After the Third Shinobi World War ended, the minds of the higher-ups changed.
War was war, and commissioned missions were commissioned missions—two entirely different things.
Stuffing a medical ninja into a mission squad could indeed let ninjas die a few less times out in the field.
Konoha nodded in agreement.
Only, over the past three or four years, the Sannin had drifted away and scattered, their reputations instead spreading more and more bizarrely until they became living legends.
The Third's heart was itching again, tossing the original standard squad setup of one high-combat commander, two combatants, and one healer into a special organization framework.
Guy's taijutsu class, the Ino–Shika–Cho secret art class, and Hinata's reconnaissance class all had their medical ninja slots chopped off completely.
Team 7, where Naruto stayed in the original work, was even more absurd.
Sasuke and Naruto were just like Nie Feng and Bu Jingyun from The Storm Riders, and Sakura was simply that make-weight Qin Shuang.
At the very beginning, the three of them didn't have a medical ninja at all, until Sakura discovered that three out of the four people in her squad had unlocked cheats, and having truly no other way left, she ran off to study medical ninjutsu to play support.
She was rather competitive too, managing to share a frame with Naruto and Sasuke again in the Fourth Great Ninja War, tossing out an ultimate jutsu graphic, and then promptly going offline.
Now Naruto had stepped out, Karin filled his vacancy, and her identity was a medical ninja.
According to the rules for medical ninjas, what Karin was doing at the moment had zero flaws to pick at.
Yet Naruto glanced at Sakura's two trembling legs.
Did this sort of thing count as combat personnel?
Weren't her genjutsu talents supposed to