In BriefEdit

"A smile is the easiest way out of a difficult situation."

☇ Haruno Sakura

☇ 16 years of age

☇ Born March 28th

☇ Arrived October 6th, 2010 (5th time around)

☇ 161 cm | 5'2"

☇ 45.4 kg | 100 lbs

☇ Blood Type O

☇ Chuunin, Medical-nin

☇ ID: 012601

☇ Konoha, Konohogakure

☇ Loss: Her voice.

☇ Proficient at hand-to-hand combat, close to mid ranged armed combat, poison distillation and application, poison extraction, healing, really bad charades, walking on walls and ceilings, breaking things, cooking decent and healthy food, emotional repression, and all other ninja related pro/con/bonuses. May walk on water. Not to be mistaken for Ninja Christ.

PersonalityEdit

"Didn't you know? Women have to be strong in order to survive!"

Sakura is an intelligent, sometimes preachy (to those she knows and/or finds clueless about a given subject she is knowledgeable about), caring young woman. She takes her job as a medical shinobi seriously, and this seriousness is displayed in how she handles any work assigned to her. Sakura likes to be thorough, complete, and as close to "perfect" as possible, be this in her written reports, her abilities, her training, or any other aspect of her life. She's also neat, from what little can be seen of her home.

Her tendency to follow the rules also lends itself to her having little patience for people acting outside of established social norms, such as those displaying "perverted" natures - especially when "people" includes Uzumaki Naruto. (As a twist, Sakura herself is a closet yaoi fan.) Most her attempts to flirt fail, or end in her punching guys in the face. She does not like people implying she's flat-chested. She's not as sensitive about her appearance as she once was, but making an issue of it with her is asking for retribution.

Sakura is determined to achieve her goals, and achieve them well. She has a good grasp of tactics and a good mind for cryptology and research. Her memory is very good, and her detail recall is high, but not infallible. Sakura is also tenacious in her resolve. She is far less judgmental than she was as a pre-teen, and is far more likely to forgive (if not forget) people's minor indiscretions. (Or major ones, as in the case of Sai.) She holds teamwork as incredibly important, and still respects the opinions of her elders enough to listen to them when they give advice. Most the time, anyway.

Sakura is honest, even to the point of bluntness (though she has decent helpings of tact, so she's usually only blunt to those she knows well, or who she requires certain standards from), and has been known to overreact to people, particularly with irritation, anger, or outrage. What used to be repressed and relieved through "Inner-Sakura" is now more freely expressed to the world - not that it's always appreciated. She's the sort of person who could be talked into a challenge, even if she wouldn't blindly accept one (taking on challenges in even those things she's not so good at, due to a competitive spirit). Sakura hates losing, though she has to face the reality where she knows she can't, and won't, always win. it's painful.

She is confident in her skills and abilities, if not to a point where she doesn't feel the need to re-evaluate and take a look at herself from time to time. Her resolve to improve makes her a harsh taskmistress on herself, in order to make sure that she's able to stand equal with Naruto, Sasuke, Sai, Kakashi - everyone important to her - and not end up on the sidelines, unable to help. Perhaps her greatest fears and failures come from feeling inadequate in the face of her important people; being unable to help them would drive her up a wall.

Even with her more emotionally "open" personality, Sakura has displayed excellent bedside manner, doubtlessly invaluable in her profession. Her kindness towards others, including Naruto, and her ability to relate to them has improved with time. She does practice more restraint than she's probably given credit for by those in her own generation. She's also willing to pass off the things she's done if it avoids an explanation of what she found stupid in the moment it was uttered - telling Kakashi it was nothing when both Sai and Naruto had fat cheeks visiting him in the hospital, a consequence of them provoking her ire over something stupid.

Sakura is not above gossiping, though she keeps it to a minimum. She doesn't appear to talk about herself or her feelings often, presumably because she doesn't want to burden others and prefers to deal with them head on (if at all). Then again, most the time she reads like an open book in spite of her intentions. Some of her compatriots are simply too thick headed, or too uninvolved, to notice.

HistoryEdit

"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!"

