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Age: 12 years old at start of Manga, now 13
Height: 150.8 cm
Weight: 42.2 kg
Birthday: July 23
Blood Type: AB
Affiliation: Konohagakure, now Orochimaru
Signature Ability: Sharingan
Uchiha Sasuke (うちはサスケ Uchiha Sasuke) is a fictional character in the manga and anime Naruto.
A Genin level Ninja, Sasuke is the natural genius offspring of the powerful Uchiha Clan. One of the most outstanding clans in Konohagakure, the Uchiha's advanced possess the power of the Sharingan, and were the Hidden Leaf's military police. Sasuke's talent is not only confined to the Sharingan; before this ability even awakened he was considered the #1 Academy Ninja and the #1 rookie Genin. He is also very popular with the girls, a vast majority of the females anywhere around his age he encounters being immediately wooed by his looks. He is interested in no such attention, however.
The two things he is interested in are killing his brother, Itachi, and ressurecting the clan. The reason is that a few years before, without any warning, Itachi- who had been acting relatively friendly with Sasuke, albeit a bit odd- slaughtered the entire Uchiha clan, leaving Sasuke as the sole survivor. This traumatic event and the endless admiration showered upon him had largely forged his character: arrogant, even-minded, apathetic to human inquiry and fixated on revenge at all costs.
Until Naruto comes into the equation, that is. Forced to cooperate against their will when they are both put in Team 7 (together with Haruno Sakura, who happens to have a huge crush on Sasuke), Sasuke and Naruto develop a complex friendship/rivalry, and for a time Sasuke starts opening up and realising the importance of comrades, both in battle and outside of it.
This does not please Orochimaru, who is interested in Sasuke as his potential next body, or more specifically the Sharingan Sasuke has. He decides that it is imperative to somehow counter Naruto's influence on Sasuke and "dye him his own color". To advance this cause he puts his curse seal on Sasuke during the second stage of the Chuunin exam; Sasuke turns out to be strong enough to survive the nine out of ten chance of immediate death and regains consciousness, but the influence of the curse seal is far from over. Just by releasing Chakra the curse becomes active and forcibly pulls out more Chakra, corroding his body and his free will. At this point the small mark on the neck grows to wrap around Sasuke's whole body.
Sasuke's willpower is surprisingly strong enough to hold back this curse and after Hatake Kakashi, the ninja who is assigned to train him, performs his Evil Sealing Method on him, it becomes even easier for him to control it and use his Chakra normally. However, a series of events unfolds that change his attitude towards Orochimaru- and everybody else, for that matter. His brother arrives in Konoha, searching for Naruto- and when Sasuke challenges him, he gets such a horrid beating that his already manifesting inferiority complex seizes his whole mind and he sets his mind on only one thing, finding more power. For this cause he decides to take the curse seal into the next level instead of attempting to contain it, and leave his village without permission to train with Orochimaru- essentially betraying his village. A genin team consisting of Naruto, Kiba, Neji and Choji and led by Shikamaru is sent to retrieve Sasuke, but encounter opposition from Orochimaru's "sound four".
Naruto manages to reach Sasuke alone. It is then revealed that in his famous speech after slaughtering the Uchiha clan, Itachi did not only tell Sasuke to "run, run and cling desperately to life", but also that he will only be able to match him in battle when he has the same eyes as him, the Mangekyo Sharingan- the requirements for getting which are killing one's best friend. Sasuke and Naruto then engage in an epic battle, Sasuke successfully bringing Naruto to inches from death on several occasions, but ultimately Sasuke has a revelation that he does not want to be Itachi's puppet but rather get power his own way, and in the final clash between Naruto's Rasengan powered by Kyubi and Sasuke's Chidori powered by the level 2 curse seal, Sasuke chooses to fold his hand back and leave Naruto alive. He then descends into the darkness in search for Orochimaru.