Hashirama Senju

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Status: Dead Gender: Male Birthday: October 23 Blood Type: B Classification: Hermit Kage Mercenary Ninja (Previous) Occupation: Senju Clan Leader Hokage Symbol Hokage Symbol Affiliation: Konohagakure

FAMILY

Clan: Senju Clan Family: Butsuma Senju (Father) Itama Senju (Brother) Kawarama Senju (Brother) Tobirama Senju (Brother) Mito Uzumaki (Wife) Tsunade (Granddaughter) Nawaki (Grandson)

SKILLS

Kekkei Genkai: Wood Style Nature of Chakra: Water Style Suiton, Fire Style Katon, Lightning Style Raiton, Earth Style Doton, Wind Style Futon, Yang Style Yang, Yin Style Inton Special Features: Hiden, Summoning, Kekkei Genkai, Senjutsu

PERSONALITY

Hashirama was a kind and caring person with a deep sense of loyalty, great charisma, and skill in negotiation. He viewed the people of Konoha as part of his own family, and his legacy had a firm root in the village. He was also shown to be a very wise and insightful man, as he passed on great teachings to Hiruzen. It was he who first believed that all Konoha shinobi must show true loyalty to each other, and that a Kage must be willing to put his life on the line to protect his village in order to serve as an example to all others. This belief of his is known as the "Will of Fire". Hashirama also seemed to have a sense of honor towards his opponents, and despite their rivalry, he held great respect for Madara Uchiha, and considered him a friend, even a brother. Hashirama even refers to Madara as a "long-time friend" when expressing cheerful curiosity as to what Madara had been up to all this time, and even greets Madara with jovial banter without showing hostility. When they were children, Hashirama and Madara cared for each other, so much so that they purposely leaked information to each other about a trap their respective clans had set. He went on to offer a truce after defeating the Uchiha and forbade Tobirama from killing Madara, even asking what it would take for Madara to trust him again. Due to the chaotic era he experienced as a child, Hashirama disagrees with children being sent to the battlefield and has cultivated the ideals of a shinobi academy and a shinobi organizational system in order to prevent children from becoming victims of senseless wars.

PERSONALITY

Hashirama was an idealist by nature, and always looked forward to the prospect of peace and a time when children would not be sent to war for the sake of it.[15] He always gave people the benefit of the doubt, witnessed when he proposed a truce with the Uchiha, immediately considering them allies, and even when Madara attacked the village, Hashirama did not allow this to change his view of the Uchiha in the village and still considered Madara a brother. This put him at odds with his brother, who was more realistic and was still wary of the Uchiha, seeing them as a threat to Konoha due to their unpredictable emotional states, despite Hashirama telling his brother not to discriminate against the Uchiha numerous times. This was due to the fact that in Hashirama's vision for the creation of the village system, the mentality that people had to care only about their clans had to end and make them see the village as a whole. Hashirama was also very modest, not shying away from praising other shinobi, as seen when he praised Itachi Uchiha when Sasuke spoke of his accomplishments, claiming that Itachi is a better shinobi than him. He also praised Hiruzen for having a pupil like Orochimaru, calling him a skilled shinobi despite all the crimes he committed against Konohagakure and preventing Tobirama from leaving the shrine. Later, when Obito became the Ten-Tails' jinchūriki, Hashirama commented that he was stronger than him, despite his title as a God of Shinobi. During the Kage meeting, Hashirama bowed his head in gratitude to the other Kage, showing that he was very humble and treated others equally by nature.

PERSONALITY

Hashirama is quite jovial and easygoing, as well as emotionally sensitive. He is also an exuberant goofball with an interest in games when not in the heat of battle. However, when necessary, he is capable of being arrogant and will not hesitate to use force to make his decision. Hashirama is also prone to bad temper whenever someone yells, accostes, or disagrees with him on something. In battle, Hashirama is calm and collected, displaying great instincts and leadership skills as the former Hokage and leader of the Senju clan, providing assistance to the entire Shinobi Alliance with his wood clones, as well as motivating everyone to face the Ten-Tails fearlessly, despite its overwhelming power. Despite his free-spirited and peaceful nature, he is also willing to make difficult decisions that go against his usual nature when forced to do so.

