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Posted 05 December 2020 - 08:04 PM

So theres a trend i see in Fan fiction and in topics i see in general where the authors try to shine Sakura up a bit. they throw her blood line traits or make the haruno clan into something special like the uzumaki clan or so on and so forth.

 

while any author can do so of course artistic license and the like. I think when they do this they do Sakura a great disservice because they miss  one very critical point

 

that what makes Sakura so special is one glaring thing
SHES NOT
she has no special blood lines or special genetics or beasts sealed inside her or anything of the sort. shes a bog standard human woman with nothing special about her save her pink hair and her broad forehead, and that she has phenomenal chakra control and a great intellect but beyond that nothing nada nix Nein no special powers
AND THAT MAKES HER ALL THE MORE AWESOME
because this NOBODY from a no name clan with no special abilities or genetics or bloodlines had the Brass ones to walk into the hokages office and demand to be trained
then she took that knowledge and improved on it until she mastered it in HALF the time.
took down a member of akatsuki and fought half a war while half her chakra was sealed away and still kicked booty
see this is the most important aspect of Sakuras character what makes her so special
SHE ISNT special she became who she was through hard backbreaking heartbreaking tear-jerking work. Everyone points to lee and says hes a master of hard work HAH Sakura makes him look like a slacker.
All Lee had to do was pushups and laps and some sparring
Sakura had to perform Complex medical ninjutsu that required phenomenal chakra control while simultaneously having half her chakra suppressed and studying and absorbing a virtual libraries worth of knowledge oh and she had to spar with the Hokage whose training style was dont get hit or youre a corpse and she survived this and mastered it all at the age of 15-17 years of age and this after her initial growth was stunted by her own folly which means in a short span of 3-5 years she became one of the greatest medical ninja in the world
And all without a single special trait about her

So my advice for aspiring artists and authors when you consider writing a narusaku or Sakura centric story keep in mind one of the things about her. The fact that shes NOT special, and being that way is what nakes her all the more special

 


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Posted 05 December 2020 - 09:13 PM

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Posted 06 December 2020 - 01:26 AM

Just a reminder that you don't have to kitten on somebody to bring someone else up. Lee did outstandingly for a boy who lacked most needed part to become shinobi. On other hand I totally agree on topic. Sadly Sakura and most females in Naruto sufferend from becoming housewifes, even the very special totally special hime-sama Hinata.

Poor writing is to blame.



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Posted 06 December 2020 - 02:30 AM

Though I agree with you, I see Sakura as more of a blank page in the Naruto-verse and it is why Authors has so much fun with her character. She can be paired with any character and have any amount of  abilities. This goes to show Kishimoto was lazy and underutilized her. You would find that some of the strongest characters in Naruto aren't from any bloodline or have special abilities.



 


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Posted 06 December 2020 - 08:45 AM

Okay, since this thread started from your reply my Facebook post here to which I hadn't had time to reply because I entered a stream, let me try to explain you a little bit my train of thoughts regarding this, since I feel targeted, lol.

 

In my story, yes, I decided to give the Harunos something special. But why? Let me tell you why and from where it all started.

 

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Here it, the panel that made me go "what if" in conjunction to Kishimoto's interview with Kobayashi.

 

At this point in the story we're very early. Naruto is an idiot, Sakura has no special ability. 

 

But these are their point of origin. By antithesis, at the end of the story what do we have? A Naruto who is not so idiot anymore and despite his denseness he comes up with solutions to save the shinobi alliance, like when he teleports the shinobi alliance outside the enclosure, tricks Kaguya so on and so forth.

 

So, his point B development makes him be the total opposite of what he was initially - the idiot.

 

But then again, where does that leave Sakura? She's still at the same spot - she has no special ability. Yes, she gets Byakugou. But that is an ability invented by Tsunade, and Tsunade has a genetic pool coming from Uzumaki and Senju sides.

 

Plus, unlike her teammates, Sakura doesn't get her special ability that's only hers like Naruto and Sasuke. She is a mini copy of Tsunade and that's it!

 

So, could it be that at the end of the day, Kishimoto had something special in mind for her, but gave up on it due to popularity reasons, like he said in Kobayashi's interview?

 

I think that's quite very possible! 

