Board Thread:Naruto News/@comment-26408596-20150503091622/@comment-2078390-20150514165953

I'm guess then in the Naruto universe a clan is a very large family with a very well known reputation, note worthy skills, and have been around for centuries then. With Sasuke and Naruto that's a given, with Sakura the Haruno Family may have only been around for a century or less. I mean not once was a Haruno Clan mentioned, not even in the Road to Ninja, though even then it wouldn't be considered canon. Hell for all we know Sakura's symbol may simply be something she likes instead and nothing else, not once in any of the datebooks was a Haruno Clan mentioned.

Also beforehand there were no hints of an Uzumaki Clan, just fanon stuff people made up that had nothing related tot he canon version. The Uzumaki Clan only became canon when Kishimoto introduced them or mentioned them. Hell I know that many consider the Namikaze Clan canon when there's no proof of there ever being one. Show proof, canon proof from Kishi and I'll accept it, otherwise just leave it alone.