SasuHina is the term used for the pairing of Sasuke Uchiha and Hinata Hyuga from Naruto.
Some people said that they don’t make sense since they almost never interacted, but I don’t think so. They have other means to build development. For example, they have many similiarities, like both are calm, being looked down by their fathers, have strong brothers to compete, and from highly prestigious clans so they will understand each other very well. Also their costume’s colors strangely match at each other.
Their blood types match too with Fugaku – Mikoto Uchiha (Hinata’s blood type: A & Sasuke’s blood type: AB while Fugaku’s blood type: AB & Mikoto’s blood type: A). Not to mention that Hinata resembles Mikoto so much, both in appearance and personality. Guys love girls that resemble their mothers, right? Look, they will be exactly same with FugaMiko :
Sasuke has ever said that he loves girl with long hair. He also doesn’t like noisy people around. And since he is always surrounded by fangirls and never paid attention, I don’t think he will be suitable with one that hanging around him with adoration eyes. What better choice for him other than HINATA HYUGA? Sakura & Karin don’t have that long hair and are fangirls, while Ino, although has long hair, also is fangirl. Yeah, if only Kishimoto was stick to his manga development, I am sure SasuHina would be canon. He wouldn’t make those paralells just for nothing!
My certainty is based on some canon moments they have together. Here is my analysis:
1. When Sasuke defeated Yoroi in chuunin exams, Hinata seemed impressed. From there, Hinata has a good impression of Sasuke.
2. In Naruto’s movie “Bonds”, I saw them interact with each other. Hinata called, “Sasuke-kun?” and he replied with, “Urusai (shut up).” Yeah, that is not the reaction that I expected, but Sasuke was always rude to everyone so it doesn’t mean he hated Hinata. Because after that Sasuke helped Hinata’s ship by destroying the enemy coming for it. It means that Sasuke protected Hinata. Why did he help Hinata’s ship if he hated her? If anything, he should pay no mind, shouldn’t him?
Morever, Orochimoru noticed that Sasuke was a bit happier after that event. Why was he happier when he only met Naruto that has happened many times? He wasn’t always happier when meeting him, right? So maybe he was happier because he met Hinata? And Hinata called him “Sasuke-kun” so he is a friend to her.
3. In Naruto’s movie “Road to Ninja”, Sasuke clearly showed interest and had doki-doki moment with Hinata. Could it be the sign that he is interested in her in real world? Because Hinata is still interested in Menma (Naruto) in RTN just like in real world. Since both of them in real world are so similiar in traits, maybe his feelings towards her is genuine in real world?
4. In Naruto’s chapter 700, Sasuke is shown wander around. Why did he neglect his village without any importance? Maybe he couldn’t stand watching Hinata to be with Naruto and didn’t like being with Sakura? (I don’t think a kid as the proof of love because he could be drunk or it was simply one night stand. If he truly was in love, he wouldn’t be in journey)
5. Naruto’s movie, “The Last” can strenghten analysis number 4, because Sasuke didn’t attend Naruto’s wedding with Hinata just for the sake of going around the world without any purpose. That is very strange. Naruto is his number one bestfriend, who has brought him back from darkness, so why he couldn’t make just a little time to say “congratulations” in Naruto’s wedding? No need to stay for too long in the party, even just 5 minutes to shake hands is alright. Maybe because he couldn’t see the love of his life, Hinata, getting married to Naruto?
Hmm… yeah… yeah… maybe not everyone has interpretation like me, but I can’t just neglect those things! It looks like Kishimoto wanted to say, “sorry, actually I wanted SasuHina but under tight circumstances it couldn’t be, but don’t worry, I have prepared these subtle hints for you. Read between the lines!” Yes, I do, Kishimoto!
According to me, Sasuke always loves Hinata, but she only looked at Naruto that was why he never confessed to her. When he heard about her wedding with Naruto, his heart was broken but he couldn’t interfere because the groom was his bestfriend. So he excused himself from the wedding by pretending to travel around the world. But after that, he realized that he couldn’t come back to Konoha, knowing that he would see Hinata’s happy life with Naruto so he chose to wander around again. Sometimes he would go home just to see her face but never stayed too long.
Hell yeah, that perfectly makes sense to me and I don’t need anyone’s approval on this. Also, in my imagination, later, SasuHina will be reunited. So, years later, apparently Hinata’s marriage is failing and that is the time where Sasuke comes in. She realizes about Sasuke’s feelings as the time goes by and slowly fall for him. They divorce/separate with current partners and get married. Then they will have many kids together and at long last they can have their own happy ending (NaruSaku can be together too). That will be perfect to cover Naruto’s horrible ending, Kishimoto!
At least the idea to make AU movie with NaruSaku & SasuHina will be good. Not SasuKarin, because SasuHina is more popular than SasuKarin. You like to pair someone because of popularity, don’t you, Kishimoto?