 

And that, combined with the symbolism that surrounds her, the parallels existent in the manga for her, the hints here and there regarding her interest in certain aspects/jutsu, paired-up with what was already hinted to be kinda as something special about her, I came-up with this AU.

 

Plus, like Luna said, in this respect, Sakura is an open canvas. You can do so much with her. Not to mention, yeah, it might sound like I'm giving Harunos some big stuff yadda yadda, but you don't even know what it is.

 

You don't even know how I thought about this. Maybe it's special without being special in the context of Naruto world, know what I mean? 

 

I think you were too quick to judge a book by its cover before reading what it has to say.

 

Not to say that you are not free to do it, just saying.

 

Oh, and to address your second comment here, in regards to what I told you about Road to Ninja. I get that i'd be nice to have Sakura's parents as heroes without having special abilities, however must I remind you that Sakura's dad was Hokage in that dream world.

 

And to be Hokage, you gotta have something special up there, some technique that puts you in position of power, otherwise, you're not cut to be Hokage. Because that was the prerequisite to be one: have strong techniques.

 

So while I understand what you're trying to say with it, is also the fact that they had to have something special about them to get in that position of power, given the world they live in. 

 

So yeah, hope I made that clear.

 

Plus, another no-special character tried to achieve Byakugo and couldn't. So it begs the question: what made Sakura so special that she could? Is it her drive or was it meant to be something more? Why does she have this perfect chakra control to begin with?

 

I know very well what you mean. I was very aware from the very beginning I started making this story. I never claimed it to be 100% close to the laws of canon.

 

To me it's the road of WHAT IF, given certain details we know about her, the symbolism surrounding her name and her parent's name, her clan symbol, parallels etc.

 

And I think in this respect authors are free to paint their canvas however they want. 

 

But maybe that's just me... :) 


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Posted 06 December 2020 - 06:41 PM

I should actually clarify one thing in my own head canon, I did have something special about Sakura

 

that being that she did what her master and Orochimaru failed to do, namely she mastered immortality. 

 

Sakuras mastery of the byakugo seal means that she would be functionally immortal, unkillable barring a massive disintegration style attack but other wise ageless unless she wants to be and physically always in her prime as long as she has even a shred of chakra

 

The ability to master what 2 of the three sannin failed to do sets her up as one of the greatest shinobi of all time


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Posted 06 December 2020 - 07:21 PM

I should actually clarify one thing in my own head canon, I did have something special about Sakura

 

that being that she did what her master and Orochimaru failed to do, namely she mastered immortality. 

 

Sakuras mastery of the byakugo seal means that she would be functionally immortal, unkillable barring a massive disintegration style attack but other wise ageless unless she wants to be and physically always in her prime as long as she has even a shred of chakra

 

The ability to master what 2 of the three sannin failed to do sets her up as one of the greatest shinobi of all time

 

Well, on that respect you might be in for a big surprise. :D

 

It's just that I introduced the Sakura lineage part as a way to explore that what if, and to explore her issue with not feeling adequate enough given that her clan is basically a no name.

 

Cuz Sakura's problem was that, that she wasn't part of a god knows what special powerful ninja clan. That was the part Kishi explored in RTN.

 

So then I thought hmmmmmmmmm, civillian clan, not so special... which other clan did we knew to be the same? Ooh bingo, the Uzumakis were treated by the plot like that (they too, were civillians and weren't treated like God knows what since we have Naruto Uzumaki instead of Naruto Namikaze).

 

So then given everything - the symbolism, the plot connections, her wanting to learn about Hashirama, so on and so forth, I weaved that plot.

 

Basically I took all the what ifs and built on them.

 

And what made me believe the fact that he truly wanted to make something with her was when Naruto got the seal of the sun in the war. That was Sakura's symbol! Why would he use Sakura's symbol like that?

 

Was it because he intended Sakura to have all those powers he gave Naruto, but decided to use those ideas for Naruto since Sakura was already hated?

 

There are so many things, and if you'd know the symbolism behind each and every one of these, ah, you'd totally understand where I'm coming from.

 

I plan on making explanatory posts for this story though, after I've finished it. To give people a glimpse in my process of creation and make them understand where I came from.


