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[askerian]

-Teamwork end of chapter 6
-series of Teamwork oneshots that go between T2 and T3
-Sakura's prequel that still doesn't have a name (suggestions?)
-OC-centric sidefics about the chuunins spying on Naruto

-Cyborg fic : Sasuke and Sakura and Kabuto at the hospital (half-done, to complete)
-Cyborg again : Neji stuff (a third-done, to complete)
-Cyborg prequel : Sasukebot and Kakashi

-porny narusasusaku thinger.

-Itachi/Sasuke genderbending porny thing (nnngh stuckness)

-Itachi, Sasuke, Shisui and Mysterious Cousin thinger (still need to think about the plot long and hard. I suck so hard at plot-driven stuff.)

-Space mermaidses~ (But first I have to detail the plot and flesh out the many, many characters I'll need for it. Nnngh.)

-Cercle (but my own main character ANNOYS AND BORES ME. Woe. How am I supposed to get to the shiny parts if I can't make myself write through that first.)



... did I forget anything?

And of course, what I really want to do right now is to write vampirefic. =____=;;;; *loses* Thank god I don't have plot, so I'll wait for the urge to go away.



AND IN OTHER NEWS I had this interesting conversation with hanyou_yoake about Uchiha sues and it resulted in us trying to figure out ways to make it so that there would BE other surviving Uchihas IN CANON, but in a plausible way. (mine is that old woman who left when she was young, accepting being made sterile just so she could be with her lover and out of Konoha without endangering the bloodline or risking being kidnapped. And she never had children of her own, and her man left her, and her life was hard with lots of manual labor, but she didn't come back because she'd gotten used to life out there in some quiet little rural village and had made her place, and in the end she adopted instead.)

Not sues or stus. No Mysterious Powerful Awesome Kickass characters -- just people. Normal ninja people who happened to be Uchihas, and survived. Anyone wanna try figuring one out? Even just a drabble. Hell, even just rambling about what could have happened and neat character concepts.


edit: okay, half-uchihas and bastard children are one of the ways to get at that. But it's still kinda cheating on the spirit of the challenge, IMHO. ;p Come on, people. Try it with real pure-blooded Uchiha people who were already born at the time of the massacre, too. XD

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[icedark-elf.livejournal.com]

Well, hmm.

Hell, I just found out that my great-grandpa and his brother were the lost members of a family themselves. I mean, the family in Scotland isn't some big rich noble group or anything, but my grandpa and his brother came to America, and they never knew what happened.

And my great-great-uncle went west and we know he had a daughter, but we no nothing else about what happened, like if he had more kids, if she ever had kids, none of it.

And that was just the turn of the 1900s.

*is now pondering as well* Damnit.

[valles-uf.livejournal.com]

Hmm.

Well, if Itachi wasn't up on the family gossip (and it doesn't really seem like his thing), then his 'kill off the clan' plan would have had to rely on the names in the family register and whoever happened to be unlucky enough to be living in the Uchiha Sector.

Seems reasonable to me that a clan the size the Uchiha were supposed to be would have a lot of fringes and by-blows mixed into the general population of Konoha. Of course, they would've been adopted or never allowed to leave if they were known to have the Sharingan or be carriers for same, but genetics is a tricky thing. What someone thinks their blood is isn't neccessarily so.

One other Uchiha? There'd have to be lots.

Ja, -n

[phoenix-melody.livejournal.com]

I like your theory--mostly because there's one thing that's always bothered me about the "Itachi killed all the Uchiha except Sasuke that night" deal.

Seriously, all of them in a few hours at night? Why the heck was the entire clan in the village at the same time in their special Uchiha area? Weren't there Uchiha out on watch for the village? On missions? Who was on watch at the police station? Where is the reasoning for the entire clan being in one spot at the same time? Fugaku mentioned some clan meeting that Itachi and Shunsui "skipped," but did the Uchiha seriously have enough pull to be able to tell Sandaime that "Hey, no matter what kind of missions, no matter what crisis there is, all the Uchiha HAVE to be home on such-and-such a date, I don't care if the village is in mortal peril"?

