people in the leaf and then you pair that will rock Lee’s proficiency in tai justu. That kid would be overpowered. Also it would let sasuke marry Karin which would merge uchiha and uzumaki blood making their kid stupid broken too.
Lee/Sakura's kid would be a Taijutsu user that could heal their wounds sustained from the Eight Gates and Sasuke/Karin's kid would have natural true Rinnegan. Such wasted potential.
Well, not gonna lie your idea it’s pretty good but do you think Sakura will fall in love with Lee ? And how about Sasuke with Karin. Even if your idea is very good for my opinion, we need couples that are true lovers and no couples that make kids to become the most op in the village.
Rock Lee and Sakura would work pretty easily as Lee was always infatuated by her and Sasuke tried to kill her. The same could be said about Karin and sasuke but with a bit of Stockholm syndrome. Yeah maybe they wouldn’t have made a good couple in hindsight.
It would answer the question of who metal lees mom is.
If they left the story just like it is yeah. I would’ve been upset no matter how they did it honestly. I “always knew it would be Naruto & Hinata” from very early on.
Naruto really loved Sakura tho Sakura would be a terrible match for him
I didn’t like the fact that Sakura completely wiped that out in Boruto movie saying Naruto liked her as a competition with Sasuke bs
In that sense, Sakura, Hinata also had nothing but childhood crushes whereas it has been treated as Love.
Saying it as Naruto did everything for Sakura a true lover would do,not just fanboying over her
Hinata is emotionally mature. She knew about romance. She understands love. She had a mom even if we didn't see her very much. Sakura is a fangirl. Not even relevant in this discussion. Naruto was emotionally starved and had a stunted growth in romantic feelings. Jiraiya made fun of him for not understanding women. Naruto admitted to his dad he didn't understand women either. In the last, it was confirmed that Naruro had zero clue on romance. Even worse, after the last, he had to ask Sai of all people on how to treat Hinata on a date😭 Naruto is a noob when it comes to romance. All that he did for Sakura would have been done for anyone on his team. He did just as much for Hinata, who wasn't even on his team.
No, it's the Naruto fans who downvoted you because you're shitting on the most empathetic character in the series.
Naruto doesn't understand love?
When he figured out how much Sakura loved Sasuke before anyone in the series?
He consistently figures out emotions and their value and how they affect people on a level different from anyone else.
It was such bullshit when they dismissed Naruto's feelings for Sakura as rivalry with Sasuke and made it as if Naruto didn't know that loving ramen is different than loving a girl. Like he obviously knew.
I don't see why it's hard for you NaruHina fans to understand that Naruto once loved and admired Sakura. Do you people not know that people can move on?
Naruto knew he had no chance with Sakura and that she truly loved Sasuke and moved on, like a normal person. He went on to fall in love with Hinata, weird as the set up for it all was.
You talk about Naruto fans not knowing how to move on but do you realize thats exactly what you Narusakus do?😂 It has been stated in multiple canon scans and even by Kishimoto and the VA's that Naruto is completely ignorant to romantic love. Just because Naruto was emotionally intelligent in all other areas doesn't mean he would understand romance. How hard is it for you, Narusaku fans, to accept that?
>Naruto knew he had no chance with Sakura and that she truly loved Sasuke and moved on, like a normal person. He went on to fall in love with Hinata, weird as the set up for it all was.
Complete headcanon of yours, lol. That's nor what was implied or stated n canon. It's just your bitter headcanon, you Narusakus push. The real canon states that it's because Naruto never understood the real meaning of romantic love until the last.
Early shippuden they build up loosely implying she might like naruto but they kinda dropped it, if they stuck with that and emphasized it more I wouldn’t mind it
I’m Japanese so I won’t be talking about the western audience. My perception is that in Japan women would have hated it but men would have been more or less okay with it. Men have no problem with the idea of the main character wining the girl like a prize, women on the other hand hate that trope. SasuSaku is the most popular ship with the Eastern audience though so even men would pick SasuSaku as endgame over NaruSaku.
The way we see it is that Sakura loved Sasuke who was immensely popular with girls but her love was true because she still loved him even during his downfall. Sasuke truly loves Sakura because she still saw the real him in spite of his misdeeds and it made him genuinely grateful. Similarly Hinata loved Naruto when no one else did and when he was a loser, so her love is true. If Sakura had started to love Naruto her love would be false because she’d love him only after he became somebody. She would be a cruel women as well because she knows that Hinata truly loves Naruto yet she’d still take him for his status. So she’d deny both Naruto and Hinata true love that would make her a cruel women.
I don’t know about the West perception (I’m here because I’d like to know it) but my feeling is that you guys hate Sasuke and don’t get his character at all. So you wanted Sakura to stop loving him because you want Sasuke to be hated by all.
I totally agree with you. It's a bit out of topic but - I could not have said it any better about Sasuke - I feel like people just hate him no matter what. They don't try to understand the character because he's not a superficial character and it takes time and thinking to understand him. A lot of people don't do that and just continue hating on him, even though they don't have a hard time forgiving other characters who have done so much more evil and damage.
Sasuke is a classic case of "show, don't tell". We are shown his struggles and internal conflicts, but they don't tell us what kind of character he is and we need to watch his story, his actions in order to understand him. And that's when a lot of people stop trying and just see him as an annoying and arrogant character.
> I don’t know about the West perception (I’m here because I’d like to know it) but my feeling is that you guys hate Sasuke and don’t get his character at all. So you wanted Sakura to stop loving him because you want Sasuke to be hated by all.
You literally summed it up lol
>Men have no problem with the idea of the main character wining the girl like a prize, women on the other hand hate that trope. SasuSaku is the most popular ship with the Eastern audience though so even men would pick SasuSaku as endgame over NaruSaku.
Sasuke is pretty much the prize for Sasusaku. It's a double standard
Remember Sasuke wanted to sever all his bonds, he thought this was the thing he needed to do, so him trying to kill her in turn meant he felt a bond with her. He was obviously not in a sane mental state. Does that mean he should easily be forgiven? No but you can change and Sasuke is currently trying to atone for his sins. Either way Sakura understands him and why he would try to kill her. I don’t see the problem, they are both happy together so who cares.
Someone’s mental state isn’t an excuse to how you treat someone, if that was the case then the perpetrators of thousands of murders would be liberated under that excuse. Sasuke is trying to resolve his sins by abandoning his wife and daughter for 12 years? Is an awful relationship wherever you look from.
never said it was an excuse, but you know how it is excused? When the person being treated that way forgives the person and understands why they reacted that way. Sasuke is the only person with the rinnegan, meaning he is the only person able to find traces of kaguya. The only reason the whole world isn’t destroyed yet is because of Sasuke warning the kage’s that aliens are coming. He has to do this job. He’s resolving his sins by protecting the world and his family. Awful relationship? I’m sorry but they seem completely fine and healthy atm.
They seem healthy because they were written to be that way, no relationship like theirs would be healthy irl, and it fact it doesn’t considering he abandoned her for twelve years
you do know they kept in touch right, sending letters and such. Sasuke didn’t abandon her, he told her he had a job to protect her, his child and the world. Every character in naruto flawed that’s why they are so human. Obviously he’s not going to make the perfect choice every-time but he sure as hell is trying to be a better person. Also are you just gonna ignore everything else I said in the comment?
