My childhood ship❤
I love them so much and seeing snippets of their relationship in the new series is heartwarming.
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(Ignore the rest if u don't want an essay. Might regret this when i wake up tomorrow idk)
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They'll always have a special place in my heart. I do acknowledge the criticisms I see from other fans about the pairing (and of Sakura's character in general bc the writer apparently sucks at writing women?) but I also don't know if I have the right to say anything against it as someone who only watched the og years ago as a kid on TV and not shippuden. Didn't have Internet and I don't think the series popped up in cartoon network or animax so I eventually forgot about it. Now the length alone is too intimidating and I barely watch shows in general anymore, so most of my shippuden knowledge are actually from all the fics I've been reading. I just want to like the pairing as they are and my younger self would've been screaming/crying in happiness if she'd seen these shots.
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On a different note, I grew to love Naruto in general again after taking the plunge to read the fics (before that I've been binging hp fics). Maybe not enough to watch the show or read the manga, but enough to love the characters themselves and their relationship with each other. I want to draw more fanart of them but there's also that hesitance where I feel like a poser since I don't know the shippuden canon context like other fans. I feel that way with other shows that I've watched but never finished, and with genshin too(I tried playing once but it was too big for my phone and pc. Plus I'm just not that kind of gamer. Still want to draw some of the characters). I'm not sure if I'm making any sense but this thought has been bugging me for awhile and I just wanted to express it out loud. Maybe there are other content creators like me too who only watched a [small] part of a show or game but adored the characters enough to draw/write multiple pieces of it.
