User blog comment:SoulRise99/HISHE: How Fairy Tail Should Have Ended/@comment-216.67.27.86-20170729184254/@comment-7418318-20170801192835

No...

Anyone who looked at either NaLu or NaruSaku objectively saw that those pairings had little to no chance from the get-go.

People were seeing (or rather tryng shoe-horn in) romantic situations because they so desperately wanted them to be there, not because they actually were there.