Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24098614-20141114234521/@comment-1292715-20141115182423

Geez louis, I get feeling that some of the haters are NOT looking at the ending as an epilogue. A lot of epilogues tend to jump into the future, and are usually rather short and not too much detail. Also I'm pretty sure Kishimoto wouldn't do something solely for the fan bases.

What NaruSaku fans don't seem to realize is that Naruto went after Sakura knowing absolutely nothing about love. Which, can you blame him? He grew up without any parents and spent much of his childhood hated and ostracized by almost the entire village. What did Naruto know about love anyways? How could he know what it feels like to love someone or to be loved? If anything he probably only went for Sakura because if he could get her to like him, he could get everyone else to like him. Also why Sakura? Evidently just because of her looks, cleary not her personality(which back in academy would make anyone else groan at). His childish crush on her has always been just that, a childish crush. At no point has it ever truly developed. If you ask me, the combination of Hinata's confession, Sakura's FALSE confession, and meeting his parents all served as a wake up call for him to what love really is and what it feels like. Also Kushina did tell him NOT to go after the first girl he sees, which Naruto initially failed to listen(though he was a newborn so that's understandable). So, the ending with him marrying Hinata shows that he truly understands love now. And that's why I think it was fitting.