Didn't I tell you they live on fillers and headcanons.
well, when pretty much everything in canon is a slap in the face to them, i’m not really surprised. ☕️
kishi: i killed neji for them to get together; he “died as cupid”.
kishi: the boruto movie is the first screenplay i’ve written – the last was “an idea from the anime producers”.
kishi: i “pitied” hinata because she watched naruto from the beginning, so felt i needed to “reward” her for doing so.
kishi: i’m too “embarrassed” to write anything to do with their romance, so i let studio pierrot and, idk, some randomly affiliated authors write their fanfiction as fillers for those gaps that i couldn’t be arsed to fill myself… but hold up, i’ll personally take the time and effort to write my final work for the series, which focuses on s/s, sarada (seemingly my true next generation main character) and team 7.
kishi: i literally just straight up “forgot” about hinata’s main trait when creating the kids… but i’ll retcon a byakugan ‘awakening’ joke later or something, no worries.
kishi: oh yeah, i intentionally made n/s parallel mina/kushi because it was, like, a “red-herring” or whatever the hell they’re telling me to say now…
kishi: also, my wife is just like sakura and she shipped naru/saku. she was the one who helped me write mina/kushi too! but she got hella angry at me over naru/hina; she was “very upset that naruto didn’t get together with sakura” and “complained quite vehemently to me” about it. oh, and my only contribution to ‘the last’ was our scarf gifting memory, since i tried to “defuse the situation by assuring her that she was actually the model for hinata” but she knew that wasn’t true; my wife is a “strong character”.
kishi: however, i assure you that n/h wasn’t the asspull that it seems – i apparently just couldn’t be bothered depicting them on more than 40 pages out of, like, 12,500+ in my 15 years of writing the story. i actually decided on s/s “early” on, but naru/hina wasn’t planned until “the middle”, somehow… idk, i liked s/s, so the other two basically happened by default later on, i guess.
kishi: naruto doesn’t have time for his family – the exact thing that he craved the most throughout his lonely life – during an era of peace.
kishi: naruto sleeps on the couch.
kishi: naruto’s son hates him. he hurls abuse at his father, makes his mother cry and ruins his little sister’s birthday party with a tantrum.
kishi: he’s the son of, like, the strongest ninja and a main-branch member of a prestigious clan, but he has to cheat to be a decent shinobi.
kishi: naruto’s daughter also gut-punched him unconscious and made him miss the day that he’d been dreaming about his entire life. you know, the one that was a theme of the series, which i consistently built up to showcasing the moment of for my invested readers to finally see come to fruition… psych.
kishi: naruto knows the significance of bento and still runs; leaving his son stuck with his mother’s unappreciated meal, still hateful of his father, feeling sorry for his mother and pissed at his dad’s lack of care for his marriage.
kishi: hinata is “frumpy”, “crumpy”; she “has a bland appearance” and “reduces the amount of skin she shows”. oh, and here are the numerous characters who have commented on sakura’s beauty, including naruto!
kishi: hinata – who has the byakugan, btw (like, 360º vision and has been trained to walk upside down & on the water surface) – tripped on a rock and gave up on personally trying to help naruto, whilst sakura performed medical ninjutsu, manually pumped his heart with her hand & administered CPR with practically no chakra.
kishi: naruto had feelings for sakura for 699 chapters – he develops feelings for hinata in the movie that i didn’t think was important enough to mention at all in my work. apparently it’s the result of a genjutsu and feeling sorry for her or something?