[System]: "Selection complete!"
[System]: "Next up: Indra!"
[Kakashi Hatake]: "Not my favorite pick… I'll pass."
[Minato Namikaze]: "By the way, when do we get Obito's spotlight?"
[Naruto Uzumaki]: "Yeah! Just seeing Uncle Obito makes my heart feel warm!"
[Neji Hyūga]: "Every time I see him… my chest kinda hurts."
[Obito Uchiha]: "…"
Obito stiffened. …He was still alive, after all.
If everyone found that out, his Eye of the Moon plan would be toast.
Sarada, Overnight Celebrity
Boruto-era, at the Academy.
Class was barely underway when a swarm of reporters barged into the room.
Cameras flashed. Microphones everywhere.
"Shocking! Sarada loves sweets—did she inherit Uchiha Itachi's refined taste?!"
"Scandal! The last heir of the Uchiha caught doing THIS at the Academy—exclusive!"
"Seventh Hokage's son often bickers with Sarada—does this mean Lord Sasuke and the Seventh are secretly at odds?!"
Sarada: "…"
She liked sweets because her bestie Chōchō did, okay?
What "scandal" at school? Why were these headlines so… weird?
And the "bickering" with Boruto? That was just her being allergic to his attitude.
"Indra"… Without the "Uchiha"?
[Narration]: "Indra, a prodigy of ancient times… the ancestor of the Uchiha."
Everyone blinked.
"Why doesn't he have 'Uchiha' in front?"
Then the explanation hit: founding ancestor.
A collective gasp swept the shinobi world.
[Uchiha Izuna]: "We had an ancestor like that?"
[Uchiha Madara]: "Even I never heard the full story…"
[Sarada Uchiha]: "There's nothing about him in the books I read."
[Itachi Uchiha]: "If my guess is right, his era is ancient—a great elder of our bloodline."
[Kisame Hoshigaki]: "As expected of Itachi-san…"
Indra's identity unfolded: heir to Ninshū, the first to codify hand seals.
Because of his work, future generations could shape chakra into jutsu.
A genius among geniuses—
and a son of the Sage of Six Paths.
Gasps again. So many monsters in history…
[Sasuke Uchiha]: "So Indra is truly our progenitor?"
[Indra]: "Indeed."
[Sasuke]: "How did your Sharingan awaken?"
[Indra]: "…My pet dog died. The grief opened a two-tomoe."
Silence.
Sasuke: "…Seriously?"
[Sarada]: "Dad, how did you awaken yours?"
[Sasuke]: "…"
[Hashirama Senju]: "Sasuke really does look like Izuna!"
[Madara]: "So alike I almost can't bring myself to hit him."
[Sasuke]: "…Huh?"
[Itachi]: "He's not lying. Would an ancestor fib?"
Sasuke rubbed his sternum. Why did it ache when Madara talked…?
He remembered: Hashirama had once promised him a technique to counter Madara.
When he finally "met" Madara… stab, lift—
Sasuke was basically turned into a selfie stick.
The Scholar and the Slacker
A remote settlement.
A serious, studious boy spent his days buried in texts and training—Indra.
His younger brother Asura? …More Naruto than not.
[Shikamaru Nara]: "Why does Asura feel… very Naruto?"
[Chōji Akimichi]: "Kinda true."
[Ino Yamanaka]: "Naruto skipped class all the time. Only Sasuke-kun studied…"
[Kurotsuchi]: "Indra's also… really handsome."
[Mei Terumi]: "Uchiha men do tend to be lookers."
[System]: "Nonsense—none are more handsome than our dear readers!"
Indra discovered something epoch-making:
to unleash chakra in different ways, shape the hands in different forms—
thus, the twelve basic seals were born.
The shinobi world inhaled sharply.
So the reason they could all sling jutsu… was Indra's invention.
The Sage smiled with pride… and worry.
If everyone could wield ninjutsu, would conflict skyrocket?
[Rasa]: "So this is truly our world's forefather…"
[Ōnoki]: "Who knew myths were history in disguise…"
[Itachi]: "But where did tragedy begin?"
[Sasuke]: "Yeah. Those brothers ended up as enemies…"
Time passed.
While Indra trained, a pitch-black creature slid from the shadows—Black Zetsu.
It whispered "truths" of the world into the boy's ear.
Indra didn't buy it… not fully.
Weeks later, his dog died.
Grief ignited into flames—the eyes spun to three tomoe.
His personality… began to tilt.
[Boruto]: "So that's how Indra turned dark…"
[Chōchō]: "Is the Uchiha clan always this… intense?"
[Tobirama Senju]: "Exactly why I formed the Konoha Police—to channel that fire."
[Hashirama]: "Tobiramaaa, why do you say it like that?"
[Tobirama]: "Allow me to explain—"
The feed cut—right as Tobirama was about to give a "departmental orientation" speech.
Back at the Academy, Sarada's desk was buried in flowers, fan letters, and… tabloids.
Somehow, everything she did now trended on Konoha News.
("Sarada sneezed twice—does Uchiha bloodline carry a secret spring allergy?!")
She pinched the bridge of her nose. Chōchō offered a donut in solidarity.
Outside, the reporters argued over the best headline font.
Inside, the Indra dossier deepened—
and Black Zetsu's shadow stretched… quietly.
[System]: "Preview: Next—Indra vs. Asura, fate's first fracture."
—End of Chapter—
Side quip: Boruto tried to pitch, "Let's call it 'The Indra-vengers.'"
Shikadai said "troublesome," which in Nara-speak means "absolutely not."
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