Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24908068-20140508041424/@comment-28861328-20140509170342

I don't underestimate Sakura.

I go by her track record.

Keeping Naruto alive long enough for Obito to transfer Yin Kurama is the most useful thing she's done, plot-wise, since Chiyo helped her defeat Sasori. Pain attacks the village? She cries for Naruto. Naruto goes through a dilemma with Sasuke? Makes it worse by lying about loving him (Naruto). Goes to kill Sasuke and end Konoha's woes? Fails twice.

Naruto and Sasuke outpace her in almost every area and, like Goku and Vegeta, their rivalry and desire to crush the other actually enhances their teamwork. Sakura just kinda sits there and shouts at them while they do all the heavy lifting. Even after they each summoned their trademark summons, recreating a Sannin scene, Naruto and Sasuke went on the attack, while Sakura hung back and commented on the fight for five chapters.

I don't see her doing anything too significant this time either.