A/N – Hey guys sorry for being absent for ages, got caught up with exams on January and May, but I'm back. Yes this is a reboot; I got stuck with where to go on this. Then I did some thinking and sort of mapped out a butterfly-effect for my changes to canon, and the bits I was stuck with smoothed out. This first chapter should be mostly new content, Spanning back to the third shinobi war, and showing the changes at key points in history.

Chapter 1

-Third Shinobi War: Assault on Kannabi Bridge—

As the dust cleared from the ensuing battle, the three remaining Nin were able to take stock of their surroundings. And that was the problem, they were one member short.

"RIN-CHAN" the deafening pleas of the young teenager, as he searched frantically for his crush on the bridge. There was another boy present, spiky silver hair and a mask adorned his face. It did well to hide his emotions, but there was no denying his widened eyes and twitchy movements.

"RIN-C-CHAN" The other boy screamed again, his voice growing hoarse as he fell to his knees, tears falling freely as he reached for the discarded headband of his teammate
"Come on Obito-kun, there's no need for that," The third member, their mission leader, embraced him, "What would Minato say if he saw you like this?"

"He'd tell me to chin up and stay strong until the end, Izanami-senpai" Obito sniffled as he wiped his eyes and replaced his goggles. He passed the headband to her.

"Good," She straightened herself up, and wiped her emerald bangs from her face, "Now, the Iwa Nin must have taken her as a prisoner during the fight and fled, hope fully we can get to her before it's too late. Kakashi-kun, call your summons, we'll need their help to track her, and don't worry, we have a tracker that rivals the Inuzaka" Kakashi nodded, pulling his mask down to bite his thumb, catching the headband with his other.

"Obito-kun?" She looked down at the young shinobi in her arms and gently released him so he could look at her. "Now Obito, I need you and Kakashi to track down Rin, track her down but do not engage the enemy, you're still too weak from this fight, both of you" She glanced at Kakashi who just shrugged, she returned her gaze back to Obito "Only engage the enemy you think they're gonna kill her, I'm regrouping with a team from my village, we'll have medic nin, they'll be able to patch her up if she gets hurt." Obito averted his gaze from Izanami's, unwilling to look her in the eyes.

"Obito, I need you to say it, to know that you understand your orders" He stiffened, and reluctantly spoke, still averting his gaze

"Yes Izanami, we are to track Rin, and only interfere if they intend to kill her"

"Good, you have your orders, I'll meet up with you soon" She retrieved the headband from Kakashi and took off into the tree line. Obito stood their, unmoving. Kakashi came up and placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.

"Come on Dobe, Rin-chan's waiting" Obito gave a chuckle

"You're not gonna stop calling me that? Are you, Teme?"

"Only when you stop calling me 'Teme', Dobe" And with that set out on Rin's trail.

-o-o-o-o-o-

It was dark, she wasn't blindfolded, but that didn't matter, the darkness made her blind enough. She tried to move, but she found her arms and legs restrained, but she felt her self swaying for her efforts. So here she was, alone in the dark, suspended in the air.

"Well, looks like sleeping beauty's woken up" A mans voice to her left, or was it her right, she couldn't tell, the echo made it impossible.

"We need information on Konoha and its allies, we know you're one of the Flash's students, you'll have what we need, and you can find I can be very persuasive." She heard the sound of footsteps grow louder as he spoke, the suddenly silence. But that silence was short lived as she felt a hand grab her wrist and she let loose a bloodcurdling scream as white hot pain burned throughout her body. Then as soon as it began, it stopped. Her breathing ragged, she heard him laugh to himself,

"I love it when they scream, I am going to enjoy this so much, I hope your ready bitch, because that was the lowest voltage" Rin steeled herself against the imminent torture, no matter how much it hurt, no matter what he did, she'd never betray Konoha, she'd rather die than have to face her teammates after betrayal. She wouldn't lie to herself, she was terrified, but she wouldn't give her torturer the satisfaction. She could only remain their, praying her teammates would find her, and if they couldn't, then pray the shinigami would be merciful.

