I just watched the Naruto Hinata episode and it's another retcon
Wait? Didn't in an earlier filler they show The Third deliver personally Naruto's monthly allowance? I recall Naruto even asked the third about his parents which Sarutobi refused to answer. So they are erasing their own filler to make nH bits have more of an impact. By showing he had NO ONE before hinata. Not the Third. Not Iruka. Not even Sasuke.
They are using Neji and Neji's dad's death one) to show that hinata does have emotions beyond obsessing about Naruto, and two) to add more impact to the nH.
So Hinata didn't fall in love with Naruto when she was six or eight. She fell in love with him before she was even three years old. Remember Neji got the seal and Hinata was kidnapped on hinata's third birthday, or did the writers forget about that?