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An Odd Baby

July 23rd in the Konoha hospital. Mikoto Uchiha, a fair-skinned woman with long, straight black hair with bangs hanging on either side of her face too roughly frame her cheeks and black eyes, is currently crushing the hand of her husband, Fugaku Uchiha, who was a man with short, brown hair that reached to his shoulders and onyx-colored eyes, with visible creases below them. Because she is struggling with the pain of giving birth. She might be a retired ninja, but she had never felt pain like this.

"You're almost there Ms. Uchiha, one final push!" And she did, out popped a tiny baby. His face looked like his father's, without the creases. And when he opened his eyes they were a dark onyx, and the pupils weren't visible. The short tuff of hair on his head was spiky and black with a tint of blue.

He was quickly wiped down, all while wailing as loud as he possibly could before he was wrapped in a warm towel, finally, his crying dyed down into small whimpers.

He was handed off to his father, who looked down at the baby with as much fatherly warmth as his permanently scowling face could muster, all while the pain was mixed in from his hand being deformed. "Sasuke," He finally said, "Sasuke Uchiha," Is what he named the tiny baby. The baby smiled a little, almost as if he could hear, which of course he couldn't.

"Alright Ms. Uchiha, you can do it. One more." The doctor finally said. While Fugaku glanced down at his hand in worry. He's gonna need to stay in the hospital with his children after this, isn't he? The pained scream of his wife once again happened as he felt his hand crushed once more.

Thirty minutes later, filled with painful screaming and hand squeezing, the second baby finally came out, and when the doctor looked at her he gasped. Now Fugaku's first thought was that something was really, really wrong. Because not only had the doctor gasped, but he hadn't heard all the baby's wailing. But when he glanced over at the child in question, his eyes too widened.

The baby had an odd look, although her face was her mother's, it was much sharper and looked very androgynous. Her little tuft of hair was the blackest of all blacks like all color disappeared into it. But the oddest part of her was her ears, instead of rounded they were long and pointed, Fugaku compared them to elven ears he heard about in all those crazy fantasy books he had seen. In a world where people could literally shoot fire from their mouths, people were quite imaginative. He mused to himself.

The baby was wiped down and wrapped in her little pink towel before she was handed to Mikoto, her mother, who was still drenched in sweat but had finally stopped smashing Fugaku's hand. Her eyes finally opened and everyone in the room was immediately drawn to the sight. Unlike the normal Uchiha and their dull black eyes, hers were a brilliant emerald green that seemed almost like they were glowing. She looked around the room, almost inquisitively. But Fugaku immediately got rid of that idea, after all, she had just been born. Mikoto glanced down at her baby and was immediately drawn to her beautiful green eyes, and automatically spoke before even thinking, "Midori," She stated. "Midori Uchiha."

A young kid came barreling into the room. He looked to be around five years old, but the look in his eyes showed much more maturity. He looked like he was starting to have stress lines by his nose, making him look suspiciously like a weasel. But he was an adorable kid. This was Itachi Uchiha, the genius of the Uchiha Clan and the firstborn of Fugaku and Mikoto Uchiha. He charged over to the two and skidded to a halt in front of the two new-borns. And his eyes were immediately filled with warmth. And in his heart, vowed to do anything for these two, like the best big brother in the world. And he also made another vow to poke them in the forehead as much as possible. Of course, he would never tell that to anyone though, the first one he would though.

A week after, they were finally out of the hospital and paraded around Konoha. What, the Uchiha had to brag about their main house birthing twins. Of course, said babies did nothing but eat, sleep, and poop. But everyone was still amazed by the odd green-eyed baby, who seemed just a little too smart for a child. Fugaku had caught her once or twice as her eyes turned towards people when they were talking. He also could see the slight frustration with the little number of facial muscles she could control as if she was struggling to understand language. He almost had a heart attack when he realized this. He already had a prodigy and another son! He wanted a princess he could spoil, not that he would admit this, he was far too gone into the perfect clan leader role to admit this.

A month later and even Fugaku looked to be terrified of his daughter's genius. She seemed to comprehend words, and the only thing limiting her was her body. While Sasuke seemed to only just seem to comprehend sounds, he thanked god for one normal child, (or so he thought.) He would also see her be actively using her muscles, trying to grow them faster.

Mikoto, on the other hand, didn't seem to notice or mind that fact. She just loved having two kids she could read nighttime stories too again. After that damn Fugaku brought their four-year-old kid to the battlefield, he seemed to age ten years at once, and he was too old for her spoiling!

Itachi was making due on his vows, spending as much time as he could with the two babies and telling them stories of his day, he could see his little sister gradually picking up on the meanings of his words. And could see the intelligence in her eyes.

