December 23, 2002

3 years, 11 months, 0 days prior to Incident

"So, Sakura-chan, what are you doing for Christmas? Are you celebrating with your mother?"

Sakura handed Light's mother a measuring cup, filled with exactly 50 milliliters of Chinese cooking wine.

"My mom's in America right now, on business. She says she can't come back in time for Christmas, so my siblings and I are probably just going to watch TV and sleep a lot."

Yagami-san lowered her wooden spoon and gasped in horror.

"That's awful, Sakura-chan! That won't do at all. You know what, you and your little brother and sister should come over on Christmas Eve and have dinner with us. We'll be like a great big family, you can even stay over!"

Sakura's protests of, "Eh? No, it's totally fine!" went thoroughly ignored.

"Oh, there was this recipe that I've been dying to try out. Soichiro and the kids always just say 'the food is fine', so I have no idea what they're actually thinking! It'll be nice to have a new reaction, you know?"

Sakura hung her head in defeat and quietly handed Yagami-san the bowl of chopped cucumbers.

Fuyuno Sakura - age 12, 2nd year junior high

AN

You guys keep asking for longer chapters, but I can't. D:

I've backed myself into a corner with the whole 'one date per chapter thing', and the chapters can only be as long as the number and level of detail in the important events of that one day.

To make up for this super short chapter, here is Sakura's personal data. I used a bit of her info from her profile on Naruto wiki and made the rest up myself. Her weight and height are slightly lower than they were in Naruto canon because of malnutrition during childhood, resulting in somewhat stunted growth. Actually, all the weights that are listed for anime characters is super worrisome... you know... does no one eat...

Fuyuno Sakura

True Name

[unintelligible scribble]

Also Known As

Fuyuno Sakaki

Haruno Sakura

Shi no Kage

Chibi-chan

Pinky

Angel of Retribution

Hana

Blood Type

O

Date of Birth

March 28, 1990

Age

4 - 16 prior to Incident

16 + after Incident

Height

146 cm (12 yo) - 148 cm (13 yo)

158 cm (16 - 17 yo)

Weight

35.2 kg (12 yo) - 35.8 (13 yo)

45 kg (16 yo)

Family

Haruno Kizashi (father; deceased)

Haruno Mebuki (mother; deceased)

Fuyuno Kiyoshi (father; deceased)

Fuyuno Megumi (mother; deceased but legally listed as alive)

Fuyuno Kaito (younger brother, adopted)

Fuyuno Mikuro (younger sister, adopted)

Stats

Intelligence 8/10

Creativity 7/10

Initiative 8/10

Emotional Strength 10/10

Social Skills 8/10

Other Stats

Bleeding Heart 9/10

Bossiness 8/10

Notes

- Has an aversion towards disapproval from authority figures.

- Almost always sides with the underdog.

- Often turns around afterwards and scolds said underdog for not standing up for themselves.

- Constantly gets into altercations with bullies, to Yagami Light's chagrin. Usually remains unscathed, however. Usually.

Sakura's back story

The original Fuyuno family were all listed as alive when Sakura first came into this universe: when the parents died and the kid ran off, no one bothered to tell the police, since they were only a poor family who lived in the slums. The police probably wouldn't have cared anyway.

Around two years after Sakura was 'born' into the universe, she began taking mercenary jobs. Around that time, she registered Fuyuno Kiyoshi (her 'father') as having died from a severe bout of influenza, but kept Fuyuno Megumi (her 'mother') legally alive as a self-employed business woman who often went overseas (the details are unspecified).

This was because:

A. Sakura didn't want to go to an orphanage.

AND

B. It's highly suspicious if a kid is earning money for herself.

So Sakura's income as a mercenary officially became Megumi's income as a business woman, with Megumi being acted out by a henged kage bunshin when necessary.

When Sakura was 7, she earned enough to buy herself a proper apartment. When she was 8, she was comfortable enough with her finances to start attending school. Since she had missed several years of education, the school had her take a test to see which grade she would need to go into. For the sake of appearing like normal child, Sakura purposely dumbed down her answers, but not quite enough - instead of being put in fourth year, as would be natural for her age, she was pushed up to fifth, thereby skipping a grade.

Kaito and Miku weren't part of the Japanese legal system in the first place, both being abandoned at childhood and birth, respectively. Neither of them were born in hospitals, nor were their births officially registered. Sakura had to do quite a bit of genjutsu to quicken the adoption process, but they were both eventually adopted properly. Kaito had to miss a year of school due to this, and entered first grade at age 7, instead of age 6. Miku encountered no such problem, being only 4 and therefore not yet being required to receive education yet.