Merger 1.3
Hisana was released from hospital two days later, and shown to her temporary apartment. It wasn't dingy or rundown, but it was small. She'd been thinking for two days straight, and had the beginning of a plan concocted. Fundamentally, despite it's now very real nature, the world of
Naruto was a story about the boy of the same name; and to a lesser extent his close friends and teammates. In some ways, you could even call it 'the story of team seven'. Which meant if you wanted to affect it with the least difficulty possibile, you had to be able to change events only Team Seven were around for.
Thus, she came to the utterly terrifying conclusion that she had to get herself onto Team Seven. Those guys fought high ranking missing nin, Akatsuki and who knows what else. If she had just been born a random orphan in this world, instead of merging with an Uchiha in all but name, then she'd have been running away from them as fast as she could. After all, it had basically turned out well in the end - but at an extreme cost. She was too late to prevent the real lynchpin of the steadily unfolding tragedy that was this village, Kannabi Bridge, but she was early enough to affect the story itself.
She was early enough to prevent Sasuke's defection, blunt Orochimaru's invasion and prevent the Fourth Ninja War from happening.
That she could any of that seemed like a naive dream, but she was involved whether she liked it or not; and she may as well give it her all if she was forced to participate.
So Hisana broke down her plan for the relatively recent future into a few obstacles and ways to overcome them. Firstly: She needed to be a strong ninja to pull off changes to the timeline and to survive. The obvious solution to this was to train, but plenty of ninjas trained a whole hell of a lot. So she needed to train smarter, not just harder. She had only the vaguest idea as to how ninjas trained beyond the very basics; but she now had the resources of the Uchiha clan at her disposal. So she'd hire a tutor, and she knew just the man.
Secondly, she needed to keep Sasuke and Naruto alive just in case they were needed to do their whole "transmigration brothers" thing on Kaguya or another space-flea from nowhere. Hisana hadn't read the Boruto manga, but she'd seen the movie and knew that there were more of whatever Kaguya was out there. Only then did it hit her she was
part alien now. Like just straight up her eyes were the way they were because of alien DNA.
Putting her astounded mind back on topic, she had decided that she could extend her solution to her first problem to this one, too. The other part of it would of course be Operation: High Intensity Befriending to get the two of them on her side as soon as possible. She figured they were all a lock for Team Kakashi - two Uchiha and the son of his dead teacher - and thus any attempt to rig Academy results was pointless.
Thirdly, she needed to get on top of the whole Orochimaru problem. She didn't have any solutions for this one other than to somehow bypass the second round of the Chunin exams, if they still happened. Orochimaru getting his curse mark on Sasuke was the beginning of the end for Team Seven. Fundamentally, though, she didn't believe for a second she'd be able to fight off Orochimaru at the age of twelve. Or probably ever.
Her final problem was recording her foreknowledge somehow, and not getting discovered doing it. She initially thought English might have been a useful code, but the use of latin characters throughout the manga had dissuaded her from that. Her only other idea was to somehow copy the effect of the stone tablet containing the instructions for the Moon's Eye Plan. Text readable only by those with a Sharingan and then encoded into english (transcribed as katakana) sounded about as secure as she could make it without being overly suspicious.
So her plan wasn't exactly foolproof yet. She still had plenty of time to come up with something for Orochimaru; and she had a few ideas about that floating around in her head. She got settled into her apartment, picked up some takeaway and went to sleep for her first real night in the Village Hidden in the Leaves.
She did not sleep peacefully that night, red-tinged dreams of fire and death playing out again and again in her mind. She woke to the sunlight, bleary eyed but ready to set about her grand plan to save the world.
What a thought that was.
The Hokage did actually see her almost right away, and she thought that her ANBU minder and the Hokage's guards might be catching up or something, because they were awfully close to one another wherever they were hiding. In situations like this, ANBU were letting Hisana or any other sensor ninja know they were there. It presented a more relaxed atmosphere to civilians, but told ninja to be on their best behaviour or else.
"What did you want to talk to me about, Hisana?" Sarutobi asked you, sitting in a relaxed posture behind his desk.
"I've heard about, um, tutors that clans hire for their kids to teach them the basics whilst they're at the Academy. Since I don't have anyone left to teach me..." Hisana trailed off.
"It's a good idea, and one I probably should have thought of before now. I know just the man - he's a Special Jonin I've employed for my grandson, actually. He'll be well within your price range - I'll write the mission up now. Thank you for coming to me with this, Hisana. You've been through something I can only imagine at such a young age, but you seem determined to lead your clan into the future. There is also something less happy I have to talk to you about, however. The funeral for the victims of the massacre will be in a weeks time, and it would be traditional for the head of the clean to speak; but if you're not up to it-" Sarutobi said, writing on some kind of scroll, before he was interrupted by Hisana.
"I'll... I'll speak at the funeral, Lord Hokage." She said, her voice low but strong. He only nodded in response at that, but he seemed to approve.
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Her first day at the academy occurred four days later. Ebisu had managed to get her up to speed on what the other students would know, though they'd only started earlier this year. This was where her plan would begin, assuming her 'cousin' ever woke up. If he didn't - well, then things were going to get a little difficult. She had two choices to make today, she reckoned.
First, should she use her Sharingan's basic copying ability to shoot ahead on ninjutsu classes without alerting teachers or students to that fact, or refrain. Secondly, whether she would initiate Operation: High Intensity Befriending before Sasuke woke up.
[x] Use your Sharingan judiciously in ninjutsu classes without letting others know.
[x] Learn the hard way.
[x] Try to get closer to Naruto before Sasuke wakes up
[x] Don't try, but don't rebuff, before Sasuke wakes up