Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-32457608-20170823143115/@comment-3568954-20170824161452

Hungry Ghost realm wrote: Actionmanrandell wrote: no none of your theory is even remotely sound logically How bout this huhuhu https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&biw=360&bih=307&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=6uueWd7EKoLcwAKSkLO4DA&q=sakura+clan+symbol&oq=sakura+clan+symbol&gs_l=mobile-gws-img.3..0.15281.23390.0.24048.32.22.5.0.0.0.639.11155.4-5j16.21.0....0...1.1j4.64.mobile-gws-img..16.16.6355...35i39k1j0i67k1j0i8i30k1j0i24k1j0i30k1.t5Y448fkuVY#imgrc=WVT81krTRLaq5M:

thats just a circle, that is it there is no such thing as a haruno clan. this is a simple fact, the circle shown threw out the series is simply a circle that represents the cycle of life. In Feudal Japan, where the series takes place, clans are known, noble and strong with a rich history, like the uchiha/hyuga and their ancestors all the way back to kaguya.

while many people belong to a clan, not everyone does in the series in fact the majority of the people do not belong to a clan, but belong to a family. sakura belongs to the haruno family. there is a big difference.

a family is defined as a group consisting of parents and children living together in a (single) household. example, sakura's parents and sakura all lived in a single household.

a clan is defined as a group of close-knit and interrelated families, who have a strong and common interest, example sasuke belongs to an individual family unit inside a larger group of interrelated families all sharing the same ancestor(hagoromo) and all sharing the same interests, and therefore sasuke belongs to a clan

in the end No haruno is not a clan but a family name, could the haruno family belong to a larger group of interrelated families? possibly, does it? don't know, since it has never been mentioned in any canon material the most likely option is a big NO