fireheart
[starter for @slainkin]
It wasn’t like he was scared of the other children. No, it wasn’t that at all.
They didn’t seem all that scary, they talked and laughed and played. The rumours at academy about all Uchiha being mysterious was weird and untrue. Yukirama had suspected it, mostly because people called him weird and never mysterious and that also wasn’t true. People liked to say strange things, and it was best to learn not to listen to any of them.
He wasn’t really an Uchiha though, and he knew that well. It had only been a week ago that he’d been brought to live with an elderly couple that had no children of their own. The nice auntie had a fan painted onto the pin in her grey hair. And above her door. And stitched onto the back of her yukata.
Uchiha were proud, and it was an honour to be taken into their clan. Yukirama knew it was important, even if the full significance of his adoption kind of passed him by.
All he knew was that his classmates looked at him differently now, and that every day after school, he came home to a district full of fans and life. He liked that much better than being corralled with the other orphans of the village.
But now, he’d been told to go ‘make friends’. Something he was notoriously bad at. So he’d followed the rabble of raven-haired children around for a while. Some were younger than him, some his age, but he knew none of their names. Trailing them was all he could do, for now.









