Hello, my loverly readers! Welcome to "Memoirs of a Good Boy"! This is what my twisted mind imagined what Tobi's background would be like. I'm sorry if you hate OCs, but I'm compensating for an entire fictional village here, so OCs abound.
Anyway, enjoy!
I do not own Naruto. If I did, bad things would happen to Kabuto and Orochimaru, Tayuya would still be alive and kicking ass, and the male members of the Akatsuki would be models who went shirtless all the time.
Edited: May 19, 2012
It began in 1845*, the year Konoha was established. In that same year, another village was founded. Its creator was Erito Tandoku, and the village was called the Village Hidden in the Shadows, aka Kagushigakure.
You see, Tandoku had a special Kekkei Genkai; he was able to melt into shadows and stay there undetected. It was useful for spying missions at night, but not so good during days with full sunlight, as there were next to no shadows.
His clan, the Erito, who had joined the newly formed Village Hidden in the Leaves, had kicked him out for many reasons.
The first was his belief. His philosophy was that everyone should be treated equally, and that no human was lower than another. This went directly against what the Erito believed. The Head of the clan, his father Erito Dento, had slaves from distant lands, and treated them like trash. As a result, he and his father bickered constantly.
He also impregnated and secretly married a girl outside of their clan, a slave named Baindo Utsukushi. It was an utter disgrace to the Erito, as he was the clan heir and was already in an arranged marriage.
After being kicked out with his new and extremely pregnant wife, Tandoku gathered followers who agreed with his philosophy. He swore to right the wrongs of the earth in their treatment of other humans.
Eventually, their organization grew to be too big. They had to form a village; they couldn't live any longer as traveling nin. Having no hitai-ate, Konoha was bound to ask questions and be suspicious of their motives. Tandoku was a former Konoha-nin, after all.
It was then that the Village Hidden in the Shadows was born.
Naturally, Tandoku became the first Kuraikage (dark shadow). Being the founder and possessing such a Kekkei Genkai enabled him the right to claim this title.
And it is where our story begins.
~A hundred years after the founding of the village~
"You can't catch me, Tobi-kun!" a feminine voice called out in delight. A hapless cabbage merchant had only this call to warn him of the impending doom for his precious cabbages before a young girl of about eight ran into his cart.
He stopped. He stared at the now upturned cart, at the many cabbages on the ground, and finally, at the young girl with long blonde hair who was nervously staring at her feet and fidgeting uncomfortably.
"Yinasni-hime!" he cried. "This is the third – I repeat – THIRD time this week! I need to make a living! So can you PLEASE stop playing games with Tobi so that I can survive?"
She flashed him the infamous "Yinasni" grin. "Sure, Kyabetsu-san! Sorry 'bout that!"
He sighed. "Yinasni-hime...you are the daughter of the Kuraikage! Not to mention that you are also his heir! So please stop acting like a tomboy and act like a lady!"**
She stuck out her tongue rudely at him. "I know that! I can do what I want before that though! C'mon Tobi!" she called to her unseen friend. "Let's go find somewhere else to play!"
"Tobi will help Yinasni-chan because Tobi is a good boy!" exclaimed a boy her age, leaping out of the many trees that were dotted everywhere. He had spiky brown/black hair and deep green eyes.
He held up a piece of old pottery. It looked like it had been recently dug up, and was orange with black swirls on it. "What does Yinasni-chan think of this? Tobi found it when he fell over while playing."
She studied it for a second before grinning. "It's very nice, Tobi-kun. I think..."
Her sentence was cut off by a random woman shouting. She was rather fat, and had one of her pudgy fingers shoved at Tobi. "GAAAAH! THE DEMON!"
Tobi head whipped around in a somewhat comical fashion. "What? Who? Where? Tobi is confused. That lady is scary. Tobi is scared!"
Yinasni smiled nervously; she knew exactly what the woman was screaming her head off about. "Tobi-kun?" she said. "I'm going to go talk to the nice lady over there. Why don't you help Kyabetsu-san pick up his cabbages?"
"Tobi will help because–"
"–Tobi is a good boy, I know!" Kyabetsu snapped. When his precious cabbages got hurt, so did his patience.
"Huh? How did Kyabetsu-san know what Tobi was going to say? Has Tobi said it before? IS KYABETSU-SAN A MIND READER?"
Yinasni chuckled at Tobi's antics. She was used to them by now, but they were still amusing.
Her smile faded as she stalked over to the still-screaming lady. "Hey lady, can you shut up? I'm trying to last a day without getting my eardrums blasted out, thank you very much."
The lady looked miffed, to say in the least. Well, at least it stopped her hysterics. "I dare say! How dare you speak to me like that! I am the Daimyo's wife!" She drew herself to her full height in an effort to seem more intimidating. However, she was a very short woman in addition to being fat, and Yinasni was a very tall eight-year-old.
The heiress yawned. "Don't give me that crap. I've met the Daimyo's wife before. On multiple occasions, in fact. So who are you, really, and can you stop screaming at my friend? It's annoying and you're freaking him out. And you interrupted me about to give him my thoughts on a lovely piece of pottery."
The lady just stood there, gaping like a fish. "Y-y-you and th-th-that…"
Yinasni put on an air of concern. In reality she wanted the lady to go jump into a tank filled with sharks and her new friend Kisame (who she was convinced was half shark) and then go warm her toes down there, but as the heiress, she had no choice but to act like she cared. "Hey...are you al–"
"How can you be friends with someone like HIM?" the lady gasped dramatically, pointed the same pudgy finger in Tobi's general direction while staring in what seemed to be horror at the girl. She was actually pointing at Kyabetsu, but Yinasni figured that it'd be funnier to just leave the hand there. "He's a–"
"Shut up," the girl growled. The woman looked a bit taken aback by the amount of killing intent leaking out of the eight-year old. "Tobi-kun is my friend. That's that."
The woman started gaping like a fish again. "But he's–"
"I'm fully aware of what he is and what he can do."
"But his–"
"I'm also fully aware of what his mother has done. However, that does not mean that he is the same person as her."
"I give up!" The lady threw her hands up in exasperation before stalking away angrily.
Yinasni smirked in victory. Better get back to Tobi before he kills all of the cabbages, she thought, hearing Kyabetsu let out a string of profanities.
"Ah! Story time!" Tobi exclaimed sitting on the ground in order to listen to Kyabetsu's "story".
Yinasni sniggered under her breath. She composed herself when she said, "Tobi-kun, it's time to go home now."
"Aww...does Tobi have to? Kyabetsu-san was getting to the good part–"
"No matter what you think, that was not a story that he was shouting," she responded, sweatdropping a bit. "Now c'mon, baka, let's go! We're two freaks who have got nothing to lose so..." A mischievous grin split her face in two. "Let's give you candy! And annoy Daddy!"
"Candy? Candy? All Tobi heard was candy. Is Yinasni going to give Tobi some?"
"Uh huh. But you have to come with me if you want the candy!" And off she sprinted.
"For lollipops!" Tobi declared as he started running and promptly fell on his face, jumped back up with a happy grin, and started running after the girl again.
"Oi..." Kyabetsu stared at the mess the two had caused, shaking his head in disappointment. "Bakas..." he muttered somewhat fondly as he got out a broom from the bottom of his cart and began sweeping up the cabbage-y remains.
*That is totally not when Konoha was founded, but just go with it, okay?
**For the purposes of this story the role of Kuraikage is hereditary.
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P.S. This is all fictional (fanFICTION). Yes I know that Madara was around for the founding of Konoha as an adult, but this is what happened if Tobi wasn't Madara (or whoever the hell he is now, fuck you Kishimoto).