History Characters / NarutoOtherTeamSevenMembers

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TheChick of Team 7. [[TriangRelations Naruto has a one-sided crush on her, while she loves Sasuke]]. She would eventually become Sasuke's wife and Sarada Uchiha's mother. Sakura herself is an intelligent, gifted ''kunoichi'' from Konoha. Unlike most other ninja in the series, she has no unique skills of her own, using only standard ninja techniques and her brains. As a result, during Part I, she mostly sits on the sidelines. After failing to prevent her first love Sasuke's defection, and seeing a badly injured Naruto in the hospital, she concludes that she can't leave things like this, and apprentices herself to Princess Tsunade with the intent of no longer being a burden.

TheChick of Team 7. [[TriangRelations Naruto has a one-sided crush on her, while she loves Sasuke]]. Sakura herself is an intelligent, gifted ''kunoichi'' from Konoha. Unlike most other ninja in the series, she has no unique skills of her own, using only standard ninja techniques and her brains. As a result, during Part I, she mostly sits on the sidelines. After failing to prevent her first love Sasuke's defection, and seeing a badly injured Naruto in the hospital, she concludes that she can't leave things like this, and apprentices herself to Princess Tsunade with the intent of no longer being a burden.

->''I've always considered myself to be a true ninja… but those were just empty words, because Sasuke and Naruto were always in the lead! [[LetsGetDangerous But now it's my turn to take the lead, and all of you can watch me from the background]]!''

->''[[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than scum]].''

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->''I've drawn hundreds, maybe thousands of pictures so far… other pictures have the situation at the time, and the artist's feelings… like portraits have the person's name… but don't pictures usually have titles…? To be more precise, even if I try to give them titles, I just can't do it. [[EmotionSuppression I don't feel anything… they don't put me in mind of anything]].''

* TranquilFury: What happens when he ''truly'' gets pissed.

[[center: [- [[Characters/{{Naruto}} Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/NarutoNarutoUzumaki Naruto Uzumaki]] | [[Characters/NarutoSasukeUchiha Sasuke Uchiha]] | '''Team 7 Other Members''' | [[Characters/NarutoTeamEightMembers Team 8 Members]] | [[Characters/NarutoTeamTenMembers Team 10 Members]] | [[Characters/NarutoTeamGuyMembers Team Guy Members]] | [[Characters/NarutoTheLegendarySannin The Legendary Sannin]] | [[Characters/NarutoHokages Hokages]] | [[Characters/NarutoTheUchihaClan The Uchiha Clan]] | [[Characters/NarutoOtherLeafVillageMembers Other Leaf Village members]] | [[Characters/NarutoTheNewEra The New Era]] | [[Characters/NarutoHiddenSandVillage Hidden Sand Village]] | [[Characters/NarutoHiddenMistVillage Hidden Mist Village]] | [[Characters/NarutoHiddenCloudVillage Hidden Cloud Village]] | [[Characters/NarutoHiddenStoneVillage Hidden Stone Village]] | [[Characters/NarutoHiddenSoundVillage Hidden Sound Village]] | [[Characters/NarutoAkatsuki Akatsuki]] | [[Characters/NarutoItachiUchiha Itachi Uchiha]] | [[Characters/NarutoObitoUchiha Tobi]] | [[Characters/NarutoNagato Pain/Nagato]] | [[Characters/NarutoMadaraUchiha Madara Uchiha]] | [[Characters/NarutoOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | [[Characters/NarutoTaka Hebi/Taka]] | [[Characters/NarutoTailedBeasts Tailed Beasts and their Hosts]] | [[Characters/NarutoOtsutsukiClan Otsutsuki Clan]] | [[Characters/NarutoAnimeOnly Anime-only characters]] | [[Characters/NarutoMoviesOnly Movie-only characters]] | [[Characters/NarutoNovelsOnly Novel-only characters]] | [[Characters/NarutoGameOnly Game-only characters]] ]] -]

