Between Naruto and Boruto, one of the central couples of the anime has always been Naruto and Hinata. Initially, Naruto had a resilient, irrational crush on Sakura. This created an unnecessary love triangle of sorts between him, Sakura, and Sasuke. However, in the background, sweet and shy Hinata always pined for the headstrong, blonde-haired boy.
Though she harbored deep feelings for him since the moment they met, she doesn’t admit these feelings until his life is in serious danger. And even after that, it takes even more time for the pair to finally get together. When The Last: Naruto The Movie came out, the pair officially were dating and, eventually, married.
In Boruto, Naruto and Hinata are the parents of the protagonist, Boruto, and his little sister Himawari. As parents, they serve very different roles. Hinata stays home loving and supporting them and Naruto is the Hokage. Despite any home problems they struggle through in Boruto, though, they are by far one of the most beloved couples of both series.
Even though they’re beloved, though, that doesn’t mean Naruto and Hinata are perfect. Sure, they have less problems than Sakura and Sasuke, but there are still some things about them that make fans scratch their heads.
Here are 25 Things That Don’t Make Sense About Naruto And Hinata’s Relationship.
The Questionable Way They Raise Naruto
Of course, kids can be hard to control. Hinata and Naruto can’t be blamed for all their kids’ mishaps (particularly Boruto.) However, Naruto struggles to remember to give his kids any priority and Hinata does nothing to scold him. At best, she gives him sad looks.
Considering how much they both felt like outsiders, you’d think they’d put extra care into making their kids feel loved and supported. Instead, Hinata is way too passive about their behavior and Naruto just isn’t even there most times. Do all Konoha parents need to go to a parenting seminar?
Hinata Falling In Love With Naruto So Quickly
Young crushes don’t take a long time A kid can meet someone and be 100% doe-eyed over them. When it comes to Hinata, though, she took it to another level. Merely hours after really meeting Naruto, she says he’s the person she’d want to be with if the world ended tomorrow. Not her beloved sister or her family— Naruto.
Having a serious crush fits how young kids express romantic feelings. Meanwhile, Hinata jumps way too deep and decides she’s madly in love with Naruto here and forever even though she’s barely spoken to him and doesn’t speak to him until years later. Poor girl needs to chill out.
Naruto’s Long-Term Crush On Sakura
Throughout most of Naruto, Naruto has an irrational, lingering crush on Sakura. Crushes and feelings do what they do, but it doesn’t make sense for Naruto to be persistent about it. She uses him to fill her Sasuke void, but she doesn’t love him and they’ve only ever been good at being friends. As he matured, he should have realized how his crush wasn’t really based on anything real. After all, he knew she didn’t love him when she tried to ask him out seriously.
In that three year gap apart, and knowing she never liked him that way, he definitely should have moved on.
Their Children’s Personalities
Generally, when a couple has kids, they spread out the personality traits fairly evenly. Of course, one kid or another might lean towards a certain parent, but they still get some traits from the other adult.
In the Uzumaki household, both kids seem to take heavily from Naruto. Both are outspoken, emotional, and true to themselves. Himawari may be softer like Hinata, but otherwise they are very much fiery, Uzumaki children. This especially is baffling when Naruto is such an absent father. They definitely should have taken after their mother a little more.
The Last: Naruto The Movie Takes Way Too Long To Acknowledge Hinata’s Confession
During Pain’s assault, he knocks Naruto down. Out of love and desperation, Hinata stands herself between the two ninja. While doing this, Hinata finally confesses her love to Naruto, saying she’d gladly give up her life to save him. Pain knocks her down with ease, but it inspires Naruto to defeat him.
The Last: Naruto The Movie spends most of the film ignoring this exchange. Naruto acts like he doesn’t know she loves him, and Hinata acts like she hasn’t confessed yet. Even when Naruto acknowledges the scene in a flashback, it’s much deeper into the movie. When Hinata spoke very plainly about her feelings, it doesn’t make sense for any of that to happen.
