Although he had said that Haruka was more stouthearted than most women, Indra was surprised to find out just how much that was true after he completed the dojo that also served as their home for the time being. Even his father's students had been intimidated by Indra's strict instruction techniques, but Haruka seemed to thrive from it. Even when she repeatedly messed up, his harsh rebukes only seemed to motivate her.

In truth, this was because for most of her life, Haruka had been criticized for things beyond her control. As a result, she viewed Indra's every criticism, however harsh, with the belief that it was meant to be constructive. He was telling her what she was doing wrong so that she could correct it. He believed that she could succeed in learning his teachings, and that alone drove her to push herself to her limits.

For his part, Haruka was something of an experiment for Indra. In addition to testing her worthiness for his secondary goal, he was seeing just how well he could mold one pupil before seeking to take on others. Thus far, he was not dissatisfied with the results. If anything, he was refreshed by Haruka's eagerness to learn and her utter adoration for him. He suspected that if he claimed to be a god, she would believe him without question.

When he felt that she had developed a solid grasp of taijutsu, he shared some of his chakra with her in order to active her body's own ability to produce it, and then began teaching her ninjutsu. Her taijutsu was actually a bit lacking in his opinion, but he suspected that had more to do with her petite frame than actual technique, so he wasn't as picky as he might have been with a more sturdily-built student. To his surprise, although Haruka seemed to be incapable of producing much chakra on her own, she quickly mastered the ability to control it with utmost precision. In fact, she was easily more talented at this than his younger brother Ashura had been. She also proved to be fairly resilient against genjutsu, although she didn't appear to have much talent for casting it. Given her background as a pharmacist, Indra felt fairly certain that she would be capable of great things with the Mystic Palm Technique.

About two weeks after she began learning ninjutsu, Haruka started disappearing into the forest in the early morning before returning to have breakfast with Indra, eating some of her chakra-replenishing mash alongside the meal. When he asked her the reason for this, she only replied that she was trying to work something out on her own and would show him when she felt she had succeeded. She also began contemplating a way to work the mash into a more solid and transportable—if not more appetizing—form.

It was another two weeks later when she declared that she had perfected what she had been working on and Indra took her to a clearing so that she could show him. That said, even he could not hide his surprise when she smashed her bare fist into a large boulder and it crumbled to pieces.

"Since I can't help being slender, I thought maybe I could improve the effectiveness of my taijutsu techniques by combining them with Chakra Control." She explained as she turned around.

Indra managed to hide his amazement from her and nodded, "Well thought out and well executed. With a technique like that, no man will be able to overpower you through brute force alone." Although he had purposely left out the fact that even he could not combine his Chakra Control with Taijutsu so precisely, Haruka nonetheless beamed at what she considered to be the highest of praise from him. Fortunately, she failed to realize that Indra also believed that he himself would no longer be able to overpower this girl, at least not without ninjutsu or genjutsu. It was a good thing she had never once gotten angry at him. If she ever did, she might very well shatter his bones. He turned back in the direction they had come from, "Come on. I want to teach you a new jutsu that I think you will be well-suited to." Better to teach her the Mystic Palm Technique now, just in case.

As he had expected, she possessed a great deal of talent for that particular technique.

昔々

Roughly a week later–for that was all the time that Haruka had needed to master Mystic Palm–Indra decided to shift gears.

"Haruka." He said to her as they finished breakfast one morning.

"Yes my lord?" Haruka asked with the same pure smile that she always had when they weren't training.

"I've come to a decision about you." He told her simply.

"A decision?" Haruka asked in confusion, tilting her head.

Indra nodded, "I am more than satisfied with your ability to adapt to my teachings and rather impressed by your ability to accept criticism. Not even half my father's students had anywhere near the amount of spirit that you do. That is why I have decided that I would like to make you my wife, if you wish to be so."

Haruka's eyes widened into saucers, "Me, my lord? But... I'm..." Her gaze became downcast, and Indra resisted the urge to sigh. She never showed this kind of insecurity during training.

"The size of a woman's chest does not impact her ability to nurse an infant." He stated matter-of-factly, "I have seen many women, smaller than yourself, who have had no difficulty with bearing or nursing children. Besides which, your intelligence is something that I would like my children to inherit, to say nothing of your talent for ninjutsu."

Haruka blushed and slowly looked up at Indra through her lashes, "...If you truly want me, my lord, then I am yours."

