Sakura Haruno

Registered Ninja: 012601
Affiliation: Village hidden in leaves
Ninja Rank: Chunin
Date Of Birth: March 28th
Age: 16
Star: Aries
Height:161.0 cm
Weight: 45.4 kg
Blood Type: O
Hobbies: Playing Trivia , Memorization
Favorite Food: Shiratama Ammitsu
Least Favorite Food: Spicy Food
Completed Assignments: 12 D- Rank, 9 C-Rank, 6 B-Rank, 7 A-Rank, 0 S-Rank





Personality
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Sakura is naturally hot-headed, and because of that nature, she tends to hit people out of anger on more than one occasion (the victim usually being Naruto Uzumaki), but most of the time, she is relatively kind, cheerful, and rational.
In the anime, Sakura has been shown to be a bit of a flirt and uses this to her advantage: with one such case being when Naruto asked her out for dinner, though she only agreed if he paid for her half as well.
Although sensitive and quick to cry, Sakura has shown to be strong-willed and determined, not one to lose or give up in a fight easily.
In addition, she has a very strong sense of being useful, and is often frustrated with herself for being a burden and not being helpful, often having to rely on either Naruto and Sasuke for help.
One of her greatest regrets was relying solely on Naruto to bring Sasuke back, burdening him with the promise while she couldn't do anything but cry.
It was with that resolve that she sought apprenticeship from Tsunade and since training with her, Sakura has improved, but still frets over her usefulness plenty.
Unlike the rest of Team 7, Sakura has not suffered any heavy losses during her childhood.
Therefore, Sakura took for granted things that her team-mates desired, such as family and friends.
She nevertheless is more understanding of her team-mates and others, and does not hesitate to ask if she does not understand something or if it bothers her.




Sakura's motivation to get stronger
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At the start of the series, Sakura had a deep infatuation for Sasuke Uchiha, rooted in his good looks, cunning, cool attitude, and prodigious talents.
For that reason, many of Sakura's early appearances were dedicated to her continuing efforts to win his affection.
As the story progressed, she began to recognise Sasuke as a real person with imperfections, and developed a more sincere desire to be there for him and later fell in love with him.
Sakura also became concerned that Sasuke will someday abandon her and the rest of Konoha in his quest for power.
When her fears came true at the end , Sakura did all that she could to stop Sasuke from leaving, such as professing her love for him and offering to join him.
Despite thanking her and sounding grateful, Sasuke knocked Sakura unconscious and left the village.
Since then, Sakura has made it her personal goal to bring Sasuke home.
Although she still worries about his well-being, Sakura is willing to attack him if it means returning him to Konoha.
As time goes on and Sasuke becomes an increasingly more dangerous criminal, Sakura recognises that Sasuke must be stopped at all costs.
Despite agreeing that they had no choice but to kill Sasuke themselves to prevent Konoha from being involved in a war by his criminal actions or his death at a foreign country's hand, Sakura was immensely saddened and distraught at the notion nonetheless.
Later on, she told Naruto that she no longer has any feelings for Sasuke since he just keeps breaking her heart and states that she loves him instead, though Naruto and a few of the onlookers knew that she was lying and suspected that Sakura was hiding something.
Her team-mate Sai at the time even commented that she was still in love with Sasuke, which is later proven to be true, and that she wants to kill him so that he does not sink any lower.
Upon meeting Sasuke once again, Sakura becomes upset by how corrupted Sasuke has become and tries to kill him.
She ultimately cannot bring herself to do so, being brought to tears as she started remembering all they went through together as members of Team 7.
She has since come to accept that Naruto is the only one who can do anything about Sasuke.
Though she is deeply saddened by what Sasuke has become, it is shown that she is in love with him nonetheless.
Sakura's relationship with Naruto, like with Sasuke, also changes throughout the series.
When they first became a team, she was rather rude and disrespectful towards him, going as far as to insult or degrade him at any chance she got, and even stated that the one thing she doesn't like was Naruto (mainly because he interfered with her attempts to gain Sasuke's affections and for being a constant nuisance at the time).
However, as the series progressed, Sakura realised that her negative views of him were wrong as Naruto continuously showed his worth as a ninja as well as his dedication to his team-mates.
After the Chunin Exams and missions, Sakura realises that Naruto is getting stronger and envies him, so she decides to train harder.
After Sasuke defected from Konoha, Sakura pleads to Naruto, believing him to be the only one capable of bringing Sasuke back.
When Naruto promises to bring Sasuke back to Konoha, Sakura realises just how committed Naruto is to her happiness, and how he has always been there for her.
However, Naruto fails and is left in the hospital after losing to Sasuke, though he vows to someday fulfil the promise he made to her.
Realising the lengths Naruto will go to for her, and inspired by his determination, Sakura spends the next three years training with Tsunade so that in the future she can join Naruto in his quest to bring Sasuke back.




Sakura learns of the various hardships Naruto faces:
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the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox and Akatsuki.Saddened by the impact both forces have had on his life, Sakura becomes protective of Naruto and tries to do whatever she can to help him overcome these obstacles.
Sakura begins to empathise with Naruto, and develops a deep friendship with him, due to their spending a lot of time together.
Later, Sai explains to her just how deep Naruto's love for her truly is, and the level of pain that trying to fulfil his promise has caused, filling Sakura with guilt.
After the events of the Five Kage Summit, she confesses to Naruto that she loves him, no longer caring about Sasuke, and tries to get him to give up on his promise.
However, Naruto does not believe her, and claims she is lying to herself, stating he knows her better than that.
Sai later confirms this, and tells them about the ulterior motives of Sakura's confession, stating that it was actually an attempt to release the promise Naruto made for her and distract him while she and the group hunt down and kill Sasuke.
Though being told that Naruto loves her, Sakura, while still caring for him as a friend and team-mate, doesn't reciprocate his feelings.



