Quote:Well, that was why I said the original difference was the Haruno clan, and that it was sometime considerably in the past - Sakura is one of those destined key figures who shows up regardless, but her fathers are slightly different between the two, and her mothers are two different people entirely.
RE: Haruno - argh. Actually, the real problem, which slipped my mind earlier, is that we've actually gone and created entirely different characters to fill out Sakura's family, particularly her mother. I mean, kickass Jounin vs. fluttery socialite, that's a big gap. Her father isn't nearly so problematic, and since I don't think either of us has ever formally pinned down how many kids there are we can just use all of them, but...
family sizes - I'd had it as a range of 1.7 to ~5 kids in ninja families, with the prominence of the clan and utility of the bloodline being the major factor in how many and whether one or both parents retire from active service to raise them. Attrition and the small low end means that the villiages still have to do a lot of recruiting form non-ninja families, though those kids usually end up either reservists raising the next generation or administrative, due to the lack of family to practise with and pass down advanced techniques, with only the most driven like Neshan and Mina rising far or fast. ETA: And, DUH, Tenten.
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