Reality

A loud bell woke me up. Reaching out my hand, I reached out to the table on which the alarm clock stood and slapped the button with my hand. The ringing stopped. Normally, I would just close my eyes and try to lie still, but now I didn't feel like sleeping. Staring blankly at the wooden ceiling, I listened to the sounds in the house. Tick ​​tock. Tick ​​tock. The only sound was from the pendulum clock on the stairs. After lying down for another couple of minutes, I jumped out of bed and went to the bathroom. Toilet. Shower. Teeth. Breakfast. Despite the fact that there was a soft carpet under my feet, my body was terribly cold. There was no mother's chatter, no apologetic exclamations from the father who was again late somewhere. After sitting over a cup of ramen for about 15 minutes and sowing it in an instant, I removed everything from the table.

As soon as I finished and was about to go outside - the doorbell rang. I went to open it.

On the threshold, I saw Fugaku - the current leader of the Uchiha clan. Yesterday, after the funeral, he explained to me the situation that I am now an orphan and there are no close relatives. But my parents managed to leave a bequest to leave me everything and it will come into force as soon as I become a ninja or an adult civilian. He offered to discuss the situation today, to which I agreed.

"Good morning Fugaku-sama," - I said - "Please come through."

"Good morning Renjiro," - answered Fugaku.

We went into the living room and sat on opposite sides of the table.

"What did you want to talk to me about?" - i asked.

Fugaku gazed into my eyes for a few seconds and answered -"Condolences for the loss of your parents." - he paused and then continued - "Due to your current situation, I propose that you become my and my wife's son. My wife Mikoto gave birth to her second child the day before yesterday. I would like you to be our third child. I understand that this is a lot at once, but the current situation requires an immediate solution. Early this morning, I had to talk to the new hokage Hiruzen."

The day before before yesterday hah.. must be Sasuke. After I heard about Hiruzen, the gears started spinning in my head. Probably Hiruzen, even in spite of the clan's policy, wants to take the child from the Uchiha clan. Perhaps even some one-eyed bastard pushes him to action.

Meanwhile, Fugaku continued - " He wants all orphans who have no close relatives to be placed in orphanages, including you. I had to remind him personally that you have Uchiha blood in you and as long as I live no child of the clan will fall under his influence."

I saw no choice in front of me. On the one hand, in order to become a ninja and live independently, I need to graduate from the academy. But the rules of the academy were different from what I read in the manga. And if I go there, I will not even have time to pass the exams ahead of schedule, since many things in this world do not fit together and the massacre of the Uchiha may be even earlier. If I want to survive I have to use my plan or try to become Itachi's brother like Sasuke. If I refuse, which is very stupid, they will either give me a nanny and give her custody of me, or they will send me to an orphanage where Danzo rowing hands will get me.

Closing my eyes, I chose, I spent a long time evaluating the options. With the awakening of my mangekyou sharingan, my thoughts began to flow faster even if my eyes were not active. Dozens of options flashed by in a second. Fugaku didn't rush me and waited for my decision.

In the meantime I decided. if I don't go I will still survive in massacre but lose an eye or both because of this technique. Even though I got my father's eyes, I don't know how to replace them to achieve eternal mangekyou. Just plucking out an eye and inserting another doesn't sound like a genius idea. Need to learn medicine. If I go I'm sure I can learn a lot from their personal library and be a Peng Clan's young master.

I opened my eyes, got up from my chair and said - "I agree Fugaku-sama".

"Ha ha ha, you can call me father then," - Fugaku laughed and replied. - "Then we have to go to the hokage office right now and complete the paperwork. After that, let's go for my house and introduce you to your new family"

But then his smile faded and in a serious tone he told me - "I understand perfectly well that you feel after the loss of your father and mother and that we can never replace them with ourselves. But i already spoke with Mikoto and Itachi and for us you will always be our son/brother. In the meantime, you can call us by name."

"Hai Fugaku-sama," - i replied.