-o-o-o-o-o-

Two Ninja were sat perched around the fire, one of whom was sat much closer than the other, and wrapped up in a thick travellers cloak.

"I hate it during winter, it's so damn cold, and I can feel my muscles seizing up"

"Oh would you shut up, you're like this all the time. Oh boo-hoo, I'm cold-blooded, I need blazing heats to stay active." The kunoichi snapped, the shinobi snorted,

"Well maybe if you let me take the Yutakachi pills, I'd be less annoying"

"You know your only allowed them if it's an emerg-" But she was interrupted by a second kunoichi barrelling through the foliage.

"Izanami-Sensei" Both students stood at attention to their teacher and leader

"At ease, Wani, Michiyo." She regarded them both for minute, "Arguing again"

"Yes" "No" They both responded, then turned to glare daggers at each other.

"Okay that's enough, we have an emergency mission, one of Minato's students has been kidnapped by Iwa, the rest of Minato's team is on her trail, but we need to provide back up. Michiyo"

"Yes sensei"

"Give Wani a Yuta Pill". As Michiyo begrudgingly reached into her pouch for a pill, Izanami could swear she could hear her other student mutter something like 'told you so' before receiving a sharp jab to chest, and a pill to the face. He turned away grumbling, hand disappearing into his hood as he ate the pill.
The effect was almost instantaneous; he immediately jumped up performing multiple flips into the air, before hanging of a tree and proceeding to stretch his limbs.

"Ahh, much better" He drop down and righted himself, his face still obscured by his hood. "So you want me to track them?"

"Here" Izanami held out Rin's headband and he took it from her grasp, he lifted the headband up towards the opening of his hood and a forked tongue flicked out and danced across the fabric and metal. He glanced up and noticed Michiyo looking at him, he gave her a smirk,

"Like something you see?" and gave an exaggerated 'lick' along the plate. She turned away from him, in an attempt to hide her blush at his comment, in truth she had thought about her teammate in such a manner on several occasions. Not that she'd ever admit it.
"S-shut up you stupid pervert" Catching her blush, he inwardly chuckled, but chose to not act upon it, as there were more pressing matters upon them

"I've got the scent, if you ladies would follow me and try to keep up" He leapt to the tree line and bounded off. Izanami chuckled;

"He'll never change will he?"

-o-o-o-o-o-

Kakashi was known for two things, his apparent 'genius', and his permanent stoic expression. He would admit that their current situation nearly had his self imposed mask of aloofness failing. But more than Rin's predicament, what worried him more was how Obito was handling the situation. Gone was the carefree idiot who always provided a laugh when needed. Gone was the boy who'd pull a prank to get a laugh. Instead his face showed no emotion, his gaze fixed straight ahead as they bounded through the trees after Kakashi's tracker dog.

"Obito, are you okay?"

"…" No reply

"Obito?"

"…"

"Dobe?"

"…"

Kakashi was scared, he'd never seen Obito like this. He could only hope Izanami would catch up to them before they found Rin. He wouldn't like to think about what Obito would do when he found the kidnappers.

-o-o-o-o-o-

"AAARRRRGGGHHHH" Rin let loose yet another bloodcurdling scream as the lightning tore through her body again. She'd lost count the amount the amount of times she'd being shocked, her torturers sickeningly sweet, light touches as his fingertips danced across the exposed skin if her arms and legs. But she remained strong, she refused to betray her friends to these monsters no matter what they did.

