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She stared at the ceiling of her house, laid flat and spread out like a starfish on the tatami mats, the bucket of bleach kept near by and the mop abandoned on the floor, the scent of bleach filled the room however it's a grateful reprieve from the scent of blood, how long has it been? A week? 2 weeks? since she's been reborn in this body, she hates this place, she really does. Everything is so messed up here, a genocide forcibly done by the hands of a 13yr child mind you, at Itachi's age she used to complaint about her school work and burn out not be forced to commit genocide, ah she really wishes to be a procastinator in this life as well, there's no point in doing anyting.

It's always been this way, she was your stereotypical genius kid, bright from an early age, it was all fine until after 5th grade. Then the pandemic swooped in and she got into anime (she regrets nothing), spending her time binge watching Naruto, One piece or Avatar the last airbender, the last one despite not being an anime was one of her favorite shows. You could call her a weeb, she was quite the loner as well, no friends, her little brother the social butterfly while she was left rotting alone to deal with the expectations of her parents and teachers alongside that wretched, empty lonliness which defined her existance. All and all, she doesn't get why Itachi would massacare the clan to save such a meaningless existance such as herself, she's not a genius like him nor does she have the skill or beauty other Kunoichi have, she's just average. A name defining her existance since the very start, average, nothing special like a rock you'd pick up on the roadside, not bad not good just there. Hah sounds like self loathing but what can she do, nothing much's there to love about her, just your average burn out. 

Those crickets? grasshoppers? she doesn't know what they call them here chirp outside in the rotting backyard, hah such a pain, she wonders if she should shut them up or not but the thought of taking a life makes her feel like throwing up, this is why she knows she'll never make it as a shinobi, she can't even kill an insect let alone a human being, damn this wretched empathy of hers. She sighed, this room smells like a hospital with all that bleach she poured in her, she can't stand it, that smell of blood, it's revolting. She remembers her Father in both lives, she sure got stuck with the same type of parents in both lives - a stern father whom she always tried to impress but always fell short off and a loving mother, between the two of them she likes her mother far more, call her a favoristic if you will, this is why even in the original series she couldn't bring herself to hate Sasuke, he was just dumb but so similar to her own life, even his family. She hated that at first, she hated being faced with a mirror about her own life when she had long since given up unlike Sasuke, she didn't put effort in her studies, she burnt out, spent her days in her room, got back stabbed by someone she'd call her best friend, her crush even, then left to pick up the pieces and put in even more effort, it's nauseuating. 

She forced her up, this won't do, she's been bleaching the living room for the past days, the blood stain just won't come off, this ticked her off, just how much more bleach should she have to pour before the blood stains are gone? She's not done cleaning the rest of the Uchiha Compound as well, this huge piece of land is now her concern, she can't give it away to people like the 3rd or Danzo....her head would be on a platter if they'd discover what she'd really done that day....Ah she could imagine it, that blades slicing through her head, death, a mercy she won't be given considering the severity of her crime....while pretending she didn't know she was being watched she once again gave up on cleaning the wood to go to the bathroom to wash her hands. Her eyes flickered to the mirror, a pale complexion, around a few shades paler than in her previous life where she had soft honey brown skin alongside black hair and hazel eyes, ah her appearance really is the same, the hazel eyes are still here, tsk she remembers all the time her mother, in both lives, teased that she had eyes of a cat. Such a bother she thinks before going back to her room as she closed the curtains and pulled up the blankets to take her "Afternoon nap" like she does daily. 

In the darkness of the room there was silence before an ant slipped out from under her blanket and ran off, ah shadow clone jutsu how useful she thinks as she snuck out. The "ant" continues to travel out of the room "quickly, quickly before that damn Hatake catches me" she thinks, panic ensuing at the thought of Kakashi or any of the ANBU catching her red handed. She's already considered a flight risk, any more suspicion and she might as well submit to a life of being a breeding mare, disgusting, she'd rather die as the ant sneaks into Itachi's room, she'd put on a show of always "glaring" at this door like it's some disgusting vermin and never coming in all for this elaborate plan of hers, no one would suspect she's a corpse stealer, well technically they are the ones who are to blame, if the only way to ensure that she could give her clan members a funeral is to do it behind the village's back, she'll do it. 

It had all started on that day, that day when during the academy exercise she'd hit her head, it was the worst or best accident of her life, she can't decide. Since then she'd remembered everything about all this, she'd remembered Sasuke's fate and lied, she isn't like Naruto whose forgiving and stupidly kind nor like the original Sasuke whose vengeful or insane, her only interest was a proper funeral for her clan members. She rushed back home that day, running off from the academy, which got her the label of "flight risk" thank you past me, so that she could steal corpses, well technically rescue her clan members. She stole the storage seal scroll from Iruka-sensei, dumped all of his belongings in her school bag while running back home. She'd used that very scroll to collect the corpses of her clan members, she'd known Obito, curse him to hell for this, would only steal their eyes and the ROOT would be following Itachi so she stole those corpses from the clan compound, one after another. She's an underhanded person in this way, she knew she couldn't fight Itachi or Obito or the ROOT on her own so she took the underhanded options but Shinobis are killers for hire, those bastards don't have the right to preach morality to her. She didn't get caught, ofc she didn't because the ROOT were following Itachi to make sure he was doing his job, Danzo's fear of Itachi worked in her favor and Obito who did notice her running towards her house didn't say anything, after all what's more incospisous than an academy student especially the "innocent little sister" Itachi's spent hours boasting about, her reputation worked well in her favor that day but now it's gone. She's been labelled a flight risk and was let off for stealing those storage scrolls provided she gave them back so she lied - again, she doesn't blame them for not finding her trustworthy or in the right mental state especially after she said she forgot those storage scrolls somewhere, though after just around a week of the ANBU seeing her sheer incompetence in broad daylight, her excuses are more believeable, someone should gift her the oscar for this persona, this girl failure persona she's made up so that no one suspects her. 

The only good thing to come out of this is that Itachi listened to her, she lied to everyone to the 3rd to Iruka-sensei to the Yamanaka clan head, she forgot his name, put in charge of her therapy, she gave those storage scrolls belonging to Iruka-sensei, containing corpses of all the clan members she's come across to Itachi in the hopes that, he, unlike her would be able to get them a proper funeral. 

There is a cloud of smoke as the transformation jutsu fades, she takes out the storage seals she'd hidden in the bathroom, once again another lie, she made them believe to check Itachi's room just to trick them, after all no imbecile is dumb or insane enough to hide storage scrolls in a plastic bag in the bathroom, except her, she is that insane. She's been trying to smuggle out the proof that she was the thief of not one but four storage scrolls, it's not her fault the leaf village has horrendous enough security that Naruto was able to steal the forbidden scroll, she's tried to brainstorm ways but she's just drove herself into a corner  if the truth comes out then her head would be on a silver platter or worse hanging from the entrance gate, ah what do to do? She once again picks out what she was here for anyway, once again fixing the storage seal, tsk it was a bad idea to hide the storage seals over here however right now this is her best shot, she just has to find a way to escape this place....somehow....or worse she gets caught in the fact that she's been secretly packing up all of the Uchiha books, techniques, scrolls, money in storage scrolls she's been hiding in her bathroom, she can't even imagine how brutal of a punishment she'd get. At least they don't know she willingly gave those scrolls to Itachi.....yet, she really needs to find a way to escape this place, good heavens why couldn't Itachi just take her with him?! He just had to leave her all alone in this hellhole of a village.