Looking at him indifferently, I did not feel anything. Neither delight nor sadness. After waking up the mangyoku, I stopped being emotional. Logic prevails over emotion. I would like to say that this is not correct, but what I think is beyond what I feel.

Fugaku got up and I followed him to the hokage office. Everything went quickly without delay. It was only necessary to sign several documents of which there were few. To get custody, you needed two papers. The question is asked where did the hokage always get so many papers. But this is not so important for me. His problems. After this we came to the house of the Fugaku family.

The house was two stories high and surprisingly wide. And so it did not differ from the rest of the houses of the Uchiha clan. However, with a quick glance with a three-tomoe sharingan, I found places with an abundance of chakra - probably something to protect the home. It is at such moments that I realize how little I know about chakra.

My reddened eyes did not hide from Fugaku who did not outwardly react but his eyes narrowed. After I noticed out of the corner of my eye that he was standing on the threshold and looking at my eyes, I immediately remove them, but it was too late.

Fugaku said - "Renjiro we'll talk about sharingan later and I'll give you access to the library. I heard from Baru how much you love to read scrolls and books." - He opened door and entered house.

As soon as I entered the house, a black-haired shadow pounced on me and began to cry. As soon as I realized that it was Mikoto, she began to calm me down.

"Renjiro I'm so sorry that you lost your parents. I lost my two best friends in one day. Don't worry, I will always be there and support you. I can't imagine how hard it is for you now."

She continued to comfort me and cry, but I smiled softly and hugged her too. Suddenly, before I said anything, she jumped up.

"You probably haven't eaten anything since morning! I'll go get you breakfast immediately." - Then she flew to the kitchen. And this is not a metaphor, she just disappeared like black lightning. Even the best ninjas will envy this skill of movement.

Fugaku smiled sadly at his wife's reaction and said - "Mikoto was very nervous after Sasuke was born. And after the death of her best friends, she did not calm down for a very long time. We'll pick up your things from home later. As long as you live with us, and when you become older you will already take the girls to your house."

I chuckled, feigned embarrassment, and nodded. It seemed that Fugaku was trying to defuse the situation, but I immediately realized that he was testing my emotions. I haven't shown a single emotion since yesterday. Apparently I convinced him that i still have emotions as he relaxed his facial muscles a little.

"Let me introduce you to my first son, Itachi." - He said proudly and led me through the garden corridor into the forest. From the forest, there was a constant clink of blades and a knock on wood. a minute later we came out into a clearing where a young uchiha was throwing handfuls of kunai over and over again at numerous targets in different corners. He noticed us and stopped his training.

"Good morning father." - He bowed his head. - "Should you be Renjiro? Please accept my condolences for your parents. My father often told heroic deeds about your father."

At first glance, he seemed polite and modest, but knowing his future, which I did not know how to change, I could not be confident with him.

"Good afternoon, Nice to meet you i am Renjiro as you know already. Thank you for your concern" - i answered.

"Great, now that we know each other, Itachi go and help your mother, she cooks, and there is no one to watch Sasuke." - Fugaku said to Itachi.

"Hai," - Itachi answered and disappeared.

"Let's go home Renjiro we all have a lot to talk about at breakfast and I'll introduce you to your little brother." - He said and turned back.

Watching him calmly walk back without ninja techniques like itachi, I realized how much I didn't want to, I wasted my chance to have a family. That in a past life I could not save anyone from unexpected deaths. What's in this. This time i know about their incoming death's if i can get strong enough i can fix it. But for this there is so much to do and study, and there is so little time .. Putting my hand on my chest, I feel a weak response of emotion. Will I ever be able to call them my family or not? After all, my parent's in this life are not dead. Body's are berried, but soul's are immortal and i will revive them one day. But i need to know how to create new perfect body's and steal secret scroll with forbidding jutsu from hokage. Maybe i can use Orochimaru knowledge later.

But first i need to prevent or survive the massacre of the Uchiha clan and become stronger.

Slowly I went down the road thinking about the sad fate of this cursed clan.