I respectfully disagree. Their relationship feels forced and like they're both making the best of a bad situation and just dealing with each other because they were placed together, especially on Sakura's part. I don't get a sense of actual comradeship as I do from Naruto and Gaara, Naruto and Shikamaru, Shikamaru and Chouji, Hinata and Neji, Naruto and Hinata, or even Kiba and Shino.
Aw, I like Sakura. There's no denying she was a complete badåss against Sasori at the very least xD Kishi just didn't develop her to her full potential.
If she could utilize that medical ninjutsu into the sort of chakra blade that Kabuto uses, it could be fantastic; or use that nerve confusion thing he used against Tsunade to a much higher extent. Paired with slug sage mode...@_@
She was awful in part 1 though. I disliked her then >_>
I understand that is what medics are supposed to do, but I wish her combat abilities were showcased more often.
What a lot of people don't realize is that Team 7 isn't like the other teams, the other teams get along fine, they work together perfectly and are great friends outside the battlefield.
Team 7 is the opposite, they work together well, but they are at each other's throats outside the battlefield.
They aren't a "dream team", they are a broken team that spends time trying to kill each other.
And that is why I like them as a team, they are a team that doesn't trust each other and their dreams and goals clash.
Too bad she does not have a slug sage mode though =/
The part i disagree with you is the fact that she was a complete badass against Sasori
1)If not for chiyo , she would not have the chance to even get pass hiruko
2)Chiyo rendered most of Sasori's puppet techniques known and since puppet techniques depend on surprise and catching the opponent unawares like "Hey , I didn't know the puppet can do that or that or that" , as shown in the 3rd kazekage puppet , Chiyo destroyed it's blades and wooden arms that came out of it and rendering it only able to use iron sand
3)Sasori let himself get killed and could have killed chiyo and sakura if he still wanted to
Kishi could have at least built on the whole Sakura is a genjutsu type or maybe even have her use poisons in battles. I mean she was able to come up with a poison that put Naruto down and a knockout drug that put Kiba, Lee, and Sai out of commission for a short time.YES, this exactly. She has so much potential, she doesn't need to just be demonstrated as a support character xD they say several times about her fantastic chakra control abilities, there's a lot of stuff she could do with that o_o