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Posted 10 January 2021 - 05:44 PM

So theres a trend i see in Fan fiction and in topics i see in general where the authors try to shine Sakura up a bit. they throw her blood line traits or make the haruno clan into something special like the uzumaki clan or so on and so forth.

 

while any author can do so of course artistic license and the like. I think when they do this they do Sakura a great disservice because they miss  one very critical point

 

that what makes Sakura so special is one glaring thing
SHES NOT
she has no special blood lines or special genetics or beasts sealed inside her or anything of the sort. shes a bog standard human woman with nothing special about her save her pink hair and her broad forehead, and that she has phenomenal chakra control and a great intellect but beyond that nothing nada nix Nein no special powers
AND THAT MAKES HER ALL THE MORE AWESOME
because this NOBODY from a no name clan with no special abilities or genetics or bloodlines had the Brass ones to walk into the hokages office and demand to be trained
then she took that knowledge and improved on it until she mastered it in HALF the time.
took down a member of akatsuki and fought half a war while half her chakra was sealed away and still kicked booty
see this is the most important aspect of Sakuras character what makes her so special
SHE ISNT special she became who she was through hard backbreaking heartbreaking tear-jerking work. Everyone points to lee and says hes a master of hard work HAH Sakura makes him look like a slacker.
All Lee had to do was pushups and laps and some sparring
Sakura had to perform Complex medical ninjutsu that required phenomenal chakra control while simultaneously having half her chakra suppressed and studying and absorbing a virtual libraries worth of knowledge oh and she had to spar with the Hokage whose training style was dont get hit or youre a corpse and she survived this and mastered it all at the age of 15-17 years of age and this after her initial growth was stunted by her own folly which means in a short span of 3-5 years she became one of the greatest medical ninja in the world
And all without a single special trait about her

So my advice for aspiring artists and authors when you consider writing a narusaku or Sakura centric story keep in mind one of the things about her. The fact that shes NOT special, and being that way is what nakes her all the more special

 

 

Fixing Sakura is easy. Give her part 1 Kabuto's chakra scalpel fighting style, combine it with her insane chakra control and she can basically disable anybody. Combine that with the super strength (which was a mistake to also give to Naruto via Sage/Chakra mode or whatever) and she is in a league of her own. Of course, that would require imagination. And Kishimoto lost every trace of that a long long long long long time ago. 


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Posted 11 January 2021 - 05:46 AM

So... I have feelings about Sakura. lol-obviously! :D

 

I think it's too easy to see Sakura as just the 'normal one.' Even though she's definitely portrayed that way in the manga, over and over again. It's too simple of a description for her. I think she's got so much more going on, but it gets swept aside from her lack of backstory or evolution of character.

 

In fact, instead of finding her more normal, I just keep finding more and more ways that she and Naruto are alike!! Both are powerful but come from unknown backgrounds. Both are 'orphans' in their world: neither has family support/presence in their shinobi career. Both had minimal training to unlock their abilities, and both from the two least-teachery teachers of the Sennins (Jiraiya and Tsunade). They are both misfits in a way (Naruto is the class slacker, Sakura is bullied), till they find each other. Then of course, both grow together, have the same motivations, admire each other and never give up. 

 

It is shocking how perfectly suited they are to each other, for him to end up with Hinata who he has NOTHING in common with. 

 

Back on topic, since Sakura was billed as 'the normal one' of the group, it would make sense for her to be revealed at the end of having some ancient power. Perhaps even latent, which is why she a had non-ninja family. She doesn't have to be special like that, but it totally feels like it's being set up in the manga for that outcome. The normal girl turns out to have some ancient power in the end that saves the hero. (But of course, her growth in the story stops after the Pain arc. So we'll never know.)

 

I actually think Sakura has an untapped power that even she didn't know about (like Naruto growing up). She is so much more powerful than everyone else, even Tsunade. In that way she's never been a 'normal' girl even though she grew up in a normal home. She's always done twice as much as her team and all her other classmates, and then still outpaces Tsunade's abilities in the end. None of the other rookies does what she does.

 

Imagine if Lee, the closest comparison to her skills and journey, were to become a go through med-nin training at the same time as his shinobi training, come out and become a doctor and a top-notch ninja, then surpass Guy's abilities...and then surpass the Kage's sage level!! That's what Sakura does, and yet people still think she can't carry her own weight! 

