Official Naruto Manga 236

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Originally posted by: CapsuleCorpJX
That pisses me off. Sakura has DONE NOTHING to deserve to be the apprentice of a Sannin.

This storyline is going so stereotypically now. I don't mind Sakura earning her way to be an apprentice to Tsuande, like training really hard and showing Tsuande that she can handle and deserve the training.

But how can a crappy Gennin that has done nothing, even have the nerve to ask a Hokage to train her personally??

And how can Tsuande accept?

God this is stupid.

Why not? she matches the requirements. Doesn't matter if you're hard working, but if you suck at controllling chakra then you would kill the injured. Having good chakra control EARNED her place as a pupil.

[Deblas]

your such an idiot CapsuleCorpJX. your such a sakura hater that by just reading her name in a post you go out bash her. you need to stop and think, sakura chakra control is among the best of the genins so she is perfect to be an apprentice of tsunade

[Ryllharu]

Naruto is basically a doofus and he got apprenticed to Jiraya to learn summons and the rasengan. Anyone has the right to ask a sannin or a hokage to help them. Tsunade agreed because she saw that Sakura is similar to her. Both want to protect people special to them.

[drcitan]

Now that Sakura is going to become a badass medical ninja I wonder how many bandwagoners r gonna jump on her ass

If Kishimoto even considers doing a time help its gonna have to be after the Venus Fly trap dude gets defeated.

The chunin exam takes place once every 6 months. Since all the genins didn't pass the first time, introducing a time jump to show everyone improvements would be prefect. Other then that I don't see a time jump coming anytime soon. With the "Red Moon" after Naruto I don't see any big 1 to 2 year time jumps

Please don't triple post. - Raven

[Sidnne]

Originally posted by: Nine Tailed Demon
Why is she doing this now? She should have been doing this while they were on the mission. DAMN! SHES USELESS!!!

It's been several months for us reading the manga, but within the story timeline it has only been several hours, maybe a day at most. Plus, Sakura deciding to do this after the mission fails fits in with the whole "becomming stronger for others" theme.

I can just picture it now. Sakura becomes strong like Tsunade and encounters Sasuke one day down the road, Sasuke thinks very little of her, writes her off, and then, much to his surprise, get his ass kicked by Sakura. That would be fun to see.

BTW, Where the hell are Gaara and Lee?? There hasn't even been a mention of them. I wonder if Kishimoto forgot that he left them sitting under that tree. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[RyougaZell]

He's new... he musn't have readed the rules...


Anyways...


It was pretty obvious this time would come, when Sakura became Tsunade's pupil. Took long enough tough.

Though I have an idea... doesn't another person fit the requirements? Hinata. And she already prepares ointments... I don't know why... but I think that if Tsunade doesn't train her Shizune will...

and time jump is a big no-no with the current chapters... the Venus-akatsuki guy... or Oro's reaction toward the lose of the 5 sound-nin... Sasuke's direction.... the Sand Trio at Konohagakure... etc etc...


Sidnne: Lee probably is hugging with Gai. While Gaara is either sitting with Kankurou waiting for Tenmari or waiting alone to go see Naruto while Kankuro sees Shino (XD)

[Sidnne]

I'd like to see a time jump. If you take away the introduction of Venus Flytrap Man, this would be an opportune moment for a time jump. Sasuke faded into the night on his journey to seek power, Sakura has been taken under Tsunade's wing, and Naruto is coming off of his worst and most meaningful defeat so far and is likely itching to get back to training with Jiraiya to become stronger.

If there is a time jump, I would hope it would be about 4 or 5 years. That would put the current Gennin at 17-18 and in full grown adult bodies instead of being little kids. The adults of the story would not be affected much by 5 years... If the Sannin are 50, then there isnt much of a difference at 55, and if Kakashi is say about 25, then it wouldn't hurt him any to be 30. It would also spare us the agony of watching Sakura with her nose in medical books, Sasuke wandering around learning on his own or being abused by Oro, and Naruto fumbling with new techniques.

But, as has been stated, the introduction of a new Akatsuki member pretty much rules out a time jump right now, so we can just sit back and enjoy a new arc for now.

Edit: Ryouga: Good point. I would definately love to see Gaara go visit Naruto in the hospital. The interaction between the two of them right now would be a high point in the series for me.

[RyougaZell]

That and the fact that Soundgakure (sp XD?) and Akatsuki won't sit down for 5 years without doing nothing to Konoha/Naruto...

[Boogster]

Originally posted by: Hotsuma
Am I the only person who thinks Sasuke isn't as bad as everybody makes him out to be? I think he's still got a shred of goodness left in him, and that's what Naruto will have to capitilize on next time they should fight. IF they fight, even. The last few panels of Sasuke and Naruto's fight seemed pretty symbolic, and definitely shouldn't be ignored as a possibility that Sasuke is still redeemable.

Anyways, it's about damn time Sakura got some real training. Obviously, her appearance against Sasuke is going to be very important.

Absloutely agree. I don't think that Sasuke will develop into one of the evil characters, his relationship with Naruto, Sasuke and, to some extent, Kakashi is too strong.

Originally posted by: CapsuleCorpJX
That pisses me off. Sakura has DONE NOTHING to deserve to be the apprentice of a Sannin.