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[[center: [- [[Characters/{{Naruto}} Main Character Index]] | [[Characters/NarutoNarutoUzumaki Naruto Uzumaki]] | [[Characters/NarutoSasukeUchiha Sasuke Uchiha]] | '''Team 7 Other Members''' | [[Characters/NarutoTeamEightMembers Team 8 Members]] | [[Characters/NarutoTeamTenMembers Team 10 Members]] | [[Characters/NarutoTeamGuyMembers Team Guy Members]] | [[Characters/NarutoTheLegendarySannin The Legendary Sannin]] | [[Characters/NarutoHokages Hokages]] | [[Characters/NarutoTheUchihaClan The Uchiha Clan]] | [[Characters/NarutoOtherLeafVillageMembers Other Leaf Village members]] | [[Characters/NarutoTheNewEra The New Era]] | [[Characters/NarutoHiddenSandVillage Hidden Sand Village]] | [[Characters/NarutoHiddenMistVillage Hidden Mist Village]] | [[Characters/NarutoHiddenCloudVillage Hidden Cloud Village]] | [[Characters/NarutoHiddenStoneVillage Hidden Stone Village]] | [[Characters/NarutoHiddenSoundVillage Hidden Sound Village]] | [[Characters/NarutoAkatsuki Akatsuki]] | [[Characters/NarutoItachiUchiha Itachi Uchiha]] | [[Characters/NarutoObitoUchiha Tobi]] | [[Characters/NarutoMadaraUchiha Madara Uchiha]] | [[Characters/NarutoOtherCharacters Other Characters]] | [[Characters/NarutoTaka Hebi/Taka]] | [[Characters/NarutoTailedBeasts Tailed Beasts and their Hosts]] | [[Characters/NarutoOtsutsukiClan Otsutsuki Clan]] | [[Characters/NarutoAnimeOnly Anime-only characters]] | [[Characters/NarutoMoviesOnly Movie-only characters]] | [[Characters/NarutoNovelsOnly Novel-only characters]] | [[Characters/NarutoGameOnly Game-only characters]] ]] -]

[[header:Team 7]]

!!Members at the start of the story

!!Members joined after TimeSkip

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum."

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: "In the ninja world, those who break the rules are scum, that's true, but those who abandon their friends are worse than scum."

* WellDoneSonGuy: Kakashi seeks the approval of his "dead" friend, Obito, to such an extent that Kakashi's entire life revolves around him. After Obito "died", Kakashi idealized him to the point that he adopted an entirely new personality and mannerisms to emulate and memorialize his best friend. His pathological lateness is even attributed to him spending three hours straight at the Memorial Stone ''every single day'', staring at Obito's name (and Rin's and his sensei's, but mainly Obito's). While his promise to be Obito's eyes is the only reason he bothers to continue living, that promise is why "Kakashi" and "functioning individual" are the farthest thing away from synonymous. So, rather understandably, Kakashi... [[{{Understatement}} did not take it well]] when he learned what ''really'' [[FaceHeelTurn happened]] [[LoveMakesYouEvil to]] [[BigBad Obito]].

!!!'''Debut:''' ''Naruto'' Chapter 284 (Manga), ''Naruto Shippuden'' Episode 34 (Anime)

!!!'''Debut:''' ''Naruto'' Chapter 281 (Manga), ''Naruto Shippuden'' Episode 32 (Anime)

!!!Voiced by: Creator/RikiyaKoyama (JP), Creator/TroyBaker (EN, episodes 34-229), Creator/MatthewMercer (EN, episodes 230+), Francisco Javier Martínez (Spain), Jorge Ornelas (Latin America), Laurent Van Wetter (French)

!!!Voiced by: Creator/SatoshiHino (JP), Creator/BenjaminDiskin (EN), Ángel Coomonte (Spain), Miguel Ángel Leal (Latin America), Maxime Donnay (French)

!!!Voiced by: Creator/ChieNakamura (JP), Creator/KateHiggins (main series), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (''Manga/RockLeesSpringtimeOfYouth'') (EN), Christine Byrd (Latin America), Pilar Martín (Spain), Maia Baran (French), Nathalie Hugo (French, replacement voice)

!!!Voiced by: Creator/KazuhikoInoue (JP), Creator/KenichiSuzumura (Sukea), Creator/MutsumiTamura (child; Anime/NarutoShippudenTheMovieTheLostTower onward), Creator/DaveWittenberg (main series), Creator/KyleHebert (''Rock Lee's Springtime of Youth'') (EN), [[Creator/AlfonsoObregonInclan Alfonso Obregón-Inclán]] (Latin America), Juan Antonio Arroyo (Spain), Lionel Bourguet (French, 1st voice), Jean-Michel Vovk (French, 2nd voice)

* {{Hypocrite}}: He gave Sasuke lecture about not seeking revenge on Itachi for his clanmates since this will lead him to nothing good. However later Kakashi was perfectly content with letting Team 10 seek revenge on Hidan after he killed Asuma and even convinced Tsunade to let them go.

