Prologue
Author's notes:
Kiri didn't attack Uzu. Instead, the two villages allied together through marriage. Now, the Third Shinobi War is Konoha, Suna, Uzu, Kiri vs Kumo, Iwa, (and other smaller villages). Because of this alliance, the Third Shinobi War is currently undergoing a slight "peace-time". That means Rin and Obito haven't fought yet because peace-time started when they were halfway through Academy. So they're alive. And because Obito hasn't gone Tobi, Minato and Kushina are still alive too.
I promise that there won't be any character bashing. So all you Sasuke and Sakura fans don't need to worry (even though I still don't really like them very much).
I will try to update on the Sunday of every week.
Houzuki Akemi was born on the eighth of August to Uzumaki Miho, niece of the Honorable Uzumaki Mito, and Houzuki Yuigetsu, grandson of the Nidaime Mizukage. She was directly related to the ruling family of Uzushiogakure and was also a descendent of the Honorable Gengetsu. She held massive chakra reserves, courtesy of her Uzumaki genes, and political sensitivity, due to her status as the Houzuki heiress. All in all, she was the perfect candidate—in fact, the only viable candidate—for the position of Jinchuuriki.
She was a girl that was destined for flawed greatness; a girl that was born out of a sacrifice between two nations only to be a sacrifice herself. Lo and behold, the irony of such a statement.
She didn't have a terrible childhood by any means. In fact, Uzumaki Miho was a particularly attentive mother to both her developing intellectual and physical traits and Houzuki Yuigetsu, although stoic, was by no means cold or distant; in fact, he was exactly the opposite and was a rather quietly proud father.
But even though her childhood was, in all angles, completely normal, no one who spent more than ten minutes with her would say that Houzuki Akemi was a normal child. Her physical developments such as walking and running came at the usual few months after birth, but it was her mental developments, her love of knowledge and too-wise words and too-old eyes, that set her apart from the rest of her fellow children. Her first word was "teach" and her first sentence was "please train me". It was almost as if the three-year-old Houzuki heiress could feel the tenuous echoes of war in the air; it was almost as if she knew, subconsciously, that war was on the horizon and that it wasn't coming with a red dawn but with a gale of ferocious wind that would knock those who hadn't been ready to build their nests to the ground and to their death.
Akemi, that little girl with the Houzuki's signature white hair, that little girl with the Uzumaki's ink-black eyes, that little girl who had the Three-Tails sealed within her, wasn't normal. But Kiri was fine with it, her Council of Elders, Mizukage, and citizens alike, because a little Jinchuuriki prodigy that was equated to Kiri's version of Uchiha Itachi could only be a blessing from the Heavens during this time of war.
Or was she?
It's really short since it's the prologue. Sorry!
Next chapter: Time skip to Chuunin Exams (Maybe or maybe not. Who knows?) ^^