In the second month, Midori started to give off chakra unconsciously. And Fugaku was amazed once again by the mere amount of Chakra that one baby seemed to hold. But what surprised him, even more, was the second energy that seemed like it was almost boosting the Chakra to make it more powerful. This secondary power seemed like it was coming from her very soul. Her chakra felt like a rushing wave, uncontrollable, and going with the flow. Like she would just drift along in life with nothing containing her. So the only logical thing Fugaku could do was bring his daughter to the doctor to make sure this energy wasn't harmful. And so the Uchiha family was once again waiting in a room for the scan on their daughter.

Mikoto looked confused, Fugaku hadn't really explained properly and she only really caught the words 'second energy,' and 'potential problem.' Itachi and Fugaku looked quite worried, Itachi because he had been sensing this odd energy for a while now, and was waiting for a parent to comment on it, and Fugaku because he honestly had never heard of this happening in a child.

The doctor came out, finally after hours of waiting, looking just as confused. "While your child is fine. We have dubbed this mysterious energy 'spiritual power' because the only thing we can think is producing it is her spirit. Her chakra is a combination of her spiritual and physical energies, like you all know, but this odd power seems to be mixing in on top of it, making her chakra more powerful. This will mean your child will most likely have trouble controlling her chakra because adding this energy will make her sheer amount go to immense levels. Of course, this separate energy can be used differently, from what we have hypothesized. It just seems like she's mixing them subconsciously." The Uchiha family only nodded along, it sounded quite powerful, but they were waiting for the bad news.

"There's not really any bad news, it seems like it's just like having another chakra pool that we don't know the capabilities of yet, she seems to have quite a lot of this 'spiritual power' so the very little she is mixing in won't make much of a dent. But another odd effect of this energy is that it is making her body harder. And it is making her mind grow faster. Like children of ninjas grow faster than a civilian child due to chakra. She will grow even faster than a ninja child due to the odd energy. Though that is only in mind, her 'body' will still progress at an average rate, but the energy, as I said earlier, is making her muscles harder. Like comparing steel to iron. Of course, that might be a bad thing because it appears she will remember her whole childhood. That means all the embarrassing moments like pooping yourself and other things, I can assume this is why your child has been so quiet." The doctor chuckles to himself. Fugaku looks happy, yet conflicted. His child was very special from what they could tell. But he didn't want her growing up too fast, that's what the first child is for.

"What happens if she runs out of this energy," Mikoto speaks up, she has been quite worried for her baby after all this information. She knows what happens to children like these.

"She will most likely just faint, something similar to Chakra exhaustion. That's what we concluded." The doctor answers back.

"Is there any way for other people to access this power?" Fugaku asks, he is quite interested because this sounds like it could benefit the police force quite a lot. Of course, he would never even consider actually experimenting on his child.

"From what we can tell, no. It seems to come from the very soul itself. And her soul itself is much more powerful from what we can tell. We have many theories on this. But the most prominent one is reincarnation. We can assume that's why she has ears like those. But of course, that sounds absurd so we really have no clue, and can only assume it's a Kekkei Genkai. I have been sworn to secrecy, but I expect the Hokage will call soon to talk about this." The doctor responded. And right as he said that an ANBU seemed to appear, summon scroll in hand. Fugaku only nodded before signaling to his wife and child not to follow before body flickering away with the ANBU. He quickly arrived in the Hokage's tower, where he faced a familiar blonde-haired male, while a familiar old man was standing off to the side.

"Minato, Hiruzen, I'm assuming this visit is concerning my daughter," Fugaku said as he faced the two males. Minato gestured for ANBU to leave the room, before taking a deep breath.

"Yes, we're making this an SS-Ranked secret. Even higher than Jinchuuriki's. We can not let her existence be known, be it her odd looks and power. The fact that this power can strengthen Chakra already makes it very powerful, but all the unknown makes it even more so. We want her to lead a standard shinobi life with her brother. Academy at eight, graduate at twelve no matter how talented. If she goes rogue then god knows what she could do, we want her to be loyal to the village. This is also a favor for what this village has done to Itachi, we don't want her entering war early like Itachi, because we don't know how long this time of peace will last, and I can already see how it is affecting our ninja." Minato explained, of course, Fugaku thought he was going a little far with making it an SS-Ranked secret, but that was just him. He glanced to the side to see Hiruzen who just took an inhale of smoke, probably thinking something along the lines of how he is too old for this shit.

"This secret will not leave this room, and the doctor's memory has already been erased. We will have you notify your family to not spread this secret. God knows what would happen if this secret reached that damn council. They would make her into a breading house in the hope that this power could be spread to offspring. A person with the Sharingan and this energy would be a blessing or curse upon this world. So I have officially taken her off the CRA, should anything ever happen, and any other thing that could happen if things went very wrong, not that they will." Fugaku nodded and Minato signaled that he could leave.

Fugaku left, sighing, could his daughter be any more troublesome? Oh god, now he was turning into a damn Nara! Lazy bastards.

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