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NARUTO PART ONE SERIES —

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[Name]'s PERSPECTIVE
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She remembered. It had been the morning after the massacre, the day she ran out of the classroom and booked it to the hospital to see Sasuke. When she had finally left the unconscious boy's bedside that evening to head to the cemetery, the skies were dark and heavy as she kneeled over her mother's headstone and cried silently among it. The skies roared with thunder, flashed with lightning, this never-ending miserableness that shrouded her. Her head ached as she clutched onto the newly marked area of the Hyuga's curse mark. "Why did you leave me like this?" She questioned her mother from her grave, "Why..was I born into this..?"

"I ask the same thing a lot." A voice said from beside her, she froze in place, not expecting to hear a response from beyond the grave — "But..one day, soon. I will fix everything. For us." Looking over, [Name] examined the being next to her. A man displaying a orange & black flamed printed mask on his face & a dark tinted cloak, kneeling beside her, staring at the grave. "Tragedies like this shouldn't happen." She couldn't understand if it was a hallucination upon her or if this purely happening. It feared within her, how the man didn't face her at all, how his remarks were so open-ended. "D-Did you um..k-know her..?" [Name] squeaked out, boring her fearful eyes into the ominous man.

"Yeah..I did..I regret leaving her behind as I did..it left a lot of guilt in her.."

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[Name]'s PERSPECTIVE

Konoha Academy
HIDDEN LEAF.

5 YEARS PASSED. The ongoing life of [Name] Uchiha-Hyuga continued on and changed drastically throughout her first seven years, one being that she was publicly known as 'Uchiha-Hyuga' now. Things began to slow down after those years, though a lot had changed in [Name]'s demeanor in those years following. She lived under a roof full of strict people, people that seemed to not know what the hell the word fun was because those people were not fun at all.

[Name] grew into more of a mature individual at a young age as she grew to be around the Hyuga's more and had to choke down the loss of her Uchiha clan heritage because tears within the Hyuga's was considered weak & the Hyuga's didn't want a trace of Uchiha within her. As a loss of pattern of what it felt like to be herself from being under the Hyuga's care, she had taken on more aspects of Neji's personality, believing it to be a model personality of what a branch member should be like.

One thing about her that truly stuck a horn out was the sarcasticness she had developed over the years as a way to filter out her emotions that proded at her. Somehow she had grown into a popular student within the Academy after all the misery she had suffered — which was an ironically sad way to be noted.

What Itachi did to the Uchiha's was a saddening shock to her, yet an internal mystery she wanted to solve. The irony of her leaving the compound that day, the irony that he had left two kids he profoundly cared for alive..? To suffer was it? She & Sasuke..had never truly figured out what happened to Shisui, both believing that he had died within the Massacre that night by the hands of Itachi.

Having been the only living survivor alongside Sasuke, she tried to make sure her relationship with Sasuke would stay strong but his demeanor changed too, just as drastically as [Name]'s but Sasuke had pushed everyone away, [Name] on the other hand had grown to try to be closer with most of her classmates out of a coping mechanism of feeling alone after the loss of the Uchiha clan & having been more of an outsider within the Hyuga clan. So her popularity was a blessing & a curse.

No one was ever really aware of how much she went through behind the scenes of school and though she wouldn't verbally admit it, she feared the loss of a classmate of hers at any given moment, knowing the loss would impact her just as badly as any other loss she dealt with. She supposed that was her weakness, her flaw and she wasn't sure why. Wasn't sure why she was so fixated on having the closeness of others around her. The redemption feeling it gave her when she had done nothing wrong to be redeemed for.

She had wondered sometimes, had her past life sought redemption through her? But then again that was just a silly thought—

"Good morning [Name]!" Kiba spoke to the girl as he walked into the class, a grin displayed on his face as she returned a soft 'hi' to him. Hinata soon followed after him, waving at him shyly before she looked over at her cousin and sat next to her. The two had grown closer while both living in the same compound for the past few years, something Neji wasn't truly a fan of but dealt with because he knew he wasn't a controller & believed his sister should enjoy her freedom outside the compound. "Good morning..Kiba.." Hinata greeted the boy before the two began pursuing a conversation.

The day before, the class had performed their final to pass as Genin's. Everyone within the class had stellar scores except Naruto, something that caused [Name] to be sad to find out that she wouldn't be a Genin alongside her best friend. She promised that she would help him study for his second attempt, but he insisted that she focused on herself and he'd figure it out on his own.

The door to the classroom opened, instinctively [Name] looked up before a frown displeased her face upon the arrival of Sasuke Uchiha. She stared at him attentively, without restrictions at that. Sasuke kept looking forward, he knew [Name] eyes bore into him, but he ignored it, like every day that it happened. "Hey!" Naruto suddenly appeared in front of the girl, nearly scaring her to death as she fixated her eyes on the Uzumaki. "Jahsin, Naruto..you always find a way to scare the hell outta me. Wait— you got it!!" The boy let out a snicker as [Name] looked at him with a glare before it softened upon noticing his headband protector. "Sorry..I should've told you sooner.." he rubbed the back of his neck out of embarrassment, "But..Ya know..you were just..so off into your own world as usual..I had to bring you back into reality. Back to me!"

"That's so corny." Kiba commented from next to the Uzumaki, having eavesdropped the conversation, "Agreed." Shikamaru said from above the two Hyuga's. "Shut up Shikamaru." [Name] grumbled out to the Nara, who returned a smirk at her response, the Uzumaki following her, "Shut up Kiba. NO ONE ASKED." And before Iruka could even stop it.. the two began bickering, which had seemed to grow into a usual thing with the two lately.

