#2 – Exchanging Goggles for Masks

"Shall we have a little chat, Uzumaki Naruto?"

Naruto's blue eyes opened in surprise and he turned to face the owner of the deep voice. Tobi sat before him on the window sill, his masked head resting comfortably in his gloved palm. Naruto reacted quickly, forming a shadow clone and throwing a rasengan at the masked man. Tobi dodged with ease.

"A rasengan, eh?" he questioned, slightly amused. "You should know that won't work on me!" Something swirled around Tobi's body, surprising him. The object hardened, forming into wood, successfully binding his limbs to his body. With a poof of smoke, Kakashi appeared next to him, sharigan activated and a chidori at the ready. "Nice move, Hatake Kakashi. You're fast."

Naruto jumped back as a wooden cage formed in front of him, separating him from his sensei and the Akatsuki member. "Naruto, stay still!" Yamato told him, his hands placed on the ground as he kept his wooden jutsus in place.

"I won't let you get your hands on Naruto that easily," Kakashi told him, glaring at him. "Uchiha Madara!"

Tobi raised an eyebrow. "Uchiha Madara? Now Kakashi, I know it's been a long time but you're not seriously confusing me with someone who's been dead for hundreds of years, are you?" Kakashi eyed him warily, the electricity on his hand cackling. Tobi chuckled. "If you switch the 'b' and the 't' in Tobi, then switch the 'o' and the 'I' and then put another 'o' in front of all that, what do you get?"

Kakashi eyes widened in a mixture of realisation and surprise. "Obito…"

Naruto scrunched up his nose in confusion at the unfamiliar name. "Who the hell is 'Obito'?"

"I'm Kakashi's old teammate!" Obito told him, slightly hurt at the fact he hadn't known who he was. "Hasn't he ever told you about me? His only friend slash rival, who saved his life, gave him the sharigan and then almost tragically died on a mission moments later?"

"Nope. Not a thing."

Obito looked at the silver-haired Jounin accusingly, who simply shrugged. "He never asked."

Yamato watched the conversation, his face impassive. When he was sure they were finished, he spoke. "So, 'Obito', why do you want to capture the tailed demons?"

Kakashi nodded, agreeing with his temporary replacement's question. "I know we didn't get on the best while we were a team, but I don't remember you ever expressing interest in them…"

Obito nodded. "I didn't. But, while I was there slowly dying, I realised I never really did anything memorable with my life, you know? And the only people who'll really remember me would be you, Rin and sensei. I promised myself that if I somehow survived, I'd do something big so that no one would forget my existence! So when that snake guy came and healed me for the sole purpose of 'taking' my body and after I escaped, I did just that."

"So… you're trying to take over the world so people would remember you?" Kakashi asked, silently questioning his former teammate's sanity.

"Exactly."

While Kakashi questioned his sanity quietly, Naruto decided to do it loud. "That's crazy! Believe it! Did a rock fall on your head or something?"

"Actually, yes, and a big one at that."

"As much as I hate to interrupt this reunion," Yamato said. "Is there any real reason you came to hunt us down?"

"To capture Naruto obviously but that didn't work out…" Obito said, smiling sheepishly beneath the orange mask. "How about I tell you why my little cousin Itachi murdered our clan instead? I still can't believe he did that quite frankly… I remember him being such a good kid…"

"Wasn't he four?"

"Such a good kid…"

A/n:

A new series~! Each chapter, we'll investigate an identity that has been given to Tobi at one point or another by Narutards. This series isn't a continuation, so the chapters could happen at any point in the Naruto timeline. There'll be ten chapters, and I've already handpicked a few characters that will star as 'Tobi' for a chapter. I can't take credit for all of the theories, but a couple of them will be mine. :) Feel free to make a few suggestions on who you think Tobi could be. I mightn't use them, but I will take them into consideration. ;)

I did Obito this time, to get the two biggest theories out of the way. Now, there are loads of reasons as to why this theory makes sense, such as his name and appearance. But, Obito doesn't have a real motive as to why he'd want world domination. As much as many (myself included) would want this theory to be true, it doesn't really work aswell as you'd think. ;)