Appearance
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Sakura with long hair.
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Sakura has bright pink hair, large green eyes, and fair skin. Sakura was often bullied due to her rather large forehead hence her nickname of "Billboard Brow", due to this she wore her bangs over her forehead in an attempt to cover it, though Ino encouraged her to wear her hair back.
In part 1:Sakura wore a red qipao dress with white circular designs, with or without short sleeves, with a zipper, tight dark green shorts, and a forehead protector which she used to accentuate her face.
In part 2:Sakura has blossomed into a young woman and donned a new attire consisting of the same basic red top as in Part I, with black gloves, black boots, black shorts, short pink apron skirt, and pink elbow protectors.
Her skirt and elbow protectors are also pink in the anime.
Sakura is now also armed with a chunin's tanto (which she wears above her medical pouch, but she has never been seen using it in combat).
The cloth of her forehead protector has also changed to red in colour.
When she's not on a mission, she wears her regular red shirt, with a light yellow shirt under it, and a navy-coloured skirt.
In this outfit, she still wears her boots. She later dons the uniform of the Allied Shinobi Forces inclusive of a Konohagakure flak jacket, albeit opting to wear a skirt instead of pants and her regular boots.
She later changes her skirt to pants to assist the medic unit.




Abilities:
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At the start of the series, Sakura's abilities as a ninja were considerably less than those of her team-mates; Sasuke and Naruto, with her greatest strength being her intelligence.
After two-and-a-half years of training with Tsunade however, Sakura's abilities greatly increased to the point that she could hold her own against powerful enemies such as Sasori.
Her skills in other areas have also increased, such as being able to locate Kakashi during the second bell test - something Naruto could not do - as well as tricking Sai, Kiba, and Lee into fighting each other so that she put them all to sleep.
She has similarly become more resilient, as she is able to survive an explosive tag at close range while surrounded by a cloud of poison and still get up afterwards.
Sakura has been noted to have a natural aptitude for genjutsu, though she has only been seen dispelling it.
It does seem however that she has put this skill towards medical ninjutsu instead.




Chakra Control
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Soon after the start of her first mission, Sakura discovered that she had an excellent control over her chakra, and as such she had an innate ability to use techniques to their maximum efficiency without wasting any chakra.
Kakashi pointed out that her ability to gather chakra from every part of the body and then using it with great timing made her superior to her team-mates in that respect.
While this particular ability was never put to great use in Part I, her chakra control became a focal point of Sakura's fighting style and medical abilities in Part II.




Medical Ninjutsu
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Sakura using the Delicate Illness Extraction Technique.
Sakura's natural control of her chakra had been taken to new heights over the time skip, an ability utilised to its fullest by the training she had done with Tsunade.
With her excellent chakra control, Sakura had turned into an excellent combat medical-nin, and had shown herself to be able to heal fatal injuries with relatively little effort, even when more experienced medics would deem it a lost cause.
She also has shown extensive knowledge of poisons having been taught by her senior pupil Shizune— learning how to imbue weapons such as kunai, with poison.
She also has an extensive knowledge of herbal medicines, surpassing even the knowledge of Chiyo as well as other chemicals such as powerful sleeping gases taught to her by Tsunade.
Her knowledge was great enough to withdraw Sasori's advanced poison directly from Kankuro's body, and use that as a base template to create multiple antidotes swiftly afterwards.
During her fight with Sasori, she was able to start healing herself even with a poisoned sword still lodged in her abdomen, a feat Sasori remarked at.
At the end of Part I when Tsunade observed Sakura successfully heal a fish with the Mystical Palm Technique, Tsunade remarked that Sakura had come so far, and she hadn't seen such talent since Shizune.
Sakura can also assist with autopsies, as seen when she and Shizune performed an autopsy on a White Zetsu during the Fourth Shinobi World War, and she has knowledge of cells and DNA.




Taijutsu
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Sakura's superhuman strength.
Although not known for her strength in Part I, Sakura was still strong enough to knock Ino several metres backwards with only a single strike during their match in the Chunin Exams.
In the anime, during a mission to the Land of Tea, she was seen lifting and manoeuvring a very large and thick wooden log.
In Part II, Sakura's taijutsu skills have seen tremendous growth thanks to Tsunade's training.
By building up and releasing her chakra with precise timing, Sakura could easily demolish any obstacle and turn it to rubble.
An opponent struck by her full strength could suffer blunt force trauma resulting in broken bones, ruptured organs, or even death.
Through repeated use, Sakura no longer needs to put any conscious effort into using this strength, and so can use it instantly.
Her strength, coupled with her medical expertise and the beauty she gained over the time skip, had caused many to see Sakura as a younger version of Tsunade, or even someone who could even surpass Tsunade.
However, while Sakura's strength derives from this technique, Tsunade has been noted to possess incredible raw strength much greater than this ability, which is enhanced even further to monstrous levels when using it.
This strength was great enough to completely immobilise a White Zetsu, which are extremely durable, with just one blow.
Another key component of Sakura's taijutsu is her evasive skill.
As a field medic, she cannot afford to be gravely injured or killed on the battle field, as drilled into her by Tsunade when she trained her.
Sakura would attempt to read an opponent's fighting style in order to find the dominant hand/foot or anything that the enemy was using.
With that, she could increase her evasive skill to impressive levels.
Sakura was proficient enough in this that she could figure out Sasori's finger movements and predict his movements of his puppets.
Her skill in evasion is so great that she can combat one-hundred puppets without even being scratched.
Although Chiyo aided Sakura in this occasion, she notes that Sakura hardly needed any help.