 

So like I said, I think the normal girl set up would have been that much sweeter if she was revealed to have a more complex power/background in the end. But if that was the plan, we'll never know.

 

There is a whole medic storyline built into the manga. Chiyo was a medic. Tsunade was a medic. Orochimaru was a medic. Who taught them? There are clearly healer types and warrior types, using the same medic abilities. 

 

As for fanfic.... muwahahahaha! I have thoughts on this too!  :lol:

 

If you read my fic, Voice in the Wind, Sakura's story development is a major point....

 

Sakura has to uncover the origins of her own power. And that even though she thinks of herself as 'the normal one' on the team, she comes to realize that she's not. She's an 'odd one' just like the rest of her over-powered team. She discovers she has a hidden power that some people know about and can even see in her, while most people don't know. Which is exactly like Naruto's story. So she has to come to understand her unique chakra capabilites, with people who want to help her, or hurt her, or use her. Again, just like Naruto. 

 

The next chapter breaks all this open, so I'm not exactly spoiling the plot. Just giving a little preview!  :D

 

Anyway, love this thread! I could talk/read about this for days!!



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Posted 12 January 2021 - 03:41 AM

Honestly I think Sakura would have worked better if in part one she was used as kishi test subject of a sort. He vaguely knew what he wanted Naruto to be therefor because of his stupid balancing the rival Sasuke as well. He didn't know what to do with Sakura.

 

Instead of just the wave arc there should/would have been several missions like that to help grow the team's bonds before the chunin exam disrupts them. During those kakashi give the group training. Naruto is given task or training to make him become smarter or better control since he already has the body. Sakura would be given more physical training since she already very intelligence. Sasuke since he already has both focused more on the bonding with the others.

 

Part of Sakura training would be Kakashi trying to figure out what she should do while trying to make sure the team are all doing it together. He tries genjutsu but kishi drops it because it a hassle to do lot of genjutsu fights just to keep her important. Sensory but it turns out Naruto better at it and it help improve Narutos thinking abilities while fighting. Sealing but then it discover to be too complex for her to reliably do with out much experience also she has to spend more of that arc teaching Naruto how to read; who once he does is surprisingly a natural at sealing. Finally, just ending up with Water and Earth to create walls, Naruto gets wind but Kakashi says he not skilled enough to teach Naruto anymore than a few useful jutsu, and Sasuke gets lighting having Kakash decided that Sasuke could inherit his chidori later on.

 

Then her fight against the sound nin team happens she uses all her ability both what she learned in the story so far and in the academy. However they are so elementary that they are nothing more than an annoyance to the Sound team. sakura realizes that she just been coasting while relying on the other to pick up the slack and resolves to change her self.

 

By the end of part one she become a medic under Tsunade's tutelage.

 

In part two during the elemental training she learns she can learn would release which she learns while watching Naruto struggle with the kyuubi during the wind rasengan training filling Sakura with determination to master wood so she could help Naruto.

 

By the end she would have surpassed her master. The evasion, healing and power to defeat her foes from Tsunade in a single hit. But also genjutsu to debilitate/distract her foes, earth, water and wood to protect her allies, and some knowledge of sealing and sensory abilities.

 

As for Naruto fan fiction in general. I find less preaching at church and less sophistry in a college dorm than I do in a general Naruto fanfic.


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Posted 13 January 2021 - 05:26 AM

Yah, what made Sakura special was that she wasn't special at all. To me she's kind of the girl-next-door type in the Naruto-verse: plain and simple. She stood out, special or not, being MC. But that ambiguity in Sakura regarding everything about her means that there's a lot to experiment with. And one easy, popular way to do so is with fanfics.



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Posted 19 January 2021 - 09:05 AM

Yah, what made Sakura special was that she wasn't special at all. To me she's kind of the girl-next-door type in the Naruto-verse: plain and simple. She stood out, special or not, being MC. But that ambiguity in Sakura regarding everything about her means that there's a lot to experiment with. And one easy, popular way to do so is with fanfics.