APPEARANCE

Hashirama was a tall man with tanned skin, dark eyes, and waist-length black hair with center-parted bangs that framed his face, though he sometimes wore it slicked back with two simple bows that framed his face. In most cases, his attire took the form of the standard shinobi dress of his time, which consisted of traditional dark red armour—similar to that of the samurai—worn over a simple black suit. This armour was constructed from numerous metal plates, forming various protections across his body, in particular: the chest, shoulders, thighs, and forearms. Each collar of his shoulder guards bore the Senju symbol emblazoned on them. For a time, he also wore a light-colored cloth bearing his clan's symbol. This outfit was accompanied by sandals and his village's forehead protector after his training. He often also carried a large scroll strapped to his back or several others into battle.

APPEARANCE - KAGE COSTUME

While in the village, Hashirama also wore the traditional Kage attire, consisting of a customary hat and haori over a dress that covered his entire body, along with a simple red sash. Otherwise, he wore a light brown, short-sleeved outfit with a mesh kimono underneath his armour, held closed by a red sash, and navy blue pants. As a child, Hashirama's hair was shoulder-length and cut in a bowl shape, hanging around his face. He wore a light-coloured attire, with a short jacket, a light-coloured scarf around his neck, and a dark-coloured sash around his waist. In his youth, Hashirama had shorter hair that hung over his face. In terms of attire, he wore several different outfits that included pinstripe pants and his clan's traditional kimono, with a sleeveless shirt and a dark kimono and haori, as well as wearing bandages on his arm. He also sometimes wore a sleeveless haori jacket with a scarf around his neck.

HISTORY

Hashirama was born during the Warring States period, the eldest of Butsuma Senju's four sons. Hashirama and his brothers grew up on the battlefield, waging constant war with the Senju's rivals: the Uchiha. During his infrequent downtime, Hashirama met a boy his own age named Madara. The two quickly developed a friendly rivalry, whether it was skipping rocks or urinating in rivers, with Hashirama usually winning their contests. Hashirama did not approve of this practice of sending children to fight and die, believing that it would only increase the bitterness between the Senju and the Uchiha, thus causing more deaths. After the deaths of his brothers, Kawarama and later Itama, Hashirama and his remaining brother, Tobirama, decided that a new shinobi system would need to be implemented to end the cycle of child deaths, a system that would require an alliance between the Senju and the Uchiha. Like Hashirama, Madara was also a shinobi who had lost brothers on the battlefield. Together, they envisioned a world where children like themselves would not need to fight, and where their brothers would be safe from harm. As a precaution, Hashirama and Madara did not disclose their family names, but they nevertheless learned each other's identities: Hashirama was a Senju, Madara was an Uchiha; it was their duty to kill each other. Hashirama set this duty aside, unwilling to take his friend's life. Madara, however, decided that his dreams of a peaceful world were impossible, and thus ended their friendship so that they could kill each other without reservation.

HISTORY

Over the following years, Hashirama and Madara continued to encounter each other in combat. Hashirama was never able to kill someone he still considered a friend, and Madara was never able to defeat Hashirama's superior skills. Over time, Madara and Hashirama became leaders of their respective clans. Under Hashirama's leadership and extraordinary ninja prowess, the Senju began to outnumber the Uchiha clan until at one point Hashirama had both Madara and Izuna at his mercy. However, unable to find the resolve to kill his childhood friend, Hashirama attempted to convince Madara to unite their two clans in order to make his childhood dreams a reality. A mortally wounded Izuna convinced Madara otherwise and they retreated, prompting Hashirama to send a ceasefire request. Although some Uchiha found the offer increasingly tempting, Madara was unwilling to accept after Tobirama killed his last remaining brother, Izuna. This did not stop some Uchiha from defecting to the Senju out of self-preservation. Distraught with grief, Madara made a last stand against Hashirama and the Senju and was summarily defeated. Tobirama attempted to kill Madara to finally end the fighting, but Hashirama stopped him, knowing that doing so would only renew hostilities between the Senju and the Uchiha. At Madara's suggestion, Hashirama offered to kill himself in order to reach a peaceful resolution. As he was about to end his own life, Madara stopped him, moved by the gesture, and agreed to peace.