Intelligence
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Sakura's original defining characteristic was her intelligence, as seen with her consistently high test scores while in the Academy.
Sakura has a keen talent for observation and analysing, which she uses to overcome most forms of deception.
Moreover, in the first phase of the Chunin Exams, Sakura was able to answer all the questions on the paper test quickly, even though the examiner Ibiki Morino later commented that this feat could not be accomplished by a genin, hinting her exceptional intelligence as a student.
Sakura could also cleverly set traps, if any enemy tried to attack her she could trigger her own traps causing the enemy to be attacked.
However, Sakura's focus on her studies in the Academy greatly affected her physical performance.
Her poor combat skills and stamina prevented her from being helpful during the earlier battles in the series.
In Part II, along with her other attributes, Sakura's exceptional intelligence and keen observation skills also improved during her training with Tsunade, who taught her to read and decipher the attack patterns of her enemies and act accordingly.
As a result, she could now read complex patterns in her opponent's attacks, even opponents as strong as Sasori, a feat which even surprised an experienced war veteran like Chiyo.
When Sakura along with her team encountered Tobi and his technique, Sakura was able to assume its mechanism and deduce that Tobi was only pretending to be affected.
Sakura is also shown to be skilled at planning, being able to formulate a plan to kill Sasuke by the use of a poison and prevent Kiba, Sai and Lee from following her by the use of a sleeping gas bomb.
During the first night of the Fourth Shinobi World War had ended, when a spy had infiltrated the Logistical Support and Medical Division compound, Sakura was able to work out that the spy wasn't using the Transformation Technique as the sensors would've detected the spy.
When having a talk with 'Neji', Sakura was able to deceive him and attack him while he was unprepared.
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Introduction Arc
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Upon being assigned as a member of Team 7, Sakura spent much of her time trying to appeal to Sasuke, despite the fact that Sasuke had no interest in her and had a habit of belittling her.
All the while, Naruto tried to appeal to Sakura, despite the fact that she had no interest in him and degraded him whenever given the opportunity.
As such, when Kakashi administered a test on the three to see if they would be allowed to become genin, Sakura preoccupied herself with following Sasuke instead of helping Naruto.
After Kakashi lectured Sakura for this, as well as Naruto and Sasuke for their respective faults, Sakura realised that if they were to become genin, they would need to work as a team, even if that meant breaking the rules.
This revelation having been the goal of the test, Kakashi passed the three, Team 7 being the first group to have ever passed his test.






Land of Waves Arc
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Sakura accompanied the rest of her team on their first mission to the Land of Waves, to act as bodyguards for Tazuna.
While there, Kakashi administers a Tree Climbing Practice, and Sakura masters the exercise on her first try.
This leaves her in charge of escorting Tazuna while Naruto and Sasuke complete the training.
When they are later attacked by Zabuza and Haku, Sakura protects Tazuna while Kakashi, Naruto, and Sasuke battle the enemy.
After hearing that Sasuke was apparently killed, Sakura violated Shinobi Rule #25 of not showing any kind of emotions by crying for Sasuke's loss even as she recited it.
When Sasuke turned out to have only been in a death-trance, Sakura was relieved that he was alive.
Once their mission was completed, Team 7 returned to Konoha.




Chunin Exam Arc
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When Team 7 is entered into the Chunin Exams, Sakura is reluctant to participate because she feels she is too weak.
With some reassurance from Sasuke, she agrees to enter.
During the first, written portion of the exam, Sakura is one of the few examinees that is able to answer the questions without cheating.
She instead spends her time lamenting that Naruto is probably too stupid to answer the questions or know that he is supposed to cheat, and contemplates forfeiting so that he doesn't need to embarrass himself.
After seeing Naruto's confidence in himself, she decides against it, and they pass the first phase.






Sakura cutting her hair.
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Soon after the start of the second phase of the Chunin Exams, Team 7 was attacked by Orochimaru.
Although Naruto and Sasuke did their best to defeat Orochimaru, both were rendered unconscious, and Sakura was left to take care of them.
When they were attacked by a group of Oto genin sent by Orochimaru to kill Sasuke, Sakura tried to defeat them with some traps she had pre-prepared, though the group easily avoided her efforts.
Just as the Oto genin were about to turn their attention to Sakura, Rock Lee came to her rescue, determined to protect Sakura at all costs.
Despite his efforts, Lee was defeated, and the Oto genin again turned their attention to Sakura.
Kin Tsuchi immobilised Sakura by grabbing her hair, scolding her for putting more effort into her looks than her abilities as a ninja.
Distraught that people were always fighting for her because she couldn't fight for herself, Sakura resolved to better herself as a ninja.
Cutting off her hair to release herself from Kin's grasp, Sakura did what she could to fend off the Oto genin, even going so far as biting to make sure that she couldn't be easily repelled.
This display spurred Ino and her team into coming to Sakura's aid, allowing her some rest.
The unconscious Sasuke re-awakened after receiving Orochimaru's cursed seal, and immediately asked Sakura who injured her.
Quickly overcome by his new Cursed Seal, he began a violent rampage on the Sound ninja who were present.
Frightened by his new behaviour and after having realised that "this is not Sasuke", a tearful Sakura rushed to his side and embraced him, begging him to stop.
Her words and embrace got through to him, and his Cursed Seal quickly receded.





