so I see a lot of fans, be it naruhina, narusaku, sasusaku, etc talking about Minato's comment to Sakura/Naruto. a lot of people are of the mind that Naruto understood it as 'girl friend', as in friend who is a girl, or Minato meant that.
no.
I snagged this from tumblr; it's a japanese narrative on what was actually said.
"In Japanese we don't have a word that can be used for both "girlfriend" AND a "friend who's a girl".
Besides I read the raw. Minato said 『もしかして…ナルトの彼女かな?』
This cannot be translated anything other than girlfri