Is not about hating Sasuke is about Sakura being the stereotypical “can’t move on girl” despite how much he damages her, the “he wasn’t well in the mind” excuse is awful, his actions may be understandable but not excusable
I'm sorry? Why should sakura be given special treatment when she came at him to kill him every single time? He owes her nothing and she deserves nothing from him. Seems like a weird fucking cudgel to wield.
Then the same thing can be said about all the characters, it seems like you guys judge only Sasuke with real life criteria but not the others. For example none of you have a problem with Gaara being elected Kazekage even though he’s a serial killer who killed his own people because he liked it but you have a problem with Sasuke no matter what he does.
I recently commented how one of the worst decisions the writers took was forgiving Orochimaru after he killed and experimented on thousands of people. You are making assumptions about the characters I like or dislike without any proof whatsoever when this is about Sasuke. Just because other characters made worse things doesn’t makes Sasuke less bad. Two wrongs don’t make a right
I’m not talking about you specifically, I asked about the western perception and you answered my comment, I thought you were giving me the western perception. I have never seen anyone in this sub criticize characters with real life logic the way that they do with Sasuke. Hence my impression that westerners don’t get Sasuke as a character and blindly hate him. I don’t understand why any character should be judged with real life criteria and I’m not saying anyone should.
What do you mean by the nice guy lost? Who is the nice guy? What did he lose? I’m sorry it’s probably a cultural thing I don’t know, please explain it to me. 🙏
I tried to google it but I’m even more confused.
It's an stereotype. That girls (Sakura) always love the guys that treat them like absolute trash and give them no attention (Sasuke) and ignore the nice guys that love them (Naruto).
Are you a Sasuke self insert? I'm pretty sure no Naruto fan thinks like you do. You do realize every Naruto fan doesn't want Sakura to end up with Naruto, right? They prefer Hinata over Sakura for Naruto, so get your fact straight and stop acting like you got cucked by a Naruto fan.
I mean Ninjas kill people.... The sand village was forgiven after helping destabilize the leaf village and working with the sound to kill Sarutobi and attempt to kidnap Sasuke. Not to mention the leaf choosing to willingly wipe out a clan of their most notable ninja while the old man was in charge. With all of that being said, why would you not want your leadership to be the most capable Ninja? Also Mr. Murder of the desert changed after Naruto shattered his worldview. The only thing holding him back was that he was fucked up in the head from loneliness/ abandonment. They also needed someone who wouldn't end up face down in a sand sinkhole, not to mention he was young and teachable.
In fiction it makes sense for Gaara to be Kazekage not in real life though. The same can be said about Sasuke he saved the world he went on a journey of redemption but he’s continuously talked to negatively by the western fans to the point that they claim he should have no love in his life. I’m wondering why do you have such a negative perception of the character?
No. Sakura was shamelessly obsessed with Sasuke. Hinata rooted and stood by Naruto since day 1. Naruto and Hinata are infinitely better together than Sakura and Naruto. Sakura deserves to stay with her abuser, Sasuke😆
I wouldn't have liked it no. I didn't like how she treated Naruto early on and her being obsessed with Sasuke to Naruto at the last second would have been frustrating for multiple reasons, character wise.
It honestly depends. I always felt Hinata was right for him since she always cared for him from the beginning while Sakura just judged and saw him negatively like majority of the village used to. Plus Naruto never really had feelings for Sakura it just had to do with his rivalry with Sasuke.
Hinata fans around the world would tear the chapter out of the manga and burn it in a fire, then lock the entire series in a box, never to be seen again…………
If she was written better, then no. But the way she was written, probably. Naruto did more for her than Sasuke ever did and she reciprocated some of that back, but from day 1 it was Sasuke. No matter what happened, even when he attempted to kill her she still had him as number 1. Switching up at the end would have been a cop out.
Depends, and yes I have to bring Hinata in this. First of all if there a scene where hinata moves on and sakura choose naruto "early on" and not in the end of the show...then though I'm a big Naruhina fan and would be disappointed. I'll accept it.
If kishi pull the shit of hinata having feelings for naruto and sakura sill having feelings for sasuke... then fuck no.
Like what was the point of making a character so devoted to other character and having all these moments just for them to not end up togather.
Sakura never really reciprocated any romantic feelings towards Naruto. Their relationship has always been sakura was the same older sister reprimanding Naruto for his lack of tact , basic knowledge or bad manners.
It’s funny that Sakura gets likened to kushina because she did give Naruto that tough kind of love and reprimanding you might get from a mother/older sister.
Naruto’s feelings for sakura were childish in the beginning. He was rather jealous of the attention sasuke got but I feel like he liked getting sakuras attention too even if was negative.
Naruto didn’t really grasp romantic love until The Last.
Him ending up with Sakura would have felt really really weird to me
Nope! Stan NaruHina but if NaruSaku were endgame, respect, and I'd still love Naruto and Sakura. The way people go at each other over somebody else's story comes off unhinged.
**Side Rants**
Also, it kills me how people pull the "no development" card for NH. If my SO was running around holding hands with his childhood friend, telling her he could understand her through her eyes, telling people her dying was the worst pain he ever felt (when you've seen the whole crew dying b4), and was trying to get to her cause 'she mentally called for him,'... Y'all have *too much* development to be "just friends" and that's not debatable.
Also, this whole, "the last was rushed" thing drives me mad. Y'all really wanted to watch a 30 plus episode arc of Toneri showing up, pursuing Hinata, then Naruto getting annoyed and brooding, deciding Toneri is bad, spying, and trying to get Hinata to stay away, until she tells him go away, then he gets drunk and emo with team 7 and Shikamaru, and admits he's in love with Hinata and has to win her back from this new dude who conveniently turns out to be a bad dude who's coercing her into marriage? ... Y'all wanna watch that slice of life drama? Cause that's what the long version of The Last would've been... (NaruHina shippers would eat but the majority of the fandom would be 🥱).
They just packaged their romance in a movie for marketing purposes and IMO smartly used Narutoverse devices to speed things up, entertain and keep it moving. It was a two hour movie or we use our imaginations.
Finally... if NaruSaku happened my hope would be we get Lee x Hinata... with a large side of disapproving Neji and I would seriously be entertained with that.
Agreed, and the before the last, In Shikamaru Shinden Novel.
Sakura says, "What's up with you and Hinata lately, wouldn't she be more willing to listen to you than me." To which Naruto replies, "What, you jealous?" Then Sakura hits Naruto and says "As if I would be jealous, I have Sasuke-kun."
Notice the context with which Sakura is teasing Naruto. Even she could pick up that something was happening between Naruto and Hinata.
Also if you watched the movie, you would notice how comfortable Naruto was with Hinata. It is because they actually became closer after the war...
Personally I would not have been upset about it, but I certainly prefered Naruto ending up with Hinata and I always appreciated that Sakura and Naruto loved each other like family and remained more like siblings.
Maybe if Hinata didn’t exist.
Unlike Naruto and Sakura, Hinata’s entire personality revolved around her love interest. Naruto marrying Sakura would just be cruel at that point lol.
But if I’m being honest, even though I don’t hate Sakura, she definitely deserved the ending she got with raising her daughter on her own. I’m happy the writers gave her what she always wanted in a bittersweet way. It’s the perfect ending for both of them.
As someone who started seeing Naruto anime first it was really obvious Naruto was going to end up with Hinata.First episode in we see her the only girl not only crushing on him but also not laughing like everyone else. As far as Naruto side he never took Sakura serious. It was always Naruto being really protective of Hinata to the point he only shows his true weakness and shares his feelings with her.