Indra nodded to her and led her back into the dojo, gesturing to the futon he had prepared while she was making breakfast. "Lie down." He told her simply. Haruka's blush deepened, but she did as he said, her face a mixture of shyness and nervousness. Indra removed his robe, although he remained otherwise clothed for the time being, and then climbed on top of the young woman. Whatever inward insistence he might've had that he had no use for romance, he couldn't deny the thought that the fragile girl beneath him was beautiful. Her thin, delicate frame, which made her appear almost like a porcelain doll, was something that he felt an inexplicable need to make his own.

He cupped the back of Haruka's head with his hand and lifted her face to his, kissing her softly, and she shyly kissed back. As the kiss deepened, Indra slid his hand beneath Haruka's training blouse, feeling pleased by contours of her abdomen, the firmness of which had no doubt developed as a result of his teachings. For her part, Haruka let out a shiver and then a small moan in response to this, her body finally starting to relax...

昔

Haruka awoke several hours later, momentarily confused as to why she was even in bed until she remembered what had happened. Holding the bedspread to her bare form, she attempted to sit up, but instead winced and hissed softly in pain.

"You should probably just rest and let your body recover." Indra told her. She looked over to find him sitting nearby with his clothes on. From the looks of things, he had been meditating and had only stopped when he realized that she had awakened.

"Why does it hurt so much?" Haruka asked in a slight daze as she laid back down, pulling the bedspread to her chin. "I mean, I know of course that that's normal, but, I don't remember it hurting when we were..."

"I put you under a genjutsu so you wouldn't feel the pain." Indra admitted. "The pleasure of the act serves to facilitate reproduction. It loses its purpose if you're in pain."

"Oh."

"Once we've had time to acclimate, I'll begin recruiting more students." He informed her, "You've become skilled enough now that you'll be able to assist them in learning."

"What about the Daimyo?" Haruka asked with concern, "I mean, I'm still technically a runaway..."

"I will settle matters with him." Indra assured her, "It would be troublesome to have him for an enemy if I am to establish my teachings in this land."

昔々

Indra did as he said and settled things with the Daimyo regarding Haruka's freedom, although Haruka wasn't exactly sure to what extent he had used his power to ensure it ended peacefully. He then began accepting students from anywhere and everywhere, though he continued to train Haruka in private everyday. She was leagues ahead of those who were just beginning, but there was still much that he could teach her. The teachings of ninjutsu valued power above all else, it would not be appropriate to allow his students a chance at surpassing his wife.

In terms of teaching, Haruka was the exact opposite of her husband. She was kind and encouraging to those who struggled, and happy to heal any wounds that people incurred while training. Indra did not discourage her methods for the most part, as he found that some of the beginners did better under her gentle tutelage before they moved up to his far stricter standards. Those who needed to build their confidence first could do so more easily under Haruka than they could under Indra's intense gaze.

However, although Haruka was fairly well known amongst Indra's followers as being more gentle when teaching, she was still well-respected by them. She often broke up quarrels that rose up among them (Indra did not have the patience for this), and if the parties involved were too stubborn to acquiesce, she wasn't afraid of punching a crater in the ground to remind them of their place. Men and women were equal in this settlement, and even if they weren't, she was Indra's wife. Her own strength aside, Indra had made it abundantly clear from the beginning that defying her was not going to be tolerated.

It so happened about four weeks after he had established his sect that Haruka came to Indra with the news that she was pregnant. This did not surprise Indra, as he had noticed that she had not had her monthly bleeding, but it had now been confirmed by the settlement's doctor, who had been Haruka's mentor in the Daimyo's palace and had joined them out of a fondness for his student. At this point, Indra insisted that Haruka take a break from training, concerned that overextending her chakra would bring harm to herself and their child. Haruka complied with this, although she still continued to watch over the training of the students he had placed in her care and hone her skills in iryouninjutsu. She and her mentor had become more like equals at this point, with Haruka teaching her former shishou how to use the iryouninjutsu taught to her by Indra while he continued to teach Haruka what he knew of the human body.

Their settlement itself was in the area that Haruka and Indra had already been living in, although a new, larger training hall had been built and the original one now served as hers and Indra's home. The students were required to build their own dwellings and Indra even took some of them into the Forest of Death for survival training. Haruka thought that this was too extreme, but Indra maintained that she had survived on her own there for months before she even knew the first thing about ninjutsu. It was only natural to expect his students to manage to survive there for a few days. Although this bothered her, Haruka still said nothing to him whenever she noticed that someone was missing when he returned from these excursions. She loved Indra, and unlike most of his students, she didn't fear him. However, she still felt that it was not her place to openly challenge her husband and leader of their settlement. Doing so might sow seeds of disobedience among his followers, which would inevitably create more conflict and cause more deaths later on.

