You know what would be great, in a fantasy world of CR, if Sakura and Shino were close enough friends on the team that Sakura was perfectly cool with his bugs and his bugs were like "Yo, it's you."
No but it'd be pretty cool if that's where Sakura's missing time goes, the time she's not training that she'd otherwise be hanging out with friends she doesn't have, she bothers the Aburame clan
The puppies are cute, Sakura! Just ignore the fact that they don't get any better behaved when they grow up and go play games with Hana and the children and puppies.
Also I suspect, if she's good friends with Shino, she's welcome in the Aburame compound (since she's not disruptive) but she'd purposefully keep her distance from them in general
(...another of my many Inuzuka headcanons is that there is a system in place for childcare/puppycare. Shifts are loosely required for clan members who aren't active duty, and optional for those who are)
The Inuzuka are so used to being looked down on and compared to dogs in ways that are insulting to both them and dogs that the ideas of outsiders thinking like that are just... foreign.
I would not be surprised if she was compared to Inuzuka in a 'even they're better and they smell like dogs, at least they're ninja' way at least sometimes
How many of an Inuzuka's rage triggers can be hit at once? Insult dogs, insult the clan, insult a teammate, disregard someone's worth as an individual...
FORTUNATELY no one says it anymore. I can't imagine anyone coming up to a scary looking chuunin with a sword and a tendency to genjutsu-torture her enemies and insulting them
I can see the odd straggler who never moved on from the Academy days muttering things when she's not around or something, but for the most part I'm pretty sure
Shh it would be a significant relationship for her to have in lieu of the ones she's missingThere is a Shino who is thinking on it and might decide to do it tomorrow. But they are drunk and so may change their mind when sober