I, personally, would love there to have been surviving Uchiha--that Itachi tracked down and slaughtered after taking care of everyone at home. All he would have needed were the mission assignments and he could've taken out anyone that had been outside the village.

So my vote is your theory about outcasts, plus the ones that had been out on missions. (I find the idea of Uchiha Bob trying to figure out why his little cousin is trying to kill him and his teammates rather amusing.)


As for needing to flesh out and plot things, may I suggest caer_awen? /pimpage

[askerian]

I, personally, would love there to have been surviving Uchiha--that Itachi tracked down and slaughtered after taking care of everyone at home.

ahahaha. YES. XD I tend to assume that's how it "really" happened, and the canon just oversimplified things for the sake of dramatization.

... Uchiha Bob. *dies* XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD


hehh, thanks for the suggestion. I'll think on it. I don't like to write drabbles when I don't even have the main plot down, though, so i dunno.

[cindelius.livejournal.com]

Hmm... theories? Most of mine relate back to the old days of the clan, way before Itachi came into the picture.

1) Oedipus without the mommy-issues. Or Snow White without the curse (take your pick). In such a proud clan, it wouldn't seem to be that big of a stretch to dispose of children who were born with a major birth defect (or perhaps born blind). Surely there was a mother/messenger/etc. out there who couldn't bear to kill the child and instead left it on the outskirts of the village for fate (whether it be death due to exposure to the elements or life due to a traveler passing by).

2) Members of the clan that existed before the Hyuuga-Uchiha split had some members who were either banned from their village or who sought a "cowardly freedom" by pursuing life outside of their familial restrictions (read: skipped town and started a new life elsewhere). There's no record of how long the seals have been used for control, so escape may have been an option. It's entirely possible that the genetic/chakra mutation that led to the Uchiha traits was taken with those individuals but that they chose a lifestyle that didn't employ the traits so as to go undiscovered by anyone searching from them. The result? A small line/bunch of non-ninjas who have untapped powers and live happily in ignorance far away from Konoha.

3) Illegitimate child not raised on the Uchiha compound. Even in the most noble of clans and royal families, one or two individuals throughout history end up fathering a child outside of marriage.

In other news ... am having entirely too much fun with the physical similarities between Snow White and some of the Uchiha clan.

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

A bit like Neil Gaiman's Snow White, perhaps?

http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/lofts/6656/snow.html

[iniq.livejournal.com]

You see, there was this girl. A Uchiha girl. Or this Uchiha guy. And she or he had an affair. And the baby resulting from the affair would've clearly not been up to Uchiha standards. Let's say it had blond hair. And no sign of ever having sharingan activity at all if they can test for that. but maybe the blond hair and bright blue eyes were enough.
So mommy or daddy picked the kid up and left before they could kill it and the unfaithful parent?
So there would've been a surviving Uchiha, but with no family tradition. Grew up like just another kid, no sharingan. A half breed.
Age the kid until no one wants to make it a Sue or Stu anymore. Say, 63. Wrinkles. Bad hip. Half deaf, running around with a walker going 'WHATCHALOOKINGAT?!'.

XD
You give fun challenges. *loves on you*

[iniq.livejournal.com]

I see, cindelius just said that... just a lot more logical. DAMNIT. So much for my genius plan.

XP

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

How I would go about resurrecting the Uchiha:

Illegimate child would be my choice - hey, what about a four-year-old? You know, mother was pregnant but didn't know it at the time of the assassination and then made DAMN sure to fudge the details. Chances are the Sharingan, if it activates, would be when Sasuke was about 20, and long after the "canon" Naruto is over.

Other options include situations relating to the Hyuuga/Uchiha split, possibilities of the Hyuuga re-breeding the Uchiha in a couple years (they did it once, it can be done again, and somehow Neji as the new head of the Uchiha just WORKS for me).

It's also possible that one of the super-secret ANBU might have been an Uchiha - you know, the ones that utterly submerge their identities. Maybe they'd been stricken from the clan records for some reason. This character would have to be at least thirty by the time the massacre happens, would more likely be in his forties or fifties.

