Fitted for success, Sayuri would spend her early years in the confinement of nobility. As her mother had passed on from the living world upon giving birth to her very first child, Sayuri was raised as a proud Senju, completely oblivious of her Uchiha lineage. Her father took it upon himself to fulfill the dying quest of his lover, never once allowing Sayuri to leave his side, even when venturing across the globe during various high ranking ninja missions. However, learning of the growing tension around the shinobi world, of what was the emergence of the Akatsuki 一an organisation comprised of several missing-nin with the sole purpose of world domination一 Sannoto was forced to defect from the village hidden in the leaves to resolve the issue single-handedly, and thus, abandoning his daughter