A. N. : I fell back into Naruto recently. For all that it's worth, I'm sorry.
Obito runs. He needs to get to Rin and Kakashi, needs to get to them and help them. If both him and Kakashi work together, then surely they can protect Rin –
His left eye sees something. Something terrible and surely this isn't true, surely the hand in Rin's heart is a lie Kakashi would never he promised to protect her – There's a flash of blue and then nothing anymore.
When Obito arrives at the scene, his right eye sees something. Something terrible and surely this isn't true –
Kakashi sprawled on the ground (is that blood oh gods oh no please) and Rin standing, her torn shirt the only proof Obito's vision wasn't a lie, but yet Obito can see her skin, unhurt, intact, toxic watery chakra seemingly flowing out of it.
Rin looks at Kakashi, at the three holes in his chest and stomach, and Obito looks too. The chakra is surrounding Rin, its three spikes undulating like algaes.
Obito's eye hurts.
He barely notices when the Kiri nins move to attack, hadn't even noticed them (a dream it has to be a dream). Rin howls.
Rin howls and it's a sad, sad thing, painful and suffering, until it turns into something else. Anger and hurt and death and it's not Rin, can't be Rin. Rin is a medic with a soft smile and softer hands, and she only kills if she really has to. She doesn't – kill and kill and kill again, and it's a massacre no one can escape, and Obito is sure he should be dead too but somehow Rin's attacks seem to slip right through him.
She hasn't moved. She howls and faces Kakashi's body and the demonic chakra around her soaks the grass with blood.
Then there is silence.
She trembles, Obito notices, and that's all he needs to know Rin is still here, somehow, despite the massacre and the toxic chakra. He steps forward (look Rin I'm here I'm alive look at me we'll figure something out together alright) –
Rin's head turns, and she doesn't look at him. Whatever it is that's looking at him, it's not Rin. Rin has soft brown eyes with all the emotions of the world in them. She doesn't have red eyes that only scream of bloodlust.
She howls again, this time curling on herself, falling to her knees, and Obito still doesn't understand why her attacks don't touch him, but his eye hurts and he needs to talk to Rin, needs to calm her down, needs to wake up from this nightmare.
It hurts.
Rin is sobbing inside the wooden cage he made and he hates that, hates that she is crying, hates that the only thing he could think of to stop her was a goddamned cage, hates that he can't see her eyes and make sure she is back.
He is sitting next to Kakashi and he hates that too. Kakashi looks so small, and maybe he was always small, but not like that, never like that, never fragile and limp and dead dead Kakashi is dead and what happened to watching the future –
Obito puts Kakashi's head on his knees, and he is so glad he doesn't phase through this too, because he wouldn't be able to take it. Kakashi's body is like a ragdoll, and it's cold and pale and so dead, and Kakashi might have been an ass but he was Obito's friend, and now he is dead and Rin (soft and sweet Rin) killed him and she will never forgive herself, and Obito will never forgive himself either because if only he had been on time for once in his life –
He cries. He cries and he keeps expecting Kakashi to call him a crybaby, and every time it doesn't happen, his sobs get louder.
Rin is crying in her cage, and Obito is crying while holding Kakashi's body, and surely this is how the world ends.