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sasuke uchiha | NARUTO | 2/???

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Character Notes:
History:

As it usually is with characters who have traumatising pasts, Sasuke's history starts off happy; he was born into the famous Uchiha clan in Konohagakure, to a loving family. His mother was kind and caring, his father was strict but pushed him to become better, and his brother Itachi loved him unconditionally. His childhood wasn't perfect - his father paid much more attention to Itachi, the prodigious star of the clan, and thought that Sasuke didn't even have a chance to compare, so Sasuke was often jealous of Itachi and also bitter because he didn't get to spend as much time with his beloved brother as he would have liked - but it was good and he was happy most of the time. He was loved and he loved everyone.

However, when he was 7, he returned home to a disturbing sight - the entire Uchiha clan had been brutally massacred. He frantically ran deeper and deeper into the nightmarish scene, looking for his family amidst the slaughter, and when he made it inside his house, he found his parents' corpses on the floor and Itachi standing over them. Although he refused to believe that his brother could have killed everyone at first, Itachi used his Mangekyou Sharingan to trap Sasuke in an illusion, in which he forced Sasuke to witness Itachi slaughtering the entire clan, murdering their parents. But at the end of the night, he allowed Sasuke to live, and he left him with one last instruction; to live, to hate him and to kill him. It's those last words that Sasuke spends the next five years living by.

The series begins just as Sasuke, age 12, graduates from the academy with top marks and officially becomes a ninja, Genin level. He's placed in a squad with Naruto, Sakura and their leader, Kakashi. They have a rocky start, but the three of them together manage to pass Kakashi's test, which is pretty much unheard of, and thus begins the adventures of Team 7. ... But they actually spend a while doing useless odd-jobs and boring "kid stuff" until Naruto complains to the Hokage insistently enough that it lands them a better mission: playing bodyguard to a bridge-builder as he returns to his village. It's supposed to be a fairly safe and simple mission, only ranking a C on the descending A-B-C-D difficulty scale.

It's not. It turns out that the bridge-builder is being hunted by assassins, and the mission should be at least a B-rank, if not A-rank. Still, they decide that they should keep going with it and get the guy to his village - and by the time they're nearly there, they run into Zabuza, an extremely powerful assassin who is often called a "demon". Kakashi nearly ends up losing to him, but through some brilliant teamwork, Naruto and Sasuke manage to save him, and Kakashi has Zabuza right on the verge of defeat; unfortunately, his partner Haku jumps in and whisks him away to safety. Thinking that he's dead because of some identity fraud on Haku's part, Team 7 continues with their mission and decide to stay with the bridge-builder as protection until his project is complete.

The peace doesn't last for long, because Zabuza and Haku return to assassinate the bridge-builder, and naturally, Team 7 steps up to fight - without Naruto, because he slept in that morning and they didn't wake him up. (Really.) While Kakashi takes on Zabuza and Sakura protects the bridge-builder, Sasuke goes up against Haku and it's thanks to this fight that he uses his Uchiha bloodline ability, the Sharingan, for the first time. He holds his own very well until Haku unleashes his ice mirror attack, which traps Sasuke inside while Haku throws needles at him. It seems to have taken a turn for the worst, but then Naruto finally makes his appearance and stupidly gets himself caught up in the ice mirror jutsu with Sasuke. Sasuke manages to keep the battle even because of his speed and Sharingan, but Haku decides to aim his attacks at Naruto instead, and Sasuke throws himself in the way to save Naruto, willing to die for him.