Authors note: Who loves deus ex machina? This girl! And time travel is one of my favorites.

I always felt it was weird how in the manga they would say Obito's eyes had the ability to bend time and space. The key word there being time. We never saw him doing anything with it, but I guess there wouldn't be any plot if Obito could go back and forth through time. I tried to write my take on it and I hope this isn't as bad as my first story which was a disaster lol (by the time you read this, it will be deleted). English isn't my native language and I apologize in advance for any grammatical errors.

Taking her flack jacked and ripping her right sleeve off, Sakura panted and clutched her arm in pain.

This dimension was one of the worst ones so far. She didn't expect a sea of acid to pour out upon them and she barely managed to take Obito with her to safety. Unfortunately, she wasn't fast enough to dodge the last bits of spray and the damn acid melted through parts of her jacket and shirt, burning her arm in the process. This dimension hopping was really taking a toll on both of them and her burnt arm didn't make things better. Obito was barely holding on and if they didn't find Sasuke-kun soon, she didn't think he would survive any longer.

Even with her borrowed chakra, he didn't have the strength to fully stand up, but nevertheless he asked her if she was okay and if she wanted to rest a little. Sakura was touched and was about to refuse, when he suddenly fell to his knees, clutching his head.

"Obito, what's wrong?"

"My eyes!"

Sakura could see more blood drip between his fingers that were pressed against his eyes.

"Sakura, I don't know how much more I have it in me, the strain is becoming too much." He grit out and bared his teeth in pain, as if every word hurt to speak.

"I'll heal you!"

"No! Listen to me. Don't waste your chakra on that," he said with desperation in his eyes. "I don't – Agh!" He clutched his eyes again and Sakura crouched in front of him to send some soothing chakra to his inflamed nerves despite his protests.

"Wait Sakura, you need to listen to me! Right now, things don't look that good for us. If-if the worst case scenario happens and we don't find Sasuke, I need you to know that there is one more option we could try."

"What option?" Unease swept through her. What was he implying? She was sure they were going to find Sasuke-kun. They just had to! She didn't want to think about other options right now, she just wanted to focus on finding him.

"There is an experimental jutsu that I've been developing for years. I was suspicious about it working because I always felt something was missing. I now see that the thing missing for its completion was my left eye. I could always bend space easily with my right eye, but I felt like time was always more difficult to control and now that I have it back, I think that the left eye undoubtedly holds the power to control it. That means that it actually has a chance to work."

"Controlling time? What are you talking about, what has a chance to work?"

"It means that there might be a possibility to send you back in time."

Sakura's eyes widened and she started to protest, "Obito-

"My chakra is waning and I don't know how far back I would be able to send you, maybe to the beginning of the battle and it's probably going to blind me completely in the process, we would have only one shot at this. I would need you to lend me all of your chakra and even then we wouldn't be sure if this works. It'll be our last ditch effort."

Sakura nodded reluctantly, this idea sounded really crazy and she hoped they wouldn't have to test it out, "Alright, but can you try opening more dimension? We can't just give up on Sasuke-kun like that!"

"I'll try."

And try he did, but after two more attempts to find Sasuke ending up as failures, the last dimension he opened closed shortly after, without him even being able to maintain in for more than a few seconds.

Obito panted, the pain in his eyes was becoming unbearable and his vision was starting to blur slightly. "I don't think I can open another path."

Sakura collapsed behind him, still holding his shoulders. Fear pooled in her gut and her stomach felt like doing flip fops, the realization was dawning on her, "So this is the end, huh?"

"I guess it really is," he said quietly.

"But, why me? Why can't you send yourself back in time?"

He craned his head back to look at her, "I'm dying Sakura. If it weren't for your chakra I would be long dead already and I believe the jutsu would kill me anyway, but you at least have a slight chance of surviving."

He could see the tears gather in her eyes, "Obito, I-I don't think I can do this. This is a huge responsibility, a huge burden to bear."

"This is your only option. It's either this or death!"

She started crying then, his words were like a slap to the face. That was the reality. Everything was falling apart and all they had now was this chimerical hope, this pipe dream. When would it all end? She was so tired of this war and now he giving her this impossible task. She was just a nobody, a tiny spot in the bigger picture. How could she ever hope to change the course of war?

But in that moment she remembered her sensei's words that were drilled into her from the moment she became a ninja. If she left behind her comrades, she would be worse than trash. She would have to persevere for them. Even if she got to live just one more day and go through this horror again, she would do it for them. She owed them that much.

In a way, she was grateful now that Obito even gave her this opportunity. She realized it was selfish of her complain about going back in time when he was going to die right there. She would have at least a few hours more to live when he had minutes.

"…Thank you Obito, for giving me this chance."

This felt so bizarre for her. Just yesterday they were enemies and now she was thanking him and mourning his impending death like he was her closest friend.

He is sacrificing himself for me, she realized. At first she was weary of him, surprised at his sudden change of heart, but as they continued to work together, their teamwork became exceptional and they were in tune with each other. But now, with this final deed of camaraderie she felt a true bond form between them.

A sudden wave of affection for this tortured man in front of her overcame her. She crawled around him and hugged him tightly. She thought he was beyond saving but she felt so lonely in this vast dimension of nothingness that she needed to feel another human being, another beating heart. Sakura hugged him tightly trying to pour her gratitude through her touch.

Obito hugged her back reluctantly, and felt her wet tears on his shoulder. His own eyes started to fill shortly after, the tears mixing with blood. He was the one responsible for this hell they were in and yet, this girl had enough strength in herself to forgive him, to thank him, to cry for him.

Not that he had any other choice, but he knew now that this compassionate girl was a good choice to send back. He couldn't fail this jutsu, even though he would have to make do with formulating it on the go. But at least it was a small comfort that even if they failed, death would be there to greet him and stop him from experiencing failure.

He heard her speak with a shaky voice still tick with tears, "I wish things didn't have to be this way…In another world maybe we could have been true comrades."

He hugged her tighter as if to confirm her words, and pushed her back after a few more moments. He felt cold from the loss of her body heat. "Sakura, we need to hurry up or your chakra will run out."

"But I'm so afraid. How can I change anything, I'm not strong enough!"

He grabbed her head between his hands and locked eyes with her. "It will be difficult, it will be impossible, you might fail. But no matter what happens, know that we at least tried. I have faith in you," he tried to give her an encouraging smile, but his lips only twitched up slightly.

Not wanting to linger any longer, he urged her, "I need you to focus and try to channel all of your chakra into me; I'm guessing the further back I want you to go, the more chakra we'll need."

She took a deep breath to steady her nerves and grabbed his biceps to channel all of her remaining chakra from the Byakugou seal. This is it, they were really doing this.

She struggled with sending the right amount of chakra to him, if she sent too much there wouldn't be enough left for her to keep fighting if she really managed to travel back. The more she poured, the more her panic was rising. If he didn't tell her to stop soon, she would be left depleted and vulnerable and all of this would've been for nothing.

But he didn't give her any signs to stop and with pleading eyes she looked at him, only catch his gaze and see the pinwheels of his Mangekyo spinning fastly. The minute they made eye contact she felt a strange pull at her stomach and black swirls engulfing her vision. Her hands were ripped from Obito and with a final look she saw him mouth 'Goodbye' before everything turned black and she lost consciousness.

I already have a draft for the second chapter written, but honestly the plot I have in mind is so hard to write. I have to look at the manga constantly to avoid any mistakes and plot holes which is taking me a lot of time to write. I'm planning on this being an ObitoxSakura fic, but I'm not sure if I can give them a happy ending, considering, you know...Obito started a war and everything.