 

And that would've been the surprise of it! Imagine a normal girl, from a civilian family getting to those power levels. That would've been a positive shock value, which wouldn't have been out of nowhere, because the plot laid the foundation to that!

 

First we have her being called a kunoichi with no special ability. That's point of origin as a character.

 

But later on she starts training under Tsunade. Yeah, she gets to be a medical ninja, gets her new power-ups. 

But then, as the story evolves here comes slight references made by Sakura about Hashirama when Yamato comes into play. How does she know that? Where did it start? Why did Sakura start looking into that to begin with?

 

Then we have her asking Yamato about the technique. She wants to know more about it. But Yamato says that he cannot teach her that. That's the obstacle that's put in her path as a character that she was supposed to surpass. Why?

 

Because the mirror to her character stands right in front of her - Yamato. He, too, isn't from a ninja clan, and YET SOMEHOW he was able to withstand Hashirama's techniques and even use them.

 

Sure the plot then slowly just fades that storyline but like I said, it was always there. Sadly Kishi just gave up on her...

 

And that's why I took it upon myself to explore those possibilities.

 

How can a normal, civilian girl with no special powers whatsoever be able to attain such threshold of power?

 

That's a really fun plotline to explore to be honest. 

 

Honestly I think Sakura would have worked better if in part one she was used as kishi test subject of a sort. He vaguely knew what he wanted Naruto to be therefor because of his stupid balancing the rival Sasuke as well. He didn't know what to do with Sakura.

 

Instead of just the wave arc there should/would have been several missions like that to help grow the team's bonds before the chunin exam disrupts them. During those kakashi give the group training. Naruto is given task or training to make him become smarter or better control since he already has the body. Sakura would be given more physical training since she already very intelligence. Sasuke since he already has both focused more on the bonding with the others.

 

Part of Sakura training would be Kakashi trying to figure out what she should do while trying to make sure the team are all doing it together. He tries genjutsu but kishi drops it because it a hassle to do lot of genjutsu fights just to keep her important. Sensory but it turns out Naruto better at it and it help improve Narutos thinking abilities while fighting. Sealing but then it discover to be too complex for her to reliably do with out much experience also she has to spend more of that arc teaching Naruto how to read; who once he does is surprisingly a natural at sealing. Finally, just ending up with Water and Earth to create walls, Naruto gets wind but Kakashi says he not skilled enough to teach Naruto anymore than a few useful jutsu, and Sasuke gets lighting having Kakash decided that Sasuke could inherit his chidori later on.

 

Then her fight against the sound nin team happens she uses all her ability both what she learned in the story so far and in the academy. However they are so elementary that they are nothing more than an annoyance to the Sound team. sakura realizes that she just been coasting while relying on the other to pick up the slack and resolves to change her self.

 

By the end of part one she become a medic under Tsunade's tutelage.

 

In part two during the elemental training she learns she can learn would release which she learns while watching Naruto struggle with the kyuubi during the wind rasengan training filling Sakura with determination to master wood so she could help Naruto.

 

By the end she would have surpassed her master. The evasion, healing and power to defeat her foes from Tsunade in a single hit. But also genjutsu to debilitate/distract her foes, earth, water and wood to protect her allies, and some knowledge of sealing and sensory abilities.

 

As for Naruto fan fiction in general. I find less preaching at church and less sophistry in a college dorm than I do in a general Naruto fanfic.

 

Yeah, the exposition regarding her character wasn't the best. But I thoroughly believe he had something in mind for her because like I said on the other reply, the basis of that foundation was there. He seemed to be having a pretty clear road up to a point when he just let the popularity polls take over while being flooded with hate regarding her character.

 

If he would've just stood true to his own plan, I think that maybe he would've seen a different reaction towards Sakura, but he failed to do so in the end.

 

She had the potential to truly be the deadlock between Naruto and Sasuke.

 

I also think there was a plot for her genjutsu abilities as well, but more like in terms of dispelling one rather than creating one. I think he meant for her to even go as far as to dispel Uchiha level genjutsu and that is tied in her Senju lineage connection.

 

Because think about it - Senjus were superior to Uchihas in every way - that included their genjutsu abilities as well. So then it  begged the question - how exactly?

 

And I think that Sakura's connection to their storyline would've answered the question if not for him dropping her character alltogether.