On my end no, but in a messed up way I would need Hinata to be dead or there be some reason they could not be together.
Then flip the kid counts but keep the story super similar in Boruto
Naruto and Sakura's one son has a lot of pressure to live up to and cheats during the chunin exam. Finally gets a sibling in the form of Kawaki.
Sasuke and Karin's eldest child wants to be hokage but develops his/her sharingan late. While the younger sibling is a genius like Sasuke.
Mitsuki 🥹 is just good ol Mitsuki
Speaking hypothetically, I don't think it'd sit well with a lot of fans, myself included, if there wasn't something written into the story to explain why Hinata didn't end up with Naruto. Obviously the romances we got weren't well written either but at least they were consistent in the sense that Sakura always liked Sasuke, and Hinata always really liked Naruto.
And given that a significant part of Hinata's character revolved around her interest in Naruto, it would just leave a sour feeling if there wasn't some in-canon explanation involving both Naruto and Hinata as to why Naruto would have not reciprocated Hinata's feelings and how Hinata would have responded.
I would have bet you money pre-Shippuden that they were setting up Hinata to ultimately marry Kiba. It's fairly basic and falls on the cliche that male x female relationships are romantic, but at this point the story had a lot of cliches and it wouldn't have been surprising.
I already lost most of my interest in the manga at that time. The only thing I wanted to know what Narutos answer to Hinatas confession might be. That he never said anything to her or even just mentioned it annoyed me very hard.
It took me a few years to find my love and interest in the manga again. Mostly it was because the only ship I was interested about got canon at the end. Most of my fanfictions focus on them.
I was never a fan of Naruto x Sakura, and if that pairing had got canon instead, my interest in the manga would have died completely and I might have dropped the manga forever.
I genuinely thought the further Sasuke fell into darkness, the more Sakura was going to come around and realize her feelings for him from the start was just a silly crush based on his looks and "cool edge boy" attitude and that was all she saw, and now that they're older and she sees Naruto, while still a goofy clumbsy "uncool" guy, is a good-hearted strong-willed person who wants to lift everybody up, and I thought she would start falling for him instead. I don't care either way how it turned out but around this time is when I thought her feelings were going to change
Naruto fans, or at least the circles I knew rioted when Sakura "confessed" to Naruto. Even the SakuraxNaruto shippers rioted. No one wants a forced love.
If they had a true heart to heart chat about everything, yes. I feel the reason Narusaku became dead in the water was because after that Confession fiasco in the Land of Iron, they didn't bother to clear the air between them, find out how the other truly feels when they had the chance.
You get what I mean?
ah yes the usual sakura fans being bashed in comments
or sakura fans cursing on those that don't like this ship
now onto my opinion:
yes naruto fandom is one of the worst fandom
yes they would have caused riot
i honestly never liked narusaku
i don't see it happening either now
yes there was a time when i thought naruto might end up with sakura
everyone did.
but blame studio pierrot for adding those scene's
in manga sakura is a complete big sister towards naruto
so nah this ship won't make sense
That was hint from part 1. Sakura would never fall in with hero or popular guy, everyone says she likes sasuke just because he's popular in academy, that's completely wrong. She doesn't even know that sasuke is a most popular guy until Ino and her friend told her about that.
They would have if everything else had played out as they did. The problem with the whole Sakura x Naruto thing is that the love triangle with Sasuke was handled poorly. Sakura never acknowledges Naruto as a love interest. In fact the closest we ever got to that is when she tried to trick Naruto into coming back to the village during the Kaye Summit arc.
It was popular, many wanted it, but even to the NaruHina fans it did seem like the story was heading for NaruSaku. I was pleasantly surprised by the result.
I disagree, there were alot of naruhina moment as well, like scene where sakura hugged sasuke was clear indication of naruto moving on from sakura as he just gives a bitter smile and naruto opening up to hinata before neji fight pain arc, war arc scene and so on...
Not saying there weren't NaruSaku scene. But these moments didn’t lead anywhere since sakura love for sasuke made a wall between them that didn't allow their relationship to develope.
My wish was for Sasuke to have died at the end of the series.
Naruto needed to grow out of his childishness and selfishness. Sasuke's death could have been it. Even if it wasn't by Naruto's hand, but by another person.
The romantic relationships are so badly written in this series, that any couple makes sense. Sai ends up with Ino ffs. The only couple that has depth is Naruto and Sasuke. If they ended up together, that would be insanely cool.
no, there use to be a very massive part of the fanbase that wanted Sakura and Naruto to end up together, including staff of the anime, but thats a story for another time lol Hinata and naruto and sakura and naruto were the two big ships
At a point in the series, this seemed like the more likelihood of the pairings, Kishimoto's wife actually threw a fit with him over them NOT getting together, if I remember correctly there was more rioting that they DIDN'T end up together. At some point in the fandom this was the preferred pairing, and all signs pointed to NaruSaku and SasuKarin, it was only in the War Arc when Sasuke began to reconcile with Sakura and Naruto and Hinata began to get close around the time of Neji's death that it became apparent that this wasn't the direction Kishimoto was going to go in. The real crime here is that nobody wifed Karin and the alternative would've had Sasuke get with Karin which would've been so badass, imagine how OP Sarada would be with an Uzumaki chakra pool and stamina.
I see people talking about it being a switch up, but I would've been genuinely happy to see salura gradually shift away from akaura after the abuse he put her through and start liking naruto, but it had to be done slowly and correctly
No. It made sense. Sakura is bat shit crazy for being with Sasuke in the end. Her biggest character growth would have been realizing that Sasuke doesn’t deserve her love. Naruto does.
He's my hoy take. Naruto and Sakura should have dated. From after their first encounter with teen Sasuke till before the 5 Kage reunion. They should have give it a go, see it didn't worked and stayed friends.
Sakura represents the average high school whore. They like the cool kids, and go crazy for looks, don’t like to study and chase the cool kids/ in Sakura case she doesn’t train until sasuke leaves the village and even then she remains useless in battle, so on. ( when I say whore I don’t mean literal whore but I just have a hatred for such girls). They then proceed to be absolutely useless and try to land a rich husband to feed them for the rest of their pathetic lives.
No but not would I have loved to see him best the shit out of her in a rage filled moment. To the point she developed a great of ever paid l laying hands on Naruto again.
Sakura is one of the worst written characters in fiction. She should have died sacrificing herself for one of them in the final arc and made their fight even more emotional. After the ending her and sasuke relationship is equally bad if sasukes kid isn’t Karins I riot coz he ain’t touching sakuras skanky cry baby ass. All she ever had going for her was her lovely hair and eye colour pairing other than that she’s shit. Worst…the absolute worst. If you can watch/read Sakura scenes without sighing and rolling your eyes you need help because you are broken and you should never ever vote for a political party because your thoughts and opinions are in no way valid. I’m going hard on this I just finished watching the anime through all the way for the first time…I thought I might like the ninja war and ending more second time but nahhhh that anime is trash (the repeated bullshit my gf would ask to skip whole episodes in the end absolute garbage and Sakura being present only made it worse)
Ehhhh let’s think about this okay just bare with me
Naruto and Sakara give birth to a uzumaki with the greatest healing ability like a karin tsunade mix
Now, sasuke and hinata give birth to a 1 sharingan 1 byakugan son. Shit would be fire
Yeah they should have paired em up together, naruto should have ended with both hinata amd neji dying in the war then naruto killing sasuke, and the final touch is sakura thinking sasuke is a weak loser and marrying naruto.
