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Sakura Haruno (春野サクラ, Haruno Sakura) is a kunoichi of Konohagakure from Haruno family. When assigned to Team 7, Sakura had a talent for genjutsu, may even know what genjutsu is or not. After training under the Sannin Tsunade, she overcomes this, and becomes recognised as one of the greatest medical-nin in the Konohagakure.
Background []
Sakura is the only child of Mebuki and Kizashi Haruno. She had an ordinary childhood, raised by her parents without any serious tragedy or complications. When she entered Konoha's Academy, a few of the girls in her class started picking on her because of her broad forehead. Sakura tried to combat their teasing by hiding her forehead with her bangs, but this proved to the other girls that it bothered her and caused them to tease her even more. Ino Yamanaka, one of her classmates, saw this, defended Sakura from her bullies, and encouraged her to embrace her forehead rather than hide it.
Over the following years, Ino's guidance and friendship helped Sakura become comfortable with herself and develop into her own person. Though she felt indebted to Ino for helping her, Sakura began to feel that she was living in Ino's shadow when she, instead, wanted to be Ino's equal. At some point after she entered in the Academy, Sakura met Sasuke Uchiha and she developed a crush on him. When she told her friends, she was surprised to learn how popular Sasuke was with the girls. Sakura heard a rumour of Sasuke being attracted to girls with long hair and she began letting her hair grow to get his attention. A couple of years later, when she learned Ino had a crush on Sasuke, Sakura ended their friendship so that they could compete for Sasuke's love, thus beginning a bitter rivalry between them. After they were placed in their teams, Sakura approached Ino, telling her of her liking towards Sasuke. Ino revealed that she too had feelings towards him. Sakura took it to end their friendship, starting their dislike towards each other in the beginning.
Personality []
Intelligent, courageous, and compassionate. Initially, her quick temper might make her easily irritated with others, but Sakura has a kind heart underneath, caring for her friends above all. At the start of Part I, Sakura typically gives the outward impression of being polite to her superiors, considerate of her peers, and confident in herself. She has occasional moments of bashfulness around Sasuke and competitiveness around Ino, but otherwise appears quite collected. This reservation, though never disingenuous, frequently masks how Sakura feels: in certain situations, she has pronounced feelings of delinquency, jealousy, and anger. Rather than display these emotions to others, she projects them inward, allowing a manifestation of who she truly is — what is labelled "Inner Sakura" (内なるサクラ, Uchi Naru Sakura) — to have the opinions Sakura wants to keep to herself. Inner Sakura, whose appearances are marked by an exclamation of "Yea!" (しゃーんなろー!, Shannarō!). In Part ll, she no longer had an explosive temper, being much more calm.
Appearance[]
Sakura has fair skin, green eyes, and pink hair. In her youth, she wore her hair as bangs in order to cover her large forehead and fend off her classmates' calling her "Forehead Girl" (デコリーン, Dekorīn). Ino encouraged her not to do this and wear her hair back instead, so that others could see her face. Later in her Academy career she let her hair get longer because of rumours that Sasuke was attracted to girls with long hair. During Part I, when she realises that long hair is a vulnerability in combat situations, she cuts her hair and keeps it under shoulder-length from that point onward, which she sometimes pins up in a ponytail while working. In Part I, Sakura wears a red qipao dress — at various times either with or without short sleeves — with slits along the sides accompanied by a zipper and white circular designs. She also wears tight dark green bike shorts with a shuriken holster around her right thigh, blue sandals, and the standard Konoha forehead protector worn as a hairband. In Part II, Sakura's typical outfit consists of a red top with the same design as the upper-half of her Part I outfit. Accompanying this are black gloves, low-heel, knee-high boots, black shorts underneath a short grey apron skirt, and grey elbow protectors
Abilities[]
Physical Prowess[]
Sakura acquired tremendously great taijutsu skills thanks to Tsunade's training. By enhancing herself with chakra, she can easily shatter the earth beneath her or obliterate obstacles with a simple strike. An opponent struck by her could suffer huge injuries.
Ninjutsu[]
Medical Ninjutsu[]
With her excellent chakra control, Sakura has turned into an excellent combat medical-nin. According to the Naruto series, her medical abilities Sakura's medical prowess had rivaled that of her mentor's.
Genjutsu[]
Genjutsu Disspation[]
WWhen falling into a genjutsu, the chakra in the target's brain follows the flow of the enemy's illusion. By interrupting the circulation of the chakra for a short period of time, it is possible to break the illusion. Nevertheless, for this to be effective it is necessary to use more power than the person who is applying genjutsu. If the first method fails, it is still possible to escape genjutsu with external help, with a companion touching and emitting chakra to uncontroll the circulation of the chakra in your body.
Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique[]
This technique subjects targets to visions of their greatest fear, regardless of whether or not they're aware that they're afraid of it. This "fear" can be something that the target is actually scared of or merely the one image that they least want to see. When Kakashi Hatake uses this technique on Sakura, he makes eye contact with her as he activates it. Kakashi then seems to disappear in a swirl of tree leaves, leaving behind what Sakura fears: a dying Sasuke Uchiha. Being presented with such a gruesome image, one that, at the time, Sakura believes to be real, gives her enough of a shock that she faints to see it. Kakashi soon taught Sakura this technique.
Trivia []
- The name "Sakura" literally means "cherry blossom" (桜), a flower which is cherished in Japan due to its beauty and its almost-tragically short life span (cherry blossoms have historically been associated with the samurai). It also serves as the national flower for the nation of Japan. Her family name "Haruno" means "spring field" (春野). In Japanese, her full name can be interpreted as "spring field of cherry blossoms" (春野桜, haruno sakura) or "cherry blossoms in spring" (春の桜, haru no sakura). Sakura's name can also be a reference to a suit of cards used in the Hanafuda card game.
- According to the databook(s):
- Sakura's hobbies are playing trivia games and memorising new material for her medical studies.
- Sakura wishes for a rematch with Ino.
- Sakura's favourite foods are syrup-coated anko dumplings, umeboshi, and anmitsu, while her least favourites are anything spicy.
- Sakura has completed 34 official missions in total: 12 D-rank, 9 C-rank, 6 B-rank, 7 A-rank, 0 S-rank.
- Sakura's favourite phrase according to the first databook is "A life with love throughout!" (一生愛の人生よ!, Isshōai no jinsei yo!), and her favourite word according to the second and third databooks is "courage" (勇気, yūki).