 

So... I have feelings about Sakura. lol-obviously! :D

 

I think it's too easy to see Sakura as just the 'normal one.' Even though she's definitely portrayed that way in the manga, over and over again. It's too simple of a description for her. I think she's got so much more going on, but it gets swept aside from her lack of backstory or evolution of character.

 

In fact, instead of finding her more normal, I just keep finding more and more ways that she and Naruto are alike!! Both are powerful but come from unknown backgrounds. Both are 'orphans' in their world: neither has family support/presence in their shinobi career. Both had minimal training to unlock their abilities, and both from the two least-teachery teachers of the Sennins (Jiraiya and Tsunade). They are both misfits in a way (Naruto is the class slacker, Sakura is bullied), till they find each other. Then of course, both grow together, have the same motivations, admire each other and never give up. 

 

It is shocking how perfectly suited they are to each other, for him to end up with Hinata who he has NOTHING in common with. 

 

Back on topic, since Sakura was billed as 'the normal one' of the group, it would make sense for her to be revealed at the end of having some ancient power. Perhaps even latent, which is why she a had non-ninja family. She doesn't have to be special like that, but it totally feels like it's being set up in the manga for that outcome. The normal girl turns out to have some ancient power in the end that saves the hero. (But of course, her growth in the story stops after the Pain arc. So we'll never know.)

 

I actually think Sakura has an untapped power that even she didn't know about (like Naruto growing up). She is so much more powerful than everyone else, even Tsunade. In that way she's never been a 'normal' girl even though she grew up in a normal home. She's always done twice as much as her team and all her other classmates, and then still outpaces Tsunade's abilities in the end. None of the other rookies does what she does.

 

Imagine if Lee, the closest comparison to her skills and journey, were to become a go through med-nin training at the same time as his shinobi training, come out and become a doctor and a top-notch ninja, then surpass Guy's abilities...and then surpass the Kage's sage level!! That's what Sakura does, and yet people still think she can't carry her own weight! 

 

So like I said, I think the normal girl set up would have been that much sweeter if she was revealed to have a more complex power/background in the end. But if that was the plan, we'll never know.

 

There is a whole medic storyline built into the manga. Chiyo was a medic. Tsunade was a medic. Orochimaru was a medic. Who taught them? There are clearly healer types and warrior types, using the same medic abilities. 

 

As for fanfic.... muwahahahaha! I have thoughts on this too!  :lol:

 

If you read my fic, Voice in the Wind, Sakura's story development is a major point....

 

Sakura has to uncover the origins of her own power. And that even though she thinks of herself as 'the normal one' on the team, she comes to realize that she's not. She's an 'odd one' just like the rest of her over-powered team. She discovers she has a hidden power that some people know about and can even see in her, while most people don't know. Which is exactly like Naruto's story. So she has to come to understand her unique chakra capabilites, with people who want to help her, or hurt her, or use her. Again, just like Naruto. 

 

The next chapter breaks all this open, so I'm not exactly spoiling the plot. Just giving a little preview!  :D

 

Anyway, love this thread! I could talk/read about this for days!!

 

Exactly Tricks! It's like... why make her look as the normal one to begin with? Why put her into that contrast if you're gonna let her just be that, while also tying certain elements of her subplot to one of the strongest ninja clan out there. Not one actually, but two - because there's always this connection to both Uzumaki and Senjus.

 

Not to mention the clear alluding at the forehead symbols - both Mito AND Hashirama have those forehead symbols. It was clear as daylight that she was supposed to be tied-up to them.

 

And yes, Naruto and Sakura have so much in common it's amazing to me that people didn't see it. It was always there. Sure, he had some minor things in common with Hinata too - like being the outcasts of their respective environment, but other than that, that was it! Sakura and Naruto have more than that.

 

They are mirrors to each other - like Heaven and Earth! No wonder Kishimoto gave them this symbolism!

 

And it's one I am very much building the story upon as well. Heaven and Earth are nothing more than a mirror to each other - both use energy at their core - one is body, one is spiritual.

 

It's like us with our human shell on earth and our higher spiritual self. I think Kishi also wanted to go this route with her via Inner Sakura tbh. I think she was meant to be MORE than just a fanservice comedic aspect. And that had a laid foundation back in her battle with Ino, when Ino tells Sakura she has two minds.

