Okay, EXCELLENT world building with the reasoning behind why most Kunoichi eventually quit being BAMF to become housewives (though I think that Oro would insist that the boys all learn to be delicate flowers too bc it’s useful), but what I was talking about was that Ino and Hinata and the other girls from clans seemed to be better prepared for ninja life than Sakura was. This initially made sense when her family was thought to be civilian. But if they’re shinobi, what’s the excuse then?

sanjuno:

*ducks back in* Also, I didn’t mean that there’s actually anything wrong with being a delicate flower! I just meant that Sakura was rather naive for a girl whose parents are supposed to be shinobi. It seems like Ino and the other clan kids got talks to about the harshness of shinobi life that Sakura did not is all I meant. Ino knew when to drop the fangirl thing in the face of danger when Sakura didn’t. (if i recall the early manga right) I could have phrased it better tho, sorry. ^__^

The short answer is that Sakura is Sakura and not Ino or Hinata. Children, especially children who have not finished puberty, all learn and develop at different rates. I’m sure that Sakura did get the Shinobi Talk from her parents, but getting a review of Shinobi Life from a pair of career chunin from a small or nonexistent Clan is very different from the talk you get from the Head of a Major Clan as the Heir to said Major Clan. To put it in modern lingo, Sakura’s parents told her how babies get made. Ino and Hinata not only had to take a human biology course, but they also had to take courses on RACK, STIDs, and date rape.

And that, in a nutshell, is why Sakura comes off as being less prepared than the other girls her age at the start of the series.

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