

I'm just very confused about this situation.Why did Karin keep the umbilical
cord, if she's not Sarada's mother?Anyone explain it.


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Why did Karin keep the umbilical cord, if she's not Sarada's mother?


A hypothesis is for this question is that sasuke took in too much of Karin's
chakra when healing himself. You can obviously hear her say on the episode of
capturing the eight-tails"He took in too much chakra". We know that chakra may
influence living beings, so it is possible that Karin's chakra may affect
Sasuke's child. Or because Karin helped deliver Sakura and Sasuke's baby, so
she might've just kept it. (We know how obsessed Karin can be with something.)


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Old thread, but new people will see. I consider myself very in tune with
Naruto/Boruto. The simple fact is this. Karin is Sarada’s Mom or she carried
her(surrogate) because Sakura could not. Why would they dedicate a whole arc
about this? They talked about DNA and bonds. The big thing is Karin kept the
cord. The whole Boruto show is about making new life or changing it in some
sort of way. Sorry I got side tracked. So back to Sarada. Boruto mirrors
Naruto in many ways. The creator has stated Sarada will play a major role.
Sarada will redeem the Uchiha and become Hokage like Madara should have been.
Sasuke is still a rouge (kinda) he left Sarada to Sakura and Naruto because
she would be safe in the Leaf. She is the only Uchiha beside Sasuke. People
will be after them. Otkusuki. Sasuke can’t protect her out in the world by
himself. So either Karin and Sasuke trusted The Leaf and Naruto to keep her
safe or Karin carries her for Sakura.


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Karin kept the umbilical cord as a memento of her help during Sarada's birth.
Canonically being the one who offered assistance to Sakura while Sakura was in
labor and the one who contributed to Sarada's delivery, Karin was very helpful
to the Uchiha family back then. Through her actions, she formed a bond with
them, and the umbilical cord basically serves as a reminder of that exact
connection.

**By the way, Sarada's parentage indeed isn't debatable anymore.**

Her true parentage was already officially confirmed, and this happened for the
first time all the way back in 2015 in the manga called _" Naruto Gaiden: The
Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring"_. Following this, the confirmations
from the manga were animated in the anime _" Boruto: Naruto Next
Generations"_, and after this they were even strengthened in many other
episodes.

Below, there are all the canon panels/moments that serve as confirmations
about Sarada's real parentage.

**The confirmations offered by Sakura:**

  * In the manga ( _" Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring"_, chapter 10):

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t3hoj.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/t3hoj.png)

  * In the anime (first confirmation - _" Boruto: Naruto Next Generations"_, episode 23):

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cUGoO.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/cUGoO.png)

  * Also in the anime (a whole lot more confirmations - _" Boruto: Naruto Next Generations"_, episodes 170 and 171):

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/z7xuw.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/z7xuw.png)

**The confirmation offered by Sasuke:**

  * In the manga ( _" Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring"_, chapter 10):

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PHcRH.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/PHcRH.jpg)

  * In the anime ( _" Boruto: Naruto Next Generations"_, episode 23):

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ILeJ0.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ILeJ0.png)

**The confirmations offered by Karin:**

  * In the manga ( _" Naruto Gaiden: The Seventh Hokage and the Scarlet Spring"_, chapter 10):

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ICv0f.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ICv0f.png)

  * In the anime (first confirmation - _" Boruto: Naruto Next Generations"_, episode 23):

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bxq1a.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Bxq1a.jpg)

  * In the anime (once again, a whole lot more confirmations - _" Boruto: Naruto Next Generations"_, episodes 101 and 102):

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3rXcx.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/3rXcx.jpg)

So, everyone needs to learn the **difference** between the aspects of a story
that can be theorized on and the ones that straightforwardly can't. **When
something has already been canonically established, there is absolutely no
point in making any new _theories_ about that very same fact since it simply
can't be altered.**

**Sakura was established as the canon biological mother of Sarada, and that's
the end of the matter.**


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