When most people talk about the Uchiha Clan, they speak of Madara, the cofounder and first rogue of Konohagakure. They speak of Izuna, his younger brother and personified grief-induced insanity. They speak of Kagami of the Steam and student of the Nidaime Hokage. They speak of Fugaku of the Wicked Eye who had the power to encompass entire battlefields under genjutsus. They speak of Mikoto, the Dragon Slayer of Lightning. They speak of Obito, who's legacy lives on through the Copy-Nin. They speak of Shunshin no Shisui, whose base speed rivaled the Yondaime Raikage and grew to match the Nidaime and Yondaime Hokage when he activated his jutsu. They speak of Itachi, the heir and prodigy of the clan who was rivaled only by his two cousins. They speak of Izumi, the half-breed that was the youngest to ever awaken their Sharingan.
They speak of Inada, the Eternal Flame who burned with justice and could turn water into raging fires.
They speak of Inada, who watched as her Family burned from within.
They speak of Inada, who stepped over the ashes of her enemies.
They speak of Inada, who took her Clan and her Village and reborn just as the Phoenix before them.
Inada was born from death.
Her Mother had been in labor with her when a rogue nin attempted to kidnap the baby. The last thing her Mother heard as she moved onto the pure lands were her darling daughter's cries. "Inada," was her last words.
Inada graduated on her sixth birthday and placed on the genin team of Uzumaki Kushina.
Inada awakened her sharingan that same year.
Inada was seven when her Father was killed in front of her and her mangekyō sharingan awakened. With blood streaming down her face and screams clawing at her throat, Inada used Kagutsuchi to burn through her enemies and Amatsumara to cut them down as hatred clung to her heart.
Her Flames were glorious, tinged blue almost like the Nibi.
She became known as the Eternal Flame.
She's eight when she begins her training as a fūinjutsu user.
She's nine when she becomes a chunin, killing every opponent she faced except those from her village. (Those she brutally injured.) She turns her attention to inter clan politics, maneuvering around all that try to use her to get inside the main family through her and little Itachi.
She's ten when Kushina-sensei and Minato-sama gift her copies of their sealing notes. "The student becomes the master," they told her.
She's ten when the Kyūbi attacks the village. She's ten and she's ignoring orders to hide away as she, Itachi, Shisui, and the half-breed Izumi work on leading the civilians to safety.
She's ten and her entire genin team is dead alongside her sensei.
She's ten and she's forbidden to interact with the legacy of Kushina-sensei. Her hatred runs deep for Sandaime and the Council of Old Hags, but her love for the boy that would have been a brother to her runs deeper.
She's ten and she broke her curse of hatred.
She's eleven and she's S-ranked in Bingo Books across every village except Kirigakure who ranked her SS.
She's eleven and she's a fūinjutsu mistress. One of the few left.
She's twelve and she's a jonin.
She's thirteen and unable to help as the Hyūga clan suffers a loss.
She's thirteen and she watches as her clan ponder in worry for their own eyes.
She's thirteen when she makes a seal to stop the theft of sharingans.
She's fourteen when she, Shisui, and Itachi are inducted into ANBU.
She's fourteen when whispers of a coup travels through the clan.
She's fourteen when Danzō attempts to recruit her for ROOT.
She's fourteen when she quickly becomes an ANBU captain.
She's fourteen when Genma takes her under his wing.
She's fifteen when the whispers of a coup turn into statements.
She's fifteen when she sees the ROOT guards lingering around the Uchiha compound.
She's fifteen when she killed four different Konoha citizens for attacking Naruto on different occasions.
She's fifteen when she leaves ANBU to work with T .
She's fifteen and she watches as her Family burned from within.
She's fifteen when she turns to Shisui's sensei, Inoichi-sama, for guidance.
She's sixteen and she has alliances in Ino-Shika-Cho alongside Genma, Raidou, Kakashi, Aoba, Ibiki, and more.
She's sixteen and the Clan Elders have arranged for her and Shisui to get married.
(Inada's sixteen and it's not the first time she sees Uncle Fugaku rage against any and every potential love interest that she gains. "At least its Shisui," Mikoto-sama states the next morn. "You know him well."
