Iga no Sanchou

by Catchandelier

The older the clan, the crazier the amount of bullshit you can do. There were ninjas before the Sage, after all. A drabble-fic in twenty-five chapter arcs, thirteen arcs total. Hold on to your burn cream, kiddies. (We're going straight to hell!)

23. Tower Block

And that's the last one. The last paper I have to sign.

The former Uchiha district is now to be a series of tower-block style apartment buildings. The Uchiha clan still owns the land they'll be sitting on, and future kinsmen of mine will have first pick of the apartments there- but. I'm the one who signed the papers that allowed those buildings to be built.

I expected- something. Bile, to rise in my throat- those are lands that have been occupied by my clan since the founding of Konoha. Anger, at having to leave the last vestige of my home behind- but there's nothing left of my home. Of my parents.

Nothing left but graves.

Not even our family's shrine made it out- the entire Naka river that ran through the district was diverted by the Kyuubi's attack. It's running a completely different course now- it starts and ends in the same places, but… but the shrine's underwater. Whatever was in there- and something was in there- it's not important enough for me to try and find out. Not against Naka-hime's claws.

The only thing I really feel is… relief.