Quote:I hadnt thought of the infiltration possibilities at all, actually - Aside from Kabuto and Orochimaru's kind of sketchy performances as Leaf genin and Kazekage (but still good enough to last HOW long undetected?) the 'ninja' of the Naruto world all seem to go for more or less direct confrontation, or at most a short-term strategy, rather than espionage per se. I'm going to intentionally break fanon by giving her a large and active ninja family, actually, since she seems to be the usual pick for two-parents-and-a-pet normal non-ninja home life. And yes, they all, father, brothers, and sister, have bright pink hair, while her mother is strawberry blonde, and ... um. Tsunade's mother's youngest sister was Sakura's maternal grandmother, by way of an unexeptional immigrant from Reed country (home of the Hidden Grass) where red hair is more common than the Leaf, but not so much as in Wind. (Sakura herself is the youngest of five.) That makes them second cousins or so, right? Of course, with the size of Konoha and prominence of the great ninja clans, it's not like that kind of relation is particularly noteable. Still, Haruno-ojisan undoubtedly does have some fascinating ninja stories to tell.
Haruno-san, Sakura's father, was, in my world, one of Gatou's major competitors, which she wasn't aware of because she was always more focused on Great-Grandfather's ninja stories... So, while the old clan techniques are still recorded, there's no one left alive who knows them - all the others either died of old age or had a bad luck day on the battlefield.
Your doing this is good too - it'll, mm, help distinguish the stories in the minds of an eventual audience.
(snrrrk) I bet he hangs around with Maito-ojisan, or more prescisely Maito-ojisan is constantly challenging his eternal rival Haruno-jiji to another round of mahjongg/shogi/go/etc. all of which he lugs carved stone sets for around all the time, waving (but not actually leaning on) a knarled cane. Shikamaru knows both of them, and sometimes joins them and another undetermined player for a tournement series.
Edited (AGAIN! ARRGH!) to add: Sakura goes to Kakashi for extra training instead of her family because a) they're mostly busy on missions, b) stories aside, most of her family techniques are less pound-rivals-into-the-dumpster and more trick/trap-or-avoid-being-tricked/trapped, and most importantly c) if she went to them she'd be admitting to her next-kid-up sister Kikuko that being a delicate feminine kunoichi isn't working out, just like that noisy, annoying tomboy is always nagging at her about, trying to get her to train more (or just get out of the GODDAMN SHOWER BEFORE IT'S COLD, PRISSY-MISS!!) (A voice from downstairs warns that their mother heard that and had better not hear it again.)
E(12 or so): stripped out to new post, since nathan replied before this went through
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