Sannoto Senju/Synopsis



Before The Academy
Birthed to the legendary Tsunade and Dan Katō, Sannoto was a treasured child, the rarest among gems. His parents battle prowess, although they were relatively young, were well known and considered sheer genius. Sannoto, being the child of two genius's, was expected to emerge as some sort of prodigy, some sort of savior that only appeared once every millennium. The villagers of loved his very being, for his existence was treasured. He was thought to inevitably rise as a protector of Konoha, similar to what his parents were. As a result, he was held up to a high standard, even as a baby. Given free clothes by the merchants, supplied with plenty of diapers, Sannoto was spoiled. One day however, his perfect life would take a toll for the worst. That day was the day his father had passed and his mother departed from the Hidden Leaf, leaving her child in the care of her mentor.

An only child, Sannoto held no connection to either of his parents or barely a single memory. As such, he soon forgot who they were, embracing Hiruzen and as his uncontested mother and father. A law, created by Hiruzen, was to prevent any villager from revealing the true nature of his birth for Sannoto's own mental protection. Easily, the villagers seemed to embrace this, for they believed that his savior-like status would be achieved quicker and easier since he was going to be trained by the himself. Parents began arranging play-dates with their children and Sannoto, hoping to make allies between the two and hoping that their child would receive the same type of training that the Senju child would receive.

The boy lived well, prospering for a while in his training and in his social life as well. Trained by Hiruzen and Biwako by the time he could walk, Sannoto is said to have a head start in life, thus parents always pushed their children towards him. Being the friendly, compassionate child from the start, the Senju always accepted them, resulting in connections being made. In reality, the child was being used by the villagers to push their children to being their best, moving up in power and socially in ranks. While their intentions were indeed beneficial for the kings and queens of Konoha, their methods are cruel in nature. Regardless, Sannoto stood above each of them, for the original can never be topped.

Prospering in a majority of his classed, intelligence wise and in regards to his abilities, especially bukijutsu, Sannoto stood among the top of his class alongside Kakashi Hatake, who had honestly shown more skill than the Senju. For such reason, the classes were split between making friends with him and Sannoto, but both were being used and both realized it. They both, one being a gentle, social person and the other dedicated to benefit Konoha, allowed themselves to be manipulated if it was for the greater good. Secretly, they both were friends, but publicly they rarely interacted. This perfect life, though imperfect mentally, was bound to be destroyed, to fail for it always happened when it came to members of Tsunade's family.

The Horrible Incident
One day, five days after his fifth birthday, Sannoto’s class was assigned a simple task of learning a basic fuinjusu seal which would grant one the capability to conjure weapons from a scroll. A basic technique indeed, as even those at the bottom of the class understood the technique well enough. For a prodigy like Sannoto, this should have been an easy task, but for some reason it wouldn’t be. In truth, it was because of his heritage, something that blessed but also cursed his essence. During his birth, the energies that he received from his parents had fully intertwined, but when a specific fuinjutsu was introduced to the boy as he was being birthed, it affected it completely, slightly affecting his chakra.

A unique form of chakra had formed; chakra that didn’t seem to behave like chakra. His father, being a phantom and his mother who restores and revitalizes the body resulted in his energies, his chakra, being that of a perfect yin-yang ; a pure lineage, as if he had eaten the forbidden fruits of the Shinju himself. As such, when the fuinjutsu seal was introduced to him as a child, for his dad and mother both sealed portions of their energy into him just in case they passed during the war, the seal molded the yin-yang chakra, creating chakra that behaved liked fuinjutsu once tainted by their corrupted energies.

Without prior knowledge of this, for they would only find out after Jiraiya reveals it to them himself, the teacher requested that his star pupil demonstrate the technique for the class. In similar shoes of the teacher, as in completely ignorant of this unique mutation, Sannoto happily stepped up to the plate. He was just simply obeying orders and attempting to benefit his class by demonstrating the technique. An act that was designed to benefit those around him, would harm almost everyone.

His seat, normally located in the back of the room, found itself without the soft, gentle warmness of his cheeks. He rushed to the front, with a large grin glued upon his jovial visage. Forming the necessary handseals, Sannoto generated chakra into the scroll, activating the seal which corresponded with his own unique chakra. The seal, as both were being used on one another, caused a massive wave of energy. Everything in front of Sannoto, not including the teacher, was smitten by the wave and everything was affected. They were all turned into metal, the desk, chairs and yes, even the other students. It was a disaster and Sannoto was to blame.