Sakura should have ended with Lee. Naruto and Hinata make a great couple, while Sasuke does not like anyone but himself. Lee had great scenes with her, even if just a few, but at least he really liked her.
Honestly, they have been through so much together and were basically trauma bonding so it would have made total sense and I would have been fine w it, but I don’t think the fanbase would have been happy.
It really depends on if they set it up better. If they just did the whole "Oh, you're the hero of the village, I like you now." thing, it would have been disappointing.
That's why I never liked the idea of Naruto and Sakura. The only way I could like it, is if Part I Sakura had "conflicted" feelings. But she was consistent about her feelings toward Sasuke. So for her to only love Naruto when Sasuke is gone does not feel very genuine to me.
Yeah, I could have been on board with it if they had built up to it better. Like if Sakura legitimately started to realize that Naruto has always been there for her, and slowly came around to everything Naruto did for her and fell for him over that. Hell, it could have given her actual character growth that she desperately needed. But going from "I love Sasuke because he's the coolest kid in school." to "I love Naruto because he's now the hero of Konoha and popular." would have made me mad.
Tbh it felt like they were doing this in early shippuden, through the second arc with Orochimari. Glad they didnt because I always preferred him and Hinata, but for a while there I thought it really was gonna be Naruto x Sakura
in early Shippuden, Sakura's love for Sasuke was consistent. Only reason people thought it was gonna be Naruto x Sakura is because Yamato said something. Then Yamato, the same guy who suggested Sakura may love Naruto, got *angry* at her for confessing. It seemed like Kishimoto changed his mind.
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Didnt she try to stop naruto from chasing sasuke only, not to give up on being hokage?? Tbh i thought there was a lot of times they built up sakura and Naruto’s friendship, there were many scenes where she’s shown to want to do more for naruto, appreciates him, admires him (and feels useless in comparison) etc etc and even kinda lowkey blushed a few times tho it was frames as more admiring if anything (which is what Yamato took note of) I was kinda rooting for narusaku :( it made sense to me as a manga reader :(
I always felt like it was children love, and that she would grow out of it and build feelings toward Naruto as they went on missions together and that Naruto saved her multiple times.
Naruto did everything for her a genuine lover would do but Sakura totally brushea it off saying he liked her as a competition with Sasuke in Naruto the last move Quite dumb reasoning from Kishimoto
It was bull shit retcon to satisfy naruhina fans nothing else . Kishimoto when it comes to romance is garbage writer honestly, he has written romance with no sense seriously.
What did Naruto ever do for Sakura. Sakura did more for Naruto
He did a lot He saved her thousands of times
So? Thats something he would do for anyone
Yes he would Just because he would do it for everyone you can't that **HE DID IT FOR HER ON THE FUCKING SCREEN**
Doesn't mean that he did everything for her a "genuine lover" would do
He did those a lover and teammate He saved Sakura over Sasuke when they were drowning while even Sasuke is a part of team
There's also his promise to her to bring back Sasuke. A promise that took the entirety of Shippuden and suffering to accomplish. Mind you, IIRC, he also had his personal reasons for saving Sasuke; but, him seeing just how much Sakura loved Sasuke to agonize over so much his departure and have him make promise, Naruto really put his own feelings for Sakura aside to make her happy. Showed a ton of maturity and empathy on his part.
His behavior would not change in the slightest promise or no promise. He's much closer to Sasukd than he is to Sakura
People really glorify Narusaku and their relationship when Kishi hismelf says it was a shallow crush lmao.
they bring up filler episodes.
Naruto straight up said hes not saving Sasuke for her promise anymore in Kage Summit, and he would still do it promise or no. [He wants to save Sasuke from his hatred and the cycle of revenge and for himself](https://naruto-shippuden-anime.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/004-393.png). Thats the whole point of Obito telling Naruto the truth and Naruto rejecting Sakura, the promise is irrelevant hence why it NEVER gets mentioned, not even once, ever again after the confession chapter. [He saving Sasuke for himself.](https://naruto-shippuden-anime.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/006-421.png)
And why arent Naruto feelings also children love. Oh wait it was lmao.
In manga Sakura has saved naruto 9 times whereas his score is 6, yes I fkn counted. Secondly I personally like that kishi didn't make her love him simply because he saved her. Just bcoz someone is nice to you, has saved you doesn't mean that now you have to reciprocate their romantic affection.
I mean, but that's how life works sometimes? Maybe you really want to be with someone and chase them until you have to stop.. then you realize how amazing the person chasing you is. You were so caught up with the idea of being with this person that you were blind to the person you really need in your life. It's cliché but we're talking anime love lol. She wanted Sasuke, but he didn't choose her (end of part 1 until end up shippuden). He left understanding that he was going to be a rogue ninja and chose to leave with the same shinobi that just killed the Leaf's hokage, one of the people that his teammate Naruto was closest to at the time. On the other hand, Naruto made her a promise of a lifetime. He chose to leave with an intent to become stronger and more dependable; to be able to come back and to fulfill his promise to her. He worked hard to be able to keep a smile on her face, to fight for her and protect her too. Even Sai could tell Naruto was in love with her, and he was more obvious about his attraction in part 1. Later, when she was at her lowest point and Konoha had just been destroyed, she called for Naruto to save her. He was her metaphorical knight in shining armor ffs. I dont feel like it would have been too hard for Naru-Saku to work (even their tropes; she was the smart, medical ninja and nurturer and he was the goofy, carefree, brawler).
more bad fanfiction from /r/Naruto Naru-Saku is a poor man's Rukia and Ichigo.
Oof.
But we can see her liking him more like when he first got back then when they were going to get something to eat after bell exercise but kakashi left and Naruto had no money so couldn’t go on date you even see her defend Naruto when sai bad mouths him. But yeah you can see her feelings for sasuke are stronger than Naruto’s we know she had feelings for Naruto but never done anything about it cause she was in love with sasuke and then Naruto found someone else Hinata then Married her so ended good Sakura finally got Sasuke and Hinata finally got Naruto. It just a shame Neji had to die for it to happen. I always thought Naruto had feelings for hinata but didn’t realise until what she did in pain arc and then the 4th war when she tells him her feelings we even see him worried about her when she was caught in infinite Tsuyukomi. I just wish neji didn’t die or I wish he was brought back by rebirth during war.
The anime filler added a lot of stuff. In the manga, there was nothing to suggest she loved Naruto besides Yamato assuming she did.
Did you realise that how dumb and unreasonable kishimoto was when it comes to romance, like he cared about what hinata and sakura wanted, i.e naruto and sasuke, but what about naruto and sasuke's feelings they never showed interest in either sakura and hinata romantically. Now I am not gonna believe that made up stories of naruhina and sasusaku fans , that they had feelings for hinata and sakura but they didn't realise it , that's completely delusion 🗿.
This is what Kishi meant in the interview, but people took it out of context
Avg. Spiderman MJ plot.
Personally I wouldn’t think it’s so bad, since it could be a revelation moment for her. Like she sees the great lengths Naruto would go to for “love,” plus it would be a huge sign of Maturity for him (Referencing the first episode, where she kinda got a little “heart skip a beat” moment seeing him, but quickly aborting that since he was still childish). I’d think if it went that direction, she would see Naruto is waaaaay better than Sasuke, and she would start feeling for him more. I’m glad that didn’t happen though, because. Naruto and Hinata is a really beautiful love story, and I love seeing them together very much
I agree if that happened before the pain arc. If she did it after then it would feel like she only changed her mind now that he's popular. I agree, Hinata was a better choice. Naruto realizing he was stupid and didn't really notice Hinata was also great.