As a child, Sakura was timid, shy, and highly self conscious. She was often teased, and ultimately this might have gone on forever if Yamanaka Ino hadn't gotten a wild interested hair for Sakura, and started Sakura on a path to -- social acceptance! Ino was Sakura's first friend, and the person who inspired Sakura through her youth. Ino's faith in Sakura's ability to grow, given a chance, gave the young girl enough faith in herself to later cancel their friendship over... a boy.

Named Sasuke. Sasuke was the most popular boy in their Academy Grade, and since he ignored everyone, everyone subsequently had to try really, really hard to impress him. Sakura and Ino's rivalry competing for the attention of someone who didn't care continued up to Graduation, at which point Sakura found herself assigned to a three man team with Sasuke (OMG REALLY???) and a twerp known as Uzumaki Naruto. They were called Team Seven because originality is overrated and numbers are easier to keep track of, and Hatake Kakashi was assigned as their team leader.

He tested them out, and, well, they almost failed. But they didn't fail so in the end they got to stay a team and Sakura began to do something good for her: grow as a person. Sasuke wanted none of her affection, in it's over the top or deprecating to others presentation; and Sakura was forced to realize that the kid she thought of as a useless twerp was... not a useless twerp. She began to consistently find that both the boys of her team kicked ass and were strong and growing stronger, and suddenly? She wasn't.

However, she still managed to show up for the chuunin exam (thanks to Sasuke's encouragement more than Naruto's blind faith that she would because why wouldn't she), and then she started thinking for the sake of her other teammates - and Naruto in particular. The Chuunin exm was a turning point for Sakura, where she finally decided that how she'd been wasn't working, and that she had to have the same strength to fight for the people important to her as they'd had trying to keep her safe. She also had to face off against Ino, the person she respected most among her agemates, and get Ino to see her as an equal. They fought to an unconscious standstill.

The Chuunin exam cumulated in a massive genjutsu that Sakura didn't fall prey to for reasons that never get developed, and the assassination of the Third Hokage. No, wait, he sacrified himself. Anyhow "shit got real" and Sakura did as instructed by her sensei, following the visiting Suna Genin with the other awoken students, and then got knocked unconscious and fisted to a tree trying to save... Sasuke, actually.

Tension between Naruto and Sasuke escalated after that time, and Sakura didn't know what to do, and ultimately was powerless to help either boy. Then Sasuke left, and Sakura confessed, then begged to be taken with him, and... was knocked unconscious and left on a bench. Naruto makes a promise he'll bring Sasuke back when she wakes up and comes to him crying; THUS IS SHIPPUDEN BORN.

Sasuke wasn't brought back and Naruto almost died. This was the final motivator that got Sakura to approach their new Hokage and ask (or politely demand) to be taken on as a student. Fast forward three years, and Sakura is a young woman talented in the medical field, a chuunin, and happy to see Naruto's back. Then the remains of Team Seven are off with Team Gai to Suna, as that kid they chased down and Naruto beat into submission years back now rules the country. Sakura ends up saving his older brother's life, then being involved in a fight with a member of a super badass evil group called Akatsuki, name of the member being Sasori. With the help of Chiyo, Sasori is defeated, and Sakura almost dies but doesn't in the process. Gaara is recovered, and brought back to life by Chiyo, who in a very Fullmetal Alchmeist moment (equivalent exchange), dies in the process.

Sakura got intel from Sasori prior to him dying, and this leads them to the next mission, and New Important Characters named Yamato and Sai. Sai is the not-replacement for Sasuke, and he ends up being on a mission to assassinate Sasuke! Anyhow before that Sakura is knocked unconscious again at a bridge and the guy who convinced Sasuke to leave in the first place shows up and provokes Naruto into a fight that leaves Sakura burned (she recovers from KO's pretty quickly) because she tries to solve Naruto's problem by running at him with love and it doesn't work. Whoops?

Team Newsies finds where Sasuke is, though Sai got there first with the guys who trained/lived with Sasuke, and so he finds Sasuke first. Then there's a team reunion moment right as Sakura is crushing Sai's throat for being a traitorous ass!!! and Sasuke kind of calmly tries to off them all, but is restrained by Orochimaru (the guy training him) and they disappear in flames elsewhere.

