Here @riojiyo131, your trusted writer.
Don't hate me for this chapter. Throughout the story, I've left numerous hints and clues that this would happen, especially in the dialogues of Mikoto, Fugaku, Izumi, and even Shisui himself.
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"Get out of the room, I want to change," said Sasuke.
The next morning, Naruto woke up with Sasuke just a few inches from his face.
Seeing how close he was, Naruto jumped out of bed and landed on the other side of the room.
"I was asleep! You could have changed in silence!"
Sasuke frowned for the second time.
"Get out of the room…" he repeated firmly.
"Damn off-brand Ken doll…" Naruto muttered as he walked out, still drowsy.
In the hallway, an idea crossed his mind.
"I'm pretty sure Sasuke is the result of too many generations of cousin marriages."
[Fugaku Uchiha: Indeed, Mikoto and I are cousins. The Uchiha Clan practiced inbreeding to preserve the purity of our lineage and the Sharingan.]
[Mikoto Uchiha: Fugaku, you don't get it, Naruto was insulting Sasuke…]
[Fugaku Uchiha: Oh…]
Naruto, reading the group messages, could only sigh and place a hand on his forehead in exhaustion.
Noticing he was barefoot, he frowned and swung the door open.
"Hey, delicate Uchiha flower, I'm not going to let you kick me out of my own room…!"
But when he looked at Sasuke, his mouth fell slightly open.
Standing before him was no longer the same Sasuke as always, but a pale, slender girl.
His characteristic "duck butt" hair was gone, now falling straight and silky over his shoulders. His sharp features had softened: large, intense eyes, thin lips, and an annoyed expression that couldn't hide the undeniable truth—she was beautiful.
She wore only the bottom half of her clothes, with her torso wrapped in bandages, hiding her chest. Her posture remained the same, but now there was a dangerously feminine air about her.
Silence stretched between them. Naruto blinked several times before pointing a finger at her.
"What the hell—?!"
"Shut the door, idiot! I told you to stay outside!" Sasuke demanded, her voice sounding strangely feminine.
Naruto spun on his heels and slammed the door shut.
From the room across the hall, Sakura came out sleepily, rubbing her eyes.
"What's going on…? Was that the daughter of Lord Tazuna yelling…?" she asked, still drowsy.
"Y-Yeah, she's scolding little Inari…" Naruto lied, still in shock.
[Madara Uchiha: Izuna, I take it back, she looks nothing like you…]
[Izuna Uchiha: C-certainly, brother…now he looks much more like you]
[Madara Uchiha: ...]
[Mikoto Uchiha: Naruto, didn't you know Sasuke was a girl?]
[Naruto Uzumaki: HOW THE HELL WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW?!!]
[Fugaku Uchiha: You know a lot about the future. We thought you would.]
[Mikoto Uchiha: Heh… that's why I told you to take care of Sasuke in the future.]
[Fugaku Uchiha: Over my dead body will I allow that to happen.]
[Naruto Uzumaki: Take care of that damn crossdresser? No way!]
None of this made sense.
He wanted to go back into the room, but now he was scared.
Sasuke was a girl? No! Impossible! No way!
[Naruto Uzumaki: This shouldn't be happening! Sasuke had a daughter! With Sakura! Sasuke CAN'T be a girl!]
[Fugaku Uchiha: Maybe Sakura helped her cover it up… I can't guess my future daughter's thought process.]
[Mikoto Uchiha: Actually, all of this is Fugaku's fault.]
[Fugaku Uchiha: It was Sasuke's decision, not mine! I just accepted it!]
[Mikoto Uchiha: She made the decision because of you! Take responsibility!]
Naruto sighed heavily as he watched them argue.
[Kushina Uzumaki: Mikoto, I thought we were friends. How come I never knew you had a daughter? I always thought Sasuke was a boy!]
[Mikoto Uchiha: Honestly, Sasuke was a really chubby and ugly baby, she looked like a boy. Since you got confused, I didn't bother correcting you…]
[Naruto Uzumaki: That still doesn't explain why Sasuke uses the Transformation Jutsu to look like a man!]
[Fugaku Uchiha: Let me explain…]
[Mikoto Uchiha: No! I'll do it!]
[Fugaku Uchiha: …]
[Mikoto Uchiha: Sasuke always admired her brother. Itachi was everything to her. Since she was little, she just wanted to be like him. But it wasn't just because of her brother… it was also because of Fugaku.]
Naruto frowned in confusion.
[Naruto Uzumaki: Because of Fugaku?]
[Mikoto Uchiha: Yes. Fugaku always compared Sasuke to Itachi. He demanded that she be more like him, that she be stronger, more determined. Sasuke… Sasuke just wanted to earn his love, for her father to be proud of her.]
[Fugaku Uchiha: You make it sound like I didn't love our daughter.]
[Kushina Uzumaki: Shut up! Let her tell the story!]
[Fugaku Uchiha: …]
[Mikoto Uchiha: Itachi was the rising star of the clan. Fugaku dedicated all his attention to him. And Sasuke… Sasuke was never enough. No matter how hard she tried, she always felt like she couldn't reach Itachi.]
[Kushina Uzumaki: Poor Sasuke-chan…]
Naruto, though he couldn't see her, imagined his mother crying. It was so like her…
[Mikoto Uchiha: When Fugaku started demanding that she be more like her brother, Sasuke… Sasuke decided that if she couldn't be like Itachi in everything else, at least she could be like him in the most important way: by being a boy. Pretending to be what Fugaku expected of her. That way, she thought, she would get her father to look at her the same way he looked at Itachi.]
Oh no. This had serious daddy issues vibes.
Sasuke was insane.
[Mikoto Uchiha: Fugaku was too focused on his pride to see what was really happening. Sasuke wanted nothing more than to be loved by her father, like Itachi was. But she did it in her own way… in her own wrong way.]
[Fugaku Uchiha: I've said it countless times, how was I supposed to know it would turn out like this?!]
[Minato Namikaze: Certainly, Fugaku couldn't have known.]
[Fugaku Uchiha: Thank you! Finally, someone who gets it!]
[Minato Namikaze: Although, it's also a fact that you were a terrible father.]
[Fugaku Uchiha: …]
[Fugaku Uchiha: At least I raised my children for most of their lives.]
[Minato Namikaze: That was a low blow.]
[Fugaku Uchiha: I know, forgive me…]
[Mikoto Uchiha: As I said, all of this was Fugaku's fault. He never realized how he was destroying our daughter with his expectations.]
[Naruto Uzumaki: This is the weirdest family I've ever met… and I've met Chōji's parents!]
If Sasuke was a girl, what else could be different?
Would Kaguya Ōtsutsuki be an Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant?
Naruto imagined it… it would be funny.
But back to the topic, if Sasuke was a girl, her future would change completely.
Sarada would never exist.
And thinking about it… maybe that wasn't such a bad thing.
After all… an Uchiha with myopia?
Seeing nothing important happening, Sakura yawned and returned to her room.
A few minutes later, Sasuke opened the door and glared at Naruto.
"Come in. We need to talk."
"You don't have to tell me twice…" Naruto muttered, following her inside.
[Mikoto Uchiha: Keep the door open!]
Naruto's eyebrow twitched in irritation as he read Mikoto's message.