Hinata and naruto love

- October 27, 2019

I love naruto and hinata together they are very realistic couple and they have cute little kids. But whyWhy does Naruto not notice Hinata earlier? He was very focused on achieving his dream of being hokage

Answered Mar 21

There are two answers here, one in-story and one out of story.

The core of the in-story answer is that Naruto always acknowledged Hinata as a friend, but by the time Hinata makes herself known to Naruto as a potential romantic partner, he’s got FAR bigger things on his mind than romance.

When Hinata confesses to Naruto that she loves him, Pain immediately tosses her skyward, nearly killing her. Naruto loses control of the Kyuubi and goes berserk. By the time he regains control of his body, he’s met his father and been filled with determination to both defeat Pain and to understand him and answer the question that’s been asked.

Once that’s done, he’s both elatedly being celebrated as a hero and doing his best to help rebuild the village. He’s also still mourning the loss of Jiraiya on some levels, so there’s a lot of heavy thoughts on his mind.

Before things can calm down, Danzou becomes acting Hokage and starts throwing his weight around in Tsunade’s absence. Then Cloud ninjas start showing up and harassing Team 7, and Naruto learns that Sasuke joined Akatsuki and supposedly has kidnapped the jinchuuriki of the 8 Tails. From that point on, he’s worried sick about Sasuke, and trying to get the Cloud ninjas to drop their vendetta against him.

Then he meets Tobi/Madara…and war gets declared…and then he faces Sasuke, and then he gets taken away to train with Bee, and he meets his mom, and…and…and….

Things rapidly escalate in Naruto’s life from then on until the war is done.

Before her confession, Hinata was always a person Naruto admired and appreciated, but he was completely oblivious to the reasons for her shyness and embarrassment around him, and therefore he saw those behaviors as weird. To him, her faints, blushes and squeaks came out of nowhere, so he couldn’t really get a read on it and shrugged it off as her own special strangeness. And it’s understandable that he came to that conclusion that it’s just her, given that she’s also shy and quiet with everyone else, though it’s never as strong with them as it is when he’s around and smiling at her.

After the confession, he might have been able to understand a lot of previous events in a new light, had he taken the time to focus and think back. But, by that point in the story, events were happening too quickly for him to really take the time to reflect on much beyond the current moment’s trouble. Even when the war is done, Naruto is playing an active role in world affairs, studying to become a Jounin, and working his way toward being a Hokage. He just didn’t slow down enough to even remotely examine his feelings or let hers really sink in. It’s even possible that he forgot her confession in the midst of the hundreds of other things going on.

The secondary answer is directly related: the story got too big to fit it in. Just as Naruto himself is sucked into events that are so large and world-threatening that he can’t really take the time to think about her confession, Kishimoto found the need to keep the plot moving slowly squeezing any thoughts of a romance off the pages. He wanted to develop both Sakura and Hinata more thoroughly. He wanted them to be more involved. But in the end, he couldn’t figure out a way to do it during the events of a war involving almost every person of legend in the ninja world. There was no time to sort things out and regroup for the main character, and in the last third of the series that’s directly centered on world politics, war, and the Naruto-Sasuke rivalry, there was no time for him to develop the women’s characters and friendships with Naruto the way he’d desired to.

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