Hello there!
I'm uploading another story because this one wouldn't leave me alone. I know I have a bunch of other stories that I haven't updated yet. I will try to but it's hard since I'm pretty much stuck in Naruto fandom, more specifically the Kakashi area. Hence this fic. It is sort of a fix it one.
Also I think that the route that Rin took to ensure that her village was kept safe with both valiant and stupid. Minato was a known sealing master and Kakashi had summons. He literally could have sent a summons to the village and have them notify Minato who also has a the ability to teleport via seals and since the incident with Obito I think it's pretty damn valid that he would place a beacon on his students or something! Also there's gotta be other sealers in the village as well! Rin could have literally gone to the outskirts of the village perimeter and then waited for back up and! AND if Kakashi had sent a summons ahead there could have been reinforcements to kill the Kiri nin! ALSO since Rin KNEW that she was a JINJURRIKI she could have told the reinforcements because she was semi awake and smart enough to put the DAMN pieces together that they were going to use her as a weapon! It's not like they put a damn puppet master Jutsu like Hirko did to Kakashi in the third shippuden movie! SERIOUSLY! She didn't have to commit suicide via Teammate and saddle Kakashi with the mental trauma of killing is goddamn team mate!
...Right. Sorry I just found that whole situation really annoying. But positive side, the rant is over.
I came up with the idea after watching both Arjuna and Naruto ( specifically with Kakashi) but I didn't know how to put the idea together and flesh it out...And that's where the Awesome youtuber HiddenWhiteFang came in. This person did the MOST amazing AMVs for Kakashi (Specifically Team seven see you again, ANBU Kakashi: Do you feel lost, Kinoe/Kakashi - Find me in the Dark, Kakashi: and Kakashi: Let it burn) and the other Youtuber I_kiss_the_sky for Kakshi - My Demons, then and only then did my inspiration burst forth!
This story is unbetaed but I have done what I can and if you see something in the grammar that I missed, please let me know! And without further ado! The Disclaimer!
I do NOT own Naruto or Arjuna: Earth maiden they belong to their respective owners of Kishimoto and Shoji Kawamori.
Also on a side note so no one is lost, this happens right after Rin Dies, Kakashi collapses and Just after Obito has killed all the Kiri hunter nin! And I apologies if Kakashi is a little bit !OC, he's a hard character to get a read on.
The Beginning:
Rin woke up. There was no other way to put it, she woke up. This was a surprise to her simply because she hadn't expected to wake, after all she did have a hole where her heart was. Courtesy of putting herself in the direct path of her teammate's lightening technique. Another oddity to this was she woke standing up and starring at her teammate's silver hair when she knew that she had died.
Rin stared at Kakashi and her own body and the dead bodies of the rain hunter nin who had been sent to retrieve her. Kakashi was lying on his back, face to the sky. And then there was her own body, which was being cradled by her other supposedly dead teammate; Obito. She stared in shock, her mind was seeing but failing to comprehend the scene before her. This was Obito, this person with the wild and untamed hair was Obito, this person with what looked like tree roots coming out of his shoulders, whispering sweet nothings into her ear was Obito. But as he hugged her body to him, eye broken and filled with a mix of grief and madness and rage, whispering her name Rin started to believe that this person before her was, indeed Obito.
Moving away from Obito crying over her...body, Rin moved closer to Kakashi to inspect him closer. Not only was he lying on his back but there was a pained and defeated expression on his face, even while unconscious he felt that the guilt was his. Rin sighed, while her death hadn't been pleasant, it had been for the good of the village but that excuse would fall short in the long run since she Knew Kakashi would blame her death as his fault as he had done with Obito's. 'And' Rin quietly admits to herself 'it was the easy way out'. She could have waited away from the village and Minato-Sensei, waited for help to arrive to fix the seal on her body but in the end she chose a cowards death and saddling the trauma on Kakashi.
