Chapter 2: Thoughts
Obito lay on his back staring up at the ceiling of his temporary room. He was dressed in generic PJs and was feeling a little better after the warm shower, which oddly enough was fully stocked with toothpaste, a toothbrush, mouthwash, shampoo, and shower gel. The events of what happened since he woke up in this peaceful place playing over and over in his mind. The pain in knowing that he would not see his friends and comrades for a long time almost physically hurt him.
The events of meeting Arceus and dinner going repeating in his head making Obito get upset over his situation all over again.
As he exited the cosmic like room that Arceus resided in he came face to face with an almost seven foot purple bipedal cat like Pokémon. But right now Obito was not in the mood to be his normal happy go lucky self and just gave the taller Pokémon a blank stare.
"Hey kid, Mew said I was the one taking you to the dining hall." Came the same way of telepathic communication that Arceus and Mew had when speaking to him.
"Sure." Was the simple but apathetic answer.
"My names Mewtwo by the way, what's yours kid?"
"Obito." Was the muttered answer
Mewtwo sighed as they both walked down the long corridors to the dining hall, "Look kid, I know about it alright." Obito's head shot up and looked at the bipedal cat like Pokémon, "I have no idea how you are feeling, but if it was me I would be downright pissed. But you also have to look at it from Arceus' perspective, it was either leave things be and watch as a pure hearted person commit atrocious acts and think that the end result of some crack pot scheme justify his sins, or, take a leap of faith and interfere with the way events are supposed to happen and take you who is basically the catalyst for everything and place you somewhere else outside of His sphere of influence."
Obito was silent as he listened to Mewtwo speak listening intently to the Legendary's explanation of why this was happening. Sure Arceus had explained to him why this was happening but, he did not have the same bluntness that Mewtwo seemed to posses when explaining it.
Obito gave a sigh of dejection, "I guess when you say it like that then it does make a lot of sense. But that still doesn't excuse the fact that I am being forced to abandon my friends and comrades." Said Obito as his words had a bit of bite towards the end.
"I know if I had to abandon my fellow clones then that would practically kill me. But you, Obito Uchiha, will not be abandoning them. In any case you will be saving them a lot of heartbreak in the future." Mewtwo said comforting the young boy,
"Clones?"
"Mhmm, when I was created I was not the only clone being made. Sure I was the more important one but not the only clone. There were four other clones with me, a bulbasaur, charmander, and squirtle, and a little girl named Amber."
Mewtwo's face gained a nostalgic look as he recalled the memories from when he was younger, and then it suddenly turned sad.
"What happened?"asked Obito wondering why Mewtwo's face suddenly turned sour compared to the happiness that was on his face a moment before.
"Something went wrong and Amber died." The mood suddenly turned darker but as Mewtwo paused, clearly thinking about some hard memories, Obito did not want to interrupt. "The others started to die as well, but the scientists were able to put them in stasis before they could die. But me. I was devastated; I think I almost destroyed the lab in my grief before they were able to put me under."
"What happened next?"
Mewtwo sighed, "Let's just say that after I woke up years later I did something that I regret and glad that it never went too far."
Obito wanted to know more but the way that Mewtwo was acting right now he just left it at that, so he decided to ask something that had been bugging him since he had met with Arceus and Mew.
"Are there any more Pokémon like you?" asked Obito curiously as he and Mewtwo headed to the table with the deer.
"Me? No, I am a clone of Mew that some less savory people made in a lab. But there are other Mythical and Legendary Pokémon."
"What's the difference?" asked Obito as he took a plate and started to fill it with the different foods that adorned the center of the table.
"Mythical Pokémon are those that are hardly ever seen or heard about and Legendary Pokémon is those that, as the name suggests, have legends about them. But they have been sighted on numerous occasions."
They were silent for a few minutes while Obito quelled the rumbling of his hungry stomach; no doubt hungry from who knows how long it has been since Obito had eaten anything. this fact brought a thought to the 13 year old that was taking a bite out of his rather large piece of steak. Making sure to swallow his food before talking he asked,
"How long have I been unconscious Mewtwo?"
The aforementioned Pokémon stopped in his chewing of a sitrus berry swallowed his mouthful of fruit to answer the young Uchiha's inquiry.
"I think it's been about two weeks." And the purple cat went back to his fruit.
But there was something that had been bothering Obito since he woke up, and that was the mystery of how he had his right arm and left eye. When he clearly remembers having his right side of his body crushed under a big ass boulder and giving away his left eye to Kakashi before he urged his friends to leave him behind and continue the mission that they had been given.
Deciding to ask Mewtwo about it he asked about Xerneas while he was in the process of adding some fruits and vegetables to his plate.
"Whose Xerneas Mewtwo? Whenever I ask about my injuries I'm always told to talk to Xerneas about them. But I have no idea who that is and what he looks like."
"Xerneas is right over there." Mewtwo said as he pointed to the biggest deer that Obito had ever seen. It must have been at least 10 feet tall.
Gaping at the Pokémon that had healed him Obito glanced at the Pokémon sitting next to Xerneas. It was even bigger than the 10 foot deer. If Obito had to guess Xerneas looked to be about half of the vulture like Pokémon's height.
"It is rude to stare young man." Came the soothing voice of Xerneas as he caught sight of Obito's stares.
Obito looked away sheepishly, "Sorry."
"No matter. I bet your wondering how you have some new limbs and your eye."
That brought Obito's attention back to the rainbow deer and nodded.
"Well first I had to stop the bleeding and heal your major injuries first such as your one punctured lung and collapsed lung, tricky business that was. Then your head injuries were next and that wasn't as bad as your lungs. We had to amputate your crushed arm because that was too far gone, unfortunately. But, after that your other injuries were a breeze to heal."
Obito was a bit disturbed at how bad his injuries were, and yet not all that surprised considering he had been crushed by a freaking boulder.
"But how do I have my arm and eye if you had to amputate? And I gave my eye to a friend, so how did you fix that?" interrupted Obito.
"Patience, I was just getting to that. But essentially we flash cloned them."
"What?"asked Obito, clearly confused about the terminology and not understanding what Xerneas had just said.
"Let me explain. We took the cells of your arm and eye and made a bubble around each of the collection of cells. Within the bubbles I had poured some of my life giving powers to encourage the cells to grow into a new arm and the same for the eye. But that would have taken too long to let them grow on their own, so Celebi was kind enough to isolate the inside of the bubbles and make time speed up only in the bubbles. And then when they were done we took them from the bubbles and reattached them to your person."
Obito did not understand most of what Xerneas has said so he just nodded anyway not understanding the intricacies but getting the gist of it. That which being that they used their powers to make him a new arm and eye. But the day's events finally caught up to the young shinobi and Obito let out a long yawn.
Xerneas chuckled, "I think it's time for you to go to bed Obito."
Obito only nodded his head in agreement, and from there Mew took him back to his room. The one being the one that he woke up in earlier.
And that is where Obito is now, lying on his bed thinking about the day's events and what it means for him.
Tomorrow their sending me to somewhere in the Regions who knows how far away from everyone. I wonder what they are doing right now. Thought Obito , they probably already had my funeral and I bet the rest of the Uchiha Clan don't even miss me, maybe Shisui but nobody else. Obito thought darkly as he finally drifted off to sleep, although he didn't dream about anything that night.