Hiya! So, this fic is inspired by a Stargate SG1 episode, the one where an alternate Sam and Kawalski turn up through the quantum mirror. I've decided it's a 'short chapter' story, so don't expect anything over a thousand words. Not entirely sure how long the fic will be, either.

Anyway, disclaimer that I own neither Naruto nor Stargate, and enjoy! :)

Through The Mirror

Chapter One

They'd been here eight days already, being constantly poked, prodded, and interrogated. They had submitted willingly, taking into consideration the circumstances. The mystery of how they'd arrived lie in the strange device they'd handed over, however reluctantly. (already in so-called expert hands) With it had come a warning not to activate the seal, lest they get caught up in the same circumstance that the newcomers were in.

These were three people who were supposed to be long dead. Well, two long dead, one more recently. Namikaze Minato, Nohara Rin, and Uchiha Obito. And they weren't even the ages they should have been at the time they were all last still alive. No, they were much older, at the appropriate point where they'd be if they hadn't died.

All the while, one of their ANBU guards, chakra carefully moulded so that it wasn't recognisable, felt the constant need to run away and stare at a stone.

Hatake Kakashi, who actually wasn't ANBU anymore, (hokagehokagehokage) had felt the need to see them for himself, without revealing his presence yet. Questioning had revealed that to them, he was the one who was supposed to be dead. The amount of differences that had already been gleaned from their questioning were numerous. To think, one death had changed all that. Of course, Kakashi knew why that was.

(images of a scarred man, waging war and declaring everything and everyone irrelevant, just an illusion, because he couldn't cope with a loved ones death)

"When can we speak with your Hokage?" Minato asked the other ANBU, already having learned the one in the dog mask (Kakashi!) wouldn't talk.

"Once we're done with everything," was the only reply he got.

He wasn't sure he could do it. As Kakashi watched his former sensei submit to the latest interrogation, by a Yamanaka this time, that overwhelming urge to run overcame him once more. Standing there in his old ANBU mask, captain's cloak serving as the perfect cover for his tell-tale silver hair, he warred with himself. He was going to have to, he knew it, but that didn't prevent the old feelings of guilt and grief that welled in him.

(there'd been enough of that in the war, with his broken, insane team mate, and his undead sensei)

He caught the attention of the other ANBU, who nodded in assent, then Kakashi left. Minato barely spared him a glance, the chakra inhibitor he wore one of the many reasons he'd not suspected his former student was the one standing there, watching him. Once outside, he avoided going in the direction the other two were waiting (in a comfortable room, but in the end, still a cell) and headed out to change, his curiosity assuaged, grief greater than before.

He returned to the Hokage tower, burying himself in the paperwork that he generally ignored until his assistant made him sit there and go through with it.

It was another day before all interrogators were satisfied. Ibiki with his intense questions, the Yamanaka who'd replaced Inoichi, the Hyuuga who sifted through their chakra networks, and the medics who scoured their DNA. Everything checked out. Everything. So now, Kakashi couldn't avoid the meeting. (the dreadeddreadded meeting) Before him sat the report on everything they'd learned.

The device was some kind of key, it was what had brought them here. It had been found in the possession of a nukenin, brought back to Konoha and extensively studied. The decision to activate it hadn't been taken lightly, even though it turned out that Minato, Rin, and Obito weren't the ones who were supposed to do it. That had been an accident, one that had seen them pop up out of nowhere in one of the most secure locations in the village. The alert had immediately sounded, and everything had gone downhill from there.

Now, Kakashi sat in the Hokage office, leaning back in his chair, (Naruto's chair, just keeping it warm for him) Shikamaru right behind him and to his left as his advisor, two ANBU, invisible and watching the room for any threats. Any moment now, they were going to be led into the room (noescapenoescape) and Kakashi had been repeating over and over to himself that everything would be fine.

And yet, when his old (but not really his) sensei and team mates walked in the door that his assistant opened, the shocked look on their faces and Minato-sensei's almost hushed utterance of, "Kakashi?" almost broke him.

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