Thanks guys for reminding me of that horrendous Kage Summit arc! grrrrrrrrrr
Also I can't recall wasn't Sakura hinted at to be a potential genjutsu specialist or was that anime-only?
Hinata being my favorite girl in this series has had very little connection to him but she does show up right a the turn of a fight when she seems to cause him to amp up to the next level to kick ass
yeah, this has been her role for of most the time
on a personal level, yeah, she doesn't have much, but she was the very first person to be influenced by Naruto though. I wouldn't say that's little.
its not gonna happen brah. you'll be eating your own crow
never forget
But Naruto didn't even think for once about romance during that whole segment. It was purely motivational, comrade stuff. Also normally I would say the segment where Kishi showed her IT dream and lumped it together with other pipe/false dreams was not a good sign for the pairing, but then again...
Well if I learned anything from reading Naruto is that Kishi gives no fucks. So the cop-out will happen.
...pretty much. Using common sense and logic at this point is useless. Sasuke will return as if nothing happened. Whether or not they hook up is another question. As I said I still consider all 3 at square one and they have equal chances. Some of them is easier to sell to the crowd than the other, that's it.
Look at Karin. She had it the worst, she even said she's through with him (twice!), yet when things got back to normal she did too. Nothing changed.
She owes him one of those killer punches
This needs to happen though. I don't care Kishi, give me that classic tripanel perspective!