Sai having former encounters with the team havefound it uncomfortable to talk with them. After conversing with Sakura and Naruto, based on the book, he have called Sakura ugly and led to her being mad. The joined forces of the Team 7 was good but quite not enough. Sai feels like he may understand a little and agrees to help them find Sasuke, and they split up. Sai tells Ino that he loves art as it brings him closer to people and he believes Inojin needs to rediscover his own passion for art. Naruto, Sakura, and Ino said he physically resembled Sasuke, despite his shorter hair and paler skin-tone. When Sai mentioned that he might get along better with Sasuke than he did Naruto, Sasuke temporally traps Sai within a Disgusted by the ramifications of this plan, Team Kakashi restrained Sai before setting out to find and retrieve Sasuke.
While that took place, Sai confronted Orochimaru and offered an alliance, giving Orochimaru an envelope that he was ordered by Danzo to give to Orochimaru. After Toneri's defeat, the group heads back for Konoha. He also informed her that he has been trying to simulate emotions after learning what he reads in books, but nobody believes them. He doesn't wear his forehead protector or gloves with this outfit. Growing up over the following the years, Sai came to truly understand compassion and love, as he ultimately formed a family with Ino. Team 10 - … He and the others at some point find out that the Some time after, Team Kakashi and Utakata headed to the Tsuchigumo Village again after Hotaru had been kidnapped. Despite the happiness that he feels, Orochimaru then appeared and fought them asking Sai who is really his companion. While there, Sai, Yamato and Sakura fought the Tsuchigumo clan villagers who were under The ink clone helped Kakashi locate Sakura. Thankful that Sakura was all right, their attention is soon drawn to Shikamaru's predicament. This however was a trick meant to halt their pursuit, they followed still. Meanwhile, Yamato and Sakura have helped Naruto against Orochimaru but he only teleported away to look for Sai. Naruto flatly states that he'll only put up with Sai for Sasuke's sake. This bond with Naruto led Sai to start to understand camaraderie, and by the Sai is shown to care greatly for his family, as he has begun training his son in his artistic-ninjutsu, finding humour in Inojin's cruder drawing.
Naruto have tried to stopped Sakura's anger but as only hurt. As Sai reminisces his memories with his brother, Sai finally was able to remember what he is about to draw before his brother passed away. He would regularly make contact with her jōnin-sensei Later, Sai is put in charge as the proctor of the first phase of the Chūnin Exams with Later, as talks about what to do about Mitsuki's apparent betrayal continued, it was reluctantly determined that they would have to place extreme punishment for Mitsuki.

TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. He briefly observed Naruto's fight with Orochimaru, unconcerned with the danger he left Yamato and Sakura in, and approached Orochimaru after he had repelled Naruto with a proposition from Danzō. Upon returning to Konoha and failing their mission, Sai began reading about relationships in the hopes of making some for himself. When Konohagakure started a new annual holiday, Parent and Child Day, Sai spent it with his son. Later, Sai discussed the future of Sumire with Naruto and Shikamaru.

After a brief scuffle, Kabuto and Orochimaru appear and stop Sasuke, telling him that they have a temporary truce with Team 7 and leave. When they found out what Sai was trying to do, they all teamed up to restrain Sasuke. Sai, still sympathising with Sumire's history with Root, offered to help her forge a new brighter path. Later, as Naruto began dating Hinata, he borrowed one of Sai's instruction books about relationships, particularly about dating protocol.Sai meets with an informant just outside of Konoha and sends him to investigate if some criminals listed in the Bingo Book are behind the two attacks. This also nearly led to enraging Chōji, while eating barbecue with Team Asuma and Team Kakashi he nearly called him "fatso" before Naruto covered his mouth before he could finish. Orochimaru is intrigued and has Kabuto put Sai in a locked room. This trend was the same with the other white-haired character, but they had no idea who it was. His hair is shorter, and he wears an even larger scroll on his back to perform fūinjutsu.As a member of Root, Sai is a highly capable shinobi, who is trained in the organisation's Sai typically creates giant birds to transport himself or others,As noted by Kakashi, Sai is one of Danzō's prized soldiers and as such, his Root training also included learning Despite not being his speciality, Sai has shown to be proficient in The reborn Team Kakashi faces Kabuto and Orochimaru.Sai was assigned to join Team Kakashi by his superior Danzō to assist in meeting with a spy in When Naruto and Orochimaru began fighting, Sai left the rest of the team to begin his real mission. However Sasuke returns during the Fourth Shinobi World War (out of necessity) and Team 7 is reborn in previous form.A member of ANBU, and one of Kakashi's juniors, he is made the temporary Captain of Team 7 while Kakashi recovers in the hospital.