Inada looks at her fiancé over the breakfast table as his Aunt continues to court his favor to her Uncle.
Shisui flushes in embarrassment and he ducks away from her gaze.)
She's sixteen and the plans for a coup continue on.
She's sixteen when she finally notices that Izumi likes Itachi for himself and not because of his status.
(Inada stops and apologizes for calling her a half-breed.)
She's seventeen when Danzō approached her and Shisui.
She's seventeen when he makes an attempt of Shisui's life in front of her.
She's seventeen when they discover his stolen sharingan and his bastard mokuton.
She's seventeen as they're ambushed by the entirety of his ROOT shinobi.
She's seventeen and their Susanoo's are not enough for his entire army.
She's seventeen and she's tired.
She's seventeen and she uses one of Minato-sama's seals to teleport the fight to the gates of Konoha so that everyone could see and hear.
She's seventeen and she leans fully into her name as the Eternal Flame.
She's seventeen when she uses Amatsumara to telekinetically rip the weapons from the Roots agents and combined it with Kagutsuchi to throw the flaming weapons back at them.
She's seventeen when she rips the stolen eyes from the council member.
She's seventeen stepping back as Tenzo subdues the council member as Shikaku subdues she and Shisui.
She's seventeen standing before the Hokage, the Clan Council, and the Old Hags.
She's seventeen ordering Hiruzen and Shisui to use Kotoamatsukami on Danzō or to allow Inoichi-sama to rip the secrets from his mind.
She's seventeen when the secrets all come to light.
She's seventeen when the village elders are forced to abdicate.
She's seventeen and she stands before the entirety of Konohagakure as she sets ablaze to Danzō's body.
She's seventeen and she stepped over the ashes of her enemies.
She's eighteen and things are getting better within her Clan and village.
She's eighteen and she's still removing seals from the tongues of ROOT agents.
She's eighteen and she's getting married to Shisui, love finding itself between through the trauma that bonded them together.
(Her Uncle Fugaku walks her down the aisle for both ceremonies. One for the Village and the other for the Clan. She and Shisui have their sharingans activated for both to never forget the moments.)
She's eighteen and they're trying to find an In into Akatsuki.
She's eighteen when she creates a seal that only needs to be placed on a member and it'd copy itself to whatever is their home based.
(Inada is eighteen and she's pissed that it doesn't work that well so back to the drawing board she goes.)
She's eighteen and she's dining with the daimyo who appoints her as Inada-hime.
She's eighteen when Naruto runs into her.
She's eighteen when he tells her that he'd be stronger than her one day and become Hokage.
She's eighteen and she sees Kushina-sensei and Minato-sama shining bright within his eyes. "I know you will, debattane."
She's eighteen with a pint-sized stalker but its adorable.
(Inada is eighteen and she's trying to figure out how Sasuke and Naruto decided to be rivals while chasing after a hat that she doesn't want and being stronger than she is objectively.)
(Inada is eighteen is trying to figure out why her Husband is playfully calling the kids his rivals in love.)
She's nineteen when Hiruzen preps her to take over the hat. An Uchiha Hokage? He must be senile.
(Great. Naruto and Sasuke are never going to let this go.)
She's nineteen when she meets Tobi for the first time.
She's nineteen and she pissed because she senses the seal on his heart, and he won't stay corporal long enough for her to capture him and remove it.
Asshole.
She's nineteen when the academy gets a rehaul. They're creating shinobi not playing ninja.
She's nineteen revamping the kunoichi classes to show how grossly underestimated female-presenting people are and how to use it to their advantage without sexual relations.
She's nineteen teaching a fūinjutsu class using the lessons and notes that Kunshina-sensei and Minato-sama gave her.
(She was not surprised that Naruto excelled in it. She was not that surprised Sasuke was good at it. She was surprised that Nara Shikamaru and Inuzaka Kiba showed skill.)
(How did she become a babysitter to the clan heads again? Was this the price she had to pay for their alliances and support?)
(Did Kiba just say that she was pregnant?!)
