The choice of painkiller that the nurse/assassin had made when giving her patients an air embolism had been a rather ironic one. The reason for this was due to a little known fact about a certain medication allergy amongst the Uchiha. Roughly two thirds of the Uchiha clan were allergic to the painkiller she had selected. When both Fugaku and Madara had died of the air embolism they had been given, they had already been dying of anaphylactic shock.

When the doctors arrived on scene to revive Fugaku and Madara, they saw signs of anaphylactic shock, and didn't look any further into the cause of their deaths as the cause had appeared to have been apparent. They attributed the fact that they had been unable to revive either patient to the fact that some patients don't come back despite being given CPR and having a defibrillator used on them. Rather than foul play being suspected in their demise, it was chalked up to an unfortunate medical mistake that had been made because Fugaku had removed his allergy alert band for some unknown reason, and nobody had been aware of Madara's allergy. Madara's survival in the hospital at that point had been because the hospital had been using a cheaper painkiller on him since they weren't all too certain about his ability to pay for his care. The nurse whose appearance the Assassin had taken was fired after witnesses had pointed out that they'd seen her in both patients' rooms around the time they died and that nobody had come into the rooms for a while before or after.

Normally, such a firing would have been devastating for someone who had devoted their lives to the medical profession, but in this case it had sorted out an internal struggle the nurse had been having with herself. With her firing, the decision over whether or not she should continue working or quit and devote herself to the family she had been thinking about having had become moot. While it was possible to maintain both a job and a family, she had seen what had happened to her own childhood when both of her parents who had worked long hours had come home too tired to spend much time with her and her brothers and sisters, and didn't want to do that to her own children, especially considering the risky profession the man she loved was in. The day after her firing, she proposed to her stunned ninja boyfriend who had been asking her to marry him for over a year. They were married the next week.

As a certain former nurse was preparing for her wedding, two funerals took place...

Many had initially questioned Uchiha Madara's planned burial next to the Shodai Hokage, right up until the Sandaime turned to them and asked them where they thought the last place Madara would have wanted to be buried was. At first, the initial answer the Hokage got back was "a dump", but then those who remembered the history of the founding of the village and the tension between the Senju and the Uchiha before the Senju had all but died out paused and thought about it.

Where would a Uchiha who had spent his life hating the Senju and plotting in the background to destroy Konoha not want to be buried?

Once they had thought it through, and realized that Madara's place of honor wasn't quite the honor it should have been, they softly snickered to themselves and stopped objecting to the Hokage's plan.

Standing foremost amongst the mourners at Uchiha Madara's funeral and interment was the only person in Konoha to actually mourn Madara's passing, especially after the Uchiha had heard how their noble former leader had been plotting their destruction. Well, technically, standing foremost amongst the mourners at the funeral, was the only two beings in Konoha who regretted Madara's passing. But, the being that was sealed inside of the other only regretted that Madara had passed on too soon and too painlessly for his tastes.

While the Sandaime Hokage gave a rather nice eulogy that most of the village thought was too good for the bastard who had set the Kyuubi loose on Konoha, and manipulated the poor lonely jinchuriki who now held said fox due to Madara's actions into thinking he was his friend so he could have him on hand to turn the Kyuubi loose again, Danzo had been forced to hold a crying Naruto. Unsure of how to deal with the situation, and wary of being hugged by the child as he comforted him in his grief, he patted the boy's head at what he thought were appropriate intervals, and pushed the child's arms down every time they started to come close to wrapping around him. He vowed to get Hiruzen for this if it was the last thing he did.

The next day, there was a mass funeral held for the Head of the Uchiha Clan, and the members of the clan who had strangely decided to commit suicide upon the passing of the clan Head. Amongst the mourners at that funeral was a certain crying Jinchuriki who was standing with the former Clan Head's immediate family, and being held by the former Clan Head's wife who was doing her best to comfort him. Sasuke, who hadn't objected to the boy's presence because Naruto had thought his dad was super-awesome and because his mother had told him that it wasn't Naruto's fault his dad died, made sure to keep the blond boy at arm's length at all times during the funeral. He didn't want to run the risk of the other boy deciding to apologize for causing the accident that led to the accident that led to his dad's death. Odds were, he wouldn't survive, as he wasn't anywhere near as strong as his dad had been.

After the deaths of Naruto's first two friends and the disappearance of the third, the boy became rather withdrawn. A number of villagers who found themselves pitying the poor boy who had been used by a villain who had toyed with his affections in a plot to destroy the village, did their best to help. Even some villagers who didn't pity the child tried to crack him out of his shell. In the eyes of the villagers, a quiet Naruto was a scary Naruto. As long as the brat was running around yelling, trying to get everyone's attention, and planning and pulling pranks, he wasn't plotting something else.

Time passed, and people finally managed to crack the boy's shell to the point where he was nearly back to his old self by the time his Academy graduation came around. The people who put in the most effort to get through to the boy besides the Hokage were the new Uchiha Clan Head, Uchiha Itachi and his mother who had practically adopted the child.

When Naruto had graduated, he had ended up on Team 7, which soon became commonly referred to as Team Double Dead Last. Why the team had picked up this moniker was because Naruto had been transferred to Uchiha Sasuke's class at the Academy when one Umino Iruka had been hired as an Instructor. Sasuke, who was still terrified of Naruto's displays of affection despite the fact that it had been years since Naruto had hugged anybody, dropped his in class performance dramatically, which had the side effect of resulting in every girl in class who had thought he was cool for being at the top of the class losing interest in him.

When Graduation rolled around, and the teams had been picked by a Hokage who knew more about the actual abilities of the graduates than the Instructors did as he'd been briefed about Sasuke by Itachi, a rather unhappy Haruno Sakura had almost violently objected to the fact that she'd been placed on a team with the two boys who tied for Dead Last rather than on a team with the Rookie of the Year Aburame Shino.

When Naruto had been asked by his Uchiha friends who had forgotten to mention his actual abilities to the Hokage how and why he'd ended up being Dead Last when he was clearly a match for the Aburame, Naruto had said that the ANBU guy who had taught him to read and write properly had told him that Ninja didn't show off their abilities until the last second when they would completely throw their opponent off making their defeat easier, and that a good ninja was always vastly underestimated by the enemy, when he'd asked for more interesting lessons that reading, writing, mathematics, and Konoha history. Naruto had apparently taken the lesson to heart after he'd seen that Uchiha Sasuke was apparently doing the same thing, and had competed with him for the spot at the bottom of the class, believing that the other boy was a completely awesome ninja.

During the invasion of Konoha which Orochimaru - who had been allowed to found his own village/lab by the Akatsuki whom he was still associated with - had been planning and working towards practically since he'd been forced to leave Konoha, Orochimaru had gotten his hands on a few of the Uchiha, completely ignoring Sasuke whom he'd believed to be the idiot reports had made him out to be. He subsequently learned that the Sharingan wasn't quite what it was cracked up to be when he transferred to his first Uchiha body.

Throughout all of this, Tobi hid in the shadows and forwarded Madara's plans...