Time Loop: Uchiha Massacre

Epilogue

It was decades later when Toshiko woke up feeling a sharp ache in her chest. She opened her eyes only to come face to face with man with a wrinkled face and grey hair, who looked oddly familiar.

"Itachi? Is that you?" She rasped out.

The man smiled, offering her a glass of water. "It's me. How are you today, Toshiko?"

"Wow, you look old." She exclaimed, taking the glass from him.

This prompted a chuckle from Itachi. "That's probably I am old. I'll be 72 next month." He told her patiently, although with a tone that this conversation had happened a lot of times.

"I'm 71, then? Wow, I'm old." She exclaimed. "What are you doing here though?"

"I'm visiting you. I do that every day." Itachi answered.

Toshiko frowned. "I don't remember meeting you yesterday." She grimaced as she felt another pang in her chest.

"Toshiko, are you okay?" Itachi asked her, sounding worried.

"I'm fine." She answered automatically, before another sharp bout of pain made her cry out.

"Toshiko!" Itachi sounded frantic now, which was strange because she didn't remember Itachi ever sounding frantic.

"I think I'm dying." Toshiko told him, which turned out to be not a good decision, as he promptly turned to get a healer.

Thankfully, Itachi had gotten slow in his old age, and Toshiko was able to stop him by calling out his name. "Stop. It's fine. It's not a bad death." She pointed out.

Itachi looked conflicted for a moment before resignation took over his face. "You'd know all about that, wouldn't you?" He asked, taking her hand in hers.

Toshiko smiled, even though the pain. "I would be very pissed off if wake up again as a five year old."

"Hey, I told you I was pretty sure about that, didn't I?"

"You did. I remember that. You said you were ninety six percent" Toshiko managed to say before a bout of cough overtook her.

Itachi helped her sit up and squeezed her hand tighter. "You'll go to the Pure World this time." He said as he soothingly rubbed circles on her back. "You'll meet your parents and your grandmother. I'll be coming there soon enough, too."

"Take your time." Toshiko breathed out.

Itachi chuckled. "I probably won't."

Toshiko felt numbness spreading through her body. It was quite a relief after the pain. "Bye, Itachi."

"Bye, Toshiko." She heard, as she went to sleep the final time.

She did not wake up again.