The World
When he was young he used to think the family plantation was the world, that there was no Virginia beyond the whitewashed slat fences, no states beyond its border. From the top of the terracotta tiles lining the red roof of their three-story farmhouse, he could see the land stretch out before him.
Surely this was the apex of the world! There could be nothing beyond this house-that-had-always-been-there; that had stood since the beginning of time. On clear days, that glimpse of blue, so far off the horizon that it could be mistaken for a trick of the light playing merrily off morning dew, could not be a body of water larger than their own Lake Madara.
As a child there was nothing more complex in his simple existence then what to play next. There was nothing to ponder but what treat his mother might bake, made with her own loving hands instead of some bitter slave's. Philosophy was limited to the oft-ignored Golden Rule, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
He knew no other existence; he believed those within his limited scope were the only beings, that there was no world beyond the horizon, and he had no reason to believe otherwise.
If his father and brother left for weeks, gone to some unknown stead; that did not mean there were others out there like him! Father and brother were strong; they could tear holes across the universe, pull stars down from the sky. Where they rode their horses, the very land lay down cobbles below their iron-shod hooves.
And this was where he lived. Ask him the name of the world and he will reply, "Uchiha Plantation." For until that fateful day when a baby became a boy, it was his universe, sprung into being when he took his first, quavering, infantile breath.
This is a story sprung into being by the evil machination of the plot bunnies that bounce around in my head. (kicks a bunny) It's not going to be updated regularly, and for the first ten or so chapters it's going to consist of drabble-esque writings. That will last until Naru-chan and Sasu-chan meet. Then it will errupt into a full-fledged fanfic (maybe) that I really dont want to have to deal with. No Yaoi. Probably no pairings. Simple angst, no teenage romance blues. It IS going to be a Civil War AU, though.