Well, here's the next segment of 20 Things Naruto Edition. Here you all thought I forgot about this, in reality... I kinda did. I wanted to have another character's ready before I poubished this, but the next one is proving to be a problem since I don't know a whole lot about her. I haven't watch or read Naruto in a while so I may have to go refresh my memory some more.

Warnings : Mentioned homosexuality, mentioned character death, and mild violence (but considering who this is, how could there not be?)

Enjoy!


Madara Uchiha

1. Contrary to popular belief, Madara wasn't always the overly violent psychopath who desired world domination. At one point he was just a poor orphaned boy who wanted nothing more than for him and his brother Izuna to survive another day.

2. Despite what people may believe, the members of Akatsuki were never just pawns to be used and discarded to achieve his goals. Every member had some form of problem, usually similar to his own childhood experiences, and he gave them a way out of it by offering them a place to stay in exchange for some help. Konan and Nagato were two of the three Ame Orphans; Kakuzu was a former slave that Izuna had rescued several decades prior not to mention they shared a common enemy; Hidan was a complete outcast because of his religion and the fact that it made him nearly impossible to hurt; Deidara was abused because of his hand mouths; Sasori was an orphaned abused child with abandonment issues; Kisame was feared due to his unnatural size and appearance; Itachi was an abused child who, despite their original class differences, faced problems similar to his own. He never regretted "adopting" any of them, even when some of them betrayed him in the end.

3. Over the years Madara had been many things: a thief, a prostitute, a leader, a merchant, and many other things that even he can no longer remember. But the one thing he is first and foremost is a shinobi.

4. He hates being in complete darkness. Becoming blind only made this worse. That's why he didn't put up more of a fight when Izuna offered his eyes.

5. Yes, Izuna really did offered his eyes. Madara didn't steal them like everybody seems to believe and nobody believes it when he tells them otherwise. Sometimes, most of the time, he wishes he never accepted them. After all, immortality isn't all its thought to be. Especially when you have many regrets.

6. His bedroom is as far from the rest of Akatsuki's as it can be not because he wants it to remain hidden, but because he still has nightmares from what he did to Izuna. Nightmares that often cause him to wake up screaming.

7. Itachi's first night at Akatsuki Base was spent in Madara's room on the floor. The only reason Madara didn't have him get up on the bed was because he knew it would damage the younger male's pride. He never spoke of the incident for the same reason.

8. He was sixteen when he learned how to read. This was also the year he became the head of the clan. Due to the war raging on around them, nobody but medics and politicians learned how to read because it just wasn't that important.

9. He's been in love once a long time ago. When he was four, a man rescued him from death during a raid on the Uchiha Clan. That man was a Senju, but somehow Madara still wanted to find him and thank him. He fell in love when he saw the man for the second time. However, it was on a battlefield so Madara never got to tell him the truth. He still wishes he would have.

10. Izuna was the most important person in Madara's life. Their mother died when Izuna was just a few months old so Madara had raised him with the aid of their uncle who had too many children to take in two more children permanently. So when Izuna died, Madara felt like a large part of him died as well. He never fully recovered from the depression that sent him into.

11. He's bipolar. When he was about eight, he stated showing the signs of it, but it wasn't until he was twelve that his uncle, who was a medic, realized what it was. After all, most children didn't jump from angry to sad then to hyper all in a matter of hours. Unfortunately, at that time there was no way to treat it back then so it progressively got worse.

12. Only a hand full of people know about the above fact since it was always something to keep hidden. Even now, when it's a more commonly diagnosed ailment, he feels uncomfortable even mentioning it. Tobi was created for the purpose of helping hide it. After all, who would expect him to be hyper unless to was an act.

13. Most people have said that Itachi resembles him in a lot of way; the seeming desire to kill said brother which is false for both men, both are powerful and have committed acts that no one seemingly in their right mind would have done, ect., but Madara knows better. Itachi has to good of a heart to every be anything like Madara, who only regrets some of what he's done.

14. He never intended to become a shinobi. He was content being a simple civilian until his idiot friend Hiroki attacked Izuna. Hours later, he realized that he had unintentionally discovered a new form of the Sharingan. Now he had no say in the matter.

15. He never fully hated Hashirama or the little village they created. He only pretended to keep up appearances and to ensure that the Senju would treat them fairly. How many Uchiha would completely willingly sign over their rights to their most hated rival? However, he was irked when even his clan voted against him in the decision for Hokage. He only did what he did to protect them, couldn't they understand that?

16. He left the village because he felt that he had on choice. The Uchiha council thought he was crazy and intended to provoke another war, the village council probably thought the same and that he was a monster, even Hashirama didn't have that much faith in him. What was the point of staying somewhere where no body cared about you?

17. During their final battle, neither seemed to have their heart in it. Sure Madara called on the Nine Tailed Fox, but he knew that Hashirama could suppress it fairly easily. Not to mention that both men had several chances to kill the other and didn't take them. Madara ran off afterwards, wounded but healable, and, in a nice twist of irony, helped found the Mist Village.

18. His least favorite job was being a prostitute even though it paid the most. As a shinobi you can at least fight back when someone hurts you, as a whore you just have to accept it. It was worth it though to keep Izuna and himself fed legally.

19. Back when the village was first created, people assumed he was having an affair with Hashirama. This is only half right. He was having an affair with one of the Senju brothers, but not that one. Though he always wished it was the other one. He knew that Tobirama knew because he often screamed out the elder's name. Likewise, Madara pretended he didn't notice when Tobirama screamed out Izuna's.

20. Madara's done and seen many things over his incredibly long life, but none have made him quite as happy as watching Mito's grandnephew preparing the justu that would undoubtedly end his life. He granted the young boy a smile as the last piece of his mask fell to the cold ground below. "Thank you."