Uchiha Reincarnation

Hiroyuki was born a warm summer day on a farm on the outskirts of Niigata Prefecture. That July 30 was the worst and best day in his father's life. Watanabe Daisuke used to tell him that the moment he saw his face he became the happiest man alive; however, when Hiroyuki grew up he was told his mother died that day.

His father never held it against him, which should be obvious, but when he became a psychologist he truly understood the blessing he had with a father like Daisuke—unfortunately, there's a lot of single fathers that end up blaming their children for their mother's passing—.

Hiroyuki never knew his mother personally, but he felt like he did. His father always talked about her at any moment he could. Stories about Aanya filled Hiroyuki's curiosity, and he knew that the woman undoubtedly loved him—which, again, should be obvious, but children have a very particular way of being cruel to each other—.

Daisuke made sure to always remember Aanya, even if it caused him pain.

"Aanya... Your mother, she was beautiful, the most beautiful woman you could ever see. Her skin was similar to ours, but hers was of a softer color and texture...like milk chocolate. When the sun reflected on her eyes, they looked like molten gold. Still, you shouldn't let their beauty enchant you completely. When she was angry. Oh God. Her eyes looked like those of a wolf...When she smiled...you sometimes smile like her, you know?...it was a crooked smile that formed a dimple on her right cheek" Daisuke's eyes glazed over each time he talked about her, but his voice was filled with love and devotion. "She was gorgeous, not only physically, inside too. She wasn't very patient, and she didn't like to waste her time, but she had all the time in the world for the people who needed it. She was a medic..."

A love like that, a love that could endure death...Hiroyuki didn't think he could find it, not until he met Yua.

He met Smith Yua in the airport at Musutafu—sometimes he feels that it was destiny itself what brought them together—, it was the first time he went outside Niigata. The Watanabes usually have the quirk 'empath', and so it is easier to live in the countryside, where there aren't many people(where there aren't feelings of many people pressed together). Hiroyuki would have never left Niigata, but his father insisted that he should study and obtain a good profession that would give him a better life.

He remembers feeling, for the first time, that maybe his father was wrong.

How could the city give him a better life? His head was killing him, emotions/feelings were running wild on his brain, and why was he so sad, so happy, so stressed at the same time! He didn't even have a reason to be stressed!

His quirk was killing him and he felt sick. Of course, to be an empath is difficult, you feel everything others are feeling, but it was never that bad at Niigata —his father did tell him that he would regret not practicing the use of his quirk more often, but it was just...! His head hurt a lot when he consciously used his quirk!—. He wanted to go home, continue his life at the farm and maybe marry that pretty girl at the convenience store —yes, he was exaggerating, it hurt a lot, but it wasn't that bad that he was seriously planning to go back home—.

With how dramatic he was/is and how bad he was feeling, it shouldn't be a surprise that when Yua arrived in the middle of his suffering, asking "Are you okay?" with the most beautiful calming voice he had ever heard, he gave the most stupid answer he could.

"Are you an angel?" The men in the Watanabe family had always been a little sappy, but that was a new record.

The high level of embarrassment made them turn into tomatoes—an incredible feat for Hiroyuki, considering his skin color and his loud, almost shameless personality—, and both parted their ways hoping to never live such a mortifying event, but destiny had other plans and they met again on Musutafu University.

Hiroyuki was going to study psychology in the same University Yua was just starting her career in education—Was it really possible for such a coincidence to occur? Without God, or any other deity intervening? He doesn't believe it—. Somehow, with the passing of time, the awkward and ashamed smiles turned into goofy grins and sweet/warm looks.

They fell in love...

...And there were obstacles.

First, the University took the majority of their time, and then the problem changed to trying to keep stable jobs. When they finally took care of their professional lives and decided to marry, Yua's parents didn't want their precious daughter to marry a nobody. And as if the world trying to separate them wasn't enough, they fought each other—normally trivialities thrown out of proportion because of stress—. They were young, he was immature and Yua a little too serious for him.

It reached a point where they thought maybe they weren't made for each other after all.

And that was the key.

After all.

After everything they had been through together, would they drift apart?

What is worth will never be easy.

So they decided to try a little more. If at the end they weren't fated to be, well, at least they could say they tried. They wouldn't live in regret thinking about the things they didn't do, about the things they could have done.

—While Hiroyuki ended telling the story as the most cute and romantic love story he could, making emphasis on the good things, Yua always made sure to bring him back to reality, reminding him that life wasn't a rose path—. Their differences didn't disappear, but they grew up and changed in other ways. Those differences stopped crashing and instead they complemented each other.

Who would have thought that people so different were, after all, meant to be together?

Hiroyuki loves his life. His career gave him a better understanding of his emotions and quirk, his job lets him help people just like his mother did, his wife is what lights up his mornings—he totally understands now how his father felt—, his father is alive and healthy, and of course, let's not forget that their jobs give them enough money to live a fairly accommodated life. All of it is a blessing, and he is grateful everyday. What else could he ask for? Was it really possible to be happier?

