Well, if every one actually read the manga with no biases, people will understand that Kishimoto’s direction for Naruto has been more towards Hinata. When Hinata said that one day, she’ll be standing next to Naruto, holding his hand kinda gave it away. Kishimoto won’t put all of Hinata’s inner monologues about Naruto on a panel if if they weren’t hinting something important. Though we didn’t get something like that from Naruto about Hinata, we also didn’t see anything from Sakura. So with all the epic Hinata-confession, her strong declarations of future with Naruto, speech that brought Naruto back to his senses during the war, holding each other’s hand, Naruto thanking Hinata specifically for standing by his side, it’s clear that if Naruto gets to be with somebody at the end, it would be Hinata. The problem is, some people had been so affected by their preference, they didn’t recognize any of this.