I love Naruto but not as good as I love him for 15-long years. I only knew him this year (2014) due to One Piece anime.
His one of my fave characters that gave me inspirations and I honored him more and more while watching the series and reading the completed manga. He's my salvation as well, my happiness, he made me worried sometimes when I watched him in troublesome, awkward, crying moments from his enemies and good terms in the end he won the battles because of the Never-give-up attitude and his unchangeable Ninja ways. I also made myself crying in the process when the villagers mocking him, ignored him, hate him and made him realized that he was the "monster-fox-demon" who killed many citizens in Konoha. His statement started to touch my heart little by little aside from Luffy. Not many animes will evenly catch your soul and heart for the character so i'm proud to Kishimoto for making Naruto!
Because of him, I begun to trust myself, to believe in myself that whatever the problems is, even though many will force you to not do it but as long as you know what is right, you have to face it yourself! Since Naruto was born alone all by himself and knew the pain of others while growing up, still, he is a positive thinker, bubbly, full of surprises, determined to whatever he plans, that's why i love him much more!
I only hate the anime series whenever they were 2-3 episodes of flashbacks/fillers but overall, i love how ninja works in action!
My only regret is that, I will not gonna watch the" Naruto: the Last Movie" this coming Dec 17, 2014 in the Philippines because i can't imagine Naruto will become some sort of "scumbag" here. I want him to be just the way he was for the last 15 years in the series. Because his my inspirations!
I don't know why Kishimoto made Naruto liked that. He changed the Naruto character that I love the most! Ever since many haters posted in the tumbler/blogger, I realized its a waste to watch it. Even though the writer itself considered Naruto fans wishes for Naruto-Hinata to be a couple, I hope the writer thinks more appropriate story for them but not forcing them to be a couple, NOT because of the stupid genjutsu only to easily change the heart/love of Naruto to Sakura towards Hinata. It really sad for the cute relationship that developed for Sakura and Naruto in almost 15 years in the anime series/ manga.
Well, this is just my opinion. Due to this, One Piece is still be my number 1 after all!