I just read this in case no one has poated it yet
from TakL on NF
I think this finally answers that yes The Haruno are a ninja clan though not one of note
Which is exactly what I always thought. Sakura has a ninja family crest, which her mother wears the adult form of on her long tunic. (like the Nara clan there is a juvenile clan symbol and an adult clan symbol, the fact Sakura still wears the juvenile form on her clothes is a subtle visual reinforcement that Mebuki and Kazashi don't want to let go of seeing Sakura as their little girl, not a young adult like the other kids of higher ranked ninja clans- being higher ranked the expectations of the kids to step up and become Jonin too are high. Sakura's parents, likely both just Chunin have no such expectations. Sakura made Chunin, the same as them, as they see Jonin ninja's lives as extremely dangerous and their fears about that would make them want to keep their precious little girl from. They don't realize Sakura has already been fighting on Jonin level missions, she qualifies as a Jonin, something her parents never did. They don't realize their little girl is a now a powerhouse Jonin level ninja (the fight with Sasori, and her easy one punch takedown of the giant centipede- that even Jonin level ninja were fleeing from and the astonished reactions of said ninja when she did kill it so easily, proves she is an elite level ninja). Even adult ninja treat her as if she was a Jonin already- ie when she orders the evacuation of all remaining ninja in Konoha during the Kyuubified Naruto's fight with Pain, and when she takes charge of the medic ninja during the battle with the Zetsu, her orders are followed immediately even by adult ninja amongst who there would have been Jonin. Shizune is Jonin and is the leader of the medic ninja but she treats Sakura as her equal and if both are there tends to let Sakura take the leadership role.
So yeah you can see why Sakura would feel angry that her parents refused to give their permission in the movie to becoming a Jonin. But as a 40 something (even though I don't have kids myself) I can understand a parent not wanting to let go of the idea that they are protecting their child from danger. But they have to let go of that role now, just like real world parents of soldiers have to.
It's not just living Naruto's life of the emotional devastation having no loving parents to come home to it's seeing the danger that a high ranked ninja faces that her parents fear for her, while Naruto gets a small taste of the not so happy side of having parents when you are on the cusp of adulthood as well as the good- Kushina's very hot tempered disciplining of him like he still was a child and then Minato's very bad response to Naruto when Sakura is in danger (perhaps this is reflective of Kazashi's mindset- why he never qualified to be a Jonin) Naruto acts worse to his parents when he gets them than Sakura is to hers, even though Minato and Kushina are much nicer parents than Sakura's. (at least Kushina is much nicer a mom than Mebuki, Minato and Kizashi seem kind of a draw, but Minato is much cooler than Sakura's pretty dorky dad.
If you look at it from Kizashi and Mebuki's mindset they probably think the elite Jonin clan parents are being terrible parents by actually pushing their children to become Jonin like themselves. They probably wonder how much those Jonin parents actually love their children. They probably wonder if those parents just see their children as their replacements.
Edited by ciardha, 29 July 2012 - 07:14 PM.
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