Naruto Notes [COMPLETED]

Sakura Haruno

Haruno Sakura

First Manga Appearance: Chapter 1

First Anime Appearance: Episode 1

Name Meaning: Haruno=Spring field, Sakura=Cherry Blossoms

Character Study: Cast as the main female lead, Sakura starts off as a thinly developed character, being known for her love of her team mate Sasuke than anything else. As the series progresses more of Sakura's strength and determination comes out which culminates in her becoming Tsunade's apprentice. While Sakura becomes more a Tsunade clone in her fighting style after the time skip, she matures and drops the juvenile infatuation aspects of her personality. This allows her to expore new facets of her relationship with Naruto.

Physical Information

Age: 16

Sex: Female

Birthday: 03/28

Bloodtype: O

Height: 161.0 cm

Weight: 45.4 kg

Ninja Information

Registration ID: 012601

Hidden Village: Leaf

Rank: Chuunin

Team: 7 - Uzumaki Naruto, Sai, Hatake Kakashi/Tenzou, Uchiha Sasuke (Former)

Advancement Data

Academy Grad Age: 12

Chuunin Exam Age: 14

Jutsu: Oukashou, Strength Enhancement, Saikan Chuushutsu, Sakura Fubuki, Shousen

Known Elements: -

Missions Completed

D-Rank: 12

C-Rank: 9

B-Rank: 6

A-Rank: 7

S-Rank: 0

      Sakura is the third member of Team Seven, the mid-point between the grades of Naruto and Sasuke. Strictly average in all respects, even to the point of having no signature jutsu, Sakura has shown a lot of development over the series. Beginning as nothing more than an admirer of Sasuke and appearing to take her ninja career less seriously than she should, her experiences eventually hardened her to the point of being an effective kunoichi.

     Initially, Sakura had a split personality that usually manifested itself viewable only to the audience and broke the fourth wall, an inverted negative cartoon image of herself with "Inner Sakura" written on her head, which conveyed her true emotions. Sakura's polite and pleasant manners were shown on the outside, where Inner Sakura was what she was really thinking. Sakura has been an emotional point for both Naruto and Sasuke, where Naruto's crush on her has always been ignored due to her own crush on Sasuke forming a typical chain. Sakura also caught the attention of the Genin, Rock Lee, who decided he would protect her life with his own within moments of meeting her.

     Another person Sakura has a common relation with is her on-off friend and rival, Ino. As a child, the other girls in her class teased Sakura because of her large forehead. Ino stood up for her and the two became friends, staying that way for a number of years until they both developed fondness for Sasuke. Both girls also grew their hair specifically upon hearing that Sasuke liked girls with long hair.

     Sakura's first major mission was to the Wave country, where she escorted the bridge-building expert Tazuna. Sakura was not involved in any major fights, but remained as his bodyguard while the other ninja were occupied. She wept while Sasuke appeared to be dead, breaking the rules on how ninja were not to allow their emotions to control them. It was on this mission that her Jounin sensei, Kakashi, held her back from a training exercise that Naruto and Sasuke participated in. Unknown to Sasuke and Naruto, Kakashi told her that while she had the smallest overall total capacity of chakra, she was the most efficient at creating and using it and didn't need the training.