Re: Yasha Uchiha Izura: The Prince of Rain
Izura was born in a rural village on the western border of the Land of Fire decades ago, the younger one of a set of twins. His mother and father were elite Leaf Anbu, the duo well renowned for their mastery of the Mangekyou sharingan. But after a mission gone wrong in attempting to destroy a cult of assassins, Izura's family was marked for death for the decades to come. Izura spent the first 8 years of his life on the run with his mother Katsuko and twin brother Naota, his father having been killed when he was no more than two years old. By the age of 9, the trio was attacked, and Izura was separated from his family. It was during this incident that Izura began to experience an early onset of trouble in his vision- his eyes turning a mirror-like, pale red and becoming sensitive to sunlight.
For the next two years, he wandered in an attempt to find them, getting temporarily adopted into a traveling merchant family. It was there that he met Keneko, a young girl about his age who he quickly became friends with. Life was peaceful and tranquil with the merchant family, but Izura still could not let go of the possibility that his brother and mother were still alive. Eventually, when he became 11 years old, he went to the Leaf village, requesting their protection in return for his service as a Leaf shinobi. Although blind for two years straight, years of fighting and seeing violence on the run had rendered the hesitant young boy into a somewhat capable fighter, and he easily made the rank of genin upon becoming a member of the Leaf village. Izura was assigned a mentor and a team. Things went well for about a year and a half: Izura's eyesight problem saw some improvement, but eventually Izura's mind to leave the village was swayed by a man named Yasha Sojobo. The village, despite all it's perks, refused to acknowledge the threat that assassins posed against the young boy, and on top of that, he still could not find his mother and brother.
So Izura defected from the leaf, his only crime being that he left in the first place. With Sojobo's help, he fled Konoha, but was intercepted en route to their destination by a pair of Sand ninja. Kidnapped from Sojobo, Izura was brought to the Toraono Dojo, where that year's inter village Chuunin exam was taking place, marked en route with a terrible curse that would slowly eat away at his sanity and health- the berserker seal. Turned over to the leaf authorities, one of the Leaf shinobi, an anbu captain, deemed it appropriate to execute Izura on the spot for treason. His old team watched, yelling out their anger and sadness at his leaving of Konoha, not understanding his motives and deeming him to be no more than scum. The anbu captain approached, preparing to deal the killing blow. But before that could happen, Izura finally released all of his pent up emotion, and let the berserker seal run wild. It was at this point that Izura fought his entire team single handedly, and he would have fought to the death, were it not for Sojobo's timely interference, rescuing the boy as he fell unconscious from the exertion of the battle.
Thus they fled....fled and fled and fled to the unknown reaches, to a place they could call their own. This is where they formed an organization, a private shinobi army of sorts. Izura was inducted as one of it's youngest members. Although the weather was rather bleak there, Izura loved it.
For Izura, this was where he truly felt like he had found a home. And coincidentally, it was here that his eyesight finally returned, and gradually began to improve. Izura was adopted by Sojobo as a son, and a girl named Sekai as his aunt. It was the first time in a while that he felt like he had a family again. The group would share fun times together, such as the several instances where one of them would force the boy to wear a sailor uniform, much to his embarrassment.
Over the course of the next 4 years, Izura conducted missions in the name of the organization, much like a mercenary force with strong moral principles. They only took contracts that they thought were noble and just. Izura encountered several close calls during this time period, but he managed to scrape by in every instance. By the time he was 15 years old, he had earned the moniker, "The Prince of Rain", due to his seeming adoption by the heads of the organization. It was also during this time that he managed to unlock the Mangekyou Sharingan. He became so well regarded, that when Leaf dignitaries approached the organization, they could no longer do much other than pardon him from his status as a missing ninja, as retaining it would be akin to an act of war.
When he was 17, he finally encountered his mother, who sadly informed him of his brother's early demise, when they were around 13 years old. The assassin cult had claimed the lives of his father, and his brother, and only Izura and Katsuko remained. Teaming up, they went on one final mission, as mother and son, eliminating the assassin leadership and putting an end to the lifelong hunt once and for all. But Katsuko had been severely injured in the ensuing battle, and so as a parting gift, she restored his eyesight to a capability beyond what it had originally held, and bestowed upon him her own eyes, giving Izura the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan.
In the years after that event, Izura took the mantle of leadership from Sojobo, becoming the organization's leader. He forged an alliance with the Leaf in an attempt to wash away past grudges, and for a time, things were peaceful. They got along with the Leaf, and the organization held a lucrative and stable defense contract with Konoha. Izura, being the leader of the organization and a now prominent and respected member of the Uchiha clan, was treated almost as if he was a kage or sennin.
But this didn't last forever. Growing unrest with the Samurai pulled Konoha into a war, and despite Izura's best efforts in aiding them, the organization had been severely weakened by a biological weapon attack on their headquarters, resulting in an alarming 70% casualty rate among it's members. The few who remained could not hold against the tide of Samurai, and in a valiant final effort, Izura made his last stand along with his surviving brethren.
He fell in combat, kept alive only by his most loyal friends casting a stasis jutsu on him in the hopes that one day, he'd awake and survive.
And now, 7 years later, his story continues. The world was a new place, Leaf having fallen to the samurai, and Mist having been frozen over and abandoned. No longer with a home, or a cause, he wandered for a time, lost.
But eventually Izura was able to reunite with Ayame, his long lost sister, and for the first time in seven years, he found his reason again. The will to strive on.
