☤ transmigration 9 application
Character's name: Sakura Haruno
Character's LJ: haruno
Character's canon: Naruto manga (ongoing)
Brief (around 300 words) personality outline of your character:
Sakura is an intelligent, sometimes preachy (to those she knows and/or finds clueless about a given subject she is knowledgeable about), caring young woman. She takes her job as a medical shinobi (ninja) seriously, and this seriousness is displayed in how she handles any work assigned to her. Sakura likes to be thorough, complete, and as close to perfect as possible. She's also neat and tidy, perhaps even fastidious, from the few glimpses into her personal living space that we've gleaned. (Part of this might indicate that she spends little time at home.)
Her tendency to follow the rules also lends itself to her having little patience for people acting perverted, despite the fact Sakura herself is a closet "pervert." She's not as sensitive about her appearance as she once was, but making an issue of it with her is asking for retribution. (Usually immediate and physical.)
Sakura is determined to achieve her goals, and achieve them well. She has a good grasp of tactics and a good mind for cryptology and research. Her memory is very good, and her detail recall is high, but not infallible. Sakura is also tenacious in her resolve. She is far less judgmental than she was as a pre-teen, and is far more likely to forgive (if not forget) people's minor indiscretions. She holds teamwork as incredibly important, and still respects the opinions of her elders enough to listen to them when they give advice.
Sakura tends to be honest. She's been known to overreact to people's words or actions in non-combat situations. Sakura hates losing, and due to stubbornness, really hates giving up. She's the sort of person who could be talked into a challenge, even if she wouldn't blindly accept one.
She is confident in her skills and abilities, if not to a point of unchangeable faith. Her resolve to improve makes her a harsh taskmistress on herself, in order to make sure that she's able to stand equal with Naruto, Sasuke, Sai, and Kakashi. Perhaps her greatest fears and failures come from feeling inadequate in the face of her important people; being unable to help them drives her up a wall (and sometimes into the pits of despair).
Sakura is not above gossiping, though she keeps it to a minimum until she's comfortable with whomever she's speaking. Part of this may be due to the fact the personal lives of most shinobi seem to be seriously lacking; her gossiping is done with Ino, and in only the most brief ways. She doesn't appear to talk about herself or her feelings often, presumably because she doesn't want to burden others and prefers to deal with them on her own. Then again, most the time she reads like an open book (Sakura has the mistaken impression that she's far harder to read than she is).
tl;dr version: she's a teenager with emotional hangups over her teammates, who wants to help her closest people out, often fails, and keeps her belief in her best friend ever -- or at least best used punching bag -- because it's what she has so annoyingly decided she simply must do.
I feel like I should address Sakura and xenophobia, since we have some idea of this in series: as an 11/12 year old, Sakura is quiet, intimidated, and then self-righteous when confronted with people from outside the village. On the whole, she's not comfortable with strangers, let alone outside of combat situations. She is a friendly person by nature, curious as to what people do and why and what drives them in those doings, but she's generally polite enough to not be pushy -- unless she's really, really interested, or it's relevant to someones health, sanity, or safety. As a consequence, she can appear far more reserved, calm, or collected to people she doesn't know, as she falls back into habits of emotional repression pretty common for all shinobi, and pretty common for her earlier life. This breaks apart during times of stress; not so much because she falls apart (though she can and will show dismay and distress outwardly), but because she becomes proactive and reactive based on an inability to sit back and watch when she can actually do something. She'll focus those energies in directions that she knows she's capable in, not finding it as tempting to charge head-on into the kinds of fights she expects or know she'll lose when instead, say, there are people who need tending and an emergency hospital to keep running and tabs on the injured and where we're taking them to be... filed. The point is she'll start off as more emotionally reserved as a mechanism to dealing with a new environment and new people, and that as she gets closer to people, the less reserved she'll be. Anger will show through when she feels genuinely outraged, no matter how much she wants to hold it back, and her deep angers at slights aimed at her teammates would still surface if anyone knew or stumbled upon the buttons to press for those reactions.
And when I say emotionally reserved, it's more about investment. Her world as a whole isn't big on discussing the past; she'll be open to making friends, if distrustful of the location and technology, simply because she has to be. Sharing the "past" is hard for her to do, as no one does it back home. (They all think about it, but out-right talking about it seems to be too hard for most of them to manage.) Friendly, outgoing, ready to be engaged and serious in her wish to know more about what she can do to help out, Sakura won't outwardly read her emotional spectrum (past her open book nature, that she really hasn't learned to help, and hasn't had pointed out to her) at first, once the numbness that settles in on knowing "aaaand your universe was devoured by the Ohm" retreats and the stages of denial she cycles through doesn't simply hinge on "look like someone kicked your puppy" or "find a legal place to work out all the tension coming in with that rage you didn't order."
Brief (around 500 words) history and background of your character OR link to a really good wiki page with their history. In either case, explain where they cut off from the timeline:
Wiki here: Sakura Haruno
History write-up for another application for this character here: In Depth History
The only thing missing from the above involves Sakura being at ready with the task force she's assigned to, led by Hatake Kakashi. When they head out, they encounter the first wave of once-dead, now-resurrected warriors, recognizing Zabuza and Haku from when she was 11/12.there's a bit of exposition that boils down to some emotional sharing among dead people, along with the repeated request from Zabuza that Kakashi stop them all. The attack begins, and boom! People start dying. Sometimes explosively.
Sakura's pulled from the end of Chapter 522, when she's healing the injured on field, even as the last generation of the Seven Swordsmen from the Mist (in short, a group of really strong sword-wielding [now zombie] ninjas) have been summoned to the very same field.
And for the sake of an exercise in brevity:
Sakura is a medical ninja who was born during at or toward the end of the Third Shinobi War in Konoha. She was teased as a child, being introverted and shy, as well as very self conscious. A fellow student at the Academy, named In Yamanaka, reached out to Sakura and allowed her to start forming confidence in herself. This ultimately led to the two girls becoming rivals, a motivating back force for Sakura's actions up to some hazy point in her present.
Graduation from the [Ninja] Academy lead to Sakura being put on a team with her crush since 8 or so (Sasuke), and with the biggest apparent loser in class (Naruto). She was forced to come to terms with her own lack of practical application of knowledge she knew incredibly well by the book, along with her own weaknesses as a shinobi. She feels insecure and incapable, finding that instead of the biggest loser being the biggest loser... she is. She's about ready to duck out and not continue dragging her teammates down with her perceived (and often actual) lack of ability when those same teammates (mostly Sasuke) end up giving her the confidence to continue forward.
