Chapter 2 - Training
(A/N update: Author is still writing original(https/searchingforenadi./post/755636689750425600/are-you-going-to-continue-beloved-once-or-any)).
Standing in the clearing, away from mom and the rest, I continue the standard training I have. While adding advanced kenjustsu is great it will not be enough to stop the genocide or even survive if I remain as just another ANBU as I was before with my strained body. Sooner or later, the leaf will see Put to it that I'm Down for the Count. That means hunter squads from Lord 3rd who has already grown weary of my intellect and Root(Danzo) for being a bastard.
Being low-key was never going to be a complete option in the ninja world, but I wanted to buy myself more time. But at least I've bought good will with the 3rd's faction(except Danzo), enough to gain some privacy in the form of trust with Kushina while not have Shisui and Itachi spy on me exclusively for now. Sigh, life really is tough for sincere people like me who just want to live well.
I've come to the hard realization that nothing I do will stop Itachi from his decision to kill the clan. As such, I'll save the few I can, like mom and the elder who's genuinely kind, and for the rest well...unfortunately they're unsalvageable.
I tried so hard to make the Leaf a better place. But alas, politics are politics. You can't stop their interests, only save those who can be saved.
Including my father(bastard he may be) for he is too conditioned and blind to See the inevitable fallout of continuing as he is.
I don't completely blame him, for who could have Seen Itachi's play coming on the chessboard from Danzo himself. That Itachi did it, Knowing he'll get betrayed by Danzo right after only makes the move all the more bitter in my mouth.
So what's a girl to do, if she wants strength in a low key way? Creativity in subtly. Grace in slight differences. Flexibility in jutsu usage even with my 2-tomoe sharigan(that it became only 2 after my second death made it obvious that I wasn't going somewhere being "helpful" to Onee-sama).
I've got to Learn to stand on my own 2 feet(U). That's the Truth.
I'll start by throwing the C-rank fireball jutsu(and other standard fire jutsu I learned as standard Uchiha might be fair game future) in the metaphorical trash. It simply isn't effective unless you got chakra out the wazoo like Sasuke did against Itachi in the final battle.
In this lifetime, after rechecking, I still only have lightning and water attributes. Another thing, that made the gap seemingly inseparable us as Uchiha were Fire Masters and all. But this time, I'll learn to quietly live it, not because I want to, but because I don't have another choice.
Since the chidori, which it too chakra intensive anyways is out of the question, I'm going to start by working with small static and paralyzing agent poison. After working in the hospital for so long, I now know how to immunize myself from basic poisons and advanced ones in ANBU. I'll likely do this while training my lighting chakra nature quietly when no one is looking over these next 2 years while planning ahead to stay in the academy and quietly gather strength.