Hour 1: Fire And Smoke

Hour 1: Fire and Smoke

Summary:

Smoke rising from the Uchiha compound is always a concern. Aburame Shige should go check, just in case.

(And make several worrying realizations in rapid succession.) (Maybe he can help them, too.)

Author: Dawen

Rating: General

Fandom: Naruto

Relationship: none. ...Aburame Shige (OC) & Uchiha Clan?

Other Tags: Humor, Fix-It, Obon, Traditions, (Assumed) Funeral Practices, Epidemic, No Death, Early Konoha, Enemies to Allies to Friends, (the clan version of strangers to friends), Making Peace, Building Community, Pyromaniac Uchiha Clan, Prankster Uchiha Clan, Bald Uchiha Madara, (it's temporary)

Word Count: 2,692

Warnings: This fic does have a background of a deadly epidemic, and some inspiration was taken from Covid. Nothing very detailed; mostly things like social distancing and overfull hospitals. There's no detail about the illness itself. Everyone is weathering the epidemic better than they would have before Konoha. Finally, there is a brief, oblique mention of lung cancer - I used the term sapping cough for it.

A plume of smoke drifts up towards the sun. Shige, on his way home from the new Mission Archives, eyes it speculatively. It's rather early for Obon fires, in his opinion, but the Aburame as a whole are generally not fond of fire and he knows his clan is more... conservative in festival fire than most clans.

That smoke seems to be coming from the Uchiha compound. Curious, Shige adjusts course to investigate.

He finds a single fire burning near the compound entrance, and a lone Uchiha – a kunoichi, though retired, he thinks, when Konoha's building prosperity allowed her to – keeping watch of it. Perhaps not an Obon fire after all, then?

Shige meanders up the path to the Uchiha compound entrance, his innate shinobi curiosity overcoming his better sense in leaving the Uchiha clan well enough alone. The bonfire is just inside the compound entrance. Not many people are around, just a gate guard who keeps their distance from the blaze, though they let Shige in with a curious glance and a polite nod, and the kunoichi who's focused intently on the bonfire.

There appears to be people in that bonfire.

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