Sakura fighting Ino during her preliminary match.
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In the preliminary matches of the exam, Sakura was pitted against Ino.
After Sakura and Ino exchanged insults, Ino followed Sakura's earlier example and cut her hair, leading Sakura to believe that Ino had lost her mind.
In actuality, Ino cut her hair to help her in battle; by sending chakra into her cut hair, Ino was able to tie Sakura in place, allowing her slow-moving Mind Body Switch Technique to have no difficulties in finding its target.
After taking control of Sakura's body, Ino tried to force Sakura to forfeit, but thanks to Naruto's cheering, Inner Sakura was able to force Ino from her body before she could do so.
With both girls exhausted from the amount of effort they'd been putting into their fight, Ino and Sakura charged at each other to deal final blows.
Striking each other simultaneously, both were knocked out, leading to a draw.
As the two recovered, Ino and Sakura began to rekindle their friendship.






Invasion of Konoha Arc
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Sakura faces Gaara.
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A month later, while watching Naruto and Sasuke's matches during the finals and marvelling at how their abilities had improved, the invasion of Konoha began.
Sakura was able to repel the sleep inducing genjutsu that spread throughout the stadium.
Because of this, and because Sasuke had pursued Gaara, Kakashi tasked Sakura with waking and assembling a team to go after him.
Upon catching up with Sasuke, Sakura protected him from Gaara's attacks, risking her life to put herself between him and danger.
Gaara used his sand to immobilise her, and as the sand slowly suffocated Sakura, Naruto fought to defeat Gaara using Sakura as inspiration to not give up, and save her.
After Naruto defeated Gaara, Sakura was freed.
Later, Sakura thanked Sasuke for saving her, but he explained to her that it was Naruto who had saved her, and she turned to smile at Naruto, not noticing the scowl on Sasuke's face as she did so.
She later attended the Third Hokage's funeral.







Sasuke Retrieval Arc
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Sasuke's goodbye to Sakura.
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As time goes by and Sasuke's lust for power grows stronger, Sakura grows concerned that he may abandon Konoha to seek out Orochimaru.
Although she spends as much time with him as she can in an effort to deter him from this path, Sasuke finally defects.
Having suspected this would happen, Sakura met him at the village's exit, doing what she could to stop him.
When it seemed that he was still going to leave, Sakura declared that she was in love with him.
She said she would do anything for him, even offering to help him in his quest for power, so long as she could be with him.
Sasuke then turned to her and called her annoying.
Sakura then threatened to scream and alert the village of his betrayal.
Sasuke gives her a soft "thank you" before knocking her unconscious and leaving the village.
When she awakens the following morning she tells Kotetsu Hagane and Izumo Kamizuki, who in turn reports to Tsunade about his departure, leading to the formation of the Sasuke Retrieval Team.






Sakura training under Tsunade's tutelage.
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When Naruto set out the next day to retrieve Sasuke, Sakura came out to meet him.
Sakura begged for Naruto to bring Sasuke back, believing Naruto to be the only person who could get through to Sasuke.
Naruto, looking at the crying Sakura, promised her that he would bring Sasuke back, making it his promise to her for a lifetime.
This brought more tears as Sakura realised that Naruto knew how she felt and that he had always been there for her.
After Naruto failed to bring Sasuke back and was left hospitalised in the process, he apologised to Sakura for his failure and asserted that he would definitely keep his promise.
Inspired by Naruto's determination, she replied that, next time, they would retrieve Sasuke together, and that she would be there to help him from now on.
Determined to never be useless again and to save Sasuke and help Naruto, Sakura then asked to become Tsunade's apprentice, a request which Tsunade happily accepted.





Pre-Shippuden Filler Arcs
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The only filler arc Sakura plays a major part in is the Land of Rice Fields Arc, where she, Naruto and Jiraiya tries to save Sasuke.
In the end of the arc Sakura asks Tsunade for medical training.
Hence, little was seen of Sakura during the filler arcs, much of her time being preoccupied with training.
When she did go out on missions with her fellow genin, Sakura served as the medical specialist, healing the wounds of others and examining bodies.
Ino, jealous of Sakura's new-found healing abilities, asked to train with Sakura to be a medical ninja.
To Ino's dismay, Sakura immediately proclaimed that Ino would be her junior during the course of the training.






Part II
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Sakura's appearance in Part II.
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After Naruto returned from his two and a half years of training abroad, Sakura was one of the first villagers to greet him, and was happy to see him, even noticing he was now taller than she is.
However, this doesn't last long, as Sakura asked him if she had changed, to which he responds she hadn't and that she was the same old Sakura.
The results of her training with Tsunade first show themselves when she punches Naruto for attempting to demonstrate a new perverted technique for Konohamaru.
Kakashi soon recruited both of them into Team Kakashi and issued another bell test, this time the goal actually being to take the bells.
Both are able to show off their new abilities.
She shocks Kakashi and Naruto when she uses her super strength granted to her by Tsunade, but in the end are only able to take the bells by tricking Kakashi.






Kazekage Rescue Arc
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After returning from the bell test, they learned that Akatsuki had captured Gaara.
Team Kakashi was assigned to go to Sunagakure to help rescue him.
Upon arriving in Sunagakure, Sakura used her new medical expertise to save Kankuro from a poison given to him by the Akatsuki member Sasori.
Sakura then made a few antidotes to counteract the poison in case anyone on the team should have need of it.
The antidote in hand, Team Kakashi followed Akatsuki's trail, accompanied by Chiyo, a Sunagakure adviser.
During this period of time Sakura first learned that the Nine-Tails is sealed into Naruto.






