Time Loop: Uchiha Massacre

10

"Toshiko-chan. Toshiko-chan." A barely recognisable male voice called out. "Damnit, she's chakra exhausted."

Toshiko felt someone picking her up, as she struggled to open her eyes.

"She must have activated her Sharingan over the grief of her grandmother's death." Another voice replied, dashing any hope Toshiko had of being in the same timeline. "Poor girl must not have known how to deactivate it. Should we take her to the hospital?"

"No, let's take her to Fugaku-sama. He's her temporary gaurdian." The first voice said, making Toshiko want to groan. But neither the person carrying her nor her body took any notice of her objections and she fell back into unconsciousness.

Toshiko woke up on a soft bed, feeling a bit better. Her muscles still felt like jelly and she might fall down if she tried to get up, but atleast she was able to move a bit. Her chakra levels were at the minimum she had ever felt, and that confused Toshiko. It was clear that she had restarted this life with chakra exhaustion, which caused her to remain unconscious for a longer duration than she normally did, leading to the search party finding her passed out in the mask temple. She knew she had died of chakra exhaustion but, the cause of neither of her deaths before had ever been transferred to the reboot. What had changed?

A knock on her door brought her out her musings. Chibi-Itachi was standing there, looking concerned. "Toshiko, I wanted to talk to you."

"Now's not a good time." She replied. She wasn't ready to talk to him. Not when it had been a few hours for since she had lost a version of him that had been her friend for years, who had known her, understood her. This Itachi was six years old. He had never ever met her, and only knew her name because she was recovering from chakra exhaustion at his house.

Wait.... He said Toshiko! It had taken years for Itachi to drop the honorifics!

"Itachi?" She asked, hopefully, scrutinizing him carefully.

"Yes?" He answered.

"How'd you defeat Orochimaru?"

Itachi smiled. "A really strong genjutsu."

Toshiko didn't know how she found the energy to do that, but she flew out of the bed and tackle-hugged Itachi, probably squeezing the life out of him. "Oh, it's you. It's you." She sobbed into his shoulder.

Itachi patted her back awkwardly. "You shouldn't be standing up. Come, let's get you back to bed. Try to be a bit quiet, though. I really don't want Kaa-san to find me in your room at three in the morning."

Toshiko let out a wet laugh. "Well, considering that we are six and five respectively, I don't think she'll mind that much."

"Yes, about that. Care to explain how that happened?" He asked, climbing in beside her.

"Why are you asking me?" Toshiko tried to sound confused.

Itachi narrowed his eyes. "You're a terrible liar. This has happened to you before, hasn't it? That would explain quite a lot of things."

Toshiko sighed. "Yeah. No one has ever come with me before, though. I don't know how you did."

Itachi's eyes widened. "'Never happened before'? That sounds like more than one experience. How many times had this happened to you, Toshiko?"

"This is my tenth life. Every time I die I wake up on the day my grandmother died."

"You died?"

"Yeah. Chakra exhaustion, which was so stupid. It was even pathetic than the death before that." Toshiko whined.

"Alright, as much as I'd like to hear the whole story right now, I think we should wait for Tsunade-sama." Itachi told her.