I'm not going to condemn sakura to the back so soon, given the Sasuke motive ordeal, she will still have a role in being impacted by this and how she and naruto react to Sasuke remains to be seen.
Yes, Sakura does have a role to contribute in the personal conflict with Sasuke. That is not what I am referring to though. The manga is currently focused on Tobi's downfall and Madara's resurrection. It's a moment for those two characters and anyone that is associated with one of them like Kakashi. Sakura will hopefully have additional contributions to make to the story but now wouldn't be the appropriate time unless Kishi chooses to exteriorise the Rin/Sakura parallel during the final moments of Tobi's life.
I mean given last chapter she was not healing anyone when sai talked to her, perhaps katsyau is doing that herself with some of Sakura's chakra.
So now she's just standing atop her summoning whilst observing from afar the intense conflict that her teammates are having against the ultimate entity of nature with a vacant expression on her face. If she has in fact completely restored the health of every soldier on the battlefield then what exactly is her purpose now? To remain on stand-by for anyone who may require healing? Why can the medical division not do that so Sakura can assist her companions in battle? Perhaps the reason is that Sakura has served her role at the moment and is now remaining in the background until she's required again.
This whole situation appears similar to how Killer Bee, the one other jinchuuriki on the battlefield, is nowhere to be seen despite the enormous amount of assistance that Gyuki would offer to Naruto and Sasuke at the moment. He acted as Naruto's then later Kakashi and Guy's support during the original battle against Tobi. Since the circumstances have been so drastically altered and with all of these additional characters to narrate for he's being relegated to the background despite the enormous practicality that his presence would have right now.
Given that tsunade is fine and coming back and how sakura said she could use her white strength seal easier, tsunade may take over the healing duties to allow sakura to fight, it could even be tsunade wanting to see Sakura's training pay off herself.All I know is, there are 2 ultimate medical ninja, with tsunade coming back this at least leaves a notion for now that perhaps sakura can fight by leaving the healing to tsunade.
Tsunade would look terrible if she permitted her adolescent apprentice to rush out into the fray once again and jeopardise the safety of one of the alliance's most valuable medics just for the purpose of "testing" her abilities. This a conflict that could potentially result in the end of the world if it's not won. Tsunade should be taking it very seriously.
What makes you believe that she will be the one to assume the role of group healer when Sakura has already become accommodated with the position? Tsunade has just as must of a reason to fight amongst her colleagues as Sakura does. In some respects perhaps even more as she did ensure to Naruto that they (the Kages) would be the ones to defeat Madara. That's an assurance which I believe Kishi may readdress in the future as the Kages return to the battle. Of course the circumstances would be different as they would have the Edo Hokage to assist which only gives Tsunade an even greater incentive to fight so she can interact with her grandfather after he died when she was only a small child.
Well aside from the Sasuke ordeal she will be impacted by, I am mainly saying you have 2 ultimate medics, one fighting and one healing is not hard to imagine. But if sakura has the superior white strength seal, makes sense for her to fight and tsunade to remain in the back, also I this way shows that sakura had come to surpass her. I mean the ten tails just got back up, the fighting has not fully resumed. If the seal sakura learned is the same then for as strong as it is right now, it has not even been released if everything is accurate from the past scenes with tsunade using it, then we can say that the seal by default in the diamond form grants the super strength but when the seal is released it does a ton more like the strength of 100. Maybe sakura would unleash this later, not sure but it's possible.
If the two seals are exactly the same then the dilemma of who should be permitted to fight on the front lines may come down to the individual who has the superior fighting ability and experience. Naturally that would be Tsunade as she has been partaken in a war before. She likely has encountered many more combat situations than Sakura. Furthermore, her natural chakra reserves are already quite enormous which could be implemented into her attacks so that contributes even more reason for Tsunade to fight instead.
Sakura won't be just healing after she healed the alliance. She didn't even show her full power that she uncovered yet.
Sakura was already using her "full power" the moment she created that seal on her forehead. The usage of her accumulated chakra has already been indirectly referenced on two different occasions.
She won't just sit now and watch the show of the alliance battling each other.
Ironically that appears to be what she's doing at the moment. Unless you're of the opinion that Sakura is continuing to heal without any handseals or concentration whilst staring impassively at Naruto and Sasuke as they fight the replicas
The story now is for Obito and what is he going to do and which characters will react and stuff. Plus, I think Sakura will heal Kakashi maybe.
I agree with this. Restoring Kakashi to full strength is perhaps the one connection to that particular subplot which she could make for herself outside of the Rin parallel.
Edited by Atheck, 27 June 2013 - 01:24 PM.
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