"Everyone!! Listen UP!" Iruka suddenly screamed out 30 seconds later, in particular to Kiba & Naruto.. "Thank you." he noticed the quietness that took over in the room. "I will now begin the commencement of assigning your teams." the class erupted into small charters upon the word 'team.' Iruka picked up a paper and looked down at it, a smile formed on his face as he noticed a certain lineup, he began to announce the teams one by one. People began to get swept out of the classroom one by one, forming on into their teams. A few groups of people were left by the time [Name] heard her name being called.

"[Name] Uchiha-Hyuga." Iruka looked down at the list again before saying, "Naruto Uzumaki." a cheer elicited from the Uzumaki while [Name] looked over at the boy with a sly smirk, pure luck she believed it was. "Sasuke Uchiha." then a groan exited the two, Naruto more specifically as he looked up over at the male Uchiha. "Aw damnit!" Sakura hissed out, having sat directly in front of [Name].

The Hyuga-Uchiha raised an eyebrow out of curiosity at her outburst. Haruno in return turned around and looked up at [Name] with a disappointed look in her eyes. [Name] assumed it was due not to being on the same team as her or even — Sasuke, someone [Name] had come to find out was someone Sakura quietly had her sights on for a while.

Iruka continued calling the teams, Sakura got assigned to another team and met with her Jonin. Naruto continued to verbally complain about Sasuke's presence on the team, to which the Uchiha didn't even bargain to fight back about. [Name] quietly waited for their Jonin leader, looking up at the time above the door. "Where is this fool..??" Naruto insultingly said about their Jonin leader, "Ya know..[Name] we should play a little prank on him.."

"Eh..? What type of prank are we talking exactly.." she responded, evidently wanting to possibly participate in the prank, though it depended on the severity of it. "Here." Naruto shuffled through [Name]'s satchel bag — finding a useless book in his eyes and explaining the plan. "They're not going to fall for that." Sasuke blurted out from his desk on which was a few rows over to Naruto & [Name]'s.

"He has a point..—" [Name] responded, Naruto feeling betrayed that she would side with Sasuke. "Just you watch." Naruto said to the male Uchiha, glaring at him before grabbing [Name]'s hand and walking over towards the door. Naruto jumped onto the table, [Name] following behind and standing on top of the table next to him. Sasuke watched intently from the other side of the class, wondering what the hell [Name] pressured herself into. He could tell she was jittery.

Naruto placed the book in between the door arch and the door itself, a slight crack evident in between the door and the arch. "There..!" And just as Naruto said that the door opened... [Name]'s eyes widen as the book fell on top of a man with silver grayish hair, a black mask covering his mouth. "Uh.." [Name] mumbled out, the sounds of Sasuke quietly trying to sniffle a laugh from the other side of the room evident. Naruto on the other hand reacted the complete opposite. "Serves you right..! You're late..!"

"My first opinion on all of you? You're a bunch of idiots."
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Kakashi's PERSPECTIVE

Konoha Academy
HIDDEN LEAF.
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He found the irony of the team he was set forth with a little too ironic, They all had a unique connection with him, particularly sad too. The newly formed team 7 sat on the rooftop of the school, he noted Naruto & [Name] sitting closer to each other on the steps while Sasuke was more spaced away from the two. It was already looking bad for them, and so he wondered what their opportunism would look like — how spaced out would it be again "So..Team 7." he schemed the three, "Give me a rundown of your interest, disinterest, hobbies, and goals."

"I'll go first!" Naruto proclaimed, to the group, a smile on his face as he began to answer the questions provided, a bit too detailed actually. Next up was [Name], who had sought into thought about what she would say to the group. They had known her well? so it made it confusing as to what should have been said at that moment. "Well.., I'm [Name] Uchiha-Hyuga. I don't have much interest nor hobbies as I'm conformed to having to serve a family for the rest of my life. I don't like liars or people that try to control every aspect of my life and..I have a goal of finding a way out of my family's compound!"

The looks she had been given upon the eavesdrop of information — more like a call for help. Kakashi took a moment to soak in the information while Sasuke side-eyed her subtly concerning and Naruto looked at her bewilderedly. "Um.., Sasuke?" Kakashi looked over to the male Uchiha, giving him his go to express his answers to the questions Kakashi asked. Once again, Kakashi found himself bombarded with another concerning child's mind. The Hatake had wondered, was Naruto the only sound one here? Even the Uzumaki went through hell and back but he seemed..at peace?

"Ok. That's all for today.." Kakashi eyed the three, "We will continue this tomorrow with a test. Meet at the training grounds behind the academy, Make sure you don't have any breakfast, for as what we will be doing might be better on an empty stomach." The statement was read to the three confusingly. "You're all dismissed." [Name] particularly tried to understand the context in between Kakashi's statement or if it was a joke. "Kakashi—" in a blink of an eye, the man disappeared before them leaving the three to fend for themselves.

"Does he look like someone you guys know?" [Name] asked randomly, a thought had come to her head that he looked familiar in her eyes but she couldn't exactly figure out why. "No..?" Sasuke quietly replied to her, "If anything..he seems suspicious.."

Very..

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[AUTHORS NOTE] usually when i do stories in this verse/au i either make separate teams for the oc/reader or remove sakura for the equation — but don't fret!! as the story goes on, sakura involvement in team 7 will be a lot more lol