Slowly Rin made her way to the downed ninja and gently attempted to brush his hair aside only to have her hand simply pass through it. With a sigh, Rin places her hand on his forehead in an attempt to smooth out his expression and express her gratitude and apology. Instead she is bombarded with a sudden torrent of images, of memories, visions and emotions. Kakashi's past and future is laid bare before her, his sorrow, grief and happiness all in her head. However it's his death that makes her want to jerk away in denial and disbelief. But the images keep moving forward and beyond his death. The last thing she sees is a giant flower, a woman coming down from the moon, so much death and...a sharingan etched in the sky. There are bodies, so many bodies. A young man cries over Kakashi's body and when he looks up, Rin's breath catches in her throat.
'He looks just like Sensei' she thinks in a daze. The thing that scares her the most is the sudden emergence of a planet and on it she can distinguish the five great nations and can only watch in horror as a dark brown stain spreads and she just KNOWS that there is death where ever the stain spreads.
With a sudden jerk, Rin stumbles back into reality. Breathing hard and frantic, Rin whirls to where Obito still is, hunched over her fallen form. She staggers to him and too places a hand on his forehead. This time she is ready for the onslaught of images. His past and future is also laid before her and she watches as Obito becomes twisted by the words of a madman. The crimes he commits, the hatred that builds and the dream that he works so hard to achieve. Then there was Kakashi's death. It was Obito that dealt the final blow. Rin sees beyond that and watches as the moon princess Kaguya returns, watches as Obito realizes his mistake and the effect it had on him. She feels Obito's death as he sacrifices himself for the boy named after a ramen topping, Naruto. The boy who united all the hidden villages and the great nations against this threat. The final after images are the same as Kakashi's memory reel but they shake her to her core all the same.
A startled gasp and Rin returns to reality once more. She falls to the floor as the implications reach home. For Obito, her death was the catalyst of the reel, her death was the cause of all to come. But if she continued further, the old wrinkled man by the name Madara Uchiha was aware of the love Obito felt for her and used it against a tired and drained sigh, she watches as Obito lays her body back down and phases into the ground, leaving her alone with the corpses and Kakashi's unconscious form as company.
'With all you have seen, will you accept it as the future?' A voice suddenly asks and Rin starts, whirled around to the location of the voice, hand on her Kunai pouch. She may be dead but that won't stop her from protecting her teammate.
"Who's there?" Rin demands harshly, still in her curled position. The demand alone goes against her shinobi training but she's dead, so what did it matter? A figure enveloped in white light drifted towards her bring a sense of calm that Rin had felt from her own mother. As the figure floated closer, the more pronounced her features became.
'I am Juna, the Avatar of time of an Era long past' came the soothing voice. The figure was a woman, who couldn't be much older than herself, and wrapped in a silk robe like those ancient stories of the celestial beings. Her face was of a serene countenance with a strange mark on her forehead that looked like half of a ying-yang symbol and her whole aura glows a serene green, reminding Rin of the fresh moss on a misty morning, of the glow worm that had lit the caves where her team had slept. And mostly it reminded Rin of the green glow of medical chakra, of something meant to save lives rather than take it.
"Avatar of time?" Rin asks curiously, feeling a little out of depth.
'You have seen the end of this planet, you have seen the deaths of those you consider family. Do you accept the chance to change it?' The woman asks again.
"If I become this 'Avatar of Time', can I prevent this? Can I save them." Rin snaps, gesturing towards Kakashi, a protective instinct flaring up.
'Yes' was the simple reply. Rin took a deep breath to steel her nerves. If she accepted then there was a chance she could prevent the final outcome of the death of the Planet and more importantly to her, the death of her teammates, her family.
"I accept". The spirit, Juna smiles in triumph.
'You must awake and follow quickly.' Juna urges softly. Rin feels her brows furrow in confusion.
"wha...?" was all Rin could manage before she was harshly pulled backwards. Although Rin couldn't see it but she felt that she was yanked back into her body.
Rin's eyes snapped open and she sat up in a daze. The feeling of water running down her back, the smell of blood in the air and the hard earth beneath her, the taste of the metal tang in her mouth and her heart beating in her chest. All of this shocked her because she knew she had died, she had felt it and yet she was experiencing this as if she still lived.
