Naruto saw the signs. She noticed the police force district, right next to the Uchiha district, and was one of the first to go directly to Iruka-sensei to sign up for the tour of it.

Even if people hated her here because they knew what she held, she couldn't help but feel like the Uchiha were being pushed away.

Whatever peculiar power she had to see this, it was a result of seeing it through the Shodai's eyes. To her, years had passed in a literal minute. She could craft seals easily, construct an Uzumaki prison from nothing but willpower in the air if she tried.

She could do a lot of things now. And it was because she had seen, felt, heard, and been Senju Hashirama, and listened to Mito, understood Tobirama.

She felt a bit connected to Hashirama.

She couldn't explain it.

She entered the police station alongside her classmates, doing her best to remain inconspicuous. But it really was a great place, if you didn't count the forced smiles on the Uchiha faces.

(Hashirama had been good at being a diplomat. He could insult anyone with prettily spoken words and they would be so happy at the 'compliment' they would sign the treaty, only to be extremely angry later on when they realized that it had been an insult, not a compliment. Hashirama had wanted to laugh at their faces when the Hyuuga realized it moments after the ceremony! He was also good at telling the emotions of other people. Still, Naruto remained stubborn at saying the coolest thing he'd created with his power was that cool forest that Naruto had yet to find in the present.)

She discreetly scrutinized the Uchiha and noticed that they only relaxed when they actually had a mission from the Hokage himself. Unless it was a menial chore; then their faces tightened in anger.

She spied a restroom, and like the other girls, walked into it. The only thing was, the girls in the class, excluding Hinata, used their combined weight to slam Naruto's head into the toliet and made her see stars. She nearly passed out when they flushed it, and Sakura even went an extra mile to slam her head extra hard into the wall of the cubicle,cracking it minutely.

The girls tittered, did their business, and left.

Naruto got up rather unsteadily and walked out to see her class no longer there, only a couple of police officers with the symbol of Uchiha Police on them.

And, since she still was a child, Naruto burst into tears.

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Uchiha Fugaku glared at the officer standing in front of his desk.

"I don't give a damn," he spat. "The Hokage keeps denying every single Uchiha shinobi's request! What else can we do?!"

A young woman, a non-Uchiha, but one of the best civilian officers the Uchiha had ever had, popped her head around the chief's door.

"Uchiha-sama, there's a kid that's been really beat up out here," the woman said.

Fugaku gave a grunt. "So send her with her class."

The woman sighed. "Her class left her. Sir, she says her name's Uzukami Naruko, if that helps?"

Fugaku frowned.

"I think she meant to say 'Uzumaki Naruto', Uchiha-sama. She's been beat up pretty badly, and I think she has a concussion."

Fugaku sighed heavily.

"Let her in." The officer nodded, and withdrew. Fugaku scowled at the other Uchiha, who looked positively enlightened. "What?"

"We could get a few good words in with the Hokage. The gaki is good friends with him."

Fugaku frowned. "Subject's closed," he said firmly.

The officer drew in Naruto, who was teary eyed but alert.

"Gaki, are you alright?"

"Kyuu hates your guts." There was a sudden pause. "But he says that you should know he really doesn't want to be the result of a clan being eliminated because of Madara's whispers."

Fugaku frowned at the kid. "Gaki -"

"What makes you so superior to other ninja? The fact that you have a doujutsu? Yuuhi Kurenai has something that could be considered a doujutsu. The Hyuuga have sticks up their butts, so they're not being hated because their only doujutsu is locked up, and that makes it certain that their doujutsu isn't stolen." The bright blue-eyed container of the bijuu that had attacked Konoha tilted her head. "If you want me to ask around to make sure an entire annihilation of a clan doesn't happen, then sure. I can do that. But don't try to go against the Hokage."

"Oh? And if we did?"

Naruto smiled at him chillingly. "Then the blunt kunai will attack with the viciousness of a sharp one."

A subtle threat.

The bijuu container walked out.

Unknown to any of them, Uchiha Shisui and Uchiha Itachi exchanged surprised glances.