Sakura and Chiyo fighting together.
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Once they arrived at the Akatsuki lair, the team split up, Chiyo and Sakura fighting Sasori while Kakashi and Naruto went after Deidara and Gaara's body.
With both Sasori and Chiyo being master puppeteers, and with all of Sasori's attacks being imbued with his poison, Chiyo controlled Sakura like a puppet to improve her dexterity allowing her to get close enough to Sasori to destroy his puppet armour Hiruko.
As Sasori summons his the Third Kazekage puppet, much to Chiyo's shock, he begins employing the former Kazekage's ability which he had combined with his own poison.
As the battle ensues, with Chiyo's help, she eventually deduces the puppets movements and destroys it.
Revealing that he had turned himself into a puppet Sasori gained the upper hand in the fight and later summoned one hundred puppets to fight against Chiyo's White Secret Technique: The Chikamatsu Collection of Ten Puppets.
After being sealed by Chiyo, Sasori moved to another puppet body and tried to kill her, only for Sakura to step in as a human shield.
With him being distracted, Chiyo stabbed Sasori through the heart.
As his life waned, he relished the fact that Sakura would die too, only to be proven wrong by the combination of Sakura's antidote and Chiyo's healing abilities.
As a reward for defeating him, Sasori spent his last breath to tell Sakura of a spy within Orochimaru's ranks.
When they caught up with Naruto and Kakashi, Sakura tried to revive Gaara, only to discover that he was already dead.
As Chiyo surrendered the rest of her energy to resurrect Gaara, she told Sakura not to give her life for an old woman and predicted that someday she would surpass her master as a kunoichi.
After attending Chiyo's funeral, the team returned home.




Sasuke and Sai Arc
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Yamato-led Team Kakashi reveals themselves to Orochimaru and Kabuto.
With the information gained from Sasori, Team Kakashi decided to use this as an opportunity to find Sasuke.
Because Kakashi was still bedridden after his encounter with Deidara, Yamato led the team instead.
Sai was also added to the team as Sasuke's replacement, but neither Naruto nor Sakura were willing to view him as such, and had difficulties getting along with him.
In fact Sakura even punched him for insulting Sasuke.
Their mission being to meet with and capture the spy, Yamato, disguised as Sasori, went on ahead.
When the spy, Kabuto Yakushi, ended up being in league with Orochimaru, Yamato called in the team for back up.





Sakura utilising her Mystical Palm Technique on Naruto.
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Naruto quickly engaged Orochimaru in combat, and Sakura was surprised by the very danger of his tailed forms.
She was then knocked out after Kabuto was thrown away by Naruto and slammed into her.
After regaining consciousness, she realised that Naruto had advanced to his four-tailed form.
When Sakura approached him to try and bring him to his senses, he attacked and injured her, unaware of what he was doing.
Kabuto attempted to heal her wound, saying that they were both enemies of Akatsuki.
All he could do was close it, however. Once Yamato forced the Nine-Tails' influence to recede, Sakura tended to his wounds and lamented that all she could do is heal him after a battle.
He recuperated, and they continued on to Orochimaru's hideout, where Sai finally proved his worth by helping them find Sasuke.
When they were unable to persuade Sasuke to come home with them they attacked him instead.
Sakura was able to determine how his Chidori Current worked, and charged him after charging her fist, attacking Sasuke for the first time ever.
However, when Sasuke attacked her with a massive amount of killing intent, Yamato intervened and took the attack for Sakura.
In the end, Sasuke fled with Orochimaru and Kabuto, and Sakura told Naruto very determinedly that tears weren't going to bring Sasuke back.
Then, they returned to Konoha.




Twelve Guardian Ninja Arc
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In the anime, Team Yamato was sent to the Fire Temple to investigate the grave robbing of some of the former Twelve Ninja Guardian.
While trying to apprehend the grave robbers, they were drawn into a trap, and their team was split up.
Sakura was attacked by a giant spider but was saved by Sai, and together they found Naruto and rescued him from Fuka's soul absorbing power (although Sakura furiously thought Naruto was making out with the enemy).





Sakura defeats Fuen.
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Later, during the attack on Konoha, Sakura did her part as medical ninja, healing all injured people she came across until she was told to aid Asuma at the power plant.
There she discovered that the four Ninja Guardians had been resurrected in order to destroy the village, and Asuma sent her to stop one of the four.
She was intercepted by Fuen, who trapped her in a unique genjutsu. However, Sakura had already analysed Fuen's attack patterns, and devised a counter-manoeuvre. She then tricked Fuen into revealing herself, allowing Sakura to strike her.
Fuen then down on the ground stunned was killed by the Cherry Blossom Impact, thus, causing Fuen's defensive barrier around Konoha to disappear. She returned to Asuma, and found Naruto struggling with the Nine-Tails' chakra once again.
Trying to heal Naruto, she jumps in when Sora fires a powerful beam to them. Naruto saves her by pushing her to the ground and covering her. After he overcame it, she healed his injuries.




Hidan and Kakuzu Arc
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Team Yamato was sent to provide back up for Team 10 during their battle with Akatsuki.
Because Shikamaru was separated from the rest of the group, Sai and Sakura were sent to assist him, though upon arrival they found that Shikamaru had already defeated his opponent.
Having not taken part in the battle, Sakura returned to Konoha with the others, and later healed the damage to Naruto's arm from the use of his new technique.
Because this made it difficult for him to eat, she offered to feed him.
Though he was delighted by the idea, interference from both Sai and Kakashi prevented this from happening.
Shortly afterwards they left to find Konohamaru, who had just revealed to have mastered the Shadow Clone Technique.
He showed them his variations on the Sexy Technique, one of which excited Sakura.




