The Three Body Solution

A young child was returning from school.

A child with nothing special about him. 

He walked along the vibrant streets of Konohagakure. He took a turn at a small alley. A subtle shift in the air. 

One went in, two came out. 

The child went on his merry way while a young man with a sweet smile started to move in a different direction. 

The young man started moving towards the outskirts of the village. To a clan area.

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"Are we doing the right thing Shisui san?"

 "We have no choice. We must protect Konoha. We have tried everything—no more time left."

The two slowly walked toward the main part of the clan area—the Naka shrine.

"Have everyone gathered Father?" Itachi asked the patriarch.

 "Yes. You still haven't specified why we all had to come."

Shisui looked with three red three-tomoe eyes. Everyone was present. All 318 of them.

Shisui stood up and walked towards the pedestal. 

"Everyone, I have been a spy for the clan and the Hokage for the last three years."

Everyone went absolutely quiet. 

"I have observed how the village elders and leaders see us. After the Nine-Tails attacked, we lost all support from the clans that blamed us for the death of their people. The leaders of the village instead fear us and our power. They fear that we will betray them like Madara did. Even after everything we did and our patriarch did to assure them, they still can not trust us. They fear our potential. 

I have been working hard with Itachi to find any way to amend this. 

Our first idea was to integrate with the other clans and become civilians. Like the Senju who gave up their clan identity to become Konoha instead. 

But our eyes will always cause us trouble. An Uchiha with no protection is an alluring kekkei genkai holder to everyone else. 

They will instead hunt us and take our eyes slowly one person at a time."

Itachi observed the crowd. He noticed a couple of people getting ready to object. But thankfully they are staying quiet for the moment.

"We also thought of something more simple to tackle the issue. By making an external threat that only we would be able to solve. 

But that bred unexpected complications. To make people take it seriously, casualties would be necessary. At least 10, maybe 100. 

We can not sacrifice that many people for a remote chance that 300 people would stop facing suspicion and distrust. 

We have been discriminated against for as long as we have existed. 

Hyenas are eyeing us now. 

The Hokage and the elders have approved of the disposal of our clan to prevent our eventual coop."

Shocked gasps were heard across the crowd. They did not expect this.

"Then we should go and kill them right away!"

"How dare they?"

"After all we have sacrificed for them!"

"My son gave his life for the village."

"My mother gave her life."

Everyone was agitated and angered. The elders and the patriarch were staring at Shisui and Itachi. 

"EVERYONE! QUIET DOWN, LET HIM FINISH!"

Fugaku spoke up.

"Itachi and I have been looking for a solution. We have thought of doing exactly that, going through with the coop. 

But then what? 

The people of Konoha no longer like or trust us. We would be ruling over nothing. They would unite against us eventually. 

All for what? Being given a face statue on a mountain? Getting power. 

No, instead we thought that we should leave. 

No more of this discrimination."

He stopped to let them think of the idea.

"And go where? Be like the Uzumaki clan? Make our own village? We will be hunted down for our bloodline. Either out of fear or greed. You want us to become the next Uzumaki clan?"

One of the elders asked. He had a valid point. 

"How about going to another world instead?"

Shisui activated his Sharingan. 

More specifically, his Mangekyo Sharingan. Two four pronged shurikens. Slowly rotating. 

Before everyone was over their shock over seeing his eyes and what it represents, Shisui continued with the pitch. 

"The ability in my eyes is 'Sekai ōdan' or Dimension Travel. It lets me travel from one world to another. But I can not bring anyone else with me. The only way to carry multiple across with me is by sacrificing the ability. Like Izanagi, I would sacrifice this ability entirely. I would only be able to carry every one over once. 

There would be no coming back. 

That is the reason we are all here. All of you will go with me. 

Or be disposed of by the village."

The elders were furious at the statement. That was a threat. Shisui has practically ambushed them with this situation. 

Not everyone in the clan was a shinobi. Some were quite weak and were basically civilians. 

Shisui is asking them to abandon their livelihoods and properties and go to a new place. 

Or be killed. 

"Is that world safe? Or is this just your twisted way of talking about the underworld?"

The same elder from before spoke. 

"It is completely safe. I have traveled there and checked already. It is far better than the situation we are in right now."

"Can we go tomorrow? With our belongings?"

"We can go right now with all your belongings. But not tomorrow. We have to go right now."

One elder spoke out, "Why? Why are you rushing us so much? What aren't you telling us?"

"If we wait, our plan will get leaked. We will be attacked by the Hokage and be accused of treason. I don't want that. Konoha is dead to us. And so we shall be dead to them from now on. We will carry out everything from here. 

And I assure you, you will not regret coming. This is a new world with new opportunities. We could live like kings there. We can make a new Ninja village there. One where only we are the founding members. 

We could create our own Hokage Rock. 

Why are you hesitating? You all have seen my eyes. Nothing can beat us. 

Let's go."

Itachi stood up. 

"Let's go everyone, for a better future."

Slowly they all came around to it. Against the Mangekyo Sharingan, they would not be able to protest. They had their fate sealed. 

Shisui abruptly cast a genjutsu on everyone and before they could react, a mud wave went across them all. The source? A small barrel at the corner of the room. Previously assumed to contain wine. 

They all were trapped inside, and before they broke from the genjutsu, their surroundings changed. 

They were now on a beach. 

Around them were houses. Their previous ones. With everything inside, just the way it was previously.

In Konoha, the Uchiha district was enveloped in mud for a second. Only to disappear entirely with everything inside. 

The Anbu tasked with monitoring the area was shocked. He ran as fast as he could towards the Hokage office. 

A disturbance rippled across the spacetime of the planet. The fate of this world has been rapidly changed. 

The Pureland rippled as Hagoromo looked at the material world and saw the latest incarnation of one of his sons disappear from this world. 

The Great Toad Sage Gamamaru woke up from his sleep feeling extreme dizziness and discomfort. He felt motion sick. He felt his precognition senses go haywire as the fate of the world was changed. The toads close to him rushed to see if he was ok.

"Summon Jiraiya! Something happened. I have never felt this before!"

The toads seeing him disturbed like this for the first time in their long life, rushed to get Jiraiya. 

This world will no longer remain the same. The first rock has been thrown into the water. 

The first of many. 

Will the water remain the same after all the rocks have been thrown?

And what will it take from the inhabitants of the lake?

What will remain afterwards?

Only time can tell.