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What characteristic of Sakura makes Naruto like her? She was very useless in
the original Naruto, and she is in love with Sasuke. Not to mention, she did
not have anything traumatic in her childhood, unlike Hinata, who actually
liked Naruto from the beginning.

Also Naruto nearly unleashed the nine tails for Hinata, but still said Sakura
was sort of his girlfriend.

Did I miss something here? What did Sakura do to get Naruto to like her? I am
only looking for canon answers.


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Is there a canon explanation as to why Naruto still likes Sakura?


I don't think there can be a canon answer to this because it is not something
shown/talked about in either the manga or anime. However, when you were young
what did your crushes do to get you to have a crush on them? I know in my
case, almost nothing. They just had to be attractive. My guess that is true
for Naruto as well.


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He liked Sakura for years, she wasn't a bad girl or anything and she'd be
willing to die for Naruto as well. How many people fall for others just
because they liked you? While Hinata liked him, she really wasn't that close
to him. She was willing to die for him, but so were most of the Leaf. He
really seemed to love Sakura even though she might not like him, so if he
really cared for her, then it'd make no sense for him to quickly get over her.
Naruto isn't fickle, and Hinata wasn't really his type (he seems to like the
tsundere and girl with back bone; if Hinata did have that back bone in the
beginning, then she wouldn't have fallen for Naruto because the only reason
she fell for Naruto was cause he was a fellow loser, except unlike her, he
never gave up).

Also as a child, Sakura was ostracized (like Naruto but not to nearly the same
extent) for something outside of her power and then was rescued by one person
showing kindness to her and befriending her.

Another reason for Naruto to still like Sakura is because she will try almost
anything to protect him. While her fake confession was mean, she did it to
protect him, and she was willing to try and kill Sasuke when he joined
Akatsuki (an organization that wanted to kill Naruto).

While she couldn't kill Sasuke, it didn't exactly have to mean that she still
liked him; it could just be because she liked him for 5 years and then he
became a part of her family (Team 7) so she couldn't kill him because of who
he used to be (before Itachi mind raped him a 2nd time, he was actually a
pretty good kid, though he was anti-social). So Naruto might feel that he
still has a chance.

There could be a lot of reasons for Naruto to like Sakura and pick her over
Hinata. These are a few I could think of. It's not like anything I'm shipping
is possible anyways.


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Naruto loves and desires Sakura because she is an average ninja girl. Naruto
wants all the leaf village to look up to him and select him as Hokage one day
for one reason--- so that he will be accepted and respected by the leaf
village. Everyone must accept the Hokage, and most will respect the Hokage.

Therefore, a goal/milestone along that path of becoming Hokage is to get the
most average ninja in his grade to "believe in him". If he can convince the
average leaf ninja to accept him, he will have achieved his life long goal of
being accepted by the leaf village, rather than ostracised. This is the
original drive behind his crush on Sakura and his desire for her to love him.

Afterward, there is all the mutual experiences and mutual bonding from being
in the same teams together through so much stress and trying times.


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