tiredgaykakashi:

• she’s never seen using them yet her canon nature types are earth and water (the two elements needed for wood style) 

• yamato, the only other living wood style user, was literally her captain and could’ve trained her like naruto – and as a wood style user she could’ve trained with naruto by controlling kurama instead of sitting around with sai and watching
• she’s the student and successor of tsunade (hashirama’s granddaughter) and surpassed even tsunade’s byakugou – as in, the closest jutsu to hashirama’s regeneration
• from the beginning her character and narrative have heavily involved nature and growth (even down to her name – literally “spring field of cherry blossoms” – and color design – green + floral pinks)

• she has a much higher focus / concentration and learning speed than naruto, who reached sage mode! she should be able to just as well!
• sage mode is already taught by both the toads and snakes, so narratively the slugs should be able to teach it too – and sakura already has an established summoning ability and connection with katsuyu
• just a little thing, but sakura’s clasped hands shown repeatedly in openings and endings could’ve grown from a passive gesture to one of strength – the snake hand sign iconic to wood style

not to be cheesy but let sakura go from a bud to a flower to a fucking Tree