Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-33485854-20180923004831/@comment-5407586-20180923124850

Littlegen wrote: Thekillman wrote: I disagree. The whole point of Sakura's story is that she led a normal life. She's a Shinobi. Even so, it'd sound kinda repetitive if every member of Team 7 had a traumatic past.

Kakashi's father whom he idolized committed suicide, he felt responsible for Obito's "death" and broke the promise he made to the Uchiha by killing Rin.

Naruto became an orphan and a jinchūriki shortly after he was born and was shunned by the village.

Sasuke's clan was massacred when he was 7 by someone he thought of as a loving older brother.

I'd say it's better to have someone who had a relatively normal childhood in there. Sakura was a girl with a rose-colored view of the world, and fell behind her team-mates pretty quickly because of it. That's why she went to ask for Tsunade's guidance. The improvements she showed against Sasori after the timeskip were nothing short of impressive, exactly because of how she was before. Adding a trauma to Sakura's life doesn't really improve her character arc, as far as I'm concerned.