*** Also, while she does become nicer to Naruto, the Five Kage Summit arc proves that they barely know anything about each other. After Naruto [[ShipSinking outright rejects]] Sakura's infamous [[FalseConfession fake love confession]] in Chapter 469, he claims that he thought he knew her better than to lie about her feelings in Chapter 470. She retorts that he doesn't know anything about her, and he ''does not'' deny this, which confirms that they're not very close after all. [[FridgeBrilliance This actually explains]] why he never once acknowledges her as his best friend and why they always [[LockedOutOfTheLoop lock each other out of the loop]] and [[PoorCommunicationKills display poor communication skills]] with each other.

* CondescendingCompassion: She can be this way at times, ''especially'' with Naruto. Even after she genuinely became nicer to him, she tended to make it hard to tell if she was being sincere or [[ButtMonkey making him the butt of her jokes]]. It was often PlayedForLaughs, but in reality it was a FatalFlaw. This was first apparent when she didn't want to see Naruto's dream of becoming Hokage get crushed; she called it an "''impossible'' dream," which ultimately shows that she actually doesn't have that much faith in him achieving that dream. This was most notable when she delivered her infamous [[FalseConfession fake love confession]] in Chapter 469: Despite her good intentions, she was being incredibly condescending as she claimed that she ''only now'' loved Naruto for '''the hero''' he became ''after'' he defeated Pain, rather than '''the person''' he ''always'' was and ''always'' will be. This is why he was able to easily see right through her, [[WhatTheHellHero call her out for lying]], [[ShipSinking reject her outright]] by telling her that he '''hates''' people who lie to themselves, and renew his promise to bring Sasuke back ''not'' for her anymore, but for [[TrueCompanions his own reasons]].

* ManipulativeBitch: In the aforementioned 2010 Jump Festa interview, [[WordOfGod Kishimoto]] reveals that he intentionally {{Enforced|Trope}} this with Sakura in Chapter 469, when she gives Naruto her infamous [[FalseConfession fake love confession]]. {{Defied|Trope}} because every single person present, including Naruto, sees right through this and knows that she's lying. [[WhatTheHellHero Naruto calls her out on this]], [[ShipSinking rejects her outright]] by telling her that he '''hates''' people who lie to themselves, and breaks his promise to her.
-->'''Sakura's Voice Actress:''' With the latest developments, Sakura has...\\
'''Kishimoto:''' That chick is detestable for using Naruto's good will, but, well that's just how I'd think to write a realistic girl. You hear all the time that Sakura is a detestable person, but that's what seems to be the intention.

** ''Never'' diss her forehead or call her ugly, and Naruto shouldn't lie about [[LikeBrotherAndSister their platonic relationship]] while she's trying to heal him, even if, in retrospect, he was put on the spot and didn't actually know how to answer. Nor should he (or anyone else for that matter) underestimate her.