In truth, the reason for this unique form of chakra wasn't a result of this fūinjutsu or mutation at all. That's what was hypothesized. The true reason for this was his hexagram. The hexagram blessed him with this ability, but cursed him by not hinting the destructive nature of it. As such, he had harmed his classmates. Information of this would leak, Sannoto's reputation would be destroyed and he wouldn't be able to control anything. The teacher, frightened, leaped towards Sannoto with a kunai. The boy was forced to retaliate. Afraid, he channeled energy through the seal, turning his teacher into metal. He ran out of the room, screaming for help, acting as if he was never there. He couldn't allow his reputation to be destroyed, for it was his duty to help those in need. He cried for the very first time.

Learning Control
He ran deep into the woods, cursing his name from the tablet that governed existence in this realm. He couldn't believe what he had just done, nor could he understand. Why did he do it? He acted merely on instinct as if it was natural. Now he had to lie, appear as if he was captured and had very little clue what happened except knowing that he was taken by the man who had to do it. However, what would he say when they found him here? And then, his intuition activated once more. Against his own will seemingly, he threw a kunai into the air, then leaped directly into it. It penetrated the flesh of his leg, causing blood to flow out as if it was a stream of water. The pain excruciating, but it didn't hurt worse than what he felt deep in his heart.

Why couldn't he tell the truth? Why couldn't he? They'd understand that he didn't mean it. "Telling the truth is out of the question, for it would disrupt the peace of the village" he continued to here, this statement echoing throughout his mind for minutes on end. With each statement, the voice gradually got louder and louder. Eventually, the child began to believe this. He understood why he couldn't tell the truth. People would want him dead and he wouldn't be able to blame them. His dad would ensure his life would not be taken and they would rebel against Konoha. He wasn't a failure, but he was a savior, a protector of peace and everything good in the world. No matter what had to happen, he had to protect everyone.

Regardless of this, the child was still spiritually broken, damaged and destroyed. He was at his lowest point possible. The murderer of his friends and teachers, then lying about it all at the age of five was surely an event that would scar him for life. His friends would resurface in his dreams. Their parents would be devastated. What did he do? Maybe, just for a second, he could preserve the peace by ending his life himself. Yes, he'd do that! He wouldn't have to lie, but he could stay true to his ideal. Suddenly, a voice from within his mind echoed once more, as it had done a few seconds ago. "It's all natural, child. You were born to protect the world, ending it all here won't solve anything. Lie..You have a greater destiny than this", the voice said, repeating it over and over. Finally, after several minutes of listening, being brainwashed, Sannoto repeated the statement, believing the voice in his head. Lying was the only option, for it was for the better.

"There he is", a voice shouted, originating from outside his head. Finally, someone other than the voice within his head was coming. A man, wearing a mask which resembled that of a cat appeared before him. Hidden behind his mask, Sannoto could see no expression, rendering him incapable of reading his thoughts. Normally, the boy could read emotions right out of the eyes of someone else, but without that window, that ability was lost. He almost panicked, believing that his plan was deduced, before he finally passed out from the wound dealt to him earlier. "The wound is nearly healed", he heard before he was fully unconscious.

Waking up in a bed of small size, white sheets along with a needle placed within his arm, he deduced that he was in a hospital. He leaned upward, only to be pushed back down by his own mother, Biwako. "Lay back, child. You need to rest", she ordered, her tone not even the slightest bit of sympathetic. This was his mother alright. Someone who showed very little sympathy for anyone, even when they were injured. He recalled the time he had broken his arm, where she replied that he'd simply learn from this experience. It's what made him strong and it's what would continue to make him stronger, for he possessed the innate ability to truly learn from his experiences.

"You're safe, Sannoto, but your friends weren't able to be saved", she admitted, gathering the boy's attention. He hadn't told her about any of it, so that means that they had to enter his mind. "I have everything under control", the voice within his mind boomed, ending it after one simple statement. What? What in the world was that talking to him, brainwashing him, soothing his spirit? The voice was so serene, as if the speaker was that of no conflict. It was peaceful and it made him feel peaceful, stripping him of any internal strife of any kind.

