"Me?"
Naruto froze at Hawking's question.
Sakura... when he was little, he had indeed liked Sakura. She was cute, did well in school, had a warm family, and possessed beautiful pink hair.
Unfortunately, Sakura liked Sasuke.
After they entered Team 7 together, he still liked Sakura, even though she had always rejected him.
Then Sasuke left Konoha, and Naruto went out training with Jiraiya.
During those three years of traveling and training, he saw much more with Jiraiya, thought much more, and grew a great deal.
Perhaps he still had some feelings for Sakura deep down, but more than that, it was for the promise that he would bring Sasuke back, for Team 7 to reunite, and for his companion Sasuke to return.
Until the Fourth Shinobi World War, he had thought that the person he liked in his heart was still Sakura.
But after falling under the Infinite Tsukuyomi, he discovered that in the perfect life he wanted most in the Infinite Tsukuyomi world, the wife he married was not Sakura.
In the Genjutsu world of the Infinite Tsukuyomi, his parents had not died, he had become Konoha's Hokage, and his wife was unexpectedly that very introverted girl, Hinata Hyuga.
Why Hinata?
He could not figure it out.
Was it because, ever since he had met Hinata, she had never looked at him as though he were a monster or mocked him?
Was it because during the Chunin Exams, Hinata had risked being discovered and failing the exam just to let him copy her answers?
Was it because every time he was hurt, Hinata worried about him and took care of him?
Was it because whenever they carried out missions together, Hinata would specially make him a bento, even shaping the rice balls to look like him?
Or was