Naruto has several developing arcs while Sakura cries at home alone at night, and then eventually, they fight more Akatsuki members. Sakura doesn't directly have much to do with this, so I'll fast forward to what she next does do: heal people when Pain Came To End Konoha. (Briefly, before any of that, Sakura and Naruto and other kids their age were traipsing around trying to track down Sasuke after he killed his brother, and while they get close they don't catch up, so it's a period of nothing really important for Sakura outside of pointing out she's met Tobi and she can travel.) Sakura heals people! Sakura doesn't sacrifice herself for Naruto, and she almost has a heart attack realizing she recognizes the chakra signature of the kyuubi right as Naruto is about to go NINE TAILS NOOO. Only his dad stops that so Naruto doesn't and then he saves everyone and he comes back and Sakura hugs him.

Then walking with Naruto and Sai they get ambushed kind of by a bunch of ninja from the Lightning Country and are informed that a) Sasuke is part of the Akatsuki and b) HE KILLED OUR MASTER. Sakura freezes in shock and is crying and is kicked? Sai catches her and brings her to her unconscious teacher's side (Tsunade), where she's later yelled at by Sai for causing Naruto undue pain and trauma and then told by Shikamaru that they must kill Sasuke and so she says "okay" and sets off to... find Naruto. Which she does! In fact she confesses her love in one of the most insulting ways possible and says she's forgotten about that nasty criminal Sasuke and then hugs Naruto only this time he tells her he hates people who lie to themselves while Rock Lee facepalms and Kakashi sweatdrops.

Sai tattle tales on why Sakura really came (not for a booty call or... love confession time, but for the Sasuke Kill Kill mission), while Sakura takes off to find Sasuke and KILL HIM! (Shush this is a brilliant plan you must kill all you love if it stops a war okay? Okay.) She manages to trick everyone she's with and knock them out with sleeping gas, then find Sasuke himself. Only he's colder. COLDER. She can feel it, and he doesn't believe her any more than Naruto did, though at least she didn't confess love that time. Sasuke tried to shank her with chidori, Kakashi showed up to save her, then tried fighting Sasuke, and Sakura healed this girl named Karin (who was part of Sasuke's new team, and their healer to boot, who Sasuke had shanked in order to get to Danzou, this guy who kind of helped slaughter his entire family, but those are minor details really) and then, though she'd just been bawling, came back to help Kakashi because she wasn't going to make him do this alone.

She gets right up to Sasuke and then CANNOT SHANK HIM because she's not that kind of woman or ninja or basically she can't kill what she loves, so Sasuke grabs her by the throat and is about to shank her with her own kunai this time when -- Naruto saves her. Sakura decides that she cannot do anything, and that Naruto can. So she sits back and absorbs the death declaration Naruto makes with/for Sasuke, and then supports Naruto kind of nonspecifically back in the village when they all get home. Then Naruto trains more but Sakura is in the village waiting for WORD ON THE WAR. Then she's not and she's in Paradisa.

Paradisa historyEdit

"We're stuck in a Control Freak castle. This would be almost funny if we didn't really need to be somewhere else right now."

Sakura showed up in October, meeting with Ino soon after her arrival and learning about her prior stays at Paradisa (along with a few other choice tidbits, including [but not limited to] having died before in the castle) while dealing with the loss she hoped might be temporary at the start. Unfortunately, after a week, her voice remained permanently silenced, but it was only the start of her fifth stint as a prisoner of Paradisa.

October was fairly low key, considering the most excitement was a semi-publicized bathing at the Hot Springs with Ino which devolved into fighting a bear, and then the decoration of the castle after a certain Halloween Spirit. Early November brought about a celebration known as "Dia de los Muertos," most notable to Sakura for having painted her face to reflect her status as one of the "once dead," with an accompanying grave in Paradisa's general area.

Right after it ended, Sakura found herself as part of a group of people taken out to the Dead Zone and dropped. Julian and Lana Lang were the two people she convened with after waking up in the cold of the inhospitable Dead Zone. After a day of walking after determining their general location, they made camp for the night and ended up meeting Sakura's dog from many years earlier, named Scooter. They crossed over out of the Dead Zone in the morning, where they all made it to the nearest outpost before Sakura took off to the 'Northern' most one with her scraggly pooch in tow.

