Senju Clan



The is one of the strongest and feared clan during the First Shinobi Wars—as what Madara Uchiha discussed to Sasuke Uchiha in their conversation regarding to "realities of Itachi Uchiha".

About
During the early times of ninja world, when Ninja Villages had not yet been founded, ninja were just an armed militia hired by countries who use them with their conventional armies to gain power and expand territories. Among the numerous known ninja clans, two were revered as the strongest, the Uchiha clan and the Senju Clan of the Forest. The Senju and the Uchiha considered each other rivals. However, one day the Senju proposed a truce. The Uchiha leader, Madara, did not trust the Senju and was against the truce, but the Uchiha clan wanted peace, so the truce was accepted. Shortly after, the fire country employed the newly-formed alliance to help stabilize its borders. This was the birth of the Hidden Leaf Village. During the founding of Konohagakure, the great leaders of these two great clans merged their powers in order to gain control over the other weaker clans. Later on as the new founded village is still under development, a leader was to be chosen. This honor fell to Hashirama Senju. Madara belived that with the Senju in command the Uchiha would be stripped of their power, so he tried to stand against Hashirama. However, the Uchiha clan refused, believing Madara to be greedy. This led him to desert the village and his own clan members under the reign of the Senju and the First Hokage. Madara later returned looking for vengance, and fought against Hashirama in the Valley of the End. He was defeated and was presumed by most to have died after the battle. Due to this battle, however, the villagers soon began suspecting the Uchiha Clan of treason. To prevent any more uprising from the Uchiha, Hashirama's brother, the Second Hokage gave the Uchiha Clan the leadership of the Konoha Military Police. The First and Second Hokage, both from the Senju clan, eventually died in the wars, and passed the title of hokage to Sarutobi, one of the Second's students.

It is unknown what happened to the Senju clan later, but it is assumed that the clan, now considered the people of Konoha, eventually dropped their name and broke up into several minor clans. Tsunade and the late Nawaki, however, could still boast the Senju name, being a direct descendant of Hashirama, the clan's leader. It is debated, however, if Tsunade's surname is Senju.

Senju apparently had a affinity towards water chakra given that both Hashirama and his brother Tobirama were masters of water jutsu (Hashirama of course used wood jutsu more). Also, water is the opposite of fire, the element Uchiha were most affinitive to.

Known Members

 * Hashirama Senju (Leader) (deceased)
 * Tobirama Senju (deceased)
 * Touka Senju

Known Descendants

 * Tsunade
 * Nawaki (deceased)

Kekkei Genkai

 * Wood Release