Road to Sakura

Wandering the woods beyond the village on her day off, Ino notices a flash of light and a scream, then looks up to see Sakura tumbling from the sky. She finds her friend out cold on a branch and carries her to Konoha, where Tsunade examines her. The diagnosis is amnesia, and a slapstick spat erupts when Sakura bluntly calls Tsunade's chest enormous, suspects it is artificially enhanced, and dismisses Shizune's figure as underdeveloped, forcing Ino to keep both women from bopping the patient on the head.

Touring the village, Sakura finds the Konoha 11 dimly familiar yet different from how she recalls them. To spark her memory, each friend tries acting like the opposite of their real self, but the effort falls flat. When Sakura realizes her cherry blossom pendant is missing, she and Ino search in a panic; her parents, Kizashi and Mebuki, come across her in a daze, and her father returns the pendant she dropped at their doorstep.

Recovering fragments of her past, Sakura tearfully embraces her puzzled parents, who send her home for later. She confides to Ino that she is probably not the Sakura they remember before vanishing in another burst of light, leaving Ino bewildered about where the real Sakura has gone.

The episode links directly to Road to Ninja: Naruto the Movie, even placing a promotional poster in the background, and its Sakura is the character's Genjutsu World double. Trivia points out that although this Sakura claims never to have lived in the real Sakura's home, she in fact resided in the very same house. It uses the opening Assault Rock and the ending Shout This Voice Dry, airing July 26, 2012, in Japan and December 6, 2014, in English.