Sakura

"Hey~ Hey~ What are you playing? A game? Teach me how to play? XX-kun is so funny~ let's play together sometime~ [...] YY-kun, you're such a great teacher~ I'd love to get a lesson from you~"

- Sakura, sowing seeds of jealousy

Sakura (桜) is a supporting character of the Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro manga series. She is a first year high school student and one of Nagatoro's friend. Sakura is a sweet, kind and yet very flirtatious girl who adopts a  style of fashion and is part of a 'cool kids' clique, together with Gamo-chan, Yoshi and Nagatoro herself. She often took part in her friends' mayhem but, regardless of this, is always extremely friendly towards Senpai.

Her surname is currently unknown.

Appearance
Sakura is a cute, average stature, first year high schooler with medium-length (chest length at the beginning), wavy platinum blonde hair - although it is implied that she dyes them, since sometimes a slightly darker regrowth is visible - and her bangs pinned to both sides of her face with a pair of white hair clips. She has a fully tanned skin and large, inquisitive brown eyes, which were at first depicted as droopy and with noticeable eye bags, hinting some kind of whom she apparently later overcame, as her eyes were since shown round, bright and without eye bags. Her eyebrows are thicker than any other characters, and dyed blonde as well. At first she was not too much taller than Nagatoro, but later grew as tall as Yoshi; Sakura has a lean, well-proportioned and slender physique with a large bust size, considering her size and built. She seem to be quite fit but not as athletic as her friends even due to her laziness. Sakura often wears a tired or delicate smile which signifies her laid back personality.

A  (or gal), specifically a, she typically wears her school uniform consisting of a white button up shirt (with one flap always out of her skirt and collar never buttoned) and a shortened navy blue skirt completed with a pair of sneakers and. However, in summer she wears a short-sleeved shirt in her uniform, while in winter she is shown to wear a light brown sweater and loafers.

When not at school she usually sports an extremely stylish and elaborate choose of clothing.

Personality
Sakura appear as an easy-going, calm, level-headed, laid back, sweet and lovely individual with an innate predisposition to be flirty, to the point to having a reputation of being an accomplished seductress among her clique of friends, and jokingly saying her guardian spirit is an . Compared to the other girls, Sakura is the kindest of them all - even appearing somewhat coy at times - and the only one who can't be described as an outright bully but rather a teaser, whose innuendo toward Senpai appear to be for the most accidental, since she openly sees him as a friend and even goes to him to be comforted when she feels scared or sad. Also, after realizing that Nagatoro has feeling for him and vice versa, Sakura stopped to assertively tease him and started to support their growing relationship much like her friends. However, being a master in girlish flirt poses, she retain her habit to use them on every boy she talks to, Senpai included.

Despite having been described by her character profile as having an "haraguro" personality, meaning a two-faced attitude, usually cute on the outside but cruel on the inside, Sakura has always been shown as nothing else but nice and, even if she does indeed posses a manipulative side and has demonstrated to be perfectly capable of sowing seeds of jealousy among group of boys or use them for her profit, she doesn't appear to do it with a malevolent intention or to cause anyone harm. Proving this, she gets really distressed and breaks into tears whenever serious consequences ensue from her action, being quick to recognize her errors and make amends with the ones she hurt, as she demonstrated by befriending one of the group of boys she tried to break up. She is also very forgiving, having ultimately forgiven her own stalker. Being very curious and inquisitive, Sakura has an innate ability in "reading people" and understanding what they really think, thus knowing what to appeal to is the main reason she can manipulate others so easily.

She is the most popular among boys out of all of her friends and likely the only one who actually has previous relationships or some kind of experience, albeit it's unknown to what extent; she once stated to be single in a way that implied she has at least one ex despite, according to Nagatoro, she "let them pitch but never let them score" implying she's actually quite chaste. However it is also lightly suggested she may have sapphic tendencies, thus being an in the closet or, since she twice blushed and had excited reactions while looking at the President's body.

