Thread:Njalm2/@comment-3001427-20130423025956

1. Part I: The Red Dawn

Yasakani was a shinobi born during the Second World War. At the time he was a recently promoted chuunin, at the age of 11, and on the fast track to becoming a jounin. Child soldiers were not an uncommon sight within the war, but those who survived into their adulthood were a rarity. They possessed a rare ability, either in raw talent or the determination and will to survive; Yasakani fell into the latter category. He's a survivor, where others fell he was willing and able do whatever it took to survive the battle.

He and a team of fellow chuunin were tasked towards recon in Rain Country, reports suggested that Iwa was planning a large offensive, and they needed the intel. They managed to infiltrate into Rain Country, but discover what Iwa did too late. Iwa had been amassing forces along several key points, along strategic routes running through Rain Country and extending all the way to Grass Country. Before they could flee to report back, Iwa launched its surgical strike, securing enemy territory and gaining temporary control over the region. In order to evade capture they were pushed further and further back until they reached Amegakure. And smack dab into the middle of a civil war between Hanzo and the rebel group - Akatsuki. Yasakani and his team couldn't afford to get captured by Hanzo, his shinobi would have either killed them or extracted their secrets. Instead they were forced to craft new identities and side with Akatsuki - for the time being.

Eventually they did make contact with Konoha, but not in the way they expected. On a mission, they were ambushed by what appeared to be Konoha Anbu and were going to be taken in for questioning and possible reprogramming, as sleeper agents. That is until they revealed their identities. Yasakani recognized many of the call signs, known only to Konoha operatives, and took a chance. His gamble paid off. However what he didnt know was that these operatives were actually Root agents, who used the opportunity to instruct Yasakani and his teammates to slip Konoha information as double agents. They performed their task admirably, and Danzo used this information to collaborate with Hanzo the Salamander. If he could help Hanzo quell this little rebellion, then he could begin swaying the monstrously powerful shinobi and his country to the side of Konoha. Very pragmatic approach but one he was well versed in. At Danzo's suggestion, Hanzo the Salamander used the pretense of peace negotiations to finally draw out the leadership of Akatsuki and deal with them once for all. The idealistic leader of Akatsuki, would not be deterred despite the warnings of his council.

That fateful day, many things would change, Yahiko would fall, and Nagato would awaken the Rinnegan. Their ambush failed, Hanzo quickly retreated while his shinobi and Root dealt with Nagato's newly awakened powers, and battle ensued. To his horror, Yasakani and his teammates were ruthlessly cut down by Root, though it was by chance, that Yasakani survived, having evaded at the last instant what would have been a lethal injury. When he awakened all he saw was the betrayal of Konoha, and the death of his comrades and his fragile hold on what remained of his identity before he joined Akatsuki. He turned his bitterness inward, raging at the both himself for feeding Konoha that information, which helped lead to this conclusion, and his own pathetic self for believing in them in the first place. The utter despair of knowing that all that he stood for, the village and home he had loved and so desperately wished to return to had, just tossed him aside was nearly crippling in its anguish.

In that instant his loyalty to his former home, to his former comrades and family were shattered. He embraced the new identity he had forged among Akatsuki, becoming loyal to them and their cause in mind and body. Here he had a position of power, those who respected him, a life, even if it was a lie. The mask he wore for so long had become his crutch to accept the harsh reality of war, and the seeming betrayal of his village. Following Nagato's acquisition of the Rinnegan, he rallied the remnants of Akatsuki and the rebellion was reignited. Yasakani's devotion and utter abandonment of his old cause pushed him to seek death and success at all costs. His skill in war grew as Akatsuki's influence spread, until the day Hanzo fell and Nagato became the undisputed ruler of Rain Country, Yasakani silently standing in the shadows of this vast empire. He was the Head-Commander of an Akatsuki task force designated towards infiltration and assassination. When countries began hiring Akatsuki, after the war he was often apart of or leading the forces.

For years Akatsuki existed in the shadows, always at the forefront of any conflict, and establishing a strong military and political base within the Hidden Villages and Elemental countries. Sasori had laid much of the groundwork for their spy network due to his ninpou that allowed him to flawlessly create sleeper agents, further extending their influence. Orochimaru's experiments into the Cursed Seal provided able shock-troops from the lower ranked Shinobi, and so on. The Missning-Nin that joined the top echelon of Akatsuki provided immense scope to Akatsuki's influence that it had become a veritable village hidden amongst other hidden villages. But things changed when their goals began to shift towards the capture of the Tailed Beasts. Yasakani and other commanders were often tasked with providing intel on the whereabouts and movements of the Jinchuuriki. For a time they were successful, until the untimely death of Sasori. What followed was the subsequent deconstruction of much of the military might Akatsuki possessed as its leaders became disconnected with the rest of its organization and the S-Rank Missing Nin that composed its highest ranks were killed one after another. Before the Fourth World War had begun, Akatsuki as an organization had all but disbanded. Those that were left went to ground, while Yasakani along with those loyal to him, vanished into the Shinobi world.

