Bees buzzed around pink, yellow, and blue flowers. Their petals gently danced in the breeze, carrying their pollen away and off the bees went for their hive. The trees swayed, the grass joining it's dance. Everything seemed to be in harmony this warm season.
"Dammit, Kakashi! You cheated on that one!"
Well. Almost everything seemed to be in harmony.
"Stop being such a brat. I didn't cheat at all, you're just trying to find an excuse for yourself since you lost and I won."
Here, we have Kakashi Hatake, the ever–vigilant and responsible one of Team Minato. He was everything that the boys at the academy were not, and the one person that our dearest Obito Uchiha wished that he could be. Don't get me wrong, Obito had many traits that others did not have. But Obito couldn't help but think that he could make himself so much more stronger and better than Kakashi. Kakashi was the strongest, the wisest, the more strategic one. Obito was the failed-to-be-noticed tragic third-wheel. Ugh. How was this possible, you might ask?
EXHIBIT A:
"Kakashi-kun... you're so good at hand-to-hand combat! How did you get so skilled?"
Obito's eyes shot over to the brunette girl whom he had a fairly large crush on. His eyes widened.
EXHIBIT B:
Obito lifted up his index finger and made a weak grin. "U-uh," he stuttered, "Rin-chan, did you see my new kunai? I-"
"Thanks." Kakashi interrupted, not even turning to comprehend the fact that Rin was even there, standing beside him. Rin gushed at that simple acknowledgement and her hands slapped onto her blushing cheeks.
EXHIBIT C:
Obito gaped at his two teammates. What had happened? How could he be ignored so easily? His anger began to tint his cheeks and ears a light shade of red. The Uchiha's brows scrunched together in silent fury before he let out a low growl.
"Rin-chan," he said a bit more loudly, finally catching the girls attention. "Uh? What is it, Obito-kun?"
"Would you like to go and get some dangos later?" He asked, the anger slowly ebbing away to be replaced with hope.
"Oh..." Rin had already turned away from the brunette. "Maybe later, Obito-kun..." And with that, she went to help Kakashi fix up a minor cut that he had received during his and Obito's sparring session.
Obito's anger and jealousy came rushing back to him like a slap to the face. He felt like exploding. Crying, screaming, ripping his hair out, anything at all to help him get rid of this frustration boiling up inside of him. ***Minato came walking up to Obito and rested a hand on his shoulder. "How about you and I go and get some ramen later?"
Obito didn't look up at his sensei, but continued to gaze at the other two in sadness. Then, after a few seconds, he weakly nodded. "Okay, Minato-sensei." He moped, sighing heavily and ignoring Kakashi and Rin for the time being. "Good sparring, you two. Training is over, you can all go home now." Kakashi began to walk off, and of course, Rin skipped after the silverette. Obito groaned and let Minato guide him back into the village streets.
Just as their order had come, and just as Obito lifted the ramen up to his lips, a jounin burst into Ichiraku's Ramen and pointed at Obito. "You're needed in the Hokage's office for briefing."
Minato looked a little surprised at the abrupt interruption, but he looked over at Obito and smiled nonetheless. "Very well. It looks as if you have a mission. Go ahead and follow him back to the Hokage's. We'll just have our ramen later."
Obito's stomach growled. He sheepishly looked up at the two adults and sighed before he pushed his ramen away from him and began to follow the jounin back.
"What?"
This was very unexpected, and Obito was pleasantly surprised at what his mission was. He needed to retrieve a... person. And bring them back to the village. That was his mission. But that's all that he knew, so far.
"Unfortunately, there's a person that's causing trouble in one of the nearby villages. There have been multiple complaints and no one has really been able to fix this situation. So I thought that you would be best fit for the job to retrieve them and bring them back to the village."
Obito pursed his lips. This person seemed pretty tough to deal with. How could he bring them back without dying? But then a thought struck him. He'll be taking a mission... alone.
No Kakashi to steal the spotlight.
No Rin to gush over the silverette.
Just him. And he could prove that he's strong enough by bringing this girl back to Konoha! Yes! Obito did a subtle happy dance and inwardly screamed in excitement. He'll bring this person back and prove himself once and for all! It was perfect!
"Are you alright, son?" The Third questioned, a brow raised towards Obito. He froze in embarrassment and sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. "Uh, yeah! So when do I set out on the mission?" He straightened up and tried to look regal by crossing his arms behind his back. The Third ignored him and looked back down at the papers on his desk, continuing to scrawl some things down. "You set out on your mission right now. Do try to not tell anyone what the mission is for before you come back."
"Yes."
