Analysis Pro NH Anti NS
Naruto Manga Part 2
Part 13 Finale
The reanimated Minato appears on the battlefield. He asks Naruto out of the blue, if the girl healing him is his girlfriend. Narutoâs reaction to this is actually very flat and careless. He hesitates and fumbles his words, then he falsesly agree and says âif youâre splitting hairs, i guessâ. The defintion of splitting hairs is and i quote: to make often peevish criticisms or objections about matters that are minor, unimportant, or irrelevant.
So clearly Naruto doesnât even remotly see her in a romantic light. Not that he ever did, his âcrushâ on her was only a side effect of the rivalry with Sasuke. He only noticed her because she actively tried her best to get noticed by Sasuke and made herself as pretty as possible. And Naruto being the goof that he is, saw the biggest Sasuke fangirls attempt at getting his attention and got jealous of Sasuke and tried to get her attention instead of Sasuke so that he could be better than Sasuke at something.
Anyway Sakura becomes furious and immediatly punches Naruto (in the middle of healing him by the way) and he comments on how sheâs supposed to heal him and that heâs suffered more damage now because of her (honestly if anything they are more like two siblings quarrelling).
Then Minato out of the blue just like his stupid girlfriend comment compares Sakura to Kushina. But he actually looks embarrassed that she resembles her not so positive side. Kushina obviously has her loving, caring and ambitious side and he certaintly doesnât compare her to that, but only her temper (that sooo many girls share in Naruto by the way itâs not exactly a unique trait). Minato looks embarrased and nervously laughs and then says somewhat sarcastically â i leave my son in youâre capable handsâ.
So he doesnât actually supports them as a couple as some have claimed. Naruto later tells him that he hasnât found a girlfriend and he accepts that and supports him.
Naruto thanks Sakura for healing him and then tells her to rest. He doesnât actually see her as a capable kunoichi and he never really believed in her strength. Compare this to how he treats Sasuke or Hinata where he willingly invites them into battle with him and it becomes blatantly clear that Naruto doesnât respect her. Besides Sakura even comments on how he only sees her as a damsel in distress and sheâs not exactly wrong.
The first thing Naruto thinks about when he sees Sakuraâs new super strength is how sheâs gonna âturn him into a stainâ if he makes her angry. Her physical abuse on him has obviously had an lasting effect if thatâs the first thing he comes up with. Compare this to Sasukeâs reaction where he smirks proudly instead.
We get another perspective of Narutoâs and Hinataâs hand holding where we see Naruto squeeze her hand harder and him smiling at her. We also have more foreshadowing of Naruto and Hinataâs future relationship. She notes she wants to stay beside Naruto forever, while remembering Naruto, she is able to not only complete the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms, but also combine it with Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists.
Naruto is later at the verge of death and Sakura uses her role as a medic Ninja to try and save him. She talks about how his unbeliveable dream is just around the corner and also does CPR on him (which a lot of people confuse with a kiss for some reason, i guess theyâre either stupid or desperate for anything remotely close to NaruSaku). Besides it feels a lot more like Sakura is desperate to save her friend, who is much more like a brother to her than a romantic partner. Honestly the girl has been horny for Sasuke most of her life so why would that suddenly change just because she tries desperatly to save her friend who she only has nothing but platonic feelings towards.
When Narutoâs saved he doesnât even thank her and just says âlets goâ. The depth honestly astounds me!
Later Sakura performs a very wise decision of rushing straight towards Madara with no plan or warning of her ingenious plan. This is very similar to when she decided to come back and stab Sasuke when he fought Kakashi. Typical case of narcissism, thinking sheâs hot shit and can do everything herself even though Sasuke and Naruto (her much stronger teammates) saved her sorry ass. Naruto and Sasuke then help her and she doesnât even thank Naruto for saving her and only despairs over Sasuke not caring. Naruto barely reacted at all to her getting stabbed. Compare this to when Hinata got stabbed when he went bat shit crazy and almost transformed into the Nine Tails.
Hinata is put under the Infinite Tsukuyomi and mentally calls out for Naruto...
And Naruto hears her mental call! In his protective nature he almost ran out of the Susanoo, leaving Team 7 behind. He is only just stopped by Sasuke. Let me really talk about this here, not only could he hear her mental call, but he also had no hesitation to rush out to save her even though he would leave Team 7, his âfamilyâ behind. I mean hearing mental calls and seeing emotions through eyes, thatâs some next level shit honestly!
This sort of validate the idea that Naruto and Hinata are connected. Both Naruto and Hinata constantly use words the other has said (for example Hinata says his Ninja way and Naruto makes a refrence to being âselfishâ earlier in the war. There are so many parallels between them that i cant list them all here). They also understand each others hardships, how they are both âproud failuresâ who work hard to change themselves. They are kindred spirits. They both admire and respect each others will to never give up and thatâs also ironically why they both start falling for each other. We know how in Naruto people are connected through blood, for example with the summoning jutsu. Narutoâs blood vow to Hinata was him sealing that connection between them.
Inside the Infinite Tsukuyomi, Hinata dreams of being with Naruto, while Neji and Hanabi watch. Which, incidentally, also discards claims that she cared nothing for Neji because apparently her greatest dreams was being with Naruto and Neji being alive.
Interesting how they show Hinata in this panel as it could be viewed as an in direct reference to Narutoâs and Hinataâs relationship and past.
We see Naruto and Hinata standing very close to each other at Nejiâs funeral. It was implied that they actually got really close after the war. Hinata is also seen crying at Nejiâs funeral so that debunks stupid claims of her not âcaringâ. Honestly he was like a brother too her, of course she would care?! Whatâs wrong with people?
Besides i think that itâs very likely that the Last could have worked to be set shortly after the war. Both Naruto and Hinata have shown (atleast for me) that they both love each other and that they are ready for a relationship. But at the same time, Naruto, even though heâs matured a whole lot compared to the start of Part 2 is still oblivous to real romantic love, even though he has shown signs of it towards Hinata. That he thinks Hinata and Ramen are the same thing is actually somewhat believable since he confuses his love for her with his childhood comfort food that has brought him happiness. Itâs actually a very Naruto thing in my opinion.
So it still makes sense to be set 2 years after, the characters need to mature and be older sure, but it defiantly could have worked earlier.
Anyway that will be all for these analyses. It was a lot of fun to write these and hopefully you learned something new by reading them. Hopefully this brought some new light towards NH and also some depth as to why NS was always a crack ship.
Naruto and Hinataâs relationship is something that had always interested me since the start. Actually NH moments in Part 1 are my prefered subject and i wouldnât mind maybe doing analyses on them too. Thanks for reading!
Here are all the previous parts:
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6
Part 7 Part 8 Part 9 Part 10 Part 11 Part 12