HISTORY

The Senju, the Uchiha, and all their affiliated clans joined together to found a village of peace, where children would never need to die in battle. Hashirama and Madara, rekindling their childhood friendship, named the village Konohagakure. The other countries would soon follow Konohagakure's example and build their own hidden villages. It was their wish that Madara become Hokage, the leader and protector of the village. At Tobirama's insistence, the position of Hokage was democratically elected, and in the end it was Hashirama who was chosen for the position. Hashirama wanted Madara to work with him as a brother and as his right-hand man so that he could improve his standing among the villagers and someday succeed him as Second Hokage. Madara felt that this position would inevitably go to Tobirama, which in turn would end badly for the Uchiha. With his position in Konoha rapidly diminishing and after being manipulated by the stone tablet that Zetsu altered, Madara decided that the village was a failed experiment and abandoned it, intending to one day return to face Hashirama in battle once more. True to his promise, Madara eventually attacked Konohagakure on several occasions. [16] After numerous fights and with the Nine-Tails under his control, Madara challenged Hashirama to a final contest. The Nine-Tails' power, as well as Hashirama's efforts to capture and contain it, devastated the landscape, carving out what would later be called the Valley of the End. Hashirama spent the duration of the battle trying to reason with Madara, but Madara continued fighting until he was too tired to keep even his Sharingan active. This allowed Hashirama to distract him with a wood clone while the real Hashirama stabbed him in the back. Madara passed out and, before he died, he noticed how much Hashirama had changed since they were children.

HISTORY

After the battle, Tobirama hid Madara's body and Hashirama's wife, Mito, sealed the Nine-Tails within herself to contain its great power for the benefit of Konoha. For a time, things were peaceful: Hashirama helped train one of Tobirama's students, Hiruzen Sarutobi; he managed to spoil his first granddaughter, Tsunade; he locked away the Scroll of Seals, the kinjutsu it contained no longer needed in the world he had created. But the peace Hashirama had worked so hard for was beginning to unravel; at some point, Takigakure sent Kakuzu to assassinate him. Although he defeated Kakuzu, other wars began to break out. At an unknown time, Hashirama called a Kage Summit so that he could share the tailed beasts Konoha had acquired with them, thus balancing the power between them. But cooperation would not be as simple as Hashirama had intended it to be, first with Tobirama's demand that the other villages pay for the tailed beasts they had received, then with the First Kazekage's request for money and territory in exchange for a tailed beast. As unrest began to grow, Hashirama shared his fear that any agreement they made would only be temporary, but also that future generations could forge lasting unity. Ultimately, Hashirama's wish for peace would not be realized in his lifetime, and he died just as Konohagakure was beginning to flourish. Before his death, he passed the title of Hokage to Tobirama and instructed him not to mistreat the Uchiha.

SKILLS

Hashirama was renowned as the strongest shinobi of his era and one of the strongest in history, known as a God of Shinobi. Madara, another legendary shinobi, openly admitted inferiority to Hashirama throughout their life together, even with the Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan and the Nine-Tails at his disposal. Through his unique powers, Hashirama was able to subdue and capture eight of the nine tailed beasts that roamed freely on their own. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, Kabuto proclaimed that the man's power as a ninja was so vast that it was held in a fantasy light akin to the Sage of the Six Paths, stating that no one besides Madara had come close to matching him since his death.

CHAKRA AND PHYSICAL PROWARD

As a reincarnation of Senju and Asura Ōtsutsuki, Hashirama possessed a powerful life force and physical energy. This made his chakra remarkably strong, shown by his ability to release powerful shockwaves that damaged his surroundings simply by burning his chakra. During the Fourth Shinobi World War, after seeing Naruto Uzumaki distribute his and the Nine-Tails' chakra to the entire Allied Shinobi Forces, Hashirama stated that the amount of chakra distributed nearly rivaled his own reserves. His chakra control is advanced enough to perform several complex and large-scale jutsu with just a hand seal. Hashirama was also able to produce ten wood clones while maintaining a Kage-level barrier. Hashirama's life force also grants him enough stamina to fight non-stop for a period of 24 hours while still ready for battle, and a will capable of resisting the control of the Perfected Impure World Reincarnation with ease, even after his cells were used to strengthen the technique's binding. His body was filled with vitality, granting him considerable regenerative powers that could heal most injuries without residual effects, an ability that only Tsunade's technique or Naruto's own healing when he accessed Kurama's chakra came close to emulating. Several individuals into whom Hashirama's cell grafts had been safely transplanted no longer required food and water to survive.

NINJUTSU

As a Senju, Hashirama is trained in a variety of shinobi skills. He could summon multiple Rashōmon gates to protect himself from almost any attack. He could use barrier ninjutsu advanced enough to subdue the Ten-Tails. He had unprecedented skill in medical ninjutsu, able to heal wounds without forming hand seals. His skill in fūinjutsu could store several different types of weapons for battle, with which he showed versatile skill in bukijutsu, able to fight on par with Madara. Likewise, Hashirama's fūinjutsu could reinforce sealing techniques that were not of his own creation with his own techniques. In the anime, he could also break Madara's control over the Nine-Tails.

