Time Loop: Uchiha Massacre

6

Uchiha Toshiko woke up on a dusty floor.

The first thing she did was access her chakra and sit there for a few moments just circulating her chakra around the body, enjoy the feel of it being pure and unadulterated.

The second thing she did was to repeat exactly what she had done in the last loop to get Danzo arrested. It had worked and if it ain't broke.....

The third thing she did was track down Uchiha Itachi to a training ground, and creepily observe him training while hiding in a tree. He was alive, breathing, training. Not dead. His heart was still beating, chakra still flowing.

"What are you doing here, Toshiko-san?" Toshiko was proud of herself for not jumping a foot in air as Uchiha Itachi spoke from the tree behind her. There was another Itachi (probably a clone) practicing kunai throwing on the ground.

"Observing you." Toshiko answered, unashamedly. What was the point, she was already caught.

"Why are you observing me?" Itachi asked unperturbed.

"You know what? I haven't got a clue." It was true enough. He might have been her first kill in a fit of evil chakra induced madness, but she had been training a ninja during most of all her lives. Killing was almost a norm. Why was it making her so uncomfortable?

A frown formed over Itachi's chibi face. "Were you really going to be kidnapped by ANBU?"

"Yup." She even was kidnapped by them at one point.

"I don't think ANBU are stupid enough to loudly talk about there plans in hearing range of their target."

That was a good point. "Maybe they were fake ANBU." They definitely were, but they were better than the regular ANBU, not stupider.

She wondered why her made up story full of holes was taken seriously by Fugaku and others. Maybe because it contained information she had no plausible way of knowing otherwise?

Chibi Itachi's face lit up with comprehension. "That is why Outo-san is so worried. Someone is impersonating village security and committing crimes in their guise."

Toshiko nodded. "It is a worrying matter."

She went home late in the evening, wondering how the hell did she ended up discussing village security with her nemesis for four hours.

The next day, Toshiko was leaving the clan compound to buy groceries when Itachi insistent on accompanying her, and offered condolences for her grandmother's death. Somehow, she didn't find it in herself to rebuff him.

This continued in a similar vein and a month later, Toshiko was pulling weeds in her garden, helped by the Uchiha heir, listening to how cute Sasuke was and how weird other kids at the academy were.

Somehow she had become Uchiha Itachi's friend.

"What about Izumi-san? She is in your class, isn't she?" Toshiko hated throwing the other girl under the bus, but this was getting beyond weird. Besides, Izumi had a mountain-sized crush on Itachi. She would probably thank Toshiko for her intervention.

"She acts weird around me too." Itachi sighed. "Only you and Shisui-san act normal with me."

Since Toshiko had collectively lived more than fifty years and Shisui was a genius was veteran, how they acted probably wasn't what would be considered 'normal'. Toshiko decided not to mention that.

"Well, you know how kids are." She shrugged.

Itachi stared at her. "You are a year younger than them."