So she does. Even as more frightening things keep happening, Sakura finally stands up for what she believes in, protecting the people important to her even when she can see that there's next to nothing she can do. Still, she doesn't find herself getting strong enough to stand on her own, to truly protect the people and ideas important to her (if mostly the people). When Sasuke, the teammate she'd come to actually love since graduation, left the village, and she ran to Naruto begging for him to bring Sasuke back, she came to a crossroads. Always be the one begging for help, or go out and learn how to be the one dispensing help.
She begged (ha) to be taken on as an apprentice to the most capable and famous Medical Shinobi in their world: Tsunade, their fifth village leader. Training for the years after Naruto left town (also to train), Sakura excelled as a medical shinobi as well as in a taijutsu and chakra-control capacity, turning her into a formidable fighter. (Canon then forgets this for several hundred chapters.) However, all her enhanced strength and her knowledge about the village, what Naruto is (jinchuriiki), and her medical knowledge can't help fix what was broken years before: team seven. Despite growing pressures as Sasuke becomes a criminal to the world at large, Sakura is unable to do what she feels is necessary in order to a) spare Naruto the emotional pain of a friend who can't be saved from his own destruction and b) save the... world. Sakura can't kill Sasuke, and that weakness (as she sees it) would have killed her, if not for Naruto.
Now, as part of an army gathered to fight one of the originators of her very village, Sakura must find it in her to... stare at people she once believed dead (who were, and now are resurrected as sort-of zombie-like undead warriors) and possibly fight against them, in order to keep Naruto safe, to keep their world safe, and to also keep their moon safe from the forces of misguided peace. Now she's fighting in a war that she was raised to hope would never happen, but has ironically united the five great shinobi nations and the samurai, who disregard the shinobi otherwise, against a common enemy.
Sample post (just a general, everyday, puttering-around-the-ship post; please include a snippet of dialogue):
She couldn't help thinking that being fed excretions that came around as a matter of course after getting scanned by a giant eye-like setting in a wall meant someone was getting the short end of the cosmic humor stick. In this case, she figured, It's probably me.
Not that the food, or what passed for it, was the biggest jest. The ones she han't quite found a punch line for mostly involved why she was here, why she, of anyone she knew, was worth plucking from a time before the rest of time for her world was destroyed by a race of insectoids. Sakura wondered what the Aburame Clan would have to say about that, or if any member of that clan would have been considered 'Chosen' material. A clan used to dealing with insects, hosting them in their bodies... You'd think someone would believe they'd have insight into whatever it is we're expected to help out with. She moved toward one of the many empty tables, unaware of her own frown as she did so.
Then again, that might be part of the worry, too. It was hard to say, not knowing what the real criteria was to end up here, let alone pushed out of the viscous fluids in a given pod, and whisked away to be handled by vines and shoved into a suit that would have sent Gai-san and Lee-kun into fits of ecstasy. Sakura shivered, repulsed at the memory of the vines rather than the thought of her compatriots and their particularly odd fashion sense. Intentionally or otherwise, she was now firmly following in their footsteps. There were only so many rocks you could thrown safely in glass houses.
"At the right angle," she said, canting her head to the side and narrowing her eyes at the slop in her tray, "I can almost believe you look like a really bad curry."
A really, really bad one, without any of the rice, or other identifiable pieces. Maybe even a curry that had been through the blender a time or two. In the scheme of things, she supposed it wasn't horrible. Whatever this delightful, all course meal was, and no matter how regurgitated it tended to look, it filled basic necessities. If taste and texture were being ignored in favor of function, Sakura could find it in herself to appreciate the trade. If she was feeling forgiving.
At the moment, she wasn't feeling particularly forgiving.
"Thank you for the meal I'm about to receive."
She broke off a bit of the tray after the unenthusiastic display of manners, dipping it into the rest of the slop before forcing herself to eat. Regardless of personal preference, she knew enough to keep her body well stocked on its own necessities. While the Sensoriums might be able to trick the mind into believing more easily that the food one was consuming was anything but what Sakura was slowly savoring now, it didn't change that the reality was anything but. The Sensoriums... Sakura frowned again, looking up and over toward where she knew the Sensoriums were located. How sane is it to lose yourself in your own kind of illusions? Or is it one of the only things than can keep you sane in here? Inside a living ship, traveling through space in a way that still made next to no sense to Sakura. Space travel felt so impossible in the first place, but to believe everything here, to accept even part of it, space was exactly what she was traveling through.
It was nerve-wracking.
She sighed, shaking her head and returning her attention to the humid, organic, perhaps regurgitated in present. Despite the fact so much of this was meant to be natural, everything about Stacy felt unnatural to Sakura. If this was supposed to be life; if stopping the Ohm or dying trying was the real choice (because to her, inactivity was not a choice, it wasn't allowable) she had to face, then the least she could hope for, she decided, was decent food at some point.
Maybe a gigantic stockpile of rice, a nice little garden, somehow, a few chickens... A girl could dream. Even if not inclined toward animal husbandry or agriculture in the first place, a girl could very well dream.
"Until then -- mmm. Stacy food." And she'd try not to let herself think too much on it. At least for the next few days.
If the character has magic, mutant, or otherwise metahuman abilities, please explain what they are and outline EXACTLY how they function, as their powers may not work due to the nature of the ship or may need to be limited somehow:
A quick statement: Sakura is a medical shinobi, chuunin rank, on her world. This is all gobblygook up until I start breaking down what those mean individually, so I'll get to the parts that rely on this magical thing called "chakra," which was argued by Kishimoto (the series author) as making things sound natural and not contrived, though he later danced another dance in an interview that stated "chakra" is basically equivalent to "the Force."
... because it's always with you?
CHAKRA:
In the Naruto universe, chakra is something every living being has, and (as we learn later) a kind of chakra is present in everything that exists. Individuals chakra can be broken down into two parts: the chakra known as "life chakra," also a "life force" or the binding energy that keeps the soul/consciousness in a physical body, and the chakra known simply as "chakra."
Furthermore, chakra, even if it exists in everyone, is not accessible by everyone. Even with extensive training, some people are simply incapable of accessing their chakra reserves, or alternately incapable of creating chakra reserves past their "life chakra." I mention chakra reserves -- in series, there is a theoretical natural limitation to an individuals ability to produce chakra. Sakura is known to have a smaller chakra reserve (if this is in comparison to anyone other than her teammates and sensei, who all have much larger chakra reserves, I currently don't recall), which she has improved on since 12. Her biggest limitations come out in the form of things such as "summons;" Sakura is literally (or was literally) unable to form a summoning contract because she doesn't have the chakra reserves to support one.
