Talk:Adam Taurus/@comment-28171999-20190414193055/@comment-26018514-20190415065457

Neji's death was hardly about Naru/Hina too, I mean sure, it probably didn't hurt, and it definitely made Hinata step up during the war, but it was more about making the stakes clear for everyone, the only ones they could have killed in the Konoha 11 remaining who were stronger would have been Sasuke, Sai, or maybe Shino. Neji just happened to be the most expendable of the 4.

Naru/Hina had been heavily indicated long before then, starting with the Pain fight, and the story still didn't push them together until somewhat after the war so you can't even claim his death was the strongest catalyst.

Wanting to redeem/make a happy ending for Sasuke had more to do with Naru/Hina than anything, as his only prospects would have been Sakura/Karin, and the latter was probably out of the game after he told the former to murder her to prove herself.