Time Loop: Uchiha Massacre

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Toshiko woke up on a dusty floor. She found it strange because she shouldn't be waking up at all since she was dead.

She gingerly stood up, further revealing that her body had somehow shrunk itself, and looked around. She was in a musty smelling room, with rows and rows of foreign looking masks lined up on the walls, and was holding a good colored mask with a circle drawn on it.

With a jolt, she remembered the place. It was the temple she had found after she had runoff to the north forest, after she got the news of her grandmother's death, when she was five. It was one year after the Kyuubi attack (during which her mother had died) and Toshiko was living with her grandmother, her father already being a casualty of the third shinobi war. The deaths, all one after the other, and the realisation that she was alone in the world, were too much for her, and in was the wisdom of a five year old, she had decided to foresake civilisation and live in Konoha's forests. It had been a few hours of roaming amongst the Hashirama trees when she had found this worn down building had and went in. She didn't remember much after that, but somehow she had gotten her hands on the mask she was holding in the moment, and had lost several hours.

She had slowly made her way back to Konoha and crossed path with the police officers who were looking for her.

Judging by the state of her current body, she hypothesised a few theories.

First:  She was dead and this was Pure World. This was the least probable one because it went against every description of Pure World she had read about.

Second: She wasn't dead but in some super genjutsu of Itachi's creation. Again, low in probability, because there wasn't anything he would gain by putting her in a genjutsu.

Third: She had gone mad. She would like to think that wasn't the case, but madness did run in her bloodline. Case in point- Itachi.

Fourth: She had somehow time travelled back to when she was five years old.

The last option was the she was choosing to go with for the time being. Looking at the strange mask she was holding, she could even guess the source of her predicament.

Trying to follow the script, Toshiko decided to head back to Konoha. An hour later, she found the same police officers as last time. Surprisingly, this time she didn't get scolded.

"Ah, Toshiko-chan. How long has it been since it activated?" Uchiha Shota, her father's old friend, asked sympathetically.

Toshiko blinked once, before understanding what he meant. She hadn't even noticed that she had activated her Sharingan. Getting murdered would do that, she supposed.

She carefully directed the chakra flow away from her eyes, and her vision turned slightly duller, less precise. That was a stupid move since it drew attention to the fact that she could manipulate chakra consciously.

Her rescuers shared a 'discreet' glance before deciding to take her to the clan head.

Toshiko didn't want to go to the clan head, but as usual she didn't have any choice. She hoped she wouldn't encounter the six year old version of her murderer, only the universe didn't wish to grant her even that.

They encountered Fugaku near the lake teaching the great fireball jutsu to his son. The little genius, of course, got it on his first try. Fugaku's smug smile was a sight to behold, before he turned to acknowledge Toshiko and her rescuers. He narrowed his eyes in disapproval at spotting her.

"You found the run-away, then?" He asked, his tone dismissive, while Itachi stared curiously at them.

Toshiko tuned out the conversation. She didn't have any interest in hearing Fugaku's disapproval of her actions, she had heard enough of it in the original timeline. Instead, she focused on Itachi. He was a six year old chibi, not the devil that murdered her, therefore she was able to keep her more hostile thoughts in check. She was not going to murder the clan heir, no matter what he turned out to be. First of all, nobody would believe her if she told them of the future. Secondly, she didn't want to murder a six year old.