** [[{{Inverted|Trope}} Inverted because the development isn't always for the best]]. Sakura always has the bad habit of thinking she knew better than the people around her to the point where she disregards their input completely, which often leads to disastrous results:
*** Such as preparing to give up the Chunin Exams test in place of Naruto because she thought he wouldn't make the decision on his own, so she'd do it herself to save his pride. Fortunately, Naruto spoke up before she got them disqualified.
*** The development to not stay on the sidelines brings this quality more forward as she would later drug her entire team because she wanted to face Sasuke alone, and she knew they would try to stop her from going on what's essentially a suicide mission, instead of working together as a team. To put in perspective with the above, yes she does try to provide a distraction, but she plans this out only a few feet away from Naruto and Sasuke and makes '''no''' attempt at all to let them in on the plan or to ask what they think. They're just as surprised as Madara was by the distraction, and when she's ''immediately'' defeated, [[DamselInDistress they both have to jump in to save her]]. So she was as every bit as distracting to ''her own team'' as she was to her target. Her failed attempt to distract Madara proves to be more of a LeeroyJenkins moment than a HeroicSacrifice, and it reaffirms her continual statuses as a FauxActionGirl and TheLoad.
*** Likewise, while she isn't repressing "Inner Sakura" anymore, "Inner Sakura" was her angry, violent, and jealous emotions personified. Instead of repressing and controlling those emotions, she expresses them by shouting at and punching people, along with being incredibly condescending and more sensitive to guilt and shame. In all cases, Naruto is often the unfortunate target. ''Even her own daughter'' is not immune to this, as shown in ''Manga/NarutoGaiden'': in Chapter 1 of ''Gaiden'', when Sarada wants to know more about her father [[spoiler:Sasuke]], and Sarada points out that her mother doesn't know even the most basic information about him, Sakura angrily punches and breaks her and Sarada's house, which makes Sarada cry. To top it off, Sakura hadn't even paid off her loan for that house yet.
*** Also, while she does become nicer to Naruto, the Five Kage Summit arc proves that they barely know anything about each other. After Naruto [[ShipSinking outright rejects]] Sakura's infamous [[FalseConfession fake love confession]] in Chapter 469, he claims that he thought he knew her better than to lie about her feelings in Chapter 470. She retorts that he doesn't know anything about her, and he ''does not'' deny this, which confirms that they're not very close after all. [[FridgeBrilliance This actually explains]] why he never once acknowledges her as his best friend and why they always [[LockedOutOfTheLoop lock each other out of the loop]] and [[PoorCommunicationKills display poor communication skills]] with each other.

* FauxActionGirl: Out of all the kunoichi in the series, Sakura suffers from this the most, largely because she's constantly compared to Naruto and Sasuke, whose random power-ups become downright gratuitous towards the end, whereas she is mostly relegated by [[WordOfGod Kishimoto himself]] to cheering for them from the sidelines, crying and relying on them, and ''sometimes'' distracting the enemy solely to give them a chance to do all the fighting. It doesn't help that she never informs her team of any of her plans and she ignores anyone who tells her ''not'' to do something, [[DamselInDistress which constantly forces them to save her]]. Even Kishimoto and [[WordOfStPaul his assistant]] admit that Sakura's not a good heroine:
-->([[http://web.archive.org/web/20141021073730/https://narutochapter.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/interview-masashi-kishimoto-jump-festa-2010/ 2010 Jump Festa interview]])
--->'''Kishimoto:''' Honestly, from the standpoint of showing a female-like disposition, [Sakura] hasn't been much of a heroine. You could even say that Hinata's more of a heroine than her.
-->(2012 Jump Festa interview)
--->'''Kishimoto:''' Next year [2013] I'll write about Kakashi first, then about Sasuke and then about Naruto.\\
'''Sakura's Voice Actress:''' What about Sakura?!\\
'''Kishimoto:''' Sakura, well...well, [[OutOfFocus she slipped my mind]].
-->(Comments on Twitter regarding ''The Last'', posted 2014 and quickly deleted to no avail)
--->'''Kishimoto's Assistant:''' Why are people making a racket and asking if Hinata is going to be the heroine in this movie? Maybe because until now there hasn't been a heroine. [...] Sakura isn't the heroine! That's what I've been saying since a long time ago. I've been hearing the man himself [Kishimoto] say that ''Naruto'' doesn't have a heroine from before 2010.

* SingleTargetSexuality: She never developed romantic feelings for any other man except one: Sasuke Uchiha. Even though his FaceHeelTurn hurts her so much that she is not sure if she still loves him or not, and even though she somehow goes back and forth between wanting him to return or wanting to kill him, overall she cannot bring herself to stop loving him.

* SmittenTeenageGirl: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Most notably at the beginning of the series, but she never really loses this trait. Yes, she's got a huge crush on Sasuke, but her feelings has brought the poor girl ''many'' problems considering how she can't let go of her feelings despite knowing that Sasuke is too far gone. This can also be seen as LoveMakesYouDumb. On the other hand, given that Sasuke actually tries to kill her twice when they're enemies, it is rather bizarre that her crush survives into adulthood. [[spoiler:They even end up an OfficialCouple and have a daughter as adults]].

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!!Yamato/Tenzou

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