(Did Sai just call her fat?)
She was twenty when she gave birth to her son, Natsu.
She was twenty and she cried because she was so happy.
She was twenty and she wished her parents could see her family.
She was twenty and she wished that her sensei could see her.
She was twenty-one and Itachi was being prepped to be the Clan Head.
She was twenty-one and she was the Godaime Hokage.
(Shisui never expected to become somewhat of a House Husband but alas that was what he was. And after the first five attempted kidnappings, a lot of people learned that his skills were not lacking for attempting to go after his son.
He was not surprised that he became her delegate with T&I, ANBU and the Jonins.)
She was twenty-one when she removed the order from everyone connected to Kushina-sensei and Minato-sama from interacting with Naruto.
(Naruto was confused about the extra attention. Sure, he got some after he befriended Sasuke and the Uchiha clan basically started raising him, and Inada-nee told him he could play with the other clan kids, but this was different. This was focused solely on him.)
She was twenty-two watching amusedly as Naruto's big brothers lose to Mikoto-hime in their path of vengeance after Mitsuki attempted to kill him.
(Inada snorted as she walked past Hiruzen knocked out from perverse jutsu as she applied new seals around the weapons room especially the Forbidden Scroll.)
She was twenty-two when she stared at Team Seven as they came back from their C turned A-rank mission.
(Inada was amused when Shisui took a trip there and came back with Kubikiribōchō. It was going to be the best coming of age present for Natsu.)
She was twenty-two when Suna and Sound attacked her home.
(Inada was twenty-two and she sneers because she was not going to raise her son in war.)
She was twenty-two when she unsealed the First and Second from Orochimaru's control.
She was twenty-two when she placed the Sannin in a stasis seal.
(Inada slapped a bunch of chakra blockers onto as she freed him while he attempted to transform into a snake. The sannin now sat in a pretty enclosure within the Hokage Tower also sealed so that no one can free him. Natsu loved terrorizing him.)
She was twenty-two and she fixed Gaara's seal while sending her Husband and Shikaku and a plethora of shinobi to work out a deal favorable to them in wake of Suna's betrayal.
(Inada sent Itachi and Inoichi off with their own groups to Sound to retrieve all the information that they could.)
She's twenty-two when Jiraiya attempts to take off with Naruto and she punts him across the village.
(Naruto begs to go. She tells him to convince his bodyguard squad.)
(She's nowhere near surprised when they let him go.)
(She covers him in seals.)
(He came back with Tsunade-hime, Shizune-san, and a pig of all things. Whatever. The hospital did need better training and it was easy to incorporate medic classes into the academy.)
(Tobi attempted to kidnap him for the Kyūbi. It was time to up his training.)
(His civilian teammate irritated Inada's soul then she gained some sense and some terrifying skill and Inada wondered if it'd be an abuse of power to play match maker as the Hokage.)
She's twenty-two and Naruto and Kakashi gives her a mission report about secret princess that was really an actress and she sends Uncle Fugaku and Lady Tsume for reparations.
She's twenty-two and she places all of Naruto's mission reports in a file for Shisui to look over after the Gelel Stone Mission and the Crescent Moon Kingdom.
(No. She was not developing an eye-twitch!)
("Sasuke, why are you running around recruiting your own little team of bandits?")
("Is that an Uzumaki?")
("No, beloved, I do not have 2000 ryō that Sakura and Karin are going to have a cat fight over Sasuke. I have 5000 ryō that it's going to be Karin and Ino over Sai.")
She's twenty-two and Hiruzen passes away quietly in his sleep.
She's twenty-two and it's the weirdest year ever.
She's twenty-two trying to explain to a priestess that she could not have sex with her under-age god-brother.
(Inada wasn't going to say that too many times. She'd just set Hinata on her.)
She's twenty-two when Izumi and Itachi finally begin dating.
She's twenty-two when the Land of the Sky attacks Konohagakure. She initiated all her barrier seals over the village watching as the enemy nin burn on contact.
(Inada was twenty-two and she snarls because she was not going to raise her son in war.)