This storyline is going so stereotypically now. I don't mind Sakura earning her way to be an apprentice to Tsuande, like training really hard and showing Tsuande that she can handle and deserve the training.

But how can a crappy Gennin that has done nothing, even have the nerve to ask a Hokage to train her personally??

And how can Tsuande accept?

God this is stupid.

It's called unfulfilled potential, I believe. Sakura has bags of it. Think of the times when Kakashi has praised her above Naruto or Sasuke. We know that she has excellent Chakra control; we also know that she values her friends highly and that when her passion for her friends is roused, she becomes more dangerous - I think there is much that is interesting about Sakura, and much that deserves the attention of the Hokage.

[Gods_Son]

Sakura is finally going to be useful, there's no reason to complain.

Don't double post.

[DeathscytheVII]

I've never liked sakura as a character, aside from being useless, she is ungrateful (did she ever thank naruto for saving her life?) and perhaps too erratically emotional at times (well thats not necessarily a bad thing, but seeing it soo much just....annoys the hell out of me.)

In any case, i consider her past the point where she can be redeemed as a character. But if Kishimoto can somehow pull that off, then i salute him.

[kAi]

i think the only reason sakura got to be tsunade's apprentice because she is naruto's team-mate/friend. and she see's herself in her.

also about the "That man comes to see naruto again" if anything i would say gaara or jiraiya... i know gaara isnt a 'man' but he is male and they could put boy in there, but i dunno.
i dont think there will be a time jump for a couple of chapters yet. they need to close some things up first i think.

[realtortato]

I guess Itachi is coming back, "That Man".
Or is it Jiraiya?
I can't wait to see any of them, it's been too long since they last showed up.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img]

[Edort4]

I'm not a sakura hater or something like that but this smells fishy, kishimoto wanst to boost up sakura to make her an important part of the manga/team the only thing i dont like about this is that one day she wokes up and says i want to be strong the day after that im sure shes already strong, while all the other ppl has been training while she was buying flowers and crying for sasuke.

Its so unfair to make things like that... We will see in the next chaps how this goes but if its the way i said above i must say that its a cheap way to reintroduce sakura. The 5th hokage only training 1 person while konoha is rebuilding? in the moment that the village needs her more? when she has so much work to do? im going to give kishimoto a chance to explain this all but i believe hes going to cheat his own manga, poor thing.

Bye.

[Ryllharu]

Originally posted by: Edort4

Its so unfair to make things like that... We will see in the next chaps how this goes but if its the way i said above i must say that its a cheap way to reintroduce sakura. The 5th hokage only training 1 person while konoha is rebuilding? in the moment that the village needs her more? when she has so much work to do? im going to give kishimoto a chance to explain this all but i believe hes going to cheat his own manga, poor thing.

What better way to rebuild Konoha than train new medical nins? Kohona lost so many Jounin and Chunnins and a lot of others so training more medical nins is a great way to ensure that no more are lost. Tsunade had that idea for a long time and perhaps she has the power to impliment it now. Konoha can't afford to lose any more ninjas, they already close down the ninja academy on a regular basis to send the instructors on missions. Training Sakura means that once she gets good as a medic-nin, her team runs a much lower risk of losing anyone and Konoha won't lose any MORE strength.

[Edort4]

I understand what ur saying but i still dont understand how can it help the village to train only 1 person(i would make a medic-nin school like they have the nin school to train docens of ppl at a time not only 1 person, its not a great diference) when she is one of the few medic nins that konoha has and even being the hokage. Maybe at times of peace the hokages have time but we have seen that she has been very busy since she became hokage so i dont get it, for me to train is not something u can make with 2 hours a day for 1 week it means a lot of time every day explaining and watching over during a long period of time(at least a month).

While she trains one person to save a team of 3 ppl whats up with all the other teams and hundreds of nins? Its like wasting a lot of potential in benefit of sakura only because she have a childish request(and kishimoto fulfilled it).

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you know... one of my favorite characters to play in narutamit hero 2 in multiplayer is sakura, i love it when my friends play as someone really powerfull and i beat them with "measly" sakura. she actually is pretty usefull in the game...[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif[/img] lol

[empT3]

Who says that sakura is going to be the only medical ninja trained? Just because Sakura is going to be the only one apprenticed to Tsudane doesn't mean they can't open an academy, or have the other medical nins start taking on apprentices.

[kAi]

yeah i have the same kinda thoughts.
i dont like sakura getting trained by the hokage i think if anyone should have done it, it should have been shizune, but hey kishimoto wants to reflect the sannins.
so its going in this direction. we will soon see what this training will start with and what will happen.

[Winged Dancer]

I hope the man that comes to Naruto is Jiraiya. Because he's just too damn cool, and because if Tsunade is training Sakura (yay!), Naruto needs to be trained by Jiraiya as well.

Regarding Sasuke, yea, he's got good in him. If not, he would have killed Naruto when he fainted back there... and he didn't. Nope, Sasuke's bad into the evil side of the good guys! Which means he's good, but likes to dress in black.

I wonder if Shizune will like the idea of Sakura training with Tsunade? Or will she go crazy on Sakura's ass and it'll be mud-fight time?
(note: the above was not meant to be taken seriously, needless to say.)