Discussion Characters / NarutoOtherTeamSevenMembers

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• Manipulative Bitch: In the aforementioned 2010 Jump Festa interview, Kishimoto reveals that he intentionally Enforced this with Sakura in Chapter 469, when she gives Naruto her infamous fake love confession. Defied because every single person present, including Naruto, sees right through this and knows that she's lying. Naruto calls her out on this, 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 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.him. Nor should he (or anyone else for that matter) underestimate her.

• 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, 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 Leeroy Jenkins moment than a Heroic Sacrifice, and it reaffirms her continual statuses as a Faux Action Girl and The Load.
  • 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 Naruto Gaiden: in Chapter 1 of Gaiden, when Sarada wants to know more about her father 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 outright rejects Sakura's infamous 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. This actually explains why he never once acknowledges her as his best friend and why they always lock each other out of the loop and display poor communication skills with each other.

• Faux Action Girl: 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 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, which constantly forces them to save her. Even Kishimoto and his assistant admit that Sakura's not a good heroine:
  (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, 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.

Sakura an alpha bitch or insufferable genius at times?

Do you think it would be alright if I added that Sakura would have a bit of a over big sister protectiveness of Naruto?

This entry about Sakura Haruno is being edit warred over. Please use the discussion page to sort it out.

• Ship Sinking: Besides trying to kill her thrice and leaving her to die in a volcano, Sasuke outright rejects her last ditch confession in a brutal fashion, when called on it he makes it bluntly clear he has no interest in her and dismisses her feelings as fantasy.

should we de-spoiler things already on crunchyroll, i.e. things that have to do with Sasuke rejoining the team