(Inada chugged a bottle of sake when she saw Naruto and Sasuke and their feral friends go after the enemies.)
(Inada wasn't sure how he managed to convince his bodyguard squad to let him go on a training trip for three years but she wasn't surprised.)
She's twenty-five and she's sending shinobi out to help rescue Gaara.
(Haha, you red cloud bitches. You can't get the bijū like that. Her seal is airtight.)
She's twenty-five and she feels the pull on her seals.
She's twenty-five when she appears on a battlefield with Hidan and Asuma.
(He took her under his wing when she visited the capital and now every attack on this wannabe was killing him. It took no effort to place Hidan under a genjutsu, break the ritual, then set fire to his body.
It took no effort as she joined the others in taking down Kazuku.)
She's twenty-six and she's pissed because she's a prime target for kekkei genkai theft.
She's twenty-six and the old croon projecting himself across the skies claims to be one of her shinobis and attempts to kickstart the Fourth Shinobi War.
The Fire Daimyō also threatens destruction of her village as she could not kill him before he even knew she was there.
She's twenty-six and she smiles as she set Sasuke and Naruto and their feral friends onto the task.
She's twenty-six and she states quite plainly to Suna that they do not want a war, nor could they afford a war with her at the helm.
(Inada was twenty-six and she sniffed disdainfully because she was not going to raise her son in war.)
She's twenty-six overseeing a council meeting for their war against Akatsuki when she feels a pull against her seals.
She's twenty-six standing in a council meeting staring as Tsunade and her apprentices do their best to save Jiraiya.
She's twenty-six when Pein attacks her village.
She's twenty-six when she looks into the lifeless eyes of her son and husband.
She's twenty-six and her Mangekyō swirls to life and she sets fire to everything in her path to get to him.
She's twenty-six and Naruto is begging her for mercy for Nagato and Konan.
She's twenty-six and the Curse of Hatred nips at her ankle, but she had always loved Naruto more than she hated the world.
She's twenty-six and Nagato gives his life to bring everyone back.
She's twenty-six and she makes it clear that if Konan ever ventured into the Land of Fire again… even Naruto would not stop her from ripping her heart out with her teeth and show her exactly why she was calmed the Eternal Flame.
(Naruto said that she was too mean, but Inada reminded him how flammable Konan was and how she had been one of the ones to kill attempt to Jiraiya while also help murdering her son and husband.)
(She's twenty-six when she learns that Nagato's attack managed to free Orochimaru from his enclosure. That was going to bite her in the ass.)
She's twenty-six and Shisui is proposing to her again.
She's twenty-six and she swaps eyeballs with her Husband awakening their Eternal Mangekyō Sharingans.
She's twenty-six when Itachi and Izumi marry.
She's twenty-seven and the Fourth Shinobi War has been declared.
(She's twenty-seven and she rages because she never wanted to raise her son in war.)
She's twenty-seven and the world takes great losses.
She's twenty-seven and her seals activate thankfully saving Shikaku and Inoichi, but they'd never be shinobi again.
She's twenty-seven and her clone sets the wood piercing Neji's body to blaze while Tsunade-hime begins preliminary healing.
(Inada knows long before he's moved to a safe zone that he would be lucky to even use chakra again let alone be a shinobi.)
She's twenty-seven and she meets Minato-sama once again.
(Itachi, Fugaku, and Mikoto take threats against Sasuke's life very seriously. Orochimaru learned the hard way and Shisui casually stepped forward with Kotoamatsukami whirling in his eyes.)
She's twenty-seven and she's getting her ass kicked by her ancestral zombified clan head alongside the other kage.
She's twenty-seven and unlike the others, she managed to keep an upper hand by flirting with the zombie and unnerving him.
(Inada still loss but he took a good amount of damage.)
She's twenty-seven and she's stuck in a genjutsu that was killing her.
She's twenty-seven and she's broken free of the genjutsu by her Husband whose skill was unparalleled even by an insane rabbit goddess that was actually an alien.
She's twenty-seven and she and her Husband begin to free the people from the Great Tree.
