all of the story alerts and reviews have inspired me to write...so here is chapter 2!

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"KAKASHI!!!" Obito cried out. Then, everything went black.

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When Obito woke up, he was lying in the Konoha hospital. Rin was sitting on a chair next to his bed, and her eyes widened when she saw him glance at her.

"Obito! You're awake!"

"Yeah…" said Obito, but then he remembered. The mission, the cave, Kakashi. "What happened? Where's Kakashi? Is he OK?"

Rin's happy smile faded. "Obito…" she whispered. "Kakashi's dead."

Obito's eyes burned and he felt as if he was going to be sick. "That can't be true! That bastard promised me that he would meet us outside!"

Minato walked in. "I heard you were awake," the blonde jonin said, playfully ruffling Obito's hair.

"Sensei…" Obito said. "What happened? How did I get here? And what happened to Kakashi?! There's no way that he's dead!"

"Slow down," said Minato, holding out his hand. "I don't know the whole story, but I can tell you what I know. While doing my job of distracting the Iwa nin, I got this feeling that something bad had happened to the three of you. By the time I finally got myself over to where you were, I saw Rin lying unconscious on the ground and you, also unconscious, a few feet away, next to the remains of a collapsed cave. There was no sign of Kakashi. I woke Rin up, but all that she didn't know what had happened."

Rin nodded. "It was all like a dream for me—I can't remember anything after I was captured."

"I looked for Kakashi but all I found was this," Minato held up a hitai-ate that Obito recognized as Kakashi's. The jonin's blue eyes were bright with tears. "You were badly injured so I brought you here. Obito, what happened in the cave?"

Obito took a ragged breath and began...

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It was a month after the mission that had changed Obito's life forever.

Obito now showed up even later to training. He still spouted lame excuses, but Minato and Rin could tell that his heart wasn't in it anymore. The Uchiha now spent a lot of time by the memorial stone. He was there now, fingers tracing the name carved in the stone.

Hatake Kakashi.

His eyes burned but remained dry. Obito hadn't cried since his friend's death.

"Kakashi…you stupid fool!" The black-haired teen cried. "Why did you have to be so fucking noble?!"

He felt a hand on his shoulder and felt Minato's chakra signature by his side. Rin was there too, and she gently placed some red roses next to the gravestone. The three of them stood there silently for a moment.

Rin was sad. I never got to tell you what I felt about you, she thought. It's my fault that you're dead. If you hadn't come back to save me, then none of this would have happened. Her heart ached but she knew that Obito was on the verge of breaking and she had to be strong for him.

Minato was angry. Angry that his student had had his life taken away from him so young; angry at the unfairness of Kakashi's life. Children should never have to go to war. Yesterday, the Sandaime had explained to him that he was retiring and had asked Minato to take his place. Minato had accepted. As he looked at the memorial stone he vowed to protect the village with his life, so that no more children would die in war.

Obito couldn't put a name to his emotions. He had just felt like he was starting to know Kakashi when the other teen was taken away from him. He still had no idea what had prompted Kakashi to sacrifice himself for him. But he vowed to protect his comrades. He would never let a teammate die on him again. Never. He owed it to Kakashi.

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Suddenly, the trio heard a commotion. "It's happening by the front gate, let's go!" exclaimed Obito, sounding like his old self again.

The jonin and two chuunin ran towards the gate. When they got there, they saw a group of figures. Two men wearing Konoha hitai-ates were talking to the gate guards.

"We need to talk to Sandaime-sama or Namikaze-san immediately!" exclaimed one of them between gasps for breath. Then he saw Minato. "Namikaze san, thank kami you're here!"

"Tanaka-san?" Kimura-san?" asked Minato. "I thought that you two were on a mission to examine the movement of the Iwa nin's on the borders of the Fire Country—what are you doing here?"

Tanaka, a tall jonin with short brown hair nodded, as he gestured to his partner Kimura, a younger jonin with spiky red hair. Tanaka's voice rumbled as he spoke. "We were…until we found him."

Tanaka moved aside to reveal a third person, who lay unconscious in Kimura's arms.

Minato, Rin and Obito all gasped because even though he was covered in wounds and his hair prevented them from seeing his face, there was no mistaking who he was.

Hope was building inside of Obito's chest, mending the heart that he hadn't accepted was broken. Finally, he spoke, half-fearing that the moment he said the name it would be taken away from him.

"K-Kakashi?"

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sorry if these chapter are short, don't worry though, they will get longer!

thank you to the following reviewers, you really made my day!:

Tharrow: I'm happy that you like it so far. While the 'reunion' isn't going to come next chapter, it will definitely come!

MikaSamu: I'm glad you enjoyed it, and there are plently more little plot twists to come, I can promise you that!

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-stormwolf527