.:birth:.
It was truly a non-romantic story, the one of how my birth came about.
You see my mother was a skilled and fierce kunoichi from a renowned clan. She was not well known as some of its members, but this was her preference as her specialization was assassination and espionage. She was not a front line fighter like most of them. For this and the fact she was one of those "unlucky few" who had not inherited the kekkei genkai lead to her being looked down upon by the rest. As a branch member and an orphan she was already at a disadvantage.
But my mother didn't see it that way. All of my mother's life was as she chose it.
She trained and trained until she could have been one of the best frontline members of the clan creating a method of battle specifically focused against the clan kekkei genkai. She told no one until her cousin prepared to inherit the Headship of the Fourth Branch, only one step above the Civilian Branch, and as was her right as an adult member of the clan challenged this boy who'd inherited the blood she'd never shown.
They scoffed at the sight of this slip of a thirteen year old girl genin but a year and barely a chunin now. But they could not stop a challenge officially made.
No one expected her to close her eyes and never open them until her elder cousin lay beaten and bloodied on the floor. There was silence as my mother, smiling, took her place as Branch Head, represented by the diamond pattern black apron of her rank, and ambled away to continue training.
Even then she was not done.
Seeing the rest of her clan and their pity for her supposed weakness, she deliberately chose something unlike them. She joined the Seduction Corps. She excelled at it making a name for herself (at least amongst the Corps) with a mixture of information gatherings and assassinations spanning all the nations. She stayed in the Corps for ten years, becoming commander and far exceeding the average of three to four years by more than double.
Even her retirement was not at the worrying Clan's behest.
My mother, having now reached into a respectable mid-twenties, looked around her and saw the heirs the other branch heads had. She had long ignored the pressure to marry from the elders who wanted her to produce strong children. Now though she found herself in want of one and another to help create it. My mother looked at the proposals and possibilities that were offered to her, all bearing the kekkei genkai she never showed. She laughed, opened her Bingo Book, and went hunting.
Six months later she contentedly returned from a long term seduction mission, firmly retired, and three weeks pregnant due to a "mislabeled dosage" on the mission. Satisfied with her "accident" my mother began to prepare and marched to see the Clan Head and requested a new position.
After a bit of haggling, my mother walked away with a steady job in the village guaranteed to her no matter what and a secret in her stomach.
Nine months later she welcomed me into her life, to the surprise of the Clan, her Headship settled permanently with an heiress and position as the new lieutenant of the police. Looking down at me she easily came up with a name.
Chihiro. She informed the nurse. Uchiha Chihiro.
And so began my second life.
Author Note: While I'm outlining "Civilian Only" I decided to to a bitter!Uchiha OC Insert as an experiment for NaNoWriMo. This is just the prologue.