Sakura is very kind and helpful to the people she likes and has demonstrated to be the most emotionally collected girl in her group of friends, having an hippie-alike and pacifist life philosophy according which "mankind are all brothers and sisters" and "should all make up and have fun". She is also strictly against following the "an eye for an eye" belief, as when Gamo-chan suggested Nagatoro to pose in the nude in order to beat the President, she quoted said principe saying that "lewdness for lewdness" will only bring sadness; despite her friends look at her as a "weirdo" for said convictions. Sakura is also a gamer girl and a VR enthusiast. She is widely knowledgeable in myths, rumors, and romance stories, though whether she actually believes in them is debatable.

She is very athletic, though not as much as her friends, and seems to be a fan of wrestling, as well as far stronger than she appear and quite good at running. Despite always looking tired, lazy and procrastinating - even having a bad academic performance -, Sakura is implied to be actually a very hard-working young woman since those are likely consequences of exhaustion due to her part-time job.

Sakura is very polite and courteous, she always refers to everyone using appropriate suffixes - including her closest friends -, so she addresses Senpai adding at his nickname the suffix "-kun" (くん), which in Japan is generally used when referring to men in general, male children/teenagers, or male friends.

Early life
Sakura was born on September 4 in, the eldest child of her family, she has a younger brother and is very close to her father. Due to the way she speak, she likely hails from a conservative background, also her family may not be particularly wealthy as she's used to part-time jobs.

After beginning to attend Kazehaya High School, Sakura was placed in the same section of Nagatoro Gamo-chan and Yoshi, 1-C, becoming friend with them and eventually becoming part of their clique, albeit a relatively newcomer.

Being quite popular among boys, since she reach teenhood Sakura had a few relationships although apparently none significant and never getting intimate to any of her exes.

Meeting Senpai
One afternoon, while chatting with her friends on the school's library a second year student walked in trying to stay unnoticed, until the pages of a manga he drew fell on the floor and are immediately spotted by the girls who started to mercilessly criticize it and making fun on him. Then, they received a text from an acquaintance of hers, Youko, who invited them all at a bakery called Mister Donuts, prompting three of them to go, despite actually Sakura has to go to her shift rather than at the bakery, while Nagatoro choose to stay there.

The following day, right after the end of classes, while Sakura walking home with Nagatoro and another classmate, they see the boy from the previous afternoon out of the art club and approached him, however after he gave back to Nagatoro her handkerchief telling he had laundered it, and entered the room, Nagatoro decided to remain there while Sakura and the other girl returned home.

After this, Sakura has apparently been so busy with her part-time job that she rarely has had time to hang out with her friends, also she worked even during the summer break, being unable to join her clique even when they went to the beach or during the summer festival. During this period, she cut her hair shorter.

New semester
The first day of the new semester, after class, Sakura sat at the gazebo in the park close to Nagatoro's home chatting with Gamo-chan, Yoshi and Nagatoro herself when they were approached by a couple of boys who started to hitting on them. When Senpai, who was looking at them from a distance too embarrassed to came any closer, was greeted by Gamo-chan who ask him to sit with them, giving him enough confidence to propose Nagatoro to walk home with him. The girl accepted and was soon joined by her friends, who then leave the two guys behind, only then Sakura recognized him as the "mangaka senpai" they met at the library few months prior; after Senpai asked if it was okay for the girls not staying with the two boys, they told him they were "annoying" and started to jokingly tease him. All five of them smiled heartily.

The next day, Sakura met Senpai at the school and he helped her bring some boxes to her classroom, where they met Yoshi and the other girl who were punished for skipping their club practice and are now forced to clean the class. After a splinter inside the wooden box he was carrying went into Senpai's finger Sakura offered to yank it off for him, while the other two girls immediately dragged him inside their classroom closing the door behind. Passing by the corridor, Nagatoro saw it, eavesdropped from behind the door, misunderstood that Sakura intended to "jerk off" the boy instead of "yank off" the splinter, get jealous and storm into the room angered only to discovered about her error; frustrated yet too prideful to admit it, Nagatoro simply took the tweezers from Sakura and yank off Senpai's splinter herself as her friends applauded.

Few days after this, Sakura, Gamo-chan, Yoshi and Nagatoro watch from their classroom window as the second year students were having a marathon, immediately spotting Senpai and marveling at how poorly he was performing, since he was way behind everyone else.

