"Did you hear the news?"
"Yeah. The last old generation ninja passed away yesterday."
"Wasn't he son of the Copy Ninja?"
"Yeah, I think so. To bad we can't copy the Sharingan. Only the traitorous Uchihas have it now."
Sherrie looked up at her mother with big navy eyes. Sherrie was almost a perfect copy of her great grandfather, Kakashi Hatake. Her family has no clue how it happened, but fate decided she would. Her silver hair always looked like he just woke up even if she combed it. She hated dresses and skirts, she would scream and cry if someone tried to approach her with one. So she has dark gray shorts and a navy blue long sleeved shirt. It had the Hatake Clan symbol on the black in white. Since it was winter she had a green scarf around her neck and hiding the bottom half of her face.
"They sound happy grandpa died." She said weakly.
Natsu Uzamaki quickly shushed her five year old daughter. "I know... It's okay." Natsu was the youngest daughter of Boruto and Sarada. Sarada was Hokage, and Boruto was the best shinobi known in all of Konoha for being the only shinobi using machines and chakra. The Uzamaki clan had the last scrolls that used to teach children how to use chakra and not machines. The rest were lost or burned.
Natsu's husband was hospitalized for trying to speak out against machines being used in schools. The Hokage was out of town at the time, and Boruto was her escort. The most common threat from the people was that chakra was weak and he shouldn't hold into the past. He would be a liability to the village. A few of his coworkers tried to take his life, but the coworkers ended up dying. Sherrie's father accused of murder. But no one knows how the deaths happened.
"Why is everything going bad?" Sherrie asked.
Natsu looked at her, waiting for the small silver-haired girl to explain.
"I've read the news." Sherrie said slowly. "People are trying to petition the ban of chakra. Isn't that what ninjas use, though?"
Natsu smiled and picked up her daughter. "Yes... Ninjas used to use chakra and became stronger and faster. They never thought that machines could replace their many years of training. You're to smart for your own good, you know." Natsu put on a smile that distracted her daughter immediately.
Sherrie smiled sweetly, her eyes curling. "I know I'm smart! I'm already in school with Iruka!"
"Now come on, your father's still waiting for us." Natsu said as she quickened her pace down the street towards the now white-walked hospital.
"Here. Take this. It was your great grandfather's. He always wore it over his left eye along with a mask so only his right eye showed. My father gave it to me. So now I give it to you."
"You realise how hard this will be on her once they take you off life support? You'll die and she won't get to learn the Chidori."
"You are all she will have left. Reach her everything. We have to keep the shinobi soul alive. Even if it is only her. She'll pass it on. I have faith."
"Daddy? Daddy! Why's he sleeping all of a sudden?
...Mommy... Why's there no more beeping sound?"
Sherrie jerked awake and breathed deeply. She put a hand on her right eye and rubbed it. She may have been young, but she understood every word spoken that day. And it haunted her. She kind of missed the care free childhood she had. But she knew she could never go back to it.
Sherrie is now going to the local Junior High, even though she's nine years old. The school she goes to is Central Middle School of Science. So basically, every kid there has no clue what chakra is. And it's only taught in History class as a mystical force their ancestors harnessed somehow.
Sherrie sat up and looked at her Family Wall. She has photos of her whole family. Some old and damaged, some new and clean, some even hand drawn.
Starting with her great grandfather Kakashi Hatake and his wife. Then her grandfather Obito and his wife. Then there was her father, Kakashi Jr.
On another part of the wall, was her mother's family. The Uzamaki Clan. There was Minito and his wife; her great grandfather and the Fourth Hokage. Then Naruto; her grandfather and the Seventh Hokage. Then there's Natsu; her mother.
Sherrie has tried to branch it off like into the Unimo Clan and the Uchiha Clan but there wasn't much information available. Especially the Uchiha Clan.
"Ready for school, Sherrie?" Came her mother's voice from downstairs.
"Hold on a minute." Sherrie said as she got dressed. She put on her father's old school uniform. She wouldn't be caught dead in the girls uniform with it's weird red-orange color. Even if her father's was kind of worn and torn.
She looked in the mirror before taking the thin gray mask and sliding it on over her mouth and nose. She adjusted it a bit so her breathing was easier. Then she grabbed the Leaf Shinobi headband and slipped it on, tightening it so it wouldn't slip. She looked at herself before sliding it down over her left eye. She could actually see through it. Not crystal clear, but she still had sight. She looked at the picture of Kakashi and wondered what he looked like underneath his mask. Did he looked like her or like Father? She ran her hands through her hair and watched as it almost spiked up like Kakashi's. She was determined to be like him. A true shinobi. Using only chakra and his brains.
"Are you ready now?" Natsu asked from outside her door. "We don't want you to be late in your first day."
Sherrie rolled her eyes before grabbing her school bag. "Coming." She said and opened her door. She watched as her mother's eyes widened in surprise.
"Are you you want to wear a mask?" Natsu asked calmly. Sherrie saw how surprised her mother looked. But, she also looked fearful.
Sherrie nodded silently.
Natsu nodded. "Okay. Get off of your game and get your shoes on, Iruka!" She turned shouted as she walked down the stairs with Sherrie. "Now don't bring your chakra scrolls again just in case. And if any of the other kids give you a hard time-"
"I'll be fine." Sherrie sighed. "I can handle myself." She turned and walked out the door as Iruka tried to run to his room. Sherrie didn't listen as her mother and cousin wrestled over what was going to happen today. Was Iruka going to school or staying home again?
Iruka Umino was a troublesome and lazy kid. He had messy black hair in a ponytail with dark eyes. His mother was an Uchiha, and his father an Umino. He was left in Natsu's care after his father and mother were KIA.
"You lost again." Sherrie said as they walked down the street towards Central.
"Shut up. You try wining an argument with your mother." Iruka huffed, crossing his arms.
"I'm not stupid enough to get into a fight with her."
Iruka looked away. "I'm not stupid." He muttered.
"Keep telling yourself that." Sherrie smiled, her eye curling.
