Yeah, I think if Joss had know that he was going to have that little time to end the show, he would have done something different with them. Maybe not, though, he does hate relationships that end well.

And Jiraiya and Tsunade are the best romantic relationship Kishimoto ever wrote.

And Sai is SO crushing on Sakura. I love how SHE was the one who came out to ask him about his paintings and not Naruto, with his crazy ninja powers of friendship. ^_^

Notice also that he calls Ino beautiful. ;)

I do, and in my head, that is a brutal dig at her features the neither Ino nor Sakura cottons on to.