After the school cafeteria where Sakura and her friends usually chat has been invaded by a group of boys they deemed as "loud and annoying" the girls turned to the teachers but they told 'em to solve it on their own, prompting them to decide to hang out in the art club room instead, while Sakura is working on seducing them one by one in order to sew seeds of jealousy in the group and making it collapse as they all began to compete for her attention.

After Sakura began getting stalked by one of the many boys who compete for her attention and asked Senpai to pretend to be her boyfriend in order to discouraged him from continuing. Jealous, Nagatoro tried to convince her friend to change her mind, calling Senpai "dangerous as a vermin", but she was ignored and caused the opposite effect convincing Senpai to play along with the gal's plan. The following day, being saturday, Senpai and Sakura went on their fake date while Nagatoro, Gamo-chan and Yoshi followed them recording everything with their smartphones. Gamo-chan teased Nagatoro saying it was like an anime plot when "two people went on a fake date but real feeling start to blossom" thus getting her friend frustrated despite firmly refusing to admit it. Before Senpai and Sakura could get too close, Nagatoro captured the stalker and forced him to promise that he would never do it again.

At some point after this, realizing her errors, Sakura made amends to the boys of the games club, becoming their friend and even joining the club herself.

When Nagatoro, Gamo-chan and Yoshi started to toy with the idea of Senpai failing two grades making them "his senpais" and he started to fear the three girls would have enslaved him if that ever happened, Sakura reassured him that it won't happen because other than Nagatoro both she and the other two girls will have to take supplementary lessons due to their low academic results.

Culture Festival
After Nagatoro asked acquaintances in the handicrafts club to made her a perfect Nekotoro costume and posed for Senpai teasing him on making her look sexy, her friends laughed at his embarrassment. Then, the girls started to chat regarding what they planned to do with their clubs or class for the Cultural Festival, with Sakura revealing she has joined the games club and they would organize a VR corner. When Nagatoro asked to Senpai what would be the art club exhibition he stared into space and began remembering the previous year; then, after she woke him up from his memories, he answered that he would probably make an art display, causing the girls to said it would be boring and that they would give him an hand to fire it pu a little. While they all ironically suggested way to made his display more appealing, the boy heard some familiar footsteps and asked them to hid in the prep room right before the President entered with a stern expression. While the President told Senpai she was disappointed for him inviting people and being rowdy, eavesdropping on their conversation hidden in the prep room, Sakura, Yoshi and Gamo-chan all teased Nagatoro saying that beautiful older girl is probably Senpai's ex. After the President informed Senpai that she was thinking about disbanding the club leaving him unable to reply, Nagatoro came out of the prep room with her friends. Sporting a curious expression, Sakura watched as her friend confronted the President, eventually accepting her challenge in Senpai's stead.

After the President left Nagatoro started to do a mocking impression of her with her friends, prompting Senpai to stop them saying that they were the ones at fault and that they had zero chances of victory against her. To cheer him up the four girls all offered to lend him an hand, suggesting to make his display a "kitty-kitty cosplay art café", but Senpai began praising the President's talent telling them of the many awards she won and that the previous year the art club display ranked 6th in the popularity contest on over 50-60 exhibits. Hearing this all four of the girls realized Senpai has quite a crush for the President, much to Nagatoro dismay; however after Senpai shown them the President's picture that gathered so much attention, a nude self-portrait, the shocked girls all realized how it could have been that popular, prompting Nagatoro to said it was a lewd pornographic painting. Gamo-chan told everything the boy has to do was painting something equally amazing, to which Nagatoro replied she would have modeled for him, even wearing a swimsuit if he really begged her. Senpai replied that he wasn't confident enough to being able to match the President's talent, while Gamo-chan pointed out he was actually already losing a lot in term of "material of work", referring the President's massive boobs compared with Nagatoro's petite chest. That made Sakura speechless, knowing Nagatoro would have been offended by it.