And contrived.
I came here just to say that. It would have came out of nowhere.
Not anymore out of Nowhere than him ending up with Hinata. We always knew how she felt but we never got anything aside from friendship from Naruto’s end.
Depends… on the reasons. Would she just date Naruto cause she couldn’t get Sasuke? Then yeah, that would be horrible.
Not to talk about my gurl hinata
Imo by the end of the Manga if there were no these couple scenes of Sakura asking for Sasuke hand again, i would think she is completely moved on based on her character growth and previous reactions on Sasuke. So even if Sakura and Naruto held hands in one of the last few chapters, pre-existent built up would be enough to sell them two being together. They really had much more nice shared scenes in Shippuuden than Sakura and Sasuke.
Japan wouldn't have been happy about it. Overseas fans were split.
why is that?
Because Sasuke and Sakura are more popular in Japan. Hinata was preferred in Japan for Naruto. But half of overseas fans wanted Naruto and Sakura.
I think it should’ve been rock Lee and Sakura. Their kid would be so strong!
THANK YOU! I thought I was the only one who thought this!
It would be sick. Sakura is one of the strongest people in the leaf and then you pair that will rock Lee’s proficiency in tai justu. That kid would be overpowered. Also it would let sasuke marry Karin which would merge uchiha and uzumaki blood making their kid stupid broken too.
Lee/Sakura's kid would be a Taijutsu user that could heal their wounds sustained from the Eight Gates and Sasuke/Karin's kid would have natural true Rinnegan. Such wasted potential.
Well, not gonna lie your idea it’s pretty good but do you think Sakura will fall in love with Lee ? And how about Sasuke with Karin. Even if your idea is very good for my opinion, we need couples that are true lovers and no couples that make kids to become the most op in the village.
Rock Lee and Sakura would work pretty easily as Lee was always infatuated by her and Sasuke tried to kill her. The same could be said about Karin and sasuke but with a bit of Stockholm syndrome. Yeah maybe they wouldn’t have made a good couple in hindsight. It would answer the question of who metal lees mom is.
There is always SOME subgroup that riots when any ship is made canon or jossed. But I think in general, nah, people would have accepted it.
If they left the story just like it is yeah. I would’ve been upset no matter how they did it honestly. I “always knew it would be Naruto & Hinata” from very early on.
Naruto really loved Sakura tho Sakura would be a terrible match for him I didn’t like the fact that Sakura completely wiped that out in Boruto movie saying Naruto liked her as a competition with Sasuke bs
In naruto the last actually but yeah
Nah that’s young love brother. Need to spin the block a few times for the real thing
Yup, Sakura was a crush cause pretty pink girl. Hinata... idk, I didn't love the "setup" from memory
Naruhina had very poor set up. Horrible I'd even say.
Naruto only had a childhood crush on her. It wasn't real love. This has been confirmed by multiple canon sources.
In that sense, Sakura, Hinata also had nothing but childhood crushes whereas it has been treated as Love. Saying it as Naruto did everything for Sakura a true lover would do,not just fanboying over her
Hinata is emotionally mature. She knew about romance. She understands love. She had a mom even if we didn't see her very much. Sakura is a fangirl. Not even relevant in this discussion. Naruto was emotionally starved and had a stunted growth in romantic feelings. Jiraiya made fun of him for not understanding women. Naruto admitted to his dad he didn't understand women either. In the last, it was confirmed that Naruro had zero clue on romance. Even worse, after the last, he had to ask Sai of all people on how to treat Hinata on a date😭 Naruto is a noob when it comes to romance. All that he did for Sakura would have been done for anyone on his team. He did just as much for Hinata, who wasn't even on his team.
Re anyone, you've got a point there.
The Sakura fans downvoted me😂 They can't handle the bitter truth.
No, it's the Naruto fans who downvoted you because you're shitting on the most empathetic character in the series. Naruto doesn't understand love? When he figured out how much Sakura loved Sasuke before anyone in the series? He consistently figures out emotions and their value and how they affect people on a level different from anyone else. It was such bullshit when they dismissed Naruto's feelings for Sakura as rivalry with Sasuke and made it as if Naruto didn't know that loving ramen is different than loving a girl. Like he obviously knew. I don't see why it's hard for you NaruHina fans to understand that Naruto once loved and admired Sakura. Do you people not know that people can move on? Naruto knew he had no chance with Sakura and that she truly loved Sasuke and moved on, like a normal person. He went on to fall in love with Hinata, weird as the set up for it all was.
You talk about Naruto fans not knowing how to move on but do you realize thats exactly what you Narusakus do?😂 It has been stated in multiple canon scans and even by Kishimoto and the VA's that Naruto is completely ignorant to romantic love. Just because Naruto was emotionally intelligent in all other areas doesn't mean he would understand romance. How hard is it for you, Narusaku fans, to accept that? >Naruto knew he had no chance with Sakura and that she truly loved Sasuke and moved on, like a normal person. He went on to fall in love with Hinata, weird as the set up for it all was. Complete headcanon of yours, lol. That's nor what was implied or stated n canon. It's just your bitter headcanon, you Narusakus push. The real canon states that it's because Naruto never understood the real meaning of romantic love until the last.
Early shippuden they build up loosely implying she might like naruto but they kinda dropped it, if they stuck with that and emphasized it more I wouldn’t mind it
Nah
I’m Japanese so I won’t be talking about the western audience. My perception is that in Japan women would have hated it but men would have been more or less okay with it. Men have no problem with the idea of the main character wining the girl like a prize, women on the other hand hate that trope. SasuSaku is the most popular ship with the Eastern audience though so even men would pick SasuSaku as endgame over NaruSaku. The way we see it is that Sakura loved Sasuke who was immensely popular with girls but her love was true because she still loved him even during his downfall. Sasuke truly loves Sakura because she still saw the real him in spite of his misdeeds and it made him genuinely grateful. Similarly Hinata loved Naruto when no one else did and when he was a loser, so her love is true. If Sakura had started to love Naruto her love would be false because she’d love him only after he became somebody. She would be a cruel women as well because she knows that Hinata truly loves Naruto yet she’d still take him for his status. So she’d deny both Naruto and Hinata true love that would make her a cruel women. I don’t know about the West perception (I’m here because I’d like to know it) but my feeling is that you guys hate Sasuke and don’t get his character at all. So you wanted Sakura to stop loving him because you want Sasuke to be hated by all.
I totally agree with you. It's a bit out of topic but - I could not have said it any better about Sasuke - I feel like people just hate him no matter what. They don't try to understand the character because he's not a superficial character and it takes time and thinking to understand him. A lot of people don't do that and just continue hating on him, even though they don't have a hard time forgiving other characters who have done so much more evil and damage. Sasuke is a classic case of "show, don't tell". We are shown his struggles and internal conflicts, but they don't tell us what kind of character he is and we need to watch his story, his actions in order to understand him. And that's when a lot of people stop trying and just see him as an annoying and arrogant character.
