A/N: Here is the next chapter. Hope you like it!
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"Okay, who's going to read the next chapter?" asked Minato, still a little shaken by the previous chapter's last words.
"Please sensei! I would like to read next." said Obito, hurriedly.
Minato stared into Obito's eyes, an intense expression on his face. Obito shook a little under it, only relaxing when Minato smiled, handing him the book. He gulped, starting on the next chapter.
Kakashi was thrown out his thoughts when he heard the Sandaime clear his throat. Hiruzen looked at him in concern, "Are you alright, Kakashi?"
Kakashi nodded his head, "Yes, I am. Don't worry, Hokage-sama, nothing is wrong. I suppose I'm just a little bit tired from my last mission is all."
The Hokage nodded. "On that note, how did it go? It was your first ANbu mission since the Kyuubi attack, after all."
Obito's voice drifted away, when he read the part about Kakashi being in ANBU. "Oh my God..."
Minato's eyes widened. "ANBU?! What did it mean ANBU? Kakashi is only fourteen years old in here!"
Tsunade cursed under her breath, "Has sensei finally gone senile? Nobody so young should have to already experience the horrors of ANBU!"
Kakashi simply observed the chaos. "Sorry to interrupt your apparent freak out, but shouldn't we be reading?"
They all looked at him sheepishly, "Oh right..."
Obito cleared his throat again.
Kakashi gave him an assessing eye. "It was no trouble, just a little bit too fast paced for me. I had gotten mildly injured when I had set out, nothing particularly serious though."
Hiruzen smiled gently in relief. "That's good, Kakashi. Well I'll let you be on your way, no need to keep you here. Take care of yourself."
He nodded, before standing up and teleporting himself out of the Hokge's office in a cyclone of wind and leaves. When he got to his destination which was his apartment, Kakashi let out a sigh. He glanced to his left where his closet was located, which also contained his ANBU uniform.
He had to set out soon, Danzo-sama had asked Kakashi to tell him about the conversation that he had with the Sandaime after he was done. But first...
Jiraiya raised an eyebrow at that. "I've never seen somebody actually doing something else before they debriefed their commanding officer on an important matter before. I guess we can fairly assume that Kakashi doesn't like Danzo much, either."
Kushina perked up at this. "Then that means he doesn't have a strong connection to him! That's good!"
The rest of the occupants agreed, except for Kakashi who just sat there without saying anything.
Kakashi walked slowly through the village, a bouquet of flowers held loosely in his grip. After around 5 minutes, Kakashi arrived at the place he was going to. It was the graveyard.
There was a ringing silence at this revelation.
He knew exactly where he was going so his movements were fluid and not at all hesitant. He didn't stop walking until he came to a grave that already had flowers, but they were dead because they hadn't been replaced in awhile.
After carefully putting the flowers into the two vases that were placed at each side of the headstone, Kakashi kneeled down at the grave. Eyes drinking in the words that he had read so many times before.
Here lies Nohara Rin
A friend, a student, a daughter, a shinobi
May she find peace on the other side and be a motivator for all of our endeavors.
Obito froze at this, eyes widening. "...No, no, no, no! Not Rin! Wha...?"
Kakashi looked alarmed as well, "You have got to be kidding..."
Minato rubbed at his eyes, pulling his hair, "No, I can't believe it... Rin?"
Rin looked up at her team mates and sensei, "How could of this have happened? I mean I know that something must've happened to me and Obito if Kakashi said that he is the only one left of Team 7, but..."
Tsunade, Jiraiya, and Kushina looked down sadly. "Let's find out then. So we can stop it, okay?"
Team Minato nodded. Obito began to read again.
Kakashi looked down at her grave sadly. He traced the words engraved on the headstone gently. "Hey, Rin. Sorry that I haven't visited in awhile, I have been so busy with all of the missions that I have to do. Between Danzo-sama and the Sandaime's missions, I hardly have any free time.
"I have been good so far, nothing vaguely exciting has happened. Anyway, I gotta go. I still have to visit Minato-sensei, Kushina-neechan, and Obito. See you around." he said, waving as he walked out of the cemetery. Heading this time to the K.I.A memorial stone.
Obito looked down, eyes dull. "You have to be joking... I'm dead too?"
Minato blew a puff of air out, "I haven't been a very good sensei as of late, huh? I mean everyone on our team is dead besides Kakashi." he said, bitterly.
The rest of the team looked at him. "Are you an idiot sensei? It isn't your fault! You have been a great sensei and don't ever think anything different!"
Minato looked at them in suprise, but then smiled gently. He really loved his students...
Kakashi breathed in deeply, then exhaled. He had finally arrived at the memorial stone a few minutes ago. He looked at the names on the stone: Uchiha Obito, Namikaze Minato the Yondaime Hokage, and Uzumaki Kushina the wife of the Fourth.
There was a stunned a silence.
"I'm going to be the Yondaime Hokage?" said Minato, disbelievingly.
Kushina eyes were wide. "I'm going to be the wife of the Yondaime Hokage?"
They blinked once, two times. Before finally full blown smiles bloomed on their faces.
Team Minato were as shocked, but also ecstatic for their teacher and Kushina. It seemed that at least one good thing came out of all this sorrow.
"Hey guys, how are you? I just saw Rin and she seems to be doing great! I hope all of you are having a blast up there... I'm certainly not. It seems that nothing good happens around me, it's like I'm the damn plague or something..." he sighed.
"Well that's all I guess, I have to go though. I have to report back to Danzo-sama, sorry that I couldn't stick around longer. Bye." Kakashi said, wishing his farewells to them.
Obito looked up. "That's the end of the chapter.
Tsunade cracked her knuckles, "Well that was depressing. I hope the rest of the book isn't always like that."
Jiraiya shook his head, "It probably is, not all of it. But, most of the book anyway. I suppose we should get some dinner and go to bed. We have a long day tomorrow."
The others agreed, noticing that there were all emotionally drained in some way. They will continue tomorrow morning after they ate a filling breakfast. No need to rush themselves, after all.
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