He smiled softly, looking up at the ceiling. "I know, mom. I know", he said, his tone more serene than the one within his own mind. "I don't understand how he infiltrated the village, but one day I'll make him pay. For what he did to me and to my friends", the young boy declared. His mother simply smirked and left the room, obviously proud of her child. He put on the perfect act, and he had fulfilled his role. While unknown to him, he passed the test of being the perfect host, the perfect partner. The voice would soon reveal itself, and teach him to control his unique, but astounding powers.

The Shifting Curse
At the age of thirteen, Sannoto was assigned to participate in the alongside other new graduates from the Ninja Academy. The war was gruesome; day after day, Sannoto charged onto the battlefield to take the lives of others and return to his disease filled trench to rest for more upcoming battles. His friends fought alongside him, some dying, getting wounded and many committing suicide. But through it all was his friend, Arata, Sannoto's greatest friend. Only he made the war bearable for the Senju child. However, despite their obvious importance in the war, the division was assigned a bigger assignment. Information had reached the Konoha forces that along a certain area where several chains of towns were situated, Konoha Shinobi were being captured by the townsmen and murdered and that Iwagakure Shinobi were stopping their to pick up supplies and receive medical aid.

The hundred manned division, employing Shinobi from the ages of ten on upward, marched towards these towns with the goal of eradicating them. Upon reaching the pass where these towns were situated, the Konoha Shinobi soon found themselves vastly outnumbered. Waiting for them were the townspeople, all whom wielded kunai and other Shinobi tools and with them were regularly dressed Iwagakure Shinobi, all of them appearing to be Jonin. Revealing these towns to have being Iwagakure military outpost and the townspeople to being Iwagakure Chunin, the rock attacked the vastly outnumbered Konoha forces with all of he heir might. Konoha had stumbled into a trap. The story about these towns was fabricated by rock Shinobi to lure the leaf Shinobi into an absolute massacre.

Refusing to give in, the leaf Shinobi charged towards these massive army with all of their might, but found themselves challenged fiercely. Almost most of huge Shinobi were separated, forcing the new graduates to fend for themselves, including Sannoto. The Senju child fought bravely with determination, using his in heritage physical gifts to his advantage when going against other Shinobi, who were not as physically gifted as the child despite his youthful nature. He stayed chunin after chunin, their blood drenching his clothes and face: ten, twenty, thirty dead bodies littered the ground beneath Sannoto. Suddenly, however, Sannoto turned to see his friend Arata before him, battling two Jonin level Shinobi. Rushing to assist, the Senju charged, but found himself quickly overwhelmed by the Jonin despite making the fight even in numbers. Falling to his knees, Sannoto could only watch as the Jonin charged towards him with his sword. He closed his eyes. Blood splattered everywhere and the rock ninja smiled in delight. Opening his eyes, Sannoto found the blade was had not penetrated himself but rather his friend, Arata, who had died immediately from impact.

In immediate response to Arata, his eyes widened, reaching the sides of his face. He gritted his teeth, clenching each individual tooth against the corresponding one above and below. Throwing his hands into the air, several kunai spontaneously generated, shooting towards the enemies in a rapid flurry. Some fell to the rapid generation of kunai, others deflected them with their own and charged towards the enraged Sannoto. A bright light flashed before his eyes and the Senju child found himself in some sort of subconscious plane surrounded by thousands of people who all bore different faces: Poor, rich, skinny, strong, etc. Stepping in front of this massive army of human beings was one single soul, a guy who looked the most human out of them all. Black, shiny hair, blue, peaceful eyes, and a relatively well defined muscular build that wasn’t over exaggerated.

Placing his finger on the forehead of Sannoto, the child felt a sudden surge of experiences course through his body. Every single person there, he saw and understood. Comprehension and learning in a matter of seconds. He felt his chakra grow stronger, he felt like he understood. Suddenly, the bright light flashed and encapsulated himself again. Before him were dead shinobi, pools of blood soaked into the soil. Even though they had won, Konoha suffered great losses. Some were afraid, thus abandoned them. However, the Senju child stood tall and prepared for battle regardless. Standing with a force of thirty Jonin and four chunin, one of the chunin being himself, Sannoto held hisBladeand commanded the remaining shinobi forces to charge into battle.

