Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-1018594-20150725100424/@comment-734582-20150725132448

Elveonora wrote: Naruto is stupid, what do you expect? He's 19, pretty sure things like hormones would make him take some remote interest in girls. Other than vaguely drooling over Sakura in an increasingly strange fashion, too. He's Narujesus, girls love him. I find it hard to believe none of them ever asked him out proper and he never dated anyone in a vaguely serious way.

I also find it hard to believe that in a group with a number of very blunt friends (sakura, ino, kiba, sai) nobody ever pointed it out that Hinata loves him in a more-than-friends way. Unless they secretly had a bet on how many decades it would take before he did. Even Sai realized Sakura was hurting Naruto, and if he can do that, he can know Hinata loves Naruto and Naruto doesn't realize.

He had to experience the past again, several times to fully comprehend how Hinata feels about him and how he feels about her. There have already been a million trillion flashbacks to every inch of his past. I'm pretty sure he would be well-aware of every second of his past, including Hinata's love confession

To him, loving equaled liking someone, like a friend. Once he realized there wouldn't be anyone else better to spend end of the world with than her, he got that he must love her. So basically he doesn't love her, its just convenient that he's with someone that likes him? And he never experienced any form of a crush on someone, even though he had a crush on Sakura, and doesn't know that such a thing exist, and thus the entire movie casually ignores that he loved someone before in that special way?