[askerian]

1) That seems to be the most popular option. (LAAAAAZY. XD)

2) Interesting idea, and you're right that it would be kinda sexy, but that's not really what I had in mind as I was thinking people who were alive at the time of the massacre. XD

Also I was under the impression that the Sharingan was a natural genetic mutation and that the Hyuuga's breeding program had eradicated those genes long ago. After all, control freaks that they are, if they could have controlled/reabsorbed that gene divergence, they wouldn't have allowed the Uchiha to branch out and create their own clan. I think it points out to the Sharingan gene being dominant and therefore threatening the Byakugan.

3) Itachi was in ANBU himself, so there's a huge probability he would have known.

[trishalynn.livejournal.com]

There are a lot of things Ruta remembers about THE NIGHT, but what he remembers the most is the way the way blood sounds as it's dripping on the floor. It seeped through the tatami mat and down the fine crack between the floor boards over his head. When his nanny shoved him into the hidey-hole, she bade him to be good, and to be quiet, and to perform the breathing exercises that she'd taught him. So with the sounds of screaming and dying echoing throughout his house, Ruta breathed slowly, calmly, and steadily.

[rianax.livejournal.com]

Sweet God.

Part of me was really reminded of the animated O-Ren flashback in Kill Bill.

Ruta is going to be traumatized or a badass when he grows up.

[lyarrah.livejournal.com]

Illigitamate Uchiha child, from a generation or two back. One of the guys fucked some civillian girl, and she had a son. But she didn't know who the father was for some reason or another. The kid decided not to become a ninja, and so their power never got to be enough to have Sharingan.

They grow up, have a kid, and that kid opts to become a ninja... And here we are, ten, twenty years after Itachi killed them all, with a third surviving Uchiha... Oops...

I've always figured that to be the best setup if you want someone with Sharingan who isn't Sasuke or Itachi's kid.

But generally, if I want any of the crap to be different, I just place things back to the time when everyone's parents were kids. You know, like people do with Harry Potter.

Because the original InoShikaChou is SO similar to the Mabudachi Trio or any of those fun things <3

[askerian]

It's a good setup for a sharingan kid, yeah (and the popular option, it seems XD) though personally I was angling for a pure Uchiha who was born in Konoha before the massacre and yet survived somehow.

So far the most interesting option I was given was Cloud capturing an Uchiha on mission like they tried to capture Hinata and the guy being declared MIA. *^^*

[iamfreak1313.livejournal.com]

Obviously the Illigitamate!Uchiha thing works. Another idea would be that one of the lesser Uchiha joined another clan through marriage. It would be a woman so the whole name thing makes her an Aburame or another random clan instead of Uchiha. She would still have been born an Uchiha but no longer technically part of the clan so she wouldn't have been there during the slaughter and could have been overlooked afterwards. (The idea is mostly my friend's, who runs our RP that kinda died. It's a modified version of Shino's mommy but she did manage find some iffy canon for it, though.)

Hope you don't mind random stalker lurker comments. ^^'

[askerian]

XD I don't mind the comments.

Hmm, I guess that would work but then I'm wondering why she didn't come out of the woodwork as Sasuke's last living relative. She would have the type of personality that makes her refuse that kind of risk/obligation.

[bluefate.livejournal.com]

Other than the illegitamate route, if I'd like playing around with genetics and have a Uchiha from a far side-branch and some side-branch doesn't-even-have-a-byakugan Hyuuga had kids. The parents would have really diluted genes, so the odds would be bad, but if you could recreate the circumstances that originally created the sharingan and the Uchiha clan.
Of course, to be let go from both clans, the parents would have to have very little or no ability for the ninja arts. Any child would have to grow up in a different hidden village to have its potential revealed and to get training without getting claimed by either clan.

