Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-4271790-20141106113847/@comment-25634091-20141106233847

Maybe no one is seeing it this way since Temari and Shikamaru had already dated before, but maybe Kishimoto was using Choji and Karui's relationship, in addition to Shikamari, is to demonstrate better relationships with the other villages. People were saying that there was no hinting towards the relationship, but that's probably the point. Everyone acknowledges there are many years between the last chapter and the end of the war. A lot can happen. Though most other relationships seem predictable to some effect, there could be some enthralling story behind how Kiba and Tamaki ended up with each other, lol.

With that said, with the characters who had no romantic development at all, i.e Kiba, Choji, TenTen, Shino, there isn't any reason to be upset that Kishi decided to surprise us. If it was going to be ended in a way you expected or the ending was going to be obvious, why read it all? A better reason to be upset would be Naruto ending up with Temari.