The War Hero
He rushed into the body of the enemy shinobi. Blades dug into the enemy's back, dealt by his own comrades. Screams drenched in agony rang through his ears, but he responded with another attack of his own: spontaneous generation of flying kunai that rained down upon the enemy shinobi. Putting down foe after foe, even after they gradually became more outnumbered by the minute despite the opposing force never bringing in any reinforcements. In the end, only he remained and fifty enemy shinobi who all bore expressions filled with rage. Responsible for slicing down twenty of their men and injuring at least five, Sannoto was the source of such rage. Despite being vastly outnumbered, he lifted his blade into the air as an act of continuation, but suddenly found himself unable to stand. The enemy charged towards him. He closed his eyes, accepting his destiny. He had lost. A few seconds had passed and the noise has stopped. He opened his eyes, only to see the shinobi disappear in a flash, along with his friend who was preforming emergency medical treatment on his body. He had survived.

From that point on, Sannoto partook in battle divisions throughout the course of the war, ranging from small battles to large scale battles, being present on the large scale battle where Minato Namikaze killed thousands of shinobi in a seconds. However, his most noted battle was the where Sannoto was directly involved in eliminating the enemy shinobi and saving the orphaned,  from being killed off along with the rest of the villagers that had sided with Iwagakure. His reputation preceded him, noted for his metal-related abilities and quickness. A war hero, Sannoto was recognized as such, but the war proved extremely detrimental. Exposed to mindless killing and such, he would soon desire peace, a world without it. A war that had not created a weapon, but rather a pacifist. The Third Shinobi World War would be the greatest motivator to his pursuit of peace.

The Attack of the Fox
A year following the conclusion of the third shinobi world war, the Nine-Tailed fox would later attack Konoha under the command of the masked man and the Fourth Hokage and many other shinobi would give their lives defending the village from the tailed beast’s assault. The villagers and remaining shinobi would be scarred by the incident and curse the demon for destroying their home and taking their beloved loved ones. During this attack, heroes would rise up to the challenge and protect their fellow comrades and village. Sannoto was one of these heroes and it was during this particular incident that he would become truly recognized as a full-fledged Jonin of Konohagakure.

Being on the first defenders of the village when Kurama was summoned into the middle of Konoha, Sannoto was able to combat against the Tailed Beast’s immense prowess with his own immense reserves of chakra. The first several tailed beast balls that the beast would emit were all consumed and blocked by the Senju’s metal barriers, protecting the village from complete and utter destruction before the fourth hokage arrived. Playing his role until Minato appeared, Sannoto retreated and helped any suffering villagers, moving people to hospitals and healing areas and reinforcing buildings and such.

Following the attack, he would later attend the funeral of Minato, Kushina, and his mother Biwako Hiruzen. When reading through some of his mother things, he would come across a letter. The contents were from Biwako, Sannoto’s mother, who informed him that they were not actually his parents, but had adopted him due to some complications with his own parents. In actuality, it was revealed to him that man known as Dan Kato and the legendary Tsunade were his parents. The result would leave Sannoto devastated, dumbfounded and confused. He would bring the letter to Hiruzen, who claimed he should have never seen that until his own death. Believing he had hurt the Senju, Hiruzen would apologize to Sannoto who simply understood the circumstances. Thanking the hokage for everything he had done, he called him father one last time and departed, moving from the Hokage mansion and into an apartment of his own. The transformation from a child to a man had been completed.

Meeting his Mother
Partaking on a mission in the Land of Tea, Sannoto was ordered to find a woman who owed the village a large sum of money. Leaving Konoha, the Senju would embark on his journey to find this woman, whom would later be revealed as his mother. For days on end, he searched the lands for this mysterious woman who seemed to escape his grasp every time he picked up a lead. Blonde hair, middle aged, and a unique diamond on her forehead. These were the descriptions he were given, but never could he find a woman that matched this. Deciding to give up on the mission, Sannoto walked throughout the market to grab food for his long journey back to Konoha, bumping into a woman.

Excusing himself, the woman glanced up into his eyes, staring at him and then embraced the man. Pushing her off slightly, he observed her: blonde hair, middle aged, and a unique diamond on her forehead. Next to her was a child and pig. Commanding her to give up and hand herself in, she struck the man in the head, causing him to fly across the earth. Before he could respond, she was above him, dropping her leg over his body. He barely dodged it, spinning off the ground and backwards. When her heel struck the ground, the earth responded with a massive uproar. Craters erupted in the earth, people screamed and scurried away from the scene.