"You're a resilient one aren't you?" He gave a chuckle "It seems more extreme measures need to be taken." The light dances of his fingers slowly turned into caresses as his hands roamed her body, crudely groping at her small chest and sliding down the juncture of her legs. She couldn't scream, but only let out a muffled cry as her mouth was taken by his. Tears fell freely from her eyes as the reality of the situation began to dawn on her. She was going to be raped. Raped by an enemy who she couldn't see or defend against. She didn't want this, she didn't want her first time to be like this, her body shaking in fear at what was about to happen.
"You're a bit young for my tastes, but I'm sure I'll still enjoy it" She shivered as she felt the cold steel of a kunai ghost against her leg and drag upwards towards her pants, felt them pull tighter before she heard the sound of fabric ripping.

"NO!" she choked as she felt the cool air on her skin and heard the rustling of clothes that were not her own.

"RIN-CHAN" She was blinded as a sudden beam of light struck through the darkness like a sword, illuminating her body. The enemy Nin forgotten as her vision adjusted to make out Obito standing in a doorway. His face obscured by the shadows, but the outfit unmistakable. He ran towards his teammate and crush with reckless abandon, and began to untie her. "Rin-chan are you ok," he noticed her torn clothes, the angry red burns that marred her arms and legs "Oh god, they didn't, I'll kill the bastards I'll kill them"

"Obito, he's h-" but before she could warn him that her kidnapper was still here a hand reach out of the darkness and gripped Obito's throat.

"Well isn't this cute, your knight in shining armour has come to save you" He gave a dark laugh and the grip on Obito's neck tightened. "Hmm, I think its time he met the dragon" Lightning coursed through Obito's body, burning the skin on is neck. Rin could only hang there helpless as her teammate was tortured in front of her. Where was Kakashi? Where was Izanami? Where was Minato-sensei? Why was nobody helping? Why?

The lightning stopped as the enemy was forced to drop Obito to block an incoming attack from his left. Kakashi had joined the fray, his sword drawn and swinging to and fro at his opponent only to be parried by a kunai. Obito was on his knees, gasping for are through his charred windpipe, he glanced up to try and find his comrade, to find he could now see more than he could before. The darkness no longer an obstacle, his vision perfect, the complex dance of swordplay slowed down, he could see the moves before they were executed. He'd done it, he'd activated his sharingan. But he knew this was no time to celebrate, he needed to help his friends. He pushed himself up, with much protest from his sore muscles. He stood up, unsteady, swaying slightly as he fought for balance.

"Are you –cough- okay –cough- Rin-chan?" She could only nod in response to his question, debilitated by shock.

"I'm going to untie you now, okay?" Yet again she could only nod. Obito set about untying the ropes and gingerly setting her down on the stone ground. Reassuring himself that, for the moment at least, she was fine, he refocused his gaze on the fight.

"KAKASHI-TEME" He saw the move before it happened, Kakashi had being disarmed, his sword lay forgotten on the ground, but he was too far away, too slow to stop it. His shout had however stopped the blow from being fatal, but did nothing to stoop the kunai slicing into Kakashi's left cheek and sliding up his face to become lodged in the socket. The pain was too much; he blacked out instantly and fell limp, the kunai falling from the Iwa shinobi's grasp as it remained lodged. While stuck in contemplation on how to finish off his opponent, he was caught unawares by Obito, who had retrieved the fallen blade and plunged it into the shinobi's stomach.
"Good move-" He paused slightly as he spat blood into Obito's goggles, "knight" A twisted smile graced his face, "But I refuse to bested by a brat, if I'm going down, I'm taking you with me" With that he formed a handseal and the cave was rocked by a massive explosion.

A/N – Yes I'm cruel for leaving a cliff hanger without much changed, I just want to keep chapter lengths consistent, and I think 2,100 is a reasonable target for each chapter. The next chapter WILL have the resolution to this, and then jump through of key events In backstory: return to Konoha, Kyuubi attack, Uchiha massacre and possibly team selections in both Kusa and Konoha, but that could be saved for chapter 3. As always read and review, and I appreciate all ideas and criticisms, but the Main pairing will always remain KarinXNarutoXTayuya as per challenge stipulations, (But other character pairing suggestions are welcome)