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• TIMESKIP •

-𝕮𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖘 𝖆𝖌𝖊-

Uchiha Madara➤10 Years old

Uchiha Izuna➤8 Years old

Uchiha Arata & Taka ➤7 Years old

Uchiha Yuki➤5 Years old

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Note: "Nii-San" is used by younger sisters to address their older brother adoringly at the same time maintain respect.

"Aniki" is used by younger brothers to address their older brother respectfully.

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Yuki ran around the compound with a little paper doll in her hand. Izuna was chasing her.Soon, he snaked his arms around her waist and picked her up, both laughing.

Madara, now Ten years old, had just returned to the compound after training and watched as his siblings played. He wondered, even after such harsh winter training how did Izuna have the strength to run around?

Arata called out for Izuna, so he put Yuki down.The moment her gaze fell on Madara she sprinted towards him.

He smiled, swinging the little girl up before pulling her into a warm hug.

"Oniisan! Look, Izuna nii made me this doll!" Her grey eyes twinkled in excitement, chubby cheeks bunching up as she smiled.

Madara held in his laughter at how adorable she looked with the front two teeth's missing. He patted her head and smiled back.

He walked towards their usual spot.The little girl started telling him about her toys, the doll that Izuna had damaged, the new one he made for her, the games she played with the twins and all the sweet innocent things children her age would find exciting.

"How was your day Onii-san?"

Madara usually never talked about his feelings to anyone other than Yuki and Izuna. He didn't understand why he felt so comfortable talking to her...maybe because she was just a child or maybe because whatever he told her; she told no one else if he said so.

For a child, she had superb control of her mouth, or maybe she just forgets stuff easily.

He told her about his training and new Jutsu's.

"When will I start my training?" Yuki asked, her grey orbs glittering with excitement.

"You won't," He replied, without looking at her.

She felt so disappointed. After hearing how many awesome things he gets to learn and all the people he meets, she also wanted to be a part of that world. "Huh? WHY? I want to be a Shinobi. I want to be strong like you!" Yuki whined.

Madara moved his gaze back on her, this little girl dreaming to be a Shinobi,not realizing how horrible that life is.

"Yuki, don't you want to grow up to be a beautiful lady, get married, and have children?" He asked, picking her up and placing her on his lap.

"mm yes!"

"Then you shouldn't become a Shinobi, or you might die before you could even become a lady," He added, a hint of sadness in his voice.

Her eyes widened, "But I want to be strong like you Oniisan! I too want to beat up evil people."

Madara pondered about it. It wasn't that he didn't wish her to learn combat skills. He was aware that it might be useful for her safety. But he knew father had already settled to educate her to be a proper Lady. And it will be tough to persuade him since the elders of the Uchiha council had similar views on her education.

But then again, he did a lot of things that the elders didn't agree on. This will be no different.

"Well! Let's see, once you turn seven, I will teach you. How's that?" he smiled.

"Yayy! Thankyou Oniisan!"

"Ok! Time to go Home little lady."

At the dinner table, Yuki listened as Tajima discussed with Madara about some Senjus attacking their base at the west side. The little girl nibbled onto her food as they talked about how many men the 'senjus' killed and how bad they were. She didn't understand why people would hurt each other this way and kept thinking about it.

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Madara tucked her in her bed.

"Nii san? "

"Hm?"

"Did the people named Senju kill... Mother?"

Madara stiffened, but managed to sound as calm as possible, "No Yuki...mother died because of an illness."

"No! Why are you lying? I heard she killed herself! But why?" Yuki tried to hold back her tears.

He felt his heart sink realizing how lonely his sister might be feeling. Yuki didn't have any girlfriends her age, and she interacted mostly with her brothers. Father has been keeping himself too busy and rarely visited home.

The boys all spent their time together-training, studying and playing with each other. Meanwhile, he was aware all his sister heard were scoldings from the elders and her grandmother.She must've felt ignored for her to keep asking about Mother lately.

"Listen, Yuki, Mother died during a mission because of an ambush by the Hakushi clan. She fought alone bravely, but due to exhaustion, she couldn't fight anymore. In the end, she took her own life. By the time father made it there...she was no more."

"But I don't understand! Why did she kill herself?"

He wondered how to explain to a Five-year-old about honor and dignity, about how far other clan people could go to get information, especially if out of a woman.

"Yuki, if they caught mother alive, they would torture her to know our clan's secrets, then they would attack our home, that's why she killed herself." He put it as simply as he could.

The tears she held back started rolling down her face, "So Nii san... if someday some enemy caught me, I should kill myself too?"

That question caught him off guard. He didn't know how to answer that.

"...."

He never wanted to imagine the consequences if some savage clan captured Yuki and the things they could do to her. Even so, he would never want her to end her own life.

No matter what, he would protect her.

Madara didn't answer but his face contorted painfully.

Noticing his agitation in answering, Yuki stopped crying and hugged him. She could hear his heart beat, the sound of which always made her feel safe and calm.

"Nii, you will never leave me, right? You will protect us all, right?"

"You will beat those bad people... right?"

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Madara wrapped his arms around her.

"Right."

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