A battle commenced between Sannoto and the woman, and in the end she had won. Picking himself up from the remains of a building, she towered over him. Asking whom she was, she replied with a quirk that told him to take a guess. He still didn’t understand, until taking a second glance. The same color hair, the same fair skin, the guy could only conclude that this woman was his mother. With a heart-filled reunion, the two hugged one another and walked off in the sunlight, leaving behind plenty of gold for the town to repair itself, profit from Tsunade’s debts and more.

For three years, Sannoto toured the world with his mother, getting to know why she gave him up to which she ultimately concluded that he reminded her too much of Dan, his deceased father. At the end of the three year time, the Senju made way back to Konoha, to which she understood. Returning back, he was welcomed by Hiruzen whom had known the woman he was tracking was indeed Tsunade, to which he revealed upon his return. Partaking on missions again, he would later be paired with Yami Uchiha, and the two would fall in love to which the Senju would impregnate her. Considered taboo by the rage-driven Uchiha, she hid it from both Sannoto and her fellow Uchiha members.

Uchiha Massacre
One of the most catastrophic evenings in the history of Konohagakure, the entire Uchiha clan was murdered by one of their own brethren, Itachi Uchiha under the order of ; he claimed that Itachi's little brother could be spared if he murdered his own clan. While this day would mark a great relief for the Hokage and his fellow advisers who sought solutions to hopefully stop the Uchiha's rebellion, it also marked a great loss for many of the fellow villagers who associated themselves with the cursed clan. Among these villagers who had lost someone was the Senju Clan's very own Sannoto. His fiance, Yami Uchiha, would be among the several members that would fall that night during the massacre, beheaded by her own brother whom assisted Itachi in the extermination of his clan.

When word reached Sannoto about the destruction of the cursed people, he sat alongside his fellow mentor Hiruzen Sarutobi. Going with him to investigate, he made use of Senjutsu to sense any nearby chakra signatures, however only one gave off a strong signature. Finding the body, it was his decapitated wife, but surely it wasn't her life force. Discerning she was indeed pregnant, he commanded her to be taken to the hospital where they extracted his baby daughter. For several hours, the Senju sat in the hospital room as they retrieved the baby from the dead corpse, using medical ninjutsu to keep it alive. The girl was born before a crowd of shinobi who stood with Sannoto, giving him all the support necessary. Naming her Sayuri Uchiha, a name symbiotic to her deceased mother, the Senju would go about raising the child on his own as a lone father for several years.

Raising Sayuri
Yami's death left Sannoto as the sole caretaker of his daughter directly in the middle of his prospering shinobi career. Regardless, his noble nature caused him to fulfill both respective duties and sometimes he even did so simultaneously. Despite the difficulty of the mission, he refused to let his daughter out of his sight and thus she was exposed to battle nearly everyday. As a result of such exposure along with daily training sessions with her father, Sayuri's growth was simply astonishing. Sannoto was praised as a result and the two were recognized as an unstoppable duo; their bond was undeniable. Not too soon after his mother, Tsunade, returned to the village to become the newest hokage was Sannoto informed of news about the Akatsuki. The Akatsuki were a rising organization and their might was quickly becoming known.

His mother would inform him of such information that she had acquired from Jiraiya and its confidentiality was limited to just himself, Jiraiya, Kakashi, Tsunade and her assistant Shizune. Because of the Akatsuki's ability to gather spies, the Senju was the only Konoha shinobi that she could truly trust. A reason for this being that he was of her own flesh and blood. For this reason, Sannoto took the mission with the desires to take down this organization. But, he would be forced to leave his daughter due to the confidentiality and the dangers. However, his mother promised to raise Sayuri during his ventures, thus he would leave.

Upon his departure in the brisk of the night, Sayuri would follow him to Konoha gates where she would inquire upon his hasty departure. Incapable of informing her of the situation, he struck his daughter to render her unconscious. To prevent anyone from spotting him leaving the village, Sannoto simply left the girl on a park bench covered by his Jōnin Flap-Jacket for warmth along with his headband as a symbol that his return was very unlikely. With tears streaming down his face, the Senju left the village behind and thus his family, friends, and reputation were all hurt in the process.