The answer was yes.

They weren't against the possibility of having a child. It wasn't something they desperately wanted, but it would be nice to make their family bigger—maybe with a child he would be able to convince Yua to get a dog—. The problem? They had been trying for a while, but it didn't look like it was possible for them. Although not really a problem since adoption was always an option, it did feel...weird...no...he felt disappointed. Perhaps he wanted it more than he thought.

Then it happened, a miracle.

The most amazing thing a human can create, life. Hiroyuki and Yua, they had made a child, there was a new little life forming on his wife's body. They told everyone about it, or well, Yua told everyone about it, he was more like bragging, already saying how smart, cute, and amazing would be their baby.

They were overjoyed—even if they showed it differently—, or they were supposed to be. Why was his wife so sad? Maybe it was the hormones...? But no, it felt different. It wasn't the fleeting sadness of a random event, nor the mood swing provoked by hormones at pregnancy—he worked with pregnant women before, he knew how that felt—. It was more like...the sadness of losing a loved one, but...worse? People feel differently—which is why you should never compare the suffering of two different people—, so it is impossible to 'measure' accurately the level of emotion a person is feeling, but this...he had never felt anything like it. It wasn't only sadness but a whole lot of guilt, regret, anger, hate, confusion, stress, pain. A pain so raw and so strong that it made him cry.

What would someone need to suffer to feel like this?

"Are you alright, Hiro? Sweetheart?" Yua's voice filled of worry was really confused, but he still asked because was it really possible? For their baby to...

"Shouldn't I be asking you that? Are you alright? I mean, obviously not, but...Did something happen today, why are you...?" Why are you hurting like this?

"Hey...hey, Hiro, pay attention to me, I'm fine. Okay? Hiro...?"

She was being honest, and if she was telling the truth, then...the only other person that his quirk could feel like this...

Why?

Hiroyuki had worked with many people through the years. Children, teenagers, adults. Women, men. Troubled people who needed help—most recently he did a little extra study and started working with criminals—, the point was, that he has experience, and what he was feeling from that baby wasn't usual.

It definitely weren't his wife's feelings, but a baby shouldn't be able to feel like that, nor have a reason for it.

He was panicking, influenced by those feelings and his own confusion and fear, it took him a few hours to explain it to his wife. Of course, Yua, being the most level headed of the two, calmed him down and told him that they should ask Daisuke—since he was the only other person with the empath quirk—.

The way to Niigata was a nightmare, he actually needed to 'turn off' his quirk as much as possible if he didn't want to be overwhelmed.

He knew his father would give him an answer, but he didn't expect the kind of answer he gave.

When they arrived at the house, Daisuke looked at Yua with curiosity, then his eyes turned sad—probably feeling what Hiroyuki felt—, and said.

"So it happened" without more explanations, his father took them to the kitchen, gave them tea, and made them sit at the table.

The serious atmosphere around the man was enough to tell them that this was more important than what they thought—difficult to believe—. Daisuke took a deep breath, and looked at the photo of Aanya that was always in the middle of the table. Hiroyuki wasn't a patient person, but he knew when to control himself, so he waited until his father decided to speak.

"Do you remember everything I told you about your mother?"

"How does that have anything to...!" a look from him was enough to shut him up "Okay! Okay. So I know that she was beautiful, smart, a doctor, Hindu descent. What does that matter right now?! You felt it too, Tou-san, there's something wrong with our baby"

"Ah, but it has everything to do..."

"Daisuke-san, with all respect, we would appreciate it if you could be a little more direct with us" Yua was starting to sound impatient too.

"Right, it's just...a sensible and rare matter...I wasn't exactly prepared to talk about it...Aanya would have..." the worried looks of Hiroyuki and Yua must had make him steel his resolve because he began talking "You see, just like everyone else Hindu people have their beliefs, and just like everyone else those beliefs are supported by faith, but in your mother's family...in your mother's family it was different"

So what does it matter? Usually, he wouldn't say no to hear about his mother, but this wasn't the time to talk about that.

"Hindu believe in reincarnation. In Aanya's family...for Aanya, it was more than a belief because some of their women were reincarnations"

What?!

"The quirk era brought many different powers, and 'reincarnation' was one of them. Aanya told me that it was probable that if we had a daughter, it could be a reincarnation...just like her"

Daisuke explained everything he could, from what Aanya knew personally to what had been researched by generations of her family. How at 3-4 months of pregnancy the quirk activated itself and 'brought' a soul to fill the body—instead of growing with the body—, how it was theorized to be a totally random event, how the person didn't knew what was happening until they were born, how it was unusual for the quirk to manifest, how that proved the existence of a multiverse—because sometimes they didn't recognize anything on this world—.

It was mind blowing, and it gave them a question they were afraid to ask. Yua and Hiroyuki looked at each other with insecurity on their faces.

