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Naruto's ninja way is to never give up and he takes this very seriously. It would of been in character for Naruto to trigger the 9 tails when pain would try and take him away by thinking about the village, the people that died (including Jiraiya) and his dream to become Hokage.
Hinata intervened at the last possible second.
Pain's talk-no-jutsu was powerful enough to suppress any internal triggers for Naruto's release of the fox.
Further, thinking on people like Jiraiya and his nindo would not have prompted -rage-; what was necessary to unleash the Fox, particularly given the ongoing theme of him accessing the fox being submission to anger and rage.
Hinata's nindo is also to never go back on her word - to never 'give up.' Neji still won his match against her. Pain still blasted her into the ground. No amount of "never give up" could change those outcomes.
Naruto required the external intervention.
Hinata's "death" was the way it happened but the main savior here is Minato, no doubt. sorry for the bad english :S
That logic makes Jiraiya the main villain - as he's the one who made possible the whole encounter; from training Nagato and Naruto to giving him access to the seal used on the fox to giving Naruto the hint on how to defeat Pain...
Hinata saved Naruto from losing to pain. Naruto saved the village from Pain. Minato saved Naruto from the fox.
Let's not get the causes and effects turned around, here.