She's twenty-seven and the Sage of Six Paths stops her from setting it aflame.
She's twenty-seven and, Naruto and Sasuke and the others win.
She's twenty-seven and she publicly calls the Nidaime a bitch and the Sandaime a dumbass.
She's twenty-seven and she publicly scolds Sasuke and Naruto for their stupid fight to see who was stronger.
(Inada's twenty-seven and she playfully kicks their asses and tells them that even with their power boost they still have awhile to go before they're stronger than her.)
(Inada is twenty-seven and she admits that it was a very close call.)
She's twenty-eight when she becomes pregnant once again.
She's twenty-eight when she steps onto Uzushiogakure for the first time.
She's twenty-nine and she gives birth to her daughter, Jamira.
She's twenty-nine and the repairing of Uzushiogakure is completed.
She's twenty-nine and she gets sworn oaths from the Kage and Daimyōs to stay away from Uzushio.
(Inada may or may not have set fire to the whirlpools around Uzushiogakure for extra protection.)
(The Uzumakis were terrifying. There were seals in the water that extinguished her fires and activated the flames at its own will.)
She's twenty-nine and Uzushiogakure becomes home to the bijū.
She's twenty-nine and she fixes the seals to Naruto, B, and Gaara for their bijū to be reborn and reunited with their siblings on Uzushiogakure at their deaths.
She's twenty-nine and she and her not-so-little fūinjutsu masters draws seals onto Uzushiogakure that only the bijū can power to keep from people taking them ever again.
She's thirty when a man from the moon attempts to attack Konohagakure.
She's thirty when he goes the long way around and steals off with Hanabi's eyes.
She's thirty as she looks over her village and promises them safety.
She's thirty when Naruto and his team come back with their successful mission.
She's thirty and she's overseeing Hyūga splitting their time between Konohagakure and the Moon.
She's thirty and she's laughs as the Uchiha, and Hyūga elders come to the realization that they're distant cousins.
She's thirty-one and Konohagakure had never been safer.
She's thirty-two and Natsu becomes a genin.
She's thirty-two and she makes sure to take an embarrassing number of pictures when he shows up with his hitai-ate.
She's thirty-three when she steps down as the Godaime.
She's thirty-three when she casually hands the Hat over to Genma-nii because Kakashi was curiously on vacation when she tried to give it to him.
She's thirty-three and she's created a legacy born from death but filled with life.
Inada's thirty-three and as she looked around her Family, her Clan and her Village, her Little Feral Rookies and The Feral Squads around them… she looked at Naruto and Sasuke and she smiled as they were all reborn from the legacies before them just as the Phoenix in the sky.
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Comments From the Author:
1) Inada comes from Fugaku's side of the family while Shisui comes from Mikoto's side.
2) She looks like a black-haired Rika Minami
3) Natsu looks like that fanart of Tomioka Giyū if he were an Uchiha!
4) If I don't do anything else, I'm going to save Shisui.
4A) Shisui got killed off because he was OP. It's okay though, fanfiction exists.
5) I only like Sakura when she's in mission mode and showing off her skills. 100% badass. Other than that, its a casual dislike. I will only write or mention her as competent. Literally, I have absolutely no love for Fangirl Sakura at the height of being useless. Girl, you are going to be a potential Sannin from the door.
6) Inada looked at her village and said: "im going to burn all this stupidity down."
7) Amatsumara is the technique that Shin Uchiha uses in Boruto to telekinetically manipulate any tools except she doesn't need to brand them. It's named after one of the Japanese gods of forging.
8) Kagutsuchi is a technique differed from Sasuke's Mangekyō sword attack. She uses just pure flames that burn so hot that they tinged blue and like Amaterasu, it cannot be extinguished except by Inada's will hence the reason that it was sealed away.
8A) Amaterasu burns any material — other flames included — until nothing but ash remains. Kagutsuchi is its only equal as it can grant the user the ability to burn even those already dead and in the pure lands. The technique is named after the japense god of fire who killed his Mother at his birth.
8B) I spent so much time reading on their mythology. i was a little confused, but im going to keep reading and researching until i understand it.