Three-Tails Arc
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Sakura aiding in sealing the Three-Tails.
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In the anime, the team was once again sent to provide back up, this time for Team 8.
After locating them and discovering Hinata to have been captured, Sakura watched as Naruto rescued her and helped her recover afterwards.
After rejoining her team and learning that the Three-Tails had appeared, Sakura was added to a team meant to seal the beast.
When their efforts kept being stopped by Orochimaru's forces, more skilled ANBU members replaced them and they returned home.



Itachi Pursuit Arc
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Teams 7 and 8 set out to pursue Itachi.
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When news reached Konoha that Sasuke had killed Orochimaru, Sakura and Naruto were the first to join Kakashi's Eight Man Squad, and began the hunt.
During her search, she barely missed a member of Sasuke's Hebi, Karin, and later regrouped with the others.
When Kiba caught Sasuke's scent, the group followed until they encountered Tobi.
Sakura initially suspected that he was using genjutsu or clone techniques, but after Hinata pointed out that his chakra remained in one location and Tobi managed to escape Shino's bugs, she realised that he was removing parts of his body from existence.
She attempted to head to Sasuke's location with her team, but Tobi had already taken him away.



Tsuchigumo Kinjutsu Arc
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Sakura's time to be disappointed over her failed mission was cut short when Katsuyu arrived with an important mission order on Tsunade's request.
Team Kakashi and Team Kurenai, minus Kakashi who returned to the village for more information, were immediately sent to the aid of the Tsuchigumo clan to help protect its extremely destructive kinjutsu from the missing-nin.
Upon arriving, the enemies had already left in search of technique, which was taken by the former clan leader's granddaughter Hotaru.
Sakura heals him while the rest of the team find Hotaru.
After Naruto, Yamato, and Sai return from searching for Hotaru, Sakura joins them and Utakata to prevent the extraction of the kinjutsu from Hotaru's back.
She, along with Yamato and Sai, fight off Akaboshi, Benten, Chushin, and Nango while Naruto and Utakata fight Shiranami.
Later, after defeating the Magaki group and the Tsuchigumo clan's kinjutsu disappeared, they returned to Konoha when they completed the mission.




Invasion of Pain Arc
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Once they returned to Konoha and learned of Jiraiya's death, Sakura tried to comfort both Naruto and Tsunade.
When Naruto blamed Tsunade for the death of Jiraiya, Sakura scolded him.
She was then shocked to hear Naruto declare that he would get his revenge.
She later tried to help decipher Jiraiya's dying message to find out more about the Akatsuki leader, Pain, but was interrupted by Pain's attack on the village.
After saving some villagers and killing Pain's Giant Centipede, Sakura went to the Konoha hospital, where she was quickly asked to lead the medical front defending the building and healing what injuries she could, impressing Choji through her leadership and skills.




Sakura thanking Naruto.
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When Pain destroyed the village, Sakura was saved by Katsuyu.
When she sees the village in ruins she cries out for Naruto to return to save everyone.
After Naruto's return Sakura could only watch as Naruto tried to defeat the six Pains.
She became worried when Naruto entered his six-tailed form, and was amazed to find out that Hinata risked her life to try and save Naruto because she loves him.
She heals Hinata afterwards and watches as Pain, defeated and converted by Naruto, revives all those who had died during his attack.
When Naruto came back to the village after talking to Nagato, Sakura punches Naruto calling him rash for taking on Pain by himself but then hugs and thanks him for saving them.





Konoha History Arc
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-Sakura and the rest of Team 7 are sent on a mission to return Condor to his natural habitat.
-Sakura, Ino, and Naruto are sent in Jofuku Forest to deliver a message to Furofuki.
-On the way there, they were petrified because an old lady from the village's inn said that the place was haunted.
-Naruto managed to take a sample of Jofuku flower for Lee's recovery.
-They also fought a deity representing Gaara, but Naruto managed to defeat him.
-They arrived at Furofuki's house and completed their mission.
-Nekobaa hires Team 7 to gather the last paw on her Paw Encyclopaedia.
-After infiltrating the cat fortress, Sasuke and Sakura split in two teams to find Nekomata faster.
-Sakura then goes to a bar in order to find information about Nekomata.
-Nekomata and Sasuke then started to fight, just when Nekomata was about to crush Sasuke with his paw Sasuke is saved by Naruto and Sakura who managed to find Sasuke in time.
-Sasuke revealed that he didn't need to be saved and he activated explosive tags on the roof that fell on Nekomata.
-Once Nekomata fainted Team 7 printed his paw and took it back to Nekobaa, completing their mission.
-Sakura is seen along with Naruto and Sasuke spying on Kakashi and Hanare.
-When Naruto causes a branch of a tree they are leaning on to break, the three fall onto Kakashi and Hanare, causing them to accidentally kiss. -
-Later, after cornering him, the Jomae Village Head presumably committed suicide right in front of Team 7.
-After seeing Naruto in the village, she scolded him for missing the day's practice and warned him that she would tell Kakashi if he missed another one.
-When she was about to leave, Naruto asks her if she knew anyone named Kisuke.
-She later says that she remembers when she went to visit someone in the hospital, there was a patient in the very back room named Kisuke Maboroshi.
-While on a mission to retrieve a golden statue that was stolen by Jako and his group of bandits, she gets taken as hostage.
-At the end of the mission, Naruto and Sasuke retrieve the statue, defeat the bandits, and save her.
-Team Kakashi, along with Team Asuma, go off on a mission where they must save a headman's granddaughter from a gang boss named Baji.
-She is later seen with the rest of the groups following the mission's completion.
-Tsunade assigns Sakura and Naruto to escort Naho to the Shizume village.
-Along the way, they encounter the criminal, Sadai.
-Naruto uses his shadow clones to defeat the group, but has trouble defeating Sadai.
-After being captured, Sasuke arrives and defeats Sadai, but continues to beat him mercilessly, much to Naho's horror, but was then reassured by Naruto that Sasuke was just going through a rough time, and that he will bring him to her as soon as he returns to his former self.




