Board Thread:Naruto 7: Discussion/@comment-24516546-20141107133049/@comment-2156952-20141205144751

ItachiWasAHero wrote: but, the movie is canon and is also called "Chapter 699.5" so NH is official from beginning to end. If I'm to translate the whole interview, I will. But to put it straightforward to you, Kishi bluntly states out that the movie will also clear Naruto and Sakura's true relationship. He also called it 'their parting': proof that Kishi did commercialize them, and it's true he portrayed the romance genre for each character in a very vague and incompetent way :/

Hinata became Naruto's lady or not, but that sadly can't come to the fact that Sakura was accidentally 'caught in the middle'.