At long last the day had arrived.
Miko and Sasuke were joining the academy.
Just thinking of the things they could get up to made her positively giddy.
"Are you excited to make friends?" Her Mother asked over a charged breakfast.
Oh, was she ever. She shot a rice filled grin back at her. In a twist that was drastically different from canon, almost the entire clan was turning up. Itachi was supposed to be joining ANBU by now, but that seemed to be delayed. With his skill set, it was only a matter of time, but she recalled Fugaku originally didn't want to go to the ceremony because Itachi was being initiated into ANBU.
She was pretty sure it was because of how much closer they were to her and Sasuke. But maybe it also had to do with Mikoto taking him to see Inochi.
And the fact that whatever happened to Itachi was was worse than in canon. Sasuke's childhood was always shady, so she couldn't tell or not if the night terrors were canon. It made sense if they were. One night, when she and Sasuke fell asleep in her room, she was startled out of sleep when something pinged on the edge of her senses. As she stated, it was possible to detect irregularities in chakra(especially with the Sharingan), which was why she didn't like using her senses, (and well, maybe because the nine-tails traumatized her a bit) but she sensed Itachi creeping down the hall.
His chakra was fluctuating wildly, in clear emotional distress. He stood right outside their door for the longest time before opening it. She pretended to be asleep. She felt his breath hover over their faces, like how he used to when they were babies.
He placed one, then two kisses on their cheeks.
"Miko! Get ready!"
"HAI!" She snapped out of her stupor and bolted to her room. She had all her supplies ready. Extra food to endear Choji, her covered book on shogi, that one plushie Ino loved and all her school supplies. Which wasn't much.
The Uchiha clan compound was huge, but the majority of the Uchiha were actually dispersed around the village. There was no 'Uchiha' town, that came later when Danzo(Bitch) had them all grouped in one place-kinda like shooting fish in a barrel. But the head house was always busy. Especially today.
"Congratulations!"
"Were so happy for you!"
"Number ones right here!"
"Will there be an after-party?"
That last one was kinda out of left field, but it was looking more and more possible. When they finally left the house, all they needed was a location.
Akira-that amazing sweet, smart, talented man- volunteered his house.
The walk to the academy was accompanied by many residents shouting their congratulations, or thanking the police force, complemented the Art Institute, or misc.
She they arrived they couldn't even squeeze all the members inside. They had to stand outside. Itachi, Fugaku and Mikoto watched proudly as they walked to their seats. She immediately noticed kids from around the village, who bought at their stores, or who had a parent were in the police force, or who owned a cat, or she played with at the park at the park. She saw the rookie nine too.
The point was, she was shaping up to be miss popular.
OHHHHHH! She had forgotten about the Konoha eleven! She actually rubbed her hands together.
The murmuring died down when the Hokage took the stage. Sasuke shimmied with excitement next to her. he cleared his throat and spoke. And while no doubt what he said was grand-she zoned out.
Like, entered another dimension zoned out.
When earth shattering clapping reached her ears she snapped back a looked around, the ceremony was over and she had missed it.
Oh well.