Naruto Fangirls
After the Fourth Shinobi War, Naruto has accumulated a bunch of fangirls giving him gifts. While it makes a lot of sense for him to have a lot more positive attention, the ferocity of his fans is a little wild. Sure, he’s a powerful hero, but Jiraiya, Kakashi, and others who are also powerful heroes never got this kind of crazed praise.
Furthermore, after Hinata’s confession and support through the war, it’s absurd so much time is spent on him with these girls. It’s about time he get with the sweet Hyuga, not open hordes of presents.
Young Hinata Waiting So Long To Talk To Naruto
According to The Last: Naruto The Movie, Hinata has adored Naruto since she was a very young kid. However, in the series, they make it clear that they didn’t really talk otherwise until the Chunin Exams. Yes, Hinata was a quiet, reserved young girl. There’s a determination and strength hidden in her, though. Even if she wasn’t loud about it, it doesn’t make sense for her not to have tried to be close to him before then.
Furthermore, outsiders attract outsiders. If they were like the average kid, they definitely would have stayed good friends from that bullying day on.
Kids Bullying Hinata For Her Eyes
In Naruto, Hinata is a member of the powerful and esteemed Hyuga clan. They are defined by their eyes, the cloudy Byakugan that is the source of their strength. With such a fearsome and esteemed family, it would make sense if they were respected around the village. If anyone slighted a Hyuga, especially one from the head family, they’d face the wrath of the whole clan.
However, somehow, these bullies are able to bully her, and for the eyes that make her clan so intimidating. It’s very on-brand for the young Hinata not to stand up for herself, but for them to thoughtlessly make fun of a Hyuga? That doesn’t make any sense at all.
Hinata Getting Jealous Over A Scarf
When Naruto saved little Hinata from bullies, they absolutely destroyed his red scarf. Many years later, Hinata works very hard to make a replacement for him. Problems arise, though, when he starts wearing a new, blue scarf she doesn’t know anything about. She becomes very self-conscious and jealous of it.
While that could make sense for the average teen girl, Hinata always just wanted Naruto to be happy. For lack of a better term, she’s not the jealous type. So for her to get all flustered and upset about a different scarf is out of character, especially since it’s nothing romantic and Naruto never says it is.
Not Talking About Toneri’s Plot Before Hinata Was Taken
Toneri is very likely the worst person at proposing. After all, he proposed to Hinata by threatening her sister’s life. He’s the main problem in The Last: Naruto The Movie, trying to use Hinata’s Byagukan powers for his own gain.
Though he forces Hinata’s hand, she had time before he took her. She could have easily informed her ninja comrades of his plan so that they’d come to his domain more prepared. And, of course, to make sure Naruto knew that she really wasn’t choosing moon boy over him.
However, no one seems to think things through that sensibly when hostage siblings are on the line.
Hinata’s Physical Weakness
As a member of the Hyuga clan, Hinata is innately stronger than the average ninja. However, between her insecurities and shyness, struggles for a long time to tap into that potential.
Even once she understands her strengths better, though, she’s not nearly as strong as she should be. Against Pain, of course she still wasn’t strong enough to defeat him. Instead of him swatting her like a fly, though, she should have been able to put up a fight for a little while. Sometimes her weakness simply makes no sense.
Naruto’s Romantic Denseness
Sakura often talks about Naruto’s romantic denseness, especially with Hinata. After all, he spends a very long time completely clueless about the girl who openly likes him.
However, at the same time, Naruto is romantically intelligent to know Sakura doesn’t love him. He even refuses her affections when she tries to pretend she does want him that way. That’s not something a clueless man does. Someone clueless would have accepted her offer and only realized something was wrong later.
Overall, his denseness is very sporadic and only used when it’s convenient, so it’s a stupid excuse.
They Support Sasuke And Sakura’s Relationship
While watching the main characters of Naruto fall in love excited most fans, many were less excited about some of the pairings. In particular, Sakura and Sasuke. When they wanted to see him redeemed and grow, they didn’t quite see him as a married family-man. Ultimately, Sasuke didn’t end up one, still a lone ninja on missions, but he did marry.
Considering Sasuke and Sakura barely spend time together, he doesn’t show her any affection, and basically just married her to restart the Uchiha clan; it’s not the greatest relationship. Regardless, Hinata and Naruto still support them. If Naruto really wanted Sasuke to normalize, maybe he should sensibly start with his marriage.
