Assassin Sarutobi Sasuke

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Class: Assassin
Alternative Class: N/A
True Identity: Sarutobi Sasuke
Titles/Nickname: The Finest Shinobi of All
Origin: Greece (Trojan War)
Alignment: Lawful Good

Strength: C
Endurance: C
Agility: A+
Mana: C
Luck: B+
Noble Phantasm: A

Class Skills
Presence Concealment - A+
Hides one's presence as a Servant. Suitable for spying. It is possible to disappear completely and become almost impossible to be detected, even against a Servant's perception. However, efficiency will decrease once preparations to attack are taken.

Personal Skills
Ninjutsu - EX
The general term for secret intelligence techniques, combat techniques, larceny techniques, torture techniques, etc., employed by ninjas. Its system differs between each school. Known as a Master of all Shinobi techniques Sarutobi Sasuke is a legend a myth of the ideal Shinobi representing all their arts and skills in some fashion or another including Ninjutsu.

Knowledge of Respect and Harmony - B
A special ability that prevents the reduction of accuracy regardless of how many times the same technique has been used on the same foe. In other words, the ability to “render one’s attacks unreadable to the enemy”. It became almost impossible to see through Assassin's techniques only a select few had the ability to form his Assassinations to his Ninjutsu and the mentality he embraces as a Shinobi.

Subversive Activites - A
The talent to reduce the enemy forces in the preliminary stages before going into battle. An expert of traps. However, the higher the ranking of this Skill, the more one's spiritual status as a hero declines. As a Master Shinobi in some cases, it was his job to disable the enemy from behind their own lines by assassinating key figures or setting up traps and he was never detected while doing so always making his way in and out with ease.

Noble Phantasm
Sanada Jūyūshi no Densetsu: The Loyal Shadows of Yukimura - A+
Anti-Unit(Self) Noble Phantasm
The Noble Phantasm of the legend based around the group of ninjas and spies lead by Sarutobi Sasuke under the service of Sanada Yukimura.

It is also the one legend that the world is aware of regarding Assassin’s identity and therefore has a strong connection to the figure who existed as a ninja of the Sanada clan. The group consisted of 10 individuals who were masters of their ninjitsu, spy work, crafting and assassination skills, and all of them were dedicated to Yukimura.

As a Noble Phantasm, Sanada Jūyūshi no Densetsu enables Assassin to not only use his own unique skills but the unique abilities of the other nine members to his advantage, this is because Assassin is well known in legend and fiction as being the leader of the group. He can use any of the abilities as he pleases, however, cannot use two or more at once as such he much switch between them and their usage.

The unique abilities of each member in the Sanada Jūyūshi that Assassin can execute are listed below:

Sarutobi Sasuke (Kōzuki Sasuke): Assassin's personal set of unique abilities. It enables him to use the element of Wind while performing his jump/evasion skills. It also gives his weapons, Reppūkiri, Kasumikiri and Arashikiba, Wind element based attacks. Assassin is also able to use his most devastating attack in his arsenal, Kōzuki-ryū Shinobi Zetsumei Ougi: Musou Kaze, a blast of ki-powered wind with enough force to bring down a house or two.

Kirigakure Saizō (Shikauemon): The most famous ninja of the Ten Braves besides Assassin. Saizō was a master of invisibility and would use his skills to ambush Tokugawa troops. Assassin is able to perform Saizō’s signature ambush technique.

Anayama Kosuke: A former Takeda vassal before serving the Sanada clan. He was able to disguise himself as his lord due to how similar they looked. He was also capable of disguising himself as a beautiful woman. This enables Assassin to be able to perform a ninpō that can turn his disguise into any kind of person, be they man, woman or child.

Mochizuki Rokurō & Nezu Jinpachi (Koroku): Rokurō was the oldest of the Ten Braves. He and Jinpachi specialized in many kinds of explosives in their service under Sanada Yukimura. Assassin can even put modern day explosives like C4 and proximity mines to good use.

Miyoshi Seikai (Masayasu) & Miyoshi Isa (Masakatsu): The Miyoshi brothers, they fought bravely in the Summer Siege of Osaka Castle despite receiving many devastating wounds. Their wounds eventually took its toll on them and they decided to commit honourable suicide. Assassin becomes more endurable and is also able to perform killing strikes with his fists.