Thus she's the only member of Team Seven who does not, and will not (if Kishimoto doesn't retcon it) have a summoning contract with any of the sentient animals of her universe.
Back to chakra: the chakra used by shinobi in order to do the crazy antics they do is formed by a combination of two energies. The first is physical energy; energy of the body. Training this half of the chakra equation is literally a matter of training. Build endurance, work on the body, keep in shape, push yourself to new limits... all of these are important. Endurance is the most important, but it effects chakra output in several ways (which I'll discuss in a moment). The second is mental energy, and this part can feel/seem a bit more spiritual. To increase chakra output from mental energies, things such as meditation are suggested.
Combining these chakras allow the ninja of the Naruto universe to do all sorts of techniques, known as ninjutsu and genjutsu. Taijutsu, the third branch of ninja techniques, is quite honestly martial arts. It's not supernatural (though it can be enhanced using chakra, hence I'll discuss it both here and in the category following) or metahuman or even difficult to train others in. It's... martial arts, of no specifically labeled style.
Sakura is stated to have an aptitude for genjutsu, i.e. illusion based techniques, though this is never expanded upon. The only further canon statements on this ability tie in to her ability to fend off and break out of illusion techniques, as well as recognize, dispell, and respond to such techniques when used on herself or others. She's fairly to very sensitive about mental manipulation, which is basically how genjutsu works on her world. (Manipulating the chakras of the head in order to create an illusion or make a suggestion, such as sending a large group of people to sleep simultaneously.) In theory she can develop this skill; there's little reason for her not to, outside of choosing to spend time perfecting medical ninjutsu along with increasing her taijutsu aptitude.
NINJUTSU AND SAKURA:
First, a link to a wikia entry on jutsu: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jutsu.
Sakura is adept in all E-level ninjutsu. In short, she's capable of creating illusionary clones of herself, henging herself (making herself appear to be another person/sound like another person/creature/object), escaping from rope bindings, replace herself with an object in line of sight (presumably) in what's known as "replacement [no jutsu] technique," and technically "sexy no jutsu," though Sakura herself likely wouldn't think, "THIS IS A GREAT IDEA, I'll henge (transform) myself into an overly sexualized version of femininity to pose mostly nude and blow kisses as enemies in order to distract them and win, ohohohoho!"
She's also able to preform at chakra enhanced speeds, which... don't have a really great way of being measured, if it's good to note she's got to be the slowest member of her team. (Slower than Kakashi; Naruto and Sasuke are ridiculously fast.) She can keep up on a three day long run, covering a distance equivalent to five hundred miles(?)* in three days. This is said to take... was it weeks? By foot otherwise, or by oxen-train, because they probably get lost trying to find Oregon along the way.
* I don't actually know the exact distance between these fictitious countries; trying to remember an exact canon quote only made me think that they can more or less cut weeks of travel down into days, if I'm pretty sure it's also suggested that Sakura has trouble doing this, and thus might rely on things such as Soldier Pills to keep up. ex: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Soldier_Pill
Sakura is also capable of walking up/on/across any surface she can hold herself to with chakra (on a related note, cling to any surface with chakra as long as that surface isn't incredibly disruptive and/or nullifies one's ability to use chakra). Canon examples include water, both still and disrupted; walls, trees, roofs, ceilings, etc.
Kishimoto revealed in the second half of the series that ninja all have a certain inimical affiliation for one of five elements: air, earth, water, fire, lightning. Sakura's element has never been stated, and not really implied. She shows no elemental affiliation in her skills shown in series, but presumably she has one. Also, it's presumably not air, or else she might have been asked to help Naruto focus with his air-element chakra... maybe. Depending on if it would be useful as a plot device.
MEDICAL NINJUTSU AND SAKURA:
Sakura's particular specialization as a ninja comes in the form of her medical training. Canon is not, however, very coherent with explaining this training or its limitations, so I will do what I can to build a cohesive explanation for you.
We'll start with what's explicitly unable to be done (by Sakura) in the manga. Sakura cannot raise the dead (though it is possible to do, by more than one technique, though the only one she is aware of that can be replicated takes the user's life in exchange when being preformed). She cannot heal grievous wounds quickly enough to prevent a patient from bleeding out, if they aren't also self-regenerating. She cannot repair individual cell walls, though she can, apparently, detect if cell walls are ruptured.
I tend to think of Sakura's healing chakra as a sort of lending/encouraging system. She's able to guide a body's efforts in healing to specific locations, and then supplements the body's healing with her own energy. Likewise, while this allows the body to heal at a much increased rate, and heal smoothly (i.e. without scars or impaired motion) if that's within Sakura's capacity at the time, it doesn't land the injured person back on their feet at 100%.
Thus I tend to play this out as requiring both Sakura (less often, however) and the injured party to seek out adequate water and nutrition in the aftermath if the healing is significant enough, as it's taken the body to a level of energy burn usually seen in exercise (or maybe in some way fasting?). Sakura's actual physical resources aren't being used in the same way, but it's worth noting that on someone she's healed, while the injury may be healed, perhaps even fully healed, they still need down time to recover from their injuries. Most of her ability to get them back on their feet seems to be running on the adrenaline of the moment -- i.e. getting a teammate through battle/making sure they survive. When the battle ends, and the adrenaline cuts out, they may be healed, but they're sure as heck feeling the equivalent burn of whatever injury got patched up.
But ninjas are ridiculous, since Sakura's been in the process of dying, had half of another woman's life chakra put into her to forestall the dying process, then been up on her feet running around supporting the life-chakra donor while not appearing to be too worse for the wear. (Hence, again, my theory on Sakura's likely over-use of Soldier's Pills and a youthful appreciation for things like adrenaline highs because this is just not normal, let alone for someone repeatedly mentioned as having a lesser reserve than the behemoths she walks around teamed up with.)
Now, what we've explicitly seen Sakura do! Sakura has tracked poison in another's body, rounded it up with chakra, and extracted it from the body using chakra. It's like the world's most cheating version of the board game Operation. Her ability to follow things within the human body is likely similar to a kind of echolocation via chakra -- getting a sounding and response and feeling from her chakra as it moves through the body of her patient at her direction.