What does that mean two minds?

 

The signs were always there for her to unlock like you said, this ancient power. And that can happen with her being from this normal civilian family. 

 

That's what I'm basing Kaika on.

 

The normality aspect with her was always in juxtaposition with characters such as Naruto, Sasuke, Gaara. Kishi even says that she has no dark secrets or stuff like that. There's no tragedy like that surrounding her clan.

 

But no dark secrets or tragedy doesn't equal coming from a clan with no special ability. That's the thing. And that's the card I'm also playing with Kaika, like you're playing with Voice in the Wind.

 

Because think about it in OG storyline - who else had the same knack for chakra and easily climbed stuff? Right, Hashirama Senju.

 

Despite not being from such a well-renown clan, Sakura displays the same understanding and ability for chakra. She just doesn't have the stamina.

 

But the stamina can be trained. Such knack for it from the get go, also means there's something there. Her understanding of chakra and effectiveness in using it is something that surpasses most cast.

 

It's something I actually already started tapping in the second chapter of Kaika's.

 

For who's interested by the way, the new one got posted in its dedicated thread. :D 


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Posted 19 January 2021 - 10:34 PM

I really like the alternative perspective that Sakura really is special. I honestly never thought about it that way.

Thinking back to part one "Naruto", Sakura's genjutsu affinity is certainly attributed to her chakra control, but her battle with Ino would have showed that she has a rare ability to thwart complete mind control. This is similar to having a tailed beast in your body because of two chakra signatures living in one vessel. There's so much someone could have done with the part of the story.

Then during early Shippuden, we have Sakura who honed her chakra control to become a medical ninja learn about Naruto's jinchuriki status. We get her asking about Yamato's sealing abilities. It seemed to be the focus for her character, Naruto's well being and the jinchuriki inside him. That plot device didn't go anywhere.

Lastly, we have Sakura's Byakugou seal and her contract with the Katsuyu. Still pissed I never got to see Shikkotsu forest and Sakura using its Sage power. Speaking of that, I remember feeling that Sakura was going complete her seal somewhere during/shortly after the Pain invasion. This was mainly because we saw Naruto learn Sage mode after Jiraiya's death,and Tsunade was knocking on death's door.

If Sakura had any special abilities it seems that it would have been in relation to genjutsu and tailed beast, which so happens to be Sasuke's/Naruto's specialty.

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Posted 19 January 2021 - 11:23 PM

I really like the alternative perspective that Sakura really is special. I honestly never thought about it that way.

Thinking back to part one "Naruto", Sakura's genjutsu affinity is certainly attributed to her chakra control, but her battle with Ino would have showed that she has a rare ability to thwart complete mind control. This is similar to having a tailed beast in your body because of two chakra signatures living in one vessel. There's so much someone could have done with the part of the story.

Then during early Shippuden, we have Sakura who honed her chakra control to become a medical ninja learn about Naruto's jinchuriki status. We get her asking about Yamato's sealing abilities. It seemed to be the focus for her character, Naruto's well being and the jinchuriki inside him. That plot device didn't go anywhere.

Lastly, we have Sakura's Byakugou seal and her contract with the Katsuyu. Still pissed I never got to see Shikkotsu forest and Sakura using its Sage power. Speaking of that, I remember feeling that Sakura was going complete her seal somewhere during/shortly after the Pain invasion. This was mainly because we saw Naruto learn Sage mode after Jiraiya's death,and Tsunade was knocking on death's door.

If Sakura had any special abilities it seems that it would have been in relation to genjutsu and tailed beast, which so happens to be Sasuke's/Naruto's specialty.


Well well well I have just about that thing slowly being brought up in my newest Kaika chapter.

It's something I decided to explore in my story because I always saw that potential there.

Even in my old theories, I was about 90% right. The Hashirama similarities, her getting mokuton chakra affinity, so on and so forth.
The only thing that didn't come through was the NaruSaku thing, sadly. But all the others did, the only problem is that they were left there hanging, without Kishi actually doing something about it in the end, sadly.

But it's okay tho. Imma do her justice, lol. 😁

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