Tracking and testing out the border she could "locate" in the following week, Sakura kept an eye on the journal and anything she might be able to help with. At some point, Ino was knocked unconscious by a duck, and during her comatose state was brought up to speed on events with the war back home. Sakura sent a clone back to the Castle to speak with Ino about these events, and then returned herself when a group was organized to make a trip out into the Dead Zone to explore the area marked as Mineas Well.

THE ENTIRE MINEAS WELL SHENANIGANS WENT DOWN! Then they were sent back by their hostess and dumped into the Duck Pond.

November continued on, with bad movie binges with Ino and quiet talks with Hinata before December rolled in, and Sakura finally got around to asking how people dealt with muteness on their various worlds. This ultimately led to picking up British Sign Language and starting a small group to meet and learn BSL, in large part because her fellow castle-created mute acquaintance, Lucy Saxon, knew BSL. It seemed the logical extension.

Around Christmas there was a ball, on top of enforced Victorian Earth Era clothing that left ... tbc

AbilitiesEdit

"A shinobi never shows his feelings, no matter the circumstance. Feelings are a weakness... they only cloud his judgment and weaken his sense of duty."

Martial ArtistEdit

Even ignoring all her other skills, Sakura has been specifically trained to excel in hand-to-hand combat and other forms of unarmed combat. Her body is a weapon, so to speak, and she's well toned, agile, flexible, and stronger than most women her size.

Her training with Tsunade has also left her with advanced skills of evasion. Part of Tsunade's training was focused solely on the art of avoiding being hit in order to be functional out on the front lines and able to heal the team you're with. This also leads into her philosophy of ending conflicts as quickly as possible by maximizing the impact of any hit landed on an opponent.

Chakra EnhancementsEdit

Chakra allows Sakura to move faster than a human being ought, walk and climb on walls and ceilings as well as water and the like, and utilize all the basic techniques on her world. (Clones, shadow clones, etc.) She additionally has perfect control of her chakra, to the point where she doesn't waste chakra unless she absolutely has to. Her overall reserves are average. It's her precise control that lets her keep up with her boys.

"Super" StregthEdit

Training with Tsunade has perfected Sakura's chakra release. She can use chakra to capitalize on single points of contact, a sort of KO style of fighting. These massive releases are capable of causing spontaneous fracturing of the ground for a significant distance and depth, shocking even Kakashi and Naruto into realizing just how dead they'd be with one direct intentional hit from Sakura.

An apt comparison would be lines such as "one hit kills;" Sakura does have the capacity to kill with one hit, though it should be noted she never has in canon, and has only gone all out on... a puppet.

Medical TrainingEdit

Sakura can heal almost anything, as long as she's not being asked to heal on a cellular level. (This she just can't do - encouraging cells to regrow, yes, or flesh to reknit, but she cannot mend individual cell walls. See this as explained after Naruto uses his new technique on Kakuzu, I think. This should extend to not being able to cope with genetic defects, just side effects of those defects as best she can.) She's skilled at making antidotes, has presumably extensive herbal knowledge, and well. It's magic. Healing's not explained very well in series. She can't bring people back from death, that much is clear, so if you lose too much blood and there's no instant donor around, you're S.O.L. She's expected to surpass Tsunade at some point. Canon makes that trend blatantly obvious.

GenjutsuEdit

Unclear to what extent she knows or practices genjutsu. She still appears to be able to dispel genjutsu, or at least detect genjutsu, at a level beyond most shinobi. What this means is negligible, since the only obvious references in canon are when she's 13, and include her being able to withstand a high level sleep inducement on her lonesome. Presumably if she trains in this, and she really should have at least trained to recognize it (for the sake of not getting tricked by Sasuke's eyes, so to speak), Sakura would be a formidable genjutsu user. As it stands, there is no clear evidence of how much she does or doesn't know. She presumably has enough control of her chakra to break most hlds used by genjutsu users - she can surge through her own brain so that their manipulation is broken. Theoretically, which I can't stress enough. We just don't know. BUT WE KNOW HER RANKING. IT IS... LIKE 3.5. WHICH TELLS US NOTHING EXCEPT SHE'S RANKED.

