Are you up there, Obito? Can you see me? Can you hear me?
The stars are so beautiful tonight. I hope you're one of them, shining down on me. Even though we're far from home, they're still the same stars. They were the same yesterday and they will be the same tomorrow. But I will never be the same. I've lost you, and yet the stars keep shining. How can they? Don't they know that everything's changed?
I'm so sorry. If I had been stronger you wouldn't have had to rescue me. You wouldn't have died. You died saving me and you died saving Kakashi. How can I ever repay you for what you've done for me? You were my greatest friend. No matter what, you were always there. How could I have been so blind? You loved me, and I couldn't even tell! You loved me, when all I ever did was chase Kakashi! You came back for me because you loved me!
Do you regret what you did? Do you regret loving someone as selfish as I? Do you regret dying for someone as selfish as I? My heart is breaking, Obito! I never had a chance to love you! I never had a chance to tell you how much you meant to me. All I did was hold your hand. I didn't want to leave you! I wanted to stay with you and tell you I loved you too. But Kakashi pulled me out and we left you behind. How could we? How could I leave you, when you were the best of us?
I know that you loved me, you still love me. I knew it in every touch, in every kind word, in every look. You wanted to give me something precious, and I threw it away! I'm so sorry for that, Obito. I'm so sorry we didn't get any time. I'm so sorry I couldn't look you in the eye when you told me you loved me. I'm so sorry I couldn't answer back.
I want to tell you now, up there in the stars, that I love you too.
Oh Obito! I'm so confused. I love you and I love Kakashi. How can I love him now? How can I love him after you? I need you here to help me! I need you to talk to and to joke with and to depend on. How can I go on after this? You changed everything, even after you'd gone, and now I don't know what to do.
I will try, I really will. I will become strong and I will live. Because even as you felt your life leave you all you wanted was for Kakashi to protect me. So I'll keep going. Kakashi will protect me and I will protect Kakashi. Somehow, we will learn to live again. You've helped him, Obito, more than you could ever know. You taught him to live, and you taught him to love.
And for that I will always thank you. You were the best person I have ever known or will ever know. And even though you're gone I know that you can hear me. I know that somewhere, you love me too, even though you could never tell me. I know it in my heart.