Few laugh out of story. Naruto get new family is great end

There's no Hate for women in Naruto verse. Chakra is like a gun that makes men & women perfectly equal. Don't project problems of our world into Naruto's... It's a battle shonen.
Apart from Madara(who's centuries older) ... not a single character said anything about women..

The strongest being in Naruto Was Kaguya otsutsuki.. A woman. This story is a good example of how netflix writers of failed projects fuk up established works By projecting their non canon issues that completely contradicts the setting

thanks for posting this fic ! it is really amazing. I'm so glad to finally find a story where Mikoto has such a great role and where the massacre is avoided, because honestly, the way things happen in canon are quite disturbing i think, since the massacre could have been avoided somehow without involving a 13 kid to do something so atrocious. Thanks again :)

Mikoto was also a only child.

I know this is old but Kushina and Mikoto are best friends. I just can’t ever see this happening.

dang good story and I love how it ended.

That part about the former swordsman of the mist is inspired. Reminds me of the mad king in ASOIAF, how he chained the brother. Really gets across how twisted Madara is.

That line about Itachi being the well adjusted one amongst the ANBU made me laugh out loud.

Man, it's been that long? I'm coming back to this as I prepare to return to writing a Naruto fanfiction of my own. Because this is the closest to advice on the Uciha that I can get, from what I remember.

A notably well-written version of an important AU question that rescues the Uchiha from Danzo's schemes and everyone's terrible canon planning. It shares a modern feminist tone with the well-received TEAM 8 by S'TarKan. Although the Hyuga, as in that story, are a better canon fit for "insufferable patriarchal oppressor clan" (I wouldn't put anything past the dudes who came up with caged-bird seal…), it's entirely believable that the oft militant Uchiha would display similar behaviors. Mikoto is an appealing heroine who displays a range of maternal impulses and gets to show hints of a varied adult social life inside the clan and out. I am a bit surprised she lives in the end. I probably would have killed her off in the final confrontation – to stress the parallel with Kushina and to force the comparison of her sacrifice with canon Itachi's – but the decision to keep her alive is reasonable and the double Mangekyo attack split between her and Itachi that overcomes Madara is rather satisfying. (I am confused about Madara though: was ObitoTobiMadara's agent not yet known at the time of this story's writing? Or am I misremembering how the Nine-Tails attack and Kiri puppet state went down?). The story benefits from having a defined ending that keeps its length and subplots disciplined, a rarity in fanfiction generally and for Naruto fanfiction especially. Among the best works in this fandom.

I can't exactly agree Naruto seems "REALLY straight". At some point, the singleminded pursuit of a particular woman who has rejected you a million times starts to look less like a crush and more like a cover story. Add on the fact he displays no interest in any of the girls he's responsible for saving over the course of the series, and that he somehow manages to ignore the girl that jumps into mortal peril to declare her love and sacrifice herself for a minuscule chance of saving him before everyone dies … well, I guess more than anything it looks like bad writing lol. It's not a coincidence that canon's most convincing relationships (Kurenai/Asuma, Temari/Shikamaru) are almost entirely offscreen. He's definitely "supposed to be" straight though.

Since only a man would think a woman would write like your A/N, I conclude this is misdirection and you really are one!

On a more serious note, the beginning of the Mikoto/Itachi conversation feels a bit off. I don't think they need the "You can go against Father? Aren't you a simple devoted wife?" debate because the pair have a long and recently re-affirmed conspiracy together to protect Sasuke from getting Itachi's inhuman training schedule. It's also better to avoid the "before you were born I was a jonin!" moments because they compromise one of the strongest bits of the chapter, where Mikoto corrects Itachi's assumption that she's seen the secret shrine like all the other three-tomoe Uchiha jonin he knows. Otherwise Mikoto's "you are a very smart 13 year old but…" approach to Itachi's crazy revelations has the right tone. Neither is probably sufficiently skeptical of the other's story but letting them be easily convinced is an effective way of showing how badly both come into the conversation wanting its outcome (Mikoto to oppose the coup, Itachi not to be alone).

In the ending monologue, Mikoto overlooks the most obvious motive for Hiruzen's supposed anti-Uchiha conspiracy: his wife's apparent death at the hands of a red-eyed man. This can be read as a consequence of her chafing at her unfulfilling marriage and clan role – *her* husband seems to give her little regard, why should Biwa's be so different that he'd destroy an entire clan for her? It is also amusing that the Uchiha don't realize the importance of Hashirama's relics because the biological samples the Mizukage could have bargained for are (somehow, lol Kishimoto) among the strongest anti-sharingan tools in universe. This chapter does a good job of letting Mikoto be smart but plausibly imperfect.

Mikoto is probably too strong. She's ten years out of service but has no trouble with two dozen shadow clones and manages to pull a genjutsu over Kakashi (albeit not using his sharingan). In my head she ought to have been sort of like Kurenai in her prime? A reputable jonin with some skill, but not an ANBU elite. This is thematics: the story wants to stress that her development as a ninja had been held back by the barriers of clan and gender expectation, and also that political intrigue and a mother's attentiveness can be just as effective weapons as Itachi's once in a generation powers. The more remarkable her military talents are, the less effective these thematic elements become for the story.

The idea of taking Kishimoto's latter day pro-Uchiha revisionism ("Itachi was a good guy all along!", "Mikoto and Kushina were friends!", etc) seriously from the start is a very strong AU premise. A self-assured beginning.