Supposed Troll
I assume the people this is mostly directed to will never see it and even if they did, it’s been quite a while as it stands. However, I wish to make something at least clear to everybody that may take the time to listen/read.
I was supposedly seen as a troll by many of the NaruSaku fans for not choosing to deny the reality of how things were and how things ended up. For daring to speak up against those that took shots at the other ship/s and those deluded enough to attack the production company, manga company and Kishimoto himself. Even though I also did at times do this to the other ships too, this was overlooked often because it was rarely the case since they had sort of won the “war” so they had little reason to attack pointlessly. Some of them did and they were the ones I did bother with. This was never ever an attack on the person’s ship as in most cases that would be analogous to sinking my own ship beneath my feet like some sort of mad man.
I have tried to make it clear but since I started watching Naruto I was always into the ideal scenario of Naruto and Sakura finding love between one another. This continued to be my fantasy ship over time, rather than holding any belief of something. Why? Because of the end of the first part. There were three specific moments where everything could’ve been different. Four if you want to stretch it and believe there was any fixing it at the start of part 2. These moments were when Naruto and Sasuke fight on the rooftop and that amounted to little as Sakura only tried to stop the fight then feel bad over it all with Naruto saying a few choice words. Then you have the moment when she asks Naruto to go. Instead it gave off no hope of changing her heart’s desire. Then lastly? Naruto returning from the valley fight. Instead they seemed to part ways a bit more in mindsets at that point. Both wanting to save him alone basically.
Now for the longest I had little care for NaruHina, in fact I’d avoid looking at it. To me? It felt like a cliche thing and kind of normal. I could accept it, I did accept it. But I was not even going to watch filler that was essentially NaruHina fluff.
That changed a few years back when my mother, who was sick, got into anime and we watched a ton together. One she absolutely adored was in fact Naruto. She rewatched it numerous times and it was abundantly clear that she was in complete adoration of Hinata as a character. She wanted her to be happy, regardless of who she had have wanted. I swear had Hinata been created to love say Neji? As some shippers might have wanted. She would’ve wanted that just as badly as she wanted NaruHina.
Time passed and I grew to be somewhat fonder of NaruHina, watching all that filler and enjoying it. Enjoying fanart of them, stories of them, videos of them. I never stopped loving the idea of NaruSaku but I knew what was coming and everyone with common sense did too. Not only was I willing to just accept it but I was happy. Not only because a decent character, Hinata, was going to be happy in the end of their story but mainly Naruto and Sakura would be. It may not have been MY wants but it was their’s as characters, regardless of the whining about Naruto’s simple boyhood crush.
The bigger part though was that it made my mother happy. The Last was amazing to her even though to me it was far different from the Naruto movies/stories I knew. (though as a note I did love the feeling of the ambiance from it, the magical feel. really reminded me of Spirited Away’s feeling when I was a kid and sometimes even now)
My mother passed having gotten a year or two before hand the ending SHE wanted the most for the series she loved just as much if not more than me.
If you think for supporting a ship, something she loved and not letting people lie about it, throw unhinged fits of delusions that prompt attacks on the author and the studios as well as the fans of that ship is being a troll even after this. Well I’m sorry that your little echo chamber is so small that nothing can exist but your opinions and what you like.
