The first time Uchiha Toshiko died, she was twelve years old.

It seems morbid, but that was when her life took an interesting turn (Not that she saw it that way). Prior to that, she was just an average orphan academy student from the Uchiha clan, on the verge of graduation. The only fact that set her apart from her peers was that she didn't actually want to become a ninja.

Unfortunately, her unwillingness on the matter didn't amount to much when she was completely dependent on the orphan funds provided by the Uchiha orphan fund since she was 5, and the clan had a very dim view of civilian life, believing that only shinobi could bring glory and honor to the clan. Toshiko didn't believe in that trip, but regrettably she couldn't say that to the clan elder's wrinkled faces if she wished to see her next food check.

In order to survive long enough to enjoy the finer appreciations of civilian life as a retired ninja (with minimum of ten years of service to the village), she aimed for the dead end job for ninja- genin corps. She didn't have to try very hard for it. Her complete lack of motivation to practice the ninja arts coupled with her genetical inclination towards the subject, led her to be placed comfortably in the middle of her class rankings.

Add that to Konoha's current attitude towards the Uchiha, she was shoe in for a position in the genin corps. The only things left for her to do were- to graduate and successfully fail the jounin-sensei's test. She would feel bad for her potential teammates if she didn't already know that she would be put in a team with students expected to fail and witha jounin sensei who didn't have any intention of passing a team.

Toshiko's plans, however, were derailed when on a night one week prior to her graduation, as she was returning to the Uchiha compound after buying groceries; the streets of the compound were filled with corpses. With sick fascination, she observed the severed head of Uchiha Yujiro, the elder who she disliked the most; expression of shock frozen forever on his face.

Toshiko was brought out of her preoccupation by the sound of frenzied footsteps belonging to one Uchiha Sasuke, second son the clan head, running headfirst towards his home.

She didn't have any love for Uchiha Fugaku, but wasn't cold hearted enough to let a seven year old run into a house most likely filled with corpses. Dropping her grocery bags (that was 15000 ryo down the drain), Toshiko ran up to Sasuke with all the speed she could muster, picked him up and ran toward the direction of Nara compound, as the child screamed shrilly, demanding to let him go to his parents. Chances were that the Nara had intruder seals on their boundaries which would be the fastest way to get help.

Toshiko was about two minutes away form the boundary of the Nara forest, when she was blocked by a figure appearing in front of her. She almost relaxed on recognising him as Uchiha Itachi, the clan heir and elder brother of the child currently in her back; before she sensed the killing intent directed at her from those strange shuriken shaped Sharingan, and sword his naked sword coated with fresh blood.

Sasuke, oblivious to the tension, jumped off Toshiko's back to run to his brother, only to stop short and scream before falling to the ground, unconscious.

Toshiko didn't have much to contemplate what happened to the boy, as she felt a blade slip between her ribs, puncturing her lungs. With an odd sort of detachment, she watched as Itachi pulled back his sword, with her blod added to the rest of the clan members he had murdered.

Toshiko couldn't stop the hysterical laughter bubbling in her gut, even as she fell down, feeling her life slipping away. Fugaku's precious prodigy, the one he claimed to be the salvation of the clan turned out to be its downfall.