TRANSFORMATION OF NATURE

Hashirama was proficient in all five basic nature transformations, along with Yin and Yang Release. He was most famous for his use of Wood Release, a combination of earth- and water-based chakra, creating wood and plants from the ground or his own being of various sizes and shapes that he manipulated for his purposes. This ability was apparently unique to him, as no one else had acquired this power naturally; any replications paled in comparison to Hashirama's capabilities. Hashirama could completely change the landscape with his constructs. He also had more ingenious uses, such as making wood clones that were nearly indistinguishable from himself. He could make flowering trees whose pollen rendered opponents unconscious, protective structures capable of withstanding Tailed Beast Balls, giant hands to seize large targets, as well as a giant humanoid creature capable of clashing with Madara's Complete Body—Susanoo. In the anime, his precision and dexterity with his Wood Release allowed him to wield and throw his various weapons from afar, allowing him to attack from multiple angles. Hashirama's Wood Release also granted him a method of subduing and controlling tailed beasts. By making direct contact with his hands or channeling it through his Wood Release, Hashirama could use the Sixty-Year-Old Hokage-Style Technique — Kakuan Entering Society with Happiness-Bringing Hands to put the beast to sleep. He acquired multiple tailed beasts in this way and was able to maintain control over all of them at once. Likewise, he could create wooden dragons to envelop any target and absorb their chakra. It was through this power that he gained fame as one of the few people who could completely control a tailed beast.

SENJUTSU

Because of his large chakra reserves, Hashirama could use senjutsu and enter Sage Mode—a feat he could perform instantly. In this mode, he gains red markings (black in the anime and dark green in the video games) around and under his eyes, as well as in the middle of his forehead. While it is unknown where he learned it, Hashirama proved to be formidable in its use, riding on his wood techniques as a means of being mobile in battle while maintaining the stillness of himself necessary to continue building natural energy to maintain this mode. Hashirama could perform powerful seals to bind targets, even those as large as the Ten-Tails. The power of Sage Mode would also greatly enhance his Wood Release, causing his constructs to become considerably larger and more dangerous, as seen in his greatest creation, the Sage Art Wood Release: True Several Thousand Hands: by using it to unleash a massive barrage of punches, he could take out the Nine-Tails Susanoo, as well as being primarily responsible for the formation of the Valley of the End.

OTHER SKILLS

Hashirama was skilled enough in taijutsu to match experts such as Madara and Hiruzen, and he could cast genjutsu to lock a target in perpetual darkness for the duration of the technique. Hashirama was shown to be fast enough to outrun the Nine-Tails during his battle with Madara, allowing him to lead the battle to the coast.

LEGACY

The fact that only Hashirama possessed the ability to use Wood Release—and related abilities of tailed beast control and self-healing—made his DNA highly coveted after his death. A large part of Hashirama's legacy was his philosophy of the Will of Fire, which became increasingly common among Konoha ninja in the years after his death. Future Hokage, in particular, were expected to fully embrace the philosophy. Over time, even members of the Uchiha clan began to demonstrate signs of the Will of Fire, with Hashirama claiming that Itachi Uchiha's dedication to the village was even greater than his own.

CURIOSITIES

– His hobbies were bonsai and wood carving. - His desired opponent was Madara Uchiha. - His favorite food was mushroom zōsui, a Japanese mushroom rice porridge usually made with leftovers. - His favorite phrases were "The vast fertile lands" (大地豊饒, Daichi hōjō) and "The garments of heaven are seamless" (天衣無縫, Ten'i muhō). They refer to perfect beauty without any artificial elements.

QUOTES

- (To Madara) "No matter what happens, I will protect our... no, my village. I still believe that protecting the village is the best way to protect the people, shinobi and children...! Anyone who tries to harm it, be it my friends, brothers or my own children... I will not forgive them." - (To the five Kage) "But one day... In the future... I dream of a time when all shinobi will cooperate with each other... A time when everyone's hearts will be together, regardless of their country. That is my... dream for the future." - (To Hiruzen) "The people of Konoha make up every part of my body... those of the village believe in me, and I believe in them... That's what it means to be Hokage!" - “As long as you live, there will always be war.” - (To Sasuke) "Shinobi are people who persevere to achieve their goals... but depending on what they choose as their goal, they change... like Madara and I..."