Toshiko woke up on a dusty floor, and immediately got up before heading out towards Konoha. She had no intention of being kidnapped by Danzo again.

Soon enough, she ran into Uchiha Shota and along with his colleagues, and ran into his arms crying. Sure, some of it was acting, but a huge part of her just wanted human contact that wasn't Fuu.

Speaking of Fuu.....

"Oji-san, there were ANBU in the forest. They wanted to kidnap me." Toshiko wailed in semblance to an actual five year old.

Shota chuckled at that, obviously not taking her seriously. "Don't worry Toshiko-chan. I'm going to protect you from the evil ANBU. You shouldn't have run into the the forest, though." He scolded.

"But they said that they already kidnapped a Yamanaka called Fuu and Danzo-sama wanted an Uchiha child." She knew she was laying it on a bit thick , but she had to get them to believe her. She wasn't going to leave Fuu and the other children in that place any longer.

Shota stilled at that. He was probably aware of Fuu's missing status because of his job.

"Are you sure that was what you heard, Toshiko-chan?" He pressed.

Toshiko nodded resolutely, drying her tears. "You will save that Yamanaka, won't you, oji-san? You are a police officer."

"I will see what I can do, but I will need your help. I'll be taking you to Fugaku-sama and you would have to tell him what exactly happened in that forest."

Toshiko wasn't exactly thrilled to be visiting Fugaku again, but would do what needed to be done.

Once again, they found Fugaku at the lake, teaching Itachi the great fireball jutsu. Shota took the lead and explained what she had told him prompting Fugaku to dismiss Itachi and turn to her.

"Describe those ANBU." He ordered.

Toshiko shifted a bit, trying to look nervous. " They wore black cloaks and ANBU masks. One of them was very talk and big, and his mask looked like a dog. I didn't see the other one properly" She happily the man who had trained her under the bus. Though she didn't know who had actually kidnapped her, she had a gut feeling that her 'sensei' was the one responsible.

Fugaku nodded. "Very well. We'll look into it."

Toshiko left after that, being dismissed, fully aware that she had kicked an anthill.

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She came to know the consequences of her actions two months later, when the entire compound was abuzz with the news of one of the Hokage's councillors being a bloodline thief. Toshiko wasn't aware of the fact that Danzo hid a Sharingan under his bandages, but it wasn't a shock to her. He would have the Byakugan in the other one if he could get away with it.

Apparently, the Uchiha police force had received an 'anonymous' tip regarding the kidnapping case of child of Yamanaka clan, which pointed towards guilt of a certain councillor, and had therefore shared their suspicions with Yamanaka Inoichi, who along with his allies Nara Shikaku and Akimichi Chouza forced the Hokage to confront Danzo about the issue.

The Warhawk didn't take kindly to be accused of kidnapping clan children and tried to attack the Hokage. Thankfully, he was contained before he could do any damage, courtesy of Nara Shikaku and his shadow binding jutsu. Danzo was arrested and a Sharingan was discovered under the bandages covering his right eye.

Further details were classified, so Toshiko didn't know if they had found the children or not, but she remained hopeful.

She entered the academy next year at the age of six, and saw two familiar faces in her class that hadn't been there originally. The last time she had seen them, they were killing each other on Danzo's orders.

The Root children- Katsu and Shinki were very different from the other students. They were socially stunted, highly skilled, and didn't know how to hold back. They lived in the orphanage, as they had before they were kidnapped by Root. They looked like they didn't know how to survive in this environment and Toshiko felt that she had a duty to help them.

That was how, a week into the academy, she ended up with two ducklings who followed her around and mimicked her every move. She understood them in a way that others didn't and they appreciated that, even they had no idea how she knew so much about their circumstances.

Academy was quite different for Toshiko this time around. She actually had friends this time, two of them. Sure, they weren't exactly normal, but she connected to them she hadn't with anyone else except Fuu (who was in a class above hers). Her friends, actually, were what made the classes barable. It was the third time she was going through the material and it was mind numbingly boring. She passed the time alternatively putting Katsu and Shinki in subtle genjutsu and timing how long it took them to recognise it and escape it. Her genjutsu skills improved greatly with this excercise.

Toshiko had been very careful in what level of skill she portrayed to others. She hoped that Itachi, unaware of the fact that she was a medic nin, would attempt to kill her in a way she could heal. Because, even though her skills had improved greatly in Root and she might be able to defeat a genin or even a chunnin if she was lucky, there was no way she could defeat Uchiha Itachi. She wasn't putting herself down or exaggerating his skills. She was being realistic. The guy had killed more than 400 members of the Uchiha clan in one night, half of whom were ninja and more than 30 were jonin level.

