Tohsaka as an Uchiha Quest (Naruto/FSN)

When Danzo returns, he is in a trance, and you don't think he will wake up anytime soon.

You are about to collapse due to Chakra exhaustion, you think. But before that, there's one thing left to do. This bastard is responsible for the deaths of so many people, including your parents and possibly Shisui, too! You pick up your discarded kunai, get close to Danzo-

But you change your mind. You sigh and turn away. You know what Izanami does, and Danzo as he was is practically dead.

You suddenly stumble, dropping the kunai. You pick it up and put it back into your pouch, but the entire room is spinning around you. "Chakra- exhaustion," you murmur, and feel somebody catch you as you drop.


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After you feel well enough, you are allowed to visit others who are in the hospital. You find out that Sasuke is physically fine, but traumatized; Itachi-san is missing an arm, but otherwise fine, and will be discharged soon; Fugaku-sama is in a healing coma, slated to make a full recovery; same with Mama, except the full recovery part (damn it!). You first visit your mother.

You go to her hospital room, and say some things to her, things you haven't gotten to say enough. In your previous world, you had heard that patients in a coma are capable of hearing things said near them.


After seeing and talking at your mother, you go see Itachi-san, but he's not in his room. He's in Sasuke's hospital room, and you decide to leave the two brothers alone. Before you leave, Itachi-san stops you.

He says, "Rin- no, Rin-sama. Thank you very much for saving Sasuke's life!" Bowing down to you.

Sasuke simply looks stunned, but you get embarrassed, saying, "get up, Itachi-san. Get up! Seriously, this is getting creepy!"

You can feel heat in your cheeks, but it's not like you are flattered or anything!


After you've left Sasuke's room, you go visit Fugaku-sama's. He is simply lying there, unconscious. You leave him alone after checking out on him.

Finally, another unconscious member of the Uchiha is in the hospital. He is a civilian, around your father's age or a little older. You are certain you've seen him before, but not sure where.

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You find out that you have access to ALL the Uchiha jutsu library at any time. A few things catch your eye. You decide to read 'How not to be an asshole, by Teyaki' first. Now that you think of it, wasn't the Uchiha member unconscious in the hospital Teyaki-san?

You read through the pages of his guide, and find out that he knows he stuff! He knows how to navigate a conversation, how to keep oneself on the straight and narrow, how to manage anger and keep oneself from falling into hatred - this is a hidden gem! There is no recipe for Senbei, but that's a secret that has been in Teyaki-san's branch of the clan for generations, if you remember correctly.


You look around the Academy Student section, not sure what you are looking for, a half remembered sentence hanging in your mind. In a hard to find place, there is… a scroll with a blood seal? An Uzumaki-style blood seal, at that!

You recognize it from your Fuuinjutsu studies. Heck, you could make -and have made- one yourself. You carefully drip some blood onto the seal, and a slew of notes appears. They are in Shisui's handwriting.

You read, and read, and read, completely focused upon the contents. There are all sorts of things in this book - hints of how to use the Shunshin like your brother does, hints and advice for more ninja skills; but, most importantly, there is advice on how to overcome grief, how to work well with others and an apology addressed specifically to you.

The handwriting is a bit blurry there, as if Shisui was crying while writing it. You tear up too, remembering your brother and imagining him writing the very notes you have in front of you. You now know from Haru that Shisui has been killed by Danzo, not committed suicide, but that doesn't diminish the fact that your brother knew he might not live for long.


You read the tips on being a ninja and hints on Shisui's own techniques. You realize that there is a lot involved in speed, and lots of kinds of speed: there are reflexes, movement speed; short burst speed, long distance speed; acceleration, agility; mental speed and more. Some shinobi use weights every single day they are not on missions, and their brain cannot keep up with their movement speed when they remove them.

Others are simply indecisive, even in combat. That, too, is a lack of speed of sorts.*

You also realize that to be able to move somewhere, you need to know your surroundings - you need to be aware of everything around you, and how it changes, at any time. You go to a training ground, sealing the notes inside the blood seal again and hiding its scroll on you first.

You activate your Sharingan and use your Mind's Eye of the Kagura at the same time, trying to combine them. Then, you try to be more aware of your surroundings without the Sharingan, simply by blindfolding yourself, then counting how many rocks of a certain size there are around at a glance.

…You might need help from someone to train this better.



The next day, Tekka-san tells you that you are both wanted at the Council Chamber. The two of you head toward the meeting; he explains while on the way that this is going to decide the fate of the clan. You find two clan heads at your destination: one looks a lot like an older Shikamaru, except scarred; and the other looks older than most Clan Heads.

They introduce themselves as Nara Shikaku and Kurama Unkai. You pay careful attention to what is said and even what's left unsaid, and conclude this is about reparations being paid to the Uchiha clan.

Tekka-san starts the negotiations, but is blocked at every turn. You can see him losing his cool, and you intervene - was there ever any doubt?

You place your hand on Tekka-san's back, and when he turns around to look at you, you shake your head and gesture for him to trust you.

He looks ready to protest for a moment, but he shrugs in acquiescence instead.

