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Age: 13-14 at the start

Height: 4'10"

Weight: 80lbs

History: Sasuke Uchiha was the younger child of Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha, immigrants from Japan to America who resided in Gotham City. After they had moved there and made a life for themselves, despite the crime ridden city, many of their other relatives moved over as well.

It was not until years later that Sasuke found out that his close knit family were all criminals, but his brother Itachi found out long before he did. After several years of helping his family commit crimes, Itachi killed them all and after Sasuke confronted him, and was knocked out, vanished. Of course Batman heard about this and investigated, hearing about the child that was the lone survivor, and upon interviewing the child for clues, found himself in the child after his parents murder: Hurt, angry, with a strong desire for vengeance. Batman took the child into his care and trained them as his next Robin.

While Batman knew the history of Uchiha as being fast learners and skilled shinobi, the child's progress shocked him, but also worried him. Sasuke grew skilled quickly, especially gifted in feats of agility and with using batarangs and a wooden training sword, he was using his vengeance as fuel, making no secret that his goal was to find and kill his older brother. And while Batman tried to dissuade him from this goal, the only exult from this was that Sasuke gradually stopped mentioning it to his mentor.

Batman was also somewhat disquieted by Sasuke's ruthlessness. Batman was not exactly one to hold back from harming criminals, but he was certain that Sasuke would have killed some of them had Batman not been there to stop him.

Several months after helping Batman, following a near death experience, a change occurred in Sasuke. His irises had changed to red, with markings around the pupil, starting with two in one and one in the other, gradually maturing to two in both and then three in both. This also gave Sasuke the ability to use ninjutsu and genjutsu, but he would not learn this for a while.

This was not the only change. Sasuke became faster, more agile, and his eyesight was sharper and he became more perceptive, along with the ability to mimic any move he saw even once flawlessly. One might expect someone who gained such gifts to become lazy, but if anything, he trained harder than before.

This worried Batman even more, since the longer Sasuke went without any clues on Itachi's whereabouts, partly because Itachi was good at avoiding detection, partly because Bruce was purposefully keeping the information from him, the angrier and more impatient Sasuke got.

This eventually escalated into a row after Sasuke put a criminal into intensive care, and Sasuke found out that Bruce had been keeping information on Itachi's whereabouts from him. The row escalated further into a fight, after which Sasuke left the Batcave and Wayne Manor behind, leaving his Robin suit behind. He took on a new identity as 'Shinobi' and continued to fight crime, but it seemed the row with Batman had done him some good, going a little easier on most criminals and gathering information on Itachi on his own, occasionally clashing with Batman when their paths crossed.

Eventually, once gathering enough information on Itachi's location, Sasuke left Gotham City to kill him, upon which he found an Itachi already on the brink of death from an illness. Itachi told him about ninjutsu and genjutsu, why he had killed the family, and Sasuke reluctantly gave Itachi a mercy killing, and returned to Gotham.

Upon returning, he went to visit Batman to tell him what had happened, and offer his services to him once again as his Robin, and whether Batman accepted him or not, continued to hone his skills and try to find whatever he could on ninjutsu and genjutsu and learn it.

Costume: Sasuke did eschew a fair bit of the tradition when he became a Robin, balking at some of the previous designs.

He chose a bandana mask to cover his eyes, and opted for tight pants rather than the ‘underwear and tights' design. He understood that looser clothes would be a detriment but he didn’t want to go quite that far. He also opted for tabi boots rather than the regular ones. He also had a couple of pouches on a belt to carry batarangs as well as a sheath to hold a sturdy shinai style sword capable of discharging electric shocks, being his chosen weapon.

Under the guise of Shinobi, his outfit was quite different, wearing darker colours as well as a hood. His eyes were uncovered with this outfit, as well as having a metal mask covering his nose and mouth, with a built in gas mask. His clothes were also thicker and harder wearing, since he needed to stay protected since he no longer had Batman watching his back. He still opted for shinai rather than actual blades, although these ones were just regular kendo swords rather than the high tech ones he had access to as Robin.

A fairly close approximation of his outfit as Shinobi would be Barton's 'Ronin' outfit from Avengers Endgame.

Skills: He is very skilled with batarangs, swords, and bows and arrows, likely good enough to impress Green Arrow, but when crime fighting, he prefers a blunt, shinai styled sword.

Physically, his skills are more in feats of agility and flexibility rather than martial strength or endurance, and his agility only got more impressive when his eyes changed, as well as being able to copy moves and react faster than most would believe possible.

Weaknesses: If Sasuke runs out of batarangs or is otherwise disarmed of weapons, he is at a slight disadvantage against those who know how to fight well, although he can rely on his skill and agility to avoid attacks until he can get a weapon or until help arrives.

Blinding him is also a problem, moreso than it would be for most, because of how much he relies on his eyes. He is by no means helpless, since he can still hear, but blinding him with tear gas or something similar would be more of a disadvantage for him than most.

Information: Sasuke is a fair bit more ruthless than Batman. He doesn’t get out of hand and brutalise criminals normally, but he cannot fathom why Batman doesn’t kill people who have had way too many second chances and have shown absolutely no signs or remorse or wanting to be reformed, like the Joker, and definitely thinks it would be a better option to kill people like that, in order to protect everyone else from them. For the most part though, he is happy to follow Batman's 'no killing' rule, although he will eventually rack up a body count of more than just Itachi.

After all, the last time they’d seen each other was last year at a team reunion that had doubled as a kind of friendship anniversary, complete with pictures of their greatest moments. Ryou had brought a cake that said “sorry I stabbed you” on it, which had made Kuramochi break into those characteristic cackles of his. It had been worth it, no matter how much his heart tugged whenever Kuramochi was too close.

Too close, but never close enough.

Maybe he should try dating again. Go to a bar, let someone pretty buy him a drink. But it only ever ended up being meaningless sex, and that didn’t help in the way it used to. It was more depressing than anything else now, chasing what he couldn’t have.  

Ryou scanned his surroundings almost on instinct, noticing and immediately discarding anything that wasn’t important in the moment. It was a habit he’d never be able to kick, and one he didn’t want to. It had kept him alive more than once.

This time, it wasn’t impending death he was warned about.

Kuramochi’s hair and face were distinctive in a crowd, even if he didn’t tower over them. A part of Ryou wanted to sprint to him, appearances be damned, but he felt rooted to the spot. This was a dream. It had to be a dream, or else the case was just getting to Ryou. Kuramochi had been very clear about where he belonged now, and Ryou was doing his level best to respect that.

He owed Kuramochi that, if nothing else.

It wasn’t until Kuramochi was in front of him, fisting a hand in Ryou’s shirt and hauling him in for a kiss that was every bit of fire Ryou had been pretending wasn’t burning him from the inside for over a decade.

Ryou almost didn’t want to pull back, but he had to know, he had to.

“What are you doing here?”

“Barry’s back,” Kuramochi said. “Turns out he was dimension hopping, but he’s back. And Central doesn’t need me anymore.”