[book-people.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm... Well, Konoha is a small village, all things considered, and there aren't many people for people in clans to marry that won't fuck with their blood-lines except people in the same clans and civilians. So say about five years before Itachi is born, there's this girl who's in the Uchiha clan but doesn't have sharingan (they can't all have it. Even traits that should be dominant don't appear every once in a while...). She's married off to someone in another clan (we'll say the Inuzuka for the sake of argument). Now, just because she doesn't have sharingan herself doesn't mean she isn't a carrier for sharingan, so she may have past the trait onto her kid, who she has when Itachi is, say eight. This kid would grow up an Inuzuka, not an Uchiha, so when Itachi goes on his mad rampage said kid is overlooked (after all, the mother isn't an Uchiha anymore and didn't have sharingan anyway). By the time sharingan surfaced, he/she'd probably be about fifteen (he/she doesn't need it after all, he/she's got a dog). Sasuke would be about three, four years older than him/her, and Itachi older than that, and once the Elders find out Inuzuka/Uchiha kiddie has sharingan, they're going to guard him/her with everything humanly imaginable because by now Sasuke's a missing-nin and it gives them an excuse to kill him if he isn't back yet or ignore him if he is.

And we have a Live Uchiha. *bows*

Adi

[book-people.livejournal.com]

Oh. Pure-bloods. Hmmm... Well, we could still start with the above idea. The Uchiha that married outside the clan, I mean. Only this time, we'll make it to someone in another village. Um... we'll go with Suna. She was part of a private treaty between clans, not villages, to explain why it isn't recorded anywhere, and she wasn't a ninja because Uchiha have sharingan. Period.

Now, this Uchiha who married someone in Suna had a sibling, and this sibling had a really young kid. Maybe six? Anyway, the point is kiddie isn't even in Academy yet. So, kiddie is sent off to visit Auntie for a little while, as kiddies sometimes do. Then Auntie hears that Itachi murdered all the Uchihas in Konoha, and keeps kiddie. Maybe adopts him/her, so he/she doesn't have the last name of Uchiha. Hides him/her.

End result: Pure blood Uchiha who doesn't die and doesn't randomly go back to Konoha (he/she's a Suna-nin, after all...). In fact, nobody in Konoha even finds out about it for ages and ages, because no nins in their right minds would broadcast that they have one of the last members of a powerful bloodline in their midst, for fear of someone or Itachi coming for him/her. When they finally do find out, kiddie is now married with the ninja equivalent of 3.5 kiddies of his/her own, and no longer Sue material.

Adi

Adi

[(Anonymous)]

They told Uchiha Ichiro he had been lucky when he awoke in the hospital. He had survived Kyuubi no Youko. He would be able to talk to his family again, to get on with his life. Once he adjusted, that is.

But he'd never adjust. What good was a blinded, useless Uchiha?

He returned home a few weeks later, but refused to leave his house. His wife begged him to do more than sit around all day, but he was too ashamed of himself than to do more than drink tea and stare into space with his ruined eyes.

Soon rumors spread about the Kyuubi's new container, a baby boy. Ichiro only heard them from his wife, of course.

"If a baby can live with a demon inside of him, you can live without your eyes!" she had screamed at him. She had never pursued becoming a shinobi; she did not understand anything.

A year later she left him, and he left Konoha. He was Ogawa Taro now, stripped of any affiliation to his former life.

-

*shrug* Random idea that just popped into my mind. And it's probably riddled with errors. xD

[rianax.livejournal.com]

Very nice-- an adult survivor that could fit into canon.

[allira-dream.livejournal.com]

The news of the massacre reach the Water Country too soon. Konoha envoys spread as soon as they possibly can searching for survivors. They mostly find missing shinobi who should be there, who would have to be there.

Over the inn where spy Uchiha Natsu and his wife were staying, the inn-caretaker seems frantic as he looks towards the two newborns that his customers had paid him to take care for a few days until they came back. The road, they had said, was too dangerous for two children as small as Kotaro and Koyuki.

"They asked me to take care of them, since they were going to the Village of the Mist to pick up something," he thinks, pacing as his eyes keep looking at the sleeping newborn twins. "They paid me extra, but that was more than a week ago and they've not come back yet. Oh, what to do, what to do..."

One of them, Koyuki, starts crying just then. His wife sighs and stands up, picks up the baby and the bottle of milk.

"Take care of them, of course."


