Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-8914761-20141105232129/@comment-2089817-20141106010214

Serk is mistaken for saying that a boy of such an age wouldn't become enlightened like that. However, I don't think a child would be able to come to those conclusions on their own. After all, in a time of war, every child would have it hard, not just Sigma, so why doesn't every Uchiha awaken Rinnegan? You need something that makes Sigma come off as different from others. But even, you have to address how a child of fifteen comes to such a conclusion.

Luckily, I have the answer. And it should impress Serk and the others, hopefully. The short cut toward learning a principle comes with being taught to follow down a path. In other words, Sigma needs a teacher. But ah hah, here's the twist. In those desperate times, Sigma encounters this instructor who strikes him as being calm and peaceful in these war filled days. How can such a person be happy when surrounded by war? Surely this man is strange, perhaps even questionable, but Sigma wants to feel the same way. He wants to feel that same peace. And so he follows this master.

But this master's ideals are far more treacherous than Sigma might have bargained for. The master is a follower of Satsujinken (the fist/blade that takes life; in other words, the "murder fist/blade"), as opposed to the Katsujinken (the fist/blade that gives life; the "protecting fist/blade"), and plans to show Sigma that the truth of finding inner peace comes from devoting one's self to the act of destruction. By throwing away morality and ideals, and devoting one's self completely to kill or be killed, one can find a peace within themselves. This is attributed to the idea that "when a man's will is set, his vision encompasses all things, and the tranquality of his heart is undisturbed."

And little by little, Sigma, out of desperation for peace, slowly begins to believe that this is the right way. He follows his master's Satsujinken and little by little, becomes a fifteen-year-old child murderer. But it isn't so clear-cut. Deep down, there is a conflict within him that is being weakened each day by his murders. It isn't until something completely tragic happens, that Sigma finally snaps out of his descent into the Path of Asura (the way of the demon).

At this village, where he and his master have decided to engage the people here in order to acquire food, Sigma is confronted at a household by a father and mother attempting to protect their child. Their five year old child. Sigma kills the both of them, and goes to ransack the hut for supplies, when the young child fetches one of his father's weapons and tries to kill Sigma from behind. Of course, Sigma, still in killing mode, strikes the boy down without remorse. It is only after he accomplishes the act that he realizes two things. One, that the boy he murdered was a young child. An innocent child who shouldn't have ever seen the crimes of war. But Sigma would not have noticed at the start because he was devoting himself to kill or be killed and simply did not discriminate between child and adult. The second, was that the mother was actually pregnant. In the bloody mess of the parents and child he slain, the stomach ripped apart by Sigma's attack, he sees the small shapen arm of an unborn child. An unborn child, not even given the right to be born, let alone be allowed to live, killed by Sigma simply for the sake of killing.

And the fifteen year old Uchiha finally snaps. He confronts his teacher, who taught him to kill without discrimination and questions the entire purpose behind Satsujinken. The master then shocks him by simply stating that Satsujinken "has no point." There is no higher purpose nor a higher meaning to all this. It's about survival. The strong live and the weak die. The weak are food for the strong. Sigma can't accept this answer. The bottled up conflict that had been raging within him finally bursts and he attacks his master. But his master, both older and more experienced, bests each and every one of Sigma's attempted assaults. But Sigma fights through. He can't allow this to happen. If he doesn't stop this Satsujinken now, more innocents will die for nothing. A damaged mess of muscle and blood spewing from his open wounds, Sigma keeps attacking, but is finally struck down. He screams out and begs for someone to help. Anybody. Sigma's will is set. He is no longer at war with him. He has chosen the Katsujinken. And just as the master prepares to make a final blow to kill him and continue the cycle of Satsujinken, Sigma's eyes glow bright and reveal the Rinnegan, blasting apart the master with Shinra Tensei.

And from there, you should be able to end that story nicely enough. It should pass your applications.