To be perfectly honest, Sakura sort of hated the catch-all excuse of 'because we 're soulmates '. She didn 't like that so many people used it to explain away so many things just because they didn 't want to take the time to actually look in to the deeper reasons for why things happened, what decisions led to that event, or even what the resulting repercussions would be. More than that, Sakura didn 't like that even if someone

did

take the time to look in to all of that and drag it all out in to the light, it could still be summed up by simply saying 'because we 're soulmates '.

This might have been why she spent so long denying her own soulmate when she finally found him. When she met the reanimated Senju Hashirama during the Fourth Great Shinobi War, she definitely had not expected to look

in to