... and damn, does this bring me back that crazy wish to crossover HunterxHunter and Naruto. The Kurata being a strained branch of the Uchiha...

[rianax.livejournal.com]

I am adoring the unnamed wife, practical and deliciously calm, the kiddies are in good hands.

[edenfalling]

You already know my take on this... :-)

[askerian]

XD indeed. ♥

[wylde-akasha.livejournal.com]

You could always go with an Uchiha sent on a high ranked mission, went missing and is presumed dead since the mission wasn't completed. However, this Uchiha, while not dead, is crippled in some way that makes being a ninja impossible and rather than return to his/her clan in shame, s/he allows his/her name to 'die' assumes a new identity and possibly one day has a family.

[rianax.livejournal.com]

Makes good sense.

[anowack.livejournal.com]

An Uchiha was out on a mission during the massacre; if we assume Itachi went hunting for such people or that the whole clan was in the village for some reason, s/he was long overdue and assumed dead. When the Uchiha got out of whatever nasty situation was involved, s/he discovered about the massacre and decided it was best to just disappear and make sure no one suspected his or her survival.

A similar way is for someone - the Cloud maybe, since they've shown an interest in that sort of thing - to have successfully captured an Uchiha while making sure he or she was officially declared dead. Itachi's not omniscient; unless he's lucky he'd never find out about that person. That gives you one, and a breeding program gives you an arbitrary number of additional "Uchiha" if needed.

[askerian]

oooh, the second one is original, with the kidnapping. I like it. *__* *thumbs up*

[(Anonymous)]

What about your story where Naruto is the container of Kyuubi, who is the god of fire country? I remember there was the cutest picture of Sakura as a filly posted somewhere.

[askerian]

... oh right. XD;;;; I'm kind of really stuck with that one, though. *adds to list*

thanks ^_____^

[rianax.livejournal.com]

Nine weeks to make her a wife, finally settling into the rhythm and routine of village life and waking to warm breath on her neck instead of the a crowing cock. Nearly too many unpacked boxes, small adjustments, and stealth kisses before the baker's shout of 'Uchiha-san' stopped making her automatically look for her mother-in-law.

It took only nine days to make her a widow.

All it took was an impromptu trip to the farm to see her parents, pick up a few left behind knickknacks, catch a ride back to Konoha on the back of a hay wagon, miss the slaughter and be in time to bury her husband, mother-in-law, and two hundred and seventy-nine other relatives she barely could name.

And Yuusuke always teased she had no sense of timing.

She flees as soon she can, as quick as the questions, condolences, and a pack mule will allow. She doesn’t stop until the forest gives away to seaside and no one knows her as anyone but old lady Nodoka’s niece from up north and ninja are nothing but one of the games the village children play.

Nine months to make her whole and he is small, squirming, and completely perfect. She names him in part for his father because that is the only bit of Uchiha Yuusuke she dare give her son.

She refuses to see other name engraved on that stone.




http://rianax.livejournal.com/11559.html

I had the same thoughts a year ago when Sasuke did his turncoat trick in the manga. My sister and I played with the idea that having fellow surviors would have given Sasuke more of a chance of not going Dark Side. Then my sis suggested having Sasuke fill the nisan role and the idea exploded.


She is a young country bride that moved to Konoha following a whirlwind courtship, gets overlooked in the massacure, then hides out and raises her son in ignorance of his hertiage. The little boy, Yuuta, is only six around the timeskip.

[askerian]

I like the repetition of "nine", and the "sense of timing" bit. It's great for a "what if". It's too bad it doesn't fit in canon. Sasuke would have known if there was another survivor out there who came back to Konoha and did official things like the burial and condolences, even one who didn't want to stay afterwards. Also it seems rather cold of her to leave Sasuke behind, that might require more explanation on her personality. ;.;

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

Uchiha Setsuna is about as far from a genius as it gets. He tries hard, he really does... but he's got no talent for genjutsu, very little for taijutsu and ninjutsu. When he finally gives up on being a ninja and runs away from home, he's considered no loss - he can't even manage a simple Katon, after all, and even the civilians in the clan can do that. One year later, when the badly decomposed body of a preteen boy is found wearing a jacket bearing an Uchiha fan, Setsuna is declared dead.