Sakura can heal a variety of traumatic wounds; I theorize she can't do anything with genetic defects, and she can't reverse damage as much as encourage healthy regrowth (or slowly working out scar tissue for old wounds). She's able to manage dozens on dozens of injuries of different severities over the course of battle; when her village is attacked one of the healings she preforms is fairly massive, bringing Hinata back from what otherwise would have killed her (post Hinata standing between the major aggressor on Konoha and Naruto).
It's likely Sakura can use Chakra Scalpels as well; forming her chakra into a sharp enough point as to be able to cut through ligaments, tendons, flesh, etc., at her own direction. In a less focused way, she can also use this as a general attack against others (we've only seen Kabuto do it in series, but there's very little reason Sakura shouldn't be able to do the same if she had/saw the need) without leaving external marks, but also with a sort of shot-gun effect on aim/accuracy. These scalpels have less martial uses, being good for, you know, actual surgery if you need to get something done non-invasively, or just... because she can.
A side effect that's more apparent in the anime than anything else is that when Sakura uses medical ninjutsu (aka uses her chakra in this way) it glows green. How much light this actually generates is unknown, but if she needed to show up in a dark place with something to attest to the fact she's there... she can at least be ready for a hand rave.
As to under what duress can Sakura heal... she can and has healed herself continuously while a sword was shoved through her midsection, a moving sword. Sakura's tenacity and stubbornness often overrides her pain response just enough that she absorbs it in order to continue to pursue or defend whatever it is she finds most important. She feels every hit that lands, she knows every ache and bruise and cut, but she won't let them incapacitate her until she's quite literally unable to stand under any amount of willpower.
SAKURA AND CHAKRA CONTROL:
It's stated multiple times that Sakura has perfect chakra control. Most often this is like having a nice little framed piece of paper up on an office wall; it sounds more impressive than it might be in practice. However, for Sakura at least, this perfect control is how she manages to keep up with her team members, and also how she manages to achieve the "super strength" that her master, Tsunade, also trained her to use.
Sakura doesn't waste her chakra. Whatever she uses, she uses exactly as much is needed to accomplish something, and nothing more. Due to the exactness of her useage, Sakura can make a relatively small chakra reserve stretch and last for really long periods of time, under really high stress and usage. It helps that chakra is a replenishing thing by nature, but even so, without her control of its release, Sakura would not be capable of doing what she can in either healing, keeping up with her team, or in practice chakra-enhanced hand-to-hand combat.
What is chakra-enhanced hand-to-hand combat? It's where Sakura is able to "knead" chakra in her body, direct it to one portion of her body (usually her hands, though if she's being extremely fine with her control, then even just a fingertip will work), and then release it with exact timing in order to magnify the strength of a given motion. For example, with the use of chakra enhanced strength, Sakura has been able to cause fifty-foot long fissures in the ground simply by hitting it, extending over six feet down into the earth itself. Another application can be seen when, using a paper seal to help further direct the outward bound fissures caused by her fist's impact on a three-story tall boulder, Sakura caused the entire stone to break apart. It's important to note this is not inherent strength; Sakura is strong for both her size, weight, and age (also sex, really), but she is not able to cause damage like this without access and use of her chakra. She can still knock you flat, depending (she is very well trained in hand to hand martial arts, unrelated to any extra whallop she can pack with chakra enhancements), but she can't send you soaring several hundred yards away with one landed punch.
And while a perfectly normal human being's punch can kill you, if all the factors are going either extremely right (or wrong), Sakura's chakra-enhanced strength is meant to be capable of one hit kills/one hit incapacitations. That she doesn't do this, in spite of possessing the ability, is part of her personality. Sakura is still a healer and protector of life even when defending; the most all out she's gone in a fight in canon has been against a man who was mostly dead already, and who ultimately killed himself. (Had Sakura been fighting a regular human being, or rather a ninja with a regular body, that body would have been utterly destroyed multiple times over, to the point of death. Since it was a puppet body, all it did was fly apart and fracture and break, depending on which hit we're talking about.)
Sakura's also known for punching giant metal iron blocks back when they've been thrown at her. I make the supposition that any of this is possible by saying that when using chakra-enhanced strength, Sakura is simultaneously creating a sort of shock absorbing chakra-field at the point of contact, so that her own body isn't shattering under the stress of her actions.
Non-superhuman special abilities of note (Is your character a master ventriloquist? A naturally-occurring super-genius? The best martial artist in the world? Say so here):
Medical knowledge! It's not going to be as current or deep or broad as anyone from modern day earth. For one, new diseases for us simply aren't back in her world; for another, her specialties seem more focused on trauma and poison than anything else. However, Sakura has only two hobbies, and one of the two is learning medical techniques from other cultures. (The other is learning random trivia. No really.) Paired together, she has an active itch to learn more about medicine all the time. Her world's tech is bizarre and not really internally coherent, but it's safe to say anything even in a modern hospital would be beyond her general experience. On the ship, she'll have to deal with the culture shock of not knowing what anything is, what it does, or how to use it -- if it couldn't be found in like... a slightly elevated WWII era med bay.
Martial arts! They call it taijutsu on her world, and individual styles don't usually get named, but while Sakura's mind was being taught, so was her body! She's very good at hand-to-hand combat, has been specifically trained to do the most damage in one hit as she can, while dodging, deflecting, or otherwise minimizing damage she cannot escape. Her master's general feeling on the subject was that a medical ninja absolutely could not get hit, because then who was around to heal? But that same medical ninja was critical on the front lines of any battle.
Book smart! Street illiterate... Sakura has consistently shown she's a good reader and researcher through the series. She is not, however, gifted at adapting what she's learned to practical use, though she's far better at doing so now than she was at 12. She can learn most anything she needs to... just don't ask her to apply that knowledge without expecting a trial and error period, along with a potentially extensive period of "no, please demonstrate this again, and this time, in a different way."
Poison knowledge! While it's a bit odd in her universe, Sakura has extensive knowledge of poisons and other herbal remedies/creations. She's able to follow complicated directions in order to make a complicated antidote in record time; she's meticulous when it comes to these things, as she's been trained to be (and by nature with her striving for perfection). An example of her using knowledge of chemicals/herbs/what have you in series would be her sleeping gas bombs, which she designed and then used on her temporary teammates when she wanted to keep them out of danger. Presumably she's somewhat handy with the design of such containers and their releases; also presumably she can design different types of syringes and release mechanisms, or at least figure out how to use them. (There's a few odd ones that crop up in series, around the time she herds poison out of Kankurou's body, and develops the three short term 'antidotes' for facing off against Sasori [a preventative measure for whoever would, rather than knowing she would].)
