Time Loop: Uchiha Massacre

8

Toshiko woke up on a dusty floor and resisted the urge to teleport away from Konoha immediately.

No. This was her home. If there was something she didn't like, it was her job to take care of it . Her friends were here . She couldn't just abandon them to their fates, which she knew to be dreadful. Still, the suffocating feeling from chakra of the Hashirama trees didn't make things easier.

She didn't know what to do. The only lives she had been able to get her Root friends out of their had been when she had told on Danzo. The massacre hadn't happened in those lives but that was only because of Shisui's brainwashing Sharingan. No, that can't happen again, she shuddered, as she remembered the feeling of her being taken apart and remade according to his wishes. She wouldn't wish that on anyone, even those wrinkly elders on the Uchiha council.

Telling on Danzo now, however, would further escalate the tensions between the village and the clan, especially since a Sharingan would be discovered on the elder. The clan hadn't been happy about that, the last time. In hindsight, perhaps that had led to increased support for the coup plans amongst the Uchiha.

Not telling on Danzo now meant leaving Fu, Shinki and Katsu to a life in hell, that was if they all survived, which was unlikely.

All right, then. It looked like she was going back to root, she thought, letting out a hysterical giggle. There must be something really wrong with her to even consider going back there willingly.

It was probably an hour later that she was standing in the same clearing in which she was once kidnapped, keeping herself from glancing warily towards the tree cover where she was able to sense two muted chakra signatures.

It took everything she had to not retaliate when the Root members hit her on the back of her head and let herself be knocked out. She woke in the same dark room, with Danzo standing there like a creepy old man, as she had last time.

"You are Uchiha Toshiko?" He asked.

She nodded. "I am."

Danzo regarded her silently. "Aren't you afraid?"

"No." She answered, truthfully, suspecting he could sense her emotions through her chakra. She had been pretty spooked the last time she was here. But now, considering that she had faced a reanimated version of Uchiha Madara on the battlefield, Toshiko didn't find Danzo that scary anymore. Don't get her wrong, she knew that Danzo could easily kill her, it was just a bit hard to care about dying when you'd wake up again a hours back to do it again.

"Hmm." Danzo had a gleam in his eye. "Perhaps you wouldn't require much of emotional training. Put her with Kinoe." He ordered to the Root shinobi standing gaurd. "Keep me updated on her progress."

As Danzo said, Toshiko wasn't roomed with Fu this time, but with an older boy called Kinoe. Only, Toshiko remembered meeting an older version of him on the island in Kumo. He was called Yamato. She hadn't had much interaction with him, but he definitely hadn't been a Danzo fanatic, unlike Kinoe who basically worshipped the ground the Warhawk walked on. The one and the only time she tried to obliquely complain about Danzo, he was extremely quick to shut her down by telling her how Danzo-sama had saved him and how Danzo-sama knew what was best for Konoha. He was also eleven, and much further in his training to become an emotionless zombie than Fu had been.

He also had the Mokuton, not to the capacity of his future self though, which was natural. It was just far less impressive when she had already seen him use it to constraint a massive turtle.

The interesting thing, however, was that Kinoe was already a Root operative. He had already been doing missions for quite a while and Toshiko couldn't understand why Danzo had ordered to room her with him. She gave up trying to figure it out after a few days. Trying to think like his twisted mind made her nauseous.