The war

"HEY, QUICK CATCH HIM".

"DAMN HE'S TOO QUICK".

"FLIP, where did that brat go, we won't last a week without those supplies, AAHHhh why are we so unlucky to lose him".

'hmff idiots, they never had a chance, not with those lousy skills' Izuna thought to himself. He was currently on the run after angering a group of shinobi because he had stolen some of their supplies like food, water, clothes and blankets. 'another successful trip'. He checked that nobody was following him before entering the hidden cave.

"Oh your back, how did it go?" konan asked in an excited tone.

"Yep it all went well and I got us some fresh clothes although they might be a bit big, and I also got some blankets" he replied as he walked over and dropped the bag.

"that's great, it's starting to get colder now, and the fact that the war has already started means that we are going to have to be on the run a lot" she seemed a bit down because over the past few months the war had officially started and it was chaos everywhere. The first time she saw the remains from a battlefield she couldn't bear it and had often thrown up at the sight of the mangled bodies, but now she had grown cold to it as living in such harsh conditions and seeing sights as that often had changed her.

Izuna had grown up more as he was nearly eight years old and was already over four feet which was average hight for kids his age. He wore a baggy black shirt which was too big for him as it reached his knees, it was more like a dress but he tied it up around his waist and wrists with a black cloth to keep the shirt down and not get in the way. Then he wore the usual black trousers that he had patched up, and he kept his dark blue open-toed boots.

Konan had already turned eight as she was a few months older than Izuna, which she felt proud of but she was unfortunately she was a couple of inches shorter than him. She wore a dark blue dress that she made herself out of some of the stolen clothes they had got, and she made it so that it wouldn't restrict her movement, and she also wore black trousers that were tied up around the waist and ankles, tucked into her dark blue open-toed boots.

They both needed clothes that wouldn't restrict their movement when on the run or in a fight because the war had started making it way more dangerous. They couldn't go and get help or join a side of the war as they were only orphan kids and would get killed without a second thought.

Even though Izuna was part of the Uchiha clan which resided in the Leaf village Konoha, he didn't feel any sense of belonging as he hadn't grown up there so they might ostracize him and think he might be a threat to the clan because, he could've been manipulated by other people so they wouldn't trust him. Also, the fact that they had turned their backs on his father, he knew what they had done and why they betrayed him as his father had often told his mother about what they did, which she then told me.

She also told him of the things he had done and why he had done them, and that he was a good man deep down but people made too many lies, and she had told him plenty of times to never reveal the fact that his father was the famous Madara Uchiha because people would want to kill him out of fear. After his mother had died he became the only one that knew the secret as even his father didn't know that he had a son and Izuna didn't plan on telling anyone.

They had both gotten used to living life like they were, always on the run and the struggle for survival, for them every day was just another day of focusing on providing for the next. Other than that in whatever free time they had, they would always practise their skills and learn new Jutsu. Izuna had been practising with his Mongekyou Sharingan, and he was now able to enter the incomplete stage of the Susanoo.

He had also figured out his second ability, the ability in his right eye allowed him to copy any Jutsu perfectly regardless of the chakra nature, that he targets with his right eye. It was the next step from the normal Sharingan, as the Sharingan can copy any Jutsu, but not the chakra nature itself. The sharingan user can still perform the technique, but would take a lot more chakra to produce the jutsu.

In this world, everyone has an affinity with all elements because chakra originally came from the ten tails which wielded all elements, so the only thing stopping people from learning every type of Jutsu depended on how strong their affinities were with those elements. Shinobi have an easier time learning to create and control a chakra nature that matches their affinity, although even then it may take a number of years, but it is technically possible to master all five natures, it is very rare because of how much of training is involved.

Izuna's right eye ability alowed him to ignore this effect and learn any jutsu regardless of the chakra nature. He isn't able to learn blood-related kekkei Genkai such as the Rinnegan or byakugan as this wasn't a Jutsu, and this also meant that he wouldn't be able to use the abilities from blood-related kekkei Genkai (meaning he isn't able to learn to summon meteorites or 'Shinra Tensei' because those abilities belonged to the rinnegan but can learn any mongekyou Sharingan ability as he possesses the same eyes too just with a different ability).

Konan was progressing well as she was a natural genius and she had three high affinities which were the wind, water and earth. She also found out that she had a 'Paper Release' Kekkei Genkai which is a Ninjutsu utilizing the Yang Chakra Nature, to give life to paper and control it this was probably why she loved origami.

She was able to learn and make paper shuriken sand they were pretty effective in battle, so she was able to protect herself. I also taught her some 'wind release' jutsu like the wind blade which further improved her fighting powers as she would combine this with her shurikens to make them fly quicker and do more damage.

After our training practice, we were hungry so she cooked up dinner before we went off to bed. During our time travelling, we recorded different hideouts so if there was a case where one hideout got found we would be able to move to the next. So tomorrow we were heading off to a different hideout as we didn't want to stay in the same one for too long.