Character's LJ: haruno
Character's canon: Naruto manga (ongoing)
Brief (around 300 words) personality outline of your character:
Sakura is an intelligent, sometimes preachy (to those she knows and/or finds clueless about a given subject she is knowledgeable about), caring young woman. She takes her job as a medical shinobi (ninja) seriously, and this seriousness is displayed in how she handles any work assigned to her. Sakura likes to be thorough, complete, and as close to perfect as possible. She's also neat and tidy, perhaps even fastidious, from the few glimpses into her personal living space that we've gleaned. (Part of this might indicate that she spends little time at home.)
Her tendency to follow the rules also lends itself to her having little patience for people acting perverted, despite the fact Sakura herself is a closet "pervert." She's not as sensitive about her appearance as she once was, but making an issue of it with her is asking for retribution. (Usually immediate and physical.)
Sakura is determined to achieve her goals, and achieve them well. She has a good grasp of tactics and a good mind for cryptology and research. Her memory is very good, and her detail recall is high, but not infallible. Sakura is also tenacious in her resolve. She is far less judgmental than she was as a pre-teen, and is far more likely to forgive (if not forget) people's minor indiscretions. She holds teamwork as incredibly important, and still respects the opinions of her elders enough to listen to them when they give advice.
Sakura tends to be honest. She's been known to overreact to people's words or actions in non-combat situations. Sakura hates losing, and due to stubbornness, really hates giving up. She's the sort of person who could be talked into a challenge, even if she wouldn't blindly accept one.
She is confident in her skills and abilities, if not to a point of unchangeable faith. Her resolve to improve makes her a harsh taskmistress on herself, in order to make sure that she's able to stand equal with Naruto, Sasuke, Sai, and Kakashi. Perhaps her greatest fears and failures come from feeling inadequate in the face of her important people; being unable to help them drives her up a wall (and sometimes into the pits of despair).
Sakura is not above gossiping, though she keeps it to a minimum until she's comfortable with whomever she's speaking. Part of this may be due to the fact the personal lives of most shinobi seem to be seriously lacking; her gossiping is done with Ino, and in only the most brief ways. She doesn't appear to talk about herself or her feelings often, presumably because she doesn't want to burden others and prefers to deal with them on her own. Then again, most the time she reads like an open book (Sakura has the mistaken impression that she's far harder to read than she is).
tl;dr version: she's a teenager with emotional hangups over her teammates, who wants to help her closest people out, often fails, and keeps her belief in her best friend ever -- or at least best used punching bag -- because it's what she has so annoyingly decided she simply must do.
I feel like I should address Sakura and xenophobia, since we have some idea of this in series: as an 11/12 year old, Sakura is quiet, intimidated, and then self-righteous when confronted with people from outside the village. On the whole, she's not comfortable with strangers, let alone outside of combat situations. She is a friendly person by nature, curious as to what people do and why and what drives them in those doings, but she's generally polite enough to not be pushy -- unless she's really, really interested, or it's relevant to someones health, sanity, or safety. As a consequence, she can appear far more reserved, calm, or collected to people she doesn't know, as she falls back into habits of emotional repression pretty common for all shinobi, and pretty common for her earlier life. This breaks apart during times of stress; not so much because she falls apart (though she can and will show dismay and distress outwardly), but because she becomes proactive and reactive based on an inability to sit back and watch when she can actually do something. She'll focus those energies in directions that she knows she's capable in, not finding it as tempting to charge head-on into the kinds of fights she expects or know she'll lose when instead, say, there are people who need tending and an emergency hospital to keep running and tabs on the injured and where we're taking them to be... filed. The point is she'll start off as more emotionally reserved as a mechanism to dealing with a new environment and new people, and that as she gets closer to people, the less reserved she'll be. Anger will show through when she feels genuinely outraged, no matter how much she wants to hold it back, and her deep angers at slights aimed at her teammates would still surface if anyone knew or stumbled upon the buttons to press for those reactions.
And when I say emotionally reserved, it's more about investment. Her world as a whole isn't big on discussing the past; she'll be open to making friends, if distrustful of the location and technology, simply because she has to be. Sharing the "past" is hard for her to do, as no one does it back home. (They all think about it, but out-right talking about it seems to be too hard for most of them to manage.) Friendly, outgoing, ready to be engaged and serious in her wish to know more about what she can do to help out, Sakura won't outwardly read her emotional spectrum (past her open book nature, that she really hasn't learned to help, and hasn't had pointed out to her) at first, once the numbness that settles in on knowing "aaaand your universe was devoured by the Ohm" retreats and the stages of denial she cycles through doesn't simply hinge on "look like someone kicked your puppy" or "find a legal place to work out all the tension coming in with that rage you didn't order."
Brief (around 500 words) history and background of your character OR link to a really good wiki page with their history. In either case, explain where they cut off from the timeline:
Wiki here: Sakura Haruno
History write-up for another application for this character here: In Depth History
The only thing missing from the above involves Sakura being at ready with the task force she's assigned to, led by Hatake Kakashi. When they head out, they encounter the first wave of once-dead, now-resurrected warriors, recognizing Zabuza and Haku from when she was 11/12.there's a bit of exposition that boils down to some emotional sharing among dead people, along with the repeated request from Zabuza that Kakashi stop them all. The attack begins, and boom! People start dying. Sometimes explosively.
Sakura's pulled from the end of Chapter 522, when she's healing the injured on field, even as the last generation of the Seven Swordsmen from the Mist (in short, a group of really strong sword-wielding [now zombie] ninjas) have been summoned to the very same field.
And for the sake of an exercise in brevity:
Sakura is a medical ninja who was born during at or toward the end of the Third Shinobi War in Konoha. She was teased as a child, being introverted and shy, as well as very self conscious. A fellow student at the Academy, named In Yamanaka, reached out to Sakura and allowed her to start forming confidence in herself. This ultimately led to the two girls becoming rivals, a motivating back force for Sakura's actions up to some hazy point in her present.
Graduation from the [Ninja] Academy lead to Sakura being put on a team with her crush since 8 or so (Sasuke), and with the biggest apparent loser in class (Naruto). She was forced to come to terms with her own lack of practical application of knowledge she knew incredibly well by the book, along with her own weaknesses as a shinobi. She feels insecure and incapable, finding that instead of the biggest loser being the biggest loser... she is. She's about ready to duck out and not continue dragging her teammates down with her perceived (and often actual) lack of ability when those same teammates (mostly Sasuke) end up giving her the confidence to continue forward.