This wasn't a fight she could win. But it was one she could lose and come out alive.

On month before the date of Toshiko's graduation exam, on the night she was killed the first time, she waited in her room, preparing herself of what was coming.

Except that it didn't. She stayed up all night and nothing happened. No psychotic mass murdering clan heir weilding a katana broke into her home and tried to kill her.

Toshiko was frenzied with paranoia by the time the sun rose. She hadn't slept a wink the whole night and all types of wild theories were running around her head. Had Itachi somehow come back in time too? If so, what was he planning?

She went out of the house to see if something had heard when she spotted Itachi. He was going towards the clan training grounds with Sasuke and Shisui (hadn't he died on a mission or something by now). Toshiko stood there for a moment and actually gaped at the three of them, because Itachi was actually laughing, probably at something Shisui said. It wasn't sinister laughter either, it was a genuine laugh filled with joy, like a normal person.

Toshiko was reminder that she was staring when Shisui turned to her and sent a saucy wink. She would have done something witty if she wasn't half asleep. Instead she just walked away, her face red.
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Toshiko graduated with average scores she had hoped for in her first life. But a life in genin corps didn't appeal to her as it initially did, not after having seen all the adventures that she had. Unfortunately, Hyuuga Setsuna, the jonin sensei assigned to her and two giggling kunoichi that were her teammates, didn't want to be weighed down by three little girls and failed them without even giving then a farce of a test.

Toshiko didn't waste much time in signing up for the hospital again. There she met another genin, Yakushi Kabuto, who was the adopted son of the hospital director. There was something about him that striked her odd, but nothing seemed out of order when observed.

Toshiko was hailed a prodigy comparable to Tsunade-sama, when she didn't bother hiding her skills. She tried, she really did, but with the hospital being understaffed, and the non critical patients left to heal the normal way, she couldn't justify concealing her expertise.

Almost a year into her stint at the hospital, she was engrossed healing Hatake Kakashi's femur (while non critical, he was notorious for not taking the recommended bed rest, which could cause malunion of the bone, thus the chakra healing), when Kabuto entered the room surprising both her and Hatake.

"Toshiko-san..... Oh, Sorry. I wasn't aware you'd be healing bone." Kabuto spoke, with both his hand raised, trying to appear non threatening. Aware that Hatake had gone completely still under her palm, Toshiko reluctantly withdrew. She wasn't going heal much if he wasn't comfortable enough to relax. Treating ANBU was a tricky buisness.

"Don't worry, I was done anyway." She said, exiting the room. "You needed something?"

"Yes, Akira-sensei is looking for you."

"Thanks. Its probably about yesterday's discharge papers." She started walking away.

"Congratulations, by the way." Kabuto called out. "You know, for activating your Sharingan."

Toshiko wasn't proud of the fact that she froze. "What do you mean? I haven't activated my Sharingan."

"Oh, must be a trick of light." He chuckled before walking away.

Toshiko couldn't quite make herself relax.

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Two weeks later, Toshiko found herself bound with rope and chakra suppressors, blindfolded, set up against a tree and feeling the after effects of the poison that was most likely was in coffee Kabuto had given her during the night shift and responsible for landing her in this situation.

That little rat! She remembered where she had seen him before. He was the grey haired man with Orochimaru, when he had come to Tsunade to get his arms healed. Naruto had even called him 'Kabuto'.

How could she have been so stupid?

She quickly started filtering the poison out of her bloodstream, using what little chakra she could. It wouldn't do to be disoriented when her kidnapper finally deigned her with his presence.

"Orochimaru-sama." Whimpered an unfamiliar voice, and Toshiko cursed internally. "I've brought the package Kabuto delivered."

"We'll done, Mizuki." Toshiko had no problem recognising Orochimaru's slimy voice. "Let's see if she survives. I hope she does. A three tomoe Sharingan would be very helpful in learning jutsu."

A moment later, she felt a sharp pain in the side of her neck and knew no more.
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She survived.

It wasn't a good thing.

Orochimaru's chakra was wrapped with hers, an oily monstrous thing. Toshiko had always believed chakra to be nature's gift to man and couldn't be evil, but her faith was being shaken as Orochimaru's burning chakra coursed through her body.

"You could have made her a puppet." Orochimaru's red haired friend commented, as Toshiko tried to control her rage, which seemed to bolster the snake's chakra.

"I'm afraid her Sharingan would be useless to me if I did that Sasori-kun." Orochimaru answered. He was wearing the same weird cloak as Sasori, black with red clouds.