Them Not Being On A Team Together
When the genin teams were formed, the teachers chose them for people that fit well together. Understandably, that led to a new Shika-Ino-Cho situation. However, there are some decisions that fans can debate. For example, Sakura fits with Sasuke and Naruto because she’s prone to intelligence and eventually healing. However, wouldn’t an even better support have worked better for them? Not only could Hinata be a perfect scout, but she could block chakras for them and even offer a bit of medical ninjutsu.
With the two most offense-based, headstrong ninjas, a true support would have been a much better fit. However, instead Sakura ends up on their team.
Hinata’s Out Of Character, Mid-War Slap
During the Fourth Shinobi War, Obito tries to fatally attack Naruto and Neji sacrifices himself instead. Making an example out of Neji, Obito tries to get the Naruto to give in. After all, his friends are losing their lives to protect him.
While he’s freaking out, Hinata decides to knock him out of it by slapping his face. Though it’s not a hard slap, it’s a slap nonetheless. Sure, she needed to get his attention, but a slap is very unlike Hinata. Her personality is not fierce or aggressive enough for that. Something more supportive would have made more sense. Grabbing his hand or touching his face would have been more fitting.
Naruto Thinking Hinata Really Rejected His Confession
In The Last: Naruto The Movie, the main ninja conflict is Toneri interfering with the Hyuga women in hopes to obtain all Byakugan control. Somehow, through marriage to Hinata, the “Byakugan Princess”, he can achieve this. By kidnapping her little sister Hanabi and threatening her friends, he convinces her to go with him.
Unfortunately, she leaves during Naruto’s love confession and he thinks she’s rejected him.
However, if Naruto had a single brain cell he’d know years of adoration, protection, support, and her love confession don’t just go away. He should have known something was up, but instead he illogically just got sad.
Hinata Letting Naruto Cheat Off Her Chunin Exam
One of the first times Hinata and Naruto interact in Naruto is during the Chunin Exams. Seeing his frustration and panic with his blank sheet, Hinata offers to let Naruto cheat off her written exam. At first, Naruto thinks this is a trick, but quickly realizes it’s just Hinata being a kind person.
Despite her feelings for Naruto, this was possibly the stupidest way to get a boy to notice her. Not only could it get her and her team disqualified from the exams, but she didn’t know too much about Naruto at this point. That’s way too much trust in a strange, eleven year old boy.
Their “Gaze Of Truth” Thing They Have With Each Other
Later, in Naruto: Shippuden, fans discover that Hinata and Naruto are able to tell when they are real or fake. For example, when Naruto uses all his shadow clones, she always knows which one is the real Naruto. They say they can figure it out when they look into each others’ eyes.
Though it’s a cute, romantic message, it’s a little silly. First of all, it’s hard to catch the eye of every shadow clone when Naruto commonly makes at least 100 of them. And secondly, it would have been cleverer if Hinata just trained her eyes to be able to see it because of a chakra anomaly in the original or something.
Hinata’s Fainting Issues
After Hinata fights Neji in the Chunin Exams, she faints during the final tournament rounds. From then on, she has a problem with fainting and it’s a bit weird. It makes sense in that situation, her internal wounds were still pretty serious, but by Shippuden, she’ll faint at the sight of Naruto. Not only is that inconvenient but also mildly annoying.
Of course, it’s mostly played as a gag, showing off just how shy and anxious her Naruto crush makes her feel. When she’s younger, it’s even sort of cute. Yet as she reaches young adulthood, it’s just kinda awkward. Hinata is an adult and deserves better than childish fainting.
Their Rushed Courtship
In The Last: Naruto The Movie, Hinata and Naruto finally admit their feelings for each other and go in for the kiss. Only a few months later, the pair are getting married already.
With all the time they spent together as kids and how close they already were, it makes sense that they would get even closer very quickly. However, it still all seems a bit rushed. You’d think they’d want to enjoy their new relationship before making it too serious. At least they aren’t Sakura and Sasuke, though, who walk off in the forest one day and get married and have a kid.