Obito was gone but Kakashi was still there lying faced up at the moon. Standing up and quickly making her way over to Kakashi, Rin stopped and knelt besides him a fond smile on her lips as she gently combs her fingers through his hair. She leans over and kisses his forehead and gently whispers.
"Thank you and I'm so sorry" before getting up and turning to leave. A pain moan and strangled voice reached her ears.
"N...ooo. R-r-rin" Rin bit her lip, looking sadly at Kakashi and sighs tiredly as she forces herself away, a final glance of contempt aimed at the moon and vanishes into the forest, following the floating spirit as she glides ahead and silently promising to herself and Kakashi that they will meet again.
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Rin followed Juna through the woods to a cave entrance which a multitude of different plants covering the mouth, making it hard to see and she had only noticed it when Juna had pointed it out. 'I need to polish up my observation skills' an idle thought passes through her mind as she cautiously followed the spirit through the winding tunnels until they had reached the opening.
Rin stopped amazed by what she was seeing. It was a whole ecosystem that had arisen. A forest which was thriving under ground and the only light that was seen was the soft green glows the bugs which covered the roof. Feeling wonder Rin searched through the darkness as she follows Juna, thinking about how she would have loved to share this with Kakashi, Obito and Sensei. 'Kakashi' the sudden thought of his name halts her train of thought. She had left him there, in the middle of the carnage. He would be found but no one would find her body, just her blood and then, Rin knew, she would be considered dead and Kakashi would bear the guilt upon his shoulders and would blame himself for the deaths of Obito and Her.
Rin sighed tiredly as she though about her team mate, failing to notice the Juna had stopped moving but was waiting at an old stone alter. She looks up sharply when she bumped into the cold stone. On the stone alter, there was what looked like a roughly shaped yang symbol, just like the one on Juna's forehead, but instead of being black or white, it was a green. A green that reminded Rin of the ocean on a shallow sand bank, where her team had spent the day away from the war and relaxing.
'This is the Drop of Time' Juna speaks softly, noticing the trance that Rin had been captured in.
"The Drop of Time" Rin echo reverently as she slowly inches closer to the stone.
'It was created by an ancient people who resonated with the Earth' Juna repeats, a smile on her lips as she repeats the very words that Chris had said to her.
Juna held out the the drop to her and Rin stares transfixed by it as she slowly reaches out to touch it. Her hand makes contact with the bead and gasps as the feeling of the earth rotating, the glimpse of the emotions of all of the people in the elemental nations and the very planet itself. Rin vaguely takes note that she is glowing with a faint blue as Juna glows with a vibrant green and seven points with in her lighting up and Rin can feel the reaction as all ten of her chakra gates suddenly swell as an energy surge form Juna rushes into her.
Juna releases the Drop of time and watches carefully as Rin accepts the Drop and as the Drop in turns accept her as her own arm reaches up to place the Drop on her own forehead. Shuddering as the bond between the Avatar is completed.
Juna sighs in triumph and slowly floats over the dazed form of Rin and waits patiently for her to regain her senses. Her eyes flutter as her mind re-orientates itself, distractedly taking note of the extra presence within her mind and the power slumbering behind the mental wall.
"That was..." Rin trails off, coming back to herself as she looks to Juna. Juna smiles and nods.
'I know. And now it's time the training' Juna replies, mirth and a deep understanding her eyes. Rin absently notes that the entire time that Juna has been speaking to, not once has she opened her mouth.
"Training?" Rin yelps as she's dragged further into the forest by the arm as Juna was suspiciously more solid then she was before.
...And that's a wrap!
Basically I'm having Kaguya as the enemy of the planet and while her (the goddess lady) she wants her garden back, the way she is going about it is what is going to kill the planet and thus makes her an enemy of said plant and while Rin cares about the planet she cares about her team mates more and hence why she willing to go this far to save them. I know it feels like there hasn't been much more elaboration on Rin's thought process on why she agreed to be doing this but similar with the Arjuna first episode, Rin had to die first before she could be offered the chance of being the Avatar of time.
And sorry for the really long author's note at the top!
Let me know your thoughts and hopefully soon I'll have the second chapter up. Please Review!