After Nagatoro sulk at Gamo-chan for having dissed her, Sakura assisted the latter in explaining why it wasn't her intention to offend her, then Senpai claimed that both Nagatoro and the President are charming in their own way, finally prompting Gamo-chan to apologize to her friend, eventually cheering up Sakura too. Heartened, Nagatoro asked Senpai how she preferred to paint her, however he told her that he didn't want to use her as his model since if he dragged her into that match and lose it would be embarrassing for her. Offended, Nagatoro stormed off the room, soon followed by her friends, all of whom lightly scolded him for hurting Nagatoro's feelings. Over the next days, after Senpai asked Nagatoro to be his model and started doing sketches of her even while eating with the rest of the grup at the cafeteria, saying he wanted to try creating a slice-of-life on Nagatoro.After he shown his paintings to Sakura, Yoshi and Gamo-chan, they were all impressed by them and the latter told him is like he looked at her as a lover, embarrassing both Nagatoro and Senpai. This seem to be the moment in which Sakura, whom previously simply suspected it, had the confirmation of the feelings between the two. Then, the girls sneak a peek at the President's work and, after seeing it, they came back shocked and Nagatoro fainted. Thus, Gamo-chan and Sakura planned to be "cunning" as the President and began to make a plan to fight back against her new work and, although Senpai claimed they didn't needed to do anything weird as it was a problem between Nagatoro and him, they thrown him out of the room telling they would do their best to ready her up. Then the girls choreographed a dance featuring Nagatoro in her cat costume, together with Yoshi and Sakura wearing mascot costumes, the "I'll Bully You Dance" and uploaded it on YouTube making it the talk of the school also selling some related straps, that became amazingly popular.

The day of the Cultural Festival, the girls entered Senpai's display and Nagatoro performed said dance, prompting people who have seen the video began gathering all around the display to be willingly bullied by the so-called "Toro Cat". A boy complimented the paintings and asked her out, making Senpai jealous, then, although she seemed not interest as always, under her friends pressures she started to act with the boy like she always do with Senpai, causing more and more people to came in order to be treated in the same way. As the hours passed lots of people also went to see the President's new nude self-portrait, however Senpai's exhibition seemed to gathered more interest.

At some point during this, Sakura get tired and, feeling hot, asked her former stalker to swap with her in the mascot costume so she could go get an ice cream; then, at 12:10, Gamo-chan made Senpai and Nagatoro to go get some food saying that Yoshi and Sakura could work harder to fill the void until she came back however, after Sakura revealed she sneaked away and swapped with someone else, Yoshi and Gamo-chan get mad and started to beat the latter.

After the President is escorted away due to her painting being deemed as "too immoral for a school" by the student council, Nagatoro and Gamo-chan forced her to admit they have won the match as she lose due to disqualification and exulted with Yoshi and Sakura. Then, in order to further humiliate her the girls forced the President to wear a skimpy bunny suit and sell their straps all over the school. After getting a sold out they allowed her to go and, when Nagatoro said she would have taken a little walk around too, all of her friends cheerfully realized she was actually planning to go to Senpai to invite him at the live concert and wished her "good luck".

Sometimes later, Nagatoro and her friends invited Senpai to a sushi all you can eat restaurant to have a Culture Festival wrap up party with them since they sincerely intended to celebrate him and the success they had. After Gamo-chan offered Senpai a special recipe that she composed, prompting Yoshi and Sakura to improvise and do the same, feeling jealous, Nagatoro tried to make her own special dish, overdoing it and taking half of the rao for a tarako gunkan and placing in it half of the milt from a shirako gunkan to create, in her words: "a miraculous meeting between and milt that could get someone's stomach pregnant". This shocked the whole gang, prompting even Yoshi to describe it as "disgusting". While her friends scolded Nagatoro for playing with food like that, however, feeling bad for her Senpai decided to try it, finding it surprisingly "delicious".

Coming of winter
One day of the following week, Sakura was chatting in the cafeteria with Senpai and her friends about a group of boys from session 1-A having been suspended for drinking alcohol at the party after the Culture Festival, although the girls criticized those boys for having been "stupid and cocky", Senpai can't help but believe they were habitual alcohol drinker too; he didn't expressed those thought out loud but they guessed it and scolded him for being rude. Then Nagatoro imagined what would have Senpai looked like drinking in a not so far off future, resulting in the group's hilarity.

