Author's Notes: And here is where I test the limits of fandom. regretting this already, but really wants to do this
Just take this as AU. Based on the "Stormy" plotline, which I deleted off of my Memoirs collection (as it wasn't that memorable anyway). If you didn't get to read it earlier, don't worry. Just be prepared to be really confused. (I won't be able to explain anything for a while.) And this is supposed to be a romance, but I don't know if I'll get that far.
The first chapter is very lecture-like. Oh, and for plotline, I'll have to cite Exiles by Melanie Rawn (yes, that's why Sasuke is female...), because I'm sucking up a lot of the political and social workings here, although the politics will be more Naruto-ish.
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A Dance Of Leaves
(I can't think of a better title yet.)
Chapter 1: The Prologue
A Lecture on Bloodline History (an exerpt)
(status: hidden somewhere within the Hokage's Tower)
Once upon a time, Konoha was founded upon the ideal of peace and prosperity, during a time of great war in a land of refugees. The laws were few and peace was kept under the graceful hand of the authorities. The authorites were people selected from various families, or people that were trusted to have authority. Even to this day, it is the way of the Leaf to instill a deep sense of responsibility in the power of authority among of various ranks of ninja within the village. This differs from other places in which authority comes from purely heritage or power. In the Leaf, power and heritage is not everything, and yet it could be said that it is, even more so than that of other countries.
Like many of the bloodlines that were undergoing many changes during this time, those with a bloodline limit were sought out in the Leaf village. The difference, however, is that they were granted a degree of autonomy rather than controlled by the government. Eventually, this autonomy created the kind of inner society found within the clans today as they grew in size, sometimes geometrically. With size, however, the face of many of these clans began to change.
Most obvious is the change that developed within the Hyuuga clan. When Konoha was founded, they were already in the process of separating the Uchihas from the main and branch families, but as time passed, the Uchihas quickly developed into a self-supporting family, while the Hyuugas closed themselves to the rest of the world, protecting their status as the most premire clan within the hidden village...
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Notes on the Uchiha Family
(status: lost sometime during the Second Ninja War, no copies remain)
It's interesting to note that nowhere in the lineage of the Uchihas, and indeed the Hyuugas as well, does it say that they were ever interested in conquest or warfare. In fact, the entire basis of the Gentle Fist appears to be a form of acupuncture and medicine that is no longer found anywhere in the Five Countries. While it can be incredibly deadly (indeed, deeply recognized as so now), there are many incongruous features that seem to point out how their fighting style seems to lend itself more to the theory of self-defense rather than hand-to-hand combat. In the case of the Uchihas, however, the story seems to be more complex.
What originally started the bloodline of the Uchihas is hard to imagine, but perhaps it might be easiest to surmise that the entire founding of the clan was based on one mistake after another. I say mistake because these features seem to follow the evolution found in the way that one user of the Gentle Fist known today has seemingly "developed" the technique used to permanently end the career of one promising ninja of the Hidden Grass in the last Chuunin Exam. Taking that "accident" as an effect, the Gentle Fist also may have been used to experiment on improving various bloodlines, perhaps to better protect the interests of the government that came before the Five Powers. The Uchihas, as it is known and documented, were one of the successful clans born from a type experimentation. (Several others were eventually moved to other countries, as the communications between the lands were more common during that time.)
While the Hyuuga family all seems to share the combined traits of gentleness and distance, the Uchiha family seems to combine the traits of brotherhood (or friendship, for lack of a better term) and singlemindedness. Indeed, while it could be said that the Hyuugas' true strength comes from grace, the Uchihas have long since discovered that their true strength came from faith. However, for some unknown reason, they, in the country of Fire, they became uncontrollable weapons when these bonds of destiny were broken. The first sign of this was eventually called the Mangekyou. This technique doesn't seem to be a creation of the administration of the Leaf, but by the will of the Uchihas themselves.
The Sharingan, which allows the bearer to see through any jutsu to the point that they can copy any technique, was perhaps a morphing of the medicinal quality of the Byakugan into something that allowed the transfer of details (something inherently difficult with the Byakugan but natural with the Sharingan) to be processed and examined in the mind. In many ways, it allowed the members of the Uchiha family to get to know the people that they worked with incredibly quickly and be able to tell who they would have been able to trust.
At first the Uchiha were used for interrogation, as a way to avoid senseless bloodshed and violence. (And if one is to be morbid, it really made less work for everyone.) Indeed, the Tsukiyomi, which comes from the hypnotic effect of the Sharingan, which was originally developed for interrogation, which gradually became something more and more brutal as time passed. However, now, the Uchiha are invaluable for secret missions in which double agents are commonplace. It is certain that they do not know who is on what side or what their motives are, but they do know who to trust...
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Specifics of the Uchiha Bloodline (an exerpt)
(status: hidden somwhere in the Uchiha District, not completely ledgible)
...The Sharingan is apparently most easily developed under the lineage of the one, male or female, who develops the highest level of the Sharingan. It is unknown what activates the bloodline limit, but it is not always under violent circumstances. It is because it is uncertain that the main branch of the family is decided by bloodline and strength of the users within it.
It is known, however, that the Mangekyou, the highest form of the (Sharingan?), can only be manifested upon the murder of one's closest friend. (Normally) the result would be insanity and self-destruction for the user, but this can be prevented with the creation of another bond, such as marriage or child(birth).
The Sharingan has several abilities related to it. Besides the usual effects of hypnosis and genjutsu cancellation, there are also the Tsukiyomi and Amaterasu. The (Tsukiyomi) creates an unbreak(able) illusion that can cause any sensation to the receiever. The Amaterasu can pierce through any barrier as well as create any for limited time. Both abilities can only be used by one that has the Mangekyou.
The Mangekyou also ensures that the decendants of such...
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Much of the information found in the "Specifics of the Uchiha Bloodline" turned out to be false, as Sasuke would find out the hard way.