What no one knows is that Setsuna threw away his jacket almost as soon as he left Konoha, after the first time that a Clan hunter-nin almost managed to catch him. His one credible ninja skill, wilderness survival, had saved him that time, and once he'd disposed of everything that could be used to identify him, he'd used it again to dive deep into the wilderness and not come out for years.

When he'd finally surfaced, it was just in time to learn of the Uchiha Massacre, and for obvious reasons he'd left his old life and name behind, the better to protect his new wife and their young children. It was only after word of Itachi's death reached the remote mountain valley where he'd settled that he was willing to contact Konoha again, to see what was left of his childrens' heritage...

(One of these years I may actually finish this story. I've already got a start on it, I just keep getting distracted. ^^; )

[wanderingscroll.livejournal.com]

What about if someone had enough chakra sensing ability to realize what was going on and just ran for it before Itachi got to their part of the compound, and once outside of Konoha they buried themselves as deep as they could?

They could have pulled Kabuto's trick, making a dead body look like someone else, or made it look like they died on their mission. Which would make them of ANBU level at least, or a master infiltrator as the original discussion suggested.

Another possibility is that Konoha had no intention of letting it be known that Sasuke survived, but the public found out about him before the higher-ups could set the cover-up in place, after all as the last surviving Uchiha and also a child he must have been a very tempting target for the other ninja villages.

Following that there could be other Uchiha that where found after the massacre that Konoha managed to hide before anyone found out about them. Sort of like a secret clan, like the root ANBU, only they are simply waiting for Itachi's death to reveal themselves.

But one really good point was made in that it's impossible for every member of the Uchiha clan to have been in the compound on the same night. The only way I can see this happening was if Itachi was manipulating things so this could occur, and also anyone else who would be able to notice so they wouldn't point out what was happening. Or if their was some major clan event that would be happening soon (Such as celebrating the day the Uchiha became and official clan, or the day they parted ways with the Hyuuga) and everyone in the clan had to be there for it.

I'd also like to point out that yeah, Itachi is a genius, but even geniuses can make mistakes and not notice things, the guy isn't perfect after all. It's actually entirely plausible that he could have missed a few. But he was also wandering around for several years before showing back up in Konoha, so its also a probability that while some my have escaped he would have found a few while he was gone and continued what he started.

Two other things I'd like to point out, the first is a complaint I hear a lot about how Konoha never tried to capture Itachi after the massacre. Well what if it wasn't that they wouldn't but that they couldn't remember, Itachi is labeled an S-class criminal(or something equivalent) meaning that anyone they sent after him that wasn't near his level would have been slaughtered. And at the time the only one who might have had a chance was the Hokage, who was an old man and someone the village wasn't going to risk losing.

The second is that it appeared like Konoha wasn't even trying to look for survivors (I don't remember if this was mentioned in either the manga or anime, so if I'm wrong please feel free to correct me). But again think about who we're dealing with here, if Itachi knew Konoha was looking for survivors, he could just let the searchers do all the work for him and only act after they found a survivor. Which would have negated the safety Konoha was offering completely. As such the decision could have been to simply not search, thereby increasing any survivors chances of survival by denying Itachi a search tool and make sure certain ninja knew what to look for when out on missions, and what information to give if by some chance they stumbled across a survivor.

Ummm....(looks up at what she wrote). Sorry if I got a little long-winded there, I guess the question kinda got my brain running.

~scrolls

[gothicstargrl.livejournal.com]

[link] (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v238/gothicstargrl/uchihaclones2b.gif)

...You never said it had to be a serious theory. :D (If Orochimaru can make someone like Yamato, Dr. Science DeNinja could make a little Uchiherd! Sasuke wouldn't even have to rebuild the clan that way. And therefore could be as gay as he wants. XD)

[askerian]

ahahaha I love you. XD

Did I ever tell you about that plotbunny I had where Orochimaru was so happy with Sasuke's body he decided to have him cloned for when he grew too old? XD Mmmmh.