You end up talking circles around the two older Heads, all the while being utterly polite and addressing them as superiors (Shikaku-sama and Unkai-sama). Shikaku looks amused, but Unkai is obviously fuming.

The reparations agreed to are enormous, pretty much. You manage to talk them into Konoha giving the Uchiha clan well over two hundred million ryo per year, tax-free, for at least ten years, though you've had to resort to threatening to take the clan and leave Konoha behind for good.

"And where would the Uchiha go?" Shikaku points out, "Kumo? I think you know how greedy they are. Iwa? The Tsuchikage hates the Uchiha. Kiri? Just no."

"Iwa already sounds better than Konoha - at least Onoki is straightforward with hating us," you say evenly, "and there must be some form of resistance in Kiri that would be willing to take us in."

"You would be willing to leave behind the village you helped found? That's beyond absurd, even treasonous-" Shikaku says.

"That's a reasonable response to the situation that's been going on - even tame. And it's co-founded, not helped found," you tell him frostily.

Shikaku doesn't seem willing to call your bluff. On the other hand, you aren't sure what role Kurama Unkai is playing here - he is not Jounin Commander, he is just another Clan Head. Did the Hokage really authorize him to participate in the negotiations?

What you agree to as your part of the deal is making the Konoha Military Police Force open to non-Uchiha again (which would have been necessary anyway, with such few active ninjas in the clan); it's also agreed that Tekka-san will become the permanent Head of the Police, the position of Uchiha Clan Head and Police Head being separated.

Another concession is that the Vice-head of the Police will always be a non-Uchiha. Tekka-san is visibly disturbed at this, but you tell him that this is necessary, "especially if you and your gang were up to what I think you were, Tekka-san."

Tekka-san recoils, as if slapped. Now, Unkai looks confused for a moment before schooling his features, while Shikaku has a contemplative expression on his face. Before, he simply seemed lazy, but with that expression on his face, he looks like a true super-genius.

The final concession is that the Uchiha district will be open to the other villagers to rent space in, but with the caveat that the opposite also be true: the Uchiha will once again be free to live outside their district.

A few more discriminatory laws and articles were also agreed to be repealed, and you remember Danzo's Sharingan, so you make your final demand the return of the eyes to the clan.

"The investigation will have to be concluded first, and someone destroyed the eye he had in his right socket, but I don't see a reason to deny that request," Shikaku tells you.

In the end, you shake hands with Shikaku, and he tells you, "I wonder if in a decade or two, you'll be in my position of Jounin commander or even Hokage."

Unkai calls that thought absurd. You are about to turn and glare at him, when the feeling of his Chakra freezes you: he's feeling such absolute fear, that it's reflected in his Chakra clearly.

…Did Shikaku-sama just make another Clan Head nearly piss himself by glaring at him?


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Your mother has woken up, according to a messenger bird from the hospital. Instead of feeling elation, all you feel is dread. What if she's just like Aoi was? What if she's even worse off?

Still, you go to the hospital, then reach her hospital room and arrive to see her lying down. Her eyes are red, and not just in the usual literal way, but as if she's been crying.

Mama says, "Rin! You're here!" Smiling, though it seems forced.

"Mama," you say, hope rising within you, "the medic-nin told me-"

"That I had serious brain damage, right? The good news is that I'm sane," your mother tells you, though she still looks depressed.

"What's the bad news?" You ask, but you already have an inkling of what is going on, seeing how she moves.

"I'll never walk again," Mama tells you, her voice trembling, confirming your suspicions.

You hug her gently, carefully, and she bursts into tears, saying some things about 'Suiho' and 'Yui-chan'.

You've been a terrible daughter, but you will make sure to do better! You have a second chance; you had better not waste it!


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"You want me to what?!" You tell Tekka-san, stunned.

Haru says, "I had already told you, Rin-sama. You were and are the only option for Clan Head, especially now that you've proven your mettle in the field of politics."

"But, but-" you say, still finding it hard to wrap your mind around the idea that you are going to lead a clan of over forty people. Being Second Owner didn't prepare you for this!

Tekka-san says respectfully, "Rin-sama; you are not only the only choice, you are a good choice all told. You would still attend the Academy to attain an official rank, and Clan Heads are not extremely busy," calling you '-sama' for the first time.

You can't offer a rebuttal to that - words have failed you, which is a very rare phenomenon for you.

The official Uchiha Clan Head position has been offered to you; if you accept, you start your duties in five months, on your eighth birthday. You-

[]Accept
+You will unload much of the burden to whoever you can convince (definitely Haru, possibly Itachi)
[]Decline

There is also the schedule for the next five months. You have many options for training, a few new ones, too. Itachi-san has suggested that he teach you a new jutsu, along with helping you improve Housenka Tsumabeni, and Hollow-san can teach you Medical Ninjutsu.

You have books and scrolls in the Uchiha jutsu library you haven't read, and a whole slew of skills to train.

On the social side, you can reconnect with your remaining family. Fugaku-san has just woken up, you are giving the benefit of the doubt to Itachi-san again, you can hang out with Haru… even Sasuke.

There's also Ino and Naruto outside of the Uchiha clan, and Naruto is also family. There is Hollow-san, too. Not to forget Kakashi-san and Shigaru-san, either.


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