Author's Notes: When I first started this series, I imagined it to be primarily action/adventure. Since then I realized that I don't write action as well, so now I concentrate on character development, character interaction and psychology, but there will be a few action scenes. I also tried to avoid lemon scenes in the original stories, but since sex is an innate part of a serious adult relationship (though I do not advocate pre-marital sex), and an important psychological tool, there will be non-gratuitous lemon/lime scenes.

This is a complete rewrite of the sequel to 'Kakashi and the Kunoichi from Thunder Country.' Now I have Kakashi and Gai on a mission to retrieve Kakashi's eye, and more complicated motives for Rikako's actions. Mostly readable as a standalone but please read the first book.

I started writing this series during the chuunin exams, but the rewrites make references to events prior to the manga time skip and incorporates Kakashi's past, slight spoilers.

KAKASHI'S STOLEN SHARINGAN

BOOK II OF THE CHRONICLES OF KAKASHI AND THE KUNOICHI FROM THUNDER COUNTRY

PROLOGUE

The gray haired veteran shinobi was lying on the green grass of Konoha with his hands folded behind his head, whiling away a bright sunny morning. He could not feel the dampness of the grass through his shinbobi vest, but the early morning dew seeped uncomfortably through his pants. Through his half closed, heavy lidded eyes, he lazily looked over at the serious young woman sitting up next to him on his right side. He thought how unfair it was that she had the foresight to bring a blanket to sit on, but not the consideration to bring one for him or to offer to share hers, and how fair she was with her long dark hair and large dark eyes against her pearlescent skin. He wanted to reach over to her, climb on top of her, crush her body with his, but he knew by the look of heavy concentration in her pretty face that his advances would be rebuffed, again. The dark haired, dark eyed beauty was totally absorbed in a book, "The Science of Cooking."

Kakashi sighed and turned his head to the left. In the distance he saw a strange dense fog rolling in. He should have been alarmed, but instead his natural curiosity kept him calm and he continued to stare at the approaching preternatural mist with its gray vapors churning and swirling ominously. Gradually a figure appeared amidst the dark vapors. It seemed to be humanoid but it was crawling along on the ground like an unsteady infant, or rather it was dragging itself across the ground. He knew he should say something now to the young woman with him, but he remained speechless. She seemed to be completely oblivious and did not notice anything unusual at all.

As the figure neared, Kakashi sat up. He saw that it was dragging itself by one arm and pushing itself by one leg, both on the left side. The right side trailed crimson blood and yellow viscera and flopped futilely, a mess of sinew and bone. He stared at its face, or rather half of a face. The right side of its head was unrecognizably crushed like the rest of that side. The left side he recognized with shock as his best friend and teammate from ages ago, Uchiha Obito.

The thing lifted its head to stare back at Kakashi, but it had no eyes at all. Its left eye socket was blank and bloody.

Kakashi sat frozen as if by a paralysis jutsu, but he could feel sweat soaking his forehead protector, his heart nearly jumping out of its cage, and his body trembling all over. Yet he could do nothing but continue to stare.

Then the Obito-like creature reached out with its good arm, streaked with blood and dirt. A guttural gurgling voice, as if choking on blood, pleaded, "Kakashi…I want my sharingan back!"

Its old comrade nodded calmly in response and pushed up his headband, intending to reach in with his fingers to gouge out his left eye, to return it to its original owner. But there was nothing there but an organless void. The sharingan was gone!

Kakashi frantically turned to the young woman seated by his side, her nose still in her book, to say "My eye! Obito's sharingan..." He stopped when he saw that the title of the book had changed to "One Thousand And One Techniques Copied by Konoha's Kakashi no Sharingan."

She looked up from her book with quizzical mismatched eyes...

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