So she does. Even as more frightening things keep happening, Sakura finally stands up for what she believes in, protecting the people important to her even when she can see that there's next to nothing she can do. Still, she doesn't find herself getting strong enough to stand on her own, to truly protect the people and ideas important to her (if mostly the people). When Sasuke, the teammate she'd come to actually love since graduation, left the village, and she ran to Naruto begging for him to bring Sasuke back, she came to a crossroads. Always be the one begging for help, or go out and learn how to be the one dispensing help.
She begged (ha) to be taken on as an apprentice to the most capable and famous Medical Shinobi in their world: Tsunade, their fifth village leader. Training for the years after Naruto left town (also to train), Sakura excelled as a medical shinobi as well as in a taijutsu and chakra-control capacity, turning her into a formidable fighter. (Canon then forgets this for several hundred chapters.) However, all her enhanced strength and her knowledge about the village, what Naruto is (jinchuriiki), and her medical knowledge can't help fix what was broken years before: team seven. Despite growing pressures as Sasuke becomes a criminal to the world at large, Sakura is unable to do what she feels is necessary in order to a) spare Naruto the emotional pain of a friend who can't be saved from his own destruction and b) save the... world. Sakura can't kill Sasuke, and that weakness (as she sees it) would have killed her, if not for Naruto.
Now, as part of an army gathered to fight one of the originators of her very village, Sakura must find it in her to... stare at people she once believed dead (who were, and now are resurrected as sort-of zombie-like undead warriors) and possibly fight against them, in order to keep Naruto safe, to keep their world safe, and to also keep their moon safe from the forces of misguided peace. Now she's fighting in a war that she was raised to hope would never happen, but has ironically united the five great shinobi nations and the samurai, who disregard the shinobi otherwise, against a common enemy.
Sample post (just a general, everyday, puttering-around-the-ship post; please include a snippet of dialogue):
She couldn't help thinking that being fed excretions that came around as a matter of course after getting scanned by a giant eye-like setting in a wall meant someone was getting the short end of the cosmic humor stick. In this case, she figured, It's probably me.
Not that the food, or what passed for it, was the biggest jest. The ones she han't quite found a punch line for mostly involved why she was here, why she, of anyone she knew, was worth plucking from a time before the rest of time for her world was destroyed by a race of insectoids. Sakura wondered what the Aburame Clan would have to say about that, or if any member of that clan would have been considered 'Chosen' material. A clan used to dealing with insects, hosting them in their bodies... You'd think someone would believe they'd have insight into whatever it is we're expected to help out with. She moved toward one of the many empty tables, unaware of her own frown as she did so.
Then again, that might be part of the worry, too. It was hard to say, not knowing what the real criteria was to end up here, let alone pushed out of the viscous fluids in a given pod, and whisked away to be handled by vines and shoved into a suit that would have sent Gai-san and Lee-kun into fits of ecstasy. Sakura shivered, repulsed at the memory of the vines rather than the thought of her compatriots and their particularly odd fashion sense. Intentionally or otherwise, she was now firmly following in their footsteps. There were only so many rocks you could thrown safely in glass houses.
"At the right angle," she said, canting her head to the side and narrowing her eyes at the slop in her tray, "I can almost believe you look like a really bad curry."
A really, really bad one, without any of the rice, or other identifiable pieces. Maybe even a curry that had been through the blender a time or two. In the scheme of things, she supposed it wasn't horrible. Whatever this delightful, all course meal was, and no matter how regurgitated it tended to look, it filled basic necessities. If taste and texture were being ignored in favor of function, Sakura could find it in herself to appreciate the trade. If she was feeling forgiving.
At the moment, she wasn't feeling particularly forgiving.
"Thank you for the meal I'm about to receive."
She broke off a bit of the tray after the unenthusiastic display of manners, dipping it into the rest of the slop before forcing herself to eat. Regardless of personal preference, she knew enough to keep her body well stocked on its own necessities. While the Sensoriums might be able to trick the mind into believing more easily that the food one was consuming was anything but what Sakura was slowly savoring now, it didn't change that the reality was anything but. The Sensoriums... Sakura frowned again, looking up and over toward where she knew the Sensoriums were located. How sane is it to lose yourself in your own kind of illusions? Or is it one of the only things than can keep you sane in here? Inside a living ship, traveling through space in a way that still made next to no sense to Sakura. Space travel felt so impossible in the first place, but to believe everything here, to accept even part of it, space was exactly what she was traveling through.
It was nerve-wracking.
She sighed, shaking her head and returning her attention to the humid, organic, perhaps regurgitated in present. Despite the fact so much of this was meant to be natural, everything about Stacy felt unnatural to Sakura. If this was supposed to be life; if stopping the Ohm or dying trying was the real choice (because to her, inactivity was not a choice, it wasn't allowable) she had to face, then the least she could hope for, she decided, was decent food at some point.
Maybe a gigantic stockpile of rice, a nice little garden, somehow, a few chickens... A girl could dream. Even if not inclined toward animal husbandry or agriculture in the first place, a girl could very well dream.
"Until then -- mmm. Stacy food." And she'd try not to let herself think too much on it. At least for the next few days.
If the character has magic, mutant, or otherwise metahuman abilities, please explain what they are and outline EXACTLY how they function, as their powers may not work due to the nature of the ship or may need to be limited somehow:
A quick statement: Sakura is a medical shinobi, chuunin rank, on her world. This is all gobblygook up until I start breaking down what those mean individually, so I'll get to the parts that rely on this magical thing called "chakra," which was argued by Kishimoto (the series author) as making things sound natural and not contrived, though he later danced another dance in an interview that stated "chakra" is basically equivalent to "the Force."
... because it's always with you?
CHAKRA:
In the Naruto universe, chakra is something every living being has, and (as we learn later) a kind of chakra is present in everything that exists. Individuals chakra can be broken down into two parts: the chakra known as "life chakra," also a "life force" or the binding energy that keeps the soul/consciousness in a physical body, and the chakra known simply as "chakra."
Furthermore, chakra, even if it exists in everyone, is not accessible by everyone. Even with extensive training, some people are simply incapable of accessing their chakra reserves, or alternately incapable of creating chakra reserves past their "life chakra." I mention chakra reserves -- in series, there is a theoretical natural limitation to an individuals ability to produce chakra. Sakura is known to have a smaller chakra reserve (if this is in comparison to anyone other than her teammates and sensei, who all have much larger chakra reserves, I currently don't recall), which she has improved on since 12. Her biggest limitations come out in the form of things such as "summons;" Sakura is literally (or was literally) unable to form a summoning contract because she doesn't have the chakra reserves to support one.