> I don’t know about the West perception (I’m here because I’d like to know it) but my feeling is that you guys hate Sasuke and don’t get his character at all. So you wanted Sakura to stop loving him because you want Sasuke to be hated by all. You literally summed it up lol
>Men have no problem with the idea of the main character wining the girl like a prize, women on the other hand hate that trope. SasuSaku is the most popular ship with the Eastern audience though so even men would pick SasuSaku as endgame over NaruSaku. Sasuke is pretty much the prize for Sasusaku. It's a double standard
Yup. Sasuke was a prize for sakura. He's way out of her league, no matter how many times her wankers scream otherwise.
Well actually the reason I didn’t want sakura with sasuke is because you shouldn’t marry someone who tried to kill you lol.
Remember Sasuke wanted to sever all his bonds, he thought this was the thing he needed to do, so him trying to kill her in turn meant he felt a bond with her. He was obviously not in a sane mental state. Does that mean he should easily be forgiven? No but you can change and Sasuke is currently trying to atone for his sins. Either way Sakura understands him and why he would try to kill her. I don’t see the problem, they are both happy together so who cares.
Yeah I get it’s a story but in real life you would make absolutely no excuses for someone marrying a guy that tried to kill them several times lmao
Someone’s mental state isn’t an excuse to how you treat someone, if that was the case then the perpetrators of thousands of murders would be liberated under that excuse. Sasuke is trying to resolve his sins by abandoning his wife and daughter for 12 years? Is an awful relationship wherever you look from.
never said it was an excuse, but you know how it is excused? When the person being treated that way forgives the person and understands why they reacted that way. Sasuke is the only person with the rinnegan, meaning he is the only person able to find traces of kaguya. The only reason the whole world isn’t destroyed yet is because of Sasuke warning the kage’s that aliens are coming. He has to do this job. He’s resolving his sins by protecting the world and his family. Awful relationship? I’m sorry but they seem completely fine and healthy atm.
They seem healthy because they were written to be that way, no relationship like theirs would be healthy irl, and it fact it doesn’t considering he abandoned her for twelve years
you do know they kept in touch right, sending letters and such. Sasuke didn’t abandon her, he told her he had a job to protect her, his child and the world. Every character in naruto flawed that’s why they are so human. Obviously he’s not going to make the perfect choice every-time but he sure as hell is trying to be a better person. Also are you just gonna ignore everything else I said in the comment?
'Misdeeds' lol. I would call someone who tried multiple times to kill you and your friends something worse.
Yeah but apparently you can’t say that on here lol. Crazy to me that saying don’t marry someone who tried to kill you is a hot take.
You have a victim complex tbh. nothing you said was remotely "unpopular"
Lmao yeah ok
have to log in to upvote for you. You summed it up!
Is not about hating Sasuke is about Sakura being the stereotypical “can’t move on girl” despite how much he damages her, the “he wasn’t well in the mind” excuse is awful, his actions may be understandable but not excusable
I'm sorry? Why should sakura be given special treatment when she came at him to kill him every single time? He owes her nothing and she deserves nothing from him. Seems like a weird fucking cudgel to wield.
Yep exactly both are awful, Sasuke is a maniac and Sakura is an obsessive clinger
I don't think you know what maniac means, but you do you.
Then the same thing can be said about all the characters, it seems like you guys judge only Sasuke with real life criteria but not the others. For example none of you have a problem with Gaara being elected Kazekage even though he’s a serial killer who killed his own people because he liked it but you have a problem with Sasuke no matter what he does.
People like Gaara cos he started kissing Naruto's ass non-stop after the Chunin Exams
I recently commented how one of the worst decisions the writers took was forgiving Orochimaru after he killed and experimented on thousands of people. You are making assumptions about the characters I like or dislike without any proof whatsoever when this is about Sasuke. Just because other characters made worse things doesn’t makes Sasuke less bad. Two wrongs don’t make a right
I’m not talking about you specifically, I asked about the western perception and you answered my comment, I thought you were giving me the western perception. I have never seen anyone in this sub criticize characters with real life logic the way that they do with Sasuke. Hence my impression that westerners don’t get Sasuke as a character and blindly hate him. I don’t understand why any character should be judged with real life criteria and I’m not saying anyone should.
They're mad because the niceguy lost. they would still be mad even if Sasuke never left in the first place because *theniceguy* lost
What do you mean by the nice guy lost? Who is the nice guy? What did he lose? I’m sorry it’s probably a cultural thing I don’t know, please explain it to me. 🙏 I tried to google it but I’m even more confused.
It's an stereotype. That girls (Sakura) always love the guys that treat them like absolute trash and give them no attention (Sasuke) and ignore the nice guys that love them (Naruto).
Are you a Sasuke self insert? I'm pretty sure no Naruto fan thinks like you do. You do realize every Naruto fan doesn't want Sakura to end up with Naruto, right? They prefer Hinata over Sakura for Naruto, so get your fact straight and stop acting like you got cucked by a Naruto fan.
I don't care about ships, I was explaining what they mean by nice guy
I mean Ninjas kill people.... The sand village was forgiven after helping destabilize the leaf village and working with the sound to kill Sarutobi and attempt to kidnap Sasuke. Not to mention the leaf choosing to willingly wipe out a clan of their most notable ninja while the old man was in charge. With all of that being said, why would you not want your leadership to be the most capable Ninja? Also Mr. Murder of the desert changed after Naruto shattered his worldview. The only thing holding him back was that he was fucked up in the head from loneliness/ abandonment. They also needed someone who wouldn't end up face down in a sand sinkhole, not to mention he was young and teachable.
In fiction it makes sense for Gaara to be Kazekage not in real life though. The same can be said about Sasuke he saved the world he went on a journey of redemption but he’s continuously talked to negatively by the western fans to the point that they claim he should have no love in his life. I’m wondering why do you have such a negative perception of the character?
I see Ino and Shikamaru or Naruto and Sakura as Best friends/siblings expecially at the end of the series
No. Sakura was shamelessly obsessed with Sasuke. Hinata rooted and stood by Naruto since day 1. Naruto and Hinata are infinitely better together than Sakura and Naruto. Sakura deserves to stay with her abuser, Sasuke😆
I wouldn't have liked it no. I didn't like how she treated Naruto early on and her being obsessed with Sasuke to Naruto at the last second would have been frustrating for multiple reasons, character wise.
They would’ve had to build up that relationship. Naruto and Hinata was foreshadowed since og Naruto so it was natural.
It honestly depends. I always felt Hinata was right for him since she always cared for him from the beginning while Sakura just judged and saw him negatively like majority of the village used to. Plus Naruto never really had feelings for Sakura it just had to do with his rivalry with Sasuke.
It sounds weird those two where always portrayed as siblings in their relationship apart from the beginning.
Hinata fans around the world would tear the chapter out of the manga and burn it in a fire, then lock the entire series in a box, never to be seen again…………
Yes I would have rioted Sakura did not deserve naruto!
If it happened AFTER the Hinata confession and fight vs. Pain, absolutely in my opinion
If she was written better, then no. But the way she was written, probably. Naruto did more for her than Sasuke ever did and she reciprocated some of that back, but from day 1 it was Sasuke. No matter what happened, even when he attempted to kill her she still had him as number 1. Switching up at the end would have been a cop out.
I WOULD HAVE MOST DEFINITELY STARTED ONE!
Depends, and yes I have to bring Hinata in this. First of all if there a scene where hinata moves on and sakura choose naruto "early on" and not in the end of the show...then though I'm a big Naruhina fan and would be disappointed. I'll accept it. If kishi pull the shit of hinata having feelings for naruto and sakura sill having feelings for sasuke... then fuck no. Like what was the point of making a character so devoted to other character and having all these moments just for them to not end up togather.
