Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-26567684-20150819061606/@comment-26567684-20150820003107

GoldLiger wrote: But the facts stack up in favor of her being Karin's daughter(through science):

1. No birth certificate

2. No marriage photos

3. Creating life with only using DNA

4. Glasses

5. Secret of her birth

6. Karin knowing EXACTLY when Sarada would need new glasses without so much as checking her

7. No flashback that shows a pregnant Sakura

8. No physical connection between them(no green eyes or pink hair or large forehead)

9. Nature vs Nurture thing

10. Naruto's important flashback about how even when one is not blood related they can still be considered family.

All this and more proves that something happened to change Kishimoto's mind. From what I understand:

1) There was no birth certificate for Sarada because she was born outside of the village. But she said she looked for documents of her being born at the Konoha hospital and found out she wasn't born there, so she may have a birth certificate that her parents got after they returned to the village.

2) I don't know why Kishimoto never presented any photos of Sasuke and Sakura's wedding or their marital life before he left the village for his mission.

3) Creating life with just DNA is something orochimaru does for his benefit; it has nothing to do with Sarada.

4) Sarada didn't start wearing glasses until she was around 5 and that due to an illness she had that affected her eyesight.

5) Due to Sasuke's past and his reputation as a powerful shinobi, I can see why he was secretive about his daughter's birth and existence. He always knew that any enemy would use her against him if they found out about her.

6) Remember, Karin was the one who gave Sarada her glasses (likely gave them to Sasuke or Sakura before he/she gave them to Sarada) once she got sick and started wearing glasses. Its possible that this implies that Sasuke somehow kept in contact with Sakura, who told him about this, he told Karin when they meet somehow, and Karin offered him the glasses (just an assumption).

7) Kishimoto admitted that he did create a flashback scene in chapter 10 of Gaiden that showed Karin remembering the day Sasuke and Sakura showed up at her hideout and helped Sakura give birth to Sarada. That part was deleted before he released the chapter. Why Kishimoto did this is beyond me -_-

8) It was Kishimoto's choice to make Sarada look more like Sasuke than Sarada, but Sarada does have some facial features from Sakura.

9) Sarada is Sasuke and Sakura's biological daughter, but her spending several years from her father made her wonder if he cared about her and her mother and she also wondered if her mother was lying about their marriage to cover up secrets of her birth. But before and after learning her suspicions were false, Sarada admits that she always felt loved by her parents and she loved them in return, despite everything.

10) That was a good lesson to Sarada about the meaning of family being more about love than blood, because even though she was biologically related to Sasuke, she had trouble understanding how he could love and yet be separated from her for so long, and she was struggling to accept the possibility that Sakura was not her mother despite the obvious love between them.