Early life-Academy days: Karite is one of many Uchiha clansmen to have survived Root's attempted Purge of the Uchiha clan, which happened when he was around 5 years old. He survived, but unfortunately his parents did not and his younger brother Hirokazu was taken by Root. However, shortly after the events of the attempted massacre he met and befriended Sasuke and Shisui Uchiha and developed a brotherly bond with the both of them and vice versa, however, the topic of his brother remained a sore secret and one that he wouldn't even tell Sasuke, let alone Shisui