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Sakura Haruno
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fictional character from Naruto
Key facts
- First appearance
- Naruto chapter 3: Enter Sasuke! (1999)
- Created by
- Masashi Kishimoto
- Voiced by
- Japanese , Chie Nakamura , English , Kate Higgins , Dorothy Elias-Fahn (Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals)
- Notable relatives
- Kizashi Haruno (father), Mebuki Haruno (mother), Sasuke Uchiha (husband), Sarada Uchiha (daughter), Itachi Uchiha (brother-in-law, deceased)
- Ninja rank
- Genin in Part I , Chunin in Part II , Jonin in The Last: Naruto the Movie
- Ninja team
- Team 7/Team Kakashi
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Encyclopedic overview
Sakura Uchiha (Japanese: 春野 サクラ, Hepburn: Uchiha Sakura) (née Haruno) is a fictional character in the Naruto manga and anime series created by Masashi Kishimoto. Sakura is depicted as a kunoichi affiliated with Konohagakure (木ノ葉隠れの里; English version: "Hidden Leaf Village") and a part of Team 7, which consists of herself, Naruto Uzumaki, Sasuke Uchiha, and their sensei Kakashi Hatake. Besides the main series, Sakura has appeared in several pieces of the Naruto media, most notably the spin-off Naruto: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring (2015) and the sequel Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (2016) where she married Sasuke Uchiha and is the mother of their daughter, Sarada Uchiha.
Sakura is depicted as an innocent girl who does not share the same tragic backstories as her teammates, though she was bullied throughout her youth. She initially has an infatuation for Sasuke, and she is not ambitious. Her only ambition at this point was becoming Sasuke's girlfriend. By contrast, she is dismissive to her less-skilled teammate Naruto Uzumaki despite being Naruto's initial love interest. Over the course of the series, as Sasuke eventually leaves the village, Sakura begins to adopt a singularly-driven persona. She asked Naruto to find Sasuke and thought only about Sasuke. She becomes a medical ninja while apprenticed under the Fifth Hokage, Tsunade, and she eventually becomes friendly and even protective of Naruto as his life becomes increasingly at risk.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sakura Haruno” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.