Ability StatsEdit

Databook	Ninjutsu	Taijutsu	Genjutsu	Intelligence	Strength	Speed	Stamina	Handseals	Total
First	1.5	1	3	3.5	0.5	1	1	4	15.5
Second	2	1	3.5	4	1	1	1.5	4	18
Third	3	3	3.5	4	3	3	2.5	4	26
Paradisa	3	3	3.5	4	3	3	2.5	4	26

Character relationshipsEdit

CanonEdit

"On that day, you taught me that solitude is painful! I understand that so well right now. I have family, and I have friends, but if you're gone... to me... it will be the same as being alone."

Hinata Hyuuga

Ino Yamanaka

Naruto Uzumaki

Sasuke Uchiha

ParadisaEdit

"COMING SOON TO A THEATRE NEAR YOU"

Allen Walker old(er) resident of Paradisa; good friend of Ino's over the years, at least friendly with her in the past. Not much of a concrete opinion on him at the moment.

Cupid

Death the Kid

Lana Lang

Julian "Hellion" Keller

Yuri Lowell

Zexion

Paradisa and SakuraEdit

"Hehe... so predictable. My choice is the daffodil... It's a hardy flower that shows its beautiful face even in the dead of winter... patiently waiting for spring without bowing to the cold."

Events enduredEdit

All the typical ones for the year; some that stand out are as follows...

• Slenderman
  • Sakura fell into a deep slumber midway through the week, hearing and seeing none of the conclusion.
• May Children
  • One two-year-old son with Cupid; pink hair, teleporting, tiny feather wings

Temporary lossesEdit

"Nothing is so temporary as happiness. Also, twinkies."

• Innuendo Loss
• Mermaid Loss

InventoryEdit

• 1 (one) dog, named Scooter
  • weighs just about 100lbs
  • is technically a great pyrenees/golden retriever mix (for the halibut)
  • looks like this guy
  • equipped with tie on/lace up paw protectors for the snow
• 1 (one) medic pouch, fully stocked
• 1 (one) journal, Paradisa standard
  • several pages marked
    • such as the dead zone report
• 1 (one) writing slate, with loop for neck wearing
  • comes with attached chalk on string
• 1 (one) small notebook

TriviaEdit

FactsEdit

• The name "Haruno" means "spring field", and the name "Sakura" means "cherry blossom", 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). The cherry blossom also serves as the national flower for the nation of Japan. In Japanese, "Haruno Sakura" (春野・桜) means "spring field of cherry blossoms", which may be an origin of the name. It can be also used in the game, Hanafuda, as a month card of sakura|桜|flowering cherry.
• In the June 2006 issue of Shonen Jump, Kishimoto stated that Sakura would be the best ninja instructor out of Team 7 and is the closest to being normal, despite having flaws in her personality. Because of course... normal people don't have flaws.
• In the Naruto character popularity polls, Sakura was placed 5th in the first, 14th in the second, 9th in the third, 10th in the fourth, 8th in the fifth, and 12th in the sixth. She finished 6th in the seventh and most recent with 9,701 votes.
• Despite being the heroine of the series, Kishimoto stated himself during the 2010 interview that Hinata would make a better heroine than Sakura at the moment, however this is mainly due to the fact that he has a hard time making good roles for female characters like Sakura, but also stated that he would try to have Sakura play a more heroine role in the future.

• According to the Naruto databook:
  • Sakura's hobbies are playing trivia games and memorizing new material for her medical studies.
  • Sakura wishes for a rematch with Ino.
  • Sakura's favorite foods are syrup-coated anko dumplings, umeboshi, and anmitsu, while her least favorites 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 favorite word is "courage"|勇気|yūki.

HeadcanonEdit

Strange but trueEdit

• Sakura can cry stars.
• Sakura has a tendency to gain a substantial bosom in fanart.
• Based on various canon events, Sakura would have fit right into Fuedal Era Japan. Sango, watch out! You've got another demon hunter on her way to you!

NotesEdit

PermissionsEdit

"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."

Anything goes, as long as it doesn't break game rules or steal my socks. If it's something you think is good to talk to me before doing, that's why I'm here! IM, PM, EMAIL, comment on her character journal... I'll always get back to you!

All responses on her part will be IC, or influenced by whatever castle shenanigans are currently in place!

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