昔々

The child that Haruka gave birth to was a boy. She had wanted to name him after Indra's father, insisting that regardless of their estrangement, the man was still responsible for Indra's very existence, which she was grateful for. Indra refused this request, but eventually acquiesced to naming their next son after his father. Instead, the baby boy was named Uchiha, as Indra had said that he was born with chakra that had a strong fire property, and so he was named after a fan used to stoke flames. Haruka suspected there was more to it than just this, but she didn't bother to ask.

Roughly three years later, Haruka gave birth again, this time to a little girl. Indra was not bothered by this as some men might have been. The child was given the name Kaguya, after his grandmother, for two reasons. The first was that the child's white hair was reminiscent of what he had heard that his grandmother had had, and second, he said that based on Haruka's insistence on naming a son after his father, it was just as fitting to name a daughter after his grandmother. Besides, he couldn't remember the name of his biological mother. When asked about the names of her own parents, Haruka admitted that she had no memories of them. Whatever resemblance Kaguya bore to her grandmother, Haruka also noticed that both children inherited different features from their father. Uchiha had his father's eyes, delicate features, and untamable brown hair, whereas while Kaguya's eyes were the same shape as her father's, they were the same hazel color as Haruka's, and her hair was as silky as her mother's.

And so it was that their third child was named Hagoromo, but that was by no means where their bloodline ended. Neither Indra nor Haruka seemed to be lacking in fertility by any means. What amazed Haruka was that nearly all of the children were born with special abilities. Kaguya could manipulate her bones in various ways. Their second daughter, Yuki–who had been so named because Haruka often complained of being cold when she was pregnant with her, and because it was snowing on the day that the child was born–had the ability to create ice out of nothing. Their third son, whom Indra had named Kurama, after a beast that his father had created out of chakra, was extraordinarily talented in genjutsu. Their third daughter, Rinha, could absorb a person's chakra and duplicate their appearance and memories. The fourth son, Iburi, could turn his body into smoke (Haruka sometimes feared that he would flat-out blow away). Then there were the twins, Konsa and Konu. Haruka had nearly had a heart attack when she woke up after a difficult labor and learned that they were conjoined, fearing that they would be unable to survive (she wasn't even sure how she managed to birth them like that), but Indra's Sharingan enabled him to discern that the twins, in fact, had the ability to join their bodies or separate them at will. Haruka still never quite got over the shock regardless.

Of all the children, it was only Uchiha who inherited Indra's Sharingan. However, it would be the final child who changed everything.

So two notes: First, I am not by any means listing the children in order of birth necessarily, with the exception of Uchiha, Kaguya, and Hagoromo being the three eldest. The kids are roughly three years apart in age (with the exception of the twins), because Haruka was about 20 when she married Indra and having given birth eight times, she's already 44 or 45. I have no idea how old Indra is.

At any rate, this was not meant to be a long story. It more serves as a prelude to the Uchiha Clan series, so it's only going to be about four chapters long.

Also, with regards to the children and their names: it is my general belief that all clans with Kekkei Genkai descended from Indra, Ashura, or from Hamura. It just makes better since. The Kaguya clan seem to be descendants of Indra, as Kimimaro bore a resemblance to Indra. Very little is known about the Hagoromo Clan, but since they were allies of the Uchiha and not the Senju, it is more likely that they were Indra's descendants. Alternatively, they could've just come from followers of Indra who named a child after his father, but it was easier this way.

I also generally believe that some Kekkei Genkai developed as a result of the merging of bloodlines, especially with regards to visual prowess. For this reason, I didn't bother to lay out every clan. Although they are twins, Konsa and Konu formed a single clan, which two members of the Sound Ninja Four (Which was really the Sound Ninja Five if you think about it), descended from. For the most part, clans that had histories of hatred or just general misfortune descended from Indra while all the others came from either Hamura or Ashura in this story. Keep in mind that we never actually know how many children Hamura had. We know that he had at least two, since both Toneri and Hinata descended from him, but we are never told if he had any others that returned to the planet as the Hyūga did.