"It doesn't seem to be much use to you now." The redhead countered, monotonously.

Orochimaru's smile turned sinister. "We all have our own forms of immortality, Sasori-kun."

Toshiko didn't get to hear Sasori's witty reply to that remark as Orochimaru stiffened before bolting up, "Incoming."

Still bound, Toshiko scrambled to the corner of the room. A few seconds, five shinobi wearing Konoha ANBU uniform entered the hideout.

For a few seconds no one moved to fight, assessing the opposite side, before Orochimaru said, "We will retreat."

Sasori apparently deferring to his partner's judgement of Konoha shinobi, chose to obey. The next moment, Toshiko was left alone with the ANBU. She relaxed a bit when she recognised one of them in the dog mask as Hatake Kakashi. No one in Konoha had gravity defying silver hair as his.

"Crow. Release the chakra suppression seal." He ordered.

An ANBU with long black hair, whose mask looked nothing like a crow, moved to obey. Because of the suppression seals, he was a foot away from Toshiko when she recognised his chakra, and the curse mark flared up. He paused a bit before going ahead and removing the suppressors.

Thr moment they were off, Toshiko, fueled by burning rage, drove a chakra scalpel through his heart. The next second, something hit her at he back of her head and she lost consciousness.
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Toshiko woke up bound to a chair, in a cell. It took a moment for her to remember what had happened. Curiously, Orochimaru's curse mark only throbbed a bit before settling down.

The door of the cell opened to reveal Yamanaka Inoichi entering with a grim look on his face. She was in T and I then, most likely for attacking an ANBU, who was incidentally the Uchiha heir.

"Uchiha Toshiko, are you aware of the reason for your detainment?" He started.

"Yes, I attacked an ANBU." There was no point in saying she didn't mean to.

"The ANBU in question is dead. Cause of death- ruptured heart because of the chakra scalpel four witnesses have admitted you were responsible for. His real name, which can be revealed since he is dead, was Uchiha Itachi, the heir of your clan."

Toshiko took a minute to comprehend that. Uchiha Itachi was dead. At her hand. Somehow, she didn't feel any satisfaction from that news, just numbness.

"It doesn't need to be said that Uchiha clan had withdrew all their protections from you. You are facing charges of murder of a clan heir and conspiracy with a traitor." Yamanaka-sama continued.

"On the first charge, my only defence is I wasn't in my right mind. The second charge is utter bullshit. I was kidnapped from Konoha on Orochimaru's order. He gave me this disgusting hickey that leaks evil chakra to make my body more susceptible to his possession." Toshiko spat out.

"How did he kidnap you?" He asked, face impassive.

"Yakushi Kabuto. He gave me a coffee during the night shift. I passed out soon after. Someone named Mizuki delivered me to Orochimaru."

Yamanaka-sama sighed. "You'll most likely be executed, Toshiko-san. Fugaku is pushing for it with all his political might. The charges of conspiracy were out forward by him, which everyone knows are false. The murder charges however..... Orochimaru had left behind an apprentice in the village when he left. She has a curse mark like yours, and she has never been accused of killing an ally. There are two possibilities- either the mark doesn't affect your free will and you are completely responsible for the murder, or it does affect you and we'll have a ninja compromised to Orochimaru inside the village." His tone was sombre.

Toshiko simple nodded. She wasn't afraid of death at this point.

"How did they find me?" She asked.

"You were noticed missing by your friend Shinki the day after your night shift at the hospital."

That's right. It was her birthday that day. Shinki and Katsu might have come to visit. Suddenly, she remembered the two muted familiar signatures she had sensed when the ANBU had come to rescue her.

"They were there, weren't they? They were his teammates." She asked, dreading the answer.

Yamanaka-sama's silence was as good as confirmation.

Great. She had committed the crime she was going to be executed for in front of her friends. She hoped they wouldn't react poorly to her death. Who was she kidding? Of course, they would react poorly.

"I would sign a confession that I killed Uchiha Itachi on my own violation, when I got a chance, because I have always been jealous of him for being a prodigy." She told her interrogator.

"That would stop issues being raised on Anko-san being compromised." He mused. "Why though? It's clearly not true."

Toshiko shrugged. "I have my reasons." She didn't want her friends to die for turning against Konoha because of her. "How am I going to die?"

"How do you prefer?"

"Anything's fine. I just want it to be quick."

Uchiha Toshiko died at the age of 14, by arrhythmia induced by lightening chakra channelled into her heart by Hatake Kakashi.