"Obito," she whispered, watching the masked man's mask crack, revealing a thought to be dead shinobi.

She watched the world go by. She was always watching, nothing else to do since she was, well, dead. The last thing she did, other than watch, was greet Minato-sensei and Kushina-chan when they joined her. When they did, Rin felt a mix of emotion. Dread, they did die afterall; guilt, it's her fault Obito unsealed Kyuubi; and joy, she wasn't all alone.

(Why am I happy? I should feel terrible that two people close to me died)

Death wasn't so bad. In a way, you were always with the people who cared about, dead or alive. The real slap in the face was when Rin found out that her childhood friend, the one who was always kind and always managed to make everyone smile, was alive and hurting people around him.

Obito didn't die. Rin knew it from the moment she did.

Rin wanted to cry. She really did but she couldn't. She didn't have a physical body anymore. Everything that happened to the village...to her team...to Obito...it was her fault. She wasn't prepared. She got captured and got Obito crushed under a boulder. She transferred that eye that would help Kakashi finish a deadly jutsu he taught to his revenge-blinded student. She had got caught again and had that stupid three tailed monster sealed in her. She had jumped in front of Kakashi's jutsu, giving the him more guilt than he can handle, and making Obito lose his sanity. Everything was her fault. If only she wasn't so weak and stupid when she was alive.

"Do yOu wIsH To lIvE OnCe mOrE?"

At the sudden voice, Rin instantly turned around to the source and her eyes widened in shock. Instead of seeing a person, she saw purple fog all around her. What?! Where did all this come from?

Somehow, Rin could tell that the fog was thin but there was no one in sight. Not even a silhouette. "W-where are you?" She shouted, looking around. When she enter the land of the living in her transparent body, she'd been scared plenty of time. For some reason, everyone she cared for had a tendency to do stupid things and nearly die. In her time in her small pocket in the land of the dead, she had only been scared once and that was when she was dead.

This is the second time. When someone died, they would get a small pocket of space to just exist and watch over people if they didn't want to visit the living. If someone would to enter their pocket, they would sense it.

Rin didn't sense this person at all. It's been a while since Rin had to watch her back since she was dead and everything so this startled her.

The ground started shaking mildly and as quickly as it started, it stopped."wHo wE ArE DoEs nOt mAtTeR. wHo yOu aRe dOeS." With no visuals, Rin had to rely on sound. Their voice sounded like millions of voices on their deathbed. As an inexperienced iryo-nin, Rin saw dozens of people die and each one of them had a different final moment. It's horrifying to hear them all mixed together.

"Who...I am?" Rin repeated.

"YoU CoUlD SaVe yOuR PrEcIsE OnEs iF YoU WiSh."

Rin's eyes narrowed. Whoever this is is speaking the impossible.

"wE SeE DoUbT On yOuR FaCe. Do nOt qUeStIoN Us. We sHaLl eXpLaIn." Rin stayed quiet, curiosity growing. "We sHaLl bRiNg yOu bAcK To a tImE YoU OnCeD LiVeD. sUrViVe aNd yOu mAy cHaNgE FaTe aS YoU WiSh."

"But?" She asked. An offer like this was too good to be true.

"yOu wIlL FoLlOw tHe tAsKs yOu aRe GiVeN."

Rin relayed their conversation in her head. This...person could bring her back to life to do whatever she wanted but she would basically be a puppet under this thing's strings. Rin opened her mouth to ask questions but was interrupted.

"YoU HaVe eXaCtLy tHrEe hUnDrEd sEcOnDs tO AnSwEr."

The clock was ticking. This decision was like selling her soul and maybe other innocent ones to save everything. Well, if you put it that way, there was only one choice.

Opening her unconsciously closed eye with a look of determination, an answer came out of her lips. "Deal."

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She repeatedly blinked as light blinded her. She squinted, blurriness clearing away from her sight. Once everything was clear, took her some time to realize where she was.

She was in her room. The room she once lived in. The one in their apartment she got once she became a Chunin. She sat up, the mattress squeaked from the sifted in weight, and looked around. Everything was exactly the way she remembered it. Her bed. That wall mirror she had since forever. Even the picture of team Minato was there.

The bed stand next to her bed had a basic medical kit. She slipped the small slip paper from under the kit, hoping for a clue to when she was.

don't forget that today Kakashi turns into a Jounin. Don't forget to give him the medical kit.

Today was the day they went to the Kannabi Bridge. Today was the day everything started.

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She slowly approached Minato-sensei and Kakashi-kun, gulping down a puddle of saliva and restraining her self from busting down in tears from seeing them in person after everything.

She he had to act like this was any other mission.

She smiled and weakly waved at the two.

"Ohayo."

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Written on November 23, 2016. Edited on August 1, 2017

Naruto and its character all belongs to Masashi Kisimoto. This story was inspired by fanfic that I forgot the name of but I remember Rin comes back alive, digs herself out her grave, changes her appearance with genjutsu and making herself Naruto's age, and then befriends Naruto while attending the academy again. If someone find that story, can you guys tell me the name.

While this is my story, I'll happily let people steal it from me but please don't write word by word. Change it up a bit.