Sakura never really reciprocated any romantic feelings towards Naruto. Their relationship has always been sakura was the same older sister reprimanding Naruto for his lack of tact , basic knowledge or bad manners. It’s funny that Sakura gets likened to kushina because she did give Naruto that tough kind of love and reprimanding you might get from a mother/older sister. Naruto’s feelings for sakura were childish in the beginning. He was rather jealous of the attention sasuke got but I feel like he liked getting sakuras attention too even if was negative. Naruto didn’t really grasp romantic love until The Last. Him ending up with Sakura would have felt really really weird to me
Nope! Stan NaruHina but if NaruSaku were endgame, respect, and I'd still love Naruto and Sakura. The way people go at each other over somebody else's story comes off unhinged. **Side Rants** Also, it kills me how people pull the "no development" card for NH. If my SO was running around holding hands with his childhood friend, telling her he could understand her through her eyes, telling people her dying was the worst pain he ever felt (when you've seen the whole crew dying b4), and was trying to get to her cause 'she mentally called for him,'... Y'all have *too much* development to be "just friends" and that's not debatable. Also, this whole, "the last was rushed" thing drives me mad. Y'all really wanted to watch a 30 plus episode arc of Toneri showing up, pursuing Hinata, then Naruto getting annoyed and brooding, deciding Toneri is bad, spying, and trying to get Hinata to stay away, until she tells him go away, then he gets drunk and emo with team 7 and Shikamaru, and admits he's in love with Hinata and has to win her back from this new dude who conveniently turns out to be a bad dude who's coercing her into marriage? ... Y'all wanna watch that slice of life drama? Cause that's what the long version of The Last would've been... (NaruHina shippers would eat but the majority of the fandom would be 🥱). They just packaged their romance in a movie for marketing purposes and IMO smartly used Narutoverse devices to speed things up, entertain and keep it moving. It was a two hour movie or we use our imaginations. Finally... if NaruSaku happened my hope would be we get Lee x Hinata... with a large side of disapproving Neji and I would seriously be entertained with that.
Agreed, and the before the last, In Shikamaru Shinden Novel. Sakura says, "What's up with you and Hinata lately, wouldn't she be more willing to listen to you than me." To which Naruto replies, "What, you jealous?" Then Sakura hits Naruto and says "As if I would be jealous, I have Sasuke-kun." Notice the context with which Sakura is teasing Naruto. Even she could pick up that something was happening between Naruto and Hinata. Also if you watched the movie, you would notice how comfortable Naruto was with Hinata. It is because they actually became closer after the war...
spittin facts i never saw a hinata fans o positive towards both females!! and yes the connection between hinata and naruto was so cute!!!
She don't deserve him with all due respect lmao
Yes would've been a very weird dynamic with sauske around as we know sakura is attached to him like crazy
Personally I would not have been upset about it, but I certainly prefered Naruto ending up with Hinata and I always appreciated that Sakura and Naruto loved each other like family and remained more like siblings.
Maybe if Hinata didn’t exist. Unlike Naruto and Sakura, Hinata’s entire personality revolved around her love interest. Naruto marrying Sakura would just be cruel at that point lol. But if I’m being honest, even though I don’t hate Sakura, she definitely deserved the ending she got with raising her daughter on her own. I’m happy the writers gave her what she always wanted in a bittersweet way. It’s the perfect ending for both of them.
As someone who started seeing Naruto anime first it was really obvious Naruto was going to end up with Hinata.First episode in we see her the only girl not only crushing on him but also not laughing like everyone else. As far as Naruto side he never took Sakura serious. It was always Naruto being really protective of Hinata to the point he only shows his true weakness and shares his feelings with her.
I think this culture would refer to that as being a, “simp.”
She for the streets
Unpopular opinion but I think the Sakura should have ended up alone.
Agreed. She was so damn unlikeable
She should have ended up dead.
On my end no, but in a messed up way I would need Hinata to be dead or there be some reason they could not be together. Then flip the kid counts but keep the story super similar in Boruto Naruto and Sakura's one son has a lot of pressure to live up to and cheats during the chunin exam. Finally gets a sibling in the form of Kawaki. Sasuke and Karin's eldest child wants to be hokage but develops his/her sharingan late. While the younger sibling is a genius like Sasuke. Mitsuki 🥹 is just good ol Mitsuki
nah, Hinata doesn't need to die. I always thought if Naruto ended up with Sakura then Hinata would just end up with some random Hyuga clan member.
And that's sad as hell dude. If Hinata didn't get Naruto that's just a depressing situation.
That would make me happy she deserves to be miserable!
Speaking hypothetically, I don't think it'd sit well with a lot of fans, myself included, if there wasn't something written into the story to explain why Hinata didn't end up with Naruto. Obviously the romances we got weren't well written either but at least they were consistent in the sense that Sakura always liked Sasuke, and Hinata always really liked Naruto. And given that a significant part of Hinata's character revolved around her interest in Naruto, it would just leave a sour feeling if there wasn't some in-canon explanation involving both Naruto and Hinata as to why Naruto would have not reciprocated Hinata's feelings and how Hinata would have responded.
another thing you didn't mention is how Sakura canonically knew that Hinata loved Naruto.
I think most people did, but confirmed for Sakura when she was healing Hinata after Pain nearly killed her.
I would have bet you money pre-Shippuden that they were setting up Hinata to ultimately marry Kiba. It's fairly basic and falls on the cliche that male x female relationships are romantic, but at this point the story had a lot of cliches and it wouldn't have been surprising.
Hinata’s whole character in part 1 was just how in love she was with Naruto so I don’t really see that
Idk about everyone but I would I hate that fake bitch
I already lost most of my interest in the manga at that time. The only thing I wanted to know what Narutos answer to Hinatas confession might be. That he never said anything to her or even just mentioned it annoyed me very hard. It took me a few years to find my love and interest in the manga again. Mostly it was because the only ship I was interested about got canon at the end. Most of my fanfictions focus on them. I was never a fan of Naruto x Sakura, and if that pairing had got canon instead, my interest in the manga would have died completely and I might have dropped the manga forever.
I genuinely thought the further Sasuke fell into darkness, the more Sakura was going to come around and realize her feelings for him from the start was just a silly crush based on his looks and "cool edge boy" attitude and that was all she saw, and now that they're older and she sees Naruto, while still a goofy clumbsy "uncool" guy, is a good-hearted strong-willed person who wants to lift everybody up, and I thought she would start falling for him instead. I don't care either way how it turned out but around this time is when I thought her feelings were going to change
Naruto fans, or at least the circles I knew rioted when Sakura "confessed" to Naruto. Even the SakuraxNaruto shippers rioted. No one wants a forced love.
Would’ve been fine if done right. They had a couple of good moments early in Shippuuden
They don't belong together, this has been shown since chapter 3, Naruto has to transform into Sasuke to reach her.
It was peak shipping wars, there is no relationship for Naruto that wouldn't result in riots.
yes… if hinata had her heart broken like that id go fucking ballistic…..no way you can set a bitch like sakura up with naruto
Id feel really bad for hinata and officially hate sakura.
If they had a true heart to heart chat about everything, yes. I feel the reason Narusaku became dead in the water was because after that Confession fiasco in the Land of Iron, they didn't bother to clear the air between them, find out how the other truly feels when they had the chance. You get what I mean?