Five Kage Summit Arc
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Team Kakashi confronted by Karui and Omoi.
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Sakura is later seen in a tent along with Naruto, Kakashi, and Shizune, telling them about Tsunade going into a coma, and that neither she nor Shizune could do anything for her.
She tried to cheer Naruto up, but her effort was interrupted by the arrival of Kiba.
Kiba told them that Danzo Shimura has replaced Tsunade as Hokage and that he has ordered Sasuke to be executed as a missing-nin.
Naruto and Sakura, hoping they might be able to convince Danzo to change his mind, asked Sai about him.
Sai is unable to tell them anything, but their questioning attracted the attention of Omoi and Karui.
The Kumogakure ninja informed them of Sasuke's crimes and demanded any information they may have on Sasuke.
Seeing how upset this made Sakura, Naruto volunteered to tell them for her the information they wanted to know about Sasuke.

Naruto, along with Kakashi and Yamato, went to the Land of Iron to ask the Fourth Raikage to forgive Sasuke.
While they are gone, Sai informed Sakura of the lengths Naruto has gone to make her happy.
He also said that although Naruto loved her, the strain of trying to bring Sasuke home and fulfilling the promise he made to her, cause him nothing but constant pain.
Shikamaru joined the conversation on behalf of the other members of the Konoha 11, telling Sakura that Sasuke's actions will only lead to war.
Believing that the best course of action would be for them to personally stop Sasuke, Shikamaru asked for Team 7's consent.
Sakura agreed, but insisted that she be the one to tell Naruto.

Sakura forms a team to hunt down Sasuke.
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Sakura, Sai, Kiba, and Lee went to the Land of Iron to talk to Naruto.
After they located him, Sakura told Naruto that she loved him and encouraged him to give up on the promise he made to her.
Naruto, however, does not believe her and says she is lying to herself.
Angered by this, she insisted it was true and then pushed for Naruto to forget his promise to her and focus on the fact that Akatsuki is after him.
Naruto, in turn, said that he was also pursuing Sasuke for his own reasons, not just because of his promise to her.
Again, furious by this, Sakura left with her group.
Ignoring Kiba's questions about why she hasn't told Naruto their plans, she asked him to help her find Sasuke.
When they start nearing Sasuke, Sakura tried to set off a knockout gas to incapacitate Kiba, Sai, and Lee.
Sai stopped her and, having told Naruto and Kakashi about their plans, instructed them to wait for Kakashi to arrive.
She convinced Kiba and Lee to fight Sai with her, but used the knockout gas on them as they began to scuffle.

Sasuke attacking Sakura from behind.
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Sakura found Sasuke about to kill Karin.
She stopped him and told him that she wanted to join him, even if that means betraying Konoha.
Suspicious, Sasuke told her to show her resolve by killing Karin.
Pretending to agree, Sakura approached them, thinking that if she killed him now, it will all be over.
Karin interrupted her by warning her that Sasuke was about to kill her, but his attack was blocked by Kakashi.
Kakashi instructed Sakura to heal Karin and to leave once she had done so.
However she snuck up on Sasuke and tried once again to kill him, but she then started to remember all the times they had together and she was ultimately unable to bring herself to do it.




Team 7 re-unites.
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Sasuke noticed Sakura and seized her by the throat and attempted to kill her, she was then rescued by Naruto.
Naruto then prepared himself to attack Sasuke after Kakashi tells him and Sakura that he will personally take care of Sasuke and wishes for them not to witness it.
Kakashi states that Sakura's kunai was crafted by Sakura herself, with poison learned from Shizune, and that it would most likely not work as Orochimaru would have made him immune to it.
After Naruto voiced his determination that he and Sasuke will die together one day in battle, and that he would shoulder Sasuke's hatred as a friend, Sakura was touched by Naruto's determination, and showed her gladness that he showed her a way for Team 7 to still have a happy ending.
However, Naruto suddenly collapsed from the poison kunai that Sasuke used to nick Naruto's face when he saved Sakura from him, and Sakura panicked, and gave him an antidote on Kakashi's request.
After Sakura gave Naruto the antidote, Naruto says he still feels sick.
When Naruto asks who Karin is, Sakura replies that she's a partner of Sasuke, which Karin denies.
When the group are ready to leave the bridge, Kakashi reminds Sakura that she left something behind to which he is refering to Kiba and the others.
Team 7 and Karin are later seen with the sleeping Kiba, Akamaru, Lee and Sai and Kakashi expects Sakura to apologise to them after they awake to which she will.

The "Konoha 11" meet to discuss Sasuke.
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After returning to Konoha, Sakura is seen present with the rest of her friends, wondering as to what Naruto is hiding from them, remembering his statement about his and Sasuke's death in a possible fight.
She is then seen out of breath when she meets up with Naruto at the Ramen Ichiraku, and she is happy to inform him that Tsunade is awake.
Teuchi then offers her a bowl but, being in a rush to tell people the good news, she turns it down.
She then tells Naruto she will see him later.