--- The Curse of Hatred --- The Sharingan is the byproduct of a condition brought about by the way an Uchiha mind process powerful emotional attachments and their subsequent destruction. Some would consider it a blessing, but this degenerative condition only forces those who are victims to it on a bloody path of death and vengeance. For others however, it can lead to an altered personality, a distortion within their pysche, leading them to live within an abstract ideal, concept, or fixation. Words, phrases, these things bear meaning to them in ways few can comprehend. They are in many ways unnatural as humans and shinobi possessing wildly different viewpoints, and perspectives. Yasakani is an Uchiha who is different in that he the only one he loved and cherished more than anything was himself. His parents died young in the Second War, leaving him an orphan, though cared for by the rest of his clan. As the war become more and more gruesome this love for his clan eventually extended to Konoha as a whole. A childhood of watching fellow clansman and comrades fall before an unknowable enemy created a sense of solidarity for the young Uchiha.

It was this sense of community that led to his warped but highly efficient survival instinct. As a child, Yasakani learned early on that the dead have no honor. It is an end. An end to dreams, to friends, family and bonds. There is no honor in dying, and for every death the whole weakened, and eventually it too will fade into the abyss of death. Only those who endure and live can reap the sacrifices of those made before them, and the ones made by themselves. To that end, survival was paramount, of himself, and his comrades, for the threat of their loss was more than he could bear, and he would not abide it. In a way, death had become his enemy; the death of his friends, his allies, his home. This notion became the greatest adversary Yasakani would ever have to face, but not even the cruelty of reality could diminish the resolve reflected in the swirling tomoe in his eyes.

Through his battles, his Sharingan saw everything, becoming both the boon that ensured his success and a curse that forced him to relieve every failure in perfect detail in his nightmares. By the time he had achieved the rank of chuunin, Yasakani was plagued by constant memories of his nightmarish experiences, the deaths of his comrades and the slow systematic destruction of his humanity as he became a tool for war. The world had inflicted its justice upon his lofty ideals, slowly crushing his resolve beneath the heel of futility in the ensuing war. It is bitterly ironic that the mission that separated him from Konoha would be the catalyst for the resolution he so desperately needed. Forced to abandon his old identity and assume a new one in the face of impending death as his team was driven deeper into Ame territory, Yasakani once more was faced with a daunting choice. Pain and suffering had made him wiser than his formerly naive self. Like a master craftsman war has shaped and molded Yasakani into a cunning warrior. To survive, he had to relinquish that which made him who he was. Survival was paramount. If he failed, his friends would suffer, if he died, his teammates would perish. There was no other alternative. Bit by bit, he gave parts of himself up, it was hard at first, but the more he removed, the easier it became. By the end of of it, the boy Uchiha was no more, there was only - Yasakani.

2. The Sharingan is an immensely useful tool in and out of combat. Its ability to visualize chakra ensures that I can not only see how jutsu are performed, but it allows me investigative and detective work most shinobi are incapable of. The ability to mirror movements and copy them, makes impersonating other individuals relatively easy, and the hypnotism makes such exchanges even more simple. In short, I plan to abuse every facet of the Sharingan, when the situation calls for it. Using its abilities to the fullest is my intention to showcase that this doujutsu is more than just a "monkey-see, monkey-do" or a road to the infamous Mangekyou or EMS.

3. At the point in which I begin detailing Yasakani he is now in his 40's and has had over 35 years to perfect the three main aspects of the sharingan. To that end, I'll be detailing his mastery over its hypnotic powers in illusion and suggestion. Its ability to visualize chakra, and how that relates to his own jutsu creation and its ability to copy techniques. As a specialization, and given the nature of this character who seems to exist as a shadow of what he needs to be in order to survive, the copying mechanism of the Sharingan will be his "specialty". Such feats will include the compartmentalization of specific skills and techniques, namely fighting styles and entire jutsu styles. By activating his Sharingan and utilizing the designated technique, Yasakani will be able to completely change and utilize styles of combat. A One-Man Library of techniques who can "adjust" or "equip" himself with the proper array of techniques for a given situation or opponent.

4. I won't beat around the bush, I'm quite power hungry, though not without restraint. The Sharingan is a powerful doujutsu with untapped potential that no one on this fanon has been able to reach. I intend to explore these aspects of the Sharingan and how the Curse of Hatred can help shape a character. Its an interesting concept, know that we know the source of the clans most infamous power. As for Yasakani himself, the Sharingan, or rather the Curse of Hatred serves as a major turning point, several times in his life, and helps to flesh him out as a character.  