Sakura goes to Kiba for help in p1

Sakura in p1 is isolated. Naruto only treats her like eye candy most of the time, Kakashi like a pet, Sasuke doesn't even look her way, she ruined her friendship with Ino over a bitc...I mean a boy.

I think if Sakura wanted help, she'd try to get it from around her, but most guys wouldn't help (not helpful or ill suited to help her), Ino would not help her because she cut ties with her, Hinata is way too insecure to do anything helpful.

Who's left? Well, Kiba. Bonding over Akamaru, being friendly, asking for help (boosting his ego) in shinobi skills, and eventually becoming a friend of the Inuzuka (Hana seems nice, Tsume harsh but soft inside).

What could Sakura learn from the Inuzuka? Physical conditioning regime, normal shinobi skills, having a training partner, coming up with strategies, learning how to make smoke bombs, maybe poison bombs (paralytic gas), developing her senses. Becoming worthy of a chûnin promotion so that she can look for a more suited mentor. Because jônin and kage don't exactly have the duty to give genin their precious time to make them relevant in the shinobi world.

Sakura could also get used to the idea of working with a partner and actually use a summoning contract (summons in p2 are way too underused, and so are they in p1 despite making it on half the manga's covers before the first time we even see a summon).

Giving Kiba something to do after his defeat against Sakon and Ukon would also help making him relevant and this would be a positive role rather than a meme about becoming Hokage (no Kiba, you won't become Hokage when you're not even really jônin level in the war arc without KCM cloak).