Sakura Haruno

Sakura Haruno (Haruno Sakura) is a kunoichi of Konohagakure. She is appointed as a member of Team Kakashi, but quickly finds herself ill-prepared for the duties of a ninja and the complications of her team-mates' lives. By training under her master, Tsunade, she becomes a strong kunoichi and an excellent medical-nin, capable of facing the challenges of life as a ninja, as well as help and protect her friends and loved ones when they need her. Initially, Sakura's overall abilities as a ninja were considerably less than those of her team-mates. After her two-and-a-half years of training with Tsunade, she had greatly increased her skills enough to hold her own against powerful enemies, such as Sasori, and even prove instrumental in defeating him alongside Chiyo.

Sakura's refined abilities has caused others to see her as a younger version of Tsunade, or even someone who could surpass the latter. This was further demonstrated during the Fourth Shinobi World War, where she earned praise from Hashirama Senju, Shizune, and Naruto for being a possible equal to Tsunade. Years after the war, Sakura's abilities improved further as she was promoted to jōnin, and later defeated Shin Uchiha with a single blow, forcing him to retreat. At the start of the series, Sakura discovered that she had an excellent control over her chakra, and thus, an innate ability to use techniques to their maximum efficiency without wasting any chakra. Kakashi pointed out that her ability to gather chakra from every part of the body and then using it with great timing made her superior to her team-mates in that respect. Her control has been noted multiple times as very similar to Tsunade's prowess. Even Shizune, a fellow student of Tsunade's, admitted to Sakura's control being much greater than hers. While this particular ability was never put to great use in Part I, her chakra control became a focal point of Sakura's fighting style and medical abilities in Part II. In Part II of the anime, with her excellent chakra control, she was chosen in sealing the Three-Tails with the Four-Corner Sealing Barrier along with Shizune, Ino and Hinata. Due to these skills, Sakura has been noted to have a natural aptitude for genjutsu, though thus far she has only been seen dispelling it, even Kabuto's sleep-inducing genjutsu. In the anime before the Chūnin Exams, she could instantly recognise a genjutsu casted by a disguised Iruka trying to trick her into not participating in the exams, noting Sasuke would never ask her out, and only playing along to find out who casted the genjutsu. She could also decipher at the start of the Chūnin Exams that they were trapped in a surrounding-altering genjutsu. Two years after the Fourth Shinobi World War, she ultimately became so resistant to the effects of genjutsu that she was the only one in her team to be unaffected by Toneri Ōtsutsuki's genjutsu trap.

The pinnacle of Sakura's control was seen during the Fourth Shinobi World War; for over three years, she has stored up huge amounts of chakra on a point on her forehead, developing the Strength of a Hundred Seal and the ability to release it. In the anime, Sakura could even exceed the normal conditions of developing the seal, learning how to continue building up chakra while still channeling some of it into her normal reserves to not hinder her as much in battle or surgery. She was also able to use the Ninja Art Creation Rebirth — Strength of a Hundred Technique in battle after releasing the seal. Furthermore, Sakura has shown the ability to transfer the chakra directly from her seal into other individuals, leading to her Strength of a Hundred markings to spread over the recipient. The chakra stored inside Sakura's seal is so enormous that she could distribute it to the alliance through Katsuyu on a massive scale. Afterwards, she powered several of Obito Uchiha's Kamui techniques in order to move between Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's various dimensions, and still had leftover chakra in her seal to spare.