During the school wide marathon, Sakura and the girls approached Senpai proposing him a race. He tried to refuse saying he'd rather run at his own pace but the group try to persuade him telling that it could be like in the fable of "The Tortoise and the Hare", thus they won't let their guard down, to which he joke that they're more like cats than hares. Right at that time they saw the President overrun them all dressed in her bunny suit since cosplaying was allowed. Thus, the girls get motivated into "beating the hare" and, after Senpai wished them good luck as the President was one of her class top athlete, Nagatoro reminded him that is the tortoise who should beat the hare, thus meaning he was the one who must race her. Although he was skeptycal, the girls supported him saying they would have poured their power on him, forming a line to push one another in order to booster his speed, however after arriving a crosswalk Nagatoro and Senpai are separated from the other girls due to a traffic light, then Sakura, Gamo-chan and Yoshi told them that they should keep going and they would definitely catch up with them, which they did few minutes later while Nagatoro was carrying Senpai due to him having twisted an ankle, they help carrying the boy in a sort of human cart quoting that "a turtoise might be slow, but if you give it a booster, then it can fly". Racing all together in said formation, the gang managed to reach the President however, as she was still faster than them, Gamo-chan told Yoshi to run in front of them using her almost superhuman speed to act as a windbreak and increasing their speed, managing to easily beat the President, albeit getting disqualified by the teachers because of their formation.

First name arc
Sometime after this, Sakura, Nagatoro and two classmates reunite in their class few moment before the end of lunch break and start to talk about one of them having recently started dating someone in the baseball club. The conversation quickly switch over what types of boys each of them are into and, when they urged the reluctant Nagatoro to answer said question too, Sakura pointed out that Nagatoro used to be devoid about romance but lately seem more "girly" the latter answered that her type of boy is simply "someone who's fun to be with". Then, Nagatoro noticed her smartphone was missing and Sakura suggested she probably left it in "the club room", causing their classmates to ask if the reason she attended that place so much lately was a boy; both Nagatoro and Senpai blushed and the latter - hidden in the closet - panicked causing a noise that drag the girl's attention to it. When Nagatoro went opening the closet she found Senpai inside and, despite at first visibly mad at him, she invented and excuse to distract Sakura and her classmates dragging Senpai out of her class.

The following morning, while walking to school with Yoshi and Gamo-chan, Sakura caught Senpai and Nagatoro while they were holding their hands, she commented in pure delight how brave they were for doing it in public, leading an embarassed Nagatoro to quickly trying to denying it, saying to them that she was merely trying a judo move on him, without sounding believable to anyone.

Side Stories

 * Side Story 4
 * Side Story 9

Trivia

 * Before her official name was revealed in Chapter 37, the character was referenced to as "Friend C" (友達C).
 * She was the last supporting character out of Nagatoro's group of friends whose name was revealed to the readers, preceded by Yoshi and Gamo-chan, respectively.
 * Despite in Chapter 27 it seemed that she was called Sacchi (サチ) as in a pet name, it was actually a mistranslation since the guy who referred to her in that sentence said "if you don't wanna go WITH HIM ALONE, I'll come too." (サシが無理なら俺も行こっか).
 * Her first name, Sakura (桜), is one of the most common girl names in Japan and literally means "".
 * In her first two appearances Sakura's hair were significantly longer.
 * She is the first character to have a spoken line in the series, due to Senpai's opening the first chapter through a stream of consciousness.
 * Sakura is the less recurring among Nagatoro's friends, at the story beginning, after having appeared in both Chapter 1 and 2 she is not seen again until after summer break, in Chapter 27.
 * This could be explained as in her first appearance, after the girls decided to go at Mister Donuts, Sakura responded that she had to go to her shift, demonstrating she's the only one of the girls to having a part-time job.
 * Instead of calling her Hayacchi (ハヤっち) like the rest of her friends, Sakura's pet name for the protagonist is Toro-chan (トロちゃん).
 * That was likely due to knowing her less than the others and have less confidence with her, however as time passes they seemingly got closer and she started to call her Hayacchi too.
 * At some point between Chapter 32 and 37 she became a member of the games club.
 * Sakura's favourite dish at sushi are uni maki and shrimp roll. Her drink of choice is green tea.
 * Despite her "juvenile delinquent" attitude and Senpai's prejudices, it's implied Sakura don't usually drink alcohol and dislike who does.
 * Sakura seems to love gossips, especially regarding romance.
 * Sakura's official measurements are: 83-58-84.