[lukita.livejournal.com]

Pure Uchiha as in they married their cousin?

I have an aunt who nobody talks about, my cousins doesn't know about and is 'dead' as far as I know, I heard she moved to the other side of the earth years before I was born. Actually, my mother wouldn't have known if grandma haven't talked about her at me and I blabbed at the dinner table when I was three. Obviously it couldn't apply to the Uchiha since I think old families with abilities like that would be 'you're an Uchiha until you die' kinda deal.

Right, no one has done the Ninja War yet. Have a drabbly outline.

Kaji Uchiha woke up to soft footsteps, unfamiliar scents and the memory of falling. Clumsy attempts to be quite only a few feet away and the knowledge of being deep in enemy territory caused him to take deep steady breaths and pretended to be asleep while his brain went into overdrive to catalogued his other senses. Sleeping on a mat; clean. Arms and legs bound; prisoner? The footsteps came closer; maybe a hundred and twenty pounds from the foot falls. The smell of various herbs; medicine. The footsteps stopped beside him, then the - woman his brain supplied - knelt down, it took every ounce of training not to kill the healer as she placed a cool hand on his forehead.

"Stop moving unless you want to rip your stitches." The woman's voice said, mid-twenties or early thirties; lily soft hand and he opened eyes a crack to check for old scars.

-tentative trust
-he jumped off a bridge when it blew
-very deep in enemy territory but the river carried him away from the fighting for now
-jounins came by to cause angst
-knives! grabbed her in a choke hold, "who the fuck are you?"
-woman have a younger brother who's a ninja, chunnin
-tentative trust again but she didn't gave him up to the jounins
-blah blah blah it takes for broken bones to heal
-healed his leg wrong (oops)
-he needs to go home, she understands!
-oh noes the jounins came back
-blah blah blah het!sex
-the woman is a jounin herself, her mission is to keep the Uchiha alive for scary experiments
-why does he trust her again?
-missing nins for love!
-found out she's pregnant
-she should totally go to Konaha for the baby
-on no still war going on, missing nin and 'I've always wanted to live by the sea' *cue Last Unicorn theme song
-kid!
-she totally killed him the second time she's pregnant, poor shmucks
-went back to her hidden village with kids
-god this is dark

[rianax.livejournal.com]

/'I've always wanted to live by the sea' *cue Last Unicorn theme song/

Another 80s lover.

I quote that /movie/ all the time.

This needs to be written if only as a drabble set.

*offers cookies*

[knowing-smile.livejournal.com]

Hm, a rough variation on some of the above:

--- --- ---

They called him the Old Fool.

It fit, really, and nobody felt like stretching their imagination to come up with something more thoughtful. Down in the miserable collection of make-shift shelters and lean-tos, for which being a slum would be a step up, the Old Fool grinned and staggered about as best he could with a stump for a right foot and a total of three fingers between both hands. Obviously blind, his mind only lightly touched upon reality for the most part, and if anyone had cared enough to ask him his background, all they received was a totally guileless and witless smile.

... and then there was the one time several high-born had descended on them, seeking cheap thrills in abusing those below. No-one was quite sure what had happened, but the muttered word was that the Old Fool had been the one to send the nobles running, looking fearfully all about them in the darkness. There were one or two hisses of ninja at first... but in the end, life, such as it was, continued on unchanged. He was their Old Fool, after all, one of the fallen nameless, one of them.

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So yeah, a Uchiha presumed KIA, but actually amnesiac and demented. May or may not remember things and approach coherence if confronted with elements of his past.

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Wow.

This was astonishing and meaty enough to warant a novel. You are truly gifted at writing.

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Hideo was never truly happy until he was dead.

‘Awkward’ and ‘clumsy’ trailed behind him this entire life; the academy only added ‘failure to live up to his potential’ to the repertoire of whispers behind the obasans’ hands and the shoji screens at home.

He graduates by the skin of his teeth and the fact that Yuuka-sensei was a soft touch about team solidarity. For six months, Hideo thinks maybe he can do this, be a ninja, get better, go chunin with Raido and Ai-chan, and see his grandfather smile and say he fits his name instead of being only an excellent fool.