I know there will be someone who won’t be happy with this post or this pairing, but at least SasuHina is healthy relationships, unlike SasuSaku with its brutal development. Sasuke never laid his finger towards Hinata. Added by their similarities and subtle hints above, they will be the best and sweetest couple in Naruto. Their relationships also make sense.
A SasuHina fan potrayed their marriage life with four kids (some of them are twins) and they are really cute. Here is the pic:
Their names are Shinsuke, Himawari, Satoru, and Hikari. Strangely enough, the name of one of Hinata’s child in canon is Himawari.
So yeah, whatever happened or said about this pairing in Naruto, I will forever ship SasuHina. It is sweet, healthy, and makes sense. It is a shame that Kishimoto could not realize the beauty of SasuHina. If he did, Naruto’s ending would be very much better.
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I never thought that I would hate a pairing so much to the point of sick. Yes, this only happened when I found this Sakura Haruno-Sasuke Uchiha/SasuSaku (SS) pairing in Naruto. WORST PAIRING EVER!
You wonder why? Here are the reasons:
1. Sakura is a lifetime and hardcore fangirl of Sasuke
Yeah, she is that fangirl who only cares about his good looks and superficial traits. Look at her act. Very childish, immature, and shallow.
2. Sasuke ABUSED her and tried to KILL her
Yeah, he HATES her so much to the point of trying to kill her THREE TIMES. Not to mention other rejections and harsh treatments before. And to think that there are fans who support violent pairing… this is just SO WRONG!
Even after everything he did, when he finally said sorry, she answered by : “sorry for what, Sasuke-kun?” Oh shit, does this girl even have a brain? Look at what he did!
I wouldn’t ever forgive Sasuke if I were her. This is not true love, this is a toxic love and unhealthy obsession! This is BAD EXAMPLE for any woman who watches Naruto!
3. Sakura has no self-respect at all
Forget about her being strongest kunoichi in medic whatsover. She is just forever fangirl who doesn’t have self-respect for herself. Even after being hurt physically and emotionally, and almost killed, now she must look after a child while her “supposed-to-be-lover” is nowhere to be seen. Anything for good looks only, huh? What a shallow mind is that!
In the Last Movie, she said something like, “when a girl truly loves someone, that can’t be changed.” ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? I am a girl and knew how to love someone so deeply but not to the point of could not change when he treated me badly. Because I am not a fangirl, not stupid, have self-respect, and not into good looks only just like our so-called “heroine”. Shame on her! She is the worst heroine ever!
4. Does Sasuke even love her?
I have this headcanon that Sasuke NEVER loved her. Proof? He said it himself in chapter 693, just a few chapters before ending!
Even after there is a child named Salad that looks like Karin so much under her protection (yeah, maybe she is Karin’s child?), he has never seen to be with her and wanders around. What a fucking loving guy is to wander around when he is so much in love with Sakura like those SS shippers claim? Yeah, in SS lovers’ mind, it is so logical when you leave your love behind! So this is LOVE? More like slavery in the name of love to me. Maybe this short doujin will do justice:
If Sasuke loved Sakura so much, he should be in the Konoha, rebuilding his clan and having so many babies with her. He is the last of his clan, shouldn’t he do many procreations? He LOVES her, doesn’t he? So what’s the matter with having children with her? The only logical reason is he never loved her, probably just using her to have a child and then, could not stand her behaviour anymore, he ran away (this only can be seen from those who have brains, not blinded by shipping glasses).
Having a kid is not the proof of love either. That could be the side effect of one night stand. And one night stand doesn’t need true love. Or maybe Sasuke was drunk at that time so he had no control towards his action? That is if Salad is Sakura’s TRUE child, not Karin’s or another woman’s (see various scenarios about how Salad became in my second anti-Sasusaku rants here).
5. Sakura’s love is selfish
Love should be two ways, not one-sided moreover obsessive. SS lovers always claim how much Sakura loves Sasuke, but do they ever think about Sasuke’s feelings? Sakura is so selfish and so are her fans!
So yeah, those are my reasons to dislike this pairing. I wonder, what did Kishimoto think when he decided to make SS canon? Well…
Many fans have suspected that SS became canon just so the next generations of Naruto have many potential fans (and merchandise buyers), not because of development, love, or chemistry between characters whatsoever. SasuSaku and NaruHina (Naruto-Hinata/NH) are some of most popular pairings in Naruto and also Hinata’s seiyuu is so popular. They also plan to ship future SS/NH kids (Bolt-Salad) to get other most popular fanbase, SasuNaru (Sasuke-Naruto/SN), to flock to the future story. Yes, they have four combos for ultimate popularity and success!
So, they made this ending, followed by two movies, miniseries, and novels, expecting it to be hugely popular so the show could go on like DBZ even untill Naruto’s grandchildren’s series. Too bad for you, many Naruto’s fans also have LOGIC that is why instead of success, the show is criticized heavily.
