Saiko Uchiha

## **Personality and Behaviour**

A joker by nature, he conceals the fact that he is carefree and fun loving behind the mask of being a responsible, adult Jounin. In his spare time he can be found at the sake bar, buying rounds of drinks for everyone but himself, them robbing them blind through silly bets; or maybe at the training fields wit his friends and students, screwing around and training; hell, he might even be baking a souffle.(Late to four missions for this very reason) He loves a good prank, always eager to see the best and brightest of his village go to war with one another in such playful ways, expanding their wit and intellect with each turn they take messing with each other. Usually trying to be the life at a party, he is ever vigilant, whether he has a kunai balanced on the tip of his nose or a dozen eggs, all stacked one atop another waiting to be cracked for his squad's breakfast. IN battle, he has a habit of combining his lightning elemental chakra into his melee strikes, allowing for him to disorient his opponents sense by striking key pressure points and overstimulating them.

## **Scars/Tattoos**

Scars encircling his left eye, showing a botched attempt by a thief to steal the eye before making sure Saiko was thoroughly dead. Covered by an eye-patch with the Konoha Village symbol on it.

## **Summoning**

Tier 3 Contracts with :

King Enma - Ape Elder

## **Background Information**

His birth, shrouded n mystery, has been a subject that has plagued Saiko his entire life. Left on the doorstep of the Konoha orphanage, he was found with a note describing that this was the bastard child of a traveling dignitary and a Hyuuga branch member, the fact that he possessed only a single Byakugan being explained away as a birth defect and the reason he was being left here. In reality he was the son of the legendary Shisui Uchiha of the Body flicker and Hakuma Hyuuga, a jounin of the Main house.  In order to conceal his bastard heritage, the Mistress of the orphanage had him always wear an eye patch over the obviously dojutsu holding left eye starting as soon as she had read the letter. Enclosed was more money than she had ever seen, leading her to believe the cover story she was presented with. She did her best to raise him right, teaching him the basic education all nin received before entering the academy, expecting great things from him.  Upon turning seven, and coming home from his first day in the academy, he found his 'Mother' hung with her own intestine in the main hall, dangling from what was once a grand chandelier in the buildings prime.  Seeing her, flayed open, supported by her own entrails snapped something deep within him, the revealed eye turning crimson, a trio of tomoe surrounding his pupil without his knowledge. "I will not let your fate befall our village, Mother. I love you..farewell.." Instead of being distraught, as most children would be, the sight if her dangling like so much meat ignited a flame within his body, a desire that called for him to learn medical techniques so that he might one day prevent another needless death. His Mother's final day was the first day of a new Saiko, his focus solidified. One of the Shinobi patrol that had responded when he called for help had taken him aside immediately, handing him off to another of his clansmen and ushered the young, truly alone Student to their complex where he was heavily interrogated as if he were some war criminal; denied water and food for days, beast and psychologically made to endure their genjutsu and drugs as they tried to rip the information they sought out of him. Each time, his Byakugan broke their genjutsu and his will burned stronger enough to resist the drugs. The only phrase he spoke throughout the entire affair was "I am the Heart of the Flame, and no darkness shall devour my Light." It was his mantra as they worked him over, breaking down the child on the fourth day straight and pulling free what they needed from his ragged body. What they found shocked and disturbed them ; he was indeed of their blood and not some sleeper agent sent to ruin them. They even managed to match up his birthday to Hakuma's expected due-date, though she claimed to have lost the baby on a mission in the middle of heavy combat. All lies to save her half-blood baby. Deciding to not inform the Hyuuga Clan of this 'happy' miracle, Saiko was privately tutored and escorted back and forth from the academy all year, quickly rising to the top of his class, causing a stir from his classmates when he told them he only had one eye from the result of of a birth defect. What surprised his Uchiha teacher's was his inability to perform fire jutsu, gaining him the distaste and ridicule of the other Uchiha genin while growing up. He ignored it, knowing in his heart his mantra was the right path. His body was a weapon, and with it he'd defend his home, and continued to do so throughout his genin-hood, taking on as many missions around the town he could do solo, despite his continued orders to not waste his time doing 'good deeds'. When it was discovered that the only chakra nature Saiko possessed was Lightning the Hyuuga clan lord was taken into the confidence of the Uchiha, the situation explained. Saiko suddenly vanished from his genin team,  being taught by the Hyuuga Clan Lord himself in the ways of their art, believe Ira to be the bridge that might finally connect the to clans once and for all, a notion shared by his new pupil. He was even given a chance at the Chuunin exams despite being team-less, though rather flattering letter of recommendation from the two clan lord he knew helped. He managed to ace his way through the all sections of the test, using his wits, and the dual dojutsu at his disposal to quickly identify and eliminate threats as they came at him, attributing it to luck rather than the many missions he was made to undergo during his specialized training. Those years passed in a blur, and his power grew expontentially. On his final mission as a Chuunin he was jumped by what he thought was a group of bandits on his way home. They managed to take him by surprise, two of them binding his arms behind his back, the third coming at his patch covered eye with a knife. The wickedly curved blade sliced into the flesh along his eyebrow and curved downward just as Ira sent a pulse of chakra ripping from his body in all direction, causing the nin assaulting him to losing his grip on the weapon, the force of Ira's wave sending the knife into his attacker's throat as well as disorienting the two nin biding him. To make matters worse, he'd laced the chakra he emitted with his lightning element to allow for a stun, much like the Palm Bottom technique allowed. While the first nin lay gurgling his life-force away, he removed it's mask before it's companions could recover, horrified to see the Hyuuga Clan lord's daughter dying before him. The ragged flesh of his left eye drenched his eye patch, coating the already black material in a crimson coating. Shoving a roll of exploding tags into her leaking maw he whispered, " I'm sorry.." before dropping a smoke bomb and flickering back towards town, the worried cries of her companions running through the cloud cut short by the massive explosion. He'd had thirty of those things on him, confiscated from some genin that were just being kids in the Forest of Death. There would be no remains from the force of the blast, ripping their bodies asunder and leaving no trace that they ever existed save for a smoldering crater. He kept this secret from his Sensei, unable to bring himself to admit what had happened. The only person he told was the Fifth Hokage who simply nodded in understanding. Three days later he was called in and promoted to jounin, the day of his Sixteenth birthday. Deciding not to take a team until he was able to guard them, to teach them something worth knowing, until he could guarantee that he wasn't a failure. He continued doing missions when assigned, working hard until his twentieth year when he received the decree that this would be the year he started training others, accepting it as fate.