Then the war comes.

And comes.

Raido leaves. Ai-chan kills. Hideo raids the corpses for everything worth carrying. Yuuka-sensei pulls rank on the /Hokage/ and gets them western guard duty with the threat of some unnamed incident involving sake and the Daimyo’s ponies when they were genin and Hideo thinks we can survive this—he can survive this.

Then Obito dies. And all his fucking clan can think about the Sharingan being in that Hatake genius. His cousin is dead and Hideo moves in with Yuuka-sensei that night before he gets himself killed for doing something stupid like attacking his grandfather or painting obscene caricatures on the police station doors.

Two weeks later Uchiha Hideo dies defending Konoha from a sneak Stone-nin attack. His name is carved into the memorial along with his teammate, Fujita Ai, and sensei, Kamizuki Yuuka.

Their bodies were recovered and buried with honors.

***

Fujimoto Mayuka will be ten this summer. She is quick, clever, and gifted in ways that worry her father.

She knows this because her father gets this crease between his eyes when he gets worried and over weird things sometimes like when she beat up Kenzo and Yoshi by herself for bullying the younger kids or Makoto getting hideously good at darts.

Mayuka knows her father is different from her friends’ father. He worries about weird things, always shows up for school events, prays at every shrine he ever passed, but disappears during Obon when the family goes to visit Uncle Kazuki and Aunt Miki in Sedai. She asked her mother last August; she got quiet and changed the subject.

Mayuka knows her father worries and her mother gets quiet and sometimes her eyes itch like mad when she fights and the world /twists/ redblack for a second and she gets scared because she is smart enough to know secrets can be dangerous and still she wants to why but knows knowing is going to change her, her father, her family and she wouldn’t go through that door right now ‘cause her mother is making mochi and Makoto always steals more than his share.

Fujimoto Mayuka will be ten this summer. She loves anpan, climbing trees, and teasing her baby brother.

Her father regrets nothing.




I blame you, Asuka, for plot bunnies who are TAKING ME OVER. Hideo is muttering in the corner then Mayuka comes in bouncing off the wall and talking a mile a minute and I know that wanderingscroll is giving even more plot bunnies to me with a ROOT Uchiha.

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Uchiha Juro and his wife Mai had been thrilled to have been offered the long term infiltration mission in Grass territory. They had been married for such a short time, they called the trip their honeymoon, even after they had been there for months. Even after the their second year had passed and Yan was born. Their cover was far too deep for any message to be sent to Konoha, but they whispered stories of their clan over his crib. They would call him Uchiha Yan at home, and Hirushi Yan in the street. The only troubles they had in the small village((other than protecting their cover)) were keeping the neighbor's sheep herds out of the vegetable patch, and finding Yan.

Yan was called called by the entire village, the "little Shinobi" despite his parents attempts to stop the name. Within the same week that Yan had learned to crawl, he managed to escape his crib and his parents room on a regular basis. They would find him in kitchen pots, behind sofa cushions, inside the toilet, or even on the roof. After the roof incident, the name had permanently stuck and his parents had a much shorter list of babysitters to call.

The villagers never heard any screaming. They found the corpses entirely by change. Their neighbor, had found Yan in his drinking trough (on of Yan's favorite spots) and stopped by the house to return him. The backdoor was open, and the young couple had been hacked to pieces, eyes gouged out.

The village, having little resources, sent him to the the orphanage in Kusa. "Who knows?" they would whisper. "His family may have been peasant farmers, but he might be a good ninja." They would visit Hirushi Yan for years, with small stories of his family or sweets.

He would learn later that his eyes were not normal. It would not be until his fourteenth birthday that the Sharingan would manifest and he would understand his true heritage. He is approached, nine years later, at a diplomatic mission to Sound by a man with dark hair and dead eyes. He does not leave the room alive.

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He is approached, nine years later, at a diplomatic mission to Sound by a man with dark hair and dead eyes. He does not leave the room alive.

oh WOW. :O That last line really makes the whole ficlet. Prrrrrrr. ♥