Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-32425921-20170629034419/@comment-32437761-20170718122843

QuinnSY wrote: This time, the girl is the orphan with a crazy beast sealed within her and the boy is from the prestigious Hyuga clan...

I thought that too! I agree they were probably planning to discard Sumire and the similarities were probably just concidental. But it plays perfectly as a juxtaposition of the story of Naruto and Hinata: The moment in episode 2 when Sumire stood up for Boruto can be easily de-constructed as Boruto's "Red Scarf" moment when he was genuinely impressed with a person he had just met. And it seems Shino now wants to play a similar role for Sumire as Iruka did for Naruto. That last thing makes me think the writers themselves have already taken notice of the similarities and are going to keep showing us parallels from now on.