Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-4271790-20141106113847/@comment-8284722-20141114174643

@Eric The only reason that it was made obvious of who would be with who was if you looked at Naruto and said "Wow, this is so generic". A lot of people did. And Naruto was supposed to overcome that. It was supposed to be able to stand on its own. Have its own ideas even when things started off similar. But the last two chapters threw all that away. Everything had that generic manga ending. You know, main character ends up with weird fangirl, main female ends up with main antagonist/best friend.

Let's take two examples: Dragon Ball and Harry Potter - both of which had GOOD endings for a variety of reasons.

Dragon Ball had Goku married Chi-Chi and Bulma married Vegeta. You'd think that Goku would be with Bulma, but the generic approach played out. It WORKED though because Goku didn't have feelings with Bulma to begin with and because we then got Gohan and Trunks. On the other hand, Naruto had feelings for Sakura, and Boruto and Sarada won't be getting the time their DB counterparts did - outside of a GT miniseries, at least.

Harry Potter, meanwhile, had the benefit of significant development in the last 2/7s (or 3/8s, depending on which you follow) for both HarryxGinny and RonxHermione. Also, Harry never had feelings for Hermione. Naruto was different, though. He actually LIKED Sakura, and while there was some development for the canon pairings towards the end, it really wasn't that much in the long run.

So everything about Naruto liking Hinata (within the context OF A MOVIE) and Sasuke liking Sakura was all way too rushed. As for the "Sasuke-waiting-for" thing, she didn't really want him to change; she just wanted him in the village. Her reactions to how Boruto painted the monument and Sasuke' forehead tap suggest she may have gone back to her old self, but I'm not going to make those assumptions until the miniseries kicks off.

And the housewife thing may be a joke, but it's really true if you think about it. As for Sakura never saying she didn't like Naruto - dude, of course she did! Okay, outside the Five Kage Summit thing, maybe not, but Naruto's definitely changed her and she knows that and she's said many times that she cares for him - I'm really not going to continue down that road just to avoid fanon discussion.

@Hisana You seriously think Sasuke loved Sakura during both of those occasions? Noooooo, he had no feelings for her then. He only had them when she came to the Final Valley - and that's why it was rushed. Even the most devoted of SS guys can see that. When Sasuke said he has no reason to love Sakura, and vice versa, it was because there was really was no reason, not because he liked her but lacked a reason! I'm sorry, but what you just said was ignorant and silly.