"So...this baby...this person...it isn't our daughter?" Yua was the one brave enough to say it outloud, and the words went through their hearts like a bullet and hurt more like anything they had experienced before.

Hiroyuki...he wasn't mad, according to Daisuke's information no one had the fault here, but thinking about it like that...it hurt.

"That's your decision, and as always in life, you have options" said his father with a small smile on his face "You can decide that the little one isn't your daughter, maybe give her to an orphanage. Or you can decide that she is your daughter, your blood, and simply accept that her soul has more experience and pain than it should"

Their answer was obvious, their child or not, they would treat her as such. That's what they decided and that's what they would do, but it wasn't until they interacted with the baby that they truly realized that no matter what, she was theirs.

Each time they sang, each time they talked, each time they were happy...Each time they did any of those things, the baby was a little happy. She liked to hear them, and she liked when they were happy. The six months after that conversation with Daisuke were difficult and it was a work of everyday to connect with her, but they did it.

They loved her and they hoped she would as well when she was born—she liked them, but love isn't something that comes easy. It was different for them, who already considered her their daughter—.

The search for her name was a challenge. They weren't sure if they should wait for her to tell them her name or simply push one onto her without asking. At the end, it was Daisike who told them that while it was a good thing they were considering her feelings, they should consider her future too. Something as simple as a name could make her realize she wasn't in that other life anymore or chain her to the past she would never be able to go back to.

They chose the name Chieko. 'Child blessed with wisdom'. They hoped her past would give her the experience to live instead of drag her down.

All those things were nothing compared to when Chieko was born. They had already agreed that it was better if they didn't show they knew she was a reincarnation, not when she wasn't able to express herself, not when they didn't know what type of reaction she could have—they didn't want to know if it was possible for a baby to have a panic attack—.

Life went on.

Daisuke decided to rent a small apartment in Musutafu because he wanted to be there when the child was born. Hiroyuki and Yua insisted on letting him stay with them, but Daisuke is a stubborn man and refused.

Hiroyuki made sure to feel her every emotion, so he could know when she needed them. They preferred not to think about it, but the fact was that if Hiroyuki didn't have his quirk they probably wouldn't have been able to help her at all. Little Chieko was a good actress, but Hiroyuki felt everything. Her embarrassment, her sadness, her regret, her guilt, and...her love. At first that love wasn't directed at them, but then...each time she looked at them, each time they talked to her, each time they smiled at her...there was it, adoration, love, happiness, and still...she never smiled.

The love she felt was drowning in the middle of her other emotions. Hiroyuki was sure she felt she didn't deserve any of that—and what type of life she had to hate herself like that? How could they help her?—. As any parent, they worried, but the only answer appeared to be to give her time. Until she met Mirio.

Since Yua's sister's death, they weren't too close with the Togata family. Kaito kept pushing them away. Not that they blamed him, Yua is the copy of Kaito's wife... They invited the Togatas without really thinking he would go, but fate had other plans.

Hiroyuki and Yua made sure to make Mirio and Chieko friends, maybe that's what she needed—but would she appreciate it? She wasn't really 4 years old, maybe she didn't like kids, maybe she would be bored, maybe they should let her handle her problems...? Did she hate it when they treated her like their child...? They weren't her "real" parents, they...God...wasn't that sad...to not know your own child—.

Their hopes weren't too high, and then again, fate surprised them. It didn't take them more than a day, and Mirio had already made her smile. A tiny smile, but a smile nonetheless.

They already had plans to force Kaito to visit them more, but after that...There was no way they would ever let the Togatas alone.

The words she gave them at the end of the day only strengthened their resolve.

Mirio changed her, that was for sure. The hyperactive boy had made himself a part of their daughter's heart and she smiled more, laughed more, spoke more...and still... that wasn't okay either. Because she wasn't able to pretend with them anymore, everyone saw it, but Hiroyuki felt it. The times where she saw Mirio, and her eyes crystallized with tears before she smiled with her heart in her hand. Her soul would feel the same regret, anger, guilt, sadness, and a painful love that didn't have anything to do with what she usually felt around the blonde boy, then she would push them away and continue with her life.

It was helping, in a way, locking up the emotions she didn't want to feel made her stay more present, but Hiroyuki knew better. That would work until it didn't and she would end worse than before.

How could they help her without hurting her? The answer was easier to say than to do. Obviously, the best thing to do was to talk to her about it, but what if...what if...what if... The insecurity of what could happen when they addressed the issue made Hiroyuki afraid and miserable—he studied for this, why can't he help her?—.

The fact was harder to address for Hiroyuki than for Yua. Being the most "emotionally sensible" of the two, he didn't want to push Chieko, he thought it was better for Chieko to talk to them, but Yua insisted that sometimes...sometimes people need a push to be able to move on.

And that's how they ended like this.

Their horrible way to handle everything ended with their child asking for forgiveness at their feet.

They are such responsible adults.

Such good parents.