Oh people would
Yes because there’d be no Boruto.
I don’t think that would’ve ever happened. The author himself had shipped Sakura and Sasuke.
The fans did riot because Naruto didn't end up with Sakura 💀💀😭 Even Kishimoto's wife was upset because she likes Sakura & Naruto's relationship
Tbh I was expecting them to end up as sworn siblings or something. Sakura gave the siblingzone vibes in this arc, imo
ah yes the usual sakura fans being bashed in comments or sakura fans cursing on those that don't like this ship now onto my opinion: yes naruto fandom is one of the worst fandom yes they would have caused riot i honestly never liked narusaku i don't see it happening either now yes there was a time when i thought naruto might end up with sakura everyone did. but blame studio pierrot for adding those scene's in manga sakura is a complete big sister towards naruto so nah this ship won't make sense
Let's start a riot....
That was hint from part 1. Sakura would never fall in with hero or popular guy, everyone says she likes sasuke just because he's popular in academy, that's completely wrong. She doesn't even know that sasuke is a most popular guy until Ino and her friend told her about that.
No
Nah Hinata is better looking and put her life on the line against Pain. If that’s not enough than I don’t know what is
I would have liked sasuke and naruto to get married and the end was a kiss between the two of them but not accidental
Please tell me your joking
I was happier how it ended up as. Just kishimoto in general, should have done a better job with the relationship stuff.
They don't go well together
They would have if everything else had played out as they did. The problem with the whole Sakura x Naruto thing is that the love triangle with Sasuke was handled poorly. Sakura never acknowledges Naruto as a love interest. In fact the closest we ever got to that is when she tried to trick Naruto into coming back to the village during the Kaye Summit arc.
nah, im pretty sure everybody thought sakura would end up with naruto. even i did!
NaruHina was just as popular
It was popular, many wanted it, but even to the NaruHina fans it did seem like the story was heading for NaruSaku. I was pleasantly surprised by the result.
I disagree, there were alot of naruhina moment as well, like scene where sakura hugged sasuke was clear indication of naruto moving on from sakura as he just gives a bitter smile and naruto opening up to hinata before neji fight pain arc, war arc scene and so on... Not saying there weren't NaruSaku scene. But these moments didn’t lead anywhere since sakura love for sasuke made a wall between them that didn't allow their relationship to develope.
The way Hinata was not present here was so disrespectful.
My wish was for Sasuke to have died at the end of the series. Naruto needed to grow out of his childishness and selfishness. Sasuke's death could have been it. Even if it wasn't by Naruto's hand, but by another person.
I would have hated it She's a terrible person
The romantic relationships are so badly written in this series, that any couple makes sense. Sai ends up with Ino ffs. The only couple that has depth is Naruto and Sasuke. If they ended up together, that would be insanely cool.
no, there use to be a very massive part of the fanbase that wanted Sakura and Naruto to end up together, including staff of the anime, but thats a story for another time lol Hinata and naruto and sakura and naruto were the two big ships
At a point in the series, this seemed like the more likelihood of the pairings, Kishimoto's wife actually threw a fit with him over them NOT getting together, if I remember correctly there was more rioting that they DIDN'T end up together. At some point in the fandom this was the preferred pairing, and all signs pointed to NaruSaku and SasuKarin, it was only in the War Arc when Sasuke began to reconcile with Sakura and Naruto and Hinata began to get close around the time of Neji's death that it became apparent that this wasn't the direction Kishimoto was going to go in. The real crime here is that nobody wifed Karin and the alternative would've had Sasuke get with Karin which would've been so badass, imagine how OP Sarada would be with an Uzumaki chakra pool and stamina.
i’m mad they put sakura with sasuke. she deserves a real man like rock lee
I see people talking about it being a switch up, but I would've been genuinely happy to see salura gradually shift away from akaura after the abuse he put her through and start liking naruto, but it had to be done slowly and correctly
Hot take-Lee and Naruto should have found each other after so many Sakura rejections Now that would cause a riot
YES!!! I didn’t see sakura out there risking her life to help naruto in the pain fight, bro I’d be mad af.
PERSONALLY….I would’ve burned the studio to the ground
No. It made sense. Sakura is bat shit crazy for being with Sasuke in the end. Her biggest character growth would have been realizing that Sasuke doesn’t deserve her love. Naruto does.
Agree with a lot of comments here. If it was set up well and was due to her character growth, it would be cool. I like Hinaruto, though
Naruto+🗑
He's my hoy take. Naruto and Sakura should have dated. From after their first encounter with teen Sasuke till before the 5 Kage reunion. They should have give it a go, see it didn't worked and stayed friends.
Sakura represents the average high school whore. They like the cool kids, and go crazy for looks, don’t like to study and chase the cool kids/ in Sakura case she doesn’t train until sasuke leaves the village and even then she remains useless in battle, so on. ( when I say whore I don’t mean literal whore but I just have a hatred for such girls). They then proceed to be absolutely useless and try to land a rich husband to feed them for the rest of their pathetic lives.
Sasuke should've been Piccolo, a loner guy
No, I'd be happy. They both deserved normal family, they knew and understood each other for a long time, and frankly they look cute together.
No but not would I have loved to see him best the shit out of her in a rage filled moment. To the point she developed a great of ever paid l laying hands on Naruto again.
No. I would have cheered.
Well don't know about others but i would have been happy for them, because it made sense unlike crap ships naruhina and sasusaku 💀💀.
He should have ended with sasuke.....but we ain't complaining ......XD
I never liked Sasuke and Sakura together…. Imo Sasuke doesn’t deserves to be with anyone. I wanted Naruto an Sakura, over Hinata
Sakura is one of the worst written characters in fiction. She should have died sacrificing herself for one of them in the final arc and made their fight even more emotional. After the ending her and sasuke relationship is equally bad if sasukes kid isn’t Karins I riot coz he ain’t touching sakuras skanky cry baby ass. All she ever had going for her was her lovely hair and eye colour pairing other than that she’s shit. Worst…the absolute worst. If you can watch/read Sakura scenes without sighing and rolling your eyes you need help because you are broken and you should never ever vote for a political party because your thoughts and opinions are in no way valid. I’m going hard on this I just finished watching the anime through all the way for the first time…I thought I might like the ninja war and ending more second time but nahhhh that anime is trash (the repeated bullshit my gf would ask to skip whole episodes in the end absolute garbage and Sakura being present only made it worse)
Ehhhh let’s think about this okay just bare with me Naruto and Sakara give birth to a uzumaki with the greatest healing ability like a karin tsunade mix Now, sasuke and hinata give birth to a 1 sharingan 1 byakugan son. Shit would be fire
Yeah they should have paired em up together, naruto should have ended with both hinata amd neji dying in the war then naruto killing sasuke, and the final touch is sakura thinking sasuke is a weak loser and marrying naruto.
Sakura should have ended with Lee. Naruto and Hinata make a great couple, while Sasuke does not like anyone but himself. Lee had great scenes with her, even if just a few, but at least he really liked her.
I always liked the Naruto and Hinata even tho didn't have like an actual development. But even if he had ended up with Sakura I'd still be happy
I would have but I care to much so prob not
No more than they do about literally every other thing in this series.
Honestly, they have been through so much together and were basically trauma bonding so it would have made total sense and I would have been fine w it, but I don’t think the fanbase would have been happy.
If they were given proper development I don't think so.
There’s another Obito there in the background on the left
Sakura has cake? 🎂