STORY Sakura Kasugano and her good friend Kei Chitose travel to their high school in a nearby town one day. Kei does not understand Sakura's behavior lately. Whenever Sakura sees a strong-looking man, she wants to pick a fight with him. Kei does not see why street fighting interests her so much. As they walk to school, three men from the college approach. They ask for dates, but the girls feel threatened. They try to run, but the boys detain them. As Kei tries to escape, she is grabbed and held. Sakura shouts "Hey! 3 men against 1 woman is not a fair street fight." Sakura stretches out and spins around like a top. The men begin to laugh hysterically. Sakura does a spinning kick right into the guy holding Kei. He falls to the ground and instantly faints. Kei cries for help as the other two men flee. "That was very dangerous...Don't do that ever again." Kei said to Sakura. Sakura looks disgusted. "That kick was supposed to hit that guy over and over again. What did I do wrong?" As they hurry to school, Kei wishes Sakura would find another hobby.

Sakura wasn’t like most girls. In fact, she was considered the bully of the school by all the boys. She would pick fights with them and she never lost. On her eleventh birthday, she went to Thailand with her father to watch the grand fight in the Street Fighter Circuit. There she saw Ryu for the first time. She marvelled at how he was able to defeat Sagat, and always wanted to meet him. She watched how he fought on the televison, and would play tapes of his fights over and over again. It was from those tapes that she took the first steps into Shotokan Karate.

By the time the next Street Fighter tournament came around, Sakura was sixteen, and she entered, hoping to meet Ryu. She wasn’t disappointed, and she met up with him once and tried to talk to him, but Ryu was preoccupied with his thoughts about the battle he had just had with Sagat. Sakura begged for him to give her something to remember him by. Ryu then took off his head band and gave it to her, and to this day she wears it. Though she did not win the tournament, she did well, and defeated many of her opponents.

After the second tournament she trained very hard, but was disappointed when she learned that she had to finish school and could not participate in the third Street Fighter tournament. But soon the fourth came around and Sakura, now on her own, entered to once again meet up with Ryu. But when she arrived Ryu had reported to have been missing. Sakura worried about him, but continued to compete in the tournament. There she met Bison, who she knew had been infatuated with Ryu and his power in the previous tournaments. She battled Bison to the death, and thanks to an effort made earlier by Guile that weakened Bison, she beat him. Now Sakura only has one thing in mind: To find Ryu and tell him of her victory!
 
 

The reason for Dark Sakura's existance isn't that hard to figure out. When the young girl named Sakura set out to find her idol Ryu, she never counted on meeting Ryu's biggest opponent, the demon Akuma. When he learned of what she was trying to do, he showed her the power of dark shotokan, and told her about how it could make her stronger than Ryu. Needless to say, she fell for it and embraced the powers offered to her. Thus, the innocent child known as Sakura ceased to be, and the demon spawn known as Dark Sakura came into existance.

HISATSUWAZA (Special Moves) Sho-Oh-Ken: F,D,DF+P Sakura's version of Ryu/Ken's infamous Shoryuken. It hits more than Ryu/Ken's, but it's not invincible. Hadoken: D,DF,F+P Sakura's version of Ryu/Ken's Hadoken. However, it does not travel full screen. Instead, you can adjust distance/power of the projectile by tapping the punch button (up to 3 times). Shunpuu Kyaku: D,DB,B+K Sakura's version of Ryu/Ken's Tatsumakisenpukyaku. Travels in arc. SUPER COMBOS Midare Zakura: F,D,DF,F,D,DF+K Sakura attacks with multiple Sho-Oh-Ken. Kinda like Shoryureppa. Shinkuu Hadoken: D,DF,F,D,DF,F+P Super version of Hadoken. Projectile still dissipates.... Haru Ichiban: D,DB,B,D,DB,B+K Sakura does a low spinning kick across the screen.

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