Talk:Sasuke Sarutobi/@comment-35567972-20190202030123/@comment-254594-20190403164433

there was a Sasuke Sarutobi in Naruto though (named after the aforementioned ninja, he was the third Hokage's father and became famous for his extraordinary talent

During a conversation with Biwako Sarutobi (the Third Hokage's wife) and Kushina Uzumaki, Mikoto Uchiha noted that she named her son after Sasuke in the hopes that the boy would become a splendid ninja just like his namesake

as for the Sasuke Sarutobi from Japanese forklore, he is commonly listed as the member/leader of Sanada Ten Braves, a fictional group of ten ninja that supposedly assisted the warlord Sanada Yukimura at the battles of Osaka Castle during the final phases of the Japanese civil war era, and he is by far the best known and most popular among them.

When appearing with Kirigakure Saizō, one of his fellow Ten Braves, he is often thus contrasted with his best friend/arch-rival, who usually has an elegant, or at least clean-cut, appearance and magic-like ability. Sasuke is generally said to be a Kōga ninja, whereas Saizō is an Iga ninja. As such, when the two appear together, they are almost always depicted as arch-rivals and later, after being recruited to the Sanada cause, best friends. (This rivalry parallels the Iga-Kōga rivalry and the Hattori-Fūma rivalries in ninja fiction.)

It is said he fell in battle against the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu during the Siege of Osaka in the summer of 1615 but there is no historical record of this.

In another version, Sasuke infiltrated Tokugawa Ieyasu's stronghold during 1615 and, having caught his foot in a bear trap while escaping the enemy, cut it off at the ankle to escape and then took his own life rather than be captured.