Adventures at Sea Arc
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Adventures at Sea Arc
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Shinobi World War Arc
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Sakura healing Guy before the start of the war.
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Sakura is placed within the Third Division and is later seen using her Mystical Palm Technique to heal Might Guy and wondering how he got to be in this condition right before the war, while a worried Lee looks on.
Later on, Sakura is seen with her division as a red flare goes off and Kakashi orders them to go the Surprise Attack Division.
Along with her division, they encountered Zabuza and Haku who were about to attack the Surprise Attack Division.
She was shocked to see Zabuza and Haku again.

After Haku and Zabuza's personalities were wiped out along with those of Pakura and Gari, Kakashi orders his squadrons to group themselves around the sensor ninja in the Manji Formation.
Lee then tells Sakura that he'll protect her no matter what, to which Sakura tells him to also be careful as last time Zabuza attacked from the only weak spot of the formation: the centre.
When the battle began in earnest, Sakura began healing the wounded.

As the battle came to a halt when night fell, Sakura went to the Logistical Support and Medical Division compound to heal all the wounded that were being moved to a central location.
She attends to an unknown ninja's wound before Neji arrives.
After she finishes she tells him that he should take the opportunity to get as much rest as possible.
She is later seen outside one of the barracks after being alerted that three jonin level medics were killed by an unknown assailant.
When they surmise that a spy must've entered their numbers despite their stringent security measures, she dismisses the Transformation Technique as their method as the sensors would've detected them and assumes that one of their own must be under the enemy's control.
Later as she prepares to start her rounds again, she is approached by the ninja she had healed earlier who hands her a love letter saying that he didn't know if he'll survive the war or not.
She takes the letter and thanks him, but tells him that she loves someone else.

Sakura defeating "Neji".
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After one last compliment, the Iwa shinobi leaves the tent visibly disappointed that Sakura was in love with someone else, Sakura soon afterwards becomes saddened as she starts thinking about Sasuke.
Moments later, Neji then enters her tent asking her if she was ok.
He then tells her that he doesn't blame her for being upset given the current situation.
Sakura says that they need to be vigilant to which Neji agrees.
He then asks for Shizune as he had made some headway in uncovering who the culprit was.
Sakura tells him that she's attending to Tonton who had sprained her leg.
Neji then says it's better than her arm to which Sakura agrees that she would still be able to form seals.
He then asks her to take a look at his hand again to which she agrees, telling him to sit down.
As he draws for a kunai to kill Sakura, she slams him to the ground.
Surprised he inquires how she knew and retorts that piglets don't have hands.
After being punched the transformation technique wears off and the White Zetsu clone resumes him original appearance.
Sakura then interrogates the Zetsu about how he was able to get onto the compound undetected.
Together with this information and a report Yamato had compiled on Zetsu, she pieces together the Zetsu's abilities and then leaves the clone in the hands of two shinobi to inform headquarters of this latest information.

Sakura and Shizune autopsying White Zetsu Army clone.
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After reporting the findings to Shizune, they then perform an autopsy on the body of the clone and realises the similarity in their DNA to that of Yamato and by extension, Hashirama's.
They then begin to piece together the truth behind the White Zetsu Army clones.

The next day, they are approached by a pair of ninja, one of whom appears to be gravely injured and the other desperately requesting her assistance.
The Akimichi guarding the medics is adamant that they stay back, uncertain of who's who.
Sakura, unable to turn them away after hearing the kunoichi beg them not to let her husband die in her arms, agrees to help.
The pair then reveal themselves as imposters and attack.
Before she can be attacked however, Naruto's shadow clone promptly takes them down, much to the surprise of Sakura and Shizune.

After being informed by Inoichi from HQ that Naruto and B were fighting the "masked Madara", Sakura and the rest of the Konoha 11 rush to his aid.
As she runs, she thinks to herself that Naruto always got left with insurmountable tasks but this time would be different as not only her, but everyone would be there fighting alongside each other this time.

Quotes
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(To herself about Naruto) "Always acting like a fool who only knows one thing… Hokage, Hokage.
I'm sorry Naruto… that impossible dream of yours… I don't want to see it crushed!"
(To herself) "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!
But now it's my turn to take the lead, and all of you can watch me from the background!"
(To Ino) "Didn't you know? Women have to be strong in order to survive!"
(About Naruto) "I… kinda envy your strength, Naruto…"
(To Sasuke) "I… I love you with all my heart!… If you were to stay here with me, there would be no regrets…
because every day we'd do something fun, we'd be happy I swear!…
I would do anything for you! so… Please just stay with me!"
(To Sai about Naruto's smile) " A smile is the easiest way out of a difficult situation."
(To Yamato) "Same as always… I can only do the dumbest of things for Naruto…"
(About Naruto) "I'm the one who made Naruto suffer the most…
I've just been getting it wrong… just been messing it up…
I don't want to get it wrong anymore… don't want to screw it up anymore."
(About Naruto and Sasuke) "Naruto's here because he's made up his mind… my resolve is nothing compared to his now!
I'm supposed to be a ninja, but all I've ever done is lean on him and cry…
I was supposed to change that… I came here and I thought I was ready.
But I can't do anything… I can't say anything. The only thing that remains for me… is to believe in them!"
(To herself) "Naruto… You saved Konoha… And now you're trying to save the entire shinobi world…
You always get left with these insurmountable tasks…
But no matter what you say this time, we're going to be together… Not just me…
We're all going to fight together this time!"
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