Thus she's the only member of Team Seven who does not, and will not (if Kishimoto doesn't retcon it) have a summoning contract with any of the sentient animals of her universe.
Back to chakra: the chakra used by shinobi in order to do the crazy antics they do is formed by a combination of two energies. The first is physical energy; energy of the body. Training this half of the chakra equation is literally a matter of training. Build endurance, work on the body, keep in shape, push yourself to new limits... all of these are important. Endurance is the most important, but it effects chakra output in several ways (which I'll discuss in a moment). The second is mental energy, and this part can feel/seem a bit more spiritual. To increase chakra output from mental energies, things such as meditation are suggested.
Combining these chakras allow the ninja of the Naruto universe to do all sorts of techniques, known as ninjutsu and genjutsu. Taijutsu, the third branch of ninja techniques, is quite honestly martial arts. It's not supernatural (though it can be enhanced using chakra, hence I'll discuss it both here and in the category following) or metahuman or even difficult to train others in. It's... martial arts, of no specifically labeled style.
Sakura is stated to have an aptitude for genjutsu, i.e. illusion based techniques, though this is never expanded upon. The only further canon statements on this ability tie in to her ability to fend off and break out of illusion techniques, as well as recognize, dispell, and respond to such techniques when used on herself or others. She's fairly to very sensitive about mental manipulation, which is basically how genjutsu works on her world. (Manipulating the chakras of the head in order to create an illusion or make a suggestion, such as sending a large group of people to sleep simultaneously.) In theory she can develop this skill; there's little reason for her not to, outside of choosing to spend time perfecting medical ninjutsu along with increasing her taijutsu aptitude.
NINJUTSU AND SAKURA:
First, a link to a wikia entry on jutsu: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Jutsu.
Sakura is adept in all E-level ninjutsu. In short, she's capable of creating illusionary clones of herself, henging herself (making herself appear to be another person/sound like another person/creature/object), escaping from rope bindings, replace herself with an object in line of sight (presumably) in what's known as "replacement [no jutsu] technique," and technically "sexy no jutsu," though Sakura herself likely wouldn't think, "THIS IS A GREAT IDEA, I'll henge (transform) myself into an overly sexualized version of femininity to pose mostly nude and blow kisses as enemies in order to distract them and win, ohohohoho!"
She's also able to preform at chakra enhanced speeds, which... don't have a really great way of being measured, if it's good to note she's got to be the slowest member of her team. (Slower than Kakashi; Naruto and Sasuke are ridiculously fast.) She can keep up on a three day long run, covering a distance equivalent to five hundred miles(?)* in three days. This is said to take... was it weeks? By foot otherwise, or by oxen-train, because they probably get lost trying to find Oregon along the way.
* I don't actually know the exact distance between these fictitious countries; trying to remember an exact canon quote only made me think that they can more or less cut weeks of travel down into days, if I'm pretty sure it's also suggested that Sakura has trouble doing this, and thus might rely on things such as Soldier Pills to keep up. ex: http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Soldier_Pill
Sakura is also capable of walking up/on/across any surface she can hold herself to with chakra (on a related note, cling to any surface with chakra as long as that surface isn't incredibly disruptive and/or nullifies one's ability to use chakra). Canon examples include water, both still and disrupted; walls, trees, roofs, ceilings, etc.
Kishimoto revealed in the second half of the series that ninja all have a certain inimical affiliation for one of five elements: air, earth, water, fire, lightning. Sakura's element has never been stated, and not really implied. She shows no elemental affiliation in her skills shown in series, but presumably she has one. Also, it's presumably not air, or else she might have been asked to help Naruto focus with his air-element chakra... maybe. Depending on if it would be useful as a plot device.
MEDICAL NINJUTSU AND SAKURA:
Sakura's particular specialization as a ninja comes in the form of her medical training. Canon is not, however, very coherent with explaining this training or its limitations, so I will do what I can to build a cohesive explanation for you.
We'll start with what's explicitly unable to be done (by Sakura) in the manga. Sakura cannot raise the dead (though it is possible to do, by more than one technique, though the only one she is aware of that can be replicated takes the user's life in exchange when being preformed). She cannot heal grievous wounds quickly enough to prevent a patient from bleeding out, if they aren't also self-regenerating. She cannot repair individual cell walls, though she can, apparently, detect if cell walls are ruptured.
I tend to think of Sakura's healing chakra as a sort of lending/encouraging system. She's able to guide a body's efforts in healing to specific locations, and then supplements the body's healing with her own energy. Likewise, while this allows the body to heal at a much increased rate, and heal smoothly (i.e. without scars or impaired motion) if that's within Sakura's capacity at the time, it doesn't land the injured person back on their feet at 100%.
Thus I tend to play this out as requiring both Sakura (less often, however) and the injured party to seek out adequate water and nutrition in the aftermath if the healing is significant enough, as it's taken the body to a level of energy burn usually seen in exercise (or maybe in some way fasting?). Sakura's actual physical resources aren't being used in the same way, but it's worth noting that on someone she's healed, while the injury may be healed, perhaps even fully healed, they still need down time to recover from their injuries. Most of her ability to get them back on their feet seems to be running on the adrenaline of the moment -- i.e. getting a teammate through battle/making sure they survive. When the battle ends, and the adrenaline cuts out, they may be healed, but they're sure as heck feeling the equivalent burn of whatever injury got patched up.
But ninjas are ridiculous, since Sakura's been in the process of dying, had half of another woman's life chakra put into her to forestall the dying process, then been up on her feet running around supporting the life-chakra donor while not appearing to be too worse for the wear. (Hence, again, my theory on Sakura's likely over-use of Soldier's Pills and a youthful appreciation for things like adrenaline highs because this is just not normal, let alone for someone repeatedly mentioned as having a lesser reserve than the behemoths she walks around teamed up with.)
Now, what we've explicitly seen Sakura do! Sakura has tracked poison in another's body, rounded it up with chakra, and extracted it from the body using chakra. It's like the world's most cheating version of the board game Operation. Her ability to follow things within the human body is likely similar to a kind of echolocation via chakra -- getting a sounding and response and feeling from her chakra as it moves through the body of her patient at her direction.
Sakura can heal a variety of traumatic wounds; I theorize she can't do anything with genetic defects, and she can't reverse damage as much as encourage healthy regrowth (or slowly working out scar tissue for old wounds). She's able to manage dozens on dozens of injuries of different severities over the course of battle; when her village is attacked one of the healings she preforms is fairly massive, bringing Hinata back from what otherwise would have killed her (post Hinata standing between the major aggressor on Konoha and Naruto).
It's likely Sakura can use Chakra Scalpels as well; forming her chakra into a sharp enough point as to be able to cut through ligaments, tendons, flesh, etc., at her own direction. In a less focused way, she can also use this as a general attack against others (we've only seen Kabuto do it in series, but there's very little reason Sakura shouldn't be able to do the same if she had/saw the need) without leaving external marks, but also with a sort of shot-gun effect on aim/accuracy. These scalpels have less martial uses, being good for, you know, actual surgery if you need to get something done non-invasively, or just... because she can.
A side effect that's more apparent in the anime than anything else is that when Sakura uses medical ninjutsu (aka uses her chakra in this way) it glows green. How much light this actually generates is unknown, but if she needed to show up in a dark place with something to attest to the fact she's there... she can at least be ready for a hand rave.
As to under what duress can Sakura heal... she can and has healed herself continuously while a sword was shoved through her midsection, a moving sword. Sakura's tenacity and stubbornness often overrides her pain response just enough that she absorbs it in order to continue to pursue or defend whatever it is she finds most important. She feels every hit that lands, she knows every ache and bruise and cut, but she won't let them incapacitate her until she's quite literally unable to stand under any amount of willpower.
SAKURA AND CHAKRA CONTROL:
It's stated multiple times that Sakura has perfect chakra control. Most often this is like having a nice little framed piece of paper up on an office wall; it sounds more impressive than it might be in practice. However, for Sakura at least, this perfect control is how she manages to keep up with her team members, and also how she manages to achieve the "super strength" that her master, Tsunade, also trained her to use.
Sakura doesn't waste her chakra. Whatever she uses, she uses exactly as much is needed to accomplish something, and nothing more. Due to the exactness of her useage, Sakura can make a relatively small chakra reserve stretch and last for really long periods of time, under really high stress and usage. It helps that chakra is a replenishing thing by nature, but even so, without her control of its release, Sakura would not be capable of doing what she can in either healing, keeping up with her team, or in practice chakra-enhanced hand-to-hand combat.
What is chakra-enhanced hand-to-hand combat? It's where Sakura is able to "knead" chakra in her body, direct it to one portion of her body (usually her hands, though if she's being extremely fine with her control, then even just a fingertip will work), and then release it with exact timing in order to magnify the strength of a given motion. For example, with the use of chakra enhanced strength, Sakura has been able to cause fifty-foot long fissures in the ground simply by hitting it, extending over six feet down into the earth itself. Another application can be seen when, using a paper seal to help further direct the outward bound fissures caused by her fist's impact on a three-story tall boulder, Sakura caused the entire stone to break apart. It's important to note this is not inherent strength; Sakura is strong for both her size, weight, and age (also sex, really), but she is not able to cause damage like this without access and use of her chakra. She can still knock you flat, depending (she is very well trained in hand to hand martial arts, unrelated to any extra whallop she can pack with chakra enhancements), but she can't send you soaring several hundred yards away with one landed punch.
And while a perfectly normal human being's punch can kill you, if all the factors are going either extremely right (or wrong), Sakura's chakra-enhanced strength is meant to be capable of one hit kills/one hit incapacitations. That she doesn't do this, in spite of possessing the ability, is part of her personality. Sakura is still a healer and protector of life even when defending; the most all out she's gone in a fight in canon has been against a man who was mostly dead already, and who ultimately killed himself. (Had Sakura been fighting a regular human being, or rather a ninja with a regular body, that body would have been utterly destroyed multiple times over, to the point of death. Since it was a puppet body, all it did was fly apart and fracture and break, depending on which hit we're talking about.)
Sakura's also known for punching giant metal iron blocks back when they've been thrown at her. I make the supposition that any of this is possible by saying that when using chakra-enhanced strength, Sakura is simultaneously creating a sort of shock absorbing chakra-field at the point of contact, so that her own body isn't shattering under the stress of her actions.
Non-superhuman special abilities of note (Is your character a master ventriloquist? A naturally-occurring super-genius? The best martial artist in the world? Say so here):
Medical knowledge! It's not going to be as current or deep or broad as anyone from modern day earth. For one, new diseases for us simply aren't back in her world; for another, her specialties seem more focused on trauma and poison than anything else. However, Sakura has only two hobbies, and one of the two is learning medical techniques from other cultures. (The other is learning random trivia. No really.) Paired together, she has an active itch to learn more about medicine all the time. Her world's tech is bizarre and not really internally coherent, but it's safe to say anything even in a modern hospital would be beyond her general experience. On the ship, she'll have to deal with the culture shock of not knowing what anything is, what it does, or how to use it -- if it couldn't be found in like... a slightly elevated WWII era med bay.
Martial arts! They call it taijutsu on her world, and individual styles don't usually get named, but while Sakura's mind was being taught, so was her body! She's very good at hand-to-hand combat, has been specifically trained to do the most damage in one hit as she can, while dodging, deflecting, or otherwise minimizing damage she cannot escape. Her master's general feeling on the subject was that a medical ninja absolutely could not get hit, because then who was around to heal? But that same medical ninja was critical on the front lines of any battle.
Book smart! Street illiterate... Sakura has consistently shown she's a good reader and researcher through the series. She is not, however, gifted at adapting what she's learned to practical use, though she's far better at doing so now than she was at 12. She can learn most anything she needs to... just don't ask her to apply that knowledge without expecting a trial and error period, along with a potentially extensive period of "no, please demonstrate this again, and this time, in a different way."
Poison knowledge! While it's a bit odd in her universe, Sakura has extensive knowledge of poisons and other herbal remedies/creations. She's able to follow complicated directions in order to make a complicated antidote in record time; she's meticulous when it comes to these things, as she's been trained to be (and by nature with her striving for perfection). An example of her using knowledge of chemicals/herbs/what have you in series would be her sleeping gas bombs, which she designed and then used on her temporary teammates when she wanted to keep them out of danger. Presumably she's somewhat handy with the design of such containers and their releases; also presumably she can design different types of syringes and release mechanisms, or at least figure out how to use them. (There's a few odd ones that crop up in series, around the time she herds poison out of Kankurou's body, and develops the three short term 'antidotes' for facing off against Sasori [a preventative measure for whoever would, rather than knowing she would].)