As popular as they are, SasuSaku and NaruHina are lack of development and logic, mainly SasuSaku. I don’t have a problem with NaruHina because Naruto never mistreated Hinata, but SasuSaku is almost impossible to happen in the real world. How could a girl still love a boy, no matter how good looking he was, after he was trying to kill her THREE TIMES? Not only that, he LEFT her alone with a kid to look after! Where is the girl’s power, emancipation, or self-respect in that matter? Girls are not slaves!
It seems like Kishimoto doesn’t want this kind of ending either. If he wanted it since 8 years ago like he claimed, why did he make SS development so negative? It is clear that he didn’t want SS to happen and wanted NaruSaku (Naruto-Sakura/NS) instead, what with so many developments between them along the series. This argument is strengthen by his own claim that he didn’t know how SS pairing happened. How could the author not know when he planned it 8 years ago?!
Perhaps some other factions in production were kind of forcing or persuading him to change his ending which supposed to be NS to be more profitable. Probably he was powerless and couldn’t do anything so yeah, the ending became like that. But there is also probability that he did it willingly, thinking that it was the best marketing strategy and clearly not expecting it to backfire. What a pity.
Now after Naruto series hated by many of its very own fans, the producers decided to go back baiting the old fans by making SasuNaru things in the last manga of 72, saying there was a “secret” in that manga. So their SS and NH plan failed miserably? Why didn’t the marketing team use the so-called most popular pairings as promotion if they were that successful?
Maybe because many Naruto fans can not accept the ending, SS fans tried to bully them to accept it. Yeah, they are trolling everywhere. They thought that by scaring other shippers, it would make the ending acceptable by force. Too bad, it did the otherwise.
You know, before, I actually didn’t give a shit about SS and peacefully shipped SasuHina (Sasuke-Hinata/SH) but not after one SS fan gave a flame to one of my favorite SH fanfics that I felt so much hatred towards that ship. I knew many of my OTPs are not canon but I never saw any flame in their fics just because they are not canon. Seriously, what is wrong with making fanworks that are not canon? Aren’t that fanworks like, to unleash imagination? It’s not that we get any financial benefit or disturb the main story. Let us be with our imagination!
But those SS fans are just so happy their illogical pairing happen so they have this feeling to “protect” the ending and bash everyone who doesn’t make fanworks based on canon. If they though that it would make everyone acknowledge the ending, that is a WRONG MOVE! I will not ever acknowedge this ending moreover like SS. Forever I will be always stick to SasuHina. To me, Naruto’s ending is Narusaku and Sasuhina and anything otherwise is just illusion made by SS fanatics who don’t have logic. How could they have logic if they still like abusive pairing with negative development? Even whenever Sasuke and Sakura were trying to kill each other, they still saw it as sign of love. How delusional can someone be? Thanks God, I am saved from this madness they called love!
SS fans read too many fanworks about Sasuke and Sakura that mostly have been smoothed by OOCness and overdose love effect so they are blind to reality that actually Sasuke never showed any love to Sakura throughout the series. Even his killing attemps to Sakura are called love! Yes! Yes! This is the logic of fans tried to be pleased by Kishimoto! I won’t be surprised if SS fanbase consists of teenagers that don’t know about the true concept of love besides I-love-good-looking-guy. They make Sakura as their self-insert so they can be loved by this cool and strong guy eventhough they are fangirling so badly. Oh, don’t forget this OOC charm so Sasuke looks lovey-dovey. Can I throw up here?
Apparently, not only me who hates this abusive pairing, but many Naruto’s fans also feel the same way.
Yeah, not everyone is blinded by that “true love” story. Take that!
So, that is what happen when you choose to set aside logic for popularity. In my opinion, popularity will follow authors who are true to themselves. Authors should have concept before the story flows and not give up their story no matter what. If Kishimoto really wanted SS then make their development along the way beautifully. The same goes for NH. But instead, it is NS which was developed beautifully. This beautiful long development of Naruto and Sakura and their relationships were ruined in the blink of eyes with a reason that really doesn’t make sense like “red herring”. How could their sweet love story get altered by the abusing one just to please certain fans?
Real authors won’t mislead their own fans for years. They won’t make a plot about X and Y for a long time when X finally settles down with Z. That is a very bad writing! That is the same as tricking people and no one’s happy being tricked!
Really, Naruto is the worst story I have ever read and SasuSaku is equivalently the worst pairing I have ever seen!
If I ever had children, I wouldn’t let them read Naruto, a hero who turned to zero just because of some OOC ending chapters. Moreover if my child were female, I would forbide Naruto stritcly. I don’t want my daughter to look up to Sakura, thinking that true love can happen at age of 5 so they can accept whatever their “true love” throw at them without any dignity left. No… no… my daughter should be a smart girl who knows what is the best for her and respects herself. Love is not slavery and certainly not abusive!
So yeah, my final conclusions are:
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P. S. : For more rants about anti SasuSaku, read here
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