1. Inheritance
For decades her clan was known to marry outside the family. It was not unheard of for her clansmen to bring in women. In fact, the Nara Clan, needed it.
It was always going to be a boy, they say. Another Nara genius; it was a part of their blood. A boy offspring meant intelligence. Something they had to pay in exchange.
So, imagine their surprise when her father, Kazehiko Nara and his wife, Airi Nara gave birth to a girl.
For a second, they said that her father stood completely frozen, looking down at the proof that she was indeed, not male but female. She was told that he stupidly asked her mother where it was and informed her breathlessly that it was missing.
When it was established, that she was indeed, a girl, her father apparently, albeit hesitantly asked her mother, if he was really the father.
As Airi Nara was too weak from childbirth, her grandmother had to do the honors and she was told that her father walked around the village with a handprint on his face for weeks and a pink bundle of herself in his arms.
Pink, not blue, green or 'whatever baby blanket' was there.
She was told that her clansmen, all of them, despite their laziness celebrated her birth and raided baby stores in search for anything that a baby girl would need. As if their genius suddenly short-circuited and they all thought a pink bottle was any different than a plain one.
She was told that even the Sandaime paid his tribute along with the rest of the village's clans - the Yamanaka and the Akimichi being especially attentive for the obvious reason that their clans were basically family.
One would expect that she was going to be some kind of princess of the clan. Which in essence, she was.
Nara boys would give her flowers, toys and despite their laziness would try and play hide-and-seek, and ninja-ninja with her.
It did not last long however. Because one day, she found that they did all those things at the behest of their parents. And that all those times, they would play with her, they always found her 'troublesome', 'annoying' and 'noisy'.
After this revelation, it was easier to open her eyes to other things. And she slowly realised that despite of being a precious female in a male-dominated clan, she was seen as somewhat… something else.
Something else that was not bright enough to play shoji and succeed, something else not genius enough, and something not to throw haphazardly into war. Because this something was a girl who will then turn to a woman, a wife, and a mother to more Nara children.
For a few years, she has entertained the notion that what she had was a condition, one that may have been due to an X-linked pattern of inheritance that the Nara genetics might be following, which meant that geniuses are passed down to the male only.
She liked this notion as a child. It brought some slight comfort. It meant that it was not her fault she was not smart enough as her male relatives, it was just nature. There was nothing she can do but accept it and adapt.
So overtime, she got over the injustice of it all and settled down in silent fury.
A fury she used every day to power her through. Although more times than some, it wasn't just enough.