Unno Rokurō (Rokurōbee): A female ninja skilled in the kunai (ninja dagger projectile) and possesses many techniques revolving around them. Assassin can perform many of Rokurō’s signature technique revolving around the kunai.

Kakei Jūzō (Jūbee): A skilled musketeer whose skills with a gun were recognized by Hachisuka Koroku, he served under Sanada Yukimura during the Sieges of Osaka Castle and died in battle. Assassin is able to execute and assassinate Masters and Servants with any gun he uses in hand.

Yuri Kamanosuke: Female assassin skilled in the art of poison. Enables Assassin to poison his foes and become immune to most poisons.
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Assassin's True Name is Sarutobi Sasuke a ninja who is known in popular Japanese culture to have served the Sanada samurai clan during the time of the Sengoku Era as one of the Sanada Ten Braves regarded as the leader of the group. The legend and existence of Assassin has been argued for almost a quarter of a millennium. The name ‘Sasuke Sarutobi’ is said to have been the name of an anti-Tokugawa ninja from a story told to children during a time of animosity towards the Shogunate. Some historians believe that the ninja was based on a historical one called Sasuke Kōzuki who was regarded as Japan’s finest ninja and in some cases Nisuke Sarutobi. His legend has become fabricated and obscured as something of an enigmatic folklore told through mouth due to his enemies wanting to erase any record of history that dares to mention his name.

Another questionable topic about the character is his death, it is disputed that he killed himself rather than be captured (Assassin is reputed to be able evade even impossible odds) while he got caught in a trap, this never occurred as Assassin’s death was caused by something else entirely different. In truth, the names Sarutobi Sasuke, Kōzuki Sasuke and Sarutobi Nisuke all belonged to one person, and how that person truly lived was never known because the Tokugawa shogunate mostly wiped out any knowledge or record of Assassin after he was killed, though a record of his actual life does actually exist somewhere in Akasha. It is also worth noting that despite being considered a ninja of the Koga clan, he was in fact a ninja of the Iga. Assassin is also confirmed to be a Counter Guardian.

Originally just an orphan who learned how to climb and jump from monkeys, he was discovered by an old man who revealed himself to be a ninja of the Iga clan, Assassin became a ninja through the teachings of the old man. He managed to distinguish himself as a very skilled and powerful ninja and eventually became an elite shinobi, the greatest of them all. Assassin eventually went to serve the samurai Sanada Masayuki and assisted in aiding his lord’s sons Nobuyuki and Nobushige (Sanada Yukimura) during battle, whom would treat Assassin like a brother, Assassin felt that he had chosen the very people who would change the country for the better so he dedicated his life to them. Though it is not known in human history, one of Assassin's earliest missions after beginning his service to the Sanada was to locate Masayuki's eldest daughter Okuni, whom would eventually be known as Lady Muramatsu, Assassin eventually had to rescue Muramatsu from a Dead Apostle when he reached Kuwana in Owari.

To Assassin, Muramatsu was the most beautiful woman he ever laid eyes on, but he knew there will never be a way for the two of them be together, so Assassin accepted the marriage Muramatsu had with Oyamada Shigemasa and spent time with other women to compensate it, though he did make a vow to keep an eye on and protect Muramatsu's husband and son on her behalf.

Assassin believed that Japan and its people should experience the outside world more, the moment he first laid eyes on the man known as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the ninja had a vision of Tokugawa’s goals and it's consequences, Assassin knew at that very moment that Ieyasu had to be stopped for the sake of Japan's future. Since that day until his death, Assassin had made thirteen attempts on Ieyasu’s life, he became a well and truly feared enemy among the Tokugawa, even more so than his own masters. The disgust for the Tokugawa grew much worse when a samurai serving them, Hattori Hanzō (who also studied the Iga ninja arts), was regarded as Japan’s best ninja, when in truth Hanzō, despite being a competent samurai, was actually a terribly poor excuse for an assassin, this act caused Assassin’s ire towards other assassins in general.

Assassin witnessed and was present in many battles in the Sengoku Era while he was under the service of the Sanada clan. Many of these battles include Omosu (1580), Temmokuzan (1582), Odawara Castle (1590), Ueda Castle (1600) and both Sieges of Osaka Castle (1614-15).

Unfortunately, Tokugawa Ieyasu prevailed against Ishida Mitsunari at Sekigahara in 1600 and established the Tokugawa Shogunate, forcing Assassin along with his master Nobushige into exile. Despite this, Assassin still continued to make Ieyasu, his family and his followers lives hell. When his master decided to join Hideyori Toyotomi to fight against the Tokugawa, Assassin also joined along with other ninjas who for many years dedicated their lives to protect Nobushige. The odds were against the Toyotomi, but Assassin clinged to the hope that they would prevail and defeat the Tokugawa. Meanwhile, he noticed that his master was gazing in the distance with an expression he never used before, but Assassin assumed it may be because of the odds being against them, unless they play their parts right and turn the battle around.

Despite all the effort, things went from bad to worse, Assassin saw that the rest of the Ten Braves were being killed off one by one, Saizo was killed while making a beeline for the Tokugawa camp, the Miyoshi brothers killed themselves after taking too many wounds, an act that prevented the enemy from slaying them personally. Soon he was the last of the Ten Braves left alive, his master Nobushige decided on one last attack on Ieyasu and Assassin rushed to aid his master as fast as he could. However, by the time he reached him, Nobushige was too exhausted to fight back after slaying so many samurai and he himself was slain by a samurai named Nishio Nizaemon. Seeing his master die and that all hope to stop the Tokugawa lost, Assassin went berserk, brutally killing Nizaemon in cold blood before proceeding to annihilate the rest of the Tokugawa army. His rampage was cut short when three arrows fatally hit him in the back, he looked to find that it was a woman resembling Muramatsu who shot him, limping his way towards her before collapsing, he gave her a bittersweet and gentle smile before finally leaving this world.

Assassin at best is a very laid-back individual whose biggest personality trait is his wit, though at times, he can be shown to be mischievous or sarcastic depending on the mood. But when the situation calls for it, Assassin shows a side that makes it clear how loyal and determined he is in completing his objective. He is very knowledgeable about many things though Assassin tends to chalk it up as something beneficial and necessity in his line of work. During battle, Assassin unintentionally makes a habit of himself being someone who sees the brighter side of having to fight in a deathmatch, which sometimes causes his opponent to think he's literally making fun of them if it wasn't for the fact that he's giving off a very dangerous aura. Despite having trained as a shinobi with such efficiency, Assassin disagrees with the concept that ninjas should cast away human emotion and truly become 'shadows' in order to be a master of ninjitsu.

Assassin considers himself a servant of freedom, someone who prefers to live how they want to live and do what they want to do. But sadly he wasn't able to be someone like that because of the choices he made when he was alive, but Assassin doesn't regret how things went for him when he was alive since defying destiny was a freedom of choice he took upon. The only thing he laments on is that he simply didn't bring victory to the Sanada went it was needed the most.

Assassin admits that when he ended up in the Throne of Heroes, he made himself completely distant towards everything, just wallowing in his despair that he failed to complete his objective in stopping the Tokugawa and the fact that his friends died fighting for it. He just became a hollow person on the inside so he had no qualms of ending up being a Counter Guardian.

Assassin still holds a bitter contempt for the Tokugawa, this would put him at odds with any Heroic Spirit who pledge loyalty to the Tokugawa Shogunate, that includes anyone from a time after the Sengoku period. After reading through the history of Japan showing what happened after he died, Assassin sees that in the end, his intuition about the clan was indeed proven to be correct. While the Tokugawa did bring peace to Japan, it was all for the wrong reasons as they began a rule filled with xenophobia and extreme national patriotism for hundreds of years. Even after the Tokugawa were overthrown, that xenophobic, patriotic view that the Shogunate left behind lead Japan and its people in a massive global war as an enemy of the world, and in the end they paid a devastating heavy price for it. Despite that the country recovered significantly (with some help from the Americans no less), what the Tokugawa left to the people with their racial nationalist view still lingers in Japanese society today. Assassin clearly states that even if the Grail is truly a wish granting device that performs miracles and not what it is now, he still wouldn't use it to change Japan's history, because doing so would mean that an important lesson learned would be forgotten forever.

There are many figures from the Sengoku period that Assassin has many opinions of, be they serious or pretty comical. He describes his master Nobushige Sanada as a 'Man who accepts his limitations',  Katō Kiyomasa as an 'S-Class evil bastard', Hattori Hanzō as a 'loser with an overinflated ego' and Shimazu Yoshihiro, Tachibana Muneshige and Konishi Yukinaga as 'the only samurai in the war who truly had a human heart'.