Sakura has been useful a lot of times before. All this "finally she's useful" comments are just stupid. Just a few chapters ago she uncovered and kicked the ass of the white Zetsu murdering people in her camp in a very badass way and Naruto is now standing cause what she did the last two chapters but the selective memory when it comes to Sakura is astounding.
shinki7 said:
LOL Naruto, Konohamaru, Sasuke, Kiba and now Sakura too? LOL Tsunade, it's time to retire.
Sakura is definitely not at the level of Naruto and Sasuke yet...what big talk as usual sakura. And Sakura is not useless, she just let herself be useless. Sakura is still following Tsunade's footstep (Super-strength, Medical-nin, now the diamond thing and wanting to be hokage), but Naruto and Sasuke have already overcome Jiraiya and Orochimaru. So sakura still has a long way to go. But Sakura is the heroine so i hope Kishi stop making her seems useless.
The whole thing is basically a recreation of the sannin trio with a new stronger generation. Sakura definitely ain't stronger than those two but her enthusiasm comes from the fact that at least she can stand fighting at high level like they do and not be like the other ninja around them, that's why she feels she has caught up.
As about her power, i think she already may have surpassed Tsunade or is just one step from doing so. Notice how she said " and i don't even have to worry about keeping my youthful looks" and how the 1st Hogake commented that she may be better than Tsunade? Those are indications that she is above Tsunade or at least that her potential is.
Hypeathon said:
...or when fighting Sasori.
Honestly I can't imagine using such a jutsu towards one rogue ninja, especially since it was 2 on one. It's also possible she wanted to reserve this jutsu for some more important occasion and back then wasn't necessarily that occasion.
Seriously you people have such lame reasoning. The answer is very simply. She couldn't even use it against Sasori. That whole thing was like a year ago in Naruto years. It was already stated that she was saving chakra for 3 years to reach the level she reached now.
It seems she needed that time. Is Naruto